Vote for the best album of Classic Rock magazine's lifetime
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Ahoy, rock fans! Here at Classic Rock we’re preparing to celebrate our 300th issue, which will include – among other fun things – a rundown of the Top 30 rock albums released during our lifetime (i.e. since issue 1 came out in 1998). To do this, we need your votes.
What albums do you think deserve to feature in such an elite selection? Who’s made the best new albums since Classic Rock began? We’ve amassed a list of 300(ish) that we think are pretty awesome, to get the ball rolling. Have a look, cast your mind back and vote for your favourites or add your own – you can pick up to 10 albums from this (long) shortlist.
To be clear: the list below is by no means definitive. There have been thousands of great new albums over the last 24 years, so there will obviously be plenty of good ‘uns missing. If your winner isn’t included, simply add it in the box at the bottom. As long as it rocks, and was released in the last 24 years (since October 1998), it’s in the running.
We wouldn’t be here without your continued support, so we want this to be your top 30 as much as ours!
Votes close on Monday at 2pm UK time (9am EST). Make your voice heard, and happy voting!
What's the best album of Classic Rock Magazine's lifetime?
AC/DC - Black Ice
AC/DC – Stiff Upper Lip
AC/DC - Power Up
Aerosmith - Just Push Play
Afghan Whigs - 1965
Airbourne - Runnin’ Wild
All Them Witches - Sleeping Through The War
Allman Brothers Band - Hittin’ The Note
Alice Cooper - The Eyes Of Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper - Detroit Stories
Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
Alter Bridge - Blackbird
Andrew WK - I Get Wet
Anathema – The Optimist
Anathema - Weather Systems
Asia - XXX
Arctic Monkeys - AM
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am That’s What I’m Not
Architects - For Those That Wish To Exist
Audioslave - Audioslave
Ayron Jones - Child Of The State
Baroness - Purple
Beck - Sea Change
Big Big Train - English Electric Vol 1 & II
Big Big Train - The Underfall Yard
Biters - Biters
Billy Gibbons - The Big Bad Blues
Blackberry Smoke - The Whippoorwill
Blackberry Smoke - Holding All The Roses
Black Star Riders - Heavy Fire
Black Country Communion - Black Country Communion
The Black Crowes - By Your Side
The Black Crowes - Warpaint
The Black Keys - El Camino
Black Sabbath - 13
Black Stone Cherry – Folklore & Superstition
Black Stone Cherry - Kentucky
Blink 182 - Enema Of The State
Blue Öyster Cult - The Symbol Remains
Blues Pills - Blues Pills
Bob Dylan - Time Out Of Mind
Bon Jovi - Crush
Brothers Osborne - Skeletons
Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
Bruce Springsteen - Magic
The Cadillac Three - Tennessee Mojo
The Cadillac Three - Bury Me In My Boots
Celtic Frost - Monotheist
Cheap Trick - Rockford
Chickenfoot - Chickenfoot
Clutch - Blast Tyrant
Clutch - Earth Rocker
Clutch - Psychic Warfare
Clutch - Book Of Bad Decisions
Crobot - Legend Of The Spaceborne Killer
The Cult - Hidden City
The Darkness - Permission To Land
David Bowie - Blackstar
David Bowie - Heathen
David Crosby - For Free
David Gilmour - Rattle That Lock
Deep Purple - Whoosh!
Deep Purple - Now What?!
Def Leppard - Def Leppard
Def Leppard - Songs From The Sparkle Lounge
Deftones - White Pony
Devin Townsend - Epicloud
The Distillers – Coral Fang
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt 2: Scenes From A Memory
Dropkick Murphys – Signed And Sealed In Blood
Duff McKagan’s Loaded - The Taking
Eagles - Long Road Out Of Eden
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
ELO - Alone in the Universe
Endeverafter - Kiss Or Kill
Eric Gales - Crown
Eureka Machines – Remain In Hope
Europe - Last Look At Eden
Europe - War Of Kings
Faith No More - Sol Invictus
Fantastic Negrito - Please Don't Be Dead
Fish - Feast of Consequences
Fish - Weltschmerz
Fleetwood Mac - Say You Will
FM - Metropolis
FM - Atomic Generation
Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left To Lose
Foo Fighters - One By One
Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
Fugazi - The Argument
The Gaslight Anthem - The 59 Sound
Gary Clark Jr - Blak & Blu
Gary Clark Jr - This Land
Ghost - Prequelle
Ghost - Meliora
Ginger Wildheart - 555%
Glenn Hughes - Resonate
Gojira - Magma
Green Day - American Idiot
Greta Van Fleet - The Battle At Garden’s Gate
Guns n Roses - Chinese Democracy
Halestorm - Into The Wild Life
Halestorm - The Strange Case of
Halestorm - Vicious
Halford - Resurrection
Heart - Red Velvet Car
Heart - Fanatic
H.e.a.t - Address The Nation
H.e.a.t - H.e.a.t II
Heaven And Hell - The Devil You Know
The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America
IDLES – Joy As An Act Of Resistance
Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression
Incubus - Make Yourself
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Iron Maiden – A Matter Of Life And Death
Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
Jane's Addiction - Strays
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Reunions
Jet - Get Born
Jethro Tull - The Zealot Gene
Joe Bonamassa – The Ballad Of John Henry
Joe Bonamassa - Blues Of Desperation
Joe Bonamassa - Time Clocks
John Mellencamp - Life, Death, Love & Freedom
Journey - Arrival
Jimi Jamison - Never Too Late
Judas Priest - Firepower
Judas Priest - Angel of Retribution
Kings of Leon - Youth & Young Manhood
KISS - Sonic Boom
KISS - Monster
Korn - Follow The Leader
Larkin Poe - Self Made Man
Low Cut Connie - Private Lives
Led Zeppelin - How The West Was Won
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Lindsey Buckingham - Lindsey Buckingham
Lionize - Jetpack Soundtrack
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Last Of A Dyin’ Breed
Lynyrd Skynyrd - God And Guns
Magnum - Princess Alice And The Broken Arrow
Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
Marillion - F.E.A.R
Marillion - Marbles
Massive Wagons – House of Noise
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Mastodon - Leviathan
Meat Loaf - Hang Cool Teddy Bear
Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell III
Meshuggah - obZen
Metallica - Hardwired…To Self-Destruct
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Michael Monroe - Horns And Halos
Monster Truck - Furiosity
Motörhead - Aftershock
Motörhead - Bad Magic
Muse - Black Holes And Revelations
Muse - The Origin of Symmetry
Myles Kennedy - The Ides Of March
Neil Young - Greendale
Neil Young - Peace Trail
New York Dolls - One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This
Nickelback - Silver Side Up
Night Flight Orchestra - The World Ain't Enough
Nightwish - The Greatest Show On Earth
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Opeth - Sorceress
Ozzy Osbourne – Ordinary Man
Offspring - Americana
Orange Goblin - A Eulogy For The Damned
Placebo - Without You I’m Nothing
The Pretenders - Viva Hate
The Pretenders - Hate For Sale
Pink Floyd - The Endless River
Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Paul McCartney - Chaos & Creation in the Backyard
Paul McCartney - McCartney III
Pearl Jam - Backspacer
Pearl Jam - Gigaton
Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
Pride Tiger - The Lucky Ones
Prince - Planet Earth
Purson - Desire’s Magic Theatre
Queen + Paul Rodgers - The Cosmos Rocks
Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R
Rammstein - Mutter
Radiohead - Kid A
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
Robert Plant - Lullaby And…The Ceaseless Roar
Roger Waters – Is This The Life We Really Want?
Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang
Rival Sons - Head Down
Rival Sons - Pressure And Time
Rival Sons - Great Western Valkyrie
Royal Blood - Royal Blood
Royal Blood - Typhoons
Royal Republic – Weekend Man
Royal Republic - Club Majesty
Royal Thunder - Wick
Rush - Snakes & Arrows
Rush - Vapor Trails
Rush - Clockwork Angels
Ry Cooder – The Prodigal Son
Santana - Supernatural
The Sheepdogs - Changing Colours
Soundgarden - King Animal
Steve Earle – Terraplane
The Struts - Young And Dangerous
Saxon - Lionheart
Saxon - Into The Labyrinth
Saxon - Battering Ram
Scorpions - Rock Believer
Scorpions - Return To Forever
Sheryl Crow - C’mon C’mon
Sheryl Crow - Detours
Shinedown - The Sound Of Madness
Skindred - Roots Rock Riot
Slash - Slash
Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators - World On Fire
Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators - Living The Dream
Slipknot - Slipknot
Slipknot - Iowa
Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler
Stereophonics - Performance And Cocktails
Steve Hackett - Wolflight
Stone Temple Pilots - Stone Temple Pilots (2010)
Stone Temple Pilots - Stone Temple Pilots (2018)
Status Quo - Heavy Traffic
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing
Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
The Strokes - Is This It?
Styx - Crash Of The Crown
Suzi Quatro - The Devil In Me
Supergrass - Life On Other Planets
System Of A Down - Toxicity
The Temperance Movement - The Temperance Movement
Tequila Mockingbyrd - Fight And Flight
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
Therapy? – Crooked Timber
Thunder - Rip It Up
Thunder - Wonder Days
Tool - Lateralus
Tom Petty - The Last DJ
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Hypnotic Eye
Transatlantic - SMPTe
Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown - Truth & Lies
Turbowolf – Two Hands
U2 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
UFO - Seven Deadly
UFO - You Are Here
Uriah Heep - Wake The Sleeper
Uriah Heep - Living The Dream
Van Halen - A Different Kind Of Truth
Velvet Revolver - Contraband
Velvet Revolver - Libertad
Von Hertzen Brothers - New Day Rising
Von Hertzen Brothers - War Is Over
Virginmarys - King Of Conflict
Walking Papers - Walking Papers
Walter Trout - Battle Scars
The War On Drugs - Lost In A Dream
W.E.T. - Rise Up
W.E.T. - W.E.T
Whitesnake - Forevermore
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
The White Stripes - Elephant
The Who - Endless Wire
The Who - Who
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
The Wildhearts - Renaissance Men
The Wildhearts – Chutzpah!
Wolfmother - Wolfmother
Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
XTC - Apple Venus
XTC - Wasp Star
Yes - Magnification
Young Heart Attack - Young Heart Attack
ZZ Top - La Futura
Ahoy, rock fans! Here at Classic Rock we’re preparing to celebrate our 300th issue, which will include – among other fun things – a rundown of the Top 30 rock albums released during our lifetime (i.e. since issue 1 came out in 1998). To do this, we need your votes.
What albums do you think deserve to feature in such an elite selection? Who’s made the best new albums since Classic Rock began? We’ve amassed a list of 300(ish) that we think are pretty awesome, to get the ball rolling. Have a look, cast your mind back and vote for your favourites or add your own – you can pick up to 10 albums from this (long) shortlist.
To be clear: the list below is by no means definitive. There have been thousands of great new albums over the last 24 years, so there will obviously be plenty of good ‘uns missing. If your winner isn’t included, simply add it in the box at the bottom. As long as it rocks, and was released in the last 24 years (since October 1998), it’s in the running.
We wouldn’t be here without your continued support, so we want this to be your top 30 as much as ours!
Votes close on Monday at 2pm UK time (9am EST). Make your voice heard, and happy voting!
What's the best album of Classic Rock Magazine's lifetime?
AC/DC - Black Ice
AC/DC – Stiff Upper Lip
AC/DC - Power Up
Aerosmith - Just Push Play
Afghan Whigs - 1965
Airbourne - Runnin’ Wild
All Them Witches - Sleeping Through The War
Allman Brothers Band - Hittin’ The Note
Alice Cooper - The Eyes Of Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper - Detroit Stories
Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
Alter Bridge - Blackbird
Andrew WK - I Get Wet
Anathema – The Optimist
Anathema - Weather Systems
Asia - XXX
Arctic Monkeys - AM
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am That’s What I’m Not
Architects - For Those That Wish To Exist
Audioslave - Audioslave
Ayron Jones - Child Of The State
Baroness - Purple
Beck - Sea Change
Big Big Train - English Electric Vol 1 & II
Big Big Train - The Underfall Yard
Biters - Biters
Billy Gibbons - The Big Bad Blues
Blackberry Smoke - The Whippoorwill
Blackberry Smoke - Holding All The Roses
Black Star Riders - Heavy Fire
Black Country Communion - Black Country Communion
The Black Crowes - By Your Side
The Black Crowes - Warpaint
The Black Keys - El Camino
Black Sabbath - 13
Black Stone Cherry – Folklore & Superstition
Black Stone Cherry - Kentucky
Blink 182 - Enema Of The State
Blue Öyster Cult - The Symbol Remains
Blues Pills - Blues Pills
Bob Dylan - Time Out Of Mind
Bon Jovi - Crush
Brothers Osborne - Skeletons
Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
Bruce Springsteen - Magic
The Cadillac Three - Tennessee Mojo
The Cadillac Three - Bury Me In My Boots
Celtic Frost - Monotheist
Cheap Trick - Rockford
Chickenfoot - Chickenfoot
Clutch - Blast Tyrant
Clutch - Earth Rocker
Clutch - Psychic Warfare
Clutch - Book Of Bad Decisions
Crobot - Legend Of The Spaceborne Killer
The Cult - Hidden City
The Darkness - Permission To Land
David Bowie - Blackstar
David Bowie - Heathen
David Crosby - For Free
David Gilmour - Rattle That Lock
Deep Purple - Whoosh!
Deep Purple - Now What?!
Def Leppard - Def Leppard
Def Leppard - Songs From The Sparkle Lounge
Deftones - White Pony
Devin Townsend - Epicloud
The Distillers – Coral Fang
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt 2: Scenes From A Memory
Dropkick Murphys – Signed And Sealed In Blood
Duff McKagan’s Loaded - The Taking
Eagles - Long Road Out Of Eden
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
ELO - Alone in the Universe
Endeverafter - Kiss Or Kill
Eric Gales - Crown
Eureka Machines – Remain In Hope
Europe - Last Look At Eden
Europe - War Of Kings
Faith No More - Sol Invictus
Fantastic Negrito - Please Don't Be Dead
Fish - Feast of Consequences
Fish - Weltschmerz
Fleetwood Mac - Say You Will
FM - Metropolis
FM - Atomic Generation
Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left To Lose
Foo Fighters - One By One
Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
Fugazi - The Argument
The Gaslight Anthem - The 59 Sound
Gary Clark Jr - Blak & Blu
Gary Clark Jr - This Land
Ghost - Prequelle
Ghost - Meliora
Ginger Wildheart - 555%
Glenn Hughes - Resonate
Gojira - Magma
Green Day - American Idiot
Greta Van Fleet - The Battle At Garden’s Gate
Guns n Roses - Chinese Democracy
Halestorm - Into The Wild Life
Halestorm - The Strange Case of
Halestorm - Vicious
Halford - Resurrection
Heart - Red Velvet Car
Heart - Fanatic
H.e.a.t - Address The Nation
H.e.a.t - H.e.a.t II
Heaven And Hell - The Devil You Know
The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America
IDLES – Joy As An Act Of Resistance
Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression
Incubus - Make Yourself
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Iron Maiden – A Matter Of Life And Death
Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
Jane's Addiction - Strays
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Reunions
Jet - Get Born
Jethro Tull - The Zealot Gene
Joe Bonamassa – The Ballad Of John Henry
Joe Bonamassa - Blues Of Desperation
Joe Bonamassa - Time Clocks
John Mellencamp - Life, Death, Love & Freedom
Journey - Arrival
Jimi Jamison - Never Too Late
Judas Priest - Firepower
Judas Priest - Angel of Retribution
Kings of Leon - Youth & Young Manhood
KISS - Sonic Boom
KISS - Monster
Korn - Follow The Leader
Larkin Poe - Self Made Man
Low Cut Connie - Private Lives
Led Zeppelin - How The West Was Won
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Lindsey Buckingham - Lindsey Buckingham
Lionize - Jetpack Soundtrack
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Last Of A Dyin’ Breed
Lynyrd Skynyrd - God And Guns
Magnum - Princess Alice And The Broken Arrow
Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
Marillion - F.E.A.R
Marillion - Marbles
Massive Wagons – House of Noise
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Mastodon - Leviathan
Meat Loaf - Hang Cool Teddy Bear
Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell III
Meshuggah - obZen
Metallica - Hardwired…To Self-Destruct
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Michael Monroe - Horns And Halos
Monster Truck - Furiosity
Motörhead - Aftershock
Motörhead - Bad Magic
Muse - Black Holes And Revelations
Muse - The Origin of Symmetry
Myles Kennedy - The Ides Of March
Neil Young - Greendale
Neil Young - Peace Trail
New York Dolls - One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This
Nickelback - Silver Side Up
Night Flight Orchestra - The World Ain't Enough
Nightwish - The Greatest Show On Earth
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Opeth - Sorceress
Ozzy Osbourne – Ordinary Man
Offspring - Americana
Orange Goblin - A Eulogy For The Damned
Placebo - Without You I’m Nothing
The Pretenders - Viva Hate
The Pretenders - Hate For Sale
Pink Floyd - The Endless River
Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Paul McCartney - Chaos & Creation in the Backyard
Paul McCartney - McCartney III
Pearl Jam - Backspacer
Pearl Jam - Gigaton
Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
Pride Tiger - The Lucky Ones
Prince - Planet Earth
Purson - Desire’s Magic Theatre
Queen + Paul Rodgers - The Cosmos Rocks
Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R
Rammstein - Mutter
Radiohead - Kid A
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
Robert Plant - Lullaby And…The Ceaseless Roar
Roger Waters – Is This The Life We Really Want?
Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang
Rival Sons - Head Down
Rival Sons - Pressure And Time
Rival Sons - Great Western Valkyrie
Royal Blood - Royal Blood
Royal Blood - Typhoons
Royal Republic – Weekend Man
Royal Republic - Club Majesty
Royal Thunder - Wick
Rush - Snakes & Arrows
Rush - Vapor Trails
Rush - Clockwork Angels
Ry Cooder – The Prodigal Son
Santana - Supernatural
The Sheepdogs - Changing Colours
Soundgarden - King Animal
Steve Earle – Terraplane
The Struts - Young And Dangerous
Saxon - Lionheart
Saxon - Into The Labyrinth
Saxon - Battering Ram
Scorpions - Rock Believer
Scorpions - Return To Forever
Sheryl Crow - C’mon C’mon
Sheryl Crow - Detours
Shinedown - The Sound Of Madness
Skindred - Roots Rock Riot
Slash - Slash
Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators - World On Fire
Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators - Living The Dream
Slipknot - Slipknot
Slipknot - Iowa
Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler
Stereophonics - Performance And Cocktails
Steve Hackett - Wolflight
Stone Temple Pilots - Stone Temple Pilots (2010)
Stone Temple Pilots - Stone Temple Pilots (2018)
Status Quo - Heavy Traffic
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing
Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
The Strokes - Is This It?
Styx - Crash Of The Crown
Suzi Quatro - The Devil In Me
Supergrass - Life On Other Planets
System Of A Down - Toxicity
The Temperance Movement - The Temperance Movement
Tequila Mockingbyrd - Fight And Flight
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
Therapy? – Crooked Timber
Thunder - Rip It Up
Thunder - Wonder Days
Tool - Lateralus
Tom Petty - The Last DJ
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Hypnotic Eye
Transatlantic - SMPTe
Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown - Truth & Lies
Turbowolf – Two Hands
U2 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
UFO - Seven Deadly
UFO - You Are Here
Uriah Heep - Wake The Sleeper
Uriah Heep - Living The Dream
Van Halen - A Different Kind Of Truth
Velvet Revolver - Contraband
Velvet Revolver - Libertad
Von Hertzen Brothers - New Day Rising
Von Hertzen Brothers - War Is Over
Virginmarys - King Of Conflict
Walking Papers - Walking Papers
Walter Trout - Battle Scars
The War On Drugs - Lost In A Dream
W.E.T. - Rise Up
W.E.T. - W.E.T
Whitesnake - Forevermore
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
The White Stripes - Elephant
The Who - Endless Wire
The Who - Who
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
The Wildhearts - Renaissance Men
The Wildhearts – Chutzpah!
Wolfmother - Wolfmother
Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
XTC - Apple Venus
XTC - Wasp Star
Yes - Magnification
Young Heart Attack - Young Heart Attack
ZZ Top - La Futura