IGN Music: Top 25 Classic Rock Albums
IGN, CA
March 30, 2007
For starters, this isn't meant to be a "be all, end all" list. It's meant to be a primer. I mean seriously, how the hell could anybody pick just 25 Classic Rock albums and leave it at that?
This is a list that spans the 1960s up until the early 1980s (we decided to cut the Classic Rock timeline at 1984, the very last real Van Halen album to be released (by real we mean containing the original, classic VH line-up of Diamond David Lee Roth, Alex Van Halen, Michael Anthony, and Eddie Van Halen).
We've also tried to be as wide in scope as possible, choosing a broad selection of classic rockers from the world over, even though it was arguably the British and the Yanks who pioneered and kept the genre going strong.
Naturally we expect to get a ton of mail telling us that our list either sucks or is brilliant. Either way, we encourage you to send in your own lists at your whim. You can send your own Top 25 to us....
12. Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic (Sony, 1975)
Often referred to as America's answer to the Rolling Stones, Boston's Aerosmith were always a little bit more raunchy and over-the-top than Mick and the Boys. By the time they had kicked out their third album, they had also kicked out a damn masterpiece. Just about every single track on Toys crackles, sizzles, and where The Stones went for Blues, Aerosmith went for unbridled white boy funk swagger. "Walk This Way" and "Sweet Emotion" are staples of the genre. But "Uncle Salty" and "Big Ten Inch Record" show off the group's sense of ballsy humor.
March 30, 2007
For starters, this isn't meant to be a "be all, end all" list. It's meant to be a primer. I mean seriously, how the hell could anybody pick just 25 Classic Rock albums and leave it at that?
This is a list that spans the 1960s up until the early 1980s (we decided to cut the Classic Rock timeline at 1984, the very last real Van Halen album to be released (by real we mean containing the original, classic VH line-up of Diamond David Lee Roth, Alex Van Halen, Michael Anthony, and Eddie Van Halen).
We've also tried to be as wide in scope as possible, choosing a broad selection of classic rockers from the world over, even though it was arguably the British and the Yanks who pioneered and kept the genre going strong.
Naturally we expect to get a ton of mail telling us that our list either sucks or is brilliant. Either way, we encourage you to send in your own lists at your whim. You can send your own Top 25 to us....
12. Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic (Sony, 1975)
Often referred to as America's answer to the Rolling Stones, Boston's Aerosmith were always a little bit more raunchy and over-the-top than Mick and the Boys. By the time they had kicked out their third album, they had also kicked out a damn masterpiece. Just about every single track on Toys crackles, sizzles, and where The Stones went for Blues, Aerosmith went for unbridled white boy funk swagger. "Walk This Way" and "Sweet Emotion" are staples of the genre. But "Uncle Salty" and "Big Ten Inch Record" show off the group's sense of ballsy humor.
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