What's the most essential rock record of all time?

[mike]

I'm sure this'll be a bit controversial and a very difficult choice but what do you guys think is the one album every rock fan should own?

[G]

This was easier than I expected, it's got to be:

LED ZEPPELIN - PHYSICAL GRAFFITI

All the best things about Zep in one monstrous double album. A complete masterclass in guitar, drums, bass, singing, the lot really.

[richlsb]

Blimey. Err, I have no idea. If we're talking in terms of most important/most essential it's hard to stay objective. If I had to say just one album, I suppose I'd have to plump for

THE BEST AIR GUITAR ALBUM IN THE WORLD VOL. 3 - VARIOUS ARTISTES

[Nicki xx]

would it not be something by pink flloyd? - i'm not particularly a rock fan, but most rock fans i know go on about pink lol!

Nicki

[G]

Pink Floyd are ace, but they're a pretty chilled out affair compared to the mighty Zeppelin. If you're after some Floyd, listen to Wish You Were Here - it is total beautiful perfection, but if you want to rock out, Zeppelin wrote the rulebook and *still* do it better than everyone else. If Rock is your thing, you have to get into Led Zeppelin - this is a mandatory requirement for the genre .

[richlsb]

Nah, mate - you mean Affirmation by Savage Garden.

[G]

Oh yeah, that one too defo

[Nicki xx]

hmm, i dunno wether youse are being sarcy bout the affirmation track, cos its seriously mint, but I dunno if it would be put in the rock genre? - but the second track on the cd single - 2 beds and a coffee machine - awww! its so nice! lol!

Nicki

[richlsb]

Nikki, I admire your honesty

Okay, here's one for y'all... what totally embarassing bands/albums do you really love to bits?

Err, you folks go first....

[richlsb]

Sorry, *Nicki*... not Nikki....

[Nicki xx]

sheeeesh! spelling my name wrong indeed - you shjould be ashamed! ! haha! kidding shams!

haha! erm, hmmm *looks in record collection and sees loads of cds to be ashamed of* erm, hmmm, well, I have quite afew like boyband records, the likes of N'sync and Otown, but i dont like them, but I do still like my westlife cd, *knows that was the worst thing to admit ever*

now your turn shams!

Nicki

[blindedbynoise]

oh dear, nicki, nicki, nicki,

i knew you like pop and such, but boybands....oh dear.....you and me are guna have a serious talk at the next band practice!

[Nicki xx]

haha! i forgot yould read this! eh hmm! anyways!
well, I like the harmonies! but its the only boyband whose cd i still like, i dont listen to it very often!
well actually - no offence to leftside brain *love ya's* but they're a boyband, and i like them and listen to there stuff as do you, so therefore you also like boybands! *is now going to run and hide and not show up to legends this evening*

Nicki xx

[JimBlindedByNoise]

Oh dear, Oh dear. And this topic started out so well and its been reduced to this... Leftside being called a boy band. Sorry Nicki but by your logic those loverly lads from McFly (I have given up slagging off Busted, they have been swept under my dormat of insignificance) can be classed as an influential progressive metal band.

Anyway my album of choice would have to be Therapy? Troublegum. it has been a friend of mine for ten years and i still cant play isolation! the drum sound on the album is perfection. on a non drumming front, I dont know of many other albums that are still used as a reviewers benchmark of excellance.

[Nicki xx]

hey, Mcfly are cool!! and I dont mean it as an offence to leftside, cos clearly they're mint! but technically 4 males (as far as i know they all are) in a band makes a boy band! if sophie was a guy blinded by noise would be a boyband !

Nicki