[nanahachi]

Ok, I'm really interested in expanding my collection of classic rock CDs. However, it might be nice to turn this into a sticky thread for classic rock recommendations in general...maybe? I did a search for classic rock, and got tons of threads, that would have taken forever to wade through (but yes, I am wading through them anyway).

What I have already:
*Led Zep: Remasters box set
*Clapton Unplugged
*Lots of Jimi (Electric Ladyland, Axis Bold As Love, Are You Experienced, etc...)
*The Doors Greatest Hits (2 cd set)
*Steve Miller greatest hits
*prob a few others I'm forgetting

What I'm into at the moment:
The White Stripes (Elephant, White Blood Cells);
The sound of electric and accoustic guitar in general, which I find comes across so beautifully in a lot of rock in the 50s, 60s & 70s

Who should I be looking into?
Cream?
The Who?
Emerson Lake & Palmer?

these are names I know, but whose music I'm not very familiar. What banks should I be looking into? Any albums in particular? Any absolute must haves? (I'm sure Pink Floyd DSOTM will come up more than once

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[Also, I've also been listening to a lot of James Brown, so if you want to recommend some other male singers like Marvin Gaye or Al Green CDs I should pick up, feel free to PM me as an aside

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Thanks everyone.

Here is a list of what has been said so far, excluding Dusty's monster post:

5 Man Electic Band - "Signs"
AC/DC - Back in Black
Aerosmith - Aerosmith (1973), Get Your Wings (1974), Toys in the Attic (1975), Rocks (1976)
Al Stewart - "Year of the Cat"
America - America (1972)
Animals - "House of the Rising Sun", "See See Rider", "We Gotta Get Out of this Place"
Atlanta Rythm Section - "Imaginary Lover", "So Into You"
Average White Band - "Cut the Cake", "Pick up the Pieces"
Bachman Turner Overdrive - The Best of B.T.O. (So Far) (1976)
Bachmann Turner Overdrive - Not Fragile or just pick up the greatest hits
Bad Company - 10 from 6
Badfinger - "No Matter What"
Bill Haley and his Comets - Greatest hits CD called From The Original Master Tapes.
Blue Oyster Cult - "Burnin' For You", "Don't Fear the Reaper", "Godzilla"
Bob Dylan -- Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
Boston -- Boston (1976)
Boz Scaggs -- Silk Degrees (1976)
Buffalo Springfield -- "For What it's Worth"
Canned Heat - Greatest Hits is awesome.
Carly Simon -The Best of Carly Simon (1975)
Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority (1969)
Cream -- Mountain. (especially, -Climbing!-)
Cream -- Ten Years After
Cream -- The Electric Flag
Creedence - Clearwater Revival Chronicle, Vol. 1 (1976)
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déjà Vu (1970)
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's - "So Far".
Dave Mason - "Only You Know and I Know", "We Just Disagree"
David Bowie - Best of Bowie
David Bowie - Changesbowie (1990) "Young Americans", "Fame"
Deep Purple - Machine Head (1972)
Dire Straits -- Money for Nothing
Dire Straits -- On Every Street, Dire Straits
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly (1982)
Earth, Wind & Fire - That's the Way of the World (1975)
Elton John - Madman Across the Water (1971), Honky Chateau (1972), Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player (1973), Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)
Elvis Presley - Elvis 30 #1 Hits (2002)
Emerson Lake and Palmer - Brainsalad Surgery
Eric Burdon and the Animals - "Sky Pilot"
Eric Burdon and War - "Spill the Wine"
Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard (1974)
Eric Clapton -- The Cream of Clapton.
Fleetwood Mac -Fleetwood Mac (1975), Rumours (1977)
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors (Or the very best of)
Focus - "Hocus Pocus"
Foghat - Fool for the City (1975)
Foreigner -- Records
George Harrison - Concert for Bangladesh (1971)
Grand Funk Railroad - Closer to Home (1970)
Guns n Roses - Apetite For Destruction
Hall & Oates - Abandoned Luncheonette (1973), Daryl Hall & John Oates (1975)
Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson (1971)
Heart Dreamboat - Annie (1976), Little Queen (1977), Dog & Butterfly (1978)
J Geils Band - Full House Live (1972)
Janes Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Janis Joplin -- Pearl
Jeff Beck - Blow by Blow (1975), Wired (1976)
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow (1967)
Jethro Tull - Aqualung (1971), Thick as a Brick (1972)
Jethro Tull - Greatest Hits vol. I & II to start, then add the albums later.
Joni Mitchell - Blue (1971), Court and Spark (1974)
Journey -- Greatest Hits
Kansas -- Leftoverture
King Crimson -- In The Court Of The Crimson King
Kiss - Double Platinum/Alive II
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV (1971), Houses of the Holy (1973), Physical Graffiti (1975), Presence (1976), In Through the Out Door (1979)
Lee Michaels - "You Know What I Mean"
Leon Redbone - "Come and Get Your Love"
Leon Russell - "Tight Rope"
Loggins and Messina - "Angry Eyes", "Danny's Song", "Vahevala"
Meat Loaf -- Bat out of Hell
Moody Blues - a Greatest Hits would be a good place to start.
Moody Blues - Days of Future Past (1967)
Mountain - "Mississippi Queen"
Neil Young - harvest
Nicolette Larson - "Lotta Love"
Paul McCartney and Wings -- Venus and Mars.
Paul Simon -- Hearts and Bones
Peter Framton - Wind of Change (1972), Frampton's Camel (1973), Frampton Comes Alive (1976)
pink floyd - "shine on" box set
Rare Earth 20th Century Masters, The Millennium Collection (2001)
REO Speedwagon -- "The Hits"
Rick Derringer - "Rock and Roll Hoochie Coo"
Santana - Abraxas (1970)
Simon and Garfunkel - Greatest Hits (1972)
Sly and the Family Stone - The Essential Sly and the Family Stone (2002)
Stealers Wheel - "Stuck in the Middle With You"
Steely Dan -- A Decade of Steely Dan.
Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972), Countdown to Ecstasy (1973), Pretzel Logic (1974), Katy Lied (1975), The Royal Scam (1976), Aja (1977), Gaucho (1980)
Steppenwolf - "Born to be Wild", "Magic Carpet Ride"
Steve Miller Band - Greatest Hits 1974-78 (best sing along album EVER)
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book (1972), Innervisions (1973), Songs in the Key of Life (1976)
Styx -- Classics Vol. 15
Supertramp -- Breakfast In America.
The Allman Brothers Band - Eat a Peach (1972)
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (1966)
The Beatles - Rubber Soul (1965), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), Abbey Road (1969), The Beatles 1962-1966 (1973), The Beatles 1967-1970 (1973), The Beatles 1 (2000)
The Doobie Brothers Toulouse Street (1972), What Were Once Vices are Now Habits (1974), Takin' It to the Streets (1976)
The Doors - Doors, LA Woman
The Eagles - The Very Best of...
The Eagles On the Border (1974), Hotel California (1976)
The Hollies - The Hollies' Greatest Hits (1973)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced (1967), Electric Ladyland (1968)
The Kinks - "All Day and All of the Night", "Lola", "Tired of Waiting For You", "You Really Got Me"
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers (1971), Hot Rocks, 1964-1971 (1972), It's Only Rock and Roll (1974)
the Who - Who's Next
The Who - Tommy (1969), Who's Next (1971)
Tom Petty - Greatest Hits
Tower of Power - Tower of Power (1973) "You're Still a Young Man"
T-Rex - "Bang a Gong"
Van Halen - Van Halen
Velvet Underground - Nico
War - All Day Music (1971), The World is a Ghetto (1972)
Yes - Fragile

 

[neggy]

Neil Young harvest. I am listening to that right now and its awesome. Alot of classic songs. Heart of gold and the damage done are worth the cost of the cd alone.

 

[fractus2]

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[Mr.PD]

I'm a greatest hits kinda guy. That is what I look for.

Steely Dan- A Decade of Steely Dan. This has all the good songs one would expect, and it is also wonderfully recorded.

Eric Clapton- The Cream of Clapton. Another high fidelity remaster of old hits. Goes from his Cream days up to recent releases.

Paul McCartney and Wings- Venus and Mars. This has long been a favorite album of mine, I have it on vinyl, cassette and CD.

If you want something really old, go for Bill Haley and his Comets. I have a greatest hits CD called From The Original Master Tapes. Very good sound quality on this BMG release.

One last one. Supertramp- Breakfast In America. This is great stuff, I got a greates hits of Supertramp on CD but I wish I had Breakfast In America instead.

 

[Hiker]

If you can get one and only one cd, it has to be Who's Next by The Who. Other good selections from this band include Quadrophenia and Tommy. Also check out some Pink Floyd. I see both of these bands as classic rock standards.

 

[markkr]

In addition to the many fine albums above:

Bad Company - 10 from 6
Boston - Boston
Dire Straits - Money for Nothing
The Eagles - The Very Best of...
Foreigner - Records
Journey - Greatest Hits
Kansas - Leftoverture
Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell
Styx - Classics Vol. 15

 

[2 channel]

Here are a few of my favs

Emerson Lake and Palmer....Brainsalad Surgery
Steve Miller Band....Greatest Hits 1974-78 (best sing along album EVER)
Tom Petty....Greatest Hits
Fleetwood Mac.....Rumors (Or the very best of)
Kiss.......... Double Platinum/Alive II
The Doors.......Doors
David Bowie .............Best of Bowie


And a few "New Classics"

Guns n Roses.......Apetite For Destruction
Van Halen..............Van Halen
Janes Addiction.....Ritual de lo Habitual
AC/DC................... Back in Black

 

[ServinginEcuador]

I would also reco:

ANY Moody Blues albums, but a Greatest Hits would be a good place to start.
Canned Heat, Greatest Hits is awesome.
Jethro Tull, Greatest Hits vol. I & II to start, then add the albums later.

 

[welting]

you also may want to look into Velvet Underground- Nico. Great album. Great Warhol cover art as well

 

[hempcamp]

Most I'd recommend have already been mentioned. Some additions:

Dire Straits - On Every Street, Dire Straits
Paul Simon - Hearts and Bones
Beatles - Rubber Soul

Oh, and yes, all the Cream/Clapton you can get!

--Chris

 

[Mr.PD]

I must agree with the assesment of Steve Miller Band greatest hits being the best sing along album ever.

The Mommas and the Poppas greates hits is another great choice.

Bachmann Turner Overdrive - Not Fragile or just pick up the greatest hits, since most of Not Fragile is on that compilation.

 

[fyrfytrhoges]

if you have the means, by that i mean the $$$, i would highly recommend the pink floyd "shine on" box set, it will give you almost all the classic pink floyd stuff in one shot, well worth the money like i said, if you have it.

 

[nanahachi]

wow, this is exactly what I was hoping for!! you guys are great!

I think I'm going to have to hit up BMG and join and pick up 15 classic rock albums for the price of 1

please, keep the recs coming. and if you like the idea of a sticky, let me know, and I'll ask mods what they think. a genre based list might prove useful, provided we dont say X is better than Y, etc, heh heh

 

[truant truism]

Janis Joplin- Pearl is another good one.

Oh, and the Doors- L.A. Woman is fan-friggin-tastic.

 

[Dusty Chalk]

Aerosmith, Rocks
Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes
Art of Noise, Who's Afraid Of?, In Visible Silence, Innocence? Nonsense!
Bad Religion, The Process of Belief, All Ages
Bauhaus, In The Flat Field, Mask, The Sky's Gone Out, Burning from the Inside
Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Heaven and Hell, Technical Ecstasy, many others
Blue Oyster Cult, first one, Tyranny & Mutation, Spectres, Secret Treaties, Agents of Fortune, Cultosaurus Erectus and Imaginos
Bowie, Diamond Dogs, Low, Heroes, Scary Monsters...
Buggles, Living in the Plastic Age, Adventures in Modern Recording
Kate Bush, The Dreaming, Never For Ever (or is it Never Forever?), Hounds of Love
Buzzcocks, A Different Kind of Tension, Singles Going Steady, Another Music in a Different Kitchen and Love Bites, and Modern
C-Tec, Cut, Colder?
The Cars
Catherine Wheel, Chrome
Cure, Disintegration, Head on the Door, Wish
Curve, Cuckoo, Come Clean
Matt Elliott, The Mess We Made
ELO, II, Face the Music, Out of the Blue, A New World Record
ELP, Tarkus, Trilogy, Brain Salad Surgery, Welcome Back My Friends...
Enigma, MCMXC A.D.
Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Peter Gabriel, the third one (the one with "Games Without Frontiers", aka Melt), Security
Garbage, Version 2.0 and the first one
Garden of Shadows, both albums (???titles)
Genesis, Foxtrot, Nursery Cryme, ...And The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Selling England by the Pound, Seconds Out, Wind & Wuthering, A Trick of the Tail
Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man, Out of Season
Philip Glass, Koyaanisqatsi, Glassworks, Einstein on the Beach
God Lives Underwater, (which album???)
godhead, Nothingness, Power Tool Stigmata
Golden Earring, Moontan, Cut
Gravity Kills (first album)
Jimi Hendrix, Are You Experienced?, Axis: Bold as Love, Electric Ladyland, Smash Hits, BBC Sessions
Human League, Dare
In The Nursery, Hindle Wakes
Japan, Tin Drum, Oil On Canvas, Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Keith Jarrett, Sun Bear Concerts
King Crimson, Islands, Red, Discipline
Kraftwerk, Computer World, Man Machine
Led Zeppelin, all of them except Coda
Legendary Pink Dots, Maria Dimension, Golden Age, Crushed Velvet Apocalypse, Shadow Weaver, Malachai
Chris Meloche, Recurring Dreams of an Urban Myth, Distant Rituals, Urban Myth 2
Melotron, ???
Metallica, Kill 'em All, Ride the Lightning, ...And Justice For All, and Blaster of Muppets
Ministry, Land of Rape and Honey, Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste, With Sympathy, Twelve Inch Singles 1981-1984
My Bloody Valentine, Loveless
New Model Army, Thunder & Consolation, For the Love of Hopeless Causes
New Order, Power, COrruption & Lies, Low-Life, Republic, Substance
Notwist, Neon Golden, 12, Shrink
Gary Numan, Replicas, Sacrifice, Machine + Soul, Pleasure Principle, Telekon, Dance, I, Assassin, Warriors, Metal Rhythm/New Anger, Exile, Pure
Mike Oldfield, Tubular Bells, Ommadawn, Five Miles Out, Amarok
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Dazzle Ships, Architecture & Morality, Organisation and the first one.
Alan Parsons Project, I, Robot, Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe, Pyramania
Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here, Animals
Planet P Project, Pink World
The Police, ???
Porcupine Tree, Stupid Dream, In Absentia, Signify, Sky Moves Sideways
Portishead, Dummy and the self-titled one.
Queen, A Night at the Opera
Red Flag, ???
Rorschach Test, Unclean
Rush, Moving Pictures, 2112, All the World's a Stage
Joe Satriani, Surfing with the Alien
Klaus Schulze, X, Mirage, Body Love Vol. 2, Dig It, ...Live...
Seefeel, Quique
Pete Shelley, XL-I, Homosapien
Shpongle, Are You Shpongled?
Sigur Rós, ()
Skinny Puppy, Bites, Remission, Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse, ViviSect VI, Cleanse, Fold, and Manipulate
Slayer, Reign in Blood
Slowdive, Just for a Day
Stabbing Westward, Darkest Days, Whither Blister Burn and Peel and the self-titled one
Steely Dan, ???
Supertramp, Crime of the Century, Even in the Quietest Moments, Breakfast in America
David Sylvian, Gone to Earth
Talk Talk, The Party's Over, It's My Life, The Colour of Spring, Spirit of Eden, Laughing Stock
Talking Heads, Remain in Light, Stop Making Sense
Tangerine Dream, Ricochet, Force Majeure, Tangram, Logos, Encore, Sorceror, Optical Race, (others from private period?), Tyger, Exit
Tear Garden, Last Man To Fly, Tired Eyes Slowly Burning
Ultravox, Vienna, Rage in Eden, ...other two...
Vangelis, Albedo 0.39, Spiral, Heaven and Hell, China, Chariots of Fire
Rick Wakeman, The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Rhapsodies, Criminal Record, No Earthly Connection, Cost of Living
Joe Walsh, ...Seriously..., So What?, The Smoker You Drink The Player You Get, You Can't Argue With A Sick Mind, Barnstorm
Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds
Yello, Stella, One Second, The Race
Yes, The Yes Album, Tales from Topographic Oceans, Yessongs, Relayer, Going for the One, Drama