Rock Where do you start with rock music?

[Sugar]

maaan, honestly it just depends on what your rock preference is. there's so mant different sounds and sub-genres of rock it's hard to really say what album is the pure "Illmatic" for Rock music. I guess it depends on the sub-genre you get into. Only then will u be able to distinguish which bands and albums are that genre's Illmatic and Nas, ya know?

 

[Milk N Cookies]

Queen to start as of a few years back Fall Out Boy & Gym Class Hereos.
No specific album.

 

[Yoda]

start with the Blues (robert johnson/howlin wolf/muddy waters) ... move to the beatles/stones/dave clark 5.

Then move to the Kinks (contemporaries of the Beatles/British Invasion bands -- but were the first to really use a distorted guitar sound). If you can find any original "garage rock" from this time period, enjoy.

Move to harder rock - Sabbath/zeppelin (who I don't really like -- but you will recognize the blues influence)/ACDC.

Listen to Velvet Underground here. Great way to prepare for the attitude of punk, but with a completely different sound.

Progress to Punk. Ramones/Clash, then Bad Brains/Black Flag/Husker du, then other regional 80s punk sounds (chicago, boston, LA, etc.).

Skip 80s metal in favor of 80s/early 90s "college rock" (early Alternative). Dinosaur Jr, Pixies, Replacements, REM, maybe sonic youth.

Then there's the 90s alternative scene (nirvana, smashing pumpkins, weezer), industrial/noise (big black, ministry - from the 80s ... nine inch nails I guess).

I could go on ad infinitum and never come close to having a decent chronology.

But, the above is a sampling. Listen to those bands, and you'll find your own Illmatics/36 chambers/etc.

laid some game,man

 

[We Ready]

maaan, honestly it just depends on what your rock preference is. there's so mant different sounds and sub-genres of rock it's hard to really say what album is the pure "Illmatic" for Rock music. I guess it depends on the sub-genre you get into. Only then will u be able to distinguish which bands and albums are that genre's Illmatic and Nas, ya know?

Not true...I answered.


Appetite For Destruction

 

[Chamber 36]

start with the beatles. work your way foward and backward from there. or read the album credits. producers will point you in a good direction as well.

personal recommendations (that i don't think have been mentioned yet):
yuck
marilyn manson
foxy shazam
foo fighters
the cure
slayer
jesus and the mary chain
oingo boingo - very much an acquired taste. however, danny elfman is a beast.

 

[Jixson]

As stated it is so hard to nail down a specific "Rock" album as an illmatic, Ready to Die, even a Marshall Mathers LP, or The Chronic.

Hip Hop/Rap have a few sub-genres with the fast rhymes and joke stuff, but for the most part it is all about rhyming or a flow.

Rock doesn't really have that, and I am including everything under the rock category here. You have Metal, which has a bunch of sub-genres(Speed/Death/Heavy/Hair/etc.), but that is still rock music.

Punk is in the same boat, and so on. You can't nail down what is Rock music. Most "Pop" music is under the rock category if you get down to it(exceptions being maybe someone like Britney Spears)

I can't tell you what the icons really are as some people will love it, others will despise it(to be a hipster or not, who the hell really knows).

Something like Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys is considered iconic, but if you don't like a cali-rock style, you won't like it, even if everyone says it is a classic.

I personally don't love Zeppelin, but know what they brought to the genre and respect the. I just don't personally listen to them much.

As for some people not mentioned here that you might look into.

Elvis Costello(early stuff like My Aim is True up to Spike or so)
Rolling Stones of course
Neil Diamond(early. before that America song)
Billy Joel- Piano Man
Buddy Holly
The Killers(after the first album to be honest, which is good, but is outside of a the singles and maybe one or two tracks iffy overall)
The Police
Frank Zappa
U2(early)
Roy Orbison
Rush
David Bowie
Meat Loaf(Bat out of Hell(I and II))

Obviously there are more who are as good or better, but working from these you can see who they influenced, or influenced them.

 

[Brandsdale]

consider what you're in the mood to listening to

I was introduced to Metal first as a kid and progressively listened to different bands as I got older

Find a sound that you like and most genres tend to have the same feel.

Grunge- Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Nrivana
Progressive- Tool, Perfect Circle, Opeth, ISIS
Metal- Megadeth, Slayer, Metallica
NuMetal- Korn, Linkin Park
Alternative- Deftones, Smashing Pumpkins
Indie- Grizzly Bear, MGMT, City and Colour, Arcade Fire
Punk- White Stripes, Green Day

 

[definition]

Punk- White Stripes, Green Day

I ain't mad at you ... but this is about the worst example of punk you could have possibly chosen. Green day may have been a punk band two decades ago, but not anymore.

I'm a big White Stripes fan -- but they just aren't a punk band.

 

[b@squ1@t]

for me it';d be shyt like tool's first album but you cant go wrong with any of em...just about any deftones album but diamond eyes is my favorite

pearl jam's first two albums...soundgarden--superunknown...idk theres so many...stone sour last two albums..slipknot idk breh

nine inch nails albums, mastodon, baroness, periphery, dead letter circus, karnivool, sevendust i could go and on

 

[NotaPAWG]

I ain't mad at you ... but this is about the worst example of punk you could have possibly chosen. Green day may have been a punk band two decades ago, but not anymore.

I'm a big White Stripes fan -- but they just aren't a punk band.

Came to post the exact thing.pretty much.. Green Day arent a punk band. I know thats an elistist thing to say, but they arent.

Black Flag, Crass, The Clash, Minor Threat, Void, The Faith..thats punk.

Green Day is hot topic filtered "punk" which takes away the "punk" edgyness and rebellion leaving them not a punk band

 

[Brandsdale]

I ain't mad at you ... but this is about the worst example of punk you could have possibly chosen. Green day may have been a punk band two decades ago, but not anymore.

I'm a big White Stripes fan -- but they just aren't a punk band.

lol I'm huge on White Stripes but they're considered both simply based on their sound.

but how the hell is Green Day not considered Punk rock? the lyrics and vocals alone embody everything in punk rock. That such a pseudo hipster answer lol explain yourself dawg

 

[Brandsdale]

for me it';d be shyt like tool's first album but you cant go wrong with any of em...just about any deftones album but diamond eyes is my favorite

pearl jam's first two albums...soundgarden--superunknown...idk theres so many...stone sour last two albums..slipknot idk breh

nine inch nails albums, mastodon, baroness, periphery, dead letter circus, karnivool, sevendust i could go and on

 

[Jixson]

lol I'm huge on White Stripes but they're considered both simply based on their sound.

but how the hell is Green Day not considered Punk rock? the lyrics and vocals alone embody everything in punk rock. That such a pseudo hipster answer lol explain yourself dawg

I'll try and take this one on.

Green Day in 1990/91 when the first ep's were released was Punk. At least somewhat
Green Day when Ker Plunk! was released was still considered punk, but there is a lot of experimentation going on on that damn album
Green Day in 1994 on Dookie I would still call punk, but crossing over(yes hipster but work with me here)
Green Day from insomniac to Nimrod are a rock band with some punk twinge still going on slightly(not a lot on nimrod. looking at good riddance especially here)

American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown are what I would call an arena rock group like Styx to be honest. Fantastic albums, but not punk with an exception made for a song or two on each.

uno! Dos! and Tre! lets just not talk about them please. Trying to go back, but when you have 3 albums that maybe have enough alright songs to fill one is not going to help you.

This is coming from someone who is a fan.
Billie Joe is just trying to fukking hard at this point to still be punk. So he will say they are a punk band, when they stopped being one at the very latest after insomniac.

Punk is always the attitude, which Billie has, but you can consider Elvis Costello punk, but would you call him a punk rocker at this point?(excluding the Burt Bacharach album obviously here)

 

[Brandsdale]

I'll try and take this one on.

Green Day in 1990/91 when the first ep's were released was Punk. At least somewhat
Green Day when Ker Plunk! was released was still considered punk, but there is a lot of experimentation going on on that damn album
Green Day in 1994 on Dookie I would still call punk, but crossing over(yes hipster but work with me here)
Green Day from insomniac to Nimrod are a rock band with some punk twinge still going on slightly(not a lot on nimrod. looking at good riddance especially here)

American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown are what I would call an arena rock group like Styx to be honest. Fantastic albums, but not punk with an exception made for a song or two on each.

uno! Dos! and Tre! lets just not talk about them please. Trying to go back, but when you have 3 albums that maybe have enough alright songs to fill one is not going to help you.

This is coming from someone who is a fan.
Billie Joe is just trying to fukking hard at this point to still be punk. So he will say they are a punk band, when they stopped being one at the very latest after insomniac.

Punk is always the attitude, which Billie has, but you can consider Elvis Costello punk, but would you call him a punk rocker at this point?(excluding the Burt Bacharach album obviously here)

I understand and you make sense but overall their genre is punk (only to the point at the least if you were to technically categorize or go to your local music store and try and find their shyt).

Most bands, or at least bands that realize that their fan base is decreasing, try different sounds to appeal to the masses. Prime example is Linkin Park- Meteora and Hybrid Theory are both full fledged rap rock/ nu-metal albums but overtime began experimenting with electronic dubstep feel and brought upon Recharged and Living Things which sound far off from their original shyt but I guess it makes sense since nu-metal aint really popular anymore especially with the electronic music today with Skrillex, DeadMau5 and all that.

 

[Brady-Carter]

Led Zeppelin, greatest band to ever do it...

4 classic's back to back..

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