Best Classic Rock CD's?

MrNightly

I want to buy a few Classic Rock CD's, but know nothing about titles or anything... Only familar with songs that I hear on the radio... (101.1 the FOX in KC, and the such...)

What are you favorite Classic Rock CD's/Albums?

I love the Eagles, and songs like, "On the Road again,"... As you can tell, I'm from the Younger generation, and don't know many of the artists!!!

What would you recommend for my listening pleasures?

DJ

sda2mike

go for the 'album' cover that looks the most drug-influenced:D actually, there's a dozen boatloads of great music you'll never hear on 'classic radio'. what are your tastes???

shack

Most people consider "classic rock" to be stuff from the late 60's to the early/mid 70's. If that is your criteria here are a few that I think should be in your collection.
Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic

Allman Brothers Band- At Filmore East

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd

Led Zeppelin - I, II, III, IV, Houses Of The Holy, Physical Graffiti (if you only get on go for IV)

Bad Company - Bad Company

Boston - Boston

The Who - Who's Next

Jethro Tull - Aqualung

Yes - Fragile

Santana - Santana

Emerson Lake and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery

Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland, Band Of Gypsies

And so many more....these would give you a taste of what classic rock is/was all about.

bobman1235

What shack said. Great classic rock starter kit right there

BTW, "On the Road Again" is Willie Nelson... most would hesitate to call that "classic rock". Unless you were talking about the song by Canned Heat, but that seems a little esoteric for a classic rock newbie....

George Grand

Cream- Wheels of Fire is very close to the top of the list if you're not going alphabetical.

Everyone else will add Dark Side of the Moon which I feel is supremely overrated. I can't stand "The Boss" but he gets on the list just for the song Born to Run. Monster 3 or 4 minutes, whatever it is.

Beggars Banquet
Let it Bleed
Live at Leeds
The first Led Zeppelin album.
The Band's second album "The Band"

marker

The Wall by Pink Floyd
Abbey Road - The Beatles
Who's Next - The Who (although most of these songs can be had along with many other classic Who songs on greatest hit collections).

MrNightly

bobman1235 wrote:

What shack said. Great classic rock starter kit right there

BTW, "On the Road Again" is Willie Nelson... most would hesitate to call that "classic rock". Unless you were talking about the song by Canned Heat, but that seems a little esoteric for a classic rock newbie....

The song goes, something like this..."Here i am, playing the song again...... walk into the restuarant, its the same old cliche.. is that a woman or a man?" something along those lines... Its NOT Willie nelson i don't think.

Great list Shack. I'll have to pick up some of those, and see if I like them. I knew quite a few of the bands, and they seem to be good ones. I didn't expect such a long list.. oh boy!! Thanks!

SCompRacer

MrNightly wrote:

The song goes, something like this..."Here i am, playing the song again...... walk into the restuarant, its the same old cliche.. is that a woman or a man?" something along those lines... Its NOT Willie nelson i don't think.

Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band, Turn The Page.

.....Well you walk into a restaurant,
strung out from the road
And you feel the eyes upon you
as you're shakin' off the cold
You pretend it doesn't bother you
but you just want to explode

Most times you can't hear 'em talk,
other times you can
All the same old cliches,
"Is that a woman or a man?"
And you always seem outnumbered,
you don't dare make a stand....

seo

Bob Dylan - Blood on the tracks
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
CSNY - Deja Vu
Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
Rush - Moving Pictures

cfrizz

Eagles
Fleetwood Mac
Eric Clapton
Deep Purple
Heart

All their greatest hits.

MrNightly

SCompRacer wrote:

Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band, Turn The Page.

.....Well you walk into a restaurant,
strung out from the road
And you feel the eyes upon you
as you're shakin' off the cold
You pretend it doesn't bother you
but you just want to explode

Most times you can't hear 'em talk,
other times you can
All the same old cliches,
"Is that a woman or a man?"
And you always seem outnumbered,
you don't dare make a stand....

BINGO! Gotta get that one... Love it.

Here's another for ya.. starts out something with a kid wanting a guitar, goes into a store, buys one for a few bucks, and then it gets heavier/rockier as the song progesses... Any takers? Can't remember the words right now, but I LOVE the beat and rythm.

Thanks all for the advise.. i'll be seeing what I can get soon!

nadams

A big vote for Yes- Fragile, especially if you have SDA's.

I also like Genesis - Foxtrot , and also The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

But not everyone likes those two.

seo

nadams wrote:

A big vote for Yes- Fragile, especially if you have SDA's.

I also like Genesis - Foxtrot , and also The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

But not everyone likes those two.

Also Genesis - Selling England by the Pound

audiobliss

I'm ashamed I didn't recognize Turn the page. Get you some Bob Seger stuff, for sure. I LOVE my Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band - Greatest Hits CD. You may wanna pick up the Greatest Hits 2 CD, also, but it's not as good as the first imo.

PolkThug

Bob Seger kicks ****. Check out his songs "Her Strut" and "The Fire Down Below". Timeless music.

dkg999

Your song about the kid and the guitar sounds either like a Bad Company song, or there is also a John Hiatt song with a similar theme. If it's on a classic rock FM station, most likely the Bad Company song. I think it's called Shooting Star.

schwarcw

dkg999 wrote:

Your song about the kid and the guitar sounds either like a Bad Company song, or there is also a John Hiatt song with a similar theme. If it's on a classic rock FM station, most likely the Bad Company song. I think it's called Shooting Star.

Johnny died one night
died in his bed,
Bottle of whiskey
sleeping tablets by his head . . .

Oh yeah!

del44

Have to agree with Shacks suggestions. I don't have Jimi Hendrix, but I have the rest. And on vinyl no less. Also Pink Floyds "Wish you were here" is worth a listen to. My fav. Zepp. song (and I like em all) is "Over the Hills and far away" Album #4. "How the west was won" is also really good.

MrNightly

dkg999 wrote:

Your song about the kid and the guitar sounds either like a Bad Company song, or there is also a John Hiatt song with a similar theme. If it's on a classic rock FM station, most likely the Bad Company song. I think it's called Shooting Star.

No, I googled the Shooting star song... not it. Hmmm..

The kid gets the guitar, always wants one, and after learning to play, he's suddenly in front of thousands playing... "at the five-an-dime" I think is in there too... Dang it, this is driving me nuts that I can't remember.

The start of the song sounds EXACTLY like another song about a steel guitar... ha. That helps eh? I try.

ND13

Sabbath

SCompRacer

MrNightly wrote:

Here's another for ya.. starts out something with a kid wanting a guitar, goes into a store, buys one for a few bucks, and then it gets heavier/rockier as the song progesses... Any takers? Can't remember the words right now, but I LOVE the beat and rythm.

Along those lines, try Foreigner, Juke Box Hero.

Standing in the rain, with his head hung low
Couldn't get a ticket, it was a sold out show
Heard the roar of the crowd, he could picture the scene
Put his ear to the wall, then like a distant scream

He heard one guitar, just blew him away
He saw stars in his eyes, and the very next day
Bought a beat up six string in a secondhand store
Didn't know how to play it, but he knew for sure

There is so much out there. Njoy.

SCompRacer

Duh, Bryan Adams, Summer of '69. Drudging up the memories here.

got my first real six string
Bought it at the five and dime
Played it 'til my fingers bled
It was the summer of '69

Me and some guys from school
Had a band and we tried real hard
Jimmy quit, Jody got married
Should have known we'd never get far

MrNightly

SCompRacer wrote:

Along those lines, try Foreigner, Juke Box Hero.

Standing in the rain, with his head hung low
Couldn't get a ticket, it was a sold out show
Heard the roar of the crowd, he could picture the scene
Put his ear to the wall, then like a distant scream

He heard one guitar, just blew him away
He saw stars in his eyes, and the very next day
Bought a beat up six string in a secondhand store
Didn't know how to play it, but he knew for sure

There is so much out there. Njoy.

I AM impressed. Nicely done. That's two today for ya. Don't tire yourself out now

Thank you. Those are the first on my list now. Ya, don't Summer of '69 and Juke Box Hero start very similar??? I think they do. Where ya pulling those lyrics from anyways?

Forever in your debt... well, maybe not FOREVER, but ya know what i mean.

SCompRacer

MrNightly wrote:

Don't tire yourself out now

No worries, I pace myself. The Album Cover Game made my head hurt a time or two though.

I grew up with this music so some lyrics are engraved into memory. A Yahoo or Google search for a songs lyrics fills in the blanks.

dkg999

I just try to get a little residue from the 70's to kick loose in the brain and then I can remember some of this stuff? What was the question? :eek:

cfrizz

WAAA! ROFLMAO!!!!:D

dkg999 wrote:

I just try to get a little residue from the 70's to kick loose in the brain and then I can remember some of this stuff? What was the question? :eek:

lanion

There are TONS of good compilations... my favorite classic rock

Led Zepplin 4, zoso...

Pink Floyd, Meddle, DSOTM, Wish you were here, the wall, atom heart mother...ehh.. all of it. I am a pink floyd freak

Supertramp, even in the quietest moments and Crime of the Century

some Jethro Tull... whatever album has Aqualung on it is sweet.

polksda

'70s stuff (a few early 1980s):

Foreigner - 4
Toto - IV
Styx - Grand Illusion, Paradise Theater, The Wooden Nickel Recordings
Supertramp - Breakfast in America, Crime of the Century
Journey - Escape, Infinity, Frontiers
Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell
Asia - S/T
Blue Oyster Cult - Some Enchanted Evening, Agents of Fortune
Elton John - Live in Australia
Billy Joel - 52nd Street
Kansas - Pretty much anything... 30th Anniversary Collection is a good one.
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny, Sin After Sin (don't laugh; 1970s Priest is wonderful stuff)
Queen - A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races
Soundtrack - Jesus Christ Superstar (The Broadway musical soundtrack, NOT the horrid movie soundtrack)
The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed, any GH compilation
Little River Band - Greatest Hits

Now if you want to talk '80s hard rock and heavy metal I can provide a list 15 miles long...

George Grand

I'll pass on the 80's hard rock and heavy metal. All day long.

Classic hard rock died around 1974. Any bands formed after that are mere pretenders to the throne. Bad pretenders at that.

polksda

A musical opinion and $1.50 will buy a cup of coffee and that's about it. Whether music or good or bad is a subjective opinion, and it depends largely upon what music we were raised with, and our age. No single person's musical opinion is inherently right or wrong...

Based on your comments I'm assuming you're a tad bit older than I, hence the greater appreciation of music from the 1960s and early 1970s. I came along later than that, and frankly cannot listen to the music of the 60s at all. I find it to be poorly produced and recorded and generally downright dull.

Beatles, Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Cream, Traffic, early Black Sabbath, early Genesis? Instant channel changers for me.

As much as you despise music and musicians of the 1980s is the way I feel about the musical wasteland of the 1960s. Sure it may be historically more relevant (because its older -- time has a way of doing that), but I simply can't listen to the ****.

*shrug*

Different strokes...

shack

No accounting for taste I suppose....