[xaval]

The thing with the Woodstock recording is that it sounds really bad. You'd need a really forgiving setup to listen to it more than once. I find the video more palatable as it's distracting... CSN, Hendrix, Joan B... the  mud... Must've been something else being there! I was just 1 year old... 
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066580/
 
Similar as in almost as close I'd rate the closing of the Live Aid act with Dylan and the Stones. Man!!! If that ain't Rock I don't know what is.
 
I understand my listing will turn out quite extensive, but it's something I want to do. I still read threads from the early days of HF so maybe there's others like me down the line that when searching for great sounding rock recordings, they'll have a one spot reference from where to start or simply to move on further. In the end, I'll list my favorite top 10-20 but I guess it'll be redundant as most of them will surely already be listed by then.

 

[vertical]

Not just a thought...a great one! I'm surprised that one hasn't been mentioned. Hendrix was amazing!

Glad you Agree!

Yeah, I think It was one of the first 5 albums I owned as a teenager. The Doors first LP and Days of the Future Passed (Moody's) were among those as well.

Yeah, I have a "remastered" CD version too that seems a bit better. If most young teenagers are like my daughter then they typically don't pay attention to quality of recordings much. Yet, I have been successful in that she's into Hendrix and Van Halen plus has the Beatles' Abbey Road poster on her wall.

 

[BirdManOfCT]

Here's my top 20:
 
Pink Floyd – The Wall
Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP
Nirvana – Nevermind
Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
Van Halen – Van Halen II
Van Halen – 1984
The Eagles – Hell Freezes Over
Styx – Classics, Vol. 15
The Cars – Just What I Needed
Guns N’ Roses – Appetite for Destruction
Roxy Music – Avalon
Electric Light Orchestra – Strange Magic
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Gold & Platinum
Boston – Boston
Ozzy Osbourne – Diary of a Madman
Queen – Greatest Hits, Vols. 1 & 2
Supertramp – Classics, Vol. 9
Yes - 90125
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Sleeps with Angels
Pat Benatar – Precious Time

 

[Makiah S]

Oh hey, here's my list
 
Black Sabbaths- Paranoid
Scott Williams- Scott 4

 

[paradoxper]

Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Pearl Jam- Ten
The Doors - Strange Days
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Tool - Lateralus

 

[TJ Elite]

Boris - Noise
https://boris.bandcamp.com/album/noise
 

Agalloch - The Serpent & the Sphere
https://agalloch.bandcamp.com/album/the-serpent-the-sphere
 

Aesthesys - Ascendere
https://aesthesys.bandcamp.com/album/ascendere (name-your-price!)

 

[Swanky7001]

The first three stooges albums. 

 

[WilliamLeonhart]

Anyone here into Post-Rock? They're tuned for Audio pleasure.

 

[xaval]

  The first three stooges albums. 

Hey and welcome to HF. A first post about music is the perfect entry point.

 

[TJ Elite]

APG550 - Lost day never again
https://apg550.bandcamp.com/album/lost-day-never-again
 

DIR EN GREY - UROBOROS
https://direngrey.bandcamp.com/album/uroboros
 

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!
 

The National - Boxer
 

Neurosis - The Eye of Every Storm
 

Rodrigo y Gabriela - Live in Japan
 

光収容 (Hikarisyuyo) - Centralia

 

[raybone0566]

1.) Led Zeppelin/ Presence (everything they put out really)
2.) Rolling Stones/ Let It Bleed
3.) Boston/ Boston
4.) Lynyrd Skynyrd/ Definitive
5.) Van Halen/ I,II, Fair Warning
6.) Black Sabbath/ The Black Box (box set)
7.) Judas Priest/ Brittish Steel, Hell Bent For Leather, Unleashed In The East
8.) ZZ Top/ Fandango
9.) Rush/ A Farewell To KIngs, Hemisphere's
10.) Ted Nugent/ Cat Scratch Fever

 

[MacedonianHero]

  Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Pearl Jam- Ten
The Doors - Strange Days
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Tool - Lateralus

 
Brilliant...I'm a big fan of Lateralus too!

 

[FrankCooter]

I see we've got most of the mainstream bands covered, so let's dig a little deeper.

Here's some of my favorite underplayed bands from the era of my first post:

1) Spirit - Great combination of psychedelia, jazz, driving guitar, and intelligent lyrics. If you like Steely Dan, you'll probably like Spirit

2) Steeleye Span - Traditional English folk music updated with heavy electric guitar and bass. Works surprisingly well. Some of the best female vocals (Maddy Prior) you will ever hear.

3) Youngbloods - Try the achingly beautiful "Darkness, Darkness" or "Get Together". Hard to think of two other songs that so perfectly encapsulate the era.

4) The Rascals - Best "blue-eyed soul" you will ever hear. Look for a "You Tube" video of "I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore". Perhaps the only white group to play the Apollo theater in Harlem and bring the house down.

5) Hot Tuna - Serious musicianship side of Jefferson Airplane. Great low key live performance in a small club.

6) Thirteenth Floor Elevators - Hard driving psychedlia out of Texas in 1967??? - You bet!

7) Love - One of the finest and least played bands of the early "Flower Power" era. Also one of the first truely integrated bands.

8) Fleetwood Mac - The earlier (pre-Stevie Nicks) incarnation with Peter Green when they were an English working- class blues-rock band

9) Steve Miller - Before he was a "Pop Star" he was a pretty good psychedelic-blues guitarist with some interesting lyrics. Check out "Living in the USA" with heavy guitar backed lyrics like: ....."Politicians!...Wariticians!...Television!....Somebody get me a cheeseburger!" Unfortunately some things never change.

10) It's a Beautiful Day" - I listed this one before but I'll list it again because I have a little bit of a personal connection to the band ( one of the female singers once saw me on the side of the road with a broken down motorcycle, stopped and offered a ride). Imagine pastoral San Francisco "hippie" music done on a large scale with superb vocals and a lead electric violin. Try "White Bird" and see if you agree with me that it still holds up surprisingly well.


















ing in the U.S.A.

 

[sling5s]

ACDC-Back in Black, Highway to Hell,
Beatles-White Album, Abbey Road, 
Black Sabbath-Paranoid
Blondie-Blondie, Eat to the Beat, Parallel Lines, Plastic Letters, 
Brand New-Deja Entendu, The Devil and God are Raging Inside
The Cake-Comfort Eagle 
The Cars-The Cars, Candy-O, Panorama 
The Clash-The Clash, London Calling, 
Deep Purple-Concerto for Group and Orchestra, Machine Head
Dire Straits-Brothers in Arms, Dire Straits
Elvis Costello-My Aim is True, This Year's Model, Imperial Bedroom
Fleetwood Mac-Rumours
Genesis-Selling England by the Pound
Heart-Dreamboat Annie
Jethro Tull-Aqalung, Thick as a Brick
Jimi Hendrix-All Studio Albums 
Journey-Infinity, Escape
King Crimson-In the Courts..., Larks'...Red
Led Zeppelin-All Studio Albums except Coda
Muse-Absolution, Black Holes...Origin...
Nirvana-Nevermind, Unplugged
Pat Benatar-In the Heat of the Night, Crimes of Passion, Precious Times 
Pearl Jam-Ten
Pink Floyd-Animals, Dark Side of the Moon, Meddle, Wishing You Were Here, The Wall, Final Cut
The Police-Ghost In the Machine, Outlandos d'Amour, Regatta De Blanc, Synchronicity, Kenyatta Mondatta,
Porcupine Tree-Deadwig, Fear of a Blank Planet, In Absentia, Incident
Prentenders-Prentenders, Learning to Crawl
Queen-A Night at the Opera
Radiohead-The Bends, Ok Computer, Rainbows
Roger Waters-Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking
Rolling Stones-Exile of Main Street, Sticky Fingers
Rush-2112, A Farewell To Kings, Fly By Night, Hemispheres, Moving Pictures, Permanent Waves, Rush, Signals
Talking Heads-Remain in the Light
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers-Damn The Torpedoes 
U2-Josua Tree, Achtung Baby, War, Unforgettable Fire
The Who-Live at Leeds, Quadrophenia, Tommy, Who's Next 
Yes-Close to the Edge, Relayer, Fragile, The Yes Album 

 

[TRapz]

 
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers-Damn The Torpedoes 

For a second there I thought Tom Petty was a Forgotten Man (but really, his new album is great too)
 
Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
Anything by The Grateful Dead
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd
AC/DC - High Voltage & Highway to Hell
ZZ Top - Eliminator
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed, Tattoo You, & Some Girls