Top 25 Rock Albums of All Time

[Cassie May]

So, it's a Yahoo list, not as prestigious as a Rolling Stone list (if that is your idea of prestige *snort*), but check out #20. Nice to see the boys get some acclaim, for once.

Interesting to note that nothing from 1998 to present is on the list, and here's why: "No albums from 1998 to 2011? Don't blame me: blame Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, Eminem and their millions of fans." I'll insert another *snort* here. I loathe today's music.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/articl ... tml?cat=33

[froy]

So, it's a Yahoo list, not as prestigious as a Rolling Stone list (if that is your idea of prestige *snort*), but check out #20. Nice to see the boys get some acclaim, for once.

Interesting to note that nothing from 1998 to present is on the list, and here's why: "No albums from 1998 to 2011? Don't blame me: blame Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, Eminem and their millions of fans." I'll insert another *snort* here. I loathe today's music.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/articl ... tml?cat=33

20 The Grand Illusion -- Styx. Dennis DeYoung and Tommy Shaw penned a strong follow-up to Crystal Ball . "Come Sail Away" was the most played song on the radio that year, but "Castle Walls" got the most FM rock play. Regardless, the whole album was destined to be a classic.

Castle Walls was never played on the radio in Chicago Fooling Yourself and GI were played allot

[Toph]

So, it's a Yahoo list, not as prestigious as a Rolling Stone list (if that is your idea of prestige *snort*), but check out #20. Nice to see the boys get some acclaim, for once.

Interesting to note that nothing from 1998 to present is on the list, and here's why: "No albums from 1998 to 2011? Don't blame me: blame Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, Eminem and their millions of fans." I'll insert another *snort* here. I loathe today's music.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/articl ... tml?cat=33

20 The Grand Illusion -- Styx. Dennis DeYoung and Tommy Shaw penned a strong follow-up to Crystal Ball . "Come Sail Away" was the most played song on the radio that year, but "Castle Walls" got the most FM rock play. Regardless, the whole album was destined to be a classic.

Castle Walls was never played on the radio in Chicago Fooling Yourself and GI were played allot

I think the author had to mean the title track.

[yogi]

In St.Paul/Minneapolis Castle Walls was NEVER played. Besides Come Sail Away & Fooling Yourself, The Grand Illusion and Miss America got a ton of airplay on KQRS FM. KQRS was the album station back then and it still is today.

Styx FINALLY gets some well deserved love in the print media.

[Cassie May]

Yeah, I don't recall hearing "Castle Walls" on Cleveland radio, either, unless the station was playing the whole album (I miss those days!). CSA, FY, and GI a lot, and the ever-popular MA , but I don't remember CW in any kind of heavy rotation.

[Ash]

WOW! Even more interesting is that Leftoverture from Kansas was at #3.... ** #3 **

Leftoverture is a great album and I love Kansas almost as much as I love Styx... but I am not sure I agree it's the #3 rock album of all time.

[Baron Von Bielski]

Grand Illusion may be better than all the albums on the list, but it's still great to see them recognized and surrounded by great bands as well. ELO - Out of the Blue and Def Leppard - Hysteria both are some of my favorites.

Definitely an oversight claiming Castle Walls received any radio airplay at all back then.

[bugsymalone]

Some big-time favorites of mine are on this list. Not sure I agree with the placement, but nice to see a lot of those on such a list at all.

I never heard Castle Walls until I bought the album and immediately fell in love with it. It was and is my favorite track from that album.

On my local radio rock stations, they would play CSA, GI and a few others the most.

Thanks for posting the link to this, C.M.


Bugsy

[kansas666]

Queen II an undiscovered masterpiece.

[kansas666]

A Farewell to Kings - another masterpiece that rarely gets the credit it deserves.

Strange, The Wall is there but not Dark Side of the Moon.

[pinkfloyd1973]

A Farewell to Kings - another masterpiece that rarely gets the credit it deserves.

Strange, The Wall is there but not Dark Side of the Moon.

Yeah, I noticed that too

[rcgamer]

"16 Boston -- Boston. The debut album from a band we thought would make it. They didn't, but their first album still lives on. A seminal rock LP for the eons. "

Is this guy on crack?? Didn't make it huh?? If selling over 30 million albums on your first 3 (and really the only 3 I consider to be Boston Albums) isn't making it then wtf.

[rcgamer]

Farewell To Kings was a great album no doubt but I think most Rush fans would say 2112 is the seminal Rush album.

[Ash]

"16 Boston -- Boston. The debut album from a band we thought would make it. They didn't, but their first album still lives on. A seminal rock LP for the eons. "

Is this guy on crack?? Didn't make it huh?? If selling over 30 million albums on your first 3 (and really the only 3 I consider to be Boston Albums) isn't making it then wtf.

Well... sales maybe... But they rode the coat-tails of that first album. Don't Look Back is sub-par. Third Stage is pretty bad save for two or three songs, and Walk On has two marginal songs and everything else is complete shit.

[rcgamer]

"16 Boston -- Boston. The debut album from a band we thought would make it. They didn't, but their first album still lives on. A seminal rock LP for the eons. "

Is this guy on crack?? Didn't make it huh?? If selling over 30 million albums on your first 3 (and really the only 3 I consider to be Boston Albums) isn't making it then wtf.

Well... sales maybe... But they rode the coat-tails of that first album. Don't Look Back is sub-par. Third Stage is pretty bad save for two or three songs, and Walk On has two marginal songs and everything else is complete shit.

Well, I couldn't disagree more about DLB and TS. They are both awesome albums to me. Regardless, to say they didn't make it is just ludicrous.

[Ash]

Boston wasn't nearly as big as they should have been. I think that was the guy's point.

[Cassie May]

I'm purely coming from my memories of the time, but wasn't part of Boston's problem their momentum? Didn't they take years between each album? I'm also surprised by the author saying the band "didn't make it." Wonder what his criteria is? That first album was enormous, and when you were as addicted to radio as I was in the 70s, you could not escape it. Boston, Rumours, and Frampton Comes Alive were pretty much all the DJs knew how to play back in 76-77.

[hoagiepete]

I'm purely coming from my memories of the time, but wasn't part of Boston's problem their momentum? Didn't they take years between each album? I'm also surprised by the author saying the band "didn't make it." Wonder what his criteria is? That first album was enormous, and when you were as addicted to radio as I was in the 70s, you could not escape it. Boston, Rumours, and Frampton Comes Alive were pretty much all the DJs knew how to play back in 76-77.

Ah, those were the days.