Rock and Rock Music

All types of it. Alt rock, pop rock, punk rock, hard rock, blues rock, all of it.

To start, what are favourite rock albums?

If you don't like a single Frank Ocean song, you have no soul.

Favorite rock albums are favorite.

A full list of favorite albums would be too long, so here's a few:

• Rush - 2112, Moving Pictures
• Alice In Chains - Dirt, Jar of Flies, MTV Unplugged
• Tantric - Tantric, The End Begins
• Coheed And Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
• Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
• Devil Doll - all albums
• The Black Mages - all albums

Somehow you know that the time is right.

Bump?

If you don't like a single Frank Ocean song, you have no soul.

So, is "rock and rock music" distinct from "rock and roll music" or soemthing?

My favourite albums? I imagine my list is almost offensive in how conventional it is. In no particular and listed by subgenre, I quite enjoy these ones:

• Seventies Hard Rock
  • Who's Next
  • Live At Leeds
  • Led Zeppelin II
  • Led Zeppelin IV
  • Frampton Comes Alive!
  • A Night At the Opera
  • Electric Warrior
  • Second Helping (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
  • At Fillmore East
  • Exile On Main St.

• Eighties Hard Rock/Pop-Metal
  • Appetite For Destruction
  • Pyromania
  • 1984
  • Frontiers
  • Reckless
  • Don't Say No
  • Whitesnake 1987
  • 4
  • Vital Signs
  • Bad Attitude

edited 24th Sep '11 3:21:54 AM by TheGloomer

If someone gets offended by that, they're spending too much time hating things and probably deserve to have their record collection burned.

AC/DC - Dirty Deeds (Done Dirt Cheap)
Aerosmith – Aerosmith
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Alter Bridge - Black Bird
The Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Guns ‘N Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
Mötley Crüe - Dr. Feelgood
Rush - Moving Pictures
The Who - Live At Leeds

I tried to go for one album per band.

A few personal favourites I guess.

• The Who - The Who Sell Out
• Budgie - Never Turn Your Back on a Friend
• Queen - A Day at the Races
• Blur - Parklife
• Deep Purple - Machine Head
• Fairport Convention - Liege and Lief
• Pink Floyd - Animals
• Radiohead - The Bends
• The Clash - London Calling
• Circle Takes the Square - As the Roots Undo
• Muse - Black Holes and Revalations
• Opeth - Blackwater Park
• King Crimson - Red
• Metallica - Master of Puppets

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Indeed!

Fanboyism:

• The Who - Quadorphenia
• The Who - Who's Next (the 1996 issue especially)
• The Who - Live At Leeds
• The Who - Sell Out
• The Who - By Numbers
• The Who - Who Are You

Late 60s - Lots of Pyschedelic:

• Cream - Disraeli Gears
• Cream - Wheels of Fire
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold As Love
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
• Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin 1
• Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

Other:

• Led Zeppelin - Presence
• The Barenaked Ladies - Gordon
• The Barenaked Ladies - Stunt
• The Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks

If you don't like a single Frank Ocean song, you have no soul.

Are Creedence Clearwater Revival rock?

I've been liking them recently, since I got Green River.

edited 24th Sep '11 1:08:42 PM by BlixtySlycat

go ahead and do every stupid thing you can imagine

^ Yep, one of the classic Southern rock groups.

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Of course! Rock is very varied, there's a lot of variation from Southern Rock, prog rock, hard rock, and punk rock.

If you don't like a single Frank Ocean song, you have no soul.

So I've recently came a bit off my usual routine of "metal, electronic, some middle ground, barely anything else" to obsess over Red House Painters' first self-titled/Rollercoaster. So fucking amazing and heartfelt, every single song.

I really need to listen to less heavy variations of rock more often than I do now.

edited 24th Sep '11 2:20:52 PM by Litis

I've got plenty, but instead of listing them, I'll post what someone's got to post here sooner or later:

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CCR are kinda swamp blues boogie roots rock.

Which I suppose is what southern rock basically is. Carry on!

Favorites. Hm. For the sake of concisity, I am leaving metal out of this.

• Led Zeppelin - IV (and the rest of their catalog)
• Rush - Moving Pictures (ditto)
• The Who - Sell Out, Tommy, Who's Next
• Blue Oyster Cult - Tyranny & Mutation, Secret Treaties, Agents of Fortune
• Beatles - everything. Especially Rubber Soul. But especially Revolver.
• David Bowie - Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust
• The Doors - self-titled
• Electric Light Orchestra - A New World Record, Out of the Blue
• Frank Zappa - his entire catalog. Uh, but especially We're Only In It For the Money and Apostrophe.
• Yes - Fragile, Close to the Edge, Relayer
• King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
• Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
• Queen - A Night at the Opera, Sheer Heart Attack
• Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Dark Side of the Moon
• Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
• U2 - War, The Joshua Tree
• Traffic - self-titled

Probably missed some but so it goes

no one will notice that I changed this

You just listed my two favorite ELO albums.

Are you me.

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Some of mine

Ones I love:

• Guns N Roses - Use your illusion 1&2
• Jet - Shine On
• Slash's Snake pit - Ain't Life grand & it's 5 o'clock somewhere
• Pink Floyd - Animals, Meddle, D Sof M, Wall, Wish you were here,
• Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits (I know), Born in the USA
• INXS - basically everything
• Dire Straits - Money for nothing
• Speaker gain tear drop - particle protocol
• Guns N Roses - Chinese Democracy
• Slash - Solo Album

Stuff that I really like

• River Side - Second life syndrome
• Living end - State of emergency
• Powderfinger - Odyssey number 5
• Pink floyd - Final cut, Division bell
• ACDC - no particular album but I like there stuff in general

Ive probably missed alot

edited 25th Sep '11 5:22:30 AM by Bwaaaa

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In the absence of a better thread, I'm going to post this here. Nickelback was played on the radio earlier today, and I came a conclusion. Their songs all sound kind of samey and unimaginative, but to be honest I think they'd be much more listenable and much, much better if they had a different singer. These songs demand a singer who knows how to be melodramatic and exciting. They don't work very well with the whole soporific, sub-grunge and above-all boring delivery Chad Kroeger has at the moment.

It did wonders for Creed.

edited 29th Sep '11 3:27:43 PM by TheGloomer

I wouldn't like Nickelback anyways.

If you don't like a single Frank Ocean song, you have no soul.

Can someone enlighten me about Traffic? I've heard them described in many different ways, I think my favorite is "psych-funk-rock", but I've never checked out anything other than a few songs.

go ahead and do every stupid thing you can imagine

"Jazz fusion" is probably a wide enough definition.

Pick one:

Power Trio (Guitar/Drum/Bass)

Beatles style (Lead Guitar/Drum/Bass/Rhythym Guitar)

Prog style (Guitar/Drum/Bass/Keyboard)

5 man (Lead Guitar/Drum/Bass/Keyboard/Rhyhtym Guitar)

Other (Anything you can think of)

If you don't like a single Frank Ocean song, you have no soul.

They're all fine.

Zero importance.

Even going by the "too many cooks spoil the broth" mentality, there's always a couple of people who take it upon themselves to write most of the songs. I honestly doubt that all of the members in, say, Arcade Fire or GY!BE have a major say in songwriting.