[yiokuan]

I actually started with British Bands. Used to own lots of cassettes tapes and cartridges which were my in-thing when I was young (my dad supported me) and progressed to vinyl when I was about 17+

Bay City Rollers
Badfinger
Budgies
Free
Faces
Genesis
Hollies
Thin Lizzy
Kinks
Matt the Hopple
Moody Blues
Manfred Mann/Earth Band
Nazareth
Peter Frampton
Status Quo
Slade
Sweet
T Rex
10CC
And the list goes on.....and there was this Dutch rock band Golden Earrring with that wonderful song Radar Love that we were so crazy or hype about during those days.

 

[xaval]

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:

 

Thanks! I knew something like this thread would elicit this postings. Got to check some of this stuff out asap!

 

[MacedonianHero]

Well...I've got goose bumps listening to Floyd's first album since the Division Bell. Sound quality is excellent so far as is the music. Definitely Floyd and more so than just a companion disk to The Division Bell thankfully.

 

[Swanky7001]

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

I listened to spiderland and few of godspeed you black emperor records.  

 

[Androb]

You guys should give Opeth a listen! Prog rock at it's best (imo)

 

[YtseJamer]

  You guys should give Opeth a listen! Prog rock at it's best (imo)

 
X2

 

[xaval]

  You guys should give Opeth a listen! Prog rock at it's best (imo)

x3. Although I have a few reservations about their early work.

 

[Androb]

  x3. Although I have a few reservations about their early work.

True, some of the first might not be rock

 

[Androb]

Fail post

 

[xaval]

After the longest post on page 1, here's my take on fave Rock albums, this time irrespective of the decade.
 
I don't know what's your criteria when deciding this or that album is on the top list. Tough task. 
 
My list has a predominantly emotional factor. There's a story around each of them involving a person or a moment that get's... conjunct... with the album and it get's this special meaning. And it sticks! Timeless events.
 
I summurize a lot of conjunctions that keep working out, over and over... people look at photo albums the same way I look at records and artists. Let's roll...
 
1) The Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
2) The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
3) The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
4) The Rolling Stones - Tatto You
5) Led Zeppelin - Presence
6) The Who - Who's Next
7) Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
8) Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
9) U2 - The Joshua Tree
10) Opeth - Black Water Park
11) Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
12) Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
13) Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
14) AC/DC - Back In Black
15) Beth Hart - Live at Paradiso
16) Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
17) Deep Purple - Made In Japan
18) Def Leppard - Hysteria
19) Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
20) Jimi Hendrix - Axis, Bold as Love
 
Special appearence...
UHF (the portuguese band) - Persona Non Grata

 

[Tuco1965]

Here's a small list out of a very big list of mine.
 
Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
 
Yes- The Yes Album
 
J.J. Cale - Naturally
 
BTO - Not Fragile
 
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
 
Boston - Boston
 
Camel - Mirage
 
Rush - 2112
 
ZZ Top - Deguello
 
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
 
The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot
 
Sweet - Desolation Boulevard
 
Steve Miller - Book of Dreams
 
T.Rex - Electric Warrior
 
Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards
 
Genesis - A Trick of the Tail
 
Mike Oldfield - Crises
 
Ian Hunter - You're Never Alone With a Schizophrenic
 
Golden Earring - Moontan
 
Foreigner - Foreigner
 
 
..now I gotta go listen

 

[Swanky7001]

Lets not forget frank zappa's hot rats 

 

[MacedonianHero]

  After the longest post on page 1, here's my take on fave Rock albums, this time irrespective of the decade.
 
I don't know what's your criteria when deciding this or that album is on the top list. Tough task. 
 
My list has a predominantly emotional factor. There's a story around each of them involving a person or a moment that get's... conjunct... with the album and it get's this special meaning. And it sticks! Timeless events.
 
I summurize a lot of conjunctions that keep working out, over and over... people look at photo albums the same way I look at records and artists. Let's roll...
 
1) The Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
2) The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
3) The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
4) The Rolling Stones - Tatto You
5) Led Zeppelin - Presence
6) The Who - Who's Next
7) Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
8) Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
9) U2 - The Joshua Tree
10) Opeth - Black Water Park
11) Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
12) Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
13) Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
14) AC/DC - Back In Black
15) Beth Hart - Live at Paradiso
16) Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
17) Deep Purple - Made In Japan
18) Def Leppard - Hysteria
19) Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
20) Jimi Hendrix - Axis, Bold as Love
 
Special appearence...
UHF (the portuguese band) - Persona Non Grata

 
Can't believe it's been this long since someone recommended Porcupine Tree! 

 

[Makiah S]

  You guys should give Opeth a listen! Prog rock at it's best (imo)

 
 

   
X2

 
 

  x3. Although I have a few reservations about their early work.

Wow how ironic, Just got my First Taste of Opeth about 3 days ago 

 

[xaval]

   
 
 
 
Wow how ironic, Just got my First Taste of Opeth about 3 days ago 

That's the good thing in listening to music. It's never too late to get started!