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If anyone would like some recommendations on the very best, and original, pure Rock and Roll albums, I've got a few! Here they are, in no particular order:
Chuck Berry - One Dozen Berrys ('58 )/Chuck Berry Is on Top ('59)/St. Louis to Liverpool ('64)
Carl Perkins - Dance Album ('57)
Everly Brothers (Who influenced the Beatles' John Lennon/Paul McCartney two-part harmonies) - Everly Brothers ('58 )/It's Everly Time ('60)/The Fabulous Style of the Everly Brothers ('60)
Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley ('57)/Go Bo Diddley ('59)
Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley ('56), Elvis ('56) <---both extremely rowdy for the mid-50s...
Bill Haley and His Comets - Shake Rattle and Roll ('55)
The Crickets (Buddy Holly's group) - The 'Chirping' Crickets ('57)
Buddy Holly - Buddy Holly ('58, this was his last record before dying)
Little Richard (the true 'king of Rock and Roll') - Here's Little Richard ('57), Little Richard ('58 )
Gene Vincent - Bluejean Bop! ('56), Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps ('57)
The Beatles (their Rock and Roll albums) - Please Please Me ('63), With the Beatles ('63), A Hard Days' Night ('64)
Fats Domino - This Is Fats Domino ('57)/The Fabulous Mr. D ('58 )
Roy Orbison - For the Lonely: 18 Greatest Hits (this came out in '88... he didn't have any early great records - just great singles)
The Coasters - The Coasters ('58 )
The Yardbirds - Five Live Yardbirds ('64)
The Who - The Who Sings My Generation ('65)
The Rolling Stones (their Rock and Roll, or 'Hard R&B' records) - England's Newest Hitmakers ('64), 12X5 ('64), Rolling Stones Now! ('65), Out of Our Heads ('65), December's Children ('65)

and, of course...

Jerry Lee Lewis - Jerry Lee Lewis ('57)/Jerry Lee's Greatest ('61)
- he had three great late sixties records (Another Place Another Time/She Still Comes Around.../She Even Woke Me Up...) but they're more Country than Rock and Roll...

***Last but not least is Jerry Lee Lewis' record Live At the Star Club, Hamburg ('64). It is considered the very best live record of all time and is also considered the VERY BEST Rock and Roll ever recorded by anybody (all of Rock and Roll's subsequent sub-genres included) Allmusic.com states that this record makes Punk, Heavy Metal, Hard Rock and any other 'hardcore' genre sound tame... That sounds like a stretch, I know, but after hearing it I'm a believer. You've got to hear it!

I am with you on all above, Jerry Lee.....Yeah. Do you like Buddy Holley?

Love Buddy Holly... His record with the Crickets called 'The Chirping Crickets' is amazing.

AC/DC - Let there be rock. two guitars bass and drums with no fx just shoved through a marshall and powered out, how more rock n roll can you get

Ian R

Yeah, AC/DC played some really high-charged rock and roll (bad pun, I know). I was really only listing original rock and roll records from when the genre was new. AC/DC came after the Rock era and played Hard Rock.

Fair Warning - Van Halen

No question a great dark album

Aerosmith - 'Get Your Wings', 'Rocks', 'Toys in the attic'.

hey davis good to hear from you... good thread idea...
you listed many I like as well: about every other one you listed...
is the everly brothers really considered randr? Man I like them a lot... bird dog to dream.
when you said classic randr I thought the stones right away... guess that's just me. lots more to list here in my opinion but I don't fancy myself an authority on what is and what isn't randr.
I only know what it is to me: and that would include the who, led zep, and a ton more.

killing joke , killing joke the greates album every made omm

Boston's self titled first album is the greatest ever. Classic big band sound, and the very first song is a tribute to every great rock song ever. Other sounds like the Everly brothers, jerry lewis and buddy holly were inspired by folk or something else. Boston's sound is rock inspired rock. There's no better album for pure rock n roll.

jeffsmuse wrote:Boston's self titled first album is the greatest ever. Classic big band sound, and the very first song is a tribute to every great rock song ever. Other sounds like the Everly brothers, jerry lewis and buddy holly were inspired by folk or something else. Boston's sound is rock inspired rock. There's no better album for pure rock n roll.

You said it jeffsmuse, I was just going to post the same album & band. 'Boston'.

Killing Joke? holy crap.. Pandemonium. Unknown in the us, though.

Are you experienced? JHE

Soundgarden - the one with MAILMAN on it.

I like some TYPE O NEGATIVE, but those albums are not all 100%

Praise for Bacchus/Can't lose you/Love you to Death and I don't even really like that genre. That's October Rust/Bloody Kisses.

Not really my thing the oldies rock; i prefer classic rock; zep, floyd etc... however, in your category wouldn't The Beach Boys " Pet Sounds" be among the best?

Damn the torpedoes - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
London Calling - The Clash
Born to Run - Springsteen
Eddie and the Cruisers Soundtrack
Just about any Stones record

No doubt people like T-Rex and a lot of the listed acts lead us away from Motown. thank God.
But KISS ALIVE The first live album should be our national anthum for a Hundred Thousand Years. Sorry to have taken so long. Musta been a bitch while I's gone.

GURRRR !!! ROCKNFUCKINROOOOLLL OOUUWWWWWWOOOO!!!!!YEA!!!