# Classic Albums **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 14, 2000, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-albums/22384 "2000-06-14T18:59:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![argyle87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/90ced4/32.png) [@argyle87](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/argyle87)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-albums/22384/21 "2000-06-15T04:38:28Z")
Hell yeah rackensack! The Undertones and The Jam were bad ass! ---
**Author:** ![Edwardina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Edwardina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edwardina)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-albums/22384/22 "2000-06-15T22:08:45Z")
**Nevermind** - Nirvana **Ten** - Pearl Jam **Little Earthquakes** - Tori Amos **Dilate** - Ani DiFranco **Jagged Little Pill** - Alanis Morissette **Pretty Hate Machine** - Nine Inch Nails **Achtung Baby** - U2 **Garbage** - Garbage **Disintegration** - The Cure and my one concession to more “traditional” tastes: **Sticky Fingers** - The Rolling Stones ---
**Author:** ![Barney111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Barney111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barney111)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-albums/22384/23 "2000-06-15T22:43:22Z")
Some of my picks: The Band - The Band Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks Jackson Browne - Late for the Sky Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus Paul Simon - Graceland Peter Gabriel - So The Beatles - White Album The Who- Who’s Next Bruce Springsteen- Greetings from Asbury Park Van Morrison- Astral Weeks Neil Young- Harvest Steely Dan- Pretzel Logic Bonnie Raitt- Give it Up Allman Bros.- Eat a Peach Bob Marley- No Woman, No Cry John Gorka- Temporary Road ---
**Author:** ![TN\_hippie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TN\_hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TN_hippie)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-albums/22384/24 "2000-06-15T23:59:10Z")
But let’s consider other genres. Country: Will the Circle be Unbroken (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and many, many other fine artists) The Outlaws (Waylon, Willie, & Jesse) Bluegrass: Flatt & Scruggs (live at Nashville) Blues: Robert Johnson (the original tapes) House of Blues collection (vol. 1 & 2) Also, I must disagree with the Led Zep nominations. 2,3 or Houses of the Holy are way better than anything later. Another $.02 worth: The Eagles are shit. I grew up around folks who worshipped them, so this opinion has caused me much static. I stand by my assertion: The Eagles suck and not in a good way. ---
**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-albums/22384/25 "2000-06-16T03:06:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > But let’s consider other genres. > > Country: > Will the Circle be Unbroken (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and many, many other fine artists) > The Outlaws (Waylon, Willie, & Jesse) > > Bluegrass: > Flatt & Scruggs (live at Nashville) > > Blues: > Robert Johnson (the original tapes) > House of Blues collection (vol. 1 & 2) > \*\* While I wouldn’t quibble with the merits of the artists and recordings mentioned, the album as an _oeuvre_ (as opposed to a collection of individual songs) is almost uniquely a jazz and rock phenomenon (and it means something very different in each of those genres). There have been a few country albums that hold together as a entire albums as well as the rock classics, but only a few. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-albums/22384/26 "2000-06-16T05:01:25Z")
[QUOTE] \*\* > [@](#): > > \*\* > While I wouldn’t quibble with the merits of the artists and recordings mentioned, the album as an _oeuvre_ (as opposed to a collection of individual songs) is almost uniquely a jazz and rock phenomenon (and it means something very different in each of those genres). There have been a few country albums that hold together as a entire albums as well as the rock classics, but only a few. > \*\* –Jazz and rock? Nahhh. The selling point of the first albums was you got to hear the entire symphony concert without having to get up and flip the record. Jazz and rock would follow later. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-albums/22384/27 "2000-06-16T14:10:13Z")
Some more: The Hounds of Love (Kate Bush) No Sleep 'til Hammersmith (Motorhead) Rid of Me (P.J. Harvey) Blue Lines (Massive Attack) Giant Steps (John Coltrane) Saturation (Urge Overkill) Infected (The The) Stop Making Sense (Talking Heads) Blood and Chocolate (Elvis Costello and the Attractions) Excitable Boy (Warren Zevon) picmr ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-albums/22384/28 "2000-06-16T15:04:29Z")
Dang, this sucks. The Eagles? if I hear them whine about hotel california _once_ more, I’ll go postal. Okay, calm down Zero, this is about Favorite types. Fine. Let me add a few from the “Guitar” side of things. Joe Satriani – Surfing with the Alien: Classic! Yngwie Malmsteen – Fire and Ice or any of his classical transcriptions. Dude does Paginini on a guitar. Wow. For the speed Freaks. I don’t have a Steve Vai album, so someone else can nominate one. I need to unpack my CD’s… ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-albums/22384/29 "2000-06-16T19:35:59Z")
I’ll add a few more here… Lynyrd Skynyrd - “Street Survivors” The Band - “Music from Big Pink” Warren Zevon - “Warren Zevon” Warren Zevon - “Excitable Boy” John Prine - “John Prine” The Beatles - Almost every album they did belongs in the top 100. Supertramp - “Breakfast in America” Supertramp - “Crime of the Century” Bob Dylan - Biograph (greatest hits boxed set) Bob Dylan - “Highway 61 Revisited” Paul Simon - “Graceland” Simon and Garfunkel - “Bridge over Troubled Waters” Stevie Ray Vaughan - “SRV and Double Trouble Live” Van Halen - “1984” Eric Clapton - “Unplugged” The Who - “Who’s Next” Frank Sinatra - Hard to pick one, but many were great ---
**Author:** ![sly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@sly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sly)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2000, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-albums/22384/30 "2000-06-17T02:56:50Z")
Rocks - Aerosmith So - Peter Gabriel I Robot - Alan Parson’s Project Foghat Live - Foghat (Duh!) Jeff Beck & the Jan Hammer Group Alive - KISS (I’m seconding this one) Van Halen’s debut Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits Good Lord, I feel old. ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2000, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-albums/22384/31 "2000-06-17T03:24:16Z")
Of those that haven’t been named: Steeleye Span: _Below the Salt_ The Pretenders: _Isle of View_ The Beatles: _Abbey Road_ The Beatles: _The Beatles (White Album)_ Pink Floyd: _The Wall_ Rolling Stones: _Exile on Main Street_ Captain Beefheart: _Trout Mask Replica_ Frank Zappa: _Joe’s Garage_ Frank Zappa: _Sheik Yerbouti_ And all albums by CCR. ---
**Author:** ![chief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@chief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chief)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2000, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-albums/22384/32 "2000-06-17T08:17:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > I would add to the list: > > Kind of Blue > Sketches of Spain > –both by Miles Davis > > For the Roses > –Joni Mitchell > > This Year’s Model > –Elvis Costello > > Discipline > –King Crimson > > Outlandos D’Amour > Reggetta De Blanc > –The Police > > Hot Rocks 64-71 > –The Rolling Stones > > and how can you possibly mention SF “acid rock” w/o listing > Surrealistic Pillow > Volunteers > –Jefferson Airplane > > That’s just off the top of my head. I know i’ll think of more later. > \*\* i disagree with you on the Stones … its not really an album but more like a greatest hits collection. ---
**Author:** ![chief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@chief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chief)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2000, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-albums/22384/33 "2000-06-17T08:23:01Z")
adding to the list: Exile on Main St. - Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers - Rolling Stones Beggar’s Banquet - Rolling Stones Uprising - Bob Marley Appetite for Destruction - Guns N’ Roses Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-albums/22384.md?page=1)