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Best hard rock albums (all time)

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Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
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Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

(1969)
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is the second studio album by the Canadian musician Neil Young, released on Reprise Records catalogue RS 6349. His first with his longtime backing band Crazy Horse, it peaked at number 34 on the US...
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The Wall
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The Wall

The Wall is the eleventh studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd. It is the last studio album released with the classic lineup of guitarist David Gilmour, bassist/lyricist Roger Waters, keyboardist Richard Wri...
9.5
9.5
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Van Halen
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Van Halen

(1978)
Van Halen is the debut studio album by American rock band Van Halen. Released on February 10, 1978, the album peaked at number 19 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album sold more than ten million copies in the United States by 1999 a...
9.5
9.5
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Young Americans
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Young Americans

(1975)
Young Americans is the ninth studio album by English musician David Bowie, released in 1975. Bowie is quoted describing the album as "the squashed remains of ethnic music as it survives in the age of Muzak rock, written and sung b...
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Vs.
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Vs.

(1993)
Vs. is the second studio album by the American rock band Pearl Jam, released on October 19, 1993 through Epic Records. After a relentless touring schedule in support of their 1991 debut album Ten, Pearl Jam headed into the studio...
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Flying in a Blue Dream
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Flying in a Blue Dream

(1989)
Flying in a Blue Dream is the third studio album by guitarist Joe Satriani, released on October 30, 1989 through Relativity Records. It is one of Satriani's most popular albums and his second highest-charting release to date, reac...
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Van Halen II
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Van Halen II

(1979)
Van Halen II is the second studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen, released in 1979. It peaked at number 6 on the Billboard charts and spawned the singles "Dance the Night Away" and "Beautiful Girls". To date, it has so...
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Back in Black
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Back in Black

(1980)
Back in Black is the seventh studio album by Australian rock band AC/DC. Produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange, the album was released on 25 July 1980 by Albert Productions and Atlantic Records. In 1979, they paired with producer L...
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Use Your Illusion II
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Use Your Illusion II

(1991)
Use Your Illusion II is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Guns N' Roses. It was one of two albums released in conjunction with the Use Your Illusion Tour, along with Use Your Illusion I. Bolstered by the lead singl...
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Use Your Illusion I
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Use Your Illusion I

(1991)
Use Your Illusion I is the third studio album by the American rock band Guns N' Roses. It was the first of two albums released in conjunction with the Use Your Illusion Tour, the other being Use Your Illusion II. The album debuted...
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Zuma
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Zuma

(1975)
Zuma is the seventh studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, released on Reprise Records in 1975. Co-credited to Crazy Horse, it includes "Cortez the Killer," one of Young's best-known songs. It peaked at #25 on the Billboard...
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Appetite for Destruction
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Appetite for Destruction

(1987)
Appetite for Destruction is the debut studio album by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses. It was released on July 21, 1987, by Geffen Records to massive commercial success, topping the Billboard 200 and eventually becoming the...
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Rust Never Sleeps
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Rust Never Sleeps

(1979)
Rust Never Sleeps is an album by Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young and American band Crazy Horse. It was released on July 2, 1979, by Reprise Records. Most of the album was recorded live, then overdubbed in the studio. Young u...
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Ragged Glory
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Ragged Glory

(1990)
Ragged Glory is the nineteenth studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, his sixth with Crazy Horse, released on September 9, 1990. The album revisits the hard-rock style previously explored on Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere...
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1984
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1984

(1984)
1984 (stylized as MCMLXXXIV on the album's front cover) is the sixth studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen. It is Van Halen's biggest-selling album, with 20 million copies shipped in the United States. 1984 reached num...
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Led Zeppelin
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Led Zeppelin

(1969)
Led Zeppelin is the eponymous debut studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was recorded in October 1968 at Olympic Studios in London and released on Atlantic Records on 12 January 1969 in the United States and 31 M...
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Aladdin Sane
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Aladdin Sane

(1973)
Aladdin Sane is the sixth album by David Bowie, released by RCA Records in 1973.
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The Man Who Sold the World
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The Man Who Sold the World

(1970)
The Man Who Sold the World is the third studio album by English rock artist David Bowie. It was originally released in the United States by Mercury Records in November 1970, and in April 1971 in the United Kingdom. The album was B...
8.5
8.5
from 2 votes
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Stone Temple Pilots
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Stone Temple Pilots

(2010)
Stone Temple Pilots is the sixth studio album by American rock band Stone Temple Pilots. The album was released worldwide from May 21 through May 27, 2010, and is the band's first album since 2001's Shangri-La Dee Da. The album is...
8.5
8.5
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Ten
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Ten

(1991)
Ten is the debut studio album by the American rock band Pearl Jam, released on August 27, 1991 through Epic Records. Following the disbanding of bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard's previous group Mother Love Bone, the...
8.3
8.3
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Fair Warning
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Fair Warning

(1981)
Fair Warning is the fourth studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen. Released in 1981, it sold more than two million copies, but was still the band's slowest-selling album of the David Lee Roth era. The cover artwork feat...
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8
from 2 votes
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Diver Down
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Diver Down

(1982)
Diver Down is the fifth studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen, released in 1982. It spent 65 weeks on the album chart in the United States and had, by 1998, sold four million copies in the US...
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Time Machine
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Time Machine

(1993)
Time Machine is the fifth studio album by guitarist Joe Satriani, released on October 13, 1993 through Relativity Records and reissued in 1998 through Epic Records. It is a double-disc compilation: the first disc contains a select...
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Is There Love in Space?
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Is There Love in Space?

(2004)
Is There Love in Space? is the tenth studio album by guitarist Joe Satriani, released on April 13, 2004 through Epic Records. The album reached No. 80 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and remained on that chart for two weeks, as well as...
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from 1 vote
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Freedom
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Freedom

(1989)
Freedom is the eighteenth studio album by Canadian rock musician Neil Young, released on October 2, 1989.
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Chrome Dreams II
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Chrome Dreams II

(2007)
Chrome Dreams II is the twenty-ninth studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young. The album was released on October 23, 2007. The album is a sequel to Chrome Dreams, a legendary Neil Young album from 1977 that had originally been...
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Yield
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Yield

(1998)
Yield is the fifth studio album by the American alternative rock band Pearl Jam, released on February 3, 1998. Following a short promotional tour for its previous album, No Code (1996), Pearl Jam recorded Yield throughout 1997 at...
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Chinese Democracy
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Chinese Democracy

(2008)
Chinese Democracy is the sixth studio album by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, released on November 23, 2008, by Geffen Records. It was the band's first studio album since "The Spaghetti Incident?" (1993), and their first a...
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G N' R Lies
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G N' R Lies

(1988)
G N' R Lies, also known as Lies, is the second studio album by the American rock band Guns N' Roses, released in 1988. While officially an extended play, it was treated as a studio album when released. According to the RIAA, the a...
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Women and Children First
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Women and Children First

(1980)
Women and Children First is the third studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen, released on March 26, 1980 on Warner Bros. Records. Produced by Ted Templeman, it was the first to feature compositions written solely by the...
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from 1 vote
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A Different Kind of Truth
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A Different Kind of Truth

(2012)
A Different Kind of Truth is the twelfth studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen. Released on February 7, 2012, by Interscope Records, the record is Van Halen's first full-length album of studio material with former lead...
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Psychedelic Pill
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Psychedelic Pill

(2012)
Psychedelic Pill is the thirty-third studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young. It was released on October 30, 2012. This is the second release of a Neil Young collaboration with Crazy Horse in 2012, and their first original wo...
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5150
32

5150

(1986)
5150 (pronounced "fifty-one-fifty") is the seventh studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen, released in 1986 on Warner Bros. Records. It was the first of four albums to be recorded with new lead singer Sammy Hagar, who r...
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Tin Machine
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Tin Machine

(1989)
Tin Machine is the debut album of Tin Machine originally released by EMI in 1989. The group was the latest venture of David Bowie, inspired by sessions with guitarist Reeves Gabrels. Drummer Hunt Sales and bassist Tony Sales forme...
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Pearl Jam
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Pearl Jam

(2006)
Pearl Jam (sometimes referred to as The Avocado Album) is the eponymous eighth studio album by American alternative rock band Pearl Jam, released on May 2, 2006 on J Records. It was the first and only release for J Records, their...
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Americana
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Americana

(2012)
Americana is the thirty-second studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, released on June 5, 2012. The album was Young's first collaboration with backing band Crazy Horse since their 2003 album, Greendale, and its associated t...
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Backspacer
34

Backspacer

(2009)
Backspacer is the ninth studio album by the American alternative rock band Pearl Jam, released on September 20, 2009. The bandmembers started writing instrumental and demo tracks in 2007, and got together in 2008 to work on an alb...
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Shangri-La Dee Da
34

Shangri-La Dee Da

(2001)
Shangri-La Dee Da is the fifth studio album by American hard rock band Stone Temple Pilots. It was produced by Brendan O'Brien and released on June 19, 2001, by Atlantic Records...
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Animals
34

Animals

(1977)
Animals is the tenth studio album by English progressive rock group Pink Floyd, released in January 1977. A concept album, it provides a scathing critique of the social-political conditions of late 1970s Britain, and presents a ma...
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Re-ac-tor
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Re-ac-tor

(1981)
Re-ac-tor is the eleventh studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, and his fourth with Crazy Horse, released in 1981. The album married the electric guitar crunch of the late '70s Crazy Horse sound with early '80s new wave rh...
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6
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Tin Machine II
40

Tin Machine II

(1991)
Tin Machine II is an album by Tin Machine, originally released by Victory Music in 1991.
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Reload
40

Reload

(1997)
Reload is the seventh studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released on November 18, 1997 by Elektra Records. The album is a follow-up to Load, released the previous year, and Metallica's last studio album to featur...
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OU812
40

OU812

(1988)
OU812 (pronounced "Oh You Ate One Too") is the eighth studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen, released in 1988, and the second to feature vocalist Sammy Hagar. Van Halen started work on the album in September 1987 and c...
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Load
40

Load

(1996)
Load is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released on June 4, 1996, by Elektra Records. It sold 680,000 units in its first week, making it the biggest opening week for Metallica and the biggest debut o...
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For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
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For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge

(1991)
For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge (also known as F.U.C.K.) is the ninth studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen, released in 1991 on Warner Bros. Records. It debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart and maintaine...
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Balance
40

Balance

(1995)
Balance is the tenth studio album by hard rock band Van Halen, released on January 24, 1995 through Warner Bros. Records. The album is the last of the band's four studio releases to feature Sammy Hagar as lead vocalist. Balance re...
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Van Halen III
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Van Halen III

(1998)
Van Halen III is the eleventh studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen, released on March 17, 1998 on Warner Bros. Produced by Mike Post and Eddie Van Halen, it is the band's only studio album to feature lead vocalist Gar...
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5
from 1 vote
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"The Spaghetti Incident?"
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"The Spaghetti Incident?"

(1993)
"The Spaghetti Incident?" is the fifth studio album by the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses. The album comprises covers of older punk rock and hard rock songs. "The Spaghetti Incident?" is the only studio album to feature rhy...
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5
from 1 vote
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