Your top 12 Hard Rock albums?

Psychedelic Paul wrote: Tyr is my favourite Black Sabbath album by far.

Superb album.

Saperlipopette! wrote: -finally I guess I consider both Flower Travellin' Band (Satori) and High Tide (Sea Shanties) too Heavy and too Psychedelic to be Hard Rock. To me Hard Rock needs just a little more straight forward/meat-and-potatoes kind of approach than those represent. But I thought of including those two albums myself. Black Widow (Sacrifice) again feel a tad to soft and nice to be considered anything "hard". I still thought of that album too for my own list.

Logan wrote: I would call Black Sabbath both "hard rock" and "heavy metal" based on the 1970 to 1975 period which I know best, and some other stuff, which also has doom metal qualities. Heavy metal being a kind of development of hard rock, music can be described as both.

Edited by David_D - December 20 2024 at 19:04

David_D wrote: ^^ But I reckon that I won't list Paranoid anymore as one of my favourite Metal albums.

I can't manage a Top 12, but I can just about manage an A-Z list of 25 Hard Rock favourites. 

Sabbath's home city of Birmingham still had the heavy industry back in the sixties which is where the term 'Metal' came from I believe. They grew up around the factories hearing the constant pounding of the massive hammers and it was a big influence on their style. I was in Birmingham at the weekend and it was fun to see the Black Sabbath bench above the canal area in Broad Street. In general there are still a lot of signs of its industrial past with wonderful old buildings that have been converted into restaurants and other establishments. Love the place!

In no specified ranking but almost

Led Zeppelin IV
Thin Lizzy : Live and Dangerous
Golden Earring : Together
Led Zeppelin II
Deep Purple : Machine head
Scorpions : Fly to the Rainbow
The Who : Who's next
Uriha Heep : Live
Aerosmith : Rocks
Deep Purple : Made in Japan
Sahb : Live
Golden Earring : Live (first)
Humble Pie : Rockin' The Filmore
Led Zeppelin : I

Edited by mellotronwave - December 20 2024 at 15:41

Iantumaros wrote: Cristi wrote: with Priest ( and a few others in the late 70s, plus the rise of NWOBHM), metal started to stand on its own, musically and even lyrically.  It is with a profound sense of regret that I must articulate to you that the heavy metal as a subgenre commenced its significant ascent to prominence within the realm of the heavy rock genre several years antecedent to the emergence of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM). Furthermore, it's noteworthy that the inaugural albums associated with NWOBHM, such as Motörhead's debut album, were still frequently labelled by numerous critics and aficionados as "hard rock." Budgie, Crash Course in Brain Surgery, single 1971

verslibre wrote: Cristi wrote: verslibre wrote: Black Sabbath – Mob Rules Def Leppard – High 'N' Dry Dio – Holy Diver Judas Priest – Point of Entry Motorhead – Another Perfect Day All these (albums) are heavy metal in my book.  Leppard aren't metal. Sabbath pops up a lot in the thread. Motorhead are "rock and roll"!