| Rock | |||||||||
| A broad category, ranging from The Carpenters to Prog-Rock | |||||||||
| Artist | Title | Format | Year | Nationality | Notes | ||||
| The Alan Parsons Project | Tales of Mystery and Imagination. Edgar Allan Poe | LP | 1975 | Britain | Recorded with Orson Welles. | ||||
| The Allman Brothers | The Allman Brothers at Fillmore East | CD | 1971 | America | Redneck blues-rock, but very good redneck blues-rock. | ||||
| Brothers and Sisters | LP | 1973 | |||||||
| Ambrosia | Ambrosia ( Their debut album ) | LP | 1974 | America | Very creative "Progressive Pop". | ||||
| America | America ( Their debut album ) | LP | 1971 | America | |||||
| Amon Düül | Psychedelic Underground | CD | 1969 | Germany | One of the core Progressive-Rock bands frrom early 1970's Germany, a genre now often called "Krautrock". | ||||
| Amon Düül II | Phallus Dei | LP | 1969 | Germany | Also a "Prog" band, but not the same band as above. | ||||
| Yeti | CD | 1970 | |||||||
| Dance of the Lemmings | CD | 1971 | |||||||
| Wolf City | CD | 1972 | |||||||
| Carnival in Babylon | CD | 1972 | |||||||
| Made in Germany | CD | 1975 | |||||||
| Hawk Meets Penguin | CD | 1981 | |||||||
| Utopia | CD | 1982 | |||||||
| Ash Ra Tempel | Ash Ra Tempel | CD | 1971 | Germany | Very free-form, serene Progressive Rock, somewhere between an hallucination and "Ambient" music. Klause Schulz's first band. | ||||
| Schwingungen | CD | 1972 | |||||||
| Seven Up | CD | 1973 | Recorded with none other than Timothy Leary, while he was on the lam in Switzerland, hiding out from The Man, after his prison-escape. | ||||||
| Join Inn | CD | 1973 | |||||||
| Inventions for Electric Guitar | CD | 1975 | |||||||
| Le Berceau de Cristal | CD | 1975 | This was recorded in 1975 but was never released until 1993. Was a soundtrack to an obscure film of the same name, starring Nico. | ||||||
| @shra | CD | 1998 | |||||||
| Joan Baez | Baptism | LP | 1968 | America | |||||
| Blessed Are… | LP | 1971 | |||||||
| Diamonds & Rust | LP | 1975 | |||||||
| Baez Sings Dylan | CD | 1998 | |||||||
| The Band | The Band ( aka "The Brown Album" ) | LP | 1969 | America | |||||
| Syd Barrett | The Madcap Laughs | CD | 1970 | Britain | |||||
| Barrett | CD | 1970 | |||||||
| Octopus | CD | 1974 | ( released in 1992 ) | ||||||
| The Beach Boys | Pet Sounds | CD | 1966 | America | |||||
| Best of the Beach Boys, Vol. 2 | LP | 1967 | |||||||
| The Beatles | With the Beatles | CD | 1963 | Britain | |||||
| Meet the Beatles | LP | 1964 | |||||||
| A Hard Day’s Night | CD | 1964 | |||||||
| Beatles For Sale | CD | 1964 | |||||||
| Beatles ‘65 | LP | 1964 | Despite the name of the album, this was released in late December of 1964, just a few weeks before 1965. | ||||||
| Help! | CD | 1965 | |||||||
| Rubber Soul | CD | 1965 | |||||||
| Yesterday and Today | LP | 1966 | |||||||
| Revolver | CD | 1966 | |||||||
| Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band | CD | 1967 | |||||||
| Magical Mystery Tour | CD | 1967 | This was a soundtrack to a BBC Television special. | ||||||
| The White Album | CD | 1968 | |||||||
| Yellow Submarine | CD | 1969 | |||||||
| Abbey Road | CD | 1969 | |||||||
| Hey Jude | LP | 1970 | This was actually a collection of left-over songs omitted from previous albums, and some B-sides. Despite it's slap-together origins, it's quite good. | ||||||
| Let It Be | CD | 1970 | |||||||
| At the Hollywood Bowl | LP | 1965 | ( released in 1979 ) | ||||||
| Rarities ( Compilation ) | LP | ~~~ | ( released in 1979 ) | ||||||
| The Complete Silver Beatles | LP | 1962 | ( released in 1982 ) | This was the original-original band, when it consisted of John, Paul, George, Pete Best (replaced by Ringo), and Stu Sutcliffe (who died in 1962). | |||||
| Beatles Anthology | CD | 1995 | |||||||
| Björk | Vespertine | CD | 2001 | Iceland | |||||
| Blue Cheer | Vincebus Eruptum | LP | 1968 | America | |||||
| Boston | Boston | CD | 1976 | America | |||||
| Don't Look Back | CD | 1978 | |||||||
| David Bowie | Aladdin Sane | CD | 1973 | Britain | |||||
| Diamond Dogs | CD | 1974 | Originally meant to be the soundtrack to a "1984" film, but the film was scrapped, and the music was renamed. | ||||||
| Young Americans | CD | 1975 | |||||||
| Station to Station | CD | 1976 | |||||||
| Low | CD | 1977 | |||||||
| Lodger | CD | 1979 | |||||||
| Scary Monsters | LP | 1980 | |||||||
| Outside | CD | 1995 | |||||||
| A Crash Course for the Ravers ( Bootleg ) | CD | 1971 | ( released in 1994 ) | This is a bootleg, not an "official" album. Lots of live versions done for the BBC in 1971. | |||||
| Earthling | CD | 1997 | |||||||
| Hours | CD | 1999 | |||||||
| Survive (EP) | CD | 2000 | |||||||
| All the Saints: Collected Instrumentals 1977 – 1999 | CD | ~~~ | ( released in 2001 ) | ||||||
| Heathen | CD | 2002 | |||||||
| Reality | CD | 2003 | Contains a second CD with a new version of "Rebel Rebel" and a few extras. | ||||||
| Brainticket | Cottonwoodhill | CD | 1971 | Germany | |||||
| Buffalo Springfield | The Best of the Buffalo Springfield | LP | 1969 | America | |||||
| The Byrds | Greatest Hits | LP | 1967 | America | |||||
| Can | Soundtracks | CD | 1970 | Germany | Their first recording with singer Damo Suzuki, though their previous deranged-sounding singer, Malcolm Mooney, appears on a few tracks. | ||||
| Tago Mago | CD | 1971 | Probably their best recording. Few other bands ventured this deep into the gaping maw of Prog. | ||||||
| Ege Bamyasi | CD | 1972 | |||||||
| Future Days | CD | 1973 | Their last recording with Damo Suzuki, who then left the music industry, only to change his mind and resurface 25 years later, recording again in 1998. | ||||||
| Flow Motion | CD | 1976 | This recording marked their transition from serious, avant-garde Prog to commercial success, and therefore a sell-out to their fans. Still, it's pretty good. | ||||||
| Canned Heat | Hallelujah | LP | 1968 | America | |||||
| The Carpenters | Close to You | LP | 1970 | America | |||||
| The Carpenters | LP | 1971 | |||||||
| The Singles 1969-1973 | LP | 1973 | |||||||
| Classics, Volume 2 | CD | 1987 | |||||||
| Cheap Trick | In Color | LP | 1977 | America | |||||
| At Budokan | LP | 1979 | |||||||
| Chocolate Watchband | The Inner Mystique | CD | 1968 | America | |||||
| Eric Clapton | Unplugged | CD | 1992 | Britain | |||||
| Joe Cocker | With a Little Help From My Friends | LP | 1969 | Britain | |||||
| Joe Cocker! | LP | 1969 | |||||||
| Cosmic Invention | Help Your Satori Mind | CD | 1997 | Japan | |||||
| Cream | Live Cream | CD | 1970 | Britain | |||||
| Strange Brew, The Very Best of Cream | LP | 1983 | |||||||
| Credence Clearwater Revival Cosmo’s Factory | LP | 1970 | America | ||||||
| Crosby, Stills, & Nash (and sometimes Young) | America | ||||||||
| Crosby, Stills & Nash ( Their debut album ) | LP | 1969 | |||||||
| Déjà Vu | LP | 1970 | First recording with Neil Young, who would come and go as a band-member, up to the present day. | ||||||
| Deep Purple | The Book of Taliesyn | CD | 1969 | Britain | The band is named after a song by Bing Crosby of the same name. | ||||
| Days May Come | CD | 1975 | ( released in 2000 ) | ||||||
| Donovan | Donovan’s Greatest Hits | CD | 1969 | Britain (Scotland) | |||||
| The Doobie Brothers | Toulouse Street | LP | 1972 | America | |||||
| Stampede | LP | 1975 | |||||||
| Takin’ It to the Streets | LP | 1976 | |||||||
| Best of the Doobies | LP | 1976 | |||||||
| Livin’ on the Fault Line | CD | 1977 | |||||||
| Bob Dylan | The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan | LP | 1963 | America | |||||
| The Times They Are A-Changin’ | CD | 1964 | |||||||
| Bringing It All Back Home | LP | 1965 | |||||||
| Highway 61 Revisited | CD | 1965 | One of his best recordings of the 1960's. | ||||||
| Blonde on Blonde | CD | 1966 | |||||||
| Royal Albert Hall Concert 1966 | CD | 1966 | ( Released 1999 ) | ||||||
| John Wesley Harding | LP | 1967 | |||||||
| Blood On the Tracks | LP | 1975 | Probably his best recording of the 1970's. | ||||||
| Street Legal | LP | 1978 | |||||||
| Biograph (Box Set Compilation) | LP | 1985 | |||||||
| Knocked Out Loaded | LP | 1986 | |||||||
| The Bootleg Series, volumes 1-3 (Officially sanctioned by Bob) | CD | 1991 | This collection of bootleg music, long traded underground, is in some ways better than any of his official recordings. It's Dylan at his most inspired. | ||||||
| Time Out of Mind | CD | 1997 | |||||||
| In the Pines ( Bootleg, recordings from 1961 - 1965 ) | CD | ( Released 1998 ) | A great bootleg ( not an official release ) that contains a lot of recordings from a very young Dylan, in his early 20's. Some very good Folk stuff. | ||||||
| Love and Theft | CD | 2001 | Dylan continues following his own muse, with this recording sounding like very traditional American Folk music, though with an almost carnival-like feel. | ||||||
| The Eagles | Their Greatest Hits | CD | 1976 | America | |||||
| Hotel California | LP | 1976 | Their first recording with Joe Walsh, who played with them on a few albums. | ||||||
| The Electric Flag | A Long Time Comin’ | LP | 1968 | America | This sort of belongs in the Blues category, due to the presence of Michael Bloomfield, but this recording is much too Rock-ish to belong in Blues. | ||||
| The Electric Prunes | Mass in F Minor | LP | 1968 | America | Sung in Latin. | ||||
| Enigma | The Screen Behind the Mirror | CD | 2000 | Spain | |||||
| The Flaming Lips | Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | CD | 2002 | America | |||||
| Fleetwood Mac | Fleetwood Mac | LP | 1968 | Britain & America | Version 1.0 of the band, who would rotate members in and out endlessly, with the only constant members being Mick Fleetwood and John Macvie. | ||||
| ( also www.fmlegacy.com ) | Then Play On | LP | 1969 | ||||||
| Shrine ‘69 | CD | 1969 | ( Released in 1999 ) | ||||||
| Kiln House | LP | 1970 | |||||||
| Live at the Boston Tea Party: Part One | CD | 1970 | ( Released in 1998 ) | ||||||
| Live at the Boston Tea Party: Part Two | CD | 1970 | ( Released in 1998 ) | ||||||
| Live at the Boston Tea Party: Part Three | CD | 1970 | ( Released in 2000 ) | ||||||
| Future Games | CD | 1971 | First recording with singer Bob Welch, who sort of sheparded the band between the Peter Green era and the era of Stevie Nicks. Very otherworldy voice. | ||||||
| Bare Trees | LP | 1972 | |||||||
| Mystery to Me | LP | 1973 | |||||||
| Fleetwood Mac ( Same name as first album. A new beginning? ) | LP | 1975 | Their first recording with Lindsey Buckingham. This was their 11th lineup, since the original version of the band. This is the version everyone remembers. | ||||||
| Rumours | LP | 1977 | |||||||
| Behind the Mask | CD | 1990 | |||||||
| Say You Will | CD | 2003 | |||||||
| Focus | Making Waves | LP | 1971 | Holland | |||||
| Peter Frampton | Frampton Comes Alive | LP | 1976 | Britain | |||||
| Funkadelic | Maggot Brain | LP | 1971 | America | |||||
| Funkadelic: The Original Cosmic Funk Crew (Compilation) | CD | 2000 | |||||||
| Peter Gabriel | Passion | CD | 1989 | Britain | Soundtrack to the film "The Last Temptation of Christ". | ||||
| Passion Sources | CD | 1989 | Not really Peter Gabriel, but consists of recordings of the ethnic music he used as inspiration for composing the soundtrack to the above film. | ||||||
| Us | CD | 1992 | |||||||
| Ovo | CD | 2000 | |||||||
| Up | CD | 2002 | |||||||
| Jerry Garcia | Garcia | LP | 1972 | America | |||||
| Garcia, Compliments of Garcia | CD | 1974 | |||||||
| Reflections | LP | 1976 | |||||||
| Cats Under the Stars | CD | 1978 | |||||||
| The Jerry Garcia Band: Almost Acoustic | CD | 1988 | |||||||
| The Jerry Garcia Band | CD | 1991 | |||||||
| Jerry Garcia and Dave Grisman: Garcia and Grisman | CD | 1991 | |||||||
| Jerry Garcia and Dave Grisman: Shady Grove | CD | 1996 | This recording, and all the rest, were released posthumously, after his death of a heart-attack in August of 1995. | ||||||
| The Jerry Garcia Band: How Sweet It Is | CD | 1997 | |||||||
| The Jerry Garcia Band: Don’t Let Go | CD | 2001 | |||||||
| Marvin Gaye | What’s Going On | CD | 1971 | America | |||||
| J. Geils Band | Live, Full House | LP | 1972 | America | |||||
| Genesis | Foxtrot | LP | 1972 | Britain | |||||
| Selling England by the Pound | LP | 1973 | |||||||
| The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway | CD | 1974 | Their last recording with Peter Gabriel. Some good songs on it, but the majority are actually quite tedious to listen to. Musically, it's sort of like reading Kant. | ||||||
| Wind and Wuthering | CD | 1976 | Their last true Prog-rock album. They never sounded like this again. | ||||||
| Gentle Giant | The Missing Piece | LP | 1977 | Britain | |||||
| Glass Harp | Glass Harp ( Their debut album ) | LP | 1970 | America | |||||
| ( Also see Phil Keaggy ) | It Makes Me Glad | LP | 1971 | ||||||
| Synergy | LP | 1972 | |||||||
| Moby Grape | Grape Jam | LP | 1968 | America | |||||
| The Grateful Dead | The Grateful Dead ( Their debut album ) | LP | 1967 | America | This album is sometimes referred to as "The Golden Road", after the first song on the record. | ||||
| Live Dead | LP | 1969 | |||||||
| The Workingman’s Dead | LP | 1970 | |||||||
| American Beauty | CD | 1970 | |||||||
| Unsurpassed, Volume 5 ( Bootleg ) | CD | 1971 | Studio outtakes, from Keith Godchaux's first sessions with the band. Varying sound-quality. | ||||||
| Dick’s Picks 2 | CD | 1971 | ( Released in 1995 ) | ||||||
| Hundred Year Hall | CD | 1972 | ( Released in 1995 ) | ||||||
| Wake of the Flood | CD | 1973 | |||||||
| Mars Hotel | CD | 1974 | |||||||
| Skeletons From the Closet (Compilation) | CD | 1974 | |||||||
| Blues for Allah | CD | 1975 | |||||||
| Dick’s Picks 3 | CD | 1977 | ( Released in 1995 ) | ||||||
| Terrapin Station | CD | 1977 | |||||||
| What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been, The Best of the Grateful Dead | LP | 1977 | ( Compilation ) | ||||||
| Shakedown Street | CD | 1978 | |||||||
| Go to Heaven | LP | 1980 | |||||||
| In the Dark | CD | 1987 | |||||||
| Infrared Roses | CD | 1991 | This CD has no real songs on it, but are live recordings of the "drums and space" sequences of all Dead concerts: long space-jazz-like improvs by the band. | ||||||
| The Other Ones: The Strange Remain | CD | 1999 | This is actually the Surviving members of the Grateful Dead, in disguise. They dropped this name in 2002, becoming simply "The Dead". | ||||||
| Peter Green | The End of the Game | CD | 1970 | Britain | |||||
| White Sky | CD | 1981 | |||||||
| Kolors | CD | 1984 | |||||||
| Green & Guitar ( Compilation ) | CD | 1996 | |||||||
| The Robert Johnson Songbook | CD | 1998 | |||||||
| Destiny Road | CD | 1999 | |||||||
| Grin | The Best of Grin ( Compilation ) | LP | 1976 | America | Nils Lofgren's original band, before working with Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen. The band only existed for 4 years, from 1969 - 1973. | ||||
| Guru Guru | Space Ship (The Best Of, Part 1) | CD | 1996 | Germany | Early 70's, German Acid-Rock of the purest form. No one plays like this anymore. | ||||
| George Harrison | All Things Must Pass | CD | 1970 | Britain | |||||
| Heart | Dreamboat Annie ( Their debut album ) | LP | 1976 | America | |||||
| Little Queen | LP | 1977 | |||||||
| Magazine | LP | 1977 | |||||||
| Dog & Butterfly | LP | 1978 | |||||||
| Jimi Hendrix | Are You Experienced? | LP | 1967 | America | |||||
| Get That Feeling | LP | 1968 | This is actually a Soul recording, by Curtis Knight, on which Jimi Hendrix plays, but doesn't sing. | ||||||
| Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, from the Monterey Pop Festival | LP | 1970 | |||||||
| Henry Cow | Unrest | CD | 1974 | Britain | This is the name of the band, not of any member. So-called "Rock in Opposition", which was sort of a Dada-approach to Prog-Rock (an oxymoron?). | ||||
| Hooverphonic | A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular | CD | 1997 | Belgium | |||||
| The Magnificent Tree | CD | 2000 | |||||||
| Blue Wonder Powder Milk | CD | 1998 | |||||||
| Humble Pie | Lost and Found ( Compilation of their first 2 albums ) | LP | 1973 | Britain | This was an early Peter Frampton band, with some members of the band Small Faces, before he hit it big later on. | ||||
| Iron Butterfly | In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida | CD | 1968 | America | |||||
| Joe Jackson | Look Sharp! ( His debut album ) | LP | 1979 | Britain | |||||
| Night & Day | CD | 1982 | |||||||
| Body and Soul | LP | 1984 | |||||||
| Michael Jackson | Thriller | LP | 1982 | America | |||||
| Jefferson Airplane | Takes Off ( Their debut album ) | LP | 1966 | America | Signe Anderson sings, before Grace Slick replaced her. Signe had just given birth, and apparently retired from music for good after this album. | ||||
| Grace Slick & The Great Society | LP | 1964-1966 | ( Released in 1970 ) | Grace Slick's first band, before joining the Jefferson Airplane. They existed for only about 3 years, 1964 - 1966. She left to replace Signe Anderson. | |||||
| Surrealistic Pillow | LP | 1967 | Jerry Garcia is credited on this recording as the Airplane's "Musical and Spiritual Advisor". | ||||||
| Crown of Creation | CD | 1968 | |||||||
| Bless Its Pointed Little Head | LP | 1969 | |||||||
| Volunteers | LP | 1969 | Last recording as the Airplane with Marty Balin singing. | ||||||
| Bark | LP | 1971 | |||||||
| Flight Log (1966 - 1976) ( Compilation ) | LP | 1977 | |||||||
| Jethro Tull | Aqualung | LP | 1971 | Britain | |||||
| Thick As a Brick | LP | 1972 | |||||||
| Elton John | Tumbleweed Connection | CD | 1971 | Britain | |||||
| Madman Across the Water | LP | 1971 | |||||||
| Goodbye Yellowbrick Road | CD | 1973 | |||||||
| Blue Moves | LP | 1976 | |||||||
| Rickie Lee Jones | Pirates | LP | 1981 | America | |||||
| Magazine | LP | 1984 | |||||||
| Janis Joplin | I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again Mama ( Her debut solo album ) | LP | 1969 | America | |||||
| Journey | Journey ( Their debut album ) | LP | 1975 | America | During their Gregg Rollie era, after having left Santana. | ||||
| Kansas | Masque | CD | 1975 | America | |||||
| Leftoverture | CD | 1976 | Name of the album is a combination of "Leftover" and "Overture", since the music is mostly an "overture", with a few "left-over songs", according to Livgren. | ||||||
| Point of Know Return | LP | 1977 | |||||||
| Somewhere to Elsewhere | CD | 2000 | The original six members of Kansas play together again: Steve Walsh, Kerry Livgren, Robby Steinhardt, & Dave Hope. A very good return to form. | ||||||
| Carole King | Tapestry | LP | 1971 | America | |||||
| King Crimson | In the Court of the Crimson King ( Their debut album ) | LP | 1969 | Britain | |||||
| In the Wake of Poseidon | CD | 1970 | |||||||
| Larks' Tongues in Aspic | CD | 1973 | |||||||
| Three of a Perfect Pair | LP | 1984 | |||||||
| Thrak | CD | 1995 | |||||||
| Klaatu | Klaatu ( Their debut album ) | LP | 1976 | Canada | For a while many people thought this was the Beatles, since the members were not credited, and the music sounded sort of like them. Wrong, but good music. | ||||
| Hope | LP | 1977 | |||||||
| The Knack | Get the Knack | LP | 1979 | America | |||||
| Timothy Leary | You Can Be Anyone This Time Around | CD | 1970 | America | Timothy Leary evangelizes about the "new religion of LSD", with background music played by Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Miles, and Stephen Stills. | ||||
| John Lennon | Two Virgins | LP | 1968 | Britain | Famous due to John and Yoko appearing naked on the cover, but the recording is really just a tape-recorder picking up ordinary household sounds. No music. | ||||
| Life With the Lions | LP | 1969 | |||||||
| Imagine | LP | 1971 | |||||||
| Double Fantasy | LP | 1980 | |||||||
| Heart Play, Unfinished Dialog | LP | 1980 | ( Released in 1983 ) | This is a series of interviews Lennon did in the final weeks before he was killed. He talks about leaving the Beatles, being a house-husband, and about Yoko. | |||||
| Wonsaponatime (Compilation) | CD | 1998 | |||||||
| Loggins & Messina | Sittin’ In | CD | 1972 | America | |||||
| Kenny Loggins | Return to Pooh Corner | CD | 1994 | America | Marketed as a Children's record, it has some very good songs, especially the title song, which is a follow-up to his "House at Pooh Corner" from 1972. | ||||
| Love | Forever Changes | CD | 1967 | America | Psychedelic Folk-Rock at its finest. | ||||
| The Mamas & The Papas | If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears | CD | 1966 | America | |||||
| Deliver | CD | 1967 | |||||||
| Man | The Definitive Collection | CD | 2000 | Britain (Wales) | |||||
| Paul McCartney | McCartney | LP | 1970 | Britain | |||||
| Paul McCartney & Wings: Band on the Run | LP | 1973 | |||||||
| Paul McCartney & Wings: Greatest Hits | CD | 1978 | |||||||
| McCartney II | LP | 1980 | |||||||
| CHOBA B CCCP ( "Back in the USSR", in Russian ) | CD | 1988 | Recorded in 2 days, consisting mostly of "oldies", and released only in the Soviet Union. Released in the West in 1991. | ||||||
| Brian May | Brian May & Friends: Star Fleet Project | LP | 1983 | Britain | An EP with only 3 songs. The Project consisted of Brian May, Eddie Van Halen, and Alan Gratzer (from REO Speedwagon). | ||||
| Melting Euphoria | Inside the Gardens of the Mind | CD | 1997 | America | |||||
| She Wants to Take Us Over the Edge of the World | CD | 1999 | |||||||
| Joni Mitchell | Clouds | LP | 1969 | Canada | |||||
| Ladies of the Canyon | LP | 1970 | |||||||
| Blue | LP | 1971 | |||||||
| For the Roses | LP | 1972 | |||||||
| Hejira | LP | 1976 | |||||||
| Shadows and Light | LP | 1980 | |||||||
| Moby | 18 | CD | America | His real name is Richard Melville Hall, but calls himself "Moby" since Herman Melville was his great-great-grand Uncle. | |||||
| The Monkees | Greatest Hits | CD | 1999 | America | |||||
| The Essentials | CD | 2002 | |||||||
| The Moody Blues | Days of Future Passed | LP | 1967 | Britain | |||||
| In Search of the Lost Chord | LP | 1968 | |||||||
| Van Morrison | Astral Weeks | CD | 1968 | Northern Ireland | |||||
| Moondance | CD | 1970 | |||||||
| Tupelo Honey | CD | 1971 | |||||||
| Veedon Fleece | CD | 1974 | |||||||
| Common One | CD | 1980 | |||||||
| Inarticulate Speech of the Heart | CD | 1983 | |||||||
| Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast | LP | 1985 | |||||||
| Enlightenment | CD | 1990 | |||||||
| Hymns to the Silence | CD | 1991 | |||||||
| Too Long In Exile | CD | 1993 | |||||||
| Down the Road | CD | 2002 | |||||||
| Neu | 75 | CD | 1975 | Germany | The band consisted of 2 ex-Kraftwerk musicians, Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger. | ||||
| Yoko Ono | Walking on Thin Ice | CD | 1992 | Japan | |||||
| Ozric Tentacles | Pungent Efungent | CD | 1990 | Britain | Neo-Progressive Rock. 1970's space-rock has returned. | ||||
| Patto | Hold Your Fire | CD | 1971 | Britain | The band is named after the singer, Mike Patto, who died of throat-cancer in 1979. | ||||
| Roll ‘em, Smoke ‘em, Put Another Line Out | CD | 1972 | |||||||
| Peps Persson | Linkin’ Louisiana Peps: Blues Connection | CD | 1968 | Sweden | Probably the only, or at least the original, Blues & Reggae singer from Sweden, singing in Swedish. | ||||
| Peter, Paul and Mary | 10 Years Together | LP | 1970 | America | |||||
| Anthony Phillips | The Geese and the Ghost | CD | 1977 | Britain | One of the original members of Genesis. Not really Rock, more "Progressive Rock" with a flavor of English Folk music. | ||||
| Most of Genesis plays on this album, and was supposedly Phil Keaggy's insipiration for his 1978 album "Master & the Musician". | |||||||||
| Pink Floyd | Piper at the Gates of Dawn ( Their debut album ) | CD | 1967 | Britain | |||||
| Saucerful of Secrets | CD | 1968 | |||||||
| London ’66 – ‘67 | CD | 1966-1967 | EP of live concert footage from this period, when the name of the band still used the definite-article, and was known as "The Pink Floyd". | ||||||
| Interstellar Overdrive: Alternate Masters ’66 – ’68 ( Bootleg ) | CD | 1966-1968 | Outtakes from 1966 - 1968. | ||||||
| More | CD | 1969 | Soundtrack to a 1969 French film of the same name. | ||||||
| Ummagumma | LP | 1969 | |||||||
| Filmore West 1970 (Bootleg) | CD | 1970 | |||||||
| Mooed Music. London, Paris Theater, July 16, 1970 (Bootleg) | CD | 1970 | BBC Session. Good sound-quality. Tracks: Embryo, Fat Old Sun, Green is the Colour, Careful With That Axe Eugene, If, Atom Heart Mother. | ||||||
| Zabriskie Point | CD | 1970 | Soundtrack to a film of the same name, on which Pink Floyd and the Grateful Dead contributed music. | ||||||
| Atom Heart Mother | CD | 1970 | |||||||
| Rock Hour: BBC 1971 (Bootleg) | CD | 1971 | Live performance at the Paris Cinema in London, on Sept. 30, 1971: "Fat Old Sun", "One of These Days", "Echoes". Excellent sound-quality for a bootleg. | ||||||
| Embryo San Diego, 1971 (Bootleg) | CD | 1971 | Tracks: Careful With That Axe Eugene, Fat Old Sun, Atom Heart Mother, Embryo, Heart of the Sun, Cymbaline, One of These Days, Echoes, Saucerful… | ||||||
| Meddle | CD | 1971 | |||||||
| Live at Pompei | CD | 1972 | Live recording from the ruins of Pompei. Probably the most appropriate venue the band ever played in. (No audience, except the ghosts of the dead city). | ||||||
| Obscured by Clouds | LP | 1972 | |||||||
| Yeeshkul: Toronto, 3-11-73 (Bootleg) | CD | 1973 | Live recording from a concert in Canada in 1973. The bootleg is called "Yeeshkul" because someone in the audience keeps yelling this strange word. | ||||||
| Philadelphia Spectrum 3-15-73 (Bootleg) | CD | 1973 | Pink Floyd performs the songs from Dark Side of the Moon live, a few weeks prior to the album's release. | ||||||
| Dark Side of the Moon | CD | 1973 | |||||||
| Wish You Were Here | LP | 1975 | |||||||
| Animals | CD | 1977 | |||||||
| A Momentary Lapse of Reason | LP | 1987 | |||||||
| 8th RD From the Moon (Bootleg) | CD | 1969-1977 | Live recordings from various concerts spanning from 1969- 1977. Varying quality, but great history. Bootleg created in Italy. | ||||||
| Luther Wright & The Wrongs Rebuild the Wall | CD | 2001 | America | Believe it or not, but this is a Bluegrass version of Pink Floyd's album "The Wall". (Imagine Gilmore playing a banjo). It's funny to listen to, but quite well-done. | |||||
| The Police | Synchronicity | LP | 1983 | Britain | |||||
| Popol Vuh | In Den Gärten Pharaos | CD | 1971 | Germany | The band is named after a religious book of the Mayans of Central America, called "Meeting Place". | ||||
| Aguirre | CD | 1975 | |||||||
| The Best Soundtracks From Werner Herzog Films | CD | 1993 | |||||||
| Portishead | Portishead | CD | 1997 | Britain | |||||
| The Pretenders | Extended Play (EP) | LP | 1981 | America | |||||
| Learning to Crawl | LP | 1984 | |||||||
| Queen | A Night at the Opera | LP | 1975 | Britain | |||||
| Quicksilver Messenger Service Just For Love | LP | 1970 | America | ||||||
| Renaissance | Renaissance | CD | 1969 | Britain | |||||
| A Song for all Seasons | LP | 1978 | |||||||
| The Rolling Stones | December’s Children | CD | 1965 | Britain | |||||
| Aftermath | CD | 1966 | |||||||
| Between the Buttons | CD | 1967 | |||||||
| Flowers | LP | 1967 | |||||||
| Their Satanic Majesties Request | LP | 1967 | |||||||
| Beggar’s Banquet | LP | 1968 | |||||||
| Through the Past Darkly | CD | 1969 | |||||||
| Let It Bleed | LP | 1969 | |||||||
| Sticky Fingers | CD | 1971 | |||||||
| Leed Guitars, TV Stars: 3-13-71 (Bootleg) | CD | 1971 | Very good live recording from a concert in Leeds, England in 1971. | ||||||
| Jamming With Edward | LP | 1972 | This technically isn't a Rolling Stones album. The performers are Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, Ry Cooder, and Nicky Hopkins, playing for fun. | ||||||
| Hot Rocks 1964-1971 | LP | 1972 | |||||||
| Exile on Main Street | CD | 1972 | |||||||
| Goats Head Soup | CD | 1973 | |||||||
| No Stone Unturned | CD | 1973 | This is a collection of B-Sides that aren't on any of their studio albums. | ||||||
| It’s Only Rock n Roll | LP | 1974 | |||||||
| Acetates (Bootleg) | CD | 1972-1974 | Alternate versions and unreleased tracks from their days with Mick Taylor. Some of the versioins on this CD are better than the official releases. | ||||||
| Made in the Shade (Compilation) | LP | 1975 | |||||||
| Black and Blue | LP | 1976 | |||||||
| Some Girls | LP | 1978 | |||||||
| Emotional Rescue | CD | 1980 | |||||||
| Tattoo You, Demos (Bootleg) | CD | 1981 | Demo tracks of the songs that ended up on this album. Generally poor sound quality, but it's interesting hearing songs in their embryonic form. | ||||||
| Tattoo You | CD | 1981 | |||||||
| Undercover | LP | 1983 | |||||||
| Undercover of the Night (Alternate versions) | LP | 1983 | Longer versions of the song, with more instrumental sections. LP bought in Mexico. | ||||||
| Dirty Work | LP | 1986 | |||||||
| Steel Wheels | LP | 1989 | |||||||
| Voodoo Lounge | CD | 1994 | |||||||
| Stripped | CD | 1995 | Live recordings from Paris and Amsterdam, during their Voodoo Lounge tour in 1995. | ||||||
| Bridges to Babylon | CD | 1997 | |||||||
| Out of Control (Alternate Versions) | CD | 1997 | Several alternate versions of this one song, from their "Bridges to Babylon" album. Each song is longer, with more instrumental sections. | ||||||
| Don’t F*** With Me, Or I Will Breath On You and You Will Die | CD | 1997 | Bootleg, with live concert recordings from in New York, St. Louis, and Chicago during their 1997 tour through America. | ||||||
| As It Happened: The Classic Interviews 1964-1999 | CD | 2001 | This is a collection of interviews with the band, spanning their entire career. Very interesting hearing them evolve over the decades. | ||||||
| Artist's Choice: Rolling Stones, Music That Matters to Them | CD | 2003 | A compilation by Hear Music, from interviews with the band asking them what other artists inspire them: Otis Redding, Muddy Waters, Al Green, etc. | ||||||
| Todd Rundgren | Best Of, I Saw the Light | CD | America | ||||||
| Leon Russell | Leon Russell and the Shelter People | LP | 1971 | America | |||||
| Hope Sandoval | Bavarian Fruit Bread | CD | 2001 | America | |||||
| Santana | Live at the Fillmore ‘68 | CD | 1968 | Mexico | |||||
| Persuasion (Compilation) | CD | 1968-1970 | |||||||
| Santana ( Their debut album ) | LP | 1969 | |||||||
| Santana III | CD | 1971 | The last recording by the original version of the band. Probably the most ferocious music they ever made: Carlos called his guitar "the electric snake". | ||||||
| Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles! Live! | LP | 1972 | A 25-minute-long jam with Buddy Miles, drummer for Jimi Hendrix and The Electric Flag. | ||||||
| Love Devotion Surrender | CD | 1972 | |||||||
| Welcome | LP | 1973 | |||||||
| Santana’s Greatest Hits (Compilation) | LP | 1974 | |||||||
| Amigos | LP | 1976 | |||||||
| Festival | LP | 1977 | |||||||
| The Best Instrumentals Vol I (Compilation) | CD | 1998 | |||||||
| The Best Instrumentals Vol II (Compilation) | CD | 1999 | |||||||
| Supernatural | CD | 1999 | |||||||
| Nuclei (Compilation) | CD | 2000 | |||||||
| Shaman | CD | 2002 | |||||||
| Simon & Garfunkel | Wednesday Morning, 3 AM ( Their debut album ) | CD | 1964 | America | |||||
| Sounds of Silence | LP | 1966 | |||||||
| Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme | LP | 1966 | |||||||
| Bookends | CD | 1968 | |||||||
| Bridge Over Troubled Waters | CD | 1970 | This was their last album as a duo. | ||||||
| Paul Simon | Greatest Hits, etc. | LP | 1977 | America | |||||
| Graceland | CD | 1986 | |||||||
| Boz Scaggs | Boz Scaggs | CD | 1969 | America | His real name is William Scaggs. (A teacher once told me that the name " 'Boz Scaggs' sounds like the name of an African disease. ") | ||||
| Carly Simon | No Secrets | LP | 1972 | America | |||||
| Soft Machine | Third | CD | 1970 | Britain | Practitioners of so-called "Canterbury Scene" Jazz-Psychedelic-Rock of the early 1970's. The band is named after a William Burroughs novel. | ||||
| Fourth | LP | 1971 | |||||||
| The Specials | LP | 1979 | Britain | ||||||
| Jeremy Spencer | Jeremy Spencer & the Children | LP | 1973 | Britain | Sort of a Psychedelic/Folk/Christian record, and quite good. He had very recently left Fleetwood Mac, and joined the cult Children of God (aka The Family), | ||||
| a group that practiced (still does) a unique blend of Evangelical Christianity, "sexual sharing" amongst members, and Hippie revolution. These are "The Children". | |||||||||
| As of the late 1990's, Jeremy still lives communally with The Children/The Family. Their website is www.thefamily.org | |||||||||
| Status Quo | Piledriver | LP | 1973 | Britain | |||||
| Steely Dan | You Gotta Walk It Like You Talk It (Or you’ll loose that beat) | LP | 1971 | America | |||||
| Countdown to Ecstasy | CD | 1973 | |||||||
| Pretzel Logic | LP | 1974 | |||||||
| Katie Lied | CD | 1975 | |||||||
| The Royal Scam | LP | 1976 | |||||||
| Aja | CD | 1977 | |||||||
| Two Against Nature | CD | 2000 | |||||||
| Steppenwolf | 16 Greatest Hits | LP | 1973 | America | |||||
| Cat Stevens | Catch Bull at Four | LP | Britain | His real name is Stephen Georgiou (although in 1977 he changed it to Yusuf Islam). He's half Greek and half Swedish, though he's from England. | |||||
| The Strawbs | From the Witchwood | CD | 1971 | Britain | Rick Wakeman played keyboards on this album. He left soon after to join a new band called Yes. | ||||
| Grave New World | CD | 1972 | |||||||
| Halcyon Days (Compilation) | CD | 1997 | |||||||
| Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter Reckless Burning | CD | 2002 | America | So-called "Alternative Country-Rock". Sort of a slow, peaceful, droning country music. | |||||
| Talking Heads | True Stories | LP | 1986 | America | They originally made their mark by being straight-laced, nervous Art-students performing in New York clubs that catered to Punks from the underworld. | ||||
| James Taylor | Sweet Baby James | LP | 1970 | America | |||||
| Mud Slide Slim | LP | 1971 | |||||||
| Traffic | John Barleycorn Must Die | LP | 1970 | Britain | |||||
| Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory | LP | 1973 | |||||||
| On the Road | LP | 1973 | Live album from their tour that year. | ||||||
| When the Eagle Flies | CD | 1974 | Their final album as a band. There was one more "Traffic" album 20 years later, in 1994, but it was with only half the band, Steve Winwood and Jim Capaldi. | ||||||
| Tyrannosaurus Rex | My People Were Fair & Had Sky in their Hair… | LP | 1968 | Britain | Marc Bolan's duo with Steve Peregrin Took, before becoming "T. Rex", then later dying in a car-accident in 1977. | ||||
| Prophets, Seers and Sages The Angels of the Ages | LP | 1968 | |||||||
| U2 | October | LP | 1981 | Ireland | |||||
| War | LP | 1983 | |||||||
| Under a Blood Red Sky | LP | 1983 | Live recordings from Germany and America, during their tour in 1983. | ||||||
| The Unforgettable Fire | LP | 1984 | The title refers to the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. This is the first album produced by Brian Eno, who still produces them. | ||||||
| Achtung Baby | CD | 1991 | |||||||
| All That You Can’t Leave Behind | CD | 2000 | |||||||
| Van Der Graaf Generator | H to He Who Am the Only One | CD | Britain | Long, brooding 1970's Progressive Rock. The band is named after a machine that generates static electricity. | |||||
| Van Halen | Van Halen | LP | 1978 | America | |||||
| Fair Warning | LP | 1981 | |||||||
| Diver Down | LP | 1982 | |||||||
| Vanilla Fudge | Renaissance | LP | 1968 | America | A thundering variety of Psychedelic music from late '60's and early '70's New York. | ||||
| Rock and Roll | CD | 1970 | |||||||
| Rick Wakeman | The Six Wives of Henry VIII | LP | 1973 | Britain | |||||
| The Who | Tommy | LP | 1969 | Britain | |||||
| Who’s Next | CD | 1971 | |||||||
| Quadrophenia | LP | 1973 | |||||||
| Bootleg LP ( A California concert, but not sure when… ) | LP | 1976? | |||||||
| Yes | The Yes Album | LP | 1971 | Britain | |||||
| Fragile | CD | 1972 | |||||||
| Close to the Edge | CD | 1972 | |||||||
| Yessongs | LP | 1973 | Live recordings. | ||||||
| Tales From Topographic Oceans | LP | 1974 | |||||||
| Going for the One | LP | 1977 | |||||||
| 90125 | LP | 1983 | |||||||
| Keys to the Ascension 2 | CD | 1997 | |||||||
| The Ladder | CD | 1999 | |||||||
| Jon Anderson | Songs of Seven | LP | 1980 | Britain | YesSinger. | ||||
| Animation | LP | 1983 | |||||||
| Neil Young | Everybody Knows This is Nowhere | LP | 1969 | Canada & America | |||||
| After the Gold Rush | LP | 1970 | |||||||
| Tonight’s the Night | LP | 1975 | |||||||
| Hurricane Over the Judo Arena, 3-11-76 (Bootleg) | CD | 1976 | Live concert recording from Japan, in 1976. | ||||||
| Rust Never Sleeps, Live at the LA Forum, Oct. 24, 1978 (Bootleg) | LP | 1978 | |||||||
| Rust Never Sleeps | LP | 1979 | |||||||
| Trans | LP | 1983 | |||||||
| Ragged Glory | CD | 1990 | |||||||
| Harvest Moon | CD | 1992 | |||||||
| Unplugged | CD | 1993 | |||||||
| Sleeps With Angels | CD | 1994 | |||||||
| Dead Man | CD | 1996 | |||||||
| Broken Arrow | CD | 1996 | |||||||
| Frank Zappa | Waka/Jawaka | CD | 1972 | America | Very good Jazz-rock with an orchestral/Big-Band sound, sometimes referred to as "Progressive Big Band", e.g. Jazz-influenced "FreakOut" music. | ||||
| The Grand Wazoo | CD | 1973 | More of the above, and very good. This was Zappa's instrumental period, leading up to his onslaught of political and social sarcasm and satire, at which he excelled. | ||||||
| Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin II | LP | 1969 | Britain | |||||
| Led Zeppelin III | LP | 1970 | |||||||
| Led Zeppelin IV | LP | 1971 | This album doesn't say "IV", and in fact has no writing at all on it, front or back. But it is their 4th album. | ||||||
| BBC Sessions | CD | 1971 | Long a bootleg, finally made legitimate by being officially released in 1997. | ||||||
| Houses of the Holy | LP | 1973 | |||||||
| Physical Graffiti | CD | 1975 | |||||||
| Presence | LP | 1976 | |||||||
| In Through the Out Door | LP | 1979 | |||||||
| Jimmy Page & Robert Plant: Walking Into Clarksdale | CD | 1998 | Is this really a Led Zeppelin album, minus John Paul Jones? Sort of two-thirds of the dirigible, with Plant and Page finally recording together again. | ||||||
| ZZ Top | Tres Hombres | LP | 1973 | America | |||||
| Rock Collections | |||||||||
| Title | Format | Year | |||||||
| Hen’s Teeth: Rare Psychedelicacies from the Golden Age | CD | 2000 | Various European | Music even your parents forgot about. On the back of the CD it says "Oil Emulsion Slyde vs. The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke". Very profound… | |||||
| Love, Peace & Poetry: British Psychedelic Music | CD | 2001 | Britain | A compilaiton of obscure 1960's Psychedelic pop from England. | |||||
| Love, Peace & Poetry: Japanese Psychedelic Music | CD | 2001 | Japan | A compilaiton of obscure 1960's Psychedelic pop from Japan. | |||||
| Psychedelic Underground 6 | CD | 2001 | Germany | A compilation of early 1970's German Prog-Rock so obscure, even the musicians themselves had forgotten about them. | |||||
| Pure Funk | CD | 1998 | America | A compilation of 1970's "Funk" bands, like Parliament, Funkadelic, & Curtis Mayfield. | |||||
| Space Box, 1970 and Beyond: Space, Krautrock & Acid Trips | CD | 1996 | Mostly German | A compilation of "Space Rock", "Prog-Rock", and German "Krautrock" from the early 1970's, like Hawkwind, Guru Guru, Cluster, Popol Vuh, etc. | |||||
| Waterpipes & Dykes: Dutch Psychedelic Underground 1966 – 1972 Volume One | CD | 2000 | Holland | A compilaiton of obscure 1960's Psychedelic pop from Holland. (Then again, most music of this genre from this period are obscure by now…) | |||||