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One album per band/solo artist.

 

My list would look like this:

 

Permanent Waves by Rush

Powerslave by Iron Maiden

Heaven and Hell by Black Sabbath

Appetite for Destruction by GnR

Love Over Gold by Dire Straits

Texas Flood by Stevie Ray Vaughan 

Doolittle by Pixies

Ace of Spades by Motorhead 

Operation Mindcrime by Queensryche 

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables by Dead Kennedys

 

 

Your picks?

 

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A couple of my picks would overlap with yours:

 

Ace of Spades

Appetite For Destruction

 

But I'd pick a different IM:

 

Somewhere in Time

 

and a different Rush:

 

Grace Under Pressure

 

to finish it off, probably:

 

AC/DC -- Back in Black

Kiss -- Lick It Up

Metallica -- Master of Puppets

King's X -- Gretchen Goes To Nebraska

Megadeth -- Peace Sells 

 

Honorable mention to the live albums:

 

Thin Lizzy -- Life/Live

Triumph -- Stages

 

 

 

 

 

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AC/DC - Back in Black

Def Leppard - Pyromania

Rush - Moving Pictures

GNR - Appetite for Destruction

Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell

Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast

Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance

Aerosmith - Rock in a Hard Place

Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz

ZZ Top - Eliminator

 

I'm staying away from things like Paul McCartney's Tug of War or Duran Duran's Rio, since I infer that since you said rock and modified it to include metal you mean hard rock.

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Off the top of my head , my Top 10

would be …

( sticking with just 1 album per band ) 

 

Permanent Waves - Rush

Powerslave - Iron Maiden 

Pyromania - Def Leppard

Appetite for Destruction - GnR

Operation Mindcrime - Queensryche

1984 - Van Halen

The Seventh One - Toto

Escape - Journey

Seven Wishes - Night Ranger

The Works - Queen

 

 

 

 

 

 

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5 hours ago, Alex’s Amazing Arpeggios said:

Off the top of my head , my Top 10

would be …

( sticking with just 1 album per band ) 

 

Permanent Waves - Rush

Powerslave - Iron Maiden 

Pyromania - Def Leppard

Appetite for Destruction - GnR

Operation Mindcrime - Queensryche

1984 - Van Halen

The Seventh One - Toto

Escape - Journey

Seven Wishes - Night Ranger

The Works - Queen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Goodbye Eliminator, hello Fair Warning.  Can’t believe I forgot Van Halen.

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80s rock?  My most adored ten albums in the 80s were...

 

Sabbath - Heaven & Hell

Maiden - Killers

ACDC - Back In Black

Van Halen - Diver Down

Scorpions - Blackout

RUSH - Moving Pictures

DEVO - Freedom Of Choice 

B52s - Wild Planet

REM - Green

Violent Femmes - self-titled debut

 

 

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4 hours ago, Rick N. Backer said:

DEVO, B52s, REM and the Femmes are hard rock?  C'mon man!  Here are the facts, Jack! :wink:

It says 80s rock (and metal), no?

 

Not really into 80s hair metal, album-wise

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22 hours ago, goose said:

It says 80s rock (and metal), no?

 

Not really into 80s hair metal, album-wise

Song-wise, there are some beauties, though.  Cherry Pie came on the radio today and that sure is a fun jam.  :7up:

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Great topic 

 

 

Rush - Permanent Waves (can only pick one but could easily add MP and Signals)

Van Halen - Fair Warning

Dio - Holy Diver

Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime

Whitesnake - Whitesnake

Dokken - Under Lock and Key

Ozzy - The Ultimate Sin (I simply loved Jake E Lee’s playing and spun this one a gazillion times)

AC/DC - Back In Black

Night Ranger - Midnight Madness 

 

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On 2/9/2023 at 8:52 PM, goose said:

It says 80s rock (and metal), no?

 

Not really into 80s hair metal, album-wise

 

Hair metal sucks album wise i agree.  Great singles era though.  i find most of the full albums completly hollow though.

 

Mick

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Not sure where the line is around here between rock and pop, so -- like Rick N. Backer above -- I'm excluding favorites like Duran Duran, Gary Numan, Ultravox, etc.

 

Black Sabbath -- Heaven and Hell

Blue Öyster Cult -- Fire of Unknown Origin

Rush -- Moving Pictures

Van Halen -- Women and Children First

Scorpions -- Love at First Sting

Deep Purple -- Perfect Strangers

Yngwie Malmsteen -- Rising Force

Metallica --Master of Puppets

Genesis -- Duke

Yes -- 90125

 

Some years ago this list would have included King's X, but I've kind of fallen out of love with them.

 

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8 hours ago, bluefox4000 said:

 

Hair metal sucks album wise i agree.  Great singles era though.  i find most of the full albums completly hollow though.

 

Mick

There were some exceptions…..Dokken and Whitesnake being two of them….they had good album’s filled with great riffs and melodies. And high quality lead vocals….especially Coverdale.
 

 

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1 hour ago, Todem said:

There were some exceptions…..Dokken and Whitesnake being two of them….they had good album’s filled with great riffs and melodies. And high quality lead vocals….especially Coverdale.
 

 

 

Whitesnake is a GREAT band i agree.

 

Mick

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Aerosmith - Done with Mirrors

 

Alice Cooper - Trash

 

Def Leppard - Hysteria

 

Billy Idol - Rebel Yell

 

The Kinks - State of Confusion

 

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Long After Dark

 

Ramones - End of the Century

 

Rush - Grace Under Pressure

 

Bruce Springsteen - The River

 

Stray Cats - Built for Speed

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Let's see... keep in mind some of these can change ever so often.

 

Rush- Moving Pictures 

Sabbath- Mob Rules

Ozzy- No Rest For The Wicked 

Blue Oyster Cult- Fire Of Unknown Origin 

Soundgarden- Utramega OK

Scorpions- Animal Magnetism 

Motorhead- Orgasmatron 

Triumph- Allied Forces 

Metallica- Master Of Puppies (Autocorrect came up with this...)

Van Halen- Women And Children First

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Trying to remember which albums I truly listened to the most and permeated my brain for years and years

 

Rush - Permanent Waves

Marillion - Fugazi

Saga - World's Apart

Frank Zappa - Thing Fish

Black Sabbath - Mob Rules

Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast

Van Halen - Women and Children First (tough call between this and Fair Warning)

Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime

Ozzy - Diary of a Madman
Metallica - And Justice for All (again close call but my fandom kicked into overdrive with Justice not Lightning) 

 

 

 

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Metallica, "Master of Puppets"

 

Megadeth, "Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?"

 

Dio, "Holy Diver"

 

Iron Maiden, "Powerslave"

 

Rush, "Permanent Waves"

 

Queensryche, "Operation: Mindcrime"

 

DEVO, "New Traditionalists"

 

Steely Dan, "Gaucho"

 

Warren Zevon, "Sentimental Hygiene"

 

Depeche Mode, "Music For The Masses"

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Lemme try:

 

Rush- Moving Pictures 

Iron Maiden- Powerslave 

Judas Priest- Defenders Of The Faith 

Queensryche- Operation: Mindcrime 

Toto- Fahrenheit 

Strangeways- Native Sons 

Survivor- When Seconds Count 

Night Ranger- Dawn Patrol 

Blind Guardian- Battalions Of Fear 

Journey- Escape

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Rush - Moving Pictures

Quennsrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast

Metallica - Master of Puppets

Mercyful Fate - Don’t Break the Oath

TNT - Tell No Tales

Kiss - Unmasked

Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith

King Diamond - Abigail 

Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell 

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In no order and leaving out 50 other albums...

VH, Fair Warning

Black Sabbath, Heaven & Hell

Ozzy, The Blizzard of Oz

Rush, Moving Pictures

Iron Maiden, Number Of The Beast

Metallica, Master Of Puppets

Slayer, Reign In Blood

Megadeth, Peace Sells

Anthrax, Among The Living

Danzig I 

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