Sleazegrinder

There is no greater snapshot of the 1990s than the Nymphs album, but Inger Lorre and her band are remembered for all the wrong reasons

They weren’t just a band. The Ramones were a goddamn revolution

Allegedly inspired by Led Zeppelin, punk icons Discharge released Grave New World in 1986... and never really recovered

The real sound of Seattle

T. Rex's singles were cloaked with glitter and stardust, but there was more to Marc Bolan than the pop charts, and these are his best albums

Iggy Pop burst onto the stages of Detroit like a mad bag of screaming skin ’n’ bones, and he hasn't let up in the half century since: These are his best albums

A celebration of the long-standing appeal of slow ridin’ rock’n’rollers Foghat, who chose their name from some jumbled-up Scrabble letters

In the early 70s there wasn’t really any such thing as heavy metal – but there were bands like The Godz who were willing to take things to the limit, even if it cost them their lives

Celebrating a smattering and a splattering of shock rockers from the earliest, weirdest days of the genre: some survive to this day

Kiss kept the kids happy with lunchboxes, but Blue Öyster Cult were the brooding kings of the teenage wasteland

10 live albums that remain a career pinnacle for 10 legendary bands

10 extremely American songs to celebrate America in all its star-spangled and/or faded glory

In 1987 Geffen Records paid Rock City Angels $6.2 million dollars for a seven-album deal – but it was Guns N' Roses who ascended

ZZ Top's Eliminator yielded hit after hit and catapulted the unlikely power-trio into superstardom, but how good was it really? We rank every song on the album from worst to best

Helix were street-wise and raw while maintaining allegiance to their melodic Canuck-rock roots. And nearly half a century after forming, they're still on the road

Even the best can get it wrong sometimes: here's the worst albums by 10 of rock's greatest bands