Rocky Road

RE: What would you consider essential hard rock albums?

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OK, here's my top picks...for each decade starting with the sixties. These choices aren't necessarily my favorites from these bands. These are titles I would recommend to a youngster who was curious about what came before.

1) Jimi Hendrix/Are You Experienced?
2) Cream/Wheels Of Fire
3) Led Zeppelin I
4) Led Zeppelin II
5) Cream/Disraeli Gears
6) Jimi Hendrix/Electric Ladyland
7) The Pretty Things/S.F. Sorrow

1970s

1) Black Sabbath/Paranoid
2) Deep Purple/Machine Head
3) Led Zeppelin/IV
4) UFO/Force It
5) Thin Lizzy/Jailbreak
6) Montrose/Montrose
7) Bad Company/Bad Company
8) Foghat/Fool For The City
9) Deep Purple/Burn
10) Aerosmith/Rocks

1980s

1) Riot/Fire Down Under
2) King's X/Gretchen Goes To Nebraska
3) Black Sabbath/Heaven And Hell
4) Dio/The Last In Line
5) Deep Purple/Perfect Strangers
6) Iron Maiden/Piece Of Mind
7) Blue Oyster Cult/Cultosaurus Erectus
8) Rush/Moving Pictures
9) AC-DC/Back In Black
10) Joe Satriani/Surfing With The Alien

1990s

1) Jane's Addiction/Ritual de lo Habitual
2) Soundgarden/Superunknown
3) Queensryche/Empire
4) Red Hot Chili Peppers/One Hot Minute
5) Alice In Chains/Dirt
6) Stone Temple Pilots/Core
7) Tool/Aenima
8) Black Crowes/Southern Harmony & Musical Companion
9) King's X/Ear Candy
10) Soundgarden/Badmotorfinger

New Millenia

1) Porcupine Tree/In Absentia
2) Tool/Lateralus
3) Opeth/Blackwater Park
4) King Crimson/The Power To Believe
5) Megadeth/The System Has Failed
6) Porcupine Tree/Deadwing
7) Tool/10,000 Days
8) Jane's Addiction/Strays
9) The Darkness/One Way Ticket To Hell And Back
10) Sleepytime Gorilla Museum/Grand Opening And Closing

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