Greatest "Made In The U.S.A." American Rock & Roll album of all time?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

NO "British Invasion" stuff here. What is, in your opinion, the greatest AMERICAN rock & roll album ever made?

Here are a few of my choices (from my own "Top 100"):

[KG]

1. Boston - Boston

100% pure american rock and roll

[mark414]

2. a few of my favs (in no particular order)

Television - Marquee Moon
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
Gang of Four - Entertainment
Radiohead - OK Computer
The Clash - London Calling
Sly & The Family Stone - There's A Riot Goin' On
The Stooges - Raw Power
Pavement - Slanted And Enchanted
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
Velvet Underground & Nico
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

those are just my rock'n'roll ones...hip hop, jazz, etc...that's another story

EDIT: you said american...whoops...oh well

[rlev1223]

32. Guess: It was made in the USA...

in Miami...
its title is the emotional signature song of all time...
has the greatest collection of album cuts ever ....
4/5ths of the band were Americans, with
one sort of honorary American fronting

Best Album Ever....

[rlev1223]

38. Okay, if no one's going to guess

Layla.

Case closed.


Except maybe for David Peel and the Lower East Side
-- "Have a Marijuana"

[redstateblues]

3. I'd Say You've Pretty Much Got It Covered Tho Weasels

Ripped My Flesh might be my fave Zappa-

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

7. The Zappa choice was a hard one, but I picked Hot Rats because of...

"Willie The Pimp" and especially "Peaches En Regalia," one of his signature tunes. I've been known to drive around town with "Weasels" (specifically the "Orange County Lumber Truck" section) cranked up pretty loud.

You might already own this, but just in case I'll mention the "Ahead Of Their Time" CD...recorded at Royal Albert Hall 10/28/68. "Orange County Lumber Truck" and "Prelude...Gas Mask" from "Weasels" were taken from this concert, but this one is the whole show.



http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000009TM/qid=1092188988/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl15/103-7913278-5461407?v=glance&s=music&n=507846

:toast:

[Zomby Woof]

10. no way to choose one

There's "We're Only In It For The Money", "Uncle Meat", "Joe's Garage", etc etc etc...

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

16. You're right...every one has something essential

One of the recent mix CDs I made for the car has "Muffin Man"...then there's always "Zoot Allures" and "Black Napkins," or "Chunga's Revenge"...

And the un-frigging-believable version of "The Torture Never Stops" on "You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Volume One." Terry Bozzio's drum accents at the end of the "That's what's the deal we're dealin' is" refrains are Bonzo-riffic. The band (also featuring Adrian Belew and Patrick O'Hearn) really played like a BAND that night...incredible precision and interlocking improvs.

:toast:

[Warren DeMontague]

4. Here You Go:

I don't know how, if you're talking "American", you can forget these:

[flamingyouth]

5. The Fleshtones were right

There is so much great American music. There is no way I can pick just one album out of all of my favorites. Hell, I can't even pick my favorite Northwest band...:hi:

[Zomby Woof]

6. Zomby's Murican Album Collection

[mitchum]

8. You'll get no argument from me...

as long as you add "Funhouse" to that stellar group

[flamingyouth]

11. Ah, a man after my own heart

That, and "Kick Out The Jams." DETROIT!:headbang:

[Zomby Woof]

13. MAYHEM KICKS ALL OF THEIR ASSES!!!!!

They make everything in the thread sound like pansy-ass muzak!! :bounce:

[flamingyouth]

14. And they could really KILL, I hear!

Or at least, according to Jack Klugman!:headbang:

[Zomby Woof]

15. The Quincy Theme!

*cues up those horns*

I wish Sam had his own theme song.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

17. You'd better BELIEVE I'll add it!

Iggy once explained what "real "O" mind" means (from "Down On The Street") and it STILL made no sense. But this has been one of my favorite L-O-U-D songs for years.

:toast:

[Zomby Woof]

19. And some more...

I concur with your Hendrix and Allmans choices, although "Axis: Bold As Love" is my favorite Jimi.

Some more...

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

24. Lou, yes...but there's got to be at least one album with Robert Quine

The title track to "Blue Mask" is one of my all-time Reed favorites. Quine was credited with being the man got Lou to pick up the guitar and start playing again. I love the Hunter-Wagner stuff on "Animal," but the Reed-Quine era is special. "Live In Italy" is sloppy, but the only legitimate live document of that era and the "Some Kinda Love / Sister Ray" medley is pretty insane.



:toast:

[lastknowngood]

9. CCR Credence Clearwater Revival's first album. Great

rockabilly. Janis Joplin cheep tricks. Bad Company first album. Black Sabbath we sold our soul for rock and roll, just because it's great.

[Zomby Woof]

12. Sabbath was/is British

[rucky]

18. This one:

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

25. Destroyer! Of course!

"You love my seven inch leather heels, but...DO YOU LOVE ME?"

Another in my Top 100 of all time.

:toast:

[Dukkha]

20. off the top of my head

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

27. Eddie Van Halen, the man who "brought back the guitar"...

I remember the end of the disco era, at work in a warehouse for $1.75 an hour, when out of the little transistor radio we all shared came ROARING "You Really Got Me"...and all of a sudden, kids in suburbs all across America picked up their guitars, paid for lessons, got into bands...of course, we ended up with a lot of crappy bands as a result, but EDDIE...as arrogant and egotistical as he may be...MADE IT COOL TO PLAY THE GUITAR AGAIN.

[stevedeshazer]

21. Wipers

Over The Edge

[Bridget Burke]

22. "The Blasters"

Except it was never released as a CD. The most excellent folks at Rhino Records now offer "Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings". So you can hear "Marie, Marie", "American Music", "Border Radio", "Long White Cadillac", etc. I've got a bunch of this on vinyl but will be getting the CD.



I agree with many of the preceding albums, but nobody had mentioned The Blasters yet.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

23. "American Pie" by Don McLean

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

28. I was waiting....and hoping...and now you have posted...LOL

"Dark Night" was one of the GREATEST soundtrack moments in the Quentin Tarentino / Robert Rodriguez flick "From Dusk Till Dawn." Clooney and Tarentino, driving down the road, all of a sudden "Hot air hung like a dead man"... MAGIC.

"American Music" is probably the greatest "U.S.A." song since the days of Chuck Berry. A lot of people jumped on the "Roots Rock" bandwagon, but these guys...and THESE GUYS:



...were the KINGS.

:toast:

[kodi]

41. Hardline is one of the best rock and roll albums ever recorded.

Trouble Bound
Just Another Sunday
Hey, Girl
Dark Night
Little Honey
Samson and Delilah
Colored Lights
Help You Dream
Common Man
Rock and Roll Will Stand

finally out on cd. i've turned on many a friend to dave alvin

[DemWitch]

26. Just a few

ELO... Face the Music
Boston... Boston
Styx... Grand Illusion
Kansas... Point of No Return
Gerry Rafferty... Baker Street
Steely Dan... Aja

Now heading to the bathroom to get my Geritol :)

[AntiCoup2K4]

29. Can't forget these....

[maveric]

30. Born to Run by The Boss.

Truly displays the american spirit.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

31. Yeah, that and "Nebraska"...the dark side of the American spirit.

I always had special memories of this one because Johnny Cash, in the middle of a creative and commercial renaissance, covered "Highway Patrolman" and "Johnny 99."



Also, many people here have acknowledged Cash as a "rock star" as well as a "country star"...so he should probably be added:

[RandomKoolzip]

33. "Double Nickels on the Dime," the Minutemen.

Also:

Black Flag: Damaged
Jason Falkner: Presents Author Unknown
The Wrens: Secaucus
Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks Vol. 24
James Brown: Revolution of the Mind (Live at the Apollo, Vol iii)

[Warren DeMontague]

37. All the Dick's Picks are good

But #8 is far and away my favorite. At least Disc One.

[bobthedrummer]

34. Most suggestions are goofy-it simply has to be Chuck Berry's Greatest Hits

that is the best authentic American R&R ever.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

36. Carl Perkins once asked Chuck...after he stopped having hits...

..."why aren't you into having hit songs anymore, Chuck?"

Berry replied "If I don't answer that, can I still be your friend?"

But yeah, "America" + "Rock & Roll" = "Chuck."

:toast:

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

35. A few more I just thought of...

[Warren DeMontague]

39. More R.E.M.

I don't think they've put out a bad album, ever. But this one sums up lots of things about America and Politics for me:

[PVnRT]

40. Scarecrow by Mellancamp

Nebraska by Springsteen
Live at Fillmore East by The Allman Brothers
Any of the first three albums by Aerosmith
Highway 61 Revisited by Dylan
Appetite for Destruction by Guns N Roses
Evil Empire by Rage Against the Machine
Ten by Pearl Jam
Nevermind by Nirvana

[Zomby Woof]

42. that's a solid list

I always recommend "Nebraska" - an underrated gem lost in the shadow of its successor.

I like "The Ghost Of Tom Joad" by him too. Which incidentally, Rage does a great cover of.

[kodi]

43. Darkness on the Edge of Town (Bruce), Cosmos' Factory (CCR)

Badlands
Adam Raised a Cain
Something in the Night
Candy's Room
Racing in the Street
Promised Land
Factory
Streets of Fire
Prove It All Night
Darkness on the Edge of Town




Ramble Tamble
Before You Accuse Me
Travelin' Band
Ooby Dooby
Lookin' Out My Back Door
Run Through The Jungle
Up Around The Bend
My Baby Left Me
Who'll Stop The Rain
I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Long As I Can See The Light