1. Abbey Road/The Beatles..released in my first year. the first recording i ever played on cassette. wore it out.
2. Blue Oyster Cult/Blue Oyster Cult..turned more friends on to this..wall of sound heavy metal that rocked my world
3. "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"/Elton..didn't come out til junior year, but i sure made up for lost time
4. Zoso/Led Zeppelin...four sticks..battle of evermore..when the levee, just played this one over and over
5. Blues Helping/Love Sculpture..my relative was a junkie and turned me on to some nasty shit..uh, musically that is.. best blues guitar ever
6. Eat A Peach/Allman Brothers(the first time i heard"melissa" i was hooked.."blue sky", too)
7. The Captain and Me/Doobie Brothers...this had it all, cool pop tunes, love songs and crankers. loved them on "midnight special",too
8. Moody Blues/Every Good Boy Deserves Favor..late at night, when that mellotron kicks in under headphones
9. Argus/Wishbone Ash...progressive rock at its finest..blowin free is on here. great twin guitar leads, tight band
10.Fragile/Yes..every time i heard this under headphones, i picked out something else.
Honorable mention
Levee Blues-Potliquor(it was late one night...)
Machine Head-Deep Purple(still, to this day, a great recording)
LA Woman-The Doors(saving their best for last)
Houses of the Holy-Led Zepelin(I know EVERY air drum lick to this release)
Sticky Fingers-Rolling Stones(their masterpiece..drunk, juiced up and sloppy never sounded so good)
Can't Buy A Thrill-Steely Dan(enthralling lyrics, these guys used to make me think. God help them.)
Chicago II-(Danny Seraphine was God's gift to drumming, Terry Kath and Peter Cetera never sounded better)
In The Court of the Crimson King-King Crimson(used to scare the shit out of me when I heard it on KAAY)
How bout chu?
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I remember when you covered this. You got a pretty healthy response as I recall.
I go more by artists than albums when I think of my high school years. Linda Ronstadt was a big favorite, as were the Beatles, Yes, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Moody Blues, Blue Oyster Occult, Janis Joplin, The Who, The Guess Who, Grand Funk Railroad, just to name a few.
Keep in mind I graduated in 1988...I was a big fan of the classic rock before it split off into its own genre:
1. Van Halen WOMAN AND CHILDREN FIRST/FAIR WARNING - WEA was putting out those dual cassettes with an entire album on each side. I listened to that one literally every day. Van Halen changed my entire life.
2. Sammy Hagar THREE LOCK BOX/STANDING HAMPTON - still makes me smile and think of KSHE's days of glory and all the people I knew that would not be caught dead listening to anything else.
3. Led Zeppelin (1971) - once upon a time I thought "Black Dog" was The Best Rock Song EVAH
4. AC/DC BACK IN BLACK - played it to death...Angus and his three chords were the soundtrack to VP Fair for us all thru high school
5. Guns 'N Roses APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION - Before Axl became a nutcase, that band was MEGA!! I think they were the first NEW rock band I got into. All the other bands were veritable dinosaurs comparitively speaking
6. Aerosmith PERMANENT VACATION - caused me to buy the entire back catalog and made them my fave band along with VH
7. Heart GREATEST HITS/LIVE - I originally taped that from the Seventh Day and wore it out so I had to buy the actual cassette
8. Psychedelic Furs ALL OF THIS AND NOTHING - my first introduction to "alternative" came from "Love My Way" on the VALLEY GIRL soundtrack and I've loved them ever since
9. The Smiths STRANGEWAYS, HERE WE COME - I fell hard and fast for The Smiths, just in time for them to BREAK UP (bastards!)
10. Van Halen OU812 - I got in trouble the day it was released because I took the car and went to The Galleria and bought it at Camelot Records. My sister had a violin recital that night so I dropped her off instead of staying for it and I went to the mall. I remember that was the first release I ever bought the day it came out. I was so excited. I miss being that excited about anything...
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