Best Rock Albums

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Appetite For Destruction G N R
Metallica-Metallica
Rust Never Sleeps-Neil Young and Crazy Horse
wildflowers-Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
Boston-Boston
The Long Run-The Eagles
Physical Graffiti-Led Zeppelin
Van Halen-Van Halen
Fair Warning-Van Halen
II-Led Zeppelin
and last but certainly not least (although possibly overlooked by most),
How Will The Wolf Survive-Los Lobos
not an exhaustive list and definitely not the most influential of all time
 
I'm glad to hear how many of you think highly of Petty's Wildflowers. I bought that album on a whim when it first came out (I was in middle school at the time), and it became one of the albums that served as the soundtrack of my teen years.
 
I'm glad to hear how many of you think highly of Petty's Wildflowers. I bought that album on a whim when it first came out (I was in middle school at the time), and it became one of the albums that served as the soundtrack of my teen years.

Petty is at the top of my list of favorite artists. His 4-disc Live Anthology is the best new thing that I have heard in some time.

Other favorites:

Allman Brothers- Eat a Peach

Derek & the Dominoes- Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

Neil Young- Decade
 
I'm not a big fan of rock, but I'm going to list a few anyway:

U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
Bob Dylan - Slow Train Coming
Jars Of Clay - eponymous

I always thought Dylan's most underrated disk was Pat Garett & Billy the Kid. Just some real pretty Tex-Mex jamming. I spent six months just letting that play over and over.
 
What? No mention of CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY or Journey's ESC4P3?? What's wrong with you people?! ;-)
 
I guess I'll chime in with a couple of my choices.

The OP asks for best Rock albums. Here are some of my thoughts on different genres of rock.

Pop Rock
U2 - Joshua Tree / Rattle & Hum
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head / X&Y

Alternative Pop
Remy Zero - Villa Elaine

80's Hard Rock
Def Leppard - High N Dry

Prog Rock
Rush - 2112 / Moving Pictures
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium

Prog Hard Rock
King's X - Gretchen Goes to Nebraska

Modern Hard Rock
Earshot - Two

Grunge
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Candlebox - ST

Post-Grunge
Collective Soul - ST / Disciplined Breakdown
Creed - My Own Prison
Fuel - Sunburn

Solo Rock Album
Chris Cornell - Euphoria Morning
Kevin Martin and The Hiwatts - The Possibility of Being

Solo Metal Album
Bruce Dickinson - Chemical Wedding

Classic Rock
Led Zeppelin - I - IV
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Classic Metal
Judas Priest - Hell Bent For Leather / Screaming For Vengeance

Heavy Metal
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Iron Maiden - NotB / 7th Son
Queensryche - The Warning
Leatherwolf - S/T#2

Sleaze Metal
Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction

Glam Metal
Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood

Power Metal
Iced Earth - The Dark Saga
Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the Other Side / Nightfall in Middle-Earth

Euro-Metal
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt. 1 & Pt. 2

Gothic Metal
Poisonblack - Escapexstacy

Doom Metal
Solitude Aeturnus - Beyond the Crimson Horizon

Thrash Metal
Metallica - Ride the Lightning / Master Of Puppets
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Flotsam & Jetsam - No Place For Disgrace
Deliverance - ST

Prog Metal
Queensryche - Rage For Order
Fates Warning - Parallels
Dream Theater - Images and Words

Pop Metal
Queensryche - Empire
Dokken - Under Lock and Key
Hurricane - Over the Edge

NU-Metal
Disturbed - Believe
Destrophy - Chrysalis

Off the top of my head, that's all I can think of for now. I'll update if I think of more.
 
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Alex,
You forgot:

Rage against the Parents-Post-Glam-Rock-Crossdressing-Heterosexual-Punk
Twisted Sister-Stay Hungry
 
Ah, so true! Some of those shock-rock bands had some good stuff. Just check out Alice Cooper.
Stay Hungry had "The Price", which was a pretty cool ballad...

Speaking of TS, Eddie Ojeda recently released a really bad solo album. But it had a cover of the Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby" with Dee Snider singing. It's actually not that bad, and I thought the video they made was sorta tongue-in-cheek silly.

YouTube - Eddie Ojeda - Eleanor Rigby (Beatles cover)
 
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