1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
 

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2008 edition:


Sinatra, Frank – In the Wee Small Hours
Presley, Elvis – Elvis Presley (1956)
Louvin Brothers – Tragic Songs of Life
Prima, Louis – Wildest
Domino, Fats – This is Fats
Ellington, Duke – At Newport (1956)
Sinatra, Frank – Songs for Swingin’ Lovers!
Crickets – Chirping…
Basie, Count – Atomic Mr Basie
Monk, Thelonious – Brilliant Corners
Sabú [Martínez] – Palo Congo
Davis, Miles – Birth of the Cool
Machito – Kenya
Little Richard – Here’s…
Puente, Tito & His Orchestra – Dance Mania (1958)
Holiday, Billie – Lady in Satin
Elliott, Jack – Jack Takes the Floor
Vaughan, Sarah – At Mister Kelly’s
Fitzgerald, Ella – Sings the Gershwin Song Book
Charles, Ray – Genius of… (1959)
Davis, Miles – Kind of Blue
Robbins, Marty – Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs
Brubeck, Dave – Time Out
Baez, Joan – Joan Baez (1960)
Presley, Elvis – Elvis is Back!
Makeba, Miriam – Miriam Makeba (1960)
Everly Brothers – A Date with the…
Smith, Jimmy – Back at the Chicken Shack
Muddy Waters – At Newport
Evans, Bill – Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Charles, Ray - Modern Sounds in Country & Western Music
Booker T & the MGs – Green Onions
Getz, Stan & Charlie Byrd – Jazz Samba
Price, Ray – Night Life
Beatles – With the…
Dylan, Bob – Freewheelin’…
Spector, Phil & Various Artists – A Christmas Gift for You
Cooke, Sam – Live at the Harlem Square
Mingus, Charles – Black Saint & the Sinner Lady
Brown, James – Live at the Apollo (1963)
Getz, Stan & João Gilberto – Getz/Gilberto
Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night
Brel, Jacques – Olympia 64
Burke, Solomon – Rock ‘n’ Soul
Springfield, Dusty - A Girl Called Dusty
Rolling Stones – Rolling Stones (1st Album)
Owens, Buck – I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail
Lewis, Jerry Lee – Live at the Star Club, Hamburg
Sonics – Here Are the…
Dylan, Bob – Bringing it All Back Home
Redding, Otis – Otis Blue… Sings Soul
Beach Boys – Today!
Coltrane, John – A Love Supreme
King, B.B. – Live at the Regal
Beatles – Rubber Soul
Jansch, Bert – Bert Jansch (1st Album)
Byrds, Mr Tambourine Man
Dylan, Bob – Highway 61 Revisited
Who – My Generation
Beatles – Revolver
Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
Neil, Fred – Fred Neil (1st Album)
Byrds – Fifth Dimension
Dylan, Bob – Blonde on Blonde
Monks – Black Monk Time
Kinks – Face to Face
Mamas & the Papas – If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears
Revere, Paul & the Raiders – Midnight Ride
Mothers of Invention – Freak Out!
Rolling Stones – Aftermath
Simon & Garfunkel – Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme
13th Floor Elevators – Psychedelic Sounds of the…
John Mayall’s Blues Breakers – With Eric Clapton
Yardbirds – Yardbirds [aka Roger the Engineer] (1st Album)
Simone, Nina – Wild is the Wind
Gilberto, Astrud – Beach Samba
Nico – Chelsea Girl
Beatles – Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Country Joe & the Fish – Electric Music for the Mind & Body
Buffalo Springfield – Again
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Safe as Milk
Moby Grape – Moby Grape (1st Album)
Love – Da Capo
Beau Brummels – Triangle
Monkees – Headquarters
Buckley, Tim – Goodbye & Hello
Love – Forever Changes
Cream – Disraeli Gears
Pink Floyd – Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Who – Sell Out
Velvet Underground - & Nico
Sinatra, Frank - Frank Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
Doors – Doors (1st Album)
Byrds – Younger than Yesterday
Young Rascals – Groovin’
Jefferson Airplane – Surrealistic Pillow
Kinks – Something Else by the…
Donovan – Sunshine Superman
Haggard, Merle – I’m a Lonesome Fugitive
Hendrix, Jimi – Are You Experienced
Electric Prunes – I Had too Much to Dream (Last Night)
Lynn, Loretta – Don’t Come Home a Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind)
Sharma, Shivkumar / Brij Bushan Kabra / Hariprasad Chaurasia – Call of the Valley
Velvet Underground – White Light/White Heat
Hendrix, Jimi – Axis: Bold as Love
Franklin, Aretha – I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet
Traffic – Traffic (2nd Album)
Incredible String Band – Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter
Kinks – Village Green Preservation Society
Shankar, Ravi – Sounds of India (1968)
Mutantes, os – Mutantes, os (1st Album)
Hendrix, Jimi – Electric Ladyland
Cohen, Leonard – Songs of…
Cash, Johnny – At Folsom Prison
Nyro, Laura – Eli & the Thirteenth Confession
Franklin, Aretha – Lady Soul
Blue Cheer – Vincebus Eruptum
Byrds – Notorious Byrd Brothers
Big Brother & the Holding Company – Cheap Thrills
United States of America – United States of America
Dr John – Gris Gris
Iron Butterfly – In a Gadda da Vida
Pretty Things – S.F. Sorrow
Simon & Garfunkel – Bookends
Small Faces – Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake
Band – Music from Big Pink
Beck, Jeff – Truth
Veloso, Caetano – Caetano Veloso (1968)
Walker, Scott – Scott 2
Zombies – Odessey & Oracle
Morrison, Van – Astral Weeks
Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Beatles – Beatles [aka White Album]
Mothers of Invention – We’re Only in it for the Money
Young, Neil – Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bayou Country
Crosby, Stills & Nash – Crosby, Stills & Nash
Blood, Sweat & Tears - Blood, Sweat & Tears (2nd Album)
Flying Burrito Brothers – Gilded Palace of Sin
Cash, Johnny – At San Quentin
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Green River
Beatles – Abbey Road
Who – Tommy
Davis, Miles – In a Silent Way
Bee Gees – Odessa
Pentangle – Basket of Light
Rolling Stones – Let it Bleed
Drake, Nick – Five Leaves Left
Springfield, Dusty – Dusty in Memphis
Presley, Elvis – From Elvis in Memphis
Velvet Underground – Velvet Underground (3rd Album)
Quicksilver Messenger Service – Happy Trails
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin (1st Album)
Band – Band (2nd Album)
Led Zeppelin – II
MC5 – Kick Out the Jams
Temptations – Cloud Nine
Sly & the Family Stone – Stand!
Buckley, Tim – Happy Sad
Chicago Transit Authority [Chicago] - Chicago Transit Authority (1969)
Fairport Convention – Unhalfbricking
Youngbloods – Elephant Mountain
Hayes, Isaac – Hot Buttered Soul
Grateful Dead – Live/Dead
Kinks – Arthur: Or the Decline & Fall of the British Empire
King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King
Cohen, Leonard – Songs from a Room
Fairport Convention – Liege & Lief
Walker, Scott – Scott 4
Stooges – Stooges (1st Album)
Spence, Alexander ‘Skip’ – Oar
Zappa, Frank – Hot Rats
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Cosmo’s Factory
Derek & the Dominos – Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs
Davis, Miles – Bitches Brew
Spirit – Twelve Dreams of Dr Sardonicus
Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath (1st Album)
Doors – Morrison Hotel
Carpenters – Close to You
Still, Stephen – Stephen Stills (1st Album)
Lennon, John – Plastic Ono Band
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Déjà vu
Black Sabbath – Paranoid
Young, Neil – After the Gold Rush
Led Zeppelin – III
Deep Purple – In Rock
Morrison, Van – Moondance
Grateful Dead – American Beauty
Drake, Nick – Bryter Layter
Shankar, Ananda – Ananda Shankar (1970)
Who – Live at Leeds(1st Album)
Soft Machine – Third
Stewart, Rod – Gasoline Alley
Harrison, George – All Things Must Pass
Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water
Stevens, Cat – Tea for the Tillerman
Traffic – John Barleycorn Must Die
Stooges – Fun House
Taylor, James – Sweet Baby James
McCartney, Paul – McCartney (1970)
Santana – Abraxas
Barrett, Syd – Madcap Laughs
Jethro Tull – Aqualung
Crosby, David – If Only I Could Remember My Name
Sly & the Family Stone – There’s a Riot Goin’ On
Gaye, Marvin – What’s Going On
Yes – Yes Album
Bee Gees – Trafalgar
Who – Who’s Next
King, Carole – Tapestry
Hayes, Isaac – Shaft: Music from the Soundtrack
Allman Brothers – At Fillmore East
Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers
Lennon, John – Imagine
Beach Boys – Surf’s Up
Yes – Fragile
Doors – LA Woman
Can – Tago Mago
John, Elton – Madman Across the Water
Parton, Dolly – Coat of Many Colors
McLean, Don – American Pie
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Tarkus
Led Zeppelin – IV [aka Untitled / aka Four Symbols]
Gainsbourg, Serge – Histoire de Melody Nelson
Stewart, Rod – Every Picture Tells a Story
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Pictures at an Exhibition
Cohen, Leonard – Songs of Love & Hate
Mitchell, Joni – Blue
Funkadelic – Maggot Brain
Joplin, Janis – Pearl
Kuti, Fela - With Ginger Baker: Live!
Faces – A Nod is as Good as a Wink… To a Blind Horse
Flamin’ Groovies – Teenage Head
Clark, Gene – White Light
Prine, John – John Prine (1st Album)
Nilsson, Harry – Nilsson Schmilsson
T.Rex – Electric Warrior
Bowie, David – Hunky Dory
Newman, Randy – Sail Away
Deep Purple – Machine Head
Big Star – # 1 Record
Black Sabbath – Vol 4
Steely Dan – Can’t Buy a Thrill
Young, Neil – Harvest
Mayfield, Curtis – Superfly: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Slade – Slayed?
Deep Purple – Made in Japan
Yes – Close to the Edge
Reed, Lou – Transformer
Masekela, Hugh – Home is Where the Music Is
Nascimento, Milton & Lo Borges – Clube da Esquina (1972)
Rundgren, Todd – Something/Anything
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
Wonder, Stevie – Talking Book
Still, Stephen – Manassas
T.Rex – Slider
Ackles, David – American Gothic
Eagles – Eagles (1st Album)
Buckley, Tim – Greetings from LA
Drake, Nick – Pink Moon
Simon, Paul – Paul Simon (1972)
Roxy Music – Roxy Music (1st Album)

Alice Cooper – School’s Out
Temptations – All Directions
Bowie, David – Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
War – World is a Ghetto
Green, Al – Let’s Stay Together
Rolling Stones – Exile on Main St
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd
Incredible Bongo Band – Bongo Rock
Bowie, David – Aladdin Sane
King Crimson – Lark’s Tongues in Aspic
Marley, Bob & the Wailers – Catch a Fire
Hawkwind – Space Ritual
Cale, John – Paris 1919
Can – Future Days
Reed, Lou – Berlin
Genesis – Selling England by the Pound
Gaye, Marvin – Let’s Get it On
Martyn, John – Solid Air
Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure
Faust – IV
Hancock, Herbie – Head Hunters
Mott the Hoople – Mott
Oldfield, Mike – Tubular Bells
Rundgren, Todd – A Wizard, a True Star
John, Elton – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Steely Dan – Countdown to Ecstasy
Jennings, Waylon – Honky Tonk Heroes
Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
Wonder, Stevie – Innervisions
ZZ Top – Tres Hombres
McCartney, Paul & Wings – Band on the Run
Sensational Alex Harvey Band – Next
Alice Cooper – Billion Dollar Babies
Iggy & the Stooges – Raw Power
Isley Brothers – 3 + 3
New York Dolls – New York Dolls (1st Album)
Eno, Brian – Here Come the Warm Jets
Bad Company – Bad Company (1st Album)
Genesis – Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Otis, Shuggie – Inspiration Information
Wonder, Stevie – Fullfillingness’ First Finale
Clapton, Eric – 461 Ocean Boulevard
Kraftwerk – Autobahn
Morrison, Van – It’s Too Late to Stop Now
Mitchell, Joni – Court & Spark
Queen – II
Roxy Music – Country Life
Tangerine Dream – Phaedra
Sparks – Kimono My House
Supertramp – Crime of the Century
Thompson, Richard & Linda – I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
Scott-Heron, Gil & Brian Jackson – Winter in America
Queen – Sheer Heart Attack
10cc – Sheet Music
Young, Neil – On the Beach
Jones, George – Grand Tour
Clark, Gene – No Other
Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic
Newman, Randy – Good Old Boys
Marley, Bob & the Wailers – Natty Dread
Wyatt, Robert – Rock Bottom
Parsons, Gram – Grievous Angel
Eno, Brian – Another Green World
Dictators – Go Girl Crazy!
Neu! – ‘75
Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti
Jarrett, Keith – Köln Concert
Aerosmith – Toys in the Attic
Bowie, David – Young Americans
Burning Spear – Marcus Garvey
Springsteen, Bruce – Born to Run
Harris, Emmylou – Pieces of the Sky
Dion – Born to Be With You
Mitchell, Joni – Hissing of Summer Lawns
Waits, Tom – Nighthawks at the Diner
Burman, Rahul Dev – Shalimar (Soundtrack)
Young, Neil – Tonight’s the Night
Dylan, Bob – Blood on the Tracks
Smith, Patti – Horses
Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
Queen – A Night at the Opera
Nelson, Willie – Red Headed Stranger
Earth, Wind & Fire – That’s the Way of the World
Mayfield, Curtis – There’s No Place Like America Today
Petty, Tom & the Heartbreakers - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (1st Album)
Modern Lovers – Modern Lovers [Rec 1972, not released until 1976]
Bowie, David – Station to Station
Mitchell, Joni – Hejira
Boston – Boston (1st Album)
Eagles – Hotel California
ABBA – Arrival
Kiss – Destroyer
Rush – 2112
Ben, Jorge – África Brasil
Armatrading, Joan – Joan Armatrading (1st Album)
Aerosmith – Rocks
Parliament – Mothership Connection
Penguin Café Orchestra – Music from the Penguin Café
Jarre, Jean Michel – Oxygene
Ramones – Ramones (1st Album)
Kuti, Fela – Zombie
Tosh, Peter – Legalize It
Wonder, Stevie – Songs in the Key of Life
Frampton, Peter – Frampton Comes Alive
Eno, Brian – Before & After Science
Kraftwerk – Trans-Europe Express
Joel, Billy – Stranger, the
Marley, Bob & the Wailers – Exodus
Electric Light Orchestra – Out of the Blue
Weather Report – Heavy Weather
Muddy Waters – Hard Again
Stranglers – Rattus Norvegicus
Clash – Clash (1st Album)
Bowie, David – Low
Steely Dan – Aja
Wire – Pink Flag
Martyn, John – One World
Talking Heads – 77
Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
Bowie, David – ‘Heroes’
Wilson, Dennis – Pacific Ocean Blue
Suicide – Suicide (1st Album)
Iggy Pop – Idiot, the
Gabriel, Peter – Peter Gabriel (I)
Television – Marquee Moon
Meat Loaf – Bat Out of Hell
Costello, Elvis – My Aim is True
Iggy Pop – Lust for Life
Dury, Ian – New Boots & Panties!!
Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the…
Pere Ubu – Modern Dance
Kraftwerk – Man Machine
Blondie – Parallel Lines
Regina, Elís – Vento de Maio
Pere Ubu – Dub Housing
Only Ones – Only Ones (1st Album)
Costello, Elvis – This Year’s Model
Jam – All Mod Cons
Ely, Joe – Honky Tonk Masquerade
Adverts – Crossing the Red Sea with the…
Big Star – Third (aka Sister Lovers)
Residents – Duck Stab/Buster & Glen
Public Image Ltd – Public Image
Magazine – Real Life
Springsteen, Bruce – Darkness on the Edge of Town
Funkadelic – One Nation Under a Groove
Throbbing Gristle – DOA: Third & Final Report
Thin Lizzy – Live & Dangerous
Talking Heads – More Songs About Buildings & Food
Buzzcocks – Another Music in a Different Kitchen
Van Halen – Van Halen (1st Album)
Colón, Willie & Rubén Blades – Siembra
Cars – Cars (1st Album)
Devo – Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
Dire Straits – Dire Straits (1st Album)
Saints – Eternally Yours
Gaye, Marvin – Here, My Dear
Nelson, Willie – Stardust
Chic – C’est Chic
X-ray Spex – Germ Free Adolescents
Eno, Brian – Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Siouxsie & the Banshees – Scream, the
AC/DC – Highway to Hell
Sister Sledge – We Are Family
Crusaders – Street Life
Germs – GI
B52s – B52s (1st Album)
Czukay, Holger – Movies
Police – Reggatta de Blanc
Fall – Live at the Witch Trials
Talking Heads – Fear of Music
Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
Chic – Risqué
Undertones – Undertones (1st Album)
Clash – London Calling
Japan – Quiet Life
Faithfull, Marianne – Broken English
Slits – Cut
Costello, Elvis – Armed Forces
Young, Neil – Rust Never Sleeps
Gang of Four – Entertainment!
Cheap Trick – At Budokan
Fleetwood Mac – Tusk
Pink Floyd – Wall, the
Public Image Ltd – Metal Box
Jackson, Michael – Off the Wall
Damned – Machine Gun Etiquette
Numan, Gary – Pleasure Principle
Specials – Specials (1st Album)
Adam & the Ants – Kings of the Wild Frontier
Dexys Midnight Runners – Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
AC/DC – Back in Black
Cramps – Songs the Lord Taught Us
Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Gabriel, Peter – Peter Gabriel (III)
Soft Boys – Underwater Moonlight
Cure – Seventeen Seconds
Echo & the Bunnymen – Crocodiles
Motörhead – Ace of Spades
Killing Joke – Killing Joke (1st Album)
Judas Priest – British Steel
Circle Jerks – Group Sex
Talking Heads – Remain in Light
Joy Division – Closer
Iron Maiden – Iron Maiden (1st Album)
Undertones – Hypnotised
Jam – Sound Affects
Waits, Tom – Heartattack & Vine
UB40 – Signing Off
Teardrop Explodes – Kilimanjaro
Specials – More Specials
Winwood, Steve – Arc of a Diver
Pretenders – Pretenders (1st Album)
Einstürzende Neubauten – Kollaps
Siouxsie & the Banshees – Juju
Heaven 17 – Penthouse & Pavement
Go-Gos – Beauty & the Beat
Motörhead – No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith
Soft Cell – Non Stop Erotic Cabaret
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Architecture & Morality
Eno, Brian & David Byrne – My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Black Flag – Damaged
X – Wild Gift
Psychedelic Furs – Talk, Talk, Talk
Human League – Dare
Gun Club – Fire of Love
Bauhaus – Mask
Womack, Bobby – Poet
Tom Tom Club – Tom Tom Club (1st Album)
Rush – Moving Pictures
ABBA – Visitors
ABC – Lexicon of Love
Prince – 1999
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five – Message, the
Costello, Elvis – Imperial Bedroom
Cure – Pornography
Dexys Midnight Runners – Too Rye Ay
Simple Minds – New Gold Dream (81, 82, 83, 84)
Madness – Rise & Fall
Fagen, Donald – Nightfly
Haircut One Hundred – Pelican West
Bush, Kate – Dreaming, the
Orange Juice – Rip it Up
Jackson, Michael – Thriller
Birthday Party – Junkyard
Venom – Black Metal
Springsteen, Bruce – Nebraska
Associates – Sulk
Iron Maiden – Number of the Beast
Duran Duran – Rio
Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes (1st Album)
McLaren, Malcolm – Duck Rock
Def Leppard – Pyromania
REM – Murmur
The The – Soul Mining
Waits, Tom – Swordfishtrombones
Blue Nile – A Walk Across the Rooftops
Hanoi Rocks – Back to Mystery City
Lauper, Cyndi – She’s So Unusual
Simon, Paul – Hearts & Bones

Echo & the Bunnymen – Porcupine
ZZ Top – Eliminator
Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
U2 – War
Police – Synchronicity
Meat Puppets – II
Culture Club – Colour by Numbers
Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Run DMC – Run DMC (1984)
Sade – Diamond Life
Cocteau Twins – Treasure
Minor Threat – Out of Step
Van Halen – 1984
Prince – Purple Rain
Replacements – Let it Be
Style Council – Café Bleu
Turner, Tina – Private Dancer
Echo & the Bunnymen – Ocean Rain
Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime
Cole, Lloyd & the Commotions – Rattlesnakes
N’Dour, Youssou – Immigrés
Springsteen, Bruce – Born in the USA
Fall – This Nation’s Saving Grace
Ibrahim, Abdullah – Water from an Ancient Well
Aha – Hunting High & Low
Tears for Fears – Songs from the Big Chair
Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms
Prefab Sprout – Steve McQueen (aka Two Wheels Good)
Mekons – Fear & Whiskey
Big Black – Atomizer
Vega, Suzanne – Suzanne Vega (1st Album)
Pogues – Rum, Sodomy & the Lash
Bush, Kate – Hounds of Love
Smiths – Meat is Murder
Waits, Tom – Rain Dogs
Jesus & Mary Chain – Psychocandy
New Order – Low Life
Simply Red – Picture Book
Dexys Midnight Runners – Don’t Stand Me Down
Scritti Politti – Cupid & Psyche 85
Costello, Elvis – Blood & Chocolate
Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force – Planet Rock: The Album
Beastie Boys – Licensed to Ill
Metallica – Master of Puppets
The The – Infected
Griffith, Nanci – Last of the True Believers
Bragg, Billy – Talking with the Taxman About Poetry
Talk Talk – Colour of Spring
Megadeth – Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying?
Bon Jovi – Slippery When Wet
Sonic Youth – Evol
Slayer – Reign in Blood
Throwing Muses – Throwing Muses (1986)
Simon, Paul – Graceland
Run DMC – Raising Hell
XTC – Skylarking
Earle, Steve – Guitar Town
Bad Brains – I Against I
Baker, Anita – Rapture
Smiths – Queen is Dead
Gabriel, Peter – So
Anthrax – Among the Living
Dinosaur Jr – You’re Living All Over Me
Parton, Dolly with Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris – Trio
Def Leppard – Hysteria
REM – Document
Prince – Sign ‘O’ the Times
Cult – Electric
Depeche Mode – Music for the Masses
Sisters of Mercy – Floodland
Michael, George – Faith
Hüsker Dü – Warehouse: Songs & Stories
Butthole Surfers – Locust Abortion Technician
Piazzolla, Astor & Gary Burton – New Tango
Smiths – Strangeways Here We Come
Guns N’ Roses – Appetite for Destruction
Jesus & Mary Chain – Darklands
Ladysmith Black Mambazo – Shaka Zulu
Laibach – Opus Dei
Napalm Death – Scum
Sonic Youth – Sister
Triffids – Calenture
Jackson, Michael – Bad
Pet Shop Boys – Actually
U2 – Joshua Tree
D’Arby, Terence Trent – Introducing the Hardline According to…
Pogues – If I Should Fall from Grace with God
Cohen, Leonard – I’m Your Man
Waterboys – Fisherman’s Blues
Fishbone – Truth & Soul
Everything But the Girl – Idlewild
Living Colour - Vivid
Mudhoney – Superfuzz Bigmuff
REM – Green
Happy Mondays – Bummed
Go Betweens – 16 Lovers Lane
Cowboy Junkies – Trinity Session
Chapman, Tracy – Tracy Chapman (1st Album)
My Bloody Valentine – Isn’t Anything
Pixies – Surfer Rosa
Metallica – And Justice for All
Dinosaur Jr – Bug
Krause, Dagmar – Tank Battles
lang, k.d. – Shadowland
American Music Club – California
Morrissey – Viva Hate
Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation
Sugarcubes – Life’s Too Good
Yoakam, Dwight – Beuenas Noches from a Lonely Roomn
Jane’s Addiction – Nothing’s Shocking
Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Faith No More – Real Thing
Kravtiz, Lenny – Let Love Rule
Hooker, John Lee – Healer, the
New Order – Technique
Madonna – Like a Prayer
Queen Latifah – All Hail the Queen
Spacemen 3 – Playing with Fire
fIREHOSE – fROMOHIO
Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique
Young Gods – Eau Rouge, l’
Zorn, John – Spy vs Spy: Music of Ornette Coleman
Stone Roses – Stone Roses (1st Album)
Cherry, Neneh – Raw Like Sushi
Maal, Baaba & Mansour Seck – Djam Leelii
Bush, Kate – Sensual World
Cure – Disintegration
808 State – 808:90
Coldcut – What’s That Noise?
Adamson, Barry – Moss Side Story
Aerosmith – Pump
Pixies – Doolittle
Raitt, Bonnie – Nick of Time
Fugazi – Repeater
Soul II Soul – Club Classics: Vol One
De La Soul – 3 Feet High & Rising
Jackson, Janet – Rhythm Nation 1814
Jungle Brothers – Done by the Forces of Nature
NWA – Straight Outta Compton
Cocteau Twins – Heaven or Las Vegas
Shamen – En-Tact
Deee Lite – World Clique
La’s – La’s
Black Crowes – Shake Your Money Maker
Depeche Mode – Violator
Pixies – Bossanova
Megadeth – Rust in Peace
Digital Underground – Sex Packets
Pet Shop Boys – Behaviour
Happy Mondays – Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches
Michael, George – Listen Without Prejudice: Vol 1
Young, Neil – Ragged Glory
Ice Cube – AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted
Jane’s Addiction – Ritual de lo Habitual
LL Cool J – Mama Said Knock You Out
Public Enemy – Fear of a Black Planet
O’Connor, Sinéad – I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got
Tribe Called Quest, a – People’s Instinctive Travels & the Paths of Rhythm
Sonic Youth – Goo
Ride – Nowhere
My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
Nirvana – Nevermind
Crowded House – Woodface
Cypress Hill – Cypress Hill (1st Album)
Cope, Julian – Peggy Suicide
Gang Starr – Step in the Arena
MC Solaar - Qui Sème le Vent Récolte le Tempo
Jah Wobble – Rising Above Bedlam
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Ice T – OG: Original Gangster
Mudhoney – Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
Public Enemy – Apocalypse 91… Enemy Strikes Back
Tribe Called Quest, a – Low End Theory
Pearl Jam – Ten
Saint Etienne – Foxbase Alpha
Sepultura – Arise
Slint – Spiderland
U2 – Achtung Baby
KLF – White Room
Massive Attack – Blue Lines
Primal Scream – Screamadelica
Teenage Fanclub – Bandwagonesque
Metallica – Metallica [aka Black Album]
Pavement – Slanted & Enchanted
Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Arrested Development – 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life of…
Olomidé, Koffi – Haut de Gamme: Koweït, Rive Gauche
Morrissey – Your Arsenal
Maal, Baaba – Lam Toro
Lemonheads – It’s a Shame About Ray
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine (1st Album)
Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy – Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury
lang, k.d. – Ingénue
Dr Dre – Chronic, the
REM – Automatic for the People
Pharcyde – Bizarre Ride II the…
Spiritualized – Lazer Guided Melodies
Sugar – Copper Blue
Waits, Tom – Bone Machine
Sonic Youth – Dirty
Stereo MCs – Connected
Ministry – Psalm 69 (Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs)
Amos, Tori – Little Earthquakes
Ice Cube – Predator
Pantera – Vulgar Display of Power
Alice in Chains – Dirt
Cave, Nick & the Bad Seeds – Henry’s Dream, by…
Khan, Nusrat Fateh Ali – Devotional Songs
Harvey, P.J. – Dry
Suede – Suede (1st Album)
Weller, Paul – Wild Wood

Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
Auteurs – New Wave
Phair, Liz – Exile in Guyville
Afghan Whigs – Gentlemen
Mann, Aimee – Whatever
Grant Lee Buffalo – Fuzzy
Nirvana – In Utero
Jamiroquai – Emergency on Planet Earth
Pet Shop Boys – Very
Harvey, P.J. – Rid of Me
Blur – Modern Life is Rubbish
Crow, Sheryl – Tuesday Night Music Club
Fall – Infotainment Scan
Wu Tang Clan – Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers)
Björk – Debut
Orbital – Orbital [aka Brown Album]
Snoop Doggy Dogg – Doggystyle
Sebadoh – Bubble & Scrape
Boo Radleys – Giant Steps
Orbit, William – Strange Cargo: III
Method Man – Tical
Black, Frank – Teenager of the Year
Girls Against Boys – Venus Luxure No 1 Baby
Jeru the Damaja – Sun Rises in the East
Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Portishead – Dummy
Sabres of Paradise – Haunted Dancehall
Nas – Illmatic
Beastie Boys – Ill Communication
Costello, Elvis – Brutal Youth
Morrissey – Vauxhall & I
TLC – CrazySexyCool
Oasis – Definitely Maybe
Soundgarden – Superunknown
Offspring – Smash
Drive Like Jehu – Yank Crime
Blur – Parklife
G Love & Special Sauce - G Love & Special Sauce (1994)
Touré, Ali Farka – Talking Timbuktu
Hole – Live Through This
Massive Attack – Protection
Manic Street Preachers – Holy Bible
Suede – Dog Man Star
Notorious BIG – Ready to Die
Buckley, Jeff – Grace
Orbital – Snivilisation
Nirvana – MTV Unplugged in New York
Nine Inch Nails – Downward Spiral
Prodigy – Music for the Jilted Generation
Green Day – Dookie
Foo Fighters – Foo Fighters (1st Album)
Garbage – Garbage (1st Album)
Nightmares on Wax – Smokers Delight
Tricky – Maxinquaye
Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness
Rocket from the Crypt – Scream, Dracula, Scream
Chemical Brothers – Exit Planet Dust
2Pac – Me Against the World
Elastica – Elastica (1st Album)
Supergrass – I Should Coco
Radiohead – Bends, the
Guided by Voices – Alien Lanes
Kuti, Femi – Femi Kuti (1995)
Verve – A Northern Soul
Genius GZA – Liquid Swords
Pulp – Different Class
Leftfield – Leftism
D’Angelo – Brown Sugar
Oasis – (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?
Goldie – Timeless
Morissette, Alanis – Jagged Little Pill
Screaming Trees – Dust
Super Furry Animals – Fuzzy Logic
Fatboy Slim – Better Living Through Chemistry
Dr Octagon – Dr Octagonecologyst
Stereolab – Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Tortoise – Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Beck – Odelay
Belle & Sebastian – Tigermilk
DJ Shadow – Endtroducing
Eels – Beautiful Freak
Divine Comedy – Casanova
Apple, Fiona – Tidal
Wilco – Being There
Sepultura – Roots
Adamson, Barry – Oedipus Schmoedipus
Fun Lovin’ Criminals – Come Find Yourself
Maxwell – Urban Hang Suite
Charlatans – Tellin’ Stories
Manic Street Preachers – Everything Must Go
Everything But the Girl – Walking Wounded
Cave, Nick & the Bad Seeds – Murder Ballads
Bukem, LTJ – Logical Progression
Underworld – Second Toughest in the Infants
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Now I Got Worry
Cardigans – First Band on the Moon
Marilyn Manson – Antichrist Superstar
Fugees – Score, the
Ash – 1977
Belle & Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinister
Blur – Blur (1997)
Radiohead – OK Computer
Quaye, Finley – Maverick a Strike
Elliott, Missy Misdemeanor – Supa Dupa Fly
Chemical Brothers – Dig Your Own Hole
Primal Scream – Vanishing Point
Wyatt, Robert – Shleep
Holmes, David – Let’s Get Killed
Sleater Kinney – Dig Me Out
Prodigy – Fat of the Land
Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club (1997)
Cave, Nick & the Bad Seeds – Boatman’s Call
Divine Comedy – A Short Album About Love
Cornershop – When I was Born for the 7th Time
Daft Punk – Homework
Williams, Robbie – Life Thru a Lens
Carey, Mariah – Butterfly
Supergrass – In it for the Money
Dylan, Bob – Time Out of Mind
Size, Roni & Reprazent – New Forms
Smith, Elliott – Either/Or
Verve – Urban Hymns
Spiritualized – Ladies & Gentlemen, We are Floating in Space
Dandy Warhols – Dandy Warhols (1997)
Dylan, Bob – Bootleg Series Vol 4: Live 1966 [rec: 1966 at Free Trade Hall, Manchester]
Chao, Manu – Clandestino
Bragg, Billy & Wilco – Mermaid Avenue
Turbonegro – Apocalypse Dudes
Fatboy Slim – You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
Gray, David – White Ladder
Williams, Lucinda – Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Pulp – This is Hardcore
Madonna – Ray of Light
Hill, Lauryn – Miseducation of…
Hole – Celebrity Skin
Mercury Rev – Deserter’s Songs
System of a Down - System of a Down (1st Album)
Queen of the Stone Age - Queen of the Stone Age (1st Album)
Air – Moon Safari
Singh, Talvin – OK
Korn – Follow the Leader
Khalèd, (Cheb) – Kenza
Kid Rock – Devil Without a Cause
Boards of Canada – Music Has the Right to Children
Suba - São Paulo Confessions
XTC – Apple Venus: Volume 1
Skunk Anansie – Post Orgasmic Chill
Incubus – Make Yourself
Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs
Travis – Man Who
Slipknot – Slipknot (1st Album)
Orton, Beth – Central Reservation
Sawhney, Nitin – Beyond Skin
Death in Vegas – Contino Sessions
Moby – Play
Flaming Lips – Soft Bulletin
Rhymes Digitales, les – Darkdancer
Tigre, le – Tigre, le (1999)
Eminem – Slim Shady LP
Spears, Britney – Baby One More Time
Metallica – S&M
Bonnie Prince Billy – I See a Darkness
Shack – HMS Fable
Basement Jaxx – Remedy
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication
Sigur Rós – Ágætis Byrjun
Doves – Lost Souls
Air – Virgin Suicides: Original Motion Picture Score
Adams, Ryan – Heartbreaker
Gilberto, Bebel – Tanto Tempo
Cole, MJ – Sincere
Harris, Emmylou – Red Dirt Girl
Limp Bizkit – Chocolate Starfish & the Hot Dog Flavored Water
Radiohead – Kid A
U2 – All That You Can’t Leave Behind
Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory
Smith, Elliott – Figure 8
Badly Drawn Boy – Hour of Bewilderbeast
Harvey, P.J. – Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Badu, Erykah – Mama’s Gun
Coldplay – Parachutes
Common – Like Water for Chocolate
Ladd, Mike – Welcome to the Afterfuture
Red Snapper – Our Aim is to Satisfy
Eminem – Marshall Mathers LP
Goldfrapp – Felt Mountain
Giant Sand – Chore of Enchantment
Lambchop – Nixon
Lemper, Ute – Punishing Kiss
Madonna – Music
Avalanches – Since I Left You
OutKast – Stankonia
Radiohead – Amnesiac
Silver Jews – Bright Flight
Björk – Vespertine
Gorillaz – Gorillaz (1st Album)
Adams, Ryan – Gold
Destiny’s Child – Survivor
Strokes – Is This It
Welch, Gillian – Time (The Revelator)
Gotan Project – Revancha del Tango, la
White Stripes – White Blood Cells
Beta Band – Hot Shots II
Jay Z – Blueprint
Röyksopp – Melody AM
Drive-By Truckers – Southern Rock Opera
Super Furry Animals – Rings Around the World
Jurassic 5 – Power in Numbers
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Ms Dynamite – A Little Deeper
Bees – Sunshine Hit Me
Jones, Norah – Come Away with Me
Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head
Coral – Coral (2002)
Cash, Johnny – American IV: Man Comes Around
Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Doves – Last Broadcast
Elliott, Missy – Under Construction
Springsteen, Bruce – Rising, the
Beck – Sea Change
Roots – Phrenology
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever to Tell
White Stripes – Elephant
Wainwright, Rufus – Want One
OutKast – Speakerboxxx/Love Below
Dizzee Rascal – Boy in da Corner
Mars Volta – Deloused in the Comatorium
Lightning Bolt – Wonderful Rainbow
Morrissey – You Are the Quarry
Björk – Medúlla
Mylo – Destroy Rock & Roll
Scissor Sisters – Scissor Sisters (1st Album)
Icarus Line – Penance Soirée
Arcade Fire – Funeral
Banhart, Devendra – Rejoicing in the Hands
Cave, Nick & the Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus
Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand (1st Album)
West, Kanye – College Dropout
Green, Cee-Lo – Is the Soul Machine
TV on the Radio – Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
Liars – They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
Streets – A Grand Don’t Come for Free
Wainwright, Rufus – Want Two
Killers – Hot Fuss
Ozamatli – Street Signs
Green Day – American Idiot
Common – Be
Hawley, Richard – Coles Corner
Antony and the Johnsons – I Am Bird Now
Stevens, Sufjan – Come on Feel the Illinoise
Toure, Ali Farke – Savane
Muse – Black Holes & Revelations
Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Winehouse, Amy – Back to Back
Fiasco, Lupe – Food & Liquor
Ghostface Killah – Fishscale
Aguilera, Christina – Back to Basics
Newsom, Joanna – Ys
Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
The Good, The Bad & The Queen – The Good, The Bad & The Queen
LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
Radiohead – In Rainbows
M.I.A – Kala
Justice – Cross
Klaxons – Myths of the Near Future

Changes Since 2005


Out

Aguilera, Christina – Stripped
Timberlake, Justin – Justified
Vines – Highly Evolved
Hives – Your New Favourite Band
Radiohead – Hail to the Thief
Winehouse, Amy – Frank
Calexico – Feast of Wire
Darkness – Permission to Land
Kings of Leon – Youth & Young Manhood
Thrills – So Much for the City
50 Cent – Get Rich or Die Tryin’
Wilson, Brian – SMiLE
N*E*R*D – Fly or Die
Beta Band – Heroes to Zeros
Libertines – Libertines (1st Album)
Zutons – Who Killed the Zutons?
Kings of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak
MIA (UK) – Arular
Beck – Guero
White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan


In

Green Day – American Idiot
Common – Be
Hawley, Richard – Coles Corner
Antony and the Johnsons – I Am Bird Now
Stevens, Sufjan – Come on Feel the Illinoise
Toure, Ali Farke – Savane
Muse – Black Holes & Revelations
Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Winehouse, Amy – Back to Back
Fiasco, Lupe – Food & Liquor
Ghostface Killah – Fishscale
Aguilera, Christina – Back to Basics
Newsom, Joanna – Ys
Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
The Good, The Bad & The Queen – The Good, The Bad & The Queen
LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
Radiohead – In Rainbows
M.I.A – Kala
Justice – Cross
Klaxons – Myths of the Near Future

Im more interested in the In/OUT column. I like that Klaxons album but REALLY? Trends can be a terrible thing

Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet

my ass

The idea that music "must" be listened to is pretty dreadful

Well, there is no only truth in this. I don´t think everybody should listen Physical Graffiti before they die. But anyway I think these lists are great, because even if you listen music from all the genres, there are always great albums you´ve never heard. I am going to pick some albums from this list and listen them someday in the future when I have time. I think you really have to listen many of the albums in that list, if you really want to say yourself a serious listener. But of course you don´t have to be serious listener, the most important think is that you enjoy music you listen. But I think it´s always good to the people even try to break their borders.

Here are three additions that should be on that list:
Howlin Wolf: Howlin Wolf (rockin chair album)
John Lee Hooker: Travelin´
Eddie Cochran: the Eddie Cochran Memorial album.

Also I wondered why P.J. Harveys Rid of Me is on the list, I put instead Harvey´s Is this Desire? or White Chalk.

Green Day- American Idiot?


No thanks...

All relevant comments (though Rid of Me is a masterpiece).

Torrenters will find it easy to download and actually listen to it all.

I'm up to 550 and I think I'll stop.

--There's a bunch missing, and this is partly due to the inclusion of multiple albums by the same artist. Do you really need more than one Deep Purple album? And while this may ruffle a feather or two, I'm not sure one NEEDS to listen to every bleep Kraftwerk ever made. The 50s stuff is especially skimpy.

--There are the classics I had forgotten about. "Oh, yeah, Moondance is a great acoustic-soul album. Right, Hissing of Summer Lawns is a billion times better than Blue, etc."

--There are the little oddities I hadn't heard before. Os Mutantes was a special treat, and I'm really digging the folk-progrock-jazz grooves of Pentangle's "Basket of Light" album, which I didn't even know existed until two days ago.

--I get talked into listening to stuff I didn't think I liked. Most times, I turn out to be right (Iron Maiden does suck. I really tried to be as open minded as possible), sometimes I'm surprised (some of those corny country albums from the 50s and early 60s are occaisonally quite moving).

But considering the amount of stuff I've listened to recently, I'm underwhelmed. Is the past 60 years or so of popular music really so . . . I dunno, "okay" but not "great?" Or just this selection?

Gotta appreciate dat American idiot by green day.

I think most of the sixties-seventies material in this list and many also out of this are just great! Maybe you should listen them much more than just once. And you´re right, nobody should listen any Deep Purple records except Deep Purple In Rock, although most of their albums are really good.

The list becomes drivel towards the end.

But I often wonder this about music, and collecting records I get this impression:

music was just as shit during the 50s & 60s. There was tons of corporate bullshit music that people hated. Yeah there were some good bands that made it to the top & some good one hit wonders, definitely more so then than now. . . but if you look at record bins full of 50s and 60s records, it's mostly shit. My Mom told me that when she was a teen before Dark Side came out, her cousin introduced her to Pink Floyd & nobody knew who they were at the time. A record store owner told me in the 60s the only good brit rock you could get was the Stones & the Beatles, you had to mail order the Kinks.

I feel like with music we have a huge case of hindsight is 20/20. I almost never discover a new favorite album when it comes out. It's usually a few years afterwards at least.

Am I going to be able to look back in 20 years and recognize all the great music I overlooked today? All the hidden gems of albums that I just refused to listen to because they were too pimped by pitchfork & hipsters for me to give a shake or ones that I just never heard of?

Or is rock and roll the new blues? Something that's only really cared about my nerdy white dudes who wish to relive their glory days & where no new innovation exists?

I'd rather pull the plug on my own life support machine than having my delicate ears insulted by The Good, The Bad & The Queen or Finley Quaye.

--I dunno. Do you think years and years from now, a list of albums from 2000-2010 will be a stellar set? I don't know. Just asking.

--Yes, crap is not confined to any era. When you think about how many thousands of albums came out in, say, 1968, to end up with 100 good ones is a lousy ratio. BTW, Sound of Music soundtrack is the second biggest selling album of the sixties (though maybe only in UK). Make of that what you will.

--Still, if someone gives me a record and tells me it just came out, I have trouble getting into it. Tell me it came out in 1977, and I'll lap it up. Weird.

I don't understand a few things:

a) Why did they include albums by people I don't like?
b) Why didn't they include albums by people I do like?
c) Why did they includes albums I don't like by people I do like?
d) Why hasn't this thread got instant death laser words on it to kill anyone stupid enough to open it?

That's what your Mum said.

I think I'd rather spend my time getting out of the house and experiencing life.

Sounds a hell of a lot better than wasting my time listening to 10cc.