Classic Rock Albums from 1975 - 1985

[LiquidSky]

Excellent choices, guys! I love all the albums listed.

 

[Rick Ratzinger]

Bob Dylan: Blood On The Tracks

David Bowie: Low

The Clash: London Calling

Well, at least three workable suggestions from this period.... .


Let's add just twelve titles more....


- Wire: 'Chairs Missing' (1978)

- Gun Club: 'Miami' (1982)

- Violent Femmes: 'First Album' (1982)

- Giant Sand: 'Ballad of a Thin Line Man' (1985/86)

- Green on Red: 'Gravity Talks' (1983)

- X: 'Los Angeles' (1980)

- Hüsker Dü: 'Zen Arcade' & 'New Day Rising' (1984/'85)

- Black Flag: 'My War'

- Dead Kennedys: 'Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables' (1980)

- Joy Divison: 'Unknown Pleasures' (1979)

- Talking Heads: '77' (1977)

- The B 52's: 'First Album' (1979)

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[ShihTzuTylenol]

if you're into brilliant music....

Led Zeppelin ~ Houses of the Holy
The Stooges ~ Raw Power
Queen ~ A Night at the Opera
Jethro Tull ~ Too Old To Rock And Roll; Too Young To Die
Supertramp ~ Breakfast in America
R.E.M. ~ Reckoning
Dead Kennedys ~ Frankenchrist
Rush ~ 2112

 

[Legionair]

Anything by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO)

 

[Legionair]

...and Crime of The Century by Supertramp.

 

[Native Son]

Well, at least three workable suggestions from this period.... .


Let's add just twelve titles more....



- Wire: 'Chairs Missing' (1978)

- Gun Club: 'Miami' (1982)

- Violent Femmes: 'First Album' (1982)

- Giant Sand: 'Ballad of a Thin Line Man' (1985/86)

- Green on Red: 'Gravity Talks' (1983)

- X: 'Los Angeles' (1980)

- Hüsker Dü: 'Zen Arcade' & 'New Day Rising' (1984/'85)

- Black Flag: 'My War'

- Dead Kennedys: 'Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables' (1980)

- Joy Divison: 'Unknown Pleasures' (1979)

- Talking Heads: '77' (1977)

- The B 52's: 'First Album' (1979)

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Snob rock.

Love it.

 

[gsdx]

Pet.

Hands up if you got that one.

 

[Native Son]

Pet.

Hands up if you got that one.

You have a sense of humor? Who would have thought?

 

[gsdx]

You have a sense of humor? Who would have thought?

I'm too much of a gentleman to sink to your level and tell you what I think of you. Don't bother posting your usual, ignorant comments to me anymore. You, sir, are going on ignore.

Enjoy your miserable life.

 

[vulgar_newcomer]

Aerosmith _ Toys in the ATTIC
KISS_ Alive
Queen_ Sheer Heart ATTACK
LED Zeppelin _ Physcial Graffiti
DEF Leppoard_ PYrPOMania






allllllllllll the list is long

 

[vulgar_newcomer]

Rock ain't B-52's though the albums are cool classic rock ain't the talking heads either or Bowie and those guys are stellar
too

 

[Native Son]

I'm too much of a gentleman to sink to your level and tell you what I think of you.

Who are you kidding? You really are not.

 

[Zaphod]

Jethro Tull

 

[bw92116]

If you changed it to 1965-1975 the quality would improve dramatically.

Some of the best:

The Beatles, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, white album, Abbey Road
The Who, Who's Next
The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds
Jimi Hendrix, Are You Experienced
Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon
Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers, Let it Bleed, greatest hits
Stevie Wonder, Innervisions (though not rock)
Led Zeppelin, 2nd and 4th albums
Joni Mitchell, Blue and Court and Spark
Cat Stevens, Mona Bone Jakon, Tea for the Tillerman, Teaser and the Firecat
Neil Young, Decade
David Bowie, Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust
Elton John, Elton John and Tumbleweed Connection
Carole King, Tapestry
Sly and the Family Stone, There's a Riot Goin' On
Jefferson Airplane - Flight Log
Cream, Disraeli Gears
Yes, Fragile
Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Brain Salad Surgery
Moody Blues, Days of Future Passed
Janis Joplin, Pearl and Cheap Thrills
Jethro Tull, Aqualung
Carpenters, Close to You
The Doors, The Doors
The Fifth Dimension, Greatest Hits
Linda Ronstadt, Heart Like A Wheel
Vince Guaraldi, Oh Good Grief
Creedence Clearwater Revivial, their first 4 albums

 

[ShihTzuTylenol]

Best Classic Rock Albums from 1975 - 1985

alright, I was hoping it wouldn't come to this but the gloves are off bitches! put up your dukes!

• Patti Smith ~ Horses
• Lynyrd Skynyrd ~ One More From The Road
• Van Halen ~ Van Halen
• The Sex Pistols ~ Never Mind The Bullocks
• Bruce Springsteen ~ Darkness On the Edge Of Town
• Quiet Riot ~ Metal Health
• Alice Copper ~ Flush The Fashion
• AC/DC ~ Highway To Hell

 

[ShihTzuTylenol]

oh and maybe the hardest cock of the period.... Aerosmith ~ Rocks...

 

[ShihTzuTylenol]

the Cars first 2 albums are priceless!

and Animals by Pink Floyd

 

[Rick Ratzinger]

If you change it to 1965-1975 the quality would improve dramatically...

...if you pick the right recordings ... ..........




- Country Joe & The Fish: 'Electric Music for the Mind & Body' (1967)

- Grateful Dead: 'Live Dead' (1969)

- Allman Brothers Band: 'At Fillmore East' (1968)

- Jefferson Airplane: 'After Bathing at Baxter's' & 'Volunteers' (1968/69)

- Rolling Stones: 'Beggars Banquet' (1968)

- The Who: 'Tommy' (1969)

- Family: 'Music in a Doll's House' (1968)

- Bob Dylan: 'Highway 61 Revisited' (1966)

- Captain Befheart: 'Safe as Milk' (1966)

- The Velvet Underground & Nico' (1967)

- Mad River: 'same' (1968)

- Junior Wells & Buddy Guy: 'Voodoo Man Blues' (1965)

- Beacon Street Union: 'Eyes of the Beacon Street Union' (1968)

- Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: 'Uncle Charlie'

- Canned Heat: 'Boogie'

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[Rick Ratzinger]

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Two little corrections: 'The Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East' was recorded & released in 1970, not 1968. And just add an 'e' to Don Van Vliet alias Captain Beefheart..... ..

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[bw92116]