Kevin's Watch

1-5,what do you rank as the greatest rock albums of all time?I don't mean some recent stuff like limp bizket,or Tool,I mean the ones that have stood the test of time,like AC/DC's Back in Black,Dark Side of the Moon,Deep Purples Machine Head,Zeppelin,Beatles,such as that.

1) Husker Du : Zen Arcade
2) Minutemen: Double Nickles On the Dime
3) Throwing Muses: the Real Ramona
4) Mike Watt: In the Engine Room
5) Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon

#*&@!

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5. Tool - Opiate
4. Tool - Undertow
3. Tool - Lateralus
2. Tool - Undertow
1. Tool

OBJECTIVE list:

- Beatles: Sgt. Peppers Lonly Hearts Club Band
- Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
- The Clash: London Calling
- Rush: Signals
- Led Zepplin: (the first self titled album)

totally SUBJECTIVE list:

- David Bowie: Outside
- Mr. Bungle: Mr. Bungle
- Yes: Close to the Edge
- King Crimson: Lark's Tongue in Aspic
- Faith No More: King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime (although #5 would likely change from month to month)

well subjective...

Rhymes With Clown
1) Chairman Mao and Forever
2) Blind Man's Bluff
3) Baron Mutter's Cirkus
4) the Zen Men

i haven't made any of those albums, but when i do...

1) Shaggs : Philosophy of the World
2) William Shatner: Transformed Man
3) Ken Nordine: Colors
4) Syd Barrett: Madcap
5) Syd Barrett: Opel
6) Pink Floyd: Piper At the Gates of Dawn
7) Anthro Rex: I Like Fun
*) Soundtrack for Willie Wonka I
the Mike Curb Congregation greatest hits
9) Robyn Hitchcock: Globe of Frogs
10) Kelly Clarkson: One Brief Moment of Time

Mr. Wood, was that just your way of getting to 4000 posts....?

Holy crap, dennis. I didnt think anyone else had even heard of the Shaggs. Possibly the worst recording in history.

1. RUSH: 2112
2. XTC: English Settlement
3. Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
4. Led Zep: I
5. Ramones: Road To Ruin

Instead of speculating, why don't you just buy the book?

www.allbookstores.com/book/0517565617

I haven't read it myself, but IIRC, Boston's self-titled first album was the best selling debut album of all time, and Peter Frampton's "Frampton Comes Alive" was the best selling double album.

Usivius: i resemble that accusation!


aTOMiC: the Shaggs are from New Hampshire (Fremont) just like I am (Concord) I have the cd right next to me as I speak. my wife will not let me play it while she is home.

1. Pink Floyd-The Wall
2. Led Zeppelin-Led Zeppelin I
3. Def Leppard-Pyromania
4. Queen-A Day at the Races
5. Rolling Stones-Sticky Fingers

well according to Rolling Stone (magazine), the tope 10 are:

1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles
2. Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys

3. Revolver, The Beatles

4. Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan

5. Rubber Soul, The Beatles

6. What's Going On, Marvin Gaye

7. Exile on Main Street, The Rolling Stones

8. London Calling, The Clash

9. Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan

10. The Beatles ("The White Album"), The Beatles

Interesting choises, but having looked at the whole list of their top 500 of al time, they have some pretty dubious albums high on the list (or even ON the list) and are missing some very influential and great albumns (such as King Crimson's "In the Court of the Crimson King"). In fact they seem to have almost nothing from any 'prog' band! A little biased, don't you think?...

sorry, different topic, I guess...

Dark side of the moon and Led Zeppelin's side titled albums.

This might be almost in order of preference

1)Exile on Main St., Rolling Stones

2)Who's next or Live at Leeds, the Who

3)John Barleycorn must die, Traffic

4)Led Zepplin II (btw, my introduction to hard rock in HS) or Led Zepplin IV (acknowledging that Stairway to heaven is overplayed and overrated), Led Zepplin

5) Todd Rundgren's self titled double album, the opening track is Hello, it's me

6)Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, David Bowie

7) Pearl, Janis Joplin

The Buffalo Springfield's double retrospective album, that has a very long jamming cut of Bluebird.

Leave there cause a few of my picks are doubles

How old does it have to be not to qualify as recent?

underated albums

1) Pink Floyd: Obscured By Clouds
2) Screaming Trees: Sweet Oblivion
3) Dumptruck: For the Country
4) Throwing Muses: the Real Ramona
5) Sugar: Beaster

check them out