Blind Melon

I dont know what kind of rock your friend will like but you cant go wrong with a few favorites that have been around for years.

Lynyrd Skynyrd
John Fogerty
ZZ Top
AC DC
Van Halen
Allman Bros.
Bob Seger

Buy at least one of these.

Paranoid- Black Sabbath
Warning- Green Day
Master Of Puppets- Metallica
Number Of The Beast- Iron Maiden
Highway to Hell- AC/DC
Back In Black- AC/DC
10,000 Days- Tool
Abbey Road- The Beatles
Band Of Gypsies (a.k.a. Jimi Hendrix)- Jimi Hendrix
Are You Experienced?- The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Toxicity- System Of A Down
Tenacious D- Tenacious D

Any of these suggestions should appease your appetite for extreme rockitude. Make sure you discover new bands by just going out and listening to music on your own.

hendrix, abbey road, californication, zep IV,

are the ones that automatically came to mind. i'm glad those got mentioned. Creedence clearwater is a great rock band, as is Bachman Turner Overdrive. but i think i'm delving into not as classic staple rock bands.


stuff like purple haze, i want you, come together, around the world, black dog....those songs you can't hate. the 5th album is tough. i don't know how metalish you can get. obvious choice is metallica's black album.

a more classic album would be the sabbath one, a more recent one would be something like...ok computer by radiohead. but that would be a totally different album than the rest.

Some great new ones

Wolfmother - Wolfmother
Get Born - Jet
Shine On - Jet
City of Evil - Avenged Sevenfold
Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV Vol. 1 - From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness - Coheed and Cambria
Flyleaf - Flyleaf
Ten Thousand Fists - Disturbed
We Are Not Alone - Breaking Benjamin
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
All The Right Reasons - Nickelback
Black Rain - Ozzy Osbourne
Contraband - Velvet Revolver
Libertad - Velvet Revolver
Era Vulgaris - Queens of the Stone Age
United Abominations - Megadeth
Broken Toy Soldiers - The Raconteurs
Stadium Arcadium - Red Hot Chili Peppers
One X - Three Days Grace
The Crusade - Trivium
Icky Thump - The White Stripes

In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3 - Coheed and Cambria
Make Yourself - Incubus
By The Way - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Mer De Noms - A Perfect Circle
Lateralus - Tool
Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins

S Hudson had a pretty good list too

Certainly been mentioned but I got to think that AC/DC is a poster child for "rock". Tons of others obviously but that's the first thing that popped in to my head.

Go with any of the following:

Blood Sugar Sex Magik: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Ten: Pearl Jam
Darkside of the Moon: Pink Floyd
Electric Ladyland and/or Axis: Bold as Love: Jimi Hendrix Experience
Led Zeppelin I and/or Led Zeppelin IV: Led Zeppelin
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: David Bowie.

Plenty of good suggestions already, just make sure you don't get him into any of the new age bullshit that circulates on the radio these days

I know I'm going to get blasted of the face of the fuckin earth for a few of my picks, but I like all different styles of guitar playing and rock, and I'm also looking at the album as a complete picture, not just a couple of kickass tunes, so here it goes...

1. David Bowie- Scary Monsters
2. Van Halen- Fair Warning
3. Marilyn Manson- Mechanical Animals
4. The Cure- Disintegration
5. Nine Inch Nails- the Downward Spiral
6. Public Image Ltd.- Metal Box
7. Steve Vai- Sex and Religion
8. Iggy Pop- Lust for Life
9. Depeche Mode- Songs of Faith and Devotion
10. David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust

I gotta say that GnR Appetite for destruction is definately a GREAT choice...

Van Halen but only with DLR

Anything with ACDC will also work...

thats all i can think of right now for someone just getting into rock