DewieCox

I guess everybody that doesn't suck was busy?

 I think a perfect album has to be great as a whole piece and if you just want to just listen to individual tracks. It can't have a note of music that rubs just a little funny or song out of place in the tracklisting. Hell, there are albums that are made greater by their imperfections and there are definitely albums I like more than some, what I deem, perfect albums. I'd have tons of albums in the almost perfect category.

Alice In Chains-Unplugged

The Band-S/T

Beatles-Revolver, Abbey Rd

Hendrix-Elecitric Ladyland, Woodstock

Led Zeppelin-IV

MMJ-Z

Pearl Jam-Vs

Pink Floyd-DSOTM, Wish You Were Here

Queen-Night At the Opera

Stones-Sticky Fingers

Tool-Aenima, Lateralus

Them Crooked Vultures-S/T

Van Morrison-Moondance

The Who-Quadrophenia

Wilco-YHT

Not trying to be argumentative but who did they influence that anyone really cares about? I would also say that Pink Floyd and probably Yes are more influential in Floyd's case and successful in Yes' case.

Metallica

Primus

Police

Tool

Dream Theater

Smashing Pumpkins

Pink Floyd has some prog elements, but I put them closer to Zeppelin or The Who than bands like Yes or King Crimson. I think Yes and King Crimson both belong in there, but I'd disagree with anybody saying they are more influential than Rush and I haven't checked sales or attendance numbers but they don't seem as successful.

I know I'm going to get blown up here by Rush fans but I always thought a Hall of Fame was supposed to recognize the best of the best.  To make the Hall, I would think an artist would need to be influential in way that makes them essential to Rock, either by having a body of work that is considered essential or influencing bands that go on to be essential.  I dont think Rush qualify on either count.  They seem like nice guys and a lot of people like them and they certainly have longevity but to me that doesnt equal greatness.  There are a lot of players that played a particular sport for a long time; that doesnt mean they deserve to be in a Hall of Fame.

Rush unquestionably deserve it. Easily the most influential and successful prog rock band ever. Not a whole lot of prog bands are essential, since it's such a niche genre, but they were a major influence on the most recognizable more modern prog bands. I think they're only behind Elvis for consecutive gold albums, and I bet they'd pass him if you didn't count repackaged material.

The Secret To A Happy Ending- Not a huge fan of DBT, but this ones pretty badass.

Rising Low-alot of cool stuff here, worth it for Vic Wooten's rendition of Amazing Grace alone

Meeting People is Easy

The few from the Classic Albums series that I thought were worth a damn and I've seen a good portion of them>>Dark Side of the Moon, Night At the Opera, Band S/T

Beatles Anthology-mother of all music documentaries imo. Wish every band I dug had something like this.

Which One's Pink

Cabin Fever-I'm a sucker for anything that shows much in the way of the recordings of albums.

I thought both PJ20 and Back and Forth were good examples of decent docs that could've been much better if they didn't seem so much like commercials for said bands.

More info, please.

http://www.amazon.com/Pink-Floyd-Story-Wish-Were/dp/B007X6ZRMA

Look up the "Classic Albums" series. They are documentaries on the making of many famous albums, featuring the artists, producers, engineers, etc. The Dark Side of the Moon episode is incredible.

There's a couple of those that are really fantastic, DSOTM included, but alot of them don't really offer any in depth info on the making of the albums. It's cool to hear isolated tracks and all that, but they're just short on actual info. Watch the recently release WIsh You Were Here doc and those just don't compare at at all.

That's a pretty sweet channel deal. They had the big show in Central Park a few weeks ago with Band of Horses, Black Keys and NY+Crazy Horse. The MMJ show was pretty epic, unfortunately my dvr didn't get the whole performance. Didn't realize it was actually live.

They show some other pretty sweet concerts on there as well, stuff from dvd releases.

No wonder Joe is so well liked. Did he just go around giving great guitars away left and right? I believe he gave Page his "number 1" Les Paul as well.

Sold it to him for a fair price in the day. By today's standard I'm sure it's probably the best deal anybody has ever gotten on anything, ever.

It would be cool to see Pete sling around a Les Paul now and then, but they're not very friendly to the old fellas. I think he sounds really good on the stuff I've heard in the last 10-15 years.

Pink Floyd

The Band

Beatles

Dr. Dog

Mastodon

Growing up, I did not have a proper stereo system and listened to pretty much everything on headphones. My early musical tastes ran to Zep, so I always kinda associate those records as great headphone albums. Especially the third album (even though prolly not traditionally thought of as a 'headphone album', per se).

 

That's just crazy talk

Pearl Jam-Binaural

Pink Floyd-Meddle, DSOTM, WYWH

Led Zep- I, III, Phys Graffiti

Hendrix- Electric Ladyland and Axis

Beatles-Revolver, Sgt Pepper's, Abbey Rd

Tool-Aenima, Lateralus

Flaming Lips-Soft Bulletin

Radiohead- The Bends, Ok Computer, Kid A, In Rainbows

^ I still consider Stone lead. My favorite solos on PJ songs (and some all time favorites) are Stone solos

I agree, especially since the op put the Stones in there. Gossard carries most of the first few albums. Maybe not traditional lead in that he plays tons of solos, but he's doing the heavy lifting through the guts of the songs. Listen to what he's doing being the solo on Porch and tell me it's not dual lead.

Black Crowes are another band in a similar vein. Rich carries the tunes and they've almost always have the classic lead player that would follow him, but he's always stepped up for the occasional spotlight moments.

Skynyrd was able to weave 3 guitars better than just about any band I can think of. Try to learn a tune from their heyday and play it on one guitar you gotta jump from part to part and do some fudging to make it sound good on alot of it.

ABB set the standard and bands from just about every genre under the rock umbrella owe them a debt of gratitude.

Beatles have alot of cool interwoven parts. I wouldn't necessarily call them dual lead by what has become the traditional sense, but lot's of nice exchanges and stacked parts throughout their career.

I hope he's not being pushed too hard for others' financial interests.

I don't think that's the case. He had a few members of his family on the road with him. One last tour for the shear joy of it.

I don't know if this counts since it was always only going to be one album and was basically a glorified Chris Cornell solo album, but I'm going with Temple of the Dog.

True he wrote most of the album, but I think there's plenty of the PJ sound to make this more than a CC solo album. I feel like Alain Johannes did the same for Euphoria Morning, as it sure doesn't sound like much else that Cornell has done.

Them Crooked Vultures

Raconteurs

Mad Season

Broken Bells

Brothers of a Feather

A Perfect Circle

Velvet Revolver's first album

you need to buy a bunmch of other crap to get the 180g vinyl

No you don't. You can buy all three of their recent reissues in standalone 180g vinyl. And I'm not into the schwag, but the prices on the Super Deluxe boxes are fairly reasonable.

I point to their ticket prices as exhibit A of their "green disease". Exhibit B might be the increasing price and the decreasing quality of the 10c analog package. Charging $40 for some ugly stickers, a fucking patch, and a really generic letter from Jeff Ament is pretty fucking brash.

Are the Beatles a jam band. No. So, Wilco, the closest thing to being the American Beatles music wise, are not a jam band. Case closed.

Really? I hear some similarities here and there and a few songs that sound like they could be Beatles' tunes but I've never thought that Wilco was ever close enough to the Beatles to be the American Beatles, Dale Murphy articles aside.

I'd say Wilco are right on the fringe of being a jam band, but they're 98% not. Them actually being considered a jam band would stem more from the non music side of things and what appears on their albums and how they play their tunes live takes precedent over that.

If you've never heard it, then how do you know it is not your thing? It actually isn't a bad album.

It's a decent album, with some good singles like all of their albums. And I take the awards for what they're worth, but it most certainly wasn't the best rock album I heard last year.

"not a bad album" doesn't really sound like an album deserving of awards or as much praise as some people seem to be giving it.

That NY Times article has one of the best descriptions of the Foo Fighters I've ever heard.

Seriously, it is a Strokes song with a different singer. Where the hell have the Strokes been lately anyway? Oh yeah, they are writing tunes for Dr. Dog.

I really like Is This It and These Days really does have some similarities to This Modern Age, but it's far from a ripoff. There were even a few other songs on the album that rareair could've been talking about. I think Dr. Dog did it better than any of the Strokes examples.

That says it all. Too bad, that sucks. Absolutely nothing special about the FF to my ears. Yeesh.

But...but.....they recorded it to 2" tape in Grohl's garage and he's such a cool funny guy.

I'm still wondering as to why they were nominated for best rock album?

B/c they made a rock album. I'd be more inclined to wonder what make The Whole Love not a rock album.

I love Gilmour but it's clear when you listen to the post Roger Floyd albums and the various solo albums who the real creative force was in the band.

I disagree. You can't really compare a band in it's prime to what they became 15 to 20 years later. To me that's like saying, you can listen to The Firm and tell who the creative force in Zeppelin was. Pink Floyd, as with most great bands is the sum of it's parts, but if I was gonna give and MVP to the Meddle-The Wall Pink Floyd without a thought it would be David Gilmour. Waters was always great for alot of the lyrical content, but I'd probably put him behind even Rick Wright as a musical force in Pink Floyd until The Wall came around. Even then, without Gilmour's contributions The Wall wouldn't have not achieved near the success or adulation it receives.

I'd love to see some earlier reissues for the vinyl, especially Meddle. Just hope they turn out better than the current crop.

My Heart's Killin' Me-Black Crowes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=petCF6JZ9pE&feature=fvst that fiddle crescendo gets me every time

hoping for somethin where Jack White is the front man

Guess I'm gettin my wish!!

Dr. Dog- Be The Void

The Mars Volta-Noctorniquet

Soundgarden

Pearl Jam

Alice In Chains

Black Sabbath

Tool

Chris Robinson

Band of Skulls

hoping for somethin where Jack White is the front man

I'm not hip enough to be aware of the conventional wisdom out there, but people realize how great The Soft Bulletin is, right? I mean, I am not a huge Lips fan at all, but genius and masterpiece relate to this record. It is a once in a generation record in my mind. The perfect combination of originality, production, lyric/emotion and style. I agree with the pitchfork videos that the only misstep was releasing the album with two alt mixes tacked on. I'm just making sure. It just amazes me how amazing this is whenever I revisit it. So many choices were made on this album that just seem perfection/magic.

Amazing album....The 2 that followed are pretty cool too. Haven't liked a thing about anything they've released since.

This is very strange. The rewards don't seem worth the donation at all. I've contributed to a few kickstarters trying to fund albums - usually you pay $10 - 20 and get a cd out of the deal. $40 for a cd is a bit much, right?

Considering I just bought a signed vinyl copy for less, yes.

I would think he's rolling in the dough with all the touring the Crowes did during the reformation.

He has sold some gear here and there, but it seemed more like stuff he genuinely didn't want around anymore as opposed to wanting to keep it but needing the money.