Name Your Top 10 Rock Albums

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Revolver - Beatles
Abbey Road - Beatles
Van Halen 1
Women & Children First - Van Halen
Diver Down - Van Halen
Never Mind the Bollocks - Sex Pistols
Back in Black - AC/DC
Tattoo You - Stones
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Blizzard of Ozz - Ozzy
Live at Budokan - Cheap Trick



*Please don't count.


Answers subject to change.

Not in any particular order and more limited than the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s definition of Rock

Meet The Beatles - The Beatles
Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
John Barleycorn Must Die - Traffic
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars - David Bowie
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) - David Bowie
Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper
Brain Salad Surgery - Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
Singles Going Steady - Buzzcocks
Germfree Adolescents - X Ray Spex
The Cars - The Cars
Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
Stateless - Lene Lovich
Drums and Wires - XTC
Dare - The Human League
Chomp - Pylon
The B-52’s - The B-52’s
Whammy - The B-52’s
Kaleidoscope - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Spring Sessions M - Missing Persons
Pleasure Victim - Berlin
The Queen is Dead - The Smiths
Nevermind - Nirvana
Superunknown - Soundgarten
Live Through This - Hole
It’s Not Me, It’s You - Lily Allen
Rockferry - Duffy
Ceremonials - Florence and The Machine

I am glad you said not to count, no way I could limit it to ten. So many Kate Bush albums should be in there.

Not necessarily in order of merit:

A Beard Of Stars - Tyrannosaurus Rex
Ars Longa Vita Brevis - The Nice
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake - Small Faces
USA - USA
Keynsham - Bonzo Dog Band
Bam! Big Mustaphas Play Stereolocalmusic - 3 Mustaphas 3
Dreamboat Annie - Heart
Aqualung - Jethro Tull
From The Witchwood - Strawbs
New Clear Days - The Vapors
Revolver - The Beatles
Snap! - The Jam

Sorry they're all so old, but I've not been able to find anything better yet.
3 Mustaphas 3 isn't really rock, but with a title like that I couldn't leave it out.

Hell yeah -

Meet the Beatles
Sgt Peppers (I was going to name it, but I only let myself play it once a year)
Scary Monsters
The B52s
Aqualung


Let's just name 50 instead of ten.
Without counting - but not going on forever either (e.g., I promise not to name every Beatles album)



Adding -

Rubber Soul - Beatles
Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin
Zeppelin 3 - Led Zeppelin
All Things Must Pass - George Harrison
John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton
Every Picture Tells A Story - Rod Stewart
Out of the Blue - ELO
Meaty Beaty Big & Bouncy - The Who
Bat Out of Hell - Meat Loaf
Boston - Boston
Pyromania - Def Leppard
A Night at the Opera - Queen
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
OK Computer - Radiohead
Favourite Worst Nightmare - Arctic Monkeys
Frantic City - Teenage Head
Toys in the Attic - Aerosmith
Morrison Hotel - The Doors
Street Survivors - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Damn the Torpedoes - Tom Petty
Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
American Idiot - Green Day
The Colour and the Shape - Foo Fighters
Them Crooked Vultures
Bloodflowers - The Cure
Californication - RHCP
And Out Come the Wolves - Rancid
Billy Talent II
Innerspeaker - Tame Impala
Watoosh - Pezz
Blaze - Lagwagon
Full Circle - Pennywise
Sublime - Sublime
Astro Lounge - Smash Mouth

Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Crime of the Century - Supertramp
The Wall - Pink Floyd
Love Over Gold - Dire Straits
Aja - Steely Dan
Rubber Soul - The Beatles
Abbey Road - The Beatles
Under the Pink - Tori Amos
Boston - Boston
Moving Pictures - Rush
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Trespass - Genesis
Kick - INXS
IV - Led Zeppelin
Bat Out of Hell - Meatloaf
Long Distance Voyager - The Moody Blues
Band On The Run - Paul McCartney & Wings
The Final Cut - Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
3 (Melt) - Peter Gabriel
Security - Peter Gabriel
American Made Music To Strip By - Rob Zombie
Gaucho - Steely Dan
Pieces of Eight - Styx
The Grand Illusion - Styx
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
Who Are You - The Who
Who's Next - The Who

An argument could be made for having more Beatles, Supertramp, Steely Dan and Pink Floyd on here.

The greatest Greatest Hits album would have to be: This is The Moody Blues

And...is there anyone who recorded on cassette who DIDN'T put these albums on alternate sides of a 90-minute cassette:

The who - Who Are You, Who's Next
The Beatles - Revolver, Rubber Soul
The Beatles - Sgt Peppers, Yellow Submarine
Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac, Rumours
Boston - Boston, Don't Look Back
Styx - Grand Illusion, Pieces of Eight

Mr. Albert Show - Warm Motor (1971)
Transformer - Lou Reed
The Dreaming - Kate Bush
Trippin' Thru' A Midnight Blues (1968) - Cuby & the Blizzards
Exile on main street - Rolling stones
My life in the bush of ghosts - Brian Eno David Byrne
Zoot allures, Joe's garage, You are what you is, We're only in it for the money,++++ Frank Zappa
The basement tapes - Bob Dylan and the Band
The band- the Band
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home


probably missing some things

Duke - Genesis
A Trick of the Tail - Genesis


*must dig through vinyls

Beatles- Revolver
Beatles-Sgt. Pepper
the Who- The Who Sell Out
the Who-Who's Next
Stones-Sticky Fingers
Stones- Beggar's Banquet
Santana - Abraxas
Fleetwood Mac-Rumors
Wyclef Jean- Carnival II (actually a rap album, but the only entire rap album I can sit through).
Led Zep- first three albums.
Steely Dan- Aja

In no order:
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Boston: self-titled
Nirvana: Nevermind
Pearl Jam: Ten
Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti
Judas Priest: Screaming For Vengeance
Living Colour: Vivid
Duran Duran: Seven and the Ragged Tiger
Yes: Close to the Edge
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Blood Sugar Sex Magik

One album per band.

Pink Floyd - Saucerful of Secrets
Tool - Aenima
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Suicidal Tendencies - How Will I Laugh Tomorrow
Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
King Crimson - Islands
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Anthrax - Persistence of Time

Time to try and fail to limit myself to 10:

Animals - Pink Floyd
Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
Moving Pictures - Rush
Led Zeppelin IV
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Powerslave - Iron Maiden
Screaming for Vengeance - Judas Priest
Machine Head - Deep Purple
In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
Dog and Butterfly - Heart
The White Album - the Beatles
The Who Sell Out - the Who
Fragile - Yes
Jar of Flies - Alice in Chains
Kid A - Radiohead
Fear of a Blank Planet - Porcupine Tree
Goo - Sonic Youth
Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love - My Chemical Romance (not their best, but still my fav)
Astro Lounge - Smash Mouth
Surrealistic Pillow - Jefferson Airplane
The Queen is Dead - the Smiths
Doolittle - the Pixies
Songs from the Big Chair - Tears for Fears
Pyromania - Def Leppard

There would be a lot more if I weren't limiting myself to one per artist

In sort of loose chronological/biographical order:

Bringing it all Back Home - Bob Dylan
Raindogs - Tom Waits
Too Rye Aye - Dexy's Midnight Runners
Best of - Van Morrison
Best of - The Kinks
Best of - The Stranglers
Scream Dracula Scream - Rocket from the Crypt
Sublime - Sublime
Odelay - Beck
Bring it On - Gomez
Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers
The 3 EPs - The Beta Band
The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips
Showbiz - Muse
Souljacker - Eels
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
De Stijl - The White Stripes
The Big Come Up - The Black Keys
Fantasy Black Channel - Late of the Pier
LA Woman - The Doors
Nonagon Infinity - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Polygondawanaland - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
World Music - Goat
Let it Be - Beatles

That's plenty.
Abbey Road - Beatles