Best Classic Rock Albums - How Many of These Do You Own?

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  • Explore this exciting genre with our round-up of the best classic rock albums. From the Beatles and the Stones, to Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and so much more.
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  • @soundmatters
    @soundmatters  6 місяців тому +2

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  • @arthurgordon6072
    @arthurgordon6072 6 місяців тому +8

    Hard to argue with someone's choices. Taste is very personal. I will always remember the first time I heard Led Zeppelin IV. I pity you young people who will never experience that feeling.

    • @soundmatters
      @soundmatters  6 місяців тому +1

      Being born in 80s, there are many albums I would’ve loved to have heard brand new, when they were new. 🎶🎧

  • @jeffreythurston1822
    @jeffreythurston1822 6 місяців тому +7

    That’s a great list. I would add Van Halen’s debut album as one that pulled us all out of disco, and was as important in moving guitar playing forward as anything Hendrix did.

    • @soundmatters
      @soundmatters  6 місяців тому

      Oh, for sure. Van Halen deserves a place in rock history 🙂🎶

  • @tonyjedioftheforest1364
    @tonyjedioftheforest1364 6 місяців тому +4

    Got them all on vinyl apart from Neil Young, T Rex and Sabbath but I have them all on download.

  • @sephfyr
    @sephfyr 6 місяців тому +3

    In no particular order, here are a few:
    Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gold & Platinum
    The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot
    Styx - The Grand Illusion
    Kansas - Point Of Know Return
    Foreigner - Foreigner
    The Beatles - White Album
    Rush - 2112
    Heart - Dreamboat Annie
    CCR - Cosmo's Factory
    Bad Company - Bad Company
    Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
    U2 - War
    The Cars - The Cars
    Los Lobos - Kiko
    Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna
    Pat Benatar - Crimes Of Passion
    Planet P Project - Planet P Project
    Black - Wonderful Life

  • @dasherf17
    @dasherf17 6 місяців тому +4

    Wasn't Mick Taylor on Let It Bleed, their last Decca/London (US)?
    You're totally correct about the difference in mixes of Sgt. Pepper in mono and stereo...it's a fun comparison...
    Great video, Marc!

    • @danny1959
      @danny1959 6 місяців тому

      Mick Taylor was on Let It Bleed and Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out before Sticky Fingers, much of which was recorded at the same time as LIB.

    • @soundmatters
      @soundmatters  6 місяців тому

      Looking into it, you’re right! Thanks for pointing that out. On the mono mixes: most people only hear the stereo versions as that’s what dominates. Shame, as the mono versions have a great character.

  • @AudioAl5195
    @AudioAl5195 6 місяців тому +2

    Mark, one of your best videos yet. Thank you. Interestingly enough I have every one of these on original release vinyl and almost every one on newer 180g vinyl releases as well. "Blood on the Tracks" being the one I have not repurchased on 180g. The only album that I do not have on vinyl [but own on CD] is T. REX. I just don't hear it the way others do and I don't see it as anything special let alone a classic but I am in America and more than a few classic rock fans here would say " T Who?". I do think I must take you to task. Deep Purple "Machine Head" not on the list? "Smoke on the Water" could be THE defining classic rock song of all classic rock songs simply based on anyone who has even touched a guitar. Admit it you played it too!

    • @soundmatters
      @soundmatters  6 місяців тому

      Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. Yea, T-Rex are one of the many groups over the years that just don’t seem to translate “over the pound”. Haha, Deep Purple, you’re right: I’ve played the riff. I think this list could’ve easily extended to 50 albums. Happy spinning and thanks for joining the conversation 🎶🎧

  • @richardhawkins4621
    @richardhawkins4621 6 місяців тому +3

    Hawkwind the space ritual live album is my favourite rock record

  • @GarySkadra
    @GarySkadra Годину тому +1

    ⬇️ In no particular order⬇️
    Van Halen (1978)
    Boston (1976)
    The Beatles 1967-1970
    Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
    Rolling Stones - Some Girls
    Led Zeppelin 1 & 4
    Black Sabbath - Sabotage
    Black Sabbath - Paranoid
    DIO - Holy Diver
    Ozzy - Diarie Of A Madman
    Ozzy - Ultimate Sin
    Ozzy - Blizzard Of Oz,
    AC⚡DC - Highway To Hell
    AC⚡DC - Back In Black
    Judas Priest + Screami g For Vengence
    Jimi Hendrix - Are Yoh Experienced ?
    The Doors (s/t 1967)
    Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Damn The Torpedo's
    Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Bvd.
    ZZ Top - Eliminator
    Eagles - The Long Run
    Metallica - Master Of Puppets
    Strvir Ray Vaughan & D.T. - Texas Flood
    Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced (1973)
    The Cars (1978)
    Def Leppard - Pyromania
    RUSH - Moving Pictures

  • @johnsrous1616
    @johnsrous1616 6 днів тому

    Excellent list, Marc. I'd have Van Halen's self-titled debut and Van Halen II on this.

  • @vayres7512
    @vayres7512 6 місяців тому +2

    My choices,
    Pink Floyd - DSOTM
    Beatles - Sgt Peppers
    Dire Straits - Idem
    Supertramp - Crime of the century
    Pink Floyd - The Wall
    Steely Dan - Aja
    Neil Young - Harvest
    Beatles - White Album
    Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
    Black Sabbath - Idem.

    • @soundmatters
      @soundmatters  6 місяців тому

      Nice to see Selling England by the Pound in there :)

  • @greenygreen5308
    @greenygreen5308 6 місяців тому +2

    Hard to disagree with any of these really although I have others as favourites for Beatles, Black Sabbath, Yes, but your choices are also pretty essential. As stated Deep Purple - Machine head. Rainbow - Rising, Rush - Moving Pictures. Meatloaf - Bat out of Hell. ….. Are some obvious omissions

    • @soundmatters
      @soundmatters  6 місяців тому

      Could easily have made this a list of 50 :)

  • @jeffreylind3739
    @jeffreylind3739 6 місяців тому +2

    Really enjoyed your top classic rock LPs list. Of course, there are literally HUNDREDS of fantastic classic rock LPs, and to your point everyone will have a different list of their own depending on their own personal musical and life journey. We have an amazing riches when it comes to choices. Here's my Top 20 in no particular order- not mentioning any of the LPs you mentioned.
    Beatles- Revolver 1966
    Deep Purple-Machine Head 1972
    Jimi Hendrix Experience- Are You Experienced? 1967
    Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here 1975
    Rolling Stones-Let It Bleed 1970
    King Crimson- In The Court Of The Crimson King 1969
    Yes- The Yes Album 1970
    Electric Light Orchestra- Out Of The Blue 1977
    Alice Cooper- School's Out 1972
    Elton John- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 1973
    Peter Frampton-Frampton Comes Alive 1976
    Queen- News Of The World 1977
    Lynyrd Skynyrd- Prounounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd 1973
    The Band - The Band AKA The Brown Album 1969
    Steely Dan- The Royal Scam 1976
    John Lennon-Plastic Ono Band 1970
    The Clash- London Calling 1979
    Talking Heads- Remain In Light 1980
    Uriah Heep- Demons and Wizards 1972
    David Bowie-Hunky Dory 1971

    • @soundmatters
      @soundmatters  6 місяців тому

      That’s a great list 👌👍🎶 I could easily have put Revolver on here instead. I love The Yes Album also. So many great albums 🙂

  • @lexpeters735
    @lexpeters735 6 місяців тому +1

    I have just stumbled upon your video and found it quite enjoyable. I agreed with most of your choices however, I must disagree with your reference point for Yes. I bought the Yes Album 50 years ago because of Your Move. I think that album is where they found their sound whereas Fragile is a little self indulgent with each member having a personalised track. With Dylan, Highway 61 would have been my choice. Deep Purple In Rock also deserved a mention. I have every album you mentioned except for Springsteen because his music never struck a chord with me. But that is just my humble opinion. I have subscribed.😃

  • @MNMitchell-h5s
    @MNMitchell-h5s 5 місяців тому +2

    Pretty Things Parachute won record of the year…also Forever Changes, Songs for a Taylor, Ogdens Nutgone Flake, …..

  • @andysheldon3842
    @andysheldon3842 6 місяців тому +3

    Great list Mark, however slightly different choices below.
    Black Sabbeth - Masters of Reality.
    Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
    Eagles - Hotel Calafornia
    Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
    Springsteen- Nebraska
    Meatloat - Bat Out off Hell
    Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
    Deep Purple - In Rock
    Rainbow - Rainbow Rising
    Bowie - Ziggy Stardust....
    .....and two which almost made my list.
    Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
    The Cars - The Cars

    • @DavidMander-rs4uk
      @DavidMander-rs4uk 6 місяців тому +1

      Missing two of those albums on CD.

    • @soundmatters
      @soundmatters  6 місяців тому +1

      I’m loving how many people mention Selling England by the Pound 👍👌🎶🎧

  • @AlterMann57
    @AlterMann57 6 місяців тому +2

    I have all of them mentioned on original vinyl except for Rumours, I never fancied Buckingham/Nicks, so my Fleetwood Mac collection ended when they took over the band. I would add the albums: Toys In The Attic/Aerosmith-Billion Dollar Babies/Alice Cooper-American Beauty/Grateful Dead-Surrealistic Pillow/Jefferson Airplane-Willy and the Poor Boys/Creedence Clearwater Revival-Live at the Fillmore East/Allman Brothers Band-Pronounced Lynyrd Skynyrd/Lynyrd Skynyrd-Turn Turn Turn/The Byrds

    • @soundmatters
      @soundmatters  6 місяців тому

      I do love the early Peter Green Fleetwood Mac - plenty of that in my collection too :) - thanks for your additions. Happy spinning

  • @RUfromthe40s
    @RUfromthe40s 6 місяців тому +2

    nice set up ,todays best choice in a new turntable of the new age, of course i´m refering to the cartridge also i also bought a quintect black S for a thoren TD2001 of 1996 the last turntable i bought till last december when i ofered my self a P10 from Rega only choose to buy a hana umami red and kept one of the three suplied cartridges for other turntable when in need, the Alpheta 3

    • @soundmatters
      @soundmatters  6 місяців тому +1

      Nice! Yea, I like the ORTOFON stuff, might take advantage of their exchange service once this one is worn out and upgrade to one of the others. Thanks for sharing and hoping the conversation 🎶🎧

  • @mikemoniz4441
    @mikemoniz4441 6 місяців тому +2

    You are right about ten different people would have ten different lists. It depends on what people would have bought when they were listening to music rather than owning or collecting music. I just bought Dark Side of the Moon about 2 years ago. I'm obviously not a big Pink Floyd fan since I'm 62 and been listening for over 50 years. So that album would not be in my top ten even as good as it is. Some of my favorites that would make my list are:
    Chicago- Chicago Transit Authority
    T. Rex- Electric Warrior
    The Who- Who's Next
    Aerosmith- Toys in the Attic
    Rush- 2112
    Deep Purple- Machine Head
    The Beatles- Hey Jude compilation
    Alice Cooper- Welcome to my Nightmare
    Tommy Bolin- Private Eyes
    The Doors- LA Woman
    Ten Years After- A Space in Time
    Uriah Heep- Magician's Birthday
    These are some of the albums that shaped my listening habits, among many others. I own many of the albums that you picked but I don't play them much. I've heard them too many times.

    • @soundmatters
      @soundmatters  6 місяців тому

      Indeed! Love your list. I haven’t had enough Ten Years After in my life of late. 🎶🎧🎸

  • @theanorakchannel2496
    @theanorakchannel2496 Місяць тому +1

    Dire Straits making movies, Genesis selling England by the pound, David Bowie Lowe, Rush 2112, and maybe even moving pictures, R.E.M., automatic for the people, certainly an Emerson Lake and Palmer album, I think it’s called trilogy? And I would say LA woman by the doors probably is more of a classic album Than the one you mentioned. However great list to start with, it’s tending to run straight down that list and add them all to my vinyl collection.

  • @keithwatson8055
    @keithwatson8055 6 місяців тому +1

    I received your reply.Electric Warrior is in my top ten albums,as I said before ,an overlooked album.

  • @christophergase1468
    @christophergase1468 6 місяців тому +4

    You put together a really nice list, but unfortunately you forgot Thin Lizzy, Cream and Jefferson Airplane. 😉

    • @soundmatters
      @soundmatters  6 місяців тому +1

      Thin Lizzy Jailbreak 🤘🎸🎶

    • @dasherf17
      @dasherf17 6 місяців тому

      Chris...not a matter of forgetting...just a matter of what appeals to the individual...they can't all be top 10s to everybody...

  • @SkiBumMSP
    @SkiBumMSP 6 місяців тому +2

    A good list. I have some of those albums on CD, such as Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon". In fact, I got it on SACD. Of course, one cannot mention Pink Floyd without also mentioning "The Wall". Also have Yes, also on CD. Alas, don't have much of the classics on vinyl anymore. Some others that I do have in my collection, such as various Styx and Asia albums as well as Kansas. "Leftoverture" is a classic. Also, The Moody Blues. I have nearly all of the Rush albums. Also, have some Iron Maiden ("The Number of the Beast" and "Powerslave" are two Iron Maiden classics that I have) and Judas Priest ("British Steel"). A lot of my tastes do run into the heavier stuff with a lot of power and progressive metal. Thus, I would rank something like Queensryche "Operation Mindcrime" as one of the all time classics. Something more recent such as Dream Theater "Images & Words" is often considered a classic in the prog rock/metal scene, as well as Fates Warning "Awaken the Guardian". So much music and so little time to listen to it all! When it comes to this "best of" lists, especially as something so subjective and varied as music, everybody is going to have their own opinions. However, it is cool to see what others come up with, as it is a good way to discover something that I may not have thought of and would consider exploring.

    • @soundmatters
      @soundmatters  6 місяців тому +1

      Some great additions in here. Thanks! The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed could easily make this list 🎶🎸

  • @meelispranno9788
    @meelispranno9788 6 місяців тому +11

    Not a single Deep Purple albums , very strange , or Uriah Heep albums 😨

    • @RUfromthe40s
      @RUfromthe40s 6 місяців тому

      what about rainbow?with ronnie james dio

    • @TheJeffPike
      @TheJeffPike 6 місяців тому +2

      Yes, Machine Head should definitely be on that list.

    • @RUfromthe40s
      @RUfromthe40s 6 місяців тому

      @@TheJeffPike not only

  • @keithwatson8055
    @keithwatson8055 6 місяців тому +2

    I agreed about SGT Pepper owning a stereo and mono. If going for mono get a 1967 version ,stereo only one that compares to the Mono is the Giles Martin 2017 remastered version,its way way better than any other stereo version. Though I had the 1967 mono version, when I heard Giles Martin remastered version ,I thought it was so good I bought that as well.I was lucky to have been a teenager when SGT Pepper came out ,it was like nothing anyone had heard before,. Along side D.S.O.T.M its my fave album.I,m glad to see you included Electric Warrior, not many people have it on there list,an overlooked album.Going back in time I would have included Elvis's first album.

    • @soundmatters
      @soundmatters  6 місяців тому

      Thanks Keith for your contributions. Funny enough: those are the two copies I have. Original mono and 2017 Giles stereo 🎶🎧👌 - absolutely love Electric Warrior: it’s in my top ten albums I’d say.

  • @SONIC-BOOM-TV
    @SONIC-BOOM-TV 6 місяців тому +2

    So basically Grunge which lasted about 2 or 3 years as dominant killed everything.

  • @danmar007
    @danmar007 6 місяців тому +4

    I have hundreds in my thousand+ collection.

  • @PaulFormentos
    @PaulFormentos 6 місяців тому +2

    Close To The Edge

  • @AlainCliche
    @AlainCliche 6 місяців тому +2

    nice selection... but where are ELP, Heart, Roxy Music, Jeff Beck, Van Halen, Steely Dan, Steve Miller Band, Steppenwolf and Lou Reed ?

    • @soundmatters
      @soundmatters  6 місяців тому +1

      Could easily have made this a list of 50! (Great additions)

  • @p120776
    @p120776 6 місяців тому +3

    ELO is definitely missing on your list

    • @soundmatters
      @soundmatters  6 місяців тому

      Lots of love for ELO. Could've made this a list of 50 easily

  • @dannyhowell3184
    @dannyhowell3184 6 місяців тому +2

    Nice list. I'd love to know your views on alternative presses to the expensive originals. I have a double 45 of rumours that is excellent.

    • @mlebron20
      @mlebron20 6 місяців тому

      Well I’ll give you my view as a person who built his own Dyna 70 as a freshman in high school and has been an audiophile since.
      I have found that clean, original pressings are almost always better than any remaster. The two main reasons imho are:
      - though remasters may be made from the “original master tapes”, those tapes have been sitting around, deteriorating on a shelf, for decades.
      - many get digitized.
      I have records in my collection that I bought 50 years ago that sound terrific.
      I have that 45 Rumous. It’s excellent but it doesn’t beat my original press.

    • @soundmatters
      @soundmatters  6 місяців тому

      Like so many of these things, I think it depends on the quality of the source and the mastering/cutting process. Some reissues are great, others, not so much. Thanks for your kind words and watching the list 🎶

  • @RUfromthe40s
    @RUfromthe40s 6 місяців тому +2

    i own all and a lot more of the same era

  • @HughGard-rc7cc
    @HughGard-rc7cc 6 місяців тому +2

    Top ten cannot possibly capture the best..top one hundred could..

    • @soundmatters
      @soundmatters  6 місяців тому

      Could easily make it 100, but that would be better suited to an article list than a video. 🎶🎧

  • @johnnycashlives316
    @johnnycashlives316 3 дні тому

    Fleetwood mac rumours you need to take off that daddy track. Everything i agree on.

  • @ZalMoxis
    @ZalMoxis 6 місяців тому +2

    Check out Mark Devlin and Mike Williams Sage of Quay channels mate... I would contend Frampton Comes Alive could have made that list....

    • @soundmatters
      @soundmatters  6 місяців тому

      Will do! (Lots of calls for Frampton Comes Alive - an album I do have)

  • @wileyjdraws7594
    @wileyjdraws7594 6 місяців тому +2

    Im a beatles fan but ive never understood the hype for peppers every beatles album that followed was superior and the two albums before peppers were better. I just dont get it. ( But a day in the life is a masterpiece)

  • @StevenNorton-n3y
    @StevenNorton-n3y 6 місяців тому +4

    I thought for sure Peter Frampton's "Frampton Comes Alive" would be on the list. It's one of the biggest selling albums.

    • @ArtbyJoeH
      @ArtbyJoeH 6 місяців тому

      Nvr saw the appeal beyond the obvious hits!

  • @garyclarke2647
    @garyclarke2647 6 місяців тому +3

    Nobody Mentioned Slade, Blue Cheer, Armageddon or Cactus,

  • @williamlancaster786
    @williamlancaster786 2 місяці тому +1

    Where did you find the now playing wall support?

  • @russh29
    @russh29 6 місяців тому +2

    The only “essential” records are ones that you like not things that some talking head tells you you “should” own because…

    • @soundmatters
      @soundmatters  6 місяців тому

      I agree: fun to discuss though. Happy listening 🎶😂

  • @EdwardRickett-y8g
    @EdwardRickett-y8g 4 місяці тому +1

    😅

  • @Mark-sr3dk
    @Mark-sr3dk 10 днів тому

    Crime from Supertramp.Avalon from Roxy Music.

  • @johnsrous1616
    @johnsrous1616 6 днів тому

    Nirvana and all grunge acts are not to be considered in the same realm as bands like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, The Who, The Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Styx, Fleetwood Mac, Rush, Foreigner, Journey, Queen, Eagles and many more.

  • @olavirannisto3552
    @olavirannisto3552 6 місяців тому +2

    Genesis, any album from 1972-1974.

    • @soundmatters
      @soundmatters  6 місяців тому +2

      Selling England by the Pound is one of my all time favourite records. Prog rock or classic rock? What do you think?

    • @olavirannisto3552
      @olavirannisto3552 6 місяців тому +2

      @@soundmatters I would say prog, but Pink Floyd's and Yes's albums are also considered prog rock by many.

    • @EdwardRickett-y8g
      @EdwardRickett-y8g 4 місяці тому

      More two come Ed.

  • @lsaideOK
    @lsaideOK 6 місяців тому +3

    I think the list veers a little too much to pop or light rock for me. Took a long time to get to Led Zeppelin and the Who! I would put Physical Graffiti over IV. Kashmir>Stairway. Plus the amazing album art concept. You completely lost me at the end. Boston? Yikes. I would definitely go in the new wave direction. Clash: London Calling; Elvis Costello : My Aim is True; Talking Heads '77; Ramones: Road to Ruin. Back to classic rock what kind of list is it without American Beauty by The Grateful Dead. Meatloaf: Bat out of Hell. No Kinks?: Lola v Powerman just for Lola. Or their first for You Really Got Me. And no women outside of Christy and Stevie? Heart: Dreamboat Annie; Pretenders: Pretenders; The Go-Gos: Beauty and the Beat. Blondie: Parallel Lines. Back to guys. Aerosmith: Aerosmith. Enough for now.

    • @mlebron20
      @mlebron20 6 місяців тому

      Nice list. But for me classic rock is in part defined by the era when FM rock stations first got started, they were called progressive rock stations at the time, they were commercial free and they would play entire albums. I’m thinking of - in the nyc area - WNEW 102.3 and WABC 95.5. DJs like The Night Bird and Scott Muni and Elsas.
      Once commercials were introduced, that was the beginning of the end. I think of many in your list as outside of that period.

    • @lsaideOK
      @lsaideOK 6 місяців тому

      @@mlebron20 I don't know which group you think is outside of your timeline of classic rock. I first heard Psycho Killer on WMMR in Philadelphia and it was life-changing. Those were the days when you could call in and get free tickets and albums. I struck it rich getting tickets to see Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band on the tour before they hit it big with Night Moves. Got the live double album. Marshall Tucker also performed. Plus, I have some much older stuff on this list.

    • @soundmatters
      @soundmatters  6 місяців тому

      Thanks for adding to the conversation. It’s a tricky one to define for sure, and so subjective, but fun to discuss. I did consider the new wave/punk stuff and some prog rock, but wondered if that was perhaps going off topic genre-wise. This is where I think all genres have blurred lines, for sure. Lots of the bands you mentioned could easily make any classic rock list, for sure 👌🎶🎧 (The sun is shining today and I’m the mood for some Kinks) happy listening 🙂

    • @lsaideOK
      @lsaideOK 6 місяців тому +1

      @@soundmatters it's hard to set limits on music genres. They tend to be amorphous. When I first read the title of this video, I was sure The Who and the Stones would start things off. Followed by the Kinks and the Dead. So, right off the bat we have different associations to the term Rock. I would put the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac in the category of California Rock. Which should then include Linda Ronstadt. Didn't write her own music but wow! What a singer! I forgot to mention Tom Petty. A later generation rock star but truly a practitioner of classic rock. Classic rock really isn't a genre. It's a marketing term for collections like greatest hits. It's actually a non-sequitur. Any rock and roller worth their salt would reject having the word classic identified with them. Kind of defeats the purpose. Sets in stone what should be live and kickin'

  • @mlebron20
    @mlebron20 6 місяців тому +5

    Hi there.
    I own 6,000+ LPs. I began collecting when I was 11 years old, in 1965. My first LP was Rolling Stones 12 x 5.
    I regard the classic rock period as between 1964 and 1979. I suspect this was completely before your time, maybe before you were born?
    I do not own any Boston, Queen, or AC/DC. I used to own the Yes LP but got bored with it and gave it to my sister. I still own Emerson Lake and Palmer’s first LP, which I think better represents the genre.
    I stopped collecting Dylan after John Wesley Harding. I don’t get BOTT: I think it’s an absolutely awful, trite piece of work (it was immediately highly regarded, not poorly reviewed as you say). A much much better choice and a far more important LP would be Highway 61.
    Instead of Eagles, which started generic corporate sounding country rock, I would have chosen the Byrds Sweatheart of the Rodeo, the Flying Burrito Bros Guilded Palace of Sin, or Gram Parsons (the common thread in these three) Grievous Angel.
    For the Who, I’d substitute Tommy.
    Your list is fatally short.
    Critically unrepresented, missing:
    - Cream, Wheels of Fire
    - Traffic
    - Byrds, Untitled, Mr Tambourine Man, Notorious Byrd Bros
    - Moody Blues, Days of Future Passed or In Search of the Lost Chord
    - Creedence Clearwater, any of the first 5
    - Jefferson Airplane, surrealistic Pillow, Bathing at Baxter’s, Crown of Creation, Volunteers
    - John Winter, first LP
    - Velvet Underground, & Nico
    - Blind Faith
    - Canned Heat, Boogie with …
    - Janis Joplin, Pearl, Kosmic Blues
    - Ten Years After
    - Crosby Stills Nash, first two LPs
    - Fairport Convention, Liege & Lief
    - miles Davis, Tribute to Jack Johnson, Agharta, Bitches Brew
    - John McLaughlin, Devotion
    - Grateful Dead, Workingman’s Dead, American Beauty
    - Quicksilver Messenger Service, Happy Trails
    - the kinks
    - Mothers of Invention/Zappa
    That’s a start.
    Visit my website.
    theaudioatticvinylsundays.com

    • @DavidMander-rs4uk
      @DavidMander-rs4uk 6 місяців тому +2

      6,000 records...Is that all you have 😆

    • @mlebron20
      @mlebron20 6 місяців тому +1

      @@DavidMander-rs4uk
      Yeah it’s a little OCD, isn’t it?
      However, I have one friend who has 14,000 Afro Cuban LPs, and one with 30,000 classical LPs.
      So I’m a moderate in comparison.

  • @oppothumbs1
    @oppothumbs1 2 дні тому

    AC/DC songs sound all alike, and I don't get them. The most overrated album of all time is The Wall by Pink Floyd. I like these:
    Forever Changes - Love
    Buffalo Springfield Again - Buffalo Springfield
    Live Rust Concert - Neil Young
    Tim - The Replacements
    Let it Be - The Replacements
    Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
    Moon Dance - Van Morrison
    Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
    This Years Model - Elvis Costello and the Attractions
    Get Happy! Elvis C and the Attractions
    Heat Treatment - Graham Parker and the Rumour
    The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
    Revolver - The Beatles
    Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan
    The Doors - The Doors
    Best of the Smiths Part I - The Smiths
    The X Album - Lloyd Cole
    Where you Been - Dinosaur Jr
    Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
    Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
    Are you Experienced? - Jimi Hendrix Experience
    Banana album - Velvet Underground and Nico
    Never Mind the Bollocks - The Sex Pistols
    Avalon - Roxy Music
    Eponymous - R.E.M.
    Alien Lanes - Guided By Voices
    Talk Talk Talk - The Psychedelic Furs
    A Hard Days Night - The Beatles
    My Aim is True - Elvis Costello
    Shazam - The Move
    I'm Still in Love with You - Al Green
    The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle - Bruce Springsteen
    Happy Trails - Quicksilver Messenger Service
    Zuma - Neil Young
    My Favorite Things - John Coltrane
    Sea Change - Beck
    Odelay - Beck 90s
    Marshal Crenshaw - Eponymous
    Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk

  • @brunohebert1351
    @brunohebert1351 6 місяців тому +1

    Definitely a classic list.
    I get the concept. To engage with us viewers to see what we come up with.
    But by default, I'd say to people the only records in your collection you need is the ones you're going to listen to.
    If you're not into classic rock then don't have any.
    BTW, at trivia the other day, Nirvana was considered classic rock... so yep I guess it is. Not the classic rock of the late 60s-70s but just that it's old enough that we can call it classic.. Doesn't make us feel younger for sure but that's the way it is.

    • @soundmatters
      @soundmatters  6 місяців тому

      Indeed: taste is so subjective. Fun to discuss though. Haha! Nirvana is now “classic” - when can I retire? As I must be old 😅🎧🎶

  • @RUfromthe40s
    @RUfromthe40s 6 місяців тому +1

    it´s a pitty they destroyd the original art work of the electric ladyland cover, some hate to see skin

    • @soundmatters
      @soundmatters  6 місяців тому

      Yes: particularly back then, a lot of album covers caused "controversy"

    • @RUfromthe40s
      @RUfromthe40s 6 місяців тому

      @@soundmatters yes i might agree of taking the virgin killer photo of the fronyt of the cover but nothing else and the girl is the daughter of the photografer, and she today doesn´t see any problem on it but at the time germans walk naked anywhere, it´s how we all came to this world ,so ...i pitty the ones who feel outraged

  • @larrydean5254
    @larrydean5254 5 місяців тому +2

    Throw away Black Sabbath and replace it with the Beatles White album.

  • @thunderstorm-theone
    @thunderstorm-theone 6 місяців тому

    This is your opinion not mine