Top 10 Classic Rock Albums! Vinyl Essentials for Any Collection. 

this man is the bob ross of vinyl

Absolutely agree, glad that I also have all of that albums. Apriciate your taste and knowledge. Cheers!!!

Great list. My list....1)jethro Tull benefit 2) Beatles revolver 3)Black Sabbath vol4 4)Pink Floyd animals 5)Humble Pie live at Fillmore 6)Jimi Hendrix axis bold as love 7) Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy 8)King Crimson court of the crimson king 9)David Bowie Aladdin insane 10) Alice Cooper killers....not in any particular order lol.

Wow ! Really in-depth insight here! I’ve heard people talk about these albums, but you take it to another level. You really know your stuff! 👏🏼👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼

Solid list man. A lot of my all time favorites. Especially Big Pink and Ziggy Stardust.

I agree, I love dark side, but WYWH is still my favorite, shine on you crazy diamond is one of the greatest opening tracks I’ve ever listened to

I have never seen such a great vinyl collection in my life from someone on youtube ,👏👏👏

I agree, Wish You Were Here is better than Dark Side of The Moon.

This is the first VC video with a list of albums where I have every single one of them and agree with the list. Great pick of albums.

You had me on the edge of my seat the whole time love how you took me on a journey of your picks and why. And your undying respect for the music we all worship five stars to you

Once again, as with all ur lists, I could not possibly agree more! SUPER SOLID picks (and Hon. Mentions), top-to-bottom, would not change a thing--even "controversial" picks like "Wish You Were Here" v "Dark Side" 4 this list; very tough call but fully agree. This is a dude who knows his Rock right here.

Solid choices! These would make a great “Classic Rock Starter Pack” for someone just getting into classic rock on vinyl

Enjoyed hearing your classic rock picks. This period (1970-1975) was when I formed my musical tastes that endure to this day. I've owned 90% of those on vinyl. Paranoid was the first one I ever bought in '71. We just vary on which albums we liked better by each artist. ( Dark Side, Close to the Edge,Sticky Fingers,Live @ the Fillmore, etc.).

It wasn't LZ I,II,III,IV, Physical Graffiti, Houses of the Holy in the first 6 slots? ;)

That was fun. It’s your channel, your taste, and your record store. Hell, you can do whatever you want bro. I liked your list. It put a smile on my face because most of those albums provided the soundtrack of my young life. From age 12 onward. I was trying to grow up as these were originally released. Back when I was rocking a Pioneer receiver, a Dual turntable, and an Akai reel-to-reel. Thanks for this. Still smiling and wanting to go crank my stereo rig up. 👍🏼😎🎶

I completely agree with you that Wish You Were Here is Pink Floyd’s best album! Meddle is second for me, an extremely underrated album.

Man that was a great list. I love the passion you have for classic rock and I share your love for all these bands and records. LZ is also my favorite band and I usually pick four of their records in my top 10. Glad that you also chose King Crimson, who are practically the Godfathers of prog rock, and Rush, my second favorite band. Good stuff

Glad to see sabbath in the list it was paranoid that got me into rock at the tender age of three,two older brothers to thank for that

Literally just got finished listening through In the Court of the Crimson King about an hour ago. Such a fantastic record.

Great Top Ten & Honorable Mentions. All Fantastic Albums. :-)

Mate thanks for this.. I'm mr middle of the road and thought i should re educate myself, so i googled top rock albums and just listening to your number 10 working way through... half way through the doors, awesome man thanks!!

Good list... I respect that you put King Crimson on a "mainstream" list.

Great list...I am lucky to have all the lp's in your top 10 and most of your honorable mentions

Great top ten, well chosen and justifiable classics. Agree with your number one too. Great stuff.

Solid picks, and stances well-defended. Always neat to see the kind of copies that a record store guy has in his own collection. Going in there a guy would need a couple thousand bucks, that or a cup for the drool/tears lol. Best of fortune with it for years and years, we salute you

Solid. Dig the honorable mentions. Especially the Rush & Creedence. Respect ✊

Can't argue with any of that, right period great top 10 pick; Hats off to you!

Man.. loved this post !!! It is really difficult to rank such period/style of music. But, most important it is to share tastes among vynil fans/collectors/addicts. Rock you 😎

Great list man, I think it's important for people just getting into vinyl who maybe didn't grow up with rock to know where to start! Also could you do a top 10 "Deep cut" classic rock LPs? Stuff you think is essential for the people who love the Stones, Zeppelin, Hendrix, Who style rock, that'd be a great list and the comments could be a great place for discussion as well

What an era! Fans of classic rock could put up a top 100 list and not be satisfied!

Excellent delivery.

Great list. Some other honorable mentions: Stooges Debut Album, Aerosmith Toys In the Attic, Lynyrd Skynyrd Debut Album, and The Who Who’s Next

Moving pictures. As a drummer and Rush being my favourite band I was so glad to see this on the list because as lots of people sadly know the mainstream is very biased against them

ZEP II is my favorite Zeppelin album too. Quadrophinia has to be in my top 10. Love your lists!

Dude, amazing review!

Solid. Solid. I was waiting for Born to Run in the honorable mentions, and there it wasn't :)

Huge Zep fan here. Have the symbols tattooed on my arm. I’m 55 now. I was 14 when I heard Ramble on for the first time and I was hooked. I love them all but 2 and graffiti are my favorites.

Rush, Moving Pictures came out way after 1975. I think 1981.

Killer! I will say that, having grown up listening to classic FM rock radio in the late 70s/early 80s, the song 'In The Court Of The Crimson King' was in fairly regular rotation in late night programming. I was very familiar with that song long before I bought the album. Of course anyone younger probably missed out on those days of FM classic rock.

Ahh, like a breadth of fresh air, lol! No ultra obscure, impossible to find, uber expensive, out of reach titles to be had here in this video (as long as you stick to regular ol' domestic pressings/reissues etc.! ;-) )100% with ya on the Sabbath pick. Love it.

My top ten single albums ( dessert I land ) Zeppelin III Houses of the holy Give us a wink Gimme back my bullets Rumours Machine Head 2112 Aerosmith debut Cars debut Boston debut Diver down Kate Bush - throw a dart at a chart - first 4 Nazareth- never get to the island trying to decide

Excellent top 10!!!!

I agree 66 to 75 are the ground breaking years of popular rock and roll music.Great picks I would do it slightly different but I can definitely agree those are all essentials.

Loved every minute of this. Solid list. Though my heart broke just a bit when Abraxas didn’t make the top 10. (The honorable mention made up for it.)

I have to agree with your pick of "Wish you were here" over "The Dark Side of the Moon". All in all a very good list.

Can’t argue with your choices; I particularly like that you included Wish You Were Here - I prefer it to Dark Side of the Moon but I love them both

Seventeen minutes in and we finally get to the Allman Brothers Band. It was worth the wait although if I'm picking one it has to be Live at Filmore East. Cheers. Great list of essential albums.

One incredible record that is top of my list...highway robbery -for love or money, such an amazing under rated record 1972

5. Darkside of the Moon 4. Sticky Fingers 3. Electric Ladyland 2. Zeppelin lV 1. Who's Next Just my opinion, right. Just discovered your show and really enjoyed binging on it. Great job, Dillon. PS. When people ask me, "Beatles or Stones?" my response is always "Kinks or Who!"

Great list! Love that you have Wish you were here #2 and Led Zeppelin II #1!

I found a lady on Facebook that had a ton of records for sale she was adamant about $3 a piece and I was low on money so I just grabbed what I like she had three copies of Let it bleed one in mint condition with the poster in it the other two not so great that were really scratched and of course I accidentally grabbed one of the bad ones. By the time I found out and contacted her she already sold all of them to a local record store at I'm sure a discount. In the future I know now to take my time. Let It Bleed is definitely a great album and one of the reasons is Nicky Hopkins on piano without a doubt one of the best piano players

Excellent selections! As you said, they are your opinion so none are wrong. I lean more toward the 1967 debut album "Are You Experienced" for the Jimi Hendrix selection (My personal favorite is "Axis: Bold as Love"). As far as core classic rock it includes "Purple Haze", "Foxy Lady", Hey Joe", "The Wind Cries Mary" and "Manic Depression". Talk about colorful influential sonic canvases. Rock on Dillon!

If you were looking for a more hard rock focused list, allow me: Appitite For Destruction - Guns N Roses 1984 - Van Halen Dr. Feelgood - Motley Crue Back In Black - AC/DC Metal Health - Quite Riot Ride The Lightning - Metallica Pyromania - Def Leppard Open Up And Say. . . Ahh!! - Poison Boston - Boston Stay Hungry - Twisted Sister 15 - Buckcherry Paranoid - Black Sabbath Blizzard Of Ozz - Ozzy Osborne Blackout - Scorpions Skid Row - Skid Row Amongst others that I can't think of right now

Awesome!! Big records!! 🇧🇷

Great picks Dillon👌🏼🔥

I am 63 and I knew all these records for more then 50 years. As you do I lnow every note of them and my taste is the same as yours. Agree fully with this list. Congratulations to share you expertise

JUST picked up Yes’ Fragile! 🔥 great record alongside all of the other picks mentioned

Love your videos man, great list. Love the Cosmos mention, to me that album has everything great about classic rock. It’s got the blues, the psychedelia, it’s got the rockabilly tracks, a killer soul cover, country, and flat out rock. And even though it has all those elements, every song is unmistakably Creedence, and a great snapshot of that era. What a band. I think only Zep can stand up to them when it comes to a long chain of perfect records with no duds. Zep 1-6, creedence first 6 albums. I’d almost include Beatles’ Rubber Soul all the way to Abbey Rd, except I never liked Sgt Pepper’s (yeah I know, I can’t help it). Can’t think of any other bands with 6 albums in a row of that high a quality. Hell even my favourite band the Stones best run was 4 (beggars to exile). If only they did Some Girls and Tattoo You a little sooner...

Great list Dylan. I have 8 of the 10 and some of the honorable mentions. Have plans to buy the King Crimson. I agree with the Pink Floyd choice, Wish would be my 1st choice the Animals. Keep it coming.

Great choices

Great picks!

Santana Abraxas!! Right there with you!

Enjoyed this man.

My picks are: #1. The Chicago Transit Authority (Chicago's first album) #2. Physical Graffiti #3. Revolver #4. Who's Next #5. Pet Sounds #6. Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Band #7. Are You Experienced? #8. Zofo - (Led Zeppelin 4) #9. The Doors - (first album) #10. Let It Bleed Honorable Mentions: Cheap Thrills, Brain Salad Surgery, Cosmos Factory, Dark Side Of The Moon, and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

1. Abbey Road (The Beatles) 2. Zeppelin IV (Led Zep) 3. Machine Head (Deep Purple) 4. L A Woman (The Doors) 5. Hotel California (The Eagles) 6. Zeppelin II (Led Zep) 7. Boston (Debut album) 8. Who's Next (The Who) 9. Disraeli Gears (Cream) 10. Slow Hand (Eric Clapton)

Hey Dillon , great top ten. Cheers Snowy

Great list Dillion 👌🏼

Those are all great albums!

Totally agree with your choices, all great albums and I own them all. Surprised you didn’t have the original Electric Ladyland cover though

Great top ten list. Pretty close to mine , close to the edge and dark side for me in my list. No doors no stones for me. Take care great job

Great lineup. I would agree on a majority of these albums. I personally would add one album that personally affected me. Days of future passed moody blues. It blew me away how every part of the day lines up perfectly with the music

I have a green I wish you were here. Love it.

Youdda man,man,You are great at what you do,I know,like you, what I like,VOODOO CHILE is forever embedded in my memory banks from a 14 yr old kid in 72,I went to a show in South Bend and found an absolute" gem" to me,but I'm nuttier than a Pay Day, " The Sensational Alex Harvey Band " NEXT" ,he to me is a lost gem of how music ,humor,and theatrics all made music unique " Next" will have you smiling like a butcher's dog. Keep being you, John

Awesome Video

Don’t mean to argue about your list... but it’s hard not to put « Highway 61 revisited » (or anything Dylan recorded until « John Wesley Harding ») as one of the most influencial records for the rock music that was emerging then...

I would love to see a top 10 live albums video, since you specifically didn’t cover them in this one!

Your opinion.........is excellent. Thank you.

Awesome picks Dillion. I would have picked alot of the same ones too.

Well made list once again, greetings from Greece, i would also put -Queen - A Night at the Opera -Deep Purple - In Rock -Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

I know you said up to 1975, but when taking about classic rock you have to go to at least 1976, and mention Boston’s 1976 debut. Fantastic dual guitars, a pulsing rhythm section and of course the soaring vocals of Brad Delp - one of the greatest voices ever. Not a single bad song on the entire album. “Something About You” is one of the greatest songs ever laid to tape.

Good stuff...even though it's a personal choice, you can't argue with your selections.

Great time span to work to. Good Doors choice. Crimson live were really loud. Heard Starman on a car radio hitch hiking from Turkey to UK in 1972 and was blown away. Sorry like B Sabbaths 1st . Great choices My favourite there The Grateful Dead

Haha…I love that you preference this video that it’s your opinion. I may have to start doing that on my videos. Every time I rank albums and down countdowns people do nuts that I didn’t include something. But all of these things are just our opinions. Any way it made me have a good laugh.

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I used to think Dark Side of the moon was the best Pink Floyd Album. Over time I have learned to Love Meddle. It will always be my favorite Pink Floyd album. of course I believe all Pink Floyd albums are fabulous IMHO. Pink Floyd will always be the best ever rock band of all time. Regards from Ody Slim BTW, I was born in 1960 so have had plenty of time to form on opinion.

Nice list man. Personally i would change Paranoid for Masters of Reality, Zep II for Physical Graffitti, Electric Ladyland for Axis Bold as Love. Throw in Montrose by Montrose, Night at the Opera by Queen , Machine Head by Deep Purple , Quadrophenia by the Who, Johnny the Fox by Thin Lizzy amongst many others but music is subjective, we love what we love, the world would be a duller place if we all thought the same way.

Great list do a top 10 soul!!! Here's my 10 classic rock: 1. Physical Grafitti 2. Velvet & Nico 3. Number 1 Record - Big Star 4. Abby Road 5. All Things Must Pass - George Harrison 6. Exhile on Main St. - Stones 7. Blind Faith - '68 s/t 8. Animals - Floyd 9 Electric Ladyland 10 Paranoid - BS

Led Zeppelin II = All thrill, no fill! 🤘

I am 65 yrs old and we agree on most of your list. I would have put "In The Court Of The Crimson King" higher on the list and would have left off Bowie. I never considered Bowie and later punk to be classic rock. There were too many great bands and albums that should have that spot. I definitely agree that the cut off on ground breaking classic rock was 1975. I turned my radio off during the disco crap and focused on my albums I had collected from the mid 60's to the early 70's.

Agreed, Let It Bleed is the best Rolling Stones album. Great video, hard to choose just 10.

I’m pretty much with you with most of those. Especially The Doors, Zeppelin and Bowie. I’d have to personally drop a Who album in there and something by Deep Purple as well.

Hi Dillon, Like your impressions of each album. Bought most of these when they came out.One way we would find out about these bands would be listening to FM radio. ( WOUR in Utica,NY for me ) Thanks for making this video, take care.

Agreed on Wish You Were Here.... Shine On You Crazy Diamond parts, I believe, I-V is an amazing experience on a high end (vintage) audio setup. Then followed by Welcome To The Machine.... oh man!

Top 10 picks are very good. You can do a top 100 and still not include them all. So much to choose. Records n albums n music that came out in late 60’s to mid 70’s are all on top. That period was the best for rock music. Thumbs up! 👍

Saw you ask the question on IG & I nearly replied with Appetite For Destruction. Glad I didn’t now! I was so sure you’d pick The Who after you mentioning so many 60/70’s British bands. I know nothing about The Greatful Dead so I’m off to check them out 👍🏼

My own Top Ten Van Morrison : Veedoon Fleece Neil Young : Harvest Terry Callier : The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier Happy Monday’s : It’s Great When You’re Straight Stereo MCs :;Supernatural The Doors : LA Woman The Monks : Black Monk Time Motörhead : Ace Of Spades Bob Dylan : Nashville Skyline ACDC : High Voltage

Great picks. Of course everybody's list would be different but that's what makes us all unique.....how we hear the music that means so much to us. With that being said I would like to speak with you about opening a record shop in salisbury nc and wondered if you had any tips. Really enjoy your channel and wisdom always informative.

Great video! The Stones let it bleed is spot on the Dead it is too close to call with working mans and American. Thank for share with the VC

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Great list.