OK, i'm not too old, but old enough...let's filter out cheesy heavy metal and concentrate on good stuff:

Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Jeff Buckley-Grace
janes addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Alice in Chains-Jar Of Flies
Turbonegro-Apocalypse dudes
Pink Floyd- The Wall
Queens Of The Stone Age-Songs For The Deaf
The Cult-Sonic Temple
Screaming Trees-Sweet Oblivion
Smiths-Strangeways, here we come
Suede-Suede
Sonic Youth-Daydream Nation
Massive Attack-Protection

Anyone mention these yet?

Jimi Hendrix -Live at Wonderland
Blind Faith-Blind Faith
Slayer-Reign in Blood
Malevolent Creation-Ten Commandments
Sanctuary-Refuge Denied
Kind Diamond-Abigail
Candlemass-Ancient Dreams
Obituary-Cause of Death
Atrophy-Violent by Nature
And the album that started it all.....Black Sabbath-Black Sabbath

Pete

Lot's of good stuff here ...... but no Audioslave?

- John Coltrane - Live At The Village Vanguard, A Love Supreme, My Favorite Things [if I could listen to only one artist . . . ]
- Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue [quiet Sunday mornings in my first year in San Francisco]
- Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon [college . . . mushrooms . . . oscilloscope . . .]
- Grateful Dead - Live Dead [ditto]
- The Clash - London Calling [the album that finally broke me out of my "real music ended in the sixties" thing]
- Jimi Hendrix - Band Of Gypsies [Berkeley in the seventies was as close as I could get to Berkeley in the sixties]
- The Doors - The Doors [I never really got the Doors until I lived in L.A. - and then I did]
- Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings And Food [you didn't have to know how to dance, to dance to the Heads]
- Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Deja Vu ['cuz Neil Young was from Redwood City, we kinda thought of him as our local boy]
- Steely Dan - Aja [all the budding audiophiles in school had the super-hi-fidelity pressing of Aja, carefully stored, that we used as The Test Record]
- Black Uhuru - Sinsemilla [at one point, all the Deadheads and punkers I knew discovered reggae through this album]

I did mention Slayer in mine, but I also left out bands such as Death, Venom, Mercyful Fate , Morbid Angel, Black Flag,Cirith Ungol ,Helstar, Raven.,.,.,.,.,.,

Nice list you have.

What do you consider as cheesy metal ?

In the true spirit of the thread, and not counting "Greatest hits" cause that's cheating.

Beatles from "Rubber Soul" on, especially Sgt. Peppers , and Abbey Road
Eagles -On the Border , Hotel California, Hell Freezes over, and especially considering the topic, Desperado
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Rod Stewart Unplugged
And when I'm alone and don't worry what the wife and kid might think
Queen News of the World
Chicago 1 and 2
Neil Young with Crazy Horse, After the Gold Rush
Crosby Stills Nash, and Crosby Stills Nash and Young.
Frampton Comes Alive
and if I had it Pink Floyd Dark side of the moon.

John Coltrane ...Live at the Village Vanguard..... Spritual. I waited for years for that to come out on CD.

Les McCann...Invitation to Openess....another late night album

Les McCann and Eddie Harris...First and Second movement albums.


And oh baby...Have we forgotten about Lowell George and Little Feat....Dixie Chicken....

Or Canned Heat...their song "Sic em Pigs" "If your fat, dumb and stupid the LAPD wants you....call 555-5656."

Am I really the only Elvis Costello fan on this board?

Pump it up? Radio Radio? Watching the Detectives?

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Quote: "In the true spirit of the thread, and not counting "Greatest hits" cause that's cheating.....Eagles -On the Border , Hotel California, Hell Freezes over"

Isn't a "Hell Freezes over" a greatest hits like compilation?

Elvis is cool, as is Joe Jackson (for some reason I think of them at the same time).

Pet Sounds - yes. Good call.

Aja - another good call. I listed all of their studio albums, but if I had to pick one that made the biggest impact, it would be Aja. 5 out of the 7 songs saw significant airplay (Deacon Blues, Peg, Josie, Black Cow, Aja) and defined and sound that still stands up.

A few other ditties:

The Band - Music from Big Pink
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Jeff Beck - There and Back
Marvin Gaye - What's Going on
Allman Brothers - Live at Fillmore East
Victoria Williams -
Miles Davis - *****es Brew
James Taylor - Sweet Baby James

Hell freezes Over was a Live "MTV" concert. So was the Rod Stewart that I mentioned. I thought they were changed up enough to stand on their own merits. I actually prefer some of the "live" versions to the originals.

My sense is a good album is a presentation as a whole, like a play with 10 or 12 acts. One leads into another. A greatest hits album is really the best songs off 5 or 6 albums, that's why I say it's cheating. But hey, it's only my parameters, you pick any you like. That's what makes Music interesting.

any and everything by clem snide

the saw doctors from ireland

Yardbirds - Complete Recordings (Doesnt really count, but there were so many bootlegs and unofficial releases that I cant pick just one.)
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams

Another good mention for Pet Sounds and Aja

U2 - Joshua Tree

Jean Luc Ponty - Cosmic Messenger
Chuck Mangione - Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Honest - you have to hear it)
Bruce Springstein - Born to Run & Nebraska
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Chicago 1 & 2
Peter Gabrial - All
Santana - Lotus & Moonflower
Steely Dan - Gaucho & Asia
Eagles - Hotel California & The Long Run
Allman Brothers - Live At Filmore East
Police, Clapton......
Dark side of the Moon (Remember when the Challenger blew up and KLOS just played the entire album that night - very right.....

Thanks, I quite enjoyed "most" of yours (Simon and Garfunkel? I think I'll pass ;) ). I saw your Slayer picks, but to me "Reign in Blood" is the consumate "thrash" album. I can't however believe I forgot to mention "Evil Chuck" himself and Death. Speaking of Venom, have you heard Six Feet Under's version of "In League with Satan"? Awesome.

Pete

Well Im very fond of all Slayer albums, until we pass South Of Heaven, then it just blah to me.

YES, the cover is awesome. They did a good job. I was at a used record store yesterday, and they had an LP version of at war with satan, vinyl is coming back. The Simon and Garfunkle is just to show that Im very diverse in my music. But Im still a "metal head " at heart.

Have you picked up Slayers new DVD War At The Warfield, AWESOME.

Venom (yeah, nice to shock your parents with 15 years ago but not a classic)

Audioslave (it's good but RATM and Soundgarden were much better...RATM first might be considered a classic, Soundgarden LP's were too uneven...)

Staind: Pearl Jam 2000, more angst, less calories, 15% more cheese to keep teenagers not listening to Britney covered...and record industry execs satisfied.

Metallica past Black Album: ehh...

STP - Core: good but not quite classic.

Motley Crue: cheesy hair-metal at it's best...maybe a classic (of cheesy hairmetal, that is). If forced to listen to cheesy hair metal, i prefere WASP's Headless Children...it's actually pretty good

White Zombie: "hey, i wanted to be Al Jourgensen but was too short"...some pretty good tunes, hardly a classic.


Choosing best albums is mostly function of age...i pick best of 80's-90's...old geezers will pick best from their age etc.

Santanna: "Abraxas"
Neil young: "Harvest"
Allman Bros: "Eat a Peach"
Deep Purple: "Machine Head"
Steely Dan: "Can't Buy a Thrill"
Janis Joplin: "Greatest Hits"
Van Morrison: "Moondance"
Frank Zappa: "Apostrophe"
Greatful Dead: "American Beauty"
Jeff Beck: "Wired"
Bob Marley: "Legend"
Beck: "Odelay"
Red Hot Chilli peppers: "Californication"
Nirvanna: "NeverMind"
Rage Against The Machine: "Renegades"
Muddy Waters: "Electric Mud"
Johnny Winter: "Johnny Winter"
John Mayall: "Jazz Blues Fusion"
John Coltrane: "A Love Supreme"
John Luc Ponty: "Cosmic Messenger"
Miles Davis: "*****es Brew"
Billy Holiday: anything
Charlie Parker: anything
Probably a million other Rock/Jazz albums I can't think of now.....

Disclaimer: some chosen for "At the time innovative" type reasons and may sound dated today.