This is not a classement, with rank or anything else, but just the list of the best rock albums, list written by a french journalist of the newspapper "Rock'n'Folk", Philippe Manoeuvre. Here are a little more than 100 albums, in chronological order.


Elvis Presley - The Sun Sessions
The Yardbirds - Having A Rave Up
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
The Doors - The Doors
The Velvet Underground - The VU and Nico
The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's...
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Love - Forever Changes
Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing at Baxter's
The Band - Music From Big Pink
Big Brother & The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
The Beatles - The Beatles (Double White Album)
The Jeff Beck Group - Beck-Ola
Johnny Cash - Live At San Quentin
Blind Faith - Blind Faith
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Led Zeppelin - II
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
MC5 - Back in the USA
Deep Purple - In Rock
Pretty Things - Parachute
Amon Düül II - Yeti
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déjà Vu
The Stooges - Fun House
James Brown - Sex Machine
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
Derek And The Dominos - Derek and the Dominos
Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson
Can - Tago Mago
The Doors - LA Woman
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
The Flammin' Groovies - Teenage Head
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
The Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East
The Who - Who's Next
John Lennon - Imagine
Led Zeppelin - IV
Alice Cooper - Killer
Sly And the Family Stone - There's A Riot Goin' On
The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
Roxy Music - Roxy Music
Hawkwind - Doremi Fasol Latido
Santana - Caravanserai
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star
Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power
Lou Reed - Berlin
New York Dolls - New York Dolls
David Bowie - Pin Ups
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Copperhead - Copperhead
Lou Reed - Rock'n'Roll Animal * Lou Reed Live
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Big Star - Radio City
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd
Neil Young - Tonight's The Night
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Patti Smith - Horses
Aerosmith - Rocks
Television - Marquee Moon
The Clash - The Clash
Bob Marley & the Wailers - Exodus
The Jam - In The City
Steely Dan - Aja
The Heartbreakers - DTK LAMF
The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
Wire - Pink Flag
Suicide - Suicide
Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
Kraftwerk - The Machine Man
Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove
Public Image Ltd - Public Image
Motörhead - Overkill
Micheal Jackson - Off the Wall
Gang Of Four - Entertainment
Ramones - End of the Century
The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us
Diana Ross - Diana
Joy Division - Closer
AC/DC - Back in Black
The Specials - More Specials
The Cure - Pornography
Prince - Sign 'O' The Times
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Pixies - Doolittle
Sonic Youth - Goo
Nirvana - Nevermind
Rage Against The Machine - RATM
The Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
Jeff Buckley - Grace
The Red Hot Chili Peppers - One Hot Minute
Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory ?
Alice In Chains - Alice In Chains
Radiohead - OK Computer
Air - Moon Safari
The Strookes - Is This It ?
Queen Of The Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
The White Stripes - Elephant
The Libertines - Up The Bracket


For Myself, I'd have added The Kinks, Tool, Bad Religion, Rammstein. But there are lots of jewels in this list, and it can give motivation to enlarge our own albums collections or knowledges in Rock.
With this list - extracted from a book written by Philippe Manoeuvre - I've discover a lot of great bands or albums.

Enjoy !

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Interesting list... not sure I think the White Stripes deserve to be up there, and Green Day isn't there at all ... and I definitely don't think The Yardbirds or The Doors come before Born To Run or Who's Next... but certainly good stuff.

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Got to add Weezer the blue album and stadium Arcadium red hot chili peppers

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For the White Stripes, i'm not fan, so I agree with you. But the author put them here, because (it's his opinion) they bring something to Rock, somthing new.

For the missing bands, there are a lot of course, everybody wants to add some bands or albums. Here agin, Philippe Manoeuvre said that it's HIS list, and of course not THE list.

For Stadium Arcadium : the book was too old (2005).

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Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit (Terence)

"If one needed only the arms against the French, we would be victorious, the French are small, weak ; only one of our Germans would beat four of them; but they become with the fire supernatural beings." writing in 1806 by a Prussian officer after Iena and Auerstaedt

Megadeth - Everything up to Youthanasia

There might be a RHCP album or two that belongs on the list, Stadium Arcadium ain't one of 'em

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what make you think so?

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"The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment." -Bertrand Russell

The 100 best? Of course it depends on who is compiling the list and by what criteria. Here's Rolling Stone's top 10 albums from their list of the top 500 albums of all time.

1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles
2. Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys
3. Revolver, The Beatles
4. Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan
5. Rubber Soul, The Beatles
6. What's Going On, Marvin Gaye
7. Exile on Main St., The Rolling Stones
8. London Calling, The Clash
9. Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan
10. The Beatles (The White Album), The Beatles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling...ms_of_All_Time

Four Beatles albums in the top 10? It's personal opinion, but I think that only Sgt Pepper should be in the top 10. Pet Sounds should be there, and so should Hwy 61. Marvin Gaye top 10? I do not think so. Exile on Main Street was remarkable and its top 10 is ok with me. Never a big Clash fan; they would not have made my top 10. After subtracting five from the Rolling Stone top 10, I would add these albums: Allman Brothers - Live at the Filmore East, Grateful Dead - Live Dead, the Band - Music from Big Pink, Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other Love Songs, and Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle. The Who not in the top 10? How can I make a top 10 list that excludes Who's Next?

I actually like Californication and By The Way better than Stadium Arcadium. But... Snow is a brilliant song. Love it!

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"Trust none of what you hear And less of what you see" Springsteen

When the Founding Fathers protected our right to free speech, I think that meant we were supposed to use it.

Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi was the world's most unhinged lunatic. He's now dead. So that moves Ann Coulter up to first place - David Letterman

O, when she is angry she is keen and shrewd; / She was a vixen when she went to school, / And though she be but little, she is fierce. — Shakespeare

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Meatloaf - Bat out of Hell

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The source always struck me as unlikely, but that was quite an interesting piece of music. "Objects in the rear view mirror..."

Radiohead - The Bends
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss (Christ Illusion is bad ass too)
Black Sabbath - Paranoid


honorable mention even though it is not a Rock album:

Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger

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That song was from Bat Out of Hell II, a half hearted attempt to recapture the glory of the original album, IMO. Don't even get me started on III.

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Rush - Either Moving Pictures or 2112

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