Perfect Albums.

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Originally Posted by Schmoe
Rush....Moving Pictures.
Cheap Trick...Dream Police


Have both of these on the original vinyl and like both, although today I find the electronic music of bands like Rush and Pink Floyd less entertaining.
Still, from the albums you've named, Red Barchetta and Dream Police are both great tracks.
What amazes me about this thread is the number of bands from forty years ago mentioned, from when I was still in my twenties.
Liked most of them then and like them now.
 
Originally Posted by grampi
Boston- Boston
Steve Miller Band- Book of Dreams
Styx- Grand Illusion and Paradise Theater
Foreigner- Foreigner
ELO- Discovery
Brownsville Station- Brownsville Station
Rush- 2112
Several Beatles albums

I was expecting something much older from you grampi
 
Fleetwood Mac's first album, self titled, 1968. Peter Green...
Paul Butterfield Blues Band, East-West.
Gregg Allman, Laid Back
Early Allman Bros and Led Zep. All of it.
Rolling Stones, Beggers Banquet and Let it Bleed. Satisfaction. Midnight Rambler. etc.
Every Chicago Blues from the 60's and early 70's.
Early Clapton and his Back to the Cradle.
John Mayall.
Pink Floyd.
Lynryd Skynyrd and all the Southern Rock.
George Harrison All Things Must Pass.
 
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Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
The Traveling Wilbury's - Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1
80's Rush (Permanant Waves through Hold Your Fire).
The Police - Reggatta de Blanc
The Black Keys - El Camino

I am sure there are more, but that is what I can think of off hand (and all these CD's are in my truck now)
 
Volbeat-Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood

Unbelievably Houston has NO good rock radio, not since KLOL died. RIP Mark and Jim-the Radio Gawds. We have an Oldies station, I guess.
 
Originally Posted by Warstud
Originally Posted by grampi
Boston- Boston
Steve Miller Band- Book of Dreams
Styx- Grand Illusion and Paradise Theater
Foreigner- Foreigner
ELO- Discovery
Brownsville Station- Brownsville Station
Rush- 2112
Several Beatles albums

I was expecting something much older from you grampi


How old do you think I am?
 
Originally Posted by fdcg27
Originally Posted by Schmoe
Rush....Moving Pictures.
Cheap Trick...Dream Police


Have both of these on the original vinyl and like both, although today I find the electronic music of bands like Rush and Pink Floyd less entertaining.
Still, from the albums you've named, Red Barchetta and Dream Police are both great tracks.
What amazes me about this thread is the number of bands from forty years ago mentioned, from when I was still in my twenties.
Liked most of them then and like them now.

Lots of older folks on BITOG that like music from 40 years ago.
 
All Classics by Now:

Black Sabbath - Headless Cross 1989
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time 1986
Running Wild - Black Hand Inn 1994
Accept - Russian Roulette 1986
WASP - Headless Children 1989
Whitesnake - 1987
 
Originally Posted by dippschtick
AC/DC-Back in Black

All time favorite here, seen them in Nuremberg in 1980 in a very small auditorium, just unbelievable. Went to see Led Zeppelin in the same place but they only played two songs and stopped because John Bonham got sick and of course passes away a few weeks later. Couldn't believe the first song Zeppelin played was Train kept a rollin'.
 
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Originally Posted by KJSmith
Maybe, Perfect Album is not as definitive as it seems.
Days of future passed has got to be the best of all conceptual albums.

I was going by the OP's definition. It's absolutely a masterpiece.

I just ran across the new 3-disc edition on Amazon a few days ago and bought it. Side note if you buy this, discs 1 & 2 are on hubs but disc 3 is tucked in a pocket.

The 24-bit 96k track on the DVD (disc 3) is astonishing. You can hear the valves clacking on the wind instruments. It also enabled me to finally figure out the 3rd line of Peak Hour:
"Whole life he's run, no time to be won." Every copy of the lyrics I can find online is wrong. Most of them also have "Sees crowds of people" wrong.

I'll take this opportunity to rant about CDs as well. 44.1k is a 1970s sample rate and sounds awful in the high frequencies. CDs to me were unlistenable until players started getting oversampling to partially compensate for the low sample rate.

Originally Posted by ArrestMeRedZ
3. Another vote for In Search of the Lost Chord, but have to note that Timothy Leary is really dead.

No, no, no, no he's outside looking in.
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The vast majority of albums posted here are truly great. A very good essentials list.
 
Alice Cooper- Killer
The Sex Pistols- Never Mind the Bollocks
Material Issue- International Pop Overthrow
B-52's - Wild Planet
 
Originally Posted by RDY4WAR
Alice in Chains - Dirt

That still stands as my favorite album of all time.

Good to hear someone agrees with me.
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Originally Posted by 69Torino
Slayer. Seasons In The Abyss.

And Reign in Blood, too.

Iron Maiden's NOTB and Piece of Mind come to mind for me. Also:

Dream Theater, Images and Words
Fates Warning, Awaken the Guardian & No Exit
Queensryche, OMC & Warning
Dio, Holy Diver
 
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