Classic Rock Magazine

Ritual De Lo Habitual became the first ‘alternative’ record to sell a million, inspiring a generation of bands who would ultimately kill the idea of ‘alternative’ stone dead

Can's Krautrock masterpiece Tago Mago was an album that realigned rock, commencing countdown for 21st-century music

After announcing their arrival with a stone-cold classic, Montrose returned to the studio in 1974 to record an underwhelming second album. Perhaps they should have released them in reverse order

In the 1980s Heart's music was retooled as super-slick AOR, the Wilson sisters rocked Dynasty hairdos and frilly corsets, MTV loved them, and they sold millions

More than a dozen of John Lee Hooker's superstar duets, gathered together in a collaborative showcase

A refurbished Lynyrd Skynyrd attempt to conjure up original Skynyrd spirit on 1993's The Last Rebel

Rainbow’s unloved final album was released in 1995, after Ritchie Blackmore’s nine loveless years married to the re-formed Deep Purple

Walk The Earth is the sixth studio album since Europe's reunion, and The Final Countdown – nor anything like it – is nowhere to be seen

After the demise of The Firm, Jimmy Page roped in some old friends for his only solo album, Outrider

Buffalo brought hard rock to the bars and hotels of Australia, and second album Volcanic Rock found them rocking at their lava-laden best

Lou Reed's New York was an angry love letter, a biting indictment, an open-hearted outpouring of empathy, despair, resignation, fury and outrage

Billed as "a fresh bong-load of potent, sticky and hairy musical salvation", Blues For The Red Sun is a landmark in stoner-rock

The Underfall Yard was Big Big Train's first album with late singer David Longdon, and a key staging post on the band's long crawl to success

Mystery To Me is the oddest and most eclectic album of Fleetwood Mac’s entire career, mixing mellow rock with funk, reggae and even disco

Fear Of A Blank Planet is a terrifying album about a generation being raised by "screens" as surrogate parents, recorded before the widespread popularity of smartphones

An offshoot of the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Atomic Rooster mixed prog with furious riffs and thunderous drum beats