Need some rock music recommendations

[JJBuffone]

Btw, out of all of those I recommended you should pick up "The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society" first. That might be the one album I listen to the most.

[captZEEbo]

some more stuff to try out:
yes- fragile
guns n roses - appetite for destruction
black sabbath - paranoid
van halen - van halen
the band - music from the big pink

[Wretchy]

I hear this group Air Supply rocks pretty hard.

[Poon Jab]

How come Thin Lizzy always gets shafted when it comes to classic rock suggestions? It amazes me that they never became as big as some other bands from the same era.

[SpaceAce]

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Can you give me some albums for these ..
" rolling stones, the who, jefferson airplane, the kinks, jethro tull, grateful dead, aerosmith, blood sweat tears, crosby stills nash young, neil young, creedence clearwater revival, guess who"

I've got most of the other ones

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The Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed, Exile on Main Street, Beggar's Banquet, Sticky Fingers

The Who: Who's Next?, Live at Leeds, Tommy

Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic Pillow

The Kinks: The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, Something Else by the Kinks

Jethro Tull: Aqualung, Thick As a Brick

Grateful Dead: American Beauty, Workingman's Dead

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

Neil Young: After the Gold Rush, Harvest, On the Beach, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Creedence Clearwater Revival: Cosmo's Factory, Willy and the Poorboys, Green River

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I was going to say "Nice selections" until I realized the original poster asked for these groups specifically. Still, these are good choices.

For The Guess Who, just get The Greatest of the Guess Who or The Guess WHo, 20 Original Hits. Also, since you're picking up Guess Who albums, the next obvious step is Bachman-Turner Overdrive, for which I recommend the Millenium Series Best Of compilation.

Also, you'd be insane to skip The Lovin' Spoonful, The Grass Roots, The Traveling Wilburys and The Hollies.

SpaceAce

[bobhalford]

Queen II is the bollocks

The Kinks - what's above plus Lola and Arthur are both brilliant

Aerosmith is my favorite band - All albums thru Draw The Line are amazing

AC/DC - Everything pretty much through For Those About To Rock. Gets a bit messy after that.

Thin Lizzy - Good call! The Live album Live and Dangerous is well known

Van Halen I and Fair Warning

Cheap Trick - Live At Budokan

The Cult - Get a greatest hits

Deep Purple - Burn, In Rock, etc.

Kiss - Alive!

Montrose - s/t

The Pretenders - I and II

The Police - All

If you really like music I'd just get the Talking Heads DVD Stop Making Sense. Probably one of the greatest bands in all of of pop music.

Metallica - Kill 'Em All (one of the greatest rock albums ever IMO)

...and if you really are serious about rocking out, just skip everything and go straight to Slayer's Reign in Blood and you will never be the same again.

[Misfitsbeevers]

Wolfmother

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sKPPnGsdh0A

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZvQQLL0RHGQ

http://youtube.com/watch?v=J2bA5JuKpQM

http://youtube.com/watch?v=WSHPqC2083E

[AceLuby]

In Minneapolis we have quite a few good rock bands if you want some new stuff. Some bigger bands thrown in as well, I've seen all of them live and they really rock... Just suggestions as I like a lot of the classic rock you like.

Down Lo
God Johnson
Hyentite
Fancy Bastard
Fat Maw Rooney
Wookiefoot
WBPN
All Mighty Senators
The Big Wu
Umphrey's McGee
String Cheese Incident

[KilgoreTrout]

Branch out a bit:
Robert Randolph & the Family Band (R&B/Blues with a hint of gospel and a kickass lap steel guitar).

Ben Harper - fairly mainstream

Keller Williams (not for everyone, but a good guitarist in a folksy/bluegrass sort of way, funny lyrics)

moe. a jam band with talent

Keb' Mo - blues entertainer

[Taso]

Billy Joel - The Stranger, Glass Houses, Streetlife Serenader, River of Dreams

The Who - My Generation (The Very Best of the Who) < sorta a hits collection, perfect album

Blue Oyster Cult - try to find a best of album

Uriah Heep - try to find a best of album