5 albums for a rock newbie

Seems clear to me that since the OP is coming from a hip hop background and based on what he's said he already likes, he'd probably like stuff that is mostly beat driven. I'd recommend:

Deftones - White Pony or Diamond Eyes
Helmet - Meantime
The Notwist - Neon Golden
OK Go - Self titled or Oh No
Thousand Foot Krutch - Set It Off or Phenomenon
311 - SounRABystem and/or Transistor
The Heavy - Great Vengeance & Furious Fire
Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm A Machine
The Datsuns - self titled
Beck - Guero
Kasabian - self titled
Clutch - Blast Tyrant
Weezer - Pinkerton or the Red Album
Fugazi - 13 Songs
Sublime - self titled
Dan the Automator - Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By
Citizen Cope - Self titled
Incubus - Make Yourself or Morning View
Rollins Band - Weight or The End of Silence
Bullfrog - Self titled
Superdrag - In the Valley of Dying Stars
Filter - Short Bus
Dynamite Hack - Superfast
Pinback - self titled or Autumn of the Seraphs
Radiohead - (just about anything)
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Living With the Living

...that should be enough to get you started. ;)
 
Nothing wrong with the list all great albums, but would you actually play (Those I highlighted) to a friend to get him into rock music?
 
I thought he'd like them cause he said he liked Three Days Grace and Seether.
Also, GoRABmack may suck overall, but Faceless is a very good album.
 
(Classic Era stuff)
Led Zeppelin- Any of the first 4 albums
Deep Purple- Machine Head
Black Sabbath- Master of Reality
Aerosmith- Toys in the Attic
Fleetwood Mac-Rumours

(Post 90`s)
Nirvana- Nevermind
Soundgarden- Badmotorfinger
QOSA- Rated R
Strokes- Is This It
White Stripes- White Blood Cells

All of these albums are highly accessible without being too basic either. All are brief highlights of the rock genre stretching from metal, hard rock, grunge, indie and melodic rock and all are considered amongst the finest works of the said banRAB.
 
"Jesus Christ Pose" is like one of the heavier songs I've ever heard (Listen to the man wail), and "Rusty Cage" isn't exactly very accessible for the average radio listener.

I'm not knocking Badmotorfinger, I like the album a lot, but it's hardly more accessible and listener friendly than Superunknown.
 
S.C.I.E.N.C.E. - Incubus
Make Yourself - Incubus
Morning View - Incubus

Can't go wrong with those. And I'd like to mention Rage Against the Machine one more time.
 
first of all thanks to everyone for thier input and all your help yall have been most kind but seriously man OctaneHugo and TheCunningStunt need to grow the Fu*k up writing juvenile things like "Your face isn't accessible" i mean what the hell has that got to do with anything.

Anyway thanks once again for all your help and by the way i loved the Led Zeppelin IV album and thought the Angel Dust album sucked ass but hey it is what it is.

Also can someone please if you dont mind explain to me what "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is about as i can barely make out Cobain's lyrics/voice. It seems to be a teen rebellion type thing but i cant be sure. Thanks in advance for your help.
 
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While we're on the topic of RATM, we should probably also mention...

One Day as a Lion's self titled album
Quicksand's epic album "Slip"
Orange 9mm's "Driver Not Included"
 
I actually prefer Superunknown to Badmotorfinger but Badmotorfinger is more acessible.

Good call on Ten one of the most polished rock albums of early 90`s
 
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