In Your Opinion, What Are The 10 Best Rock Albums Ever Made?

Each album will have an explanation for its prescence. No bands will repeat. Holding this to 10 albums kept out stars like Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Kiss, the Stones, Nirvana, the Eagles, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Neil Young, Boston and Metallica.

10. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

Brian Wilson makes his mark as a guitarist. This 60's album effectively sets a new bar on how organized harmony and unusual sounds/instruments added to a common theme could make for a stronger package. Influenced Paul McCartney to write a masterpiece mentioned later in this list.

9. Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive!

Frampton's work with Humble Pie and solo career were not the stuff of superstars, but even despite Kiss this king of the wah-wah pedal and voice box showed us a pattern of stadium rock live genius. Imagine a live album since 1976 that doesn't in some way come back to the spark from this set.

8. Bob Seger/Silver Bullet Band - Night Moves

Bob was churning out music, but no one was listening until this album spawned three strong singles and exposed audiences to buy his back catalog. This album's success led to 1980's #1 album "Against The Wind", but the momentum that put Seger in the Hall of Fame in 2004 started right here in the tawdry vocals and real character paintings of Seger's lyrics.

7. Led Zeppelin - (IV) ZOSO

The most accessible Zeppelin album embraces blues, power rock, and progressive lyrics in spectacular definition. Stairway To Heaven becomes the first album cut to serve notice that an entire album can be worth more than a collection of singles.

6. Prince - 1999

Standing on the shoulders of Jimi Hendrix and George Clinton, the studio master establishes that you can talk about sex all day long as long as you can lay down a nasty dance track and flesh it out. Despite the album's length, it sells to all genres as Prince's formula creates a plethora of new and reinvented pop acts, while opening the door permanently for black acts to influence rock. The success of this breakthrough propels Prince to stardom with albums such as his swan song Purple Rain and Sign O' The Times, as well as a huge Hendrix-like Super Bowl appearance.

5. Michael Jackson - Thriller

No album in history changed musical palates or sluggish sales graphs like this one. The flexible moonwalker tried several creative avenues and succeeded beyond wildest expectations, including a dance track with an Eddie Van Halen guitar solo and a 15-minute mini-movie starring a scared pinup girl and antagonist voice icon Vincent Price. The video changed the way rock would produce videos and reminded us that Motown's deep roots have a serious influence on rock regardless of genre.

4. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

In a day and age when three singles were considered a phenomenon, this band got SIX of the eleven tracks on radio charts. Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks had permanently changed this former blues band into a creative cauldron where each member significantly contributed a piece of the whole pie. (The Chain is the only piece, though, that all five members wrote together on the same song.)

3. AC/DC - Back In Black

Just when you thought hard rock and pop charts would never be able to conveniently cross paths, these Aussies assaulted the paradigms of where misogynistically carefree, shouted lyrics and slicing chords can take you. In my opinion, this is the album that opened the door for the rising hair bands to come in the conservatively wedged door to the pop charts. Angus Young's Berry-esque "duck walk" is the most recognizable stadium rock move.

2. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon

The production of Alan Parsons and insightful conceptualization of Roger Waters and company lent audiences into a spiritual journey of the fragility of life. The idea to balance the whole album to the soundtrack of The Wizard Of Oz is cutting edge genius. Clare Torrey successfully sues in 2001 to claim herself co-writer of the most stunning song I had heard to date; The Great Gig In The Sky has no words, but a powerful vocal designed to emulate life from birth to death. One of a kind album.

1. Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

The first defined concept album and true use of the album cover as a tool to promote album concept as well as recognition. I think it's significant the Beatles used "stage names" on this record, trying to shuck the chains of what they had already accomplished. It worked.

1. Appetite for Destruction - Guns N' Roses

2. Led Zeppelin IV

3. Toys in the Attic - Aerosmith

4. Beggars Banquet - The Rolling Stones

5. The Wall - Pink Floyd

6. Use Your Illusion 1&2 - Guns N' Roses

7. Mob Rules

8. The White Album - The Beatles

9. Tea for the Tillerman - Cat Stevens

10. Led Zeppelin III - Led Zeppelin

1. Led Zeppelin 4

2. The Beatles White Album

3. Pink Floyd Dark Side of The Moon

4. Pink Floyd The Wall

5. Kiss the first album

6. Black Sabbath Black Sabbath

7. Queen 2

8. Eagles First album

9. Aerosmith first album

10. The Who Tommy

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

Led Zeppelin IV

White Album - Beatles

Sgt. Pepper's - Beatles

The Wall - Pink Floyd

Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix

Sticky Fingers - Rolling Stones

Born to run - Bruce Springstein

Hotel California - The Eagles

Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys

I had a hard time thinking. This list was off the top of my head.

Okay this is not my faves but this is the list i came up with..

1. The Beatles- Revolver-1969

2.Nirvana-Nevermind-1991

3. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds-1969

4.Marvin Gaye- Whats Going On-1971

5. Jimi Hendrix- Are You Experienced-1967

6. The Beatles - Rubber Soul-1965

7. Stevie Wonder-Songs In The Key Of Life-1974

8. The Beatles-Abbey Road-1969

9. Bob Dylan- Blonde On Blonde-1966

10.The Beatles -Sgt Peppers Lonely........

well this list would not be my pick but here ya go

Piper At The Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd

Led Zeppelin IV

Sgt Peppers - The Beatles

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

Machine Head - Deep Purple

Boston - Boston

Let It Bleed - Rolling Stones

Master of Reality - Black Sabbath

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

The White Album - The Beatles

The Beatles - Abbey Road

Frank Zappa - We're Only In It For the Money

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

The Clash - London Calling

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

The Who - Who's Next

The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico

No matter what, these lists will always be subjective. These are just some albums I think had a major impact on their respective genre(s) and influenced a whole lotta people and bands.

Abacab - Genesis Bad Reputation - Joan Jett Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks - Hanoi Rocks The Best of Blondie - Blondie Breaker - Accept Captured - Journey Controversy - Prince Come an' Get It - Whitesnake Denim and Leather - Saxon Diary of a Madman - Ozzy Osbourne Difficult to Cure - Rainbow Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - AC/DC Don't Say No - Billy Squier Don't Stop - Billy Idol Duran Duran - Duran Duran El Loco - ZZ Top Escape - Journey Face Value - Phil Collins Fair Warning - Van Halen Fire of Unknown Origin - Blue Öyster Cult For Those About to Rock We Salute You - AC/DC 4 - Foreigner Freeze Frame - The J. Geils Band Ghost in the Machine - The Police I Love Rock 'n' Roll - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts Juice - Juice Newton Killers - Iron Maiden Mob Rules - Black Sabbath Modern Times - Jefferson Starship Moving Pictures - Rush M.S.G. II - Michael Schenker Group The Nature of the Beast - April Wine Nine Tonight - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band No Sleep Till Hammersmith - Motörhead October - U2 Point of Entry - Judas Priest Private Eyes - Hall & Oates Quarterflash - Quarterflash Rage in Eden - Ultravox Re-ac-tor - Neil Young and Crazy Horse Shake It Up - The Cars Sonic Attack - Hawkwind Standing Hampton - Sammy Hagar Take No Prisoners - Molly Hatchet Tattoo You - The Rolling Stones There Goes the Neighborhood - Joe Walsh Time - Electric Light Orchestra Working Class Dog - Rick Springfield Zebop! - Santana

in no particular order

Led Zeppelin-IV

Dark Side Of The Moon-Pink Floyd

Sgt. Pepper's-Beatles

Highway 61 Revisited-Bob Dylan

London Calling-Clash

Machine Head-Deep Purple

Sticky Fingers-Rolling Stones

American Beauty-Grateful Dead

Surrealistic Pillow-Jefferson Airplane

Cheap Thrill-Big Brother & The Holding Co.

The Wall

Abbey Road

Sgt Pepper

Dark Side Of The Moon

Rumours

Who's Next

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Toys in THe Attic

Hotel California

Zep IV

In no particular order:

Sgt. Pepper - The Beatles

Metallica - Metallica

Amused To Death - Roger Waters

The Seeds Of Love - Tears For Fears

The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails

The Joshua Tree - U2

The Stranger - Billy Joel

Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle

The Wall - Pink Floyd

Sleeping With Ghosts - Placebo