Greatest 4 Album Run in Rock History?
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The Beatles: 'Rubber Soul' (1965), 'Revolver' (1966), 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' (1967), 'The Beatles' (1968) (or Revolver to Abbey Road)
Just disagree. Harvest Moon is basically Harvest redone, but better. Alabama is the only song on Harvest that, for me, stands up to or beats the best on Harvest Moon. Plus Harvest has a couple of automatic skips for me. After the Gold Rush requires a certain mood, though Cripple Creek Ferry is my only skip. Everybody Knows has two of his best songs, but Cinnamon Girl is overrated for me and the rest is just OK by his standards aside from Cowgirl In the Sand and Down By the River.
Ragged Glory is perfect aside from Mother Earth which I skip. Freedom finishes with 4-5 of his best tracks, and Sleeps With Angels is him at his gloomy best. I don't care for the title track but Change Your Mind, Prime of Life and Trans Am are some of my favorites. Even the little piano ditties that open and close the album really hit for me.
On the Beach is the only one from the option listed that is in my Neil top 4. That's just me though. I'm not bloviating about facts either real or imagined or pretending to be objectively correct in any way. That's just how I feel.
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AC/DC: 'Let There Be Rock' (1977), 'Powerage' (1978), 'Highway to Hell' (1979), 'Back in Black' (1980)
If Neil Young and Bobby D are considered rock alongside Metallica and AC/DC, I don't know what's happening.
If Skynyrd and/or CCR were on the list, my vote may change, but many of my formative teenage years were performed under the AC/DC and Metallica banner. Also Slayer. AC/DC gets the nod for pure rock and roll. I like the fact that 3 Bon Scott albums and the one great Brian Johnson album were included. That's the correct listing. Bon Scott >>> Brian Johnson all day, but I can't argue with Back in Black. It was great and it was meaningful. What a comeback that album was. The story behind it as well.
AC/DC! Oy! Oy!
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The Rolling Stones: 'Beggars Banquet' (1968), 'Let It Bleed' (1969), 'Sticky Fingers' (1971), 'Exile on Main St.' (1972)
You may surprised to learn that "rock" is a very broad genre and includes such sub genres as: folk rock, country rock, roots rock, blue rock, hard rock, heavy metal, southern rock, etc. So yes Neil Young and Bob Dylan are rock musicians.
Skynyrd's 3rd and 4th albums aren't all time classic stuff, so they don't make the cut IMO.
I can, however, make a case for CCR being in the pole.
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AC/DC: 'Let There Be Rock' (1977), 'Powerage' (1978), 'Highway to Hell' (1979), 'Back in Black' (1980)
I think Bobby D is straight folk, not even folk rock. Neil Young may have a case for rock like Pink Floyd may have a case for rock, but still. I don't consider either real rockers.
I love Neil Young, Bob Dylan, and Pink Floyd. Not meant to be a slight on any of them. It's a classification thing.
"Classic rock" is the stupidest classification known to man imo.
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The Rolling Stones: 'Beggars Banquet' (1968), 'Let It Bleed' (1969), 'Sticky Fingers' (1971), 'Exile on Main St.' (1972)
With all due respect, you couldn't possibly be more off the mark.
When Dylan plugged in and "went electric" he was no longer a straight folk artist. It was only one of the biggest outrages of the mid 60s.
Bringing it Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, and Blonde on Blonde all had rock and roll on them.
@chuck care to weigh in?
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AC/DC: 'Let There Be Rock' (1977), 'Powerage' (1978), 'Highway to Hell' (1979), 'Back in Black' (1980)
I don't think being plugged in is a hall pass to rockdom.
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AC/DC: 'Let There Be Rock' (1977), 'Powerage' (1978), 'Highway to Hell' (1979), 'Back in Black' (1980)
What genre is Elvis? Chuck Berry? That's rock and roll, baby!
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The Rolling Stones: 'Beggars Banquet' (1968), 'Let It Bleed' (1969), 'Sticky Fingers' (1971), 'Exile on Main St.' (1972)
Christ.
Dylan was born and raised in St. Louis County, Minnesota. Following his self-titled debut album of traditional folk songs in 1962, he made his breakthrough with The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan the next year. The album featured "Blowin' in the Wind" and "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" which, like many of his early songs, adapted the tunes and phrasing of older folk songs. He released the politically charged The Times They Are a-Changin' and the more lyrically abstract and introspective Another Side of Bob Dylan in 1964. In 1965 and 1966, Dylan drew controversy among folk purists when he adopted electrically amplified rock instrumentation, and in the space of 15 months recorded three of the most influential rock albums of the 1960s: Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited (both 1965) and Blonde on Blonde (1966). When Dylan made his move from acoustic folk and blues music to rock, the mix became more complex. His six-minute single "Like a Rolling Stone" (1965) expanded commercial and creative boundaries in popular music.[11][12]
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AC/DC: 'Let There Be Rock' (1977), 'Powerage' (1978), 'Highway to Hell' (1979), 'Back in Black' (1980)
The point of all of this is
CCR and AC/DC. That's my 4 album streak winners.
I'm just being a little bitch about everything else because it's fun and I also kind of think the things I do but also not really.
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The Beatles: 'Rubber Soul' (1965), 'Revolver' (1966), 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' (1967), 'The Beatles' (1968) (or Revolver to Abbey Road)
I agree with you. Trying to define and restrict what qualifies as R&R is not something your average, layman listener (like me) should be attempting. Rock musicians branched out and integrated other genres to creat sub genres of rock. Rock in it's origin was already a mix of genres and it only grew in the 60s and 70s, hell even the 80s.
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AC/DC: 'Let There Be Rock' (1977), 'Powerage' (1978), 'Highway to Hell' (1979), 'Back in Black' (1980)
If Like a Rolling Stone is considered rock...
I don't know, that's kind of my point. I feel like it needs to be more hard driving. Like a Rolling Stone was pop/oldies imo, just like most of the 60s besides late 60s Stones, Zep, MAYBE Beatles, The Birds, The Who, CCR, Jimi, etc. I don't actually feel strongly about any of this, that's just my stance on rock. I don't feel like rock truly took hold until the '70s.
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AC/DC: 'Let There Be Rock' (1977), 'Powerage' (1978), 'Highway to Hell' (1979), 'Back in Black' (1980)
Clearly this is all just me being a bitch about the definition of rock. Don't mind me, I'm just out here trying to have a good time.
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AC/DC: 'Let There Be Rock' (1977), 'Powerage' (1978), 'Highway to Hell' (1979), 'Back in Black' (1980)
What is the definition of blues? (Utilization of the blues scale, imo. Minor or major. This one seems clear.)
What is the definition of oldies? (3 or 4 chord progressions? Typically using I IV V VI chords? The II chord is hot too. I don't know.)
What is the definition of pop? (The same?)
What is the definition of rock? (Plugged in bass and guitar? Driving rhythms?)
Major scales? Minor scales? Pentatonic scales? Mixolydian modes?
I don't know the answers. I only have guesses and my geetar.
And that's all I need too. I don't need one other thing.
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The Rolling Stones: 'Beggars Banquet' (1968), 'Let It Bleed' (1969), 'Sticky Fingers' (1971), 'Exile on Main St.' (1972)
I did a pretty deep dive into The Cream last night, and IMO they have 3 (out of four), but "Goodbye" just doesn't cut it, even though it has Badge, which IFL…(shout out to "L'Angelo Misterioso")
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The Rolling Stones: 'Beggars Banquet' (1968), 'Let It Bleed' (1969), 'Sticky Fingers' (1971), 'Exile on Main St.' (1972)
We're overthinking it here, bud. Just go with the flow.
I too have guitars that I play (poorly).
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Neil Young: 'Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere' (1969), 'After the Gold Rush' (1970), 'Harvest' (1972), 'On the Beach' (1974)
Kurt Cobain thought Neil was rock
Godfather of Grunge
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AC/DC: 'Let There Be Rock' (1977), 'Powerage' (1978), 'Highway to Hell' (1979), 'Back in Black' (1980)
Yeah but Kurt was an Aberdeen lad. Hard to trust em. Granny was an innocent Hoquiam gal, then Gramps, son of a loggerman, rolls through Aberdeen HS in his one of ten homes before he was 18, meets this Hoquiam bitch, then he leaves for Olympia, graduates Olympia HS playing LG at like 160 (this is my mom's side, I'm like 380 cuz dad ;-)), then he goes off to war as a pharmacist in the Navy, stationed at Pearl Harbor. His rotation ends 2 weeks before the attack, he comes back home, reunites with that Hoquiam slut, Granny, somehow, one thing led to another, and here I am.
And then I spent my first 10 years of life in split custody, halftime in Leschi (good name for a Nirvana cover band?) right down the street from his pad. I went by Kurt and Courtney's garbage can on foot or as a passenger daily. And then he went and shot hisself. I was only like seven at the time and I've never really been a big nirvana guy. I like them more now than I did in high school. I was an outcast for my nirvana meh attitude.
What were we talking about?
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AC/DC: 'Let There Be Rock' (1977), 'Powerage' (1978), 'Highway to Hell' (1979), 'Back in Black' (1980)
Gramps also played bagpipes for the Keith Highlanders Pipe Band for 40+ years until his death. It's only a matter of time before I take up his pipes.
RIP Gramps.
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AC/DC: 'Let There Be Rock' (1977), 'Powerage' (1978), 'Highway to Hell' (1979), 'Back in Black' (1980)
Bagpipes are not rock-'n'-roll music.
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The Rolling Stones: 'Beggars Banquet' (1968), 'Let It Bleed' (1969), 'Sticky Fingers' (1971), 'Exile on Main St.' (1972)
Apparently you don’t listen to AC DC much.
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AC/DC: 'Let There Be Rock' (1977), 'Powerage' (1978), 'Highway to Hell' (1979), 'Back in Black' (1980)
I'm speaking in general terms, pff. You know it's a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll.
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Metallica: 'Kill 'Em All' (1983), 'Ride the Lightning' (1984), 'Master of Puppets' (1986), '... And Justice for All' (1988)
Right band, wrong albums. You wanted 2-5 here.
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The Rolling Stones: 'Beggars Banquet' (1968), 'Let It Bleed' (1969), 'Sticky Fingers' (1971), 'Exile on Main St.' (1972)
Unlinke my pod Damone, I'd like the Dawgs to come out of the tunnel to "Seek and Destroy" over "Enter Sandman". The latter is too pop sounding for me ear.
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The Beatles: 'Rubber Soul' (1965), 'Revolver' (1966), 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' (1967), 'The Beatles' (1968) (or Revolver to Abbey Road)
Rain When I Die.
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AC/DC: 'Let There Be Rock' (1977), 'Powerage' (1978), 'Highway to Hell' (1979), 'Back in Black' (1980)
Angel of Death!
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The Rolling Stones: 'Beggars Banquet' (1968), 'Let It Bleed' (1969), 'Sticky Fingers' (1971), 'Exile on Main St.' (1972)
Don’t you worry about old Yellar now.
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AC/DC: 'Let There Be Rock' (1977), 'Powerage' (1978), 'Highway to Hell' (1979), 'Back in Black' (1980)
I got this one in packaging. I think it's at my dad's, probably stacked on the pool table.
I really should get back in to the vinyl game. When I don't live in a condo and can blast, I will. My best music listening is in headphones and my car currently.
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The Rolling Stones: 'Beggars Banquet' (1968), 'Let It Bleed' (1969), 'Sticky Fingers' (1971), 'Exile on Main St.' (1972)
I got you @CallMeBigErn
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Metallica: 'Kill 'Em All' (1983), 'Ride the Lightning' (1984), 'Master of Puppets' (1986), '... And Justice for All' (1988)
Kill em all:
Tier 1 - Seek and Destroy
Tier 2 - Metal Militia
Metallica:
Tier 1 - Enter Sandman, Sad But True, The Unforgiven, Nothing Else Matters
Tier 2 - Whereever I May Roam, Don't Tread On Me, Of Wolf And Man, The God That Failed
It is not even close how much of a better album Metallica is.
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Led Zeppelin: 'Led Zeppelin III' (1970), 'Led Zeppelin IV' (1971), 'Houses of the Holy' (1973), 'Physical Graffiti' (1975) or any combo of the first 6 LZ Albums
I tend to agree. Hetfeld isn't some amazing singer, but his vocals on Kill 'Em All are pretty awful. Ride the Lightning was a massive step forward from that album.
