Mudpup Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 Scorpions - Lovedrive has to be on the list Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnm93 Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 I was just about to say Moving Pictures, then someone typed Scorpions. Hmmm... To hard to split. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezbass Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 [quote name='Lord Sausage' timestamp='1386880759' post='2305991'] Word! You show me a better and heavier album and i'll show you........this album again! [/quote]I now remember a recent BBC program where Danny Baker reckoned that PG was the perfect rock album. I also remember the very first time I heard a track from it when it was released; Trampled Underfoot on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezbass Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 [quote name='kevin_lindsay' timestamp='1386886940' post='2306148'] No-one mentioned Thin Lizzy's "Live and Dangerous" yet? [/quote]Yep a couple of us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bagsieblue Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 Slightly surprised at some of the "hard rock" suggestions. Are we thinking hard rock = soft metal?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seashell Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 [quote name='bagsieblue' timestamp='1386887605' post='2306167'] Slightly surprised at some of the "hard rock" suggestions. Are we thinking hard rock = soft metal?? [/quote] Well it's difficult to define.... For me heavy rock is music that thumps through your chest without making your ears bleed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essexbasscat Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 Glad to see someone mention Led Zep II. The opening 20 or so bars Woman From Tokyo by Deep Purple - superb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sausage Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 I can't believe nobody has said 'Slippery when Wet' by Bon Jovi!........wait a minute yes i can! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leftyhook Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 [quote name='the_skezz' timestamp='1386883648' post='2306067'] Definitely Deep Purple's Machine Head for me, from the opening to Highway Star to that amazing riff in the chorus of Space Truckin it's a phenominal album. One of my favourites. [/quote] listening to again right now after several yours. Indeed!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howdenspur Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 Secret Treaties - Blue Oyster Cult Raw Power - Iggy and the Stooges Live and Dangerous and PG also... Time for a lie down now I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xilddx Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 (edited) I'm a f***ing bellend. WHY did I not mention Van Halen I ?? Edited December 12, 2013 by xilddx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_skezz Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 (edited) [quote name='leftyhook' timestamp='1386889150' post='2306210'] listening to again right now after several yours. Indeed!! [/quote] I'd only heard Highway Star and Smoke on the Water off it till about a year ago, then I found it in my Mum's vinyl collection and stuck it on - loved it from the word go. Not a bad track on there, they all compliment each other, and for me it's the perfect length - manages to retain energy throughout without outstaying its welcome. Edited December 12, 2013 by the_skezz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzz Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 [quote name='yorick' timestamp='1386867545' post='2305714'] Montrose, by Montrose [/quote] This, in spades. A genre-defining album. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassman Sam Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Deep Purple, In Rock. Thin Lizzy, Live and Dangerous. Black Sabbath Masters of Reality. Led Zep, PG and I'm another one who forgot Montrose. [size=4]The best music from my plooky youth.[/size] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ern500evo Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 My personal faves: Led Zeppelin 2 Black Sabbath- Heaven and Hell Van Halen 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pst62 Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Every album Rory Gallagher recorded. Be Bop Deluxe everything up until but not including Drastic Plastic. Judas Priest's Sad Wings of Destiny, Sin After Sin, Stained Class and Killing Machine. AC/DC's Powerage, such a brilliant album, not a bad track on it! UFO's Force It, probably my favourite of their Schenker era studio albums. Rush, Everything up to and including Signals. Genius Zepp's The Song Remains The Same brilliant! Highlights for me are The Title track, Rain Song and the fantastic No Quarter. Gillan's Mr. Universe and Glory Road albums deserve a shout too! Driving, head down no nonsense stuff! Thin Lizzy's albums with Robbo, Nightlife, Fighting, Jailbreak etc brilliant All the mentions of Live and Dangerous, yeah it's great to listen too, but the fact that only the drums are the only things that are actually live is disappointing to say the least. One thing that this thread does, is it makes you realise just how heavy rock went down the pan in the mid '80's! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevB Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 (edited) Sorry, too many contenders even if it was limited to pre-'76 or whenever Rainbow Rising came out. Actually nearly all the top classic heavy rock genre defining albums came out between about '70 and '76, it was a golden half decade or so to be sure. I wish I had been born about 10 years earlier than I was, I only really got into it very late 70's but then there was a bit of a revivial in the post punk early 80's so it wasn't all bad. Edited December 13, 2013 by KevB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul S Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 SO difficult to choose - I think most of my contenders have been mentioned, with perhaps 'Made In Japan' at joint first place with 'Live and Dangerous' (I saw them during that tour at Wembley!). On my shortlist, but not making it onto the rostrum, I would place 2 live albums - Humble Pie, Rockin the Filmore. Not my favourite band but that album captured the sound and the moment. And Wishbone Ash, Live Dates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo Posted December 13, 2013 Author Share Posted December 13, 2013 I don't think people are getting this at all. You can't have 86 greatest heavy rock albums each. You can only have one. My thread, my rules Sort yourselves out now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xilddx Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 [quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1386927096' post='2306415'] I don't think people are getting this at all. You can't have 86 greatest heavy rock albums each. You can only have one. My thread, my rules Sort yourselves out now! [/quote] In that case Van Halen I Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul S Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Made in Japan, then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomBass Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 [quote name='Mudpup' timestamp='1386886982' post='2306149'] Scorpions - Lovedrive has to be on the list [/quote] Oh yes (said in the Churchill bulldog advert voice) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leroydiamond Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 (edited) It's got to be Made in Japan (on vinyl of course) Edited December 13, 2013 by leroydiamond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xilddx Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 [quote name='RandomBass' timestamp='1386927605' post='2306423'] Oh yes (said in the Churchill bulldog advert voice) [/quote] How did I forget Scorpions! Lovedrive is a splendid album. Blizzard of Oz is another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prunesquallor Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 [quote name='4000' timestamp='1386882021' post='2306021'] Fixed. Oh, l love Made In Europe too; arguably my favourite rock bass sound, even if it is actually a Precision. ;-) And of course Live and Dangerous. And British Steel. And Sign of the Hammer (yes, I know). And Bomber / Overkill. And Heaven & Hell. [/quote] Fixed? Sabbath Bloody Sabbath only had the title track, dude. And I should know because my taste is impeccable. Definitely Overkill and Heaven & Hell, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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