When you get on a Mac or PC, please list your favourite rock albums!
On the Mac...
Rock from A to Z... some of my fave stuff... some less discussed gems and will try as much as possible to run away from the usual suspects... but some of them are impossible to go around. Trying not to recommend more than 3 per band... which in many cases is a crime against humanity... at best... stuff made
before the 90s only (I think)
Let There Be Raaaaaawwwwk!!!!!!!
This should be a work in progress... so visit often!
In the end this list will be big. I listen a lot to rock from the old days...
Yes kids, this is where most of the sampled and rehashed stuff you listen to these days came from
(no letter lol)
38 Special - Wild-Eyed Southern Boys
10CC - Bloody Tourists / Sheet Music
**A**
AC/DC - Let there be rock / Fly On The Wall / Who Made Who (pretty much all of them!)
Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation / Pump
Alcatrazz - No Parole From Rock 'N' Roll
Alice In Chains - Alice In Chains / Dirt (All of them!)
Ambrosia - Ambrosia
America - America
Andromeda - Manifest Tyranny
The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot
**B**
Bad Company - Desolation Angels / Straight Shooter
Badfinger - Straight Up / Ass
Badlands - Badlands
Beggars Opera - Pathfinder
Beth Hart - Screamin' For My Supper / Leave The Light On (All of them!!!)
Bill Bruford - Feels Good To Me
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell (man...)
Billy Squier - Don't Say No (If you don't know this one... please correct that asap!)
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath / Paranoid / Vol 4.
Blind Faith - Blind Faith
Blodwyn Pig - Ahead Rings Out
Blondie - Parallel Lines
Blood Ceremony - Living With the Ancients
Blue Murder - Blue Murder
Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties / Tyranny And Mutation
Bob Dylan - Dunno what to recommend really... acoustic, electric... just start from the beginning!
Bob Seger - Live Bullet
Boston - Third Stage
Bruce Hornsby And The Range - The Way It Is
Bruce Springsteen - Live 1975-85 (ok, it's 7 LPs... but hey... he's the Boss)
Bryan Adams - Reckless
Buckingham Nicks - Buckingham Nicks (yummy knicks... just look at this cover!!!)
Budgie - If I Were Brittania I'd Waive The Rules / If Swallowed Do Not Induce Vomitting
Buffalo - Dead Forever
BulletBoys - BulletBoys
B-52's - The B-52's
The Band - Cahoots / The Last Waltz
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Beatles - White Album / Sgt Peppers
The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
**C**
Cactus - Cactus
Camel - Mirage / The Snow Goose
Canned Heat - Canned Heat
Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond
Caravan - In The Land Of Grey And Pink
Cat Stevens - Tea For The Tillerman
Catapilla - Catapilla
Charlie Daniels - Fire On The Mountain
Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick / At Budokan
Chicago Transit Authority - Chicago Transit Authority
Copperhead - Copperhead
Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Sessions (get 'em all!)
Cream - Disraeli Gears / Live Cream
Creative Rock - Gorilla
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country / Mardi Gras
Cressida - Asylum
Crimson Glory - Transcendence (not rock... at the time maybe it was still rock?)
Crosby, Stills and Nash - CSN / Deja Vu
Crystal Gayle - We Must Believe In Magic
The Cars - Heartbeat City
The Clash - London Calling
The Cult - Electric / Love
**D**
Damn Yankees - Damn Yankees
Danger Danger - Danger Danger
Dangerous Toys - Dangerous Toys
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Abandoned Luncheonette
David Bowie - Heroes / The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
David Gilmour - About Face
David Lee Roth - Skyscraper
Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue
Dinosaur - You're Living All Over Me
Dio - Holy Diver
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
Don McLean - American Pie
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Dr. John - Dr. John's Gumbo
Dream Theater - When Dream and Day Unite
The Doors - L.A. Woman / Alive She Cried (just get 'em all!)
**E**
Eddie Money - Life For The Taking
Electric Boys - Funk-O-Metal Carpet Ride
Electric Sun - Fire Wind
Elf - Carolina County Ball
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road / Captain Fantastic (yeah, Sir Elton rocks!)
Elvis Costello - Almost Blue
Elvis Presley - From Elvis In Memphis / For LP Fans Only
Emergency - Get Out To The Country
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Pictures At An Exhibition / Tarkus
England - Garden Shed
Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard / Just One Night
Eric Johnson - Tones Original
Eric Sardinas & Big Motor - Sticks & Stones
Extreme - Extreme
The Eagles - Hotel California / The Long Run
**F**
Faces - A Nod Is as Good as a Wink... to a Blind Horse
Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief
Faith No More - We Care A Lot
Fleetwood Mac - Live 1980 / Tango In The Night
Focus - Moving Waves
Foghat - Fool For The City
Foreigner - Agent Provocateur
Fotheringay - Fotheringay
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats / 200 Motels (too much awesome to recomend more... just grab 'em all)
Free - Highway
Frumpy - By The Way
Funkadelic - Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow
**G**
Gamma - I
Gary Moore - After The War / Still Got the Blues
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound / Nursery Cryme
Gerry Rafferty - City to City
Gila - Gila
Golden Earring - Long Blond Animal
Gomorrha - I Turned To See Whose Voice It Was
Great White - ...Twice Shy
The Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up The Girl
The Grateful Dead - Aoxomoxoa / American Beauty / Europe '72
**H**
Hanoi Rocks - Two Steps From The Move
Hard Stuff - Bolex Dementia
Head East - Flat As A Pancake
Headpins - Turn It Loud
Heart - Magazine / Dreamboat Annie
Helstar - Burning Star
Huey Lewis And The News - Sports
Humble Pie - Humble Pie / Eat It
**I**
Iggy Pop (And The Stooges) - Raw Power / Lust for Life
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son / Somewhere In Time
**J**
James Brown – Live At The Apollo
James Gang - Bang
James Taylor - Mudslide Slim and the Blue Horizon
Janis Joplin - Cheap Thrills / Pearl
Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow / Wired
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow / Volunteers
Jefferson Starship - Red Octopus
Jethro Tull - Live Bursting Out
Jimmy Hendrix - Axis, Bold As Love / Electric Ladyland / Cry of Love (just listen to all of them, some of the post mortem stuff is really worth while also)
Joan Armatrading - Joan Armatrading
Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust
Joe Cocker - With a Little Help from My Friends (gaaawd, the raw power in it)
Joe Jackson - Jumpin' Jive
Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien (Rock FM...
)
John Mellencamp - Scarecrow / The Lonesome Jubilee
Jonh Lennon - Imagine / Live in NYC
Joni Mitchel - Blue / Court and Spark
Journey - Departure
Joy Division - Closer / Transmission
Judas Priest - British Steel / Unleashed in the East
The J. Geils Band - Freeze Frame (Pure stuff)
**K**
Kansas - Leftoverture / Point of Know Return
Keith Richards - Talk is Cheap
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King / Red
Kings of the Sun - Kings of the Sun (amazingly fun!)
Kiss - Destroyer, Dynasty (Get 'em all!)
The Kinks - Low Budget / Misfits
The Knack - But The Little Girls Understand
**L**
Led Zeppelin - I, II, Presence (get 'em all!!)
Legs Diamond - Legs Diamond
Leon Russell - Carney
Lita Ford - Lita (Rock FM... sweet)
Little River Band - First Under The Wire
Living Colour - Vivid
Lizzy Borden - Visual Lies / Master of Disguise (masterpiece!)
Lord Tracy - Deaf Gods Of Babylon
Lou Reed - Rock n Roll Animal / Sally Can't Dance / Transformer
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced Leh'-Nerd Skin'-Nerd / Street Survivors
**M**
Mahogany Rush - Tales Of The Unexpected
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood / Fugazi
Masters Of Reality - Masters Of Reality
Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell
Men At Work - Business As Usual
Midnight Oil - Diesel And Dust
Misfits - Walk Among Us
Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' With Disaster
Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood
Motorhead - Ace Of Spades (not exactly rock... but man!)
The Michael Schenker Group - Assault Attack
**N**
Neil Young - After The Gold Rush
Nektar - Recycled
New York Dolls - New York Dolls
Night Sun - Mournin'
**O**
Oingo Boingo - Oingo Boingo
The Outfield - Play Deep
The Outlaws - Outlaws
**P**
Pablo Cruise - A Place In The Sun
Pat Benatar - Precious Time
Pat Travers - Pat Travers / Live! Go For What You Know
Patti Smith - Horses / Easter
Paul Simon - Graceland
Pendragon - The Jewel
Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma / Animals / The Final Cut (get 'em all... until The Final Cut... it's named like that for a reason!)
Poco - Legacy
Possessed - Seven Churches
Pretty Things - Parachute
Procol Harum - Procol Harum
The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta / Reggatta De Blanc / Synchronicity
The Pretenders - Pretenders
**Q**
Quartz - Quartz
Queen - Jazz / Sheer Heart Attack
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Quiet Riot - I
**R**
R.E.M. - Murmur
Rainbow - On Stage / Rising / Long Live Rock And Roll (yeah... Ronnie Dio)
Ramones - Ramones
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother's Milk
Return to Forever- Romantic Warrior
Robin Trower - Bridge Of Sighs
Rod Stewart - Never A Dull Moment / Gasoline Alley / Absolutely Live
Rory Gallagher - Live
Roxy Music - Avalon
Rush - Hemispheres / Moving Pictures / Caress Of Steel (get 'em all!)
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers / Exile on Main Street / Tatto You (get 'em all!)
**S**
Saga - Worlds Apart
Santana - Abraxas / Lotus / Caravanserai
Saxon - Denim And Leather
Scorpions - Love At First Sting / Black Out
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
Simon & Garfunkel - The Concert In Central Park (not really rock, but what a concert)
Skid Row - Skid Row
Status Quo - Live At The NEC
Steve Vai - Flex-Able Leftovers
Styx - Kilroy Was Here
Supertramp - Breakfast In America / Crime of the Century / Paris
Suzi Quatro - Quatro
The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
**T**
Tall Stories - Tall Stories
Tangerine Dream - Rubycon / Force Majoure
Ted Nugent - Tooth, Fang And Claw
Ten Years After - A Space In Time
The Tubes - The Completion Backward Principle
Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation / Jailbreak
Tina Turner - Private Dancer
Tom Petty - Damn The Torpedoes
**U**
U2 - The Joshua Tree
UFO - Lights Out
Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday / Abominog
**V**
Van Halen - Van Halen / 1984 (all of them really... yeah, Sammy counts too)
Vanilla Fudge - Vanilla Fudge
Vinnie Moore - Time Odyssey
**W**
W.A.S.P. - The Headless Children
Warlock - Triumph And Agony
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Whitesnake - Live in the Heart of the City / Ready An' Willing
Wishbone Ash - Argus
The Who - Who Are You / Tommy / Who's Next
**Y**
Yes - Close To The Edge / Big Generator
Yngwie Malmsteen - Odyssey / Trilogy
**Z**
ZZ Top - Tejas / Fandango
Long list. I think it was worth it. Wish you a great intro to Rock or further expansion with some really cool sounding and recorded stuff.
). I'm making sure to raise my two kids right (10 and 6 years old) by immersing them with Pink Floyd, AC/DC, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and of course Rush!
