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Albums discussed:
Boston
Heart- Dreamboat Annie
Queen- A Night At the Opera
Rush- 2112
Pink Floyd- The Dark Side of the Moon
Led Zeppelin II
Ted Nugent- “Stranglehold” (Song)
The Beatles (The White Album)
The Steve Miller Band- Greatest Hits 1974-1978
The Rolling Stones- Sticky Fingers
Meat Loaf- Bat Out of Hell
Van Halen
David Bowie- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
The Who- Who’s Next
The Eagles- Hotel California
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers- Damn the Torpedoes
Bruce Springsteen- Born to Run
Black Sabbath- Paranoid
Jethro Tull- Aqualung
The Grateful Dead- American Beauty
AC/DC- Back in Black
Rod Stewart- Every Picture Tells A Story
Fleetwood Mac- Rumours
Kansas- Leftoverture and Point Of Know Return
Prince & The Revolution- Purple Rain
Guns N’ Roses- Appetite for Destruction
Nirvana- Nevermind
Carole King- Tapestry
Michael Jackson- Thriller
Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin IV
The Clash- London Calling
Radiohead- OK Computer
Miles Davis- Kind Of Blue
U2- The Joshua Tree
Styx- The Grand illusion and Pieces Of Eight
The Beatles- Abbey Road
The Allman Brothers Band- Eat a Peach
Aretha Franklin- 30 Greatest Hits
Van Morrison- Moondance
The Rolling Stones- Let It Bleed
Bob Dylan- Blonde on Blonde
Metallica- Master Of Puppets
Simon & Garfunkel- Bridge Over Troubled Water
Frank Sinatra- Ultimate Sinatra
The Sex Pistols- Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
Elton John- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Bon Jovi- Slippery When Wet
Stevie Wonder- Innervisions
The Velvet Underground- The Velvet Underground & Nico
Adele-21
Billy Joel- The Stranger
Aerosmith- Toys in the Attic
Saturday Night Fever
Elvis Costello- This Year’s Model
Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
Lauryn Hill- The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Neil Young & Crazy Horse- Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Violent Femmes
The Who- Tommy
Neutral Milk Hotel- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Jackson Browne
Deep Purple- Machine Head
Emerson, Lake, & Palmer- Brain Salad Surgery
The Cars
Warren Zevon- Excitable Boy
The Beatles- Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Ramones
Randy Newman- Good Old Boys
Johnny Cash- At Folsom Prison
Supertramp- Breakfast In America
Neil Diamond- Hot August Night
George Harrison- All Things Must Pass
Foreigner- Records
Paul Simon- Graceland
James Taylor- Sweet Baby James
Sublime
The Jimi Hendrix Experience- Are You Experienced
Getz/Gilberto
Free- Fire and Water
Rush- Moving Pictures
Funkadelic- Maggot Brain
The Byrds- Mr. Tambourine Man
Def Leppard- Pyromania
Cyndi Lauper- She’s So Unusual
Pink Floyd- The Wall
The Police- Synchronicity
David Bowie- Hunky Dory
Tom Petty- Full Moon Fever
Nick Drake- Pink Moon
The Rolling Stones- Exile on Main St.
The B-52s
The Band- Music From Big Pink & The Band
The Beach Boys- Pet Sounds
Motley Crue- Shout At the Devil
Bob Marley & The Wailers- Legend
Jimmy Buffett- Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
Led Zeppelin- Physical Graffiti
The Go-Gos-Beauty and the Beat
Bruce Springsteen- Born In the U.S.A.
Jesus Christ Superstar
Queen-News of the World
Steely Dan- Aja
The Doors
Amy Winehouse- Back to Black
Blondie- Parallel Lines
Joni Mitchell- Blue
Iron Maiden- The Number of the Beast
Yes- Fragile
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Marvin Gaye- What’s Going On
ZZ Top- Tres Hombres
R.E.M.- Murmur
The Beatles- Revolver
Toto- Toto IV
Al Green- Let’s Stay Together
Van Halen-1984
X- Los Angeles
Grease (Original Movie Soundtrack)
Cream- Disraeli Gears
Blind Faith
Derek & The Dominos- Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
Madonna
Bob Dylan- Blood On the Tracks
Michael Jackson- Off the Wall
Talking Heads- 77
Talking Heads- Fear of Music
Talking Heads- Remain In Light
Journey- Infinity
Fleetwood Mac
Mott the Hoople- All the Young Dudes
A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector
Cat Stevens- Tea for the Tillerman
The Bangles- Different Light
Star Wars
Iggy & The Stooges- Raw Power
Heart- Little Queen
Peter Gabriel- So
Janis Joplin- Pearl
The Clash
Barry White- Can’t Get Enough
The Who- Quadrophenia
Pearl Jam- Ten
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Bob Seger-Night Moves
Cheap Trick- At Budokan
Creedence Clearwater Revival- Cosmo’s Factory
Dead Kennedys- Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Lynyrd Skynyrd- Second Helping
Led Zeppelin- Houses of the Holy
The Black Crowes- Shake Your Money Maker
Indigo Girls
Dire Straits- Brothers In Arms
Jackson Browne- Running On Empty
Alanis Morissette- Jagged Little Pill
John Mellencamp- American Fool
Paul McCartney & Wings- Band On the Run
Elton John- Tumbleweed Connection
Green Day- American Idiot
Harry Chapin- Greatest Stories- Live
Neil Young- Harvest
Counting Crows- August and Everything After
Van Morrison- Astral Weeks
The Sting
Genesis- Abacab
Thin Lizzy- Jailbreak
Bruce Springsteen- The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
U2 Achtung Baby
Grateful Dead- Europe ‘72
Steely Dan- Pretzel Logic
The Kinks- Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Pt. 1
Greetings everyone, I am hoping to engage in a classic rock thread , purely what we used to call album oriented rock (AOR) from the classic era (roughly 1966-1980)- no other genres like punk or thrash or new wave, no heavy metal (unless it’s Black Sabbath)- purely the classics.
I want to start with the album Boston from 1976, written and produced by Tom Scholz in his basement. Here are the tracks:
Side One
1. More Than a Feeling
2. Peace of Mind
3. Foreplay/Long Time
Side Two
1. Rock and Roll Band
2. Smokin’
3. Hitch a Ride
4. Something About You
5. Let Me Take You Home Tonight
A wonderful album to listen to; I’ve thought that for over 40 years. My favorite song is “Hitch a Ride” but overall side 1 is better than side 2; Side 1, may in fact be the best rock music to come out of the 70s, perhaps. The band was never this good again, not even close.
Thoughts?
Boston
Heart- Dreamboat Annie
Queen- A Night At the Opera
Rush- 2112
Pink Floyd- The Dark Side of the Moon
Led Zeppelin II
Ted Nugent- “Stranglehold” (Song)
The Beatles (The White Album)
The Steve Miller Band- Greatest Hits 1974-1978
The Rolling Stones- Sticky Fingers
Meat Loaf- Bat Out of Hell
Van Halen
David Bowie- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
The Who- Who’s Next
The Eagles- Hotel California
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers- Damn the Torpedoes
Bruce Springsteen- Born to Run
Black Sabbath- Paranoid
Jethro Tull- Aqualung
The Grateful Dead- American Beauty
AC/DC- Back in Black
Rod Stewart- Every Picture Tells A Story
Fleetwood Mac- Rumours
Kansas- Leftoverture and Point Of Know Return
Prince & The Revolution- Purple Rain
Guns N’ Roses- Appetite for Destruction
Nirvana- Nevermind
Carole King- Tapestry
Michael Jackson- Thriller
Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin IV
The Clash- London Calling
Radiohead- OK Computer
Miles Davis- Kind Of Blue
U2- The Joshua Tree
Styx- The Grand illusion and Pieces Of Eight
The Beatles- Abbey Road
The Allman Brothers Band- Eat a Peach
Aretha Franklin- 30 Greatest Hits
Van Morrison- Moondance
The Rolling Stones- Let It Bleed
Bob Dylan- Blonde on Blonde
Metallica- Master Of Puppets
Simon & Garfunkel- Bridge Over Troubled Water
Frank Sinatra- Ultimate Sinatra
The Sex Pistols- Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
Elton John- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Bon Jovi- Slippery When Wet
Stevie Wonder- Innervisions
The Velvet Underground- The Velvet Underground & Nico
Adele-21
Billy Joel- The Stranger
Aerosmith- Toys in the Attic
Saturday Night Fever
Elvis Costello- This Year’s Model
Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
Lauryn Hill- The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Neil Young & Crazy Horse- Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Violent Femmes
The Who- Tommy
Neutral Milk Hotel- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Jackson Browne
Deep Purple- Machine Head
Emerson, Lake, & Palmer- Brain Salad Surgery
The Cars
Warren Zevon- Excitable Boy
The Beatles- Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Ramones
Randy Newman- Good Old Boys
Johnny Cash- At Folsom Prison
Supertramp- Breakfast In America
Neil Diamond- Hot August Night
George Harrison- All Things Must Pass
Foreigner- Records
Paul Simon- Graceland
James Taylor- Sweet Baby James
Sublime
The Jimi Hendrix Experience- Are You Experienced
Getz/Gilberto
Free- Fire and Water
Rush- Moving Pictures
Funkadelic- Maggot Brain
The Byrds- Mr. Tambourine Man
Def Leppard- Pyromania
Cyndi Lauper- She’s So Unusual
Pink Floyd- The Wall
The Police- Synchronicity
David Bowie- Hunky Dory
Tom Petty- Full Moon Fever
Nick Drake- Pink Moon
The Rolling Stones- Exile on Main St.
The B-52s
The Band- Music From Big Pink & The Band
The Beach Boys- Pet Sounds
Motley Crue- Shout At the Devil
Bob Marley & The Wailers- Legend
Jimmy Buffett- Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
Led Zeppelin- Physical Graffiti
The Go-Gos-Beauty and the Beat
Bruce Springsteen- Born In the U.S.A.
Jesus Christ Superstar
Queen-News of the World
Steely Dan- Aja
The Doors
Amy Winehouse- Back to Black
Blondie- Parallel Lines
Joni Mitchell- Blue
Iron Maiden- The Number of the Beast
Yes- Fragile
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Marvin Gaye- What’s Going On
ZZ Top- Tres Hombres
R.E.M.- Murmur
The Beatles- Revolver
Toto- Toto IV
Al Green- Let’s Stay Together
Van Halen-1984
X- Los Angeles
Grease (Original Movie Soundtrack)
Cream- Disraeli Gears
Blind Faith
Derek & The Dominos- Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
Madonna
Bob Dylan- Blood On the Tracks
Michael Jackson- Off the Wall
Talking Heads- 77
Talking Heads- Fear of Music
Talking Heads- Remain In Light
Journey- Infinity
Fleetwood Mac
Mott the Hoople- All the Young Dudes
A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector
Cat Stevens- Tea for the Tillerman
The Bangles- Different Light
Star Wars
Iggy & The Stooges- Raw Power
Heart- Little Queen
Peter Gabriel- So
Janis Joplin- Pearl
The Clash
Barry White- Can’t Get Enough
The Who- Quadrophenia
Pearl Jam- Ten
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Bob Seger-Night Moves
Cheap Trick- At Budokan
Creedence Clearwater Revival- Cosmo’s Factory
Dead Kennedys- Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Lynyrd Skynyrd- Second Helping
Led Zeppelin- Houses of the Holy
The Black Crowes- Shake Your Money Maker
Indigo Girls
Dire Straits- Brothers In Arms
Jackson Browne- Running On Empty
Alanis Morissette- Jagged Little Pill
John Mellencamp- American Fool
Paul McCartney & Wings- Band On the Run
Elton John- Tumbleweed Connection
Green Day- American Idiot
Harry Chapin- Greatest Stories- Live
Neil Young- Harvest
Counting Crows- August and Everything After
Van Morrison- Astral Weeks
The Sting
Genesis- Abacab
Thin Lizzy- Jailbreak
Bruce Springsteen- The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
U2 Achtung Baby
Grateful Dead- Europe ‘72
Steely Dan- Pretzel Logic
The Kinks- Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Pt. 1
Greetings everyone, I am hoping to engage in a classic rock thread , purely what we used to call album oriented rock (AOR) from the classic era (roughly 1966-1980)- no other genres like punk or thrash or new wave, no heavy metal (unless it’s Black Sabbath)- purely the classics.
I want to start with the album Boston from 1976, written and produced by Tom Scholz in his basement. Here are the tracks:
Side One
1. More Than a Feeling
2. Peace of Mind
3. Foreplay/Long Time
Side Two
1. Rock and Roll Band
2. Smokin’
3. Hitch a Ride
4. Something About You
5. Let Me Take You Home Tonight
A wonderful album to listen to; I’ve thought that for over 40 years. My favorite song is “Hitch a Ride” but overall side 1 is better than side 2; Side 1, may in fact be the best rock music to come out of the 70s, perhaps. The band was never this good again, not even close.
Thoughts?
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