My buddies and I were arguing the other night about this topic and it got quite heated. To me its no contest but I'm a big fan of the band. The Who, Beatles, Stones and Zep may deserve their own category but to me its one band that has the best two albums back to back ever.

AC DC's Highway to Hell followed by Back in Black.

Great albums on their own merritt but to make this quality with twodifferent singers is incredible. Not a bad song on either one.


My dark horse is Rush's Permenent Waves followed by Moving Pictures.

This is a tougher question than I initially thought.

The Highway to Hell / Back in Black tag-team is especially impressive, as the lead singer of the band died inbetween.

Here are my all time faves (being an early-mid 80s metal head at heart)

Scorpions: Blackout / Love at First Sting

Dio (taking a page from your AC/DC with different singer angle, Dio with different bands): Heaven and Hell / Holy Diver

Iron Maiden: Number of the Beast / Piece of Mind

Judas Priest: Hell Bent for Leather / British Steel

Zeppelin: ZoSo / Houses of the Holy

Whitesnake: Slide it In / Self Titled Whitesnake

Randy Rhoads with that senile druggy Ozzy: Blizzard of Ozz / Diary of a Madman

Zeppelin- Houses of the Holy, Physical Graffiti

Pearl Jam- Ten, Vs.

Local H- As Good as Dead, Pack up the Cats

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U2 - 'All That You Can't Leave Behind' and 'How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb'

Weezer - Blue Album, "Pinkerton"

Blur - "Parklife", "The Great Escape"

R.E.M. - "Lifes Rich Pageant", "Document"

Wilco - "Being There", "Summerteeth"

Radiohead - "The Bends", "OK Computer"

Rush Pernament Waves ,Moving pictures
Bob Mould Workbook ,Black Sheets of rain
Pearl Jam -Like Frank Said
Metallica- Master of Puppets , ...And Justice for all
Boston- Well all of them where do you start lol
Foo Fighters -Foo Fighters , Color and the shape
Indigo Girls- Indigo Girls ,Nomads indians and Saints

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

I can't believe I didn't mention...

Don Henley - I Can't Stand Still and Building The Perfect Beast

Metallica

And Justice for All and Metallica

But you cannot go wrong with the AC/DC combo listed either.

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Not a fan but Jackos OFF THE WALL/THRILLER or THRILLER/BAD. Had to thro it out there

Aerosmith - Get a Grip / Nine Lives

Grateful Dead-Workingman's Dead and American Beauty

Pretty tough to beat Tommy, Live at Leeds and then Who's Next

Bob Dylan - Bringing it all back home/Highway 61 revisted/Blonde on Blonde

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Outkast - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, ATLiens

classics...

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Aqualung
Thick As A Brick

Hands down I have to go with Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon followed up by Wish you Were Here.....not a bad song on either of those albums

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Notorious BIG

Ready to Die / Life After Death ...

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THE BEATLES: RUBBER SOUL / REVOLVER

VAN HALEN : VAN HALEN 1 / VAN HALEN 2

THE CARS : THE CARS / CANDY-O

The Beatles- Revolver and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Queen- Sheer Heart Attack and A Night at the Opera

A Night at the Opera was the most harmonic albumn of all time. Recalls the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean etc. but with far better musicianship. Really reminds me melodically and harmonically of Bach and Mozart.

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I looked at that but went umm no .
Great for me from those i posted would have to be Rush .
Permanent waves
Spirt of radio . Free will

Moving pictures
Tom Saywer
Red Barcetta ( is there a better jam )
YYz ( solo excellent )
Limelight


Come on guys they kick ass .
Only thing that really sucks and as The afternoon Sallon got behind Art Monk in the Hall of fame .We need to get Rush in the rock and roll version ( even though it totatly sucks )

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

I love Quen but there best was the semi-soundtrack ... a Kind of Magic

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

Moving Pictures was finally released as DLC for Rock Band yesterday...already had covers of Tom Saywer and Limelight, but I'll probably shell out two bucks each for the master recordings...

i started thinking about this and my brain began to hurt.
this one is tough...

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Damn no do I do rock band or Guitar Hero .
I love Alex but wow

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

Judas Priest

British Steel/Point of Entry

a poor man's RUSH.................triumph!!!!!!!!! and not to bad a group

A man after my own heart.

Off the cuff, I will say Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I and II

I love GNR but I would have to say their best back to back albulms were Appetite for Destruction and Lies

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Great question.

My picks:

1. Metallica: Ride The Lightning/Puppets
2.AC/DC: Powerage/If You Want Blood..
3.Stones: Sticky Fingers/Exile On Main St.
4.Led Zeppelin: Zep 2/Zep 3
5.Black Sabbath: Paranoid/Master Of Reality
6.Motley Crue: Too Fast For Love/Shout At The Devil
7.Iron Maiden: Number Of The Beast/Piece Of Mind
8.Pantera: Vulgar Display Of Power/Far Beyond Driven
9.Anthrax: Spreading The Disease/Among The Living
10.Dr Dre: The Chronic/2001

That's just off the top of my head. I'm sure I've made some eggregious errors.

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