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[Pavement Ist Rad]

Jesus Lizard - Goat Stooges - Fun House Royal Trux - Accelerator Stones - Sticky Fingers O.A.R. - The Wanderer

[Simakos]

off the top of my head:

[demoncleaner]

Monster Magnet - Spine of God

mmmmmm, delicious




edit: rocking though? I think the people naming Fun House are more down with the essence of the matter here. And it's important we get to the essence, man.

[franty]

ok. probably not the hardest rocking albums of all time, but just a few i could think now that weren't thunk previously on this same thread.











but, yes, funhouse would be at the very top of my list.

[M_Rots]

Monster Magnet - Spine of God

mmmmmm, delicious




edit: rocking though? I think the people naming Fun House are more down with the essence of the matter here. And it's important we get to the essence, man.

You make a good point. Shoulda gone for Dopes to Infinity.

[nobodies]

Monster Magnet - Spine of God

mmmmmm, delicious




edit: rocking though? I think the people naming Fun House are more down with the essence of the matter here. And it's important we get to the essence, man.

You make a good point. Shoulda gone for Dopes to Infinity.

If you want the definitive Monster Magnet "rock" album, I think the easy choice is Powertrip. Dopes is still more in the Stoner-pschedelic vein (not a bad thing though).

Anyway, for Stooges I'd go Raw Power. Others:

Stones: Exile On Main Street (obvious yeah, but I didn't see it during my quick skim)
Hives: Black And White Album
New Bomb Turks: Destroy Oh Boy! or Information Highway Revisted
Iron Maiden: Number of The Beast
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd
Ramones: Leave Home

This feels very random. Best rock album is such a broad yet very narrow category, if that makes sense (i.e. are metal, punk, and every sub-genre of rock excluded? Are we just going for straight rock, whatever that is?).

[Vivian Darkbloom]

This feels very random. Best rock album is such a broad yet very narrow category, if that makes sense (i.e. are metal, punk, and every sub-genre of rock excluded? Are we just going for straight rock, whatever that is?).

Nah, I think I get what Elastico's driving at. He wants records that ROCK

This was basically the criteria for music at my bachelor party. When I think RAWK, I usually go for 70's hard stuff or late 70's-early eighties metal. Here's some stuff we amped at my bach:

[HotRockinJohnny]

Black Sabbath - Paranoid/Master Of Reality/Black Sabbath Deep Purple - In Rock Foghat - Live Grand Funk - Grand Funk Hot Tuna - Yellow Fever/Double Dose Johnny Winter And...Live Van Halen - Van Halen I & II Wolfmother - Wolfmother Pat Travers Band - Live! Go for What You Know Lynyrd Skynyrd - One More From The Road Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic/Rocks Kiss - Alive! Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak Scorpions - Blackout Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever/Double Live Gonzo/Ted Nugent Allman Brothers Band - Live At The Fillmore East Wishbone Ash - Wishbone Ash The Who - Live at Leeds

[demoncleaner]

Oh hell yeah.

[throughsilver]

My most rocking of de moment:

Little Richard: Here's Little Richard
RTX: Transmaniacon
Andrew W.K.: I Get Wet
Be Your Own PET: Be Your Own PET
NOFX: So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes
Wildhearts: Earth vs. The Wildhearts
Supershit666: Amp X
Hellacopters: Supershitty to the Max
Misfits: Famous Monsters
Ramones: Ramones
Kyuss: Blues for the Red Sun
Mondo Generator: A Drug Problem That Never Existed
Rick James: Street Songs
Strife: In This Defiance
Strapping Young Lad: City

[Chronodiggity]

Yes. Truly one of the finest and rockingest albums of our era.

[spiritofeden]

[Burz]

O.A.R. - The Wanderer

Odd choice. I would've gone with their second album, Souls Aflame. The addition of Jerry DePizzo's saxophone really added the depth and diversity to their music they've become well known for.

[Guy]

It's fascinating to see what differnt people think rawks. Here's a few I like: The Who, Live @ Leeds Van Halen, Women & Children First Iggy, Fun House GnR, Appetite for Destruction AC/DC, Highway to Hell Jay Reatard, Blood Visions

[nobodies]

Oh hell yeah.

totally forgot RFTC. Great call.

also:

[throughsilver]

GnR, Appetite for Destruction

What an idiot I am.

[Drinky]

how can you say this

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Fun House.
Pink Flag.
Liar.

[spiritofeden]

how can you say this

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i didnt want to get pulled into that discussion again, but yeah.....wtf.

[Pavement Ist Rad]

I don't know, maybe I'm just looking at things more broadly than the rest of you, but I think the best rock albums are ones that do something new and interesting with the medium. Yoshimi does this to a greater extent than even this decade's finest rock records.

O.A.R. - The Wanderer

Odd choice. I would've gone with their second album, Souls Aflame. The addition of Jerry DePizzo's saxophone really added the depth and diversity to their music they've become well known for.

I don't even know you any more.

Oh, well. Different strokes, as they say.

[Drinky]

Reveille did something new and interesting with the medium. Spiderland did something new and interesting with the medium. Super Ae did something new and interesting with the medium. Clouds Taste Metallic did something new and interesting with the medium.

Yoshimi was the Lips trying to stay up-to-date, and to me it's aged poorly compared to the rest of their work.