padisha emperor
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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 !
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 !