Bands And Albums.

No, I'm saying that their Greatest Hits was better
My opinion, ofcourse.

I generaly detest Greatist Hits Albums from anyone. The sequence of an album is as important as the individual songs IMO.

And you know I'm with Slipped on KISS ALIVE

Cat Stevens - Tea For The Tillerman, Teaser & The Firecat, Catch Bull At Four

John Prine's 1st album

The Beatles' Anthologies

Chick Corea & Return To Forever - Romantic Warrior

King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

Steppenwolf 7

King Crimson! There were some crazy 15 minute tracks there :O

Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs - Derek and The Dominos.

This one is a little tricky. I'm not really thinking in the realm of personal preference. It may be something that you didn't even listen to, but you can't deny the strength, consistency and/or commercial success of the album.

My choices (and opinions):

Hysteria-Def Leppard. How many bands follow up their biggest album with a BIGGER one. If my memory serves, 8 of 12 songs were singles and, to varying degrees, hits.

INXS-Kick. INXS was a popular band, with a few hits. Kick put them on top. Consistently strong material throughout the album.

The Black Album-Metallica. Mainstream Metal? Although it alienated some hardcore fans, the album solidified them as one of the few definitive metal bands.

Appetite for Destruction-Guns 'N' Roses. Graphic, disturbing ooze flowed from every note on this set (okay, now I'm getting carried away) and changed the landscape of music forever.

For the record, I'm not a big GNR or Metallica fan. Just to give you an idea of what I'm talking about.

Personally, I'd go with the another 1987, put in Master of Puppets and take out the black album. I liked Enter Sandman, but most of the black album is kinda...eehhh. Metallica being edited by a hard rock producer to be a rock n roll/ mtv band. Master of Puppets was their peak for me.

INXS I loved back then, I can't lie. But not so much now. Devil inside still holds up. Def Leppard was never my thing, too corny and predictable and melodramatic drums and riffs. I'll sing along to Photograph, every once in awhile, though. Appetite is legendary of course, not enough can be said about how good that album is. Probably (and sadly) we will never hear another pure rock n' roll album in our lifetime that good.

The Stones... Exile and Sticky. Be careful. You can get into those two albums and not get out of them for years. Be warned if you never have.

I'm gonna check out some of the suggestions I've never listened to much, though. Cool thread!!!!

Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime

No kidding. Got to see that whole album done on the Empire tour. Was fabulous.

For me...

Moving Pictures - Rush
U2 - Joshua Tree
Dream Theater - Images and Words (the album I discovered prog with)
Enchant - Blueprint of the World
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - Black (the album that turned me on to metal)
Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

Dark side of the mood-Pink Floyd
Sad wings of Destiny-Judas Priest
Tokyo Tapes-Scorpians
A night at the Opera -Queen
A tale of Madness-Double Vision
Wish you were here-Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin 3-Led Zep

I have heard lots of good tracks but not really heard any really brilliant albums in the past 20 years!!!

Well, I don't know if these were the GREATEST, but they're the ones that made a musical impact on me over the years. Some, I'll just name the band because several of their albums made my list.
1. The Monkees (hey, I was 13. Give me a break)
2. Creedence Clearwater Revival
3. The Beatles
4. Deep Purple - Made in Japan
5. Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday, Demons and Wizards
6. Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys
7. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced
8. Frank Zappa - Apostrophe
9. Babe Ruth - First Base
10. Yes - Yessongs
11. Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
12. Jethro Tull - Aqualung
13. Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties (then I went back and discovered the earlier stuff.
14. Stevie Ray Vaughn
15. Van Halen
16. Satriani - Flying in a Blue Dream
17. Phish - Rift
18. Poison - Look What the Cat Dragged In
19. The Refreshments - Fizzy Fuzzy, Big and Buzzy
20. Greenday
21. Bad Company - Straight Shooter and Holy Water
22. UFO
23. Alice Cooper
25. Pink Floyd - Umma Gumma (trippin' days)
26. Humble Pie
27. Led Zeppelin
28. The Outlaws - Green Grass and High Tides
29. Black Sabbath
30. Bloodline (then on to Joe Bonamasa)
31. Queen - A Night at the Opera
32. Ted Nugent

Well, too many more to list. Also couldn't keep them in chronological order.

Okay, ratsass - if you liked "Rift," you have GOT to check out "A Picture Of Nectar," &/or "Hoist," &/or "Lawn Boy." Just sayin'.

Okay, ratsass - if you liked "Rift," you have GOT to check out "A Picture Of Nectar," &/or "Hoist," &/or "Lawn Boy." Just sayin'.

I got 'em all. That was just the first one I heard and it got me into them. Most of the bands I listed, I've gotten all of their CD's over the years. Even hard to find ones, if someone has the vinyl, I've got a turntable and my stereo is hooked up to my computer so I can burn a CD of it. Examples: UFO - "No Heavy Petting" and Lou Reed - "Rock and Roll Animal".

Do you even have "Junta?"

Do you even have "Junta?"

Must have missed that one.

Yea, when it comes to Phish, Phil's on top of that game

Ok here are some good metal albums of the newer generation:

"Slipknot" and "Vol. 3 Subliminal Verses"-Slipknot
"Godsmack" and "Faceless"-Godsmack
"Cowboys from Hell" and "The Great Southern Trendkill"-Pantera
"Saints of Los Angeles"- Motley Crue
"Hybrid Theory" and "Meteora"-Linkin Park (MTM sucked balls)
"Sounding the Seventh Trumpet" and "Waking the Fallen"- Avenged Sevenfold
and last but certainly not least:
"End of all Things to come" and "Lost and Found" by Mudvayne