Name The Classic Rock Album You Think Everyone Should Hear At Least Once?

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Fox Reviews Rock

7th Jul 2025

For me this is a really sad realisation. That this band, or more to the point the singer is now god awful. That band being Guns n’ Roses. Sorry Axl but it is time to give it up. Especially after that TERRIBLE vocal performance at Ozzy Osbournes final ever show!

However that will not remove the fact that the album “Appetite For Destruction” is an absolute masterpiece!

Guns N’ Roses – Sweet Child O’ Mine (All Rights Are Retained By Guns N’ Roses)

Spawning tracks such as “Sweet Child O’Mine”, “Welcome To The Jungle” & “Paradise City”, this album was STACKED with hits. To be honest the rest of the album isnt bad either!

Guns N’ Roses – Welcome To The Jungle (All Rights Are Retained By Guns N’ Roses)

Propelled forward by (at the time) an amazing frontman, one of the greatest guitarists of all time in Slash. As well as attitude produced by how the band both wrote and performed the songs this really is brilliant.

Guns N’ Roses – Paradise City (All Rights Are Retained By Guns N’ Roses)

Boy am I glad I saw these a few years back when the vocals were still passable! I want to know though what classic rock album should everyone hear at least once?

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77 responses to “Name The Classic Rock Album You Think Everyone Should Hear At Least Once?”

Leon Stevens

7th Jul 2025

That was a good one. I’d have to say Back in Black is my choice. Brian Johnson stepped in and the band didn’t miss a beat.

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  7th Jul 2025
  
  That is totally true! But I think people need to listen to Highway To Hell + Back In Black in one sitting to truly appreciate the evolution of the band.
  
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  1. Leon Stevens
    
    7th Jul 2025
    
    Agreed!
    
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R. Thomas

7th Jul 2025

Derek and the Dominoes- Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  7th Jul 2025
  
  Oh wow now that is brilliant! 🙂
  
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2. Bill Ectric
  
  23rd Jul 2025
  
  That is a good one!
  
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  1. Fox Reviews Rock
    
    24th Jul 2025
    
    Great choice !
    
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missparker0106

7th Jul 2025

This question made my brain hurt because there are so many…I’ve narrowed it down to 3, but I could easily expand that list:

David Bowie – Station to Station
Ground-breaking avant-garde music. The title song is 3 songs in one, so beautifully crafted and executed.

David Bowie – Diamond Dogs
The 3-song suite “Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (Reprise)” is sublime, forming a mini-operetta that is mind-blowing.

Rolling Stones – Exile on Main Street
This double album from the early 70s is filled with timeless, rock/blues infused music. There isn’t a stinker on there. I wore out my first vinyl copy. The Stones at their absolute finest.

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  7th Jul 2025
  
  Well at least you narrowed it down 😉
  
  I cannot argue with these albums they are all absolute classics! 🙂
  
  S2S is better than DD for me 🙂
  
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  1. missparker0106
    
    7th Jul 2025
    
    I agree that S2S is superior to DD, but that 3-song sequence is definitely worth an honorable mention. 🙂
    
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    1. Fox Reviews Rock
      
      7th Jul 2025
      
      Absolutely! 🙂
      
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AV Raj

7th Jul 2025

Magical Mystery Tour (The Beatles), Concert in Central Park (Simon and Garfunkel) and Chronicle (CCR).

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  7th Jul 2025
  
  Some excellent choices here , but if i forced you to just pick one ? 😛
  
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  1. AV Raj
    
    7th Jul 2025
    
    Concert. It has the natural flow of live performance vs the studio mixing
    
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    1. Fox Reviews Rock
      
      7th Jul 2025
      
      Nice! 🙂
      
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Jax Riley

7th Jul 2025

Completely agree. Appetite came along at the right time and just knocked it all out of the park. Love the album to this day but Axl needs to put a full stop and just move on. The album is in the history books, can’t ever change that. This would be a top 3 choice for me too.

But the one I think I’d have to go with is Pink Floy’s Dark Side of the Moon. Yeah, everyone picks this but it’s that good. And there’s a lot of really fond memories to go along with it. Just dim the lights and let it carry you away.

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  7th Jul 2025
  
  Yeah he really does need to stop and let someone take over the vocals , or at the very least get someone in to do the high notes!
  
  Its picked often for good reason it is an excellent album! 🙂
  
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  1. Jax Riley
    
    7th Jul 2025
    
    Axl is hard to watch now. It’s sad, really, He went WAY too far with plastic surgery. I get it but it doesn’t even really look like him anymore. He really does need someone for the high notes if he continues. I just wish we could turn the clock back, even for just one more year and get to relive it as it happened. It was an awesome time.
    
    DSOTM is that good, I just get a lot of crap when I say that.
    
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    1. Fox Reviews Rock
      
      7th Jul 2025
      
      Yeah he doesnt even look human!
      
      I hope that the band continues but tbh its time for Myles Kennedy to step in and take over.
      
      It is that good! Tell people they can tell me its not that good and ill sort em out!
      
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Samantha Josephine Hunter

7th Jul 2025

Any Beatles album (It’s Ringo’s bday today!!!), Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, The Ramones…

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  7th Jul 2025
  
  Happy Birthday Ringo! 🙂
  
  Some excellent bands there!
  
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  1. Samantha Josephine Hunter
    
    7th Jul 2025
    
    Jimi, the Doors.. I could go on. ♥
    
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    1. Fox Reviews Rock
      
      7th Jul 2025
      
      Absolutely !
      
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      1. Samantha Josephine Hunter
        
        7th Jul 2025
        
        Mama Cass, Elvis ffs… yeah!
        
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Not all who wander are lost

7th Jul 2025

The wall

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  7th Jul 2025
  
  A great album, you think it is their best ?
  
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  1. Not all who wander are lost
    
    7th Jul 2025
    
    No but I think one that everyone should hear
    
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    1. Fox Reviews Rock
      
      7th Jul 2025
      
      Oh that is interesting, for groundbreaking reasons then?
      
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      1. Not all who wander are lost
        
        7th Jul 2025
        
        Yeah. And because it just has nostalgic value for me
        
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        Fox Reviews Rock
        
        7th Jul 2025
        
        Totally get that ! 🙂
        
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Del Franklin

7th Jul 2025

The debut album by The Velvet Underground still blows my mind today.

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  7th Jul 2025
  
  What about that album blows your mind ? 🙂
  
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  1. Del Franklin
    
    7th Jul 2025
    
    I think it’s the sheer rawness of the record. And the way it weaves from beautiful ballads such as Sunday Morning to the noise lunacy of European Son. And Nico’s vocals when they appear!
    
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    1. Fox Reviews Rock
      
      7th Jul 2025
      
      You know I have noticed these days people think rawness is a band thing… i love it!
      
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richardbist

7th Jul 2025

Oh, man, that’s a difficult question to answer. I can narrow down to four that I would recommend to someone who is trying to expand their musical horizons:

Steely Dan – Aja

Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon

Beatles – Abbey Road

Neil Young – Harvest

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  7th Jul 2025
  
  All cracking albums 🙂
  
  But if you had to just pick one ? 😉 Evil I know 😛
  
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  1. richardbist
    
    7th Jul 2025
    
    Oh, very evil. That’s why I come here.
    
    I’d have to say Steely Dan’s Aja. Not only is it a great collection of music that fuses rock, jazz, and a bit of funk, but there’s also the incredible production values. And knowing the backstory of how it was recorded and how many musicians were used, I think it’s a great lesson in songwriting.
    
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    1. Fox Reviews Rock
      
      7th Jul 2025
      
      Haha 😉
      
      Oh the options you picked that is the last one i expected you to go with . but that is why i asked the question and i am glad I did!
      
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AV Raj

7th Jul 2025

For the attention of Fox Reviews Rock – Sir, kindly check my posts for a surprise from the 70s. For e.g. https://mylanes.in/2025/07/07/the-two-men-upstairs/. This is not a promotion. Just pointing out something.

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  7th Jul 2025
  
  Absolutely people should read your post! 🙂
  
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AV Raj

7th Jul 2025

In every post there’s a link to a 70s song hidden in plain sight

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  7th Jul 2025
  
  Oh so much! 🙂 And I rely on people to find them 🙂
  
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zootsims1

7th Jul 2025

Beach Boys – “Surf’s Up”

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  7th Jul 2025
  
  Now that is a classic! What do you personally like about ? 🙂
  
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  1. zootsims1
    
    7th Jul 2025
    
    Beside all the songs, the production is really lo-fi. I have heard lo-fi album but not like Surf’s Up. It’s lo-fi with a lot of vocals.
    
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    1. Fox Reviews Rock
      
      7th Jul 2025
      
      I like this explanation 😁
      
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Mary K. Doyle

7th Jul 2025

Sweet Child of Mine was a good album.

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  7th Jul 2025
  
  If you had to pick 1 song not on the 3 I picked from the album which one would you go with ? 🙂
  
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RasmaSandra

7th Jul 2025

Not quite sure how its categorized but Bat Out of Hell Meat Loaf I think lots of poetry here to be inspired in every way.

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  7th Jul 2025
  
  I think that is a great suggestion!
  
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CapnHollis

7th Jul 2025

That’s not easy! Just one album! If I go by the album I wore out the most it would be Rush 2112. I slept to that album pretty much every night.

I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Deep Purple Machine Head, The Clash London Calling, The Who Who’s Next.

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  7th Jul 2025
  
  I’m glad you also mentioned the other albums 🙂
  
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Jonathan

7th Jul 2025

I needed this 🤍

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divine

7th Jul 2025

So speechless

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  8th Jul 2025
  
  nice
  
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The Devotional Guy™

8th Jul 2025

I remember getting my copy when it first came out. Phenomenal album.

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CrystalAmon

8th Jul 2025

Tom Petty

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valenciartist

8th Jul 2025

Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  9th Jul 2025
  
  I do love that album!
  
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  1. valenciartist
    
    9th Jul 2025
    
    Yes, among the many phenomenal classic rock albums. All the best!
    
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    1. Fox Reviews Rock
      
      9th Jul 2025
      
      To you too 🙂
      
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michael9murray

8th Jul 2025

ooo, I’m going to go for The River by Bruce Springstein et al. ‘Sherry Darlin’ – many memories.

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  9th Jul 2025
  
  Bruce is excellent ! 🙂
  
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writinstuff

15th Jul 2025

GnR is a good choice and there are so many I’d love to add but if it’s classic rock it has to be I Got Dem Ol Kozmic Blues Again by Janis. But honorable mention to Slowhand by Clapton, Exile on Main St. by the Stones.

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  16th Jul 2025
  
  Those are all albums that I need to personally check out! 🙂
  
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Teresa 何 Robeson

18th Jul 2025

I don’t feel musically qualified to weigh in, but I will say that I think Yes’s “90125” is a good one that I would recommend. 🙂

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  18th Jul 2025
  
  Don’t worry I have an entire rock review website without being able to play any instruments or sing 😉
  
  Great choice btw! 🙂
  
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Roger

21st Jul 2025

Peter Gabriel’s third album, referred to as Melt, has a sonic cohension that has worked for me from the first listen. BTW, it’s also true of the German version, which I also own.

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  22nd Jul 2025
  
  Oooh I will have to give this a listen thank you! 🙂
  
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Steven Bryan Bieler

22nd Jul 2025

There must be a million words that have already been written about Axl Rose. There’s probably a grad-school course in the man. So here I am adding one thing: Axl Rose reminds me of a Red Sox center fielder, Fred Lynn. In the 1970s he was about as good as it gets. He could catch anything, and what a sweet swing. And then he lost it. By the middle of his career, I wouldn’t have given you five cents for him. It happens. He didn’t have an appetite for destruction like Axl, he just has that disappointing career arc. Oh well, at least both guys can say that they were once at the top of their game.

Pick one classic album? Oh, you are so evil. Like several other commenters, I’m going to pick three, but I’m going farther out on a limb. I’ll pick the self-titled debuts by these bands:

Blind Faith

Buffalo Springfield

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Thanks for this post. BTW, Appetite for Destruction describes one of my old dogs.

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  22nd Jul 2025
  
  Whoa that is a great comparison! 🙂
  
  Haha picking 3 is cheating but I will allow it because i am nice 😉
  
  Oooh what is it about self titled albums that you like>? Or is it someting you have never thought about?
  
  Thanks for taking the time to comment 🙂
  
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  1. Steven Bryan Bieler
    
    22nd Jul 2025
    
    Haha, you are not nice at all!
    
    There’s something about self-titled albums that always interests me. It’s something you only see in music. If J. K. Rowling and Stephen King wrote a book together, they wouldn’t call it Rowling and King. But then you have Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. I once thought of making a collection of nothing but self-titled albums, but my wife thought that was weird, plus I was afraid of getting stuck with bands that I don’t like.
    
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    1. Fox Reviews Rock
      
      22nd Jul 2025
      
      Haha I’m lovely really 😉
      
      Hmm I say do it and if the wife doesn’t like it send her my way and I can tell her why she is wrong
      
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Sean R

4th Aug 2025

The Clash – London Calling. While tagged as a punk band this album has the driving rock, with a splash of reggae/jazz and a sprinkle of Mick Jones pop-rock genius with Train in Vain.

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  5th Aug 2025
  
  100% A rock album, Punk is fully inside the umbrella 🙂
  
  An excellent choice Sean , thanks for commenting! 🙂
  
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