Hidden Gems in Classic Rock Albums

Linda Ronstadt's "Prisoner in Disguise" entire album is a great album & very well recorded & mastered by the late, great Doug Sax. The whole album sounds very good but Smokey Robinson's "Tracks of My Tears" is especially good. 

Great test for any hifi system if you want to listen up loud & understand the full dynamics of the song. Great, tight bass guitar & drums, really nice electric & acoustic guitar work & of course Linda's outstanding vocals. 

With good horns & tube amp, the band is right there in front of you! So fun!

Want to just add one more group of classics (beyond the Kinks) and that is Pink Floyd. 2 albums that aren't really known that well (at least in my opinion) are Relics (which has early Syd stuff and showcases members such as Rick Wright) and The Valley Obscured by Clouds which was a soundtrack and an album (like Echoes) that showed the band was on its way to do DSOTM and more importantly, is Nick Mason's favorite Pink Floyd album. 

BNL Maroon, maybe too young to be a classic

Deep Purple "The Shield" from The Book of Taliesyn 
Procol Harum "Homburg" and "Salty Dog"

Mott the Hoople has a number of them. Right now I’m thinking of "Drivin’ Sister." Has almost every clique guitar riff in it and it is fun.