Name 3 perfect pop/rock albums: A Thread by Dale Wisely

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1

Well, perfect or near-perfect. I’ll start.

Joni Mitchell: Court and Spark
The Who: Who’s Next
Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon

2

Olias of Sunhillow - Jon Anderson
Ommadawn - Mike Oldfield
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band - The Beatles

Too easy!

Machine Head - Deep Purple
Led Zeppelin IV (Zoso) - Led Zeppelin
Apostrophe - Frank Zappa

djm

3

Sgt. Pepper
Excitable Boy - Warren Zevon
Dire Straits

4

200 Motels
CSNY 1st album
Dark side of the moon

5

Bat Out of Hell I & II – Meat Loaf
The Grand Illusion – Styx
Days of Future Past – the Moody Blues


–James

6

The Lion and the Cobra, Sinéad O’Connor
The Lion and the Cobra, Sinéad O’Connor
The Lion and the Cobra, Sinéad O’Connor

7

Jeff Beck - Truth
Deep Purple - Maching Head
Blood, Sweat & Tears - Child Is Father To The Man

8

Good choices Denny…

9

I kinda like

The Beatles - Abbey Road
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I
Are You Experienced - The Jimi Hendrix Experience

10

Cheap Thrills Janis Joplin w/ Big Brother and the Holding Co.

Axis:Bold As Love Jimi Hendrix

the white album The Beatles - torn between this and Revolver

11

A Hard Day’s Night – The Beatles
Layla (and stuff) – Derek and the Dominoes
Odessey and Oracle – The Zombies

12

Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band

Tie: Abba / Waterloo
and Paul Anka / Having My Baby

Westlife / Unbreakable Vol 1 - The Greatest Hits

13

The Beatles — Rubber Soul
Chuck Berry — Is On Top (miraculously from before the era of taking care with LPs)
Bob Dylan — Highway 61 Revisited

Revolver can’t really be left off and Court and Spark and the Hendrix choices all deserve a place. There are lots really, but when you think of how many have been released over teh years, not all that many.

14

Black Sabbath: Paranoid
Dio: Holy Diver
Ozzy Osbourne: Blizzard of Oz
also anything by Neil Young and Lynard Skynard and Pink Floyd.

15

Savoy Brown - Street Corner Talking
Greatful Dead - American Beauty
Santana - Abraxas

16

Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
Captured - Journey
Threshold of a Dream - Moody Blues

17

Aqualung-- Jethro Tull
After Bathing At Baxter’s-- Jefferson Airplane
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme-- S&G

Three aren’t enough-- I’d need to add the first Crosby Stills and Nash, and quite a few more. These are just ones I didn’t see listed already.

18

The Band - Rock of Ages
Marianne Faithfull - Broken English
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

19

The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

The Beatles: Revolver

The Beatles: A Hard Days Night

20

The Beatles: Revolver
Led Zepplin: Led Zepplin 4
Rush: Moving Pictures