 | Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
Buy new: $9.97 / Used from: $2.78 Yes, I am biased...but it is the best rock-n-roll album ever crafted. The garage band roots meets the wall of sound
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 | Back in Black by AC/DC
Buy used from: $1.00 During their most trying times...this Aussie band reaches back and releases its seminal album
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![Revolver [UK]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510D51P8YKL._SL75_.jpg) | Revolver [UK] by The Beatles
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $7.28 This is really just a personal preference...any Beatles album could be argued for the list. This is just my favorite.
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 | Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $5.89 The best selling album of all time. Mind blowing experimentation in sound. The whole thing has been AOR radio staples for decades.
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 | Green by R.E.M.
Buy new: $6.97 / Used from: $0.01 I think this is the Album where they guys from Athens went from College Radio (for those of us who remember that term) staples to major players.
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 | Hysteria by Def Leppard
Buy new: $9.97 / Used from: $5.00 One can argue about the validity of the "hair bands" but they occupied the lead spot in the 80's and this album was the king of the bunch...spinning off something like 7 charting singles.
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 | Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys
Buy used from: $2.99 Look at any top album list and this one is always in the top 10...if not the top 5. Brian Wilson's masterpiece.
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 | Appetite for Destruction by Guns N' Roses
Buy used from: $29.89 The death knell for the hair bands. This cd was everywhere when it came out.
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 | Van Halen by Van Halen
Buy new: $8.97 / Used from: $2.99 I remember hearing it for the first time and thinking to myself..."Whoa, what was that?" The worlds first taste of Eddie.
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 | War by U2
Buy used from: $0.37 The coming out party for the band that has ruled at or near the top of the public conscience for almost three decades now.
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 | Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Greatest Hits by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Buy used from: $2.42 A great retrospective of this rockers career up through the mid ninetees
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 | Physical Graffiti by Led Zeppelin
Buy new: $18.49 / Used from: $8.49 Choosing a Zep Cd will no doubt provoke debate just like it would with the Beatles or the Stones...this is just my personal favorite.
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 | Who's Next by The Who
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $6.00 Out of a failed attempt to follow "Tommy" comes the seminal work from "The Who" is there a tune on this rocker that you don't know by heart?
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 | Hot Rocks, 1964-1971 by The Rolling Stones
Buy used from: $41.74 How do you pick one Stones CD? This is my compromise.
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 | Moving Pictures by Rush
Buy used from: $0.50 The classic release from perhaps the most musically gifted band out there. A bridge from the soaring prog rock compositions of earlier albums to the striaght ahead rockers of later albums.
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 | Learning to Crawl by The Pretenders
Buy used from: $2.50 Often discounted as punk posers...this is personal favorite of mine. I think this album rocks.
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 | British Steel by Judas Priest
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.82 The album used to define British Metal...who hasn't sung the chorus to "Breaking the Law" at the top of their lungs at least once?
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 | Metallica by Metallica
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $4.74 This will be another controversial pick...but again its just my personal favorite.
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 | London Calling by The Clash
Buy new: $7.97 / Used from: $4.39 Maybe one of the most important albums ever made...belongs on any list.
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 | Nevermind by Nirvana
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $2.08 Hello world...this is grunge. Spoken with the force of a hammer to the head. Arguably the album of the 90's.
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![Ghost In The Machine [Digipak]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31MT74YPBQL._SL75_.jpg) | Ghost In The Machine [Digipak] by The Police
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $4.99 Ignoring the huge "Synchronicity" for the album just before it. Amazing musicianship.
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 | Let It Be by The Replacements
Buy used from: $6.49 The godfathers of "College Rock"
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 | Diary of a Madman by Ozzy Osbourne
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $3.66 The peak of his second go-around.
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 | Timepieces: The Best of Eric Clapton by Eric Clapton
Buy used from: $0.01 There have been so many facets to the career of one of Rocks guitar gods...this one documents the early solo stuff.
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 | The Very Best of Cream by Cream
Buy used from: $3.96 Speaking of Slowhand...here he is on the worlds first "power trio"
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 | A Night at the Opera by Queen
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $7.49 My personal favorite from one of the founders of "arena rock." Long live Brian May.
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 | O, Yeah! Ultimate Aerosmith Hits by Aerosmith
Buy new: $14.97 / Used from: $8.65 Again, I cop out from choosing one album and go with a retrospective.
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 | Armed Forces by Elvis Costello & the Attractions
Buy used from: $4.20 A breath of fresh air during the disco era.
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 | Uh-Huh by John Mellencamp
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $1.69 My personal favorite from the king of Heartland Rock
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 | Cheap Trick At Budokan: The Complete Concert by Cheap Trick
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $6.90 Much bigger overseas than here, but these guys are loud. Plus I think "I want you to want me" is one of the best rock songs ever recorded.
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 | Knee Deep In The Hoopla by Starship
Buy new: $5.98 / Used from: $0.94 JUST KIDDING! WANTED TO MAKE SURE YOU WERE PAYING ATTENTION.
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 | Boston by Boston
Buy new: $7.97 / Used from: $5.13 Never one of my favorite bands...but you couldn't be a US citizen in the 70's without at least one copy of this album in the house.
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