TNT’S PICK
50 Greatest Albums of All Time
(Rock/ Progressive/ Metal)
The Beatles
Essential Album: Revolver
With record sales estimated at more
than a billion worldwide, no other
band had a greater influence on the
course of rock music.
The Eagles
Essential Album: Their Greatest Hits
Another of rock’s long-lasting acts.
Their 1976 greatest hits album is the
biggest selling album of all time.
Guns ‘n’ Roses
Essential Album: Use your Illusions
1&2
One of the biggest and best hard
rock acts from the eighties. This
band was dubbed as the baddest
band on the planet. From Axl Rose
to Slash this band had it all, looks,
charisma and performance.
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Pink Floyd
Essential Album: Wish You Were
Here
At the vanguard of the Progressive
Rock movement, they have sold
more than 200-million albums since
1967. One of the first bands to use
light shows and fireworks in their live
performances.
Led Zeppelin
Essential Album: Led Zeppelin IV
Their “Stairway To Heaven” is
believed to have received more
radio airplay than any other song
in history, even though it was never
released as a single.
U2
Essential Album: Achtung Baby
When Bono sings the world listens,
when he speaks the leaders react. This
Irish band started from the streets of
Dublin and went on to become the
best in the business .Today they are
one of the few serious bands whom
the world stands up and listens to.
Guns n Roses
The Who
Essential Album: Who’s Next
One of the first, most successful, and
longest lasting power bands, The
Who were innovative both musically
and technically.
The Rolling Stones
Essential Album: Sticky Fingers
The original “bad boys” of rock, the
Stones are among the most durable
bands, recording and touring with
few breaks since they began in
1961.
The Doors
Essential Album: The Doors
In spite of a short life and limited
discography, they became one of
rock’s most popular and influential
groups.
Led Zeppelin
Dire Straits
Essential Album: Sultans of Swing
Although the band was formed in
an era when punk rock reigned,
Dire Straits worked within the
conventions of classic rock, albeit
with a stripped-down sound that
appealed to modern audiences
weary of the overproduced stadium
rock of the 1970s.Dire Straits and
Mark Knopfler have sold in excess of
118 million albums to date.
Rolling Stones
Boston
Essential Album: Boston
When their first album was released
in 1976, it was the highest grossing
debut album ever seen up until that
time.
Van Halen
Essential Album: 1984
One of the most innovative and
influential Heavy Metal groups of
the late ‘70s, the group continues
to perform some 30+ years after its
inception.
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Nirvana
Essential Album: Nevermind.
The grunge scene from Seattle is
synonymous with Nirvana. Kurt
Cobain and his wayward lifestyle
ended his life before it blossomed
but ensured, in his tragic death, his
life and music made him a cult hero.
Bob Dylan
Kurt Cobain
Essential Album:. Trilogy -Bringing It
All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited
and Blonde on Blonde
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen AC/DC
Zimmerman, May 24, 1941 in
Duluth, Minnesota) is an American
singer-songwriter, author, poet, and Essential Album: Back In Black
disc jockey. He has been a cult figure This pioneering Hard Rock/Heavy
in popular music for five decades. Metal group has sold an estimated
Today, to many, he symbolises 100-million albums worldwide.
perfect music.
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Def Leppard
Essential Album: Hysteria
Essential Album: Wheels Of Fire
The group existed for less than three
Futuristic instrumentation and vocal years but staked its place as one of
harmonies have kept them near the the first and most enduringly popular
top of the all-time best selling album of rock’s power trios.
lists for a quarter of a century.
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