Aquarius27

Perhaps my favorite from the Bon Scott era, an aggressive album, effective riffs, great grit and character. Strange that it is never remembered for what it deserves...

Aquarius27, what's the best for you? I only have Back in Black which I bought recently, but it doesn't do much for me because AC/DC are too "overexposed"; I've always heard them on TV, radio, etc. Let There Be Rock (the song) has been popping into my head for months, but Dirty Deeds seems to be the best along with Back in Black. I don't know...

For me, it’s Back In Black, for many reasons that I won’t explain here or we’d be up all night :)... However, I can’t forget to include among my favorites (all equally worthy), Highway to Hell, Let There Be Rock, Powerage, and High Voltage... The first one is the last with Bon Scott, and it’s truly a great album (many consider it their best)... Let There Be Rock has tracks that will drive you insane; aside from the title track, try listening to "Whole Lotta Rosie" (one of my absolute favorites), Bad Boy Boogie, Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be (the live version at River Plate is something spectacular), and Dog Eat Dog. "Powerage" is their most underrated album... I didn’t like it much at first either, but over time it’s become one of my favorites; just listen to "Riff Raff" or "Sin City" (I mention just these two, but the whole album is amazing) and you’ll understand why!!! "High Voltage" is their album that comes closest to blues... You mention "Dirty Deeds..." which for me is the least good work of the "Bon Scott era" (the albums I mentioned all feature Scott on vocals). It’s a good album, but if you listen closely to the ones I pointed out, it doesn’t hold up in comparison. As you can see, I haven’t included any albums with Brian Johnson (except for Back in Black), because while their style remains unchanged, the records have that little something less compared to the earlier works... Perhaps only, actually definitely, "The Razors Edge" is the best of the post-"Back" era, but a casual listener might not enjoy it as much, while a fan will surely appreciate it more...

However, keep in mind that I'm speaking as a die-hard fan; they're everything to me... My favorite band, so I also appreciate other albums that I haven't mentioned... Since we're on the topic (since I understand you want to listen only to their most successful works), I advise against buying albums like "Fly On the Wall," "Ballbreaker," and "Stiff Upper Lip" blindly, because those are undoubtedly their worst works, and I don't find them great either!!

"I advise against buying sight unseen..."

Yes, I just wanted to buy only the most successful ones. At most, maybe two more. Thanks for the advice, perhaps a bit more than I expected. I still feel a bit lost in an ocean XD. I'll take a look on YouTube. Anyway, I'm definitely leaving High Voltage where it is because I think I've understood what it's about, and I really can't stand it. In the end, the best one seems to be Let There Be Rock, right?

"Let There Be Rock," "Powerage," and "Highway to Hell," and you're good to go :)

"maybe a bit more than I imagined" eeeeee grammar goes to hell once again. Sorry and arigrazie to the three chosen ones.

Three must-haves for me are Back in Black, Let There Be Rock, and Highway to Hell, as already mentioned by Aquarius. However, my all-time favorite remains Powerage.

You're welcome... Then as you can see, Hell also gave you another piece of advice :)

Run away, don't take any of them, they all suck :D Just kidding, I would also focus on the super fun and enjoyable Let There (especially) and Highway to Hell. As for Back in Black, I'd throw it into the first stream that passed by me if I weren't afraid of polluting it.

Tastes are tastes and they shouldn't be discussed, but that phrase about Back in Black really can’t be read.......

No, right? Never mind :)

One of the best of the Johnson era!

Post "Back in Black" is the best...

Well, I agree on that, even though I personally preferred the albums with Bon Scott! I don't know what it has to do with anything, but I just wanted to say it...

The albums with Bon Scott are, I believe, in the hearts of all the band's fans... "Let There", "Powerage", "Highway" (and I always include "High Voltage") are just too important... So yes, it was Scott for life!

Great album!

Definitely their best from the '70s, with "Toys in the Attic" just a notch behind...

This, on the other hand, I could never really accept. Fortunately, they moved on...

I've always liked it a lot, and I particularly enjoyed playing along with it. It's a shame about the very metal production; with a "more Dirt" sound, I would have appreciated it a hundred times more. It still often comes back on in my car.

No, it’s not inferior, it’s different, much more metal...

It’s not a perfect album, it’s not definitive, but it still has some of the most precious gems of the Alice in Chains repertoire. And that’s enough.

Man In The Box, Bleed The Freak, Love Hate Love send chills down my spine with every listen...fantastic debut

For me, superior to Tripod and lower, but not by much, than Dirt. Very raw but less distorted and liquid, more of a direct punch to the stomach (Put you down, I can't remember, Sunshine are tracks that I hadn’t felt at first contact with Alice but that I learned to appreciate a lot), compared to the slow and acidic decomposition of Dirt.

Too many memories. A record I’ve overplayed. But I just can't listen to it anymore today. It’s been years since I even tried again. Anyway, one of the albums of my life, back in the day.

Same as Silas..

I have consumed "Dirt." But my favorites in hindsight remain this and the previous year's EP, "Jar Of Flies"...

Everyone is beautiful, but I, like Silas, am part of the "three-legged dog" party.

Yes, this is and will remain one of the most beautiful and intense unplugged sessions. Layne is superb, but the rest is no less impressive; tracks like Sludge Factory and Frogs reinterpreted in an acoustic key do not lose any of their dark charm at all.

Yes, chills, great emotions, but also a lot of suffering and sadness... I'm serious, I've always loved Layne and seeing him like this has always left a bitter taste in my mouth for how the demons of this man could devour him... Now I'm going to listen to him a bit!

Yes, chills, great emotions, but also a lot of suffering and sadness... I'm serious, I've always loved Layne and seeing him like this has always left a bitter taste in my mouth for how the demons of this man could devour him... Now I'm going to listen to him a bit!

Beautiful, on par with the most famous Unplugged by Nirvana.

I would also add the one by Pearl Jam, but the one by AIC is different and unique.

Beautiful. I had it on VHS. Staley was as magnetic as he was 'tried'. Here the game was clearly slipping out of his hands, having also gone through the same swamps myself and seen the A.I.C. just three years before when they came to Milan for the 'Dirt' tour, when he was still openly 'in control' of his choices. And of his mind. Immense. Part of my (early) life.

Brother...

One of the most beautiful EPs of all time. The peak of Alice along with the subsequent tripod... at least for me.

Really beautiful

Can you give it to me as a gift, guys?

After Dirt, my favorite. I should get it on vinyl, I keep postponing!

Masterpiece. It digs deep within you.

Like Linus's blanket to me...

I prefer Kennedy with Slash as a solo artist. This album isn't even bad, but unfortunately, it doesn't say anything to me...

I listened to it all the way through just the other day. For me, it's not five stars, but it's very nice, especially the second part...

First piece that is 100% worthy of the much more famous homonymous track by Sodom.

Let's say "Dragon" that the fairest score would be a 4, and I agree too, but I gave it a 5 because despite losing a friend, they produced an extraordinary album...

You like to win easily, huh ;)

...and to think that the title track was composed as a filler to stretch the album's length by a few minutes! I am an anti-classicist when it comes to music. It's rare for a piece of history that has also conquered the mainstream to be one of my favorite tracks. For example, it's uncommon for me to find myself humming... I don't know? Smoke On the Water, Whole Lotta Love, Back in Black... but I must say that Paranoid (the song) still manages to captivate me. That's not like me! Ah, you forgot to mention Hand of Doom, a piece that single-handedly introduced heavy, doom, and thrash metal in one go! Now that track is a true, misunderstood piece of history!

Drago, I put "etc" so I wouldn't reveal too much; otherwise, I would have had to list all the pieces of this masterpiece... Anyway, since one was mentioned by you, I'll add the others: "Electric Funeral, Planet Caravan, Rat Salad, Fairies Wear Boots"... in one word "HISTORY"...

And that voice then... ahhhhhh

To reconnect with the review of "Mob Rules" by the late chiccotana, I can only say that, well, these are the Black Sabbath I love.

This is a masterpiece. Period. Hearing War Pigs sends me into ecstasy.

And to think that at first I didn't like "Planet Caravan"

Undeniable album, for me the best is "Into the Void."

I'm stuck on the first two masterpieces. I need to catch up on this one. :)

SydBarrett96: you should know this classic ad vomitum.

You absolutely have to make it right, Syd...

Best BS album, for me it outclasses Paranoid from any angle you look at the "outclassing" issue.

Sure guys, I already have it on my list. I'll take care of it soon.

After "Paranoid" but before any other of their releases. Stratospheric album.

Masterpiece. Just like the previous two, after all. But "Vol.4" and "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" were no joke either. Then they started to decline for me..

Damn, let's reevaluate "Volume 4," which is fabulous. Then, I agree with Silas; "Sabotage" is good but definitely not as great as the first five. The last two with Ozzy aren't much to write home about, and "Heaven and Hell" brought a bit of fresh air into their music but with a style that doesn't blow me away. In the pantheon, for a quintet of monstrously beautiful albums.

"Vol.4" and "Sabotage" two great albums... "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" almost a masterpiece.. Between "Ecstasy" and "Never" I don't know which one is the worst of the Ozzy era... "Heaven and Hell" masterpiece... "Mob Rules" great album... just like "Born Again"... "Seventh Star" nice but nothing more... "Eternal Idol" and "Headless Cross" two great albums... "Tyr" nice but inferior to the first two... "Dehumanizer" can be liked or not, I'm in the middle... "Cross Purposes" nice... "Forbidden" the only real misstep in their discography... "13" brings us back to the old Sabbath of the good times!!

I am definitely cooler compared to the albums released after 1975.

Snowblind remains one of their absolute best songs; the rest, as you say, is also inferior to the first three, in my opinion. Their peak for me remains the one prior to this.

one of their best for me (along with the other top 5 and Heaven and Hell and Headless Cross and a couple of others that I can't think of right now :D)

Melisandre (or Carice, call her what you like) would bring the dead back to life from halfway around the world thanks to the body and face she has, without uttering those random words spoken in the series... Although I must say that I’ve never really liked her character... Instead, the image of Jon Snow Stark (or Targaryen) will remain, at least until his sword pierces Thorne's chest or until Ghost sinks his teeth into Olly :D :D ......

I really like Van Houten, besides the fact that she’s hot, ever since I heard her writing songs with Howe Gelb and Marc Ribot and covering Kate Bush's tracks :D Melisandre covering Kate Bush is quite a sight, isn't it?

damn ittttttt...don't spoil GOT :D

I didn't know she was also a singer... She has a beautiful voice, to make a long story short, Carice is like a pig, you don't throw anything away :D

Great record!

Hank, that Gion "I don't know shit" Sno would have resurrected is the least spoiler spoiler in history XD Van Houten's album isn't anything special, but still, the track with Marc Ribot is nice (and thanks).

"The return to the sounds of the beginnings" Ehhh?

...in fact, the album sounds much heavier compared to the hard doom of the early records. I believe it means it returns to being decadent and dark; in fact, the last two with Ozzy had somewhat lost the gloomy and unhealthy vein of the 70-75 period. Nevertheless, I want to say that "Techncal Ecstasy" from '76, I really like a lot. This one, we won't even mention...

But it's not decadent and dark, and it's still very far from the sounds of the early albums, beautiful or not, like it or not, it's a fresh album precisely because it's completely different from the beginnings (and Ronnie James' "epic" vein had quite an influence, I believe). It’s lightyears away from the distorted Hard-Blues and the Doom seed of the early albums; they are two utterly distant universes...

It sounds much more like early Black Sabbath than the tired late Ozzy era. The title track is an example of that! It’s clear that it’s more influenced by Dio, but here I personally hear a lot of Black Sabbath from the '69-'75 period rather than '76-'78!

Ronnie James in Sabbath resumes the conversation interrupted in Rainbow in his own way, less doom and more epic, revitalizing the band and offering Iommi new ideas to shine with his riffs. The only legendary band re-emerging in the fiery NWOBHM scene as a reference point for the evolution of an entire genre. In this album, the balance between the parts was almost perfect.

Cute but I don't love the divine Black Sabbath ;) It's a matter of sounds.

The sounds and atmospheres of the early albums are unmatched, no doubt about it, but they have always maintained a high standard in all the albums post-Ozzy! For example, I really love the Tony Martin era as well, especially the album "Headless Cross"...