BEST ROCK ALBUMS OF ALL TIMES

BY ROCKPLACE MASTER
(this list will be increased week to week)

#20 DAVID BOWIE
"THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS"
RCA 1972
01 Five Years
02 Soul Love
03 Moonage Daydream
04 Starman
05 It Ain't Easy
06 Lady Stardust
07 Star
08 Hang On to Yourself
09 Ziggy Stardust
10 Suffragette City
11 Rock 'n' Roll Suicide

#19 LED ZEPPELIN
"LED ZEPPELIN II"
ATLANTIC 1969
01 Whole Lotta Love
02 What Is and What Should Never Be
03 The Lemon Song
04 Thank You
05 Heartbreaker
06 Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)
07 Ramble On
08 Moby Dick
09 Bring It On Home

#18 U2
"THE JOSHUA TREE"
ISLAND 1987
01 Where the Streets Have No Name
02 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
03 With or Without You
04 Bullet the Blue Sky
05 Running to Stand Still
06 Red Hill Mining Town
07 In God's Country
08 Trip Through Your Wires
09 One Tree Hill
10 Exit
11 Mothers of the Disappeared

#17 JIMI HENDRIX
"ARE YOU EXPERIENCED?"
TRACK 1967
01 Purple Haze
02 Manic Depression
03 Hey Joe
04 Love or Confusion
05 May This Be Love
06 I Don't Live Today
07 The Wind Cries Mary
08 Fire
09 Third Stone from the Sun
10 Foxy Lady
11 Are You Experienced?

#16 PINK FLOYD
"THE WALL"
HARVEST 1979
01 In the Flesh?
02 The Thin Ice
03 Another Brick in the Wall (Part I)
04 The Happiest Days of Our Lives
05 Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)
06 Mother
07 Goodbye Blue Sky
08 Empty Spaces
09 Young Lust
10 One of My Turns
11 Don't Leave Me Now
12 Another Brick in the Wall (Part III)
13 Goodbye Cruel World
14 Hey You
15 Is There Anybody Out There?
16 Nobody Home
17 Vera
18 Bring the Boys Back Home
19 Comfortably Numb
20 The Show Must Go On
21 In the Flesh
22 Run Like Hell
23 Waiting for the Worms
24 Stop
25 The Trial
26 Outside the Wall

#15 THE ROLLING STONES
"EXILE ON MAIN STREET"
ROLLING STONES 1972 

01 Rocks Off
02 Rip This Joint
03 Shake Your Hips
04 Casino Boogie
05 Tumbling Dice
06 Sweet Virginia
07 Torn and Frayed
08 Sweet Black Angel
09 Loving Cup
10 Happy
11 Turd on the Run
12 Ventilator Blues
13 I Just Want to See His Face
14 Let It Loose
15 All Down the Line
16 Stop Breaking Down
17 Shine a Light
18 Soul Survivor

#14 THE DOORS

"THE DOORS"

ELEKTRA 1967 

01 Break On Through (To the Other Side)

02 Soul Kitchen

03 The Crystal Ship

04 Twentieth Century Fox

05 Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)

06 Light My Fire

07 Back Door Man

08 I Looked at You

09 End of the Night

10 Take It as It Comes

11 The End

#13 THE BEATLES

"RUBBER SOUL"

PARLOPONE 1965

01 Drive My Car

02 Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

03 You Won't See Me

04 Nowhere Man

05 Think for Yourself

06 The Word

07 Michelle

08 What Goes On

09 Girl

10 I'm Looking Through You

111 In My Life

12 Wait

13 If I Needed Someone

14 Run for Your Life

#12 THE WHO
"WHO'S NEXT"
TRACK 1971
01 Baba O'Riley
02 Bargain
03 Love Ain't for Keeping
04 My Wife
05 The Song Is Over
06 Getting in Tune
07 Going Mobile
08 Behind Blue Eyes
09 Won't Get Fooled Again

#11 RADIOHEAD
"OK COMPUTER"
PARLOPHONE 1997
01 Airbag
02 Paranoid Android
03 Subterranean Homesick Alien
04 Exit Music (For a Film)
05 Let Down
06 Karma Police
07 Fitter Happier
08 Electioneering
09 Climbing Up the Walls
10 No Surprises
11 Lucky
12 The Tourist

#10 THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

"THE VELVET UNDERGROUND AND NICO"

VERVE 1967 

Recorded in 1966 during Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable multimedia event tour, gain attention for its experimentalist performance sensibilities, as well as the focus on controversial subject matter expressed in many of its songs including drug abuse, prostitution, sadism and masochism and sexual deviancy.Though a commercial and critical failure upon release, One of the most influential acclaimed rock albums ever.

01 Sunday Morning

02 I'm Waiting for the Man

03 Femme Fatale

04 Venus in Furs

05 Run Run Run

06 All Tomorrow's Parties

07 Heroin

08 There She Goes Again

09 I'll Be Your Mirror

10 The Black Angel's Death Song

11 European Son

#9 BOB DYLAN

"HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED"

COLUMBIA 1965 

Having until then recorded mostly acoustic music, Dylan used rock musicians as his backing band on every track of the album, except for the closing 11-minute ballad, "Desolation Row". Critics have focused on the innovative way in which Dylan combined driving, blues-based music with the subtlety of poetry to create songs that captured the political and cultural chaos of contemporary America. Author Michael Gray has argued that in an important sense the 1960s "started" with this album

01 Like a Rolling Stone

02 Tombstone Blues

03 It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry

04 From a Buick 6

05 Ballad of a Thin Man

06 Queen Jane Approximately

07 Highway 61 Revisited

08 Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues

09 Desolation Row

#8 THE CLASH

"LONDON CALLING"

CBS 1979

London Calling is a post-punk album that incorporates a range of styles, including punk, reggae, rockabilly, ska, New Orleans R&B, pop, lounge jazz, and hard rock. The album's subject matter included social displacement, unemployment, racial conflict, drug use, and the responsibilities of adulthood. The album received unanimous acclaim. London Calling was a top ten album in the UK, sold over five million copies worldwide, and was certified platinum in the United States.

01 London Calling

02 Brand New Cadillac

03 Jimmy Jazz

04 Hateful

05 Rudie Can't Fail

06 Spanish Bombs

07 The Right Profile

08 Lost in the Supermarket

09 Clampdown

10 The Guns of Brixton

11 Wrong 'Em Boyo

12 Death or Glory

13 Koka Kola

14 The Card Cheat

1 Lover's Rock

16 Four Horsemen

17 I'm Not Down

18 Revolution Rock

19 Train in Vain

#7 THE BEATLES

"ABBEY ROAD"

APPLE 1969

Abbey Road is a rock album that incorporates genres such as blues, pop and progressive rock, and it makes prominent use of the Moog synthesizer and the Leslie speaker. Side two contains a medley of nine songs that has subsequently been covered by other notable artists. The album was recorded amidst a more collegial atmosphere than the Get Back/Let It Be sessions earlier in the year, but there were still frequent confrontations within the band, particularly over Paul McCartney's song "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"

01 Come Together

02 Something

03 Maxwell's Silver Hammer

04 Oh! Darling

05 Octopus's Garden

06 I Want You (She's So Heavy)

07 Here Comes the Sun

08 Because

09 You Never Give Me Your Money

10 Sun King

11 Mean Mr. Mustard

12 Polythene Pam

13 She Came in Through the Bathroom Window

14 Golden Slumbers

15 Carry That Weight

16 The End

17 Her Majesty

#6 THE BEATLES

"THE BEATLES (WHITE ALBUM)"

APPLE 1968

Most of the songs on the album were written during early 1968 at a Transcendental Meditation course in Rishikesh, India. Although the group's experience of the course was mixed, the lack of external influences or drugs sparked the band's creativity and they returned to England with around 40 new songs. They regrouped at George Harrison's house, Kinfauns, in May and recorded demos of 26 songs, enough for a double album. The group returned to EMI Studios to record the new material

01 Back in the U.S.S.R.

02 Dear Prudence

03 Glass Onion

04 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

05 Wild Honey Pie

06 The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill

07 While My Guitar Gently Weeps

08 Happiness Is a Warm Gun

09 Martha My Dear

10 I'm So Tired

11 Blackbird

12 Piggies

13 Rocky Raccoon

14 Don't Pass Me By

15 Why Don't We Do It in the Road?

16 I Will

17 Julia

18 Birthday

19 Yer Blues

20 Mother Nature's Son

21 Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey

22 Sexy Sadie

23 Helter Skelter

24 Long, Long, Long

25 Revolution 1

26 Honey Pie

27 Savoy Truffle

28 Cry Baby Cry

29 Revolution 9

30 Good Night

#5 LED ZEPPELIN

"UNTITTLED" (LED ZEPPELIN IV)"

ATLANTIC 1971 

After the group's 1970 album Led Zeppelin III received lukewarm reviews from critics, Page decided their fourth album would officially be untitled.  Led to the album being referred to variously as the Four Symbols logo, The Four Symbols The Fourth Album, Untitled, Runes, The Hermit, and ZoSo (which was derived from Page's symbol).In addition to lacking a title, the original cover featured no band name, as the group wished to be anonymous and to avoid easy pigeonholing by the press

01 Black Dog

02 Rock and Roll

03 The Battle of Evermore

04 Stairway to Heaven

05 Misty Mountain Hop

06 Four Sticks

07 Going to California

08 When the Levee Breaks

#4 NIRVANA

"NEVERMIND" 

DGC 1991

Produced by Butch Vig, Nevermind was the group's first release on DGC Records. Kurt Cobain sought to make music outside the restrictive confines of the Seattle grunge scene, drawing influence from groups such as the Pixies and their use of "loud/quiet" dynamics. It is their first album to feature drummer Dave Grohl.Despite low commercial expectations by the band and its record label, Became a surprise success in late 1991, largely due to the popularity of its first single, "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

01 Smells Like Teen Spirit

02 In Bloom

03 Come as You Are

04 Breed

05 Lithium

06 Polly

07 Territorial Pissings

08 Drain You

09 Lounge Act

10 Stay Away

11 On a Plain

12 Something in the Way

#3 THE BEATLES

"SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND"

PARLOPHONE 1967 

An immediate commercial and critical success, spending 27 weeks at the top of the albums chart in the United Kingdom and 15 weeks at number one in the United States. Time magazine declared it "a historic departure in the progress of music" . It won four Grammy Awards in 1968, including Album of the Year, the first rock LP to receive this honour

01 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

02 With a Little Help from My Friends

03 Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

04 Getting Better

05 Fixing a Hole

06 She's Leaving Home

07 Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!

08 Within You Without You

09 When I'm Sixty-Four

10 Lovely Rita

11 Good Morning Good Morning

12 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)

13 A Day in the Life

#2 THE BEATLES
"REVOLVER" 
PARLOPHONE 1966

Marked a progression from their 1965 release Rubber Soul and signalled the band's arrival as studio innovators, a year before the seminal Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. On release, Revolver was widely recognised by critics as having redefined the parameters of popular music. The album's diverse influences and sounds include the incorporation of tape loops on the experimental "Tomorrow Never Knows", the use of a classical string octet on "Eleanor Rigby", and the Indian-music setting of "Love You To" 

01 Taxman

02 Eleanor Rigby

03 I'm Only Sleeping

04 Love You To

05 Here, There and Everywhere

06 Yellow Submarine

07 She Said She Said

08 Good Day Sunshine

09 And Your Bird Can Sing

10 For No One

11 Doctor Robert

12 I Want to Tell You

13 Got to Get You into My Life

14 Tomorrow Never Knows

#1 PINK FLOYD 

"THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON"

HARVEST 1973 

The eighth studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released in March 1973.built on ideas explored in the band's earlier recordings and live shows, but lacks the extended instrumental excursions that characterised their work following the departure in 1968 of founder member, principal composer, and lyricist, Syd Barrett. The themes on The Dark Side of the Moon include conflict, greed, the passage of time, and mental illness, the latter partly inspired by Barrett's deteriorating mental state
01 Speak to Me
02 Breathe
03 On the Run
04 Time
05 The Great Gig in the Sky
06 Money
07 Us and Them
08 Any Colour You Like
09 Brain Damage
10 Eclipse