1,001 Albums You
Must Hear Before
You Die
•
o Sinatra, Frank – In the Wee Small
Hours
•
o Presley, Elvis – Elvis Presley
(1956)
•
o Louvin Brothers – Tragic Songs
of Life
•
o Prima, Louis – Wildest
•
o Domino, Fats – This is Fats
•
o Ellington, Duke – At Newport
(1956)
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o Sinatra, Frank – Songs for
Swingin’ Lovers!
•
o Crickets – Chirping…
•
o Basie, Count – Atomic Mr Basie
•
o Monk, Thelonious – Brilliant
Corners
•
o Sabú [Martínez] – Palo Congo
•
o Davis, Miles – Birth of the Cool
•
o Machito – Kenya
•
o Little Richard – Here’s…
•
o Puente, Tito & His Orchestra –
Dance Mania (1958)
•
o Holiday, Billie – Lady in Satin
•
o Elliott, Jack – Jack Takes the
Floor
•
o Vaughan, Sarah – At Mister
Kelly’s
•
o Fitzgerald, Ella – Sings the
Gershwin Song Book
•
o Charles, Ray – Genius of…
(1959)
•
o Davis, Miles – Kind of Blue
•
o Robbins, Marty – Gunfighter
Ballads & Trail Songs
•
o Brubeck, Dave – Time Out
•
o Baez, Joan – Joan Baez (1960)
•
o Presley, Elvis – Elvis is Back!
•
o Makeba, Miriam – Miriam
Makeba (1960)
•
o Everly Brothers – A Date with
the…
•
o Smith, Jimmy – Back at the
Chicken Shack
•
o Muddy Waters – At Newport
•
o Evans, Bill – Sunday at the
Village Vanguard
•
o Charles, Ray - Modern Sounds in
Country & Western Music
•
o Booker T & the MGs – Green
Onions
•
o Getz, Stan & Charlie Byrd – Jazz
Samba
•
o Price, Ray – Night Life
•
o Beatles – With the…
•
o Dylan, Bob – Freewheelin’…
•
o Spector, Phil & Various Artists –
A Christmas Gift for You
•
o Cooke, Sam – Live at the Harlem
Square
•
o Mingus, Charles – Black Saint &
the Sinner Lady
•
o Brown, James – Live at the
Apollo (1963)
•
o Getz, Stan & João Gilberto –
Getz/Gilberto
•
o Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night
•
o Brel, Jacques – Olympia 64
•
o Burke, Solomon – Rock ‘n’ Soul
•
o Springfield, Dusty - A Girl Called
Dusty
•
o Rolling Stones – Rolling Stones
(1st Album)
1
•
o Owens, Buck – I’ve Got a Tiger
by the Tail
•
o Lewis, Jerry Lee – Live at the
Star Club, Hamburg
•
o Sonics – Here Are the…
•
o Dylan, Bob – Bringing it All
Back Home
•
o Redding, Otis – Otis Blue…
Sings Soul
•
o Beach Boys – Today!
•
o Coltrane, John – A Love Supreme
•
o King, B.B. – Live at the Regal
•
o Beatles – Rubber Soul
•
o Jansch, Bert – Bert Jansch (1st
Album)
•
o Byrds, Mr Tambourine Man
•
o Dylan, Bob – Highway 61
Revisited
•
o Who – My Generation
•
o Beatles – Revolver
•
o Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
•
o Neil, Fred – Fred Neil (1st
Album)
•
o Byrds – Fifth Dimension
•
o Dylan, Bob – Blonde on Blonde
•
o Monks – Black Monk Time
•
o Kinks – Face to Face
•
o Mamas & the Papas – If You Can
Believe Your Eyes & Ears
•
o Revere, Paul & the Raiders –
Midnight Ride
•
o Mothers of Invention – Freak
Out!
•
o Rolling Stones – Aftermath
•
o Simon & Garfunkel – Parsley,
Sage, Rosemary & Thyme
•
o 13th Floor Elevators –
Psychedelic Sounds of the…
•
o John Mayall’s Blues Breakers –
With Eric Clapton
•
o Yardbirds – Yardbirds [aka Roger
the Engineer] (1st Album)
•
o Simone, Nina – Wild is the Wind
•
o Gilberto, Astrud – Beach Samba
•
o Nico – Chelsea Girl
•
o Beatles – Sgt Pepper’s Lonely
Hearts Club Band
•
o Country Joe & the Fish – Electric
Music for the Mind & Body
•
o Buffalo Springfield – Again
•
o Captain Beefheart & His Magic
Band – Safe as Milk
•
o Moby Grape – Moby Grape (1st
Album)
•
o Love – Da Capo
•
o Beau Brummels – Triangle
•
o Monkees – Headquarters
•
o Buckley, Tim – Goodbye & Hello
•
o Love – Forever Changes
•
o Cream – Disraeli Gears
•
o Pink Floyd – Piper at the Gates of
Dawn
•
o Who – Sell Out
•
o Velvet Underground - & Nico
•
o Sinatra, Frank - Frank Albert
Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
•
o Doors – Doors (1st Album)
•
o Young Rascals – Groovin’
•
o Jefferson Airplane – Surrealistic
Pillow
•
o Kinks – Something Else by the…
•
o Donovan – Sunshine Superman
•
o Haggard, Merle – I’m a
Lonesome Fugitive
•
o Hendrix, Jimi – Are You
Experienced
2
•
o Electric Prunes – I Had too Much
to Dream (Last Night)
•
o Lynn, Loretta – Don’t Come
Home a Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on
Your Mind)
•
o Sharma, Shivkumar / Brij Bushan
Kabra / Hariprasad Chaurasia –
Call of the Valley
•
o Velvet Underground – White
Light/White Heat
•
o Hendrix, Jimi – Axis: Bold as
Love
•
o Franklin, Aretha – I Never Loved
a Man the Way I Love You
•
o Rolling Stones – Beggars
Banquet
•
o Traffic – Traffic (2nd Album)
•
o Incredible String Band –
Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter
•
o Kinks – Village Green
Preservation Society
•
o Shankar, Ravi – Sounds of India
(1968)
•
o Mutantes, os – Mutantes, os (1st
Album)
•
o Hendrix, Jimi – Electric Ladyland
•
o Cohen, Leonard – Songs of…
•
o Cash, Johnny – At Folsom Prison
•
o Nyro, Laura – Eli & the
Thirteenth Confession
•
o Franklin, Aretha – Lady Soul
•
o Blue Cheer – Vincebus Eruptum
•
o Byrds – Notorious Byrd Brothers
•
o Big Brother & the Holding
Company – Cheap Thrills
•
o United States of America –
United States of America
•
o Dr John – Gris Gris
•
o Iron Butterfly – In a Gadda da
Vida
•
o Pretty Things – S.F. Sorrow
•
o Simon & Garfunkel – Bookends
•
o Small Faces – Ogdens’ Nut Gone
Flake
•
o Band – Music from Big Pink
•
o Beck, Jeff – Truth
•
o Veloso, Caetano – Caetano
Veloso (1968)
•
o Walker, Scott – Scott 2
•
o Zombies – Odessey & Oracle
•
o Morrison, Van – Astral Weeks
•
o Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo
•
o Beatles – Beatles [aka White
Album]
•
o Mothers of Invention – We’re
Only in it for the Money
•
o Young, Neil – Everybody Knows
This is Nowhere
•
o Captain Beefheart & His Magic
Band – Trout Mask Replica
•
o Creedence Clearwater Revival –
Bayou Country
•
o Crosby, Stills & Nash – Crosby,
Stills & Nash
•
o Blood, Sweat & Tears - Blood,
Sweat & Tears (2nd Album)
•
o Flying Burrito Brothers – Gilded
Palace of Sin
•
o Cash, Johnny – At San Quentin
•
o Creedence Clearwater Revival –
Green River
•
o Beatles – Abbey Road
•
o Who – Tommy
•
o Davis, Miles – In a Silent Way
•
o Bee Gees – Odessa
•
o Pentangle – Basket of Light
•
o Rolling Stones – Let it Bleed
•
o Drake, Nick – Five Leaves Left
3
•
o Springfield, Dusty – Dusty in
Memphis
•
o Presley, Elvis – From Elvis in
Memphis
•
o Velvet Underground – Velvet
Underground (3rd Album)
•
o Quicksilver Messenger Service –
Happy Trails
•
o Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin (1st
Album)
•
o Band – Band (2nd Album)
•
o Led Zeppelin – II
•
o MC5 – Kick Out the Jams
•
o Temptations – Cloud Nine
•
o Sly & the Family Stone – Stand!
•
o Buckley, Tim – Happy Sad
•
o Chicago Transit Authority
[Chicago] - Chicago Transit
Authority (1969)
•
o Fairport Convention –
Unhalfbricking
•
o Youngbloods – Elephant
Mountain
•
o Hayes, Isaac – Hot Buttered Soul
•
o Grateful Dead – Live/Dead
•
o Kinks – Arthur: Or the Decline &
Fall of the British Empire
•
o King Crimson – In the Court of
the Crimson King
•
o Cohen, Leonard – Songs from a
Room
•
o Fairport Convention – Liege &
Lief
•
o Walker, Scott – Scott 4
•
o Stooges – Stooges (1st Album)
•
o Spence, Alexander ‘Skip’ – Oar
•
o Zappa, Frank – Hot Rats
•
o Creedence Clearwater Revival –
Cosmo’s Factory
•
o Derek & the Dominos – Layla &
Other Assorted Love Songs
•
o Davis, Miles – Bitches Brew
•
o Spirit – Twelve Dreams of Dr
Sardonicus
•
o Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
(1st Album)
•
o Doors – Morrison Hotel
•
o Carpenters – Close to You
•
o Still, Stephen – Stephen Stills (1st
Album)
•
o Lennon, John – Plastic Ono Band
•
o Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young –
Déjà vu
•
o Black Sabbath – Paranoid
•
o Young, Neil – After the Gold
Rush
•
o Led Zeppelin – III
•
o Deep Purple – In Rock
•
o Morrison, Van – Moondance
•
o Grateful Dead – American Beauty
•
o Drake, Nick – Bryter Layter
•
o Shankar, Ananda – Ananda
Shankar (1970)
•
o Who – Live at Leeds(1st Album)
•
o Soft Machine – Third
•
o Stewart, Rod – Gasoline Alley
•
o Harrison, George – All Things
Must Pass
•
o Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge
Over Troubled Water
•
o Stevens, Cat – Tea for the
Tillerman
•
o Traffic – John Barleycorn Must
Die
•
o Stooges – Fun House
•
o McCartney, Paul – McCartney
(1970)
4
•
o Santana – Abraxas
•
o Barrett, Syd – Madcap Laughs
•
o Jethro Tull – Aqualung
•
o Crosby, David – If Only I Could
Remember My Name
•
o Sly & the Family Stone – There’s
a Riot Goin’ On
•
o Gaye, Marvin – What’s Going On
•
o Yes – Yes Album
•
o Bee Gees – Trafalgar
•
o Who – Who’s Next
•
o King, Carole – Tapestry
•
o Hayes, Isaac – Shaft: Music from
the Soundtrack
•
o Allman Brothers – At Fillmore
East
•
o Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers
•
o Lennon, John – Imagine
•
o Beach Boys – Surf’s Up
•
o Yes – Fragile
•
o Doors – LA Woman
•
o Can – Tago Mago
•
o John, Elton – Madman Across the
Water
•
o Parton, Dolly – Coat of Many
Colors
•
o McLean, Don – American Pie
•
o Emerson, Lake & Palmer –
Tarkus
•
o Led Zeppelin – IV [aka Untitled /
aka Four Symbols]
•
o Gainsbourg, Serge – Histoire de
Melody Nelson
•
o Stewart, Rod – Every Picture
Tells a Story
•
o Emerson, Lake & Palmer –
Pictures at an Exhibition
•
o Cohen, Leonard – Songs of Love
& Hate
•
o Mitchell, Joni – Blue
•
o Funkadelic – Maggot Brain
•
o Joplin, Janis – Pearl
•
o Kuti, Fela - With Ginger Baker:
Live!
•
o Faces – A Nod is as Good as a
Wink… To a Blind Horse
•
o Flamin’ Groovies – Teenage Head
•
o Clark, Gene – White Light
•
o Prine, John – John Prine (1st
Album)
•
o Nilsson, Harry – Nilsson
Schmilsson
•
o T.Rex – Electric Warrior
•
o Bowie, David – Hunky Dory
•
o Newman, Randy – Sail Away
•
o Deep Purple – Machine Head
•
o Big Star – # 1 Record
•
o Black Sabbath – Vol 4
•
o Steely Dan – Can’t Buy a Thrill
•
o Young, Neil – Harvest
•
o Mayfield, Curtis – Superfly:
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
•
o Slade – Slayed?
•
o Deep Purple – Made in Japan
•
o Yes – Close to the Edge
•
o Reed, Lou – Transformer
•
o Masekela, Hugh – Home is
Where the Music Is
•
o Nascimento, Milton & Lo Borges
– Clube da Esquina (1972)
•
o Rundgren, Todd –
Something/Anything
•
o Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Will the
Circle Be Unbroken?
5
•
o Wonder, Stevie – Talking Book
•
o Still, Stephen – Manassas
•
o T.Rex – Slider
•
o Ackles, David – American Gothic
•
o Eagles – Eagles (1st Album)
•
o Buckley, Tim – Greetings from
LA
•
o Drake, Nick – Pink Moon
•
o Simon, Paul – Paul Simon (1972)
•
o Roxy Music – Roxy Music (1st
Album)
•
o Alice Cooper – School’s Out
•
o Temptations – All Directions
•
o Bowie, David – Rise & Fall of
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders
from Mars
•
o War – World is a Ghetto
•
o Green, Al – Let’s Stay Together
•
o Rolling Stones – Exile on Main
St
•
o Lynyrd Skynyrd – Pronounced
Leh-nerd Skin-nerd
•
o Incredible Bongo Band – Bongo
Rock
•
o Bowie, David – Aladdin Sane
•
o King Crimson – Lark’s Tongues
in Aspic
•
o Marley, Bob & the Wailers –
Catch a Fire
•
o Hawkwind – Space Ritual
•
o Cale, John – Paris 1919
•
o Can – Future Days
•
o Reed, Lou – Berlin
•
o Genesis – Selling England by the
Pound
•
o Gaye, Marvin – Let’s Get it On
•
o Martyn, John – Solid Air
•
o Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure
•
o Faust – IV
•
o Hancock, Herbie – Head Hunters
•
o Mott the Hoople – Mott
•
o Oldfield, Mike – Tubular Bells
•
o Rundgren, Todd – A Wizard, a
True Star
•
o John, Elton – Goodbye Yellow
Brick Road
•
o Steely Dan – Countdown to
Ecstasy
•
o Jennings, Waylon – Honky Tonk
Heroes
•
o Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the
Moon
•
o Wonder, Stevie – Innervisions
•
o ZZ Top – Tres Hombres
•
o McCartney, Paul & Wings – Band
on the Run
•
o Sensational Alex Harvey Band –
Next
•
o Alice Cooper – Billion Dollar
Babies
•
o Iggy & the Stooges – Raw Power
•
o Isley Brothers – 3 + 3
•
o New York Dolls – New York
Dolls (1st Album)
•
o Eno, Brian – Here Come the
Warm Jets
•
o Bad Company – Bad Company
(1st Album)
•
o Genesis – Lamb Lies Down on
Broadway
•
o Otis, Shuggie – Inspiration
Information
•
o Wonder, Stevie – Fullfillingness’
First Finale
•
o Clapton, Eric – 461 Ocean
Boulevard
6
•
o Kraftwerk – Autobahn
•
o Morrison, Van – It’s Too Late to
Stop Now
•
o Mitchell, Joni – Court & Spark
•
o Queen – II
•
o Roxy Music – Country Life
•
o Tangerine Dream – Phaedra
•
o Sparks – Kimono My House
•
o Supertramp – Crime of the
Century
•
o Thompson, Richard & Linda – I
Want to See the Bright Lights
Tonight
•
o Scott-Heron, Gil & Brian Jackson
– Winter in America
•
o Queen – Sheer Heart Attack
•
o 10cc – Sheet Music
•
o Young, Neil – On the Beach
•
o Jones, George – Grand Tour
•
o Clark, Gene – No Other
•
o Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic
•
o Newman, Randy – Good Old
Boys
•
o Marley, Bob & the Wailers –
Natty Dread
•
o Wyatt, Robert – Rock Bottom
•
o Parsons, Gram – Grievous Angel
•
o Eno, Brian – Another Green
World
•
o Dictators – Go Girl Crazy!
•
o Neu! – ‘75
•
o Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti
•
o Jarrett, Keith – Köln Concert
•
o Aerosmith – Toys in the Attic
•
o Bowie, David – Young Americans
•
o Burning Spear – Marcus Garvey
•
o Springsteen, Bruce – Born to Run
•
o Harris, Emmylou – Pieces of the
Sky
•
o Dion – Born to Be With You
•
o Mitchell, Joni – Hissing of
Summer Lawns
•
o Burman, Rahul Dev – Shalimar
(Soundtrack)
•
o Young, Neil – Tonight’s the Night
•
o Dylan, Bob – Blood on the
Tracks
•
o Smith, Patti – Horses
•
o Pink Floyd – Wish You Were
Here
•
o Queen – A Night at the Opera
•
o Nelson, Willie – Red Headed
Stranger
•
o Earth, Wind & Fire – That’s the
Way of the World
•
o Mayfield, Curtis – There’s No
Place Like America Today
•
o Petty, Tom & the Heartbreakers -
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (1st
Album)
•
o Modern Lovers – Modern Lovers
[Rec 1972, not released until 1976]
•
o Bowie, David – Station to Station
•
o Mitchell, Joni – Hejira
•
o Boston – Boston (1st Album)
•
o Eagles – Hotel California
•
o ABBA – Arrival
•
o Kiss – Destroyer
•
o Rush – 2112
•
o Ben, Jorge – África Brasil
•
o Armatrading, Joan – Joan
Armatrading (1st Album)
•
o Aerosmith – Rocks
7
•
o Parliament – Mothership
Connection
•
o Penguin Café Orchestra – Music
from the Penguin Café
•
o Jarre, Jean Michel – Oxygene
•
o Ramones – Ramones (1st Album)
•
o Kuti, Fela – Zombie
•
o Tosh, Peter – Legalize It
•
o Wonder, Stevie – Songs in the
Key of Life
•
o Frampton, Peter – Frampton
Comes Alive
•
o Eno, Brian – Before & After
Science
•
o Kraftwerk – Trans-Europe
Express
•
o Joel, Billy – Stranger, the
•
o Marley, Bob & the Wailers –
Exodus
•
o Electric Light Orchestra – Out of
the Blue
•
o Weather Report – Heavy Weather
•
o Muddy Waters – Hard Again
•
o Stranglers – Rattus Norvegicus
•
o Clash – Clash (1st Album)
•
o Bowie, David – Low
•
o Steely Dan – Aja
•
o Wire – Pink Flag
•
o Martyn, John – One World
•
o Talking Heads – 77
•
o Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
•
o Bowie, David – ‘Heroes’
•
o Wilson, Dennis – Pacific Ocean
Blue
•
o Suicide – Suicide (1st Album)
•
o Iggy Pop – Idiot, the
•
o Gabriel, Peter – Peter Gabriel (I)
•
o Television – Marquee Moon
•
o Meat Loaf – Bat Out of Hell
•
o Costello, Elvis – My Aim is True
•
o Iggy Pop – Lust for Life
•
o Dury, Ian – New Boots &
Panties!!
•
o Sex Pistols – Never Mind the
Bollocks, Here’s the…
•
o Pere Ubu – Modern Dance
•
o Kraftwerk – Man Machine
•
o Blondie – Parallel Lines
•
o Regina, Elís – Vento de Maio
•
o Pere Ubu – Dub Housing
•
o Only Ones – Only Ones (1st
Album)
•
o Costello, Elvis – This Year’s
Model
•
o Jam – All Mod Cons
•
o Ely, Joe – Honky Tonk
Masquerade
•
o Adverts – Crossing the Red Sea
with the…
•
o Big Star – Third (aka Sister
Lovers)
•
o Residents – Duck Stab/Buster &
Glen
•
o Public Image Ltd – Public Image
•
o Magazine – Real Life
•
o Springsteen, Bruce – Darkness on
the Edge of Town
•
o Funkadelic – One Nation Under a
Groove
•
o Throbbing Gristle – DOA: Third
& Final Report
•
o Thin Lizzy – Live & Dangerous
•
o Talking Heads – More Songs
About Buildings & Food
8
•
o Buzzcocks – Another Music in a
Different Kitchen
•
o Van Halen – Van Halen (1st
Album)
•
o Colón, Willie & Rubén Blades –
Siembra
•
o Cars – Cars (1st Album)
•
o Devo – Q: Are We Not Men? A:
We Are Devo
•
o Dire Straits – Dire Straits (1st
Album)
•
o Saints – Eternally Yours
•
o Gaye, Marvin – Here, My Dear
•
o Nelson, Willie – Stardust
•
o Chic – C’est Chic
•
o X-ray Spex – Germ Free
Adolescents
•
o Eno, Brian – Ambient 1: Music
for Airports
•
o Siouxsie & the Banshees –
Scream, the
•
o AC/DC – Highway to Hell
•
o Sister Sledge – We Are Family
•
o Crusaders – Street Life
•
o Germs – GI
•
o B52s – B52s (1st Album)
•
o Czukay, Holger – Movies
•
o Police – Reggatta de Blanc
•
o Fall – Live at the Witch Trials
•
o Talking Heads – Fear of Music
•
o Joy Division – Unknown
Pleasures
•
o Chic – Risqué
•
o Undertones – Undertones (1st
Album)
•
o Clash – London Calling
•
o Japan – Quiet Life
•
o Faithfull, Marianne – Broken
English
•
o Slits – Cut
•
o Costello, Elvis – Armed Forces
•
o Young, Neil – Rust Never Sleeps
•
o Gang of Four – Entertainment!
•
o Cheap Trick – At Budokan
•
o Fleetwood Mac – Tusk
•
o Pink Floyd – Wall, the
•
o Public Image Ltd – Metal Box
•
o Jackson, Michael – Off the Wall
•
o Damned – Machine Gun
Etiquette
•
o Numan, Gary – Pleasure
Principle
•
o Specials – Specials (1st Album)
•
o Adam & the Ants – Kings of the
Wild Frontier
•
o Dexys Midnight Runners –
Searching for the Young Soul
Rebels
•
o AC/DC – Back in Black
•
o Cramps – Songs the Lord Taught
Us
•
o Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit for
Rotting Vegetables
•
o Gabriel, Peter – Peter Gabriel
(III)
•
o Soft Boys – Underwater
Moonlight
•
o Cure – Seventeen Seconds
•
o Echo & the Bunnymen –
Crocodiles
•
o Motörhead – Ace of Spades
•
o Killing Joke – Killing Joke (1st
Album)
•
o Judas Priest – British Steel
•
o Circle Jerks – Group Sex
9
•
o Talking Heads – Remain in Light
•
o Joy Division – Closer
•
o Iron Maiden – Iron Maiden (1st
Album)
•
o Undertones – Hypnotised
•
o Jam – Sound Affects
•
o Waits, Tom – Heartattack & Vine
•
o UB40 – Signing Off
•
o Teardrop Explodes – Kilimanjaro
•
o Specials – More Specials
•
o Winwood, Steve – Arc of a Diver
•
o Pretenders – Pretenders (1st
Album)
•
o Einstürzende Neubauten –
Kollaps
•
o Siouxsie & the Banshees – Juju
•
o Heaven 17 – Penthouse &
Pavement
•
o Go-Gos – Beauty & the Beat
•
o Motörhead – No Sleep ‘Til
Hammersmith
•
o Soft Cell – Non Stop Erotic
Cabaret
•
o Orchestral Manoeuvres in the
Dark – Architecture & Morality
•
o Eno, Brian & David Byrne – My
Life in the Bush of Ghosts
•
o Black Flag – Damaged
•
o X – Wild Gift
•
o Psychedelic Furs – Talk, Talk,
Talk
•
o Human League – Dare
•
o Gun Club – Fire of Love
•
o Bauhaus – Mask
•
o Womack, Bobby – Poet
•
o Tom Tom Club – Tom Tom Club
(1st Album)
•
o Rush – Moving Pictures
•
o ABBA – Visitors
•
o ABC – Lexicon of Love
•
o Prince – 1999
•
o Grandmaster Flash & the Furious
Five – Message, the
•
o Costello, Elvis – Imperial
Bedroom
•
o Cure – Pornography
•
o Dexys Midnight Runners – Too
Rye Ay
•
o Simple Minds – New Gold
Dream (81, 82, 83, 84)
•
o Madness – Rise & Fall
•
o Fagen, Donald – Nightfly
•
o Haircut One Hundred – Pelican
West
•
o Bush, Kate – Dreaming, the
•
o Orange Juice – Rip it Up
•
o Jackson, Michael – Thriller
•
o Birthday Party – Junkyard
•
o Venom – Black Metal
•
o Springsteen, Bruce – Nebraska
•
o Associates – Sulk
•
o Iron Maiden – Number of the
Beast
•
o Duran Duran – Rio
•
o Violent Femmes – Violent
Femmes (1st Album)
•
o McLaren, Malcolm – Duck Rock
•
o Def Leppard – Pyromania
•
o REM – Murmur
•
o The The – Soul Mining
•
o Waits, Tom –
Swordfishtrombones
•
o Blue Nile – A Walk Across the
Rooftops
10
•
o Hanoi Rocks – Back to Mystery
City
•
o Lauper, Cyndi – She’s So
Unusual
•
o Simon, Paul – Hearts & Bones
•
o Echo & the Bunnymen –
Porcupine
•
o ZZ Top – Eliminator
•
o Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams (Are
Made of This)
•
o U2 – War
•
o Police – Synchronicity
•
o Meat Puppets – II
•
o Culture Club – Colour by
Numbers
•
o Frankie Goes to Hollywood –
Welcome to the Pleasuredome
•
o Run DMC – Run DMC (1984)
•
o Sade – Diamond Life
•
o Cocteau Twins – Treasure
•
o Minor Threat – Out of Step
•
o Van Halen – 1984
•
o Prince – Purple Rain
•
o Replacements – Let it Be
•
o Style Council – Café Bleu
•
o Turner, Tina – Private Dancer
•
o Echo & the Bunnymen – Ocean
Rain
•
o Minutemen – Double Nickels on
the Dime
•
o Cole, Lloyd & the Commotions –
Rattlesnakes
•
o N’Dour, Youssou – Immigrés
•
o Springsteen, Bruce – Born in the
USA
•
o Fall – This Nation’s Saving Grace
•
o Ibrahim, Abdullah – Water from
an Ancient Well
•
o Aha – Hunting High & Low
•
o Tears for Fears – Songs from the
Big Chair
•
o Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms
•
o Prefab Sprout – Steve McQueen
(aka Two Wheels Good)
•
o Mekons – Fear & Whiskey
•
o Big Black – Atomizer
•
o Vega, Suzanne – Suzanne Vega
(1st Album)
•
o Pogues – Rum, Sodomy & the
Lash
•
o Bush, Kate – Hounds of Love
•
o Smiths – Meat is Murder
•
o Waits, Tom – Rain Dogs
•
o Jesus & Mary Chain –
Psychocandy
•
o New Order – Low Life
•
o Simply Red – Picture Book
•
o Dexys Midnight Runners – Don’t
Stand Me Down
•
o Scritti Politti – Cupid & Psyche
85
•
o Costello, Elvis – Blood &
Chocolate
•
o Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul
Sonic Force – Planet Rock: The
Album
•
o Beastie Boys – Licensed to Ill
•
o Metallica – Master of Puppets
•
o The The – Infected
•
o Griffith, Nanci – Last of the True
Believers
•
o Bragg, Billy – Talking with the
Taxman About Poetry
•
o Talk Talk – Colour of Spring
•
o Megadeth – Peace Sells… But
Who’s Buying?
11
•
o Bon Jovi – Slippery When Wet
•
o Sonic Youth – Evol
•
o Slayer – Reign in Blood
•
o Throwing Muses – Throwing
Muses (1986)
•
o Simon, Paul – Graceland
•
o Run DMC – Raising Hell
•
o XTC – Skylarking
•
o Earle, Steve – Guitar Town
•
o Bad Brains – I Against I
•
o Baker, Anita – Rapture
•
o Smiths – Queen is Dead
•
o Gabriel, Peter – So
•
o Anthrax – Among the Living
•
o Dinosaur Jr – You’re Living All
Over Me
•
o Parton, Dolly with Linda
Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris – Trio
•
o Def Leppard – Hysteria
•
o REM – Document
•
o Prince – Sign ‘O’ the Times
•
o Cult – Electric
•
o Depeche Mode – Music for the
Masses
•
o Sisters of Mercy – Floodland
•
o Michael, George – Faith
•
o Hüsker Dü – Warehouse: Songs
& Stories
•
o Butthole Surfers – Locust
Abortion Technician
•
o Piazzolla, Astor & Gary Burton –
New Tango
•
o Smiths – Strangeways Here We
Come
•
o Guns N’ Roses – Appetite for
Destruction
•
o Jesus & Mary Chain – Darklands
•
o Ladysmith Black Mambazo –
Shaka Zulu
•
o Laibach – Opus Dei
•
o Napalm Death – Scum
•
o Sonic Youth – Sister
•
o Triffids – Calenture
•
o Jackson, Michael – Bad
•
o Pet Shop Boys – Actually
•
o U2 – Joshua Tree
•
o D’Arby, Terence Trent –
Introducing the Hardline According
to…
•
o Pogues – If I Should Fall from
Grace with God
•
o Cohen, Leonard – I’m Your Man
•
o Waterboys – Fisherman’s Blues
•
o Fishbone – Truth & Soul
•
o Everything But the Girl –
Idlewild
•
o Living Colour - Vivid
•
o Mudhoney – Superfuzz Bigmuff
•
o REM – Green
•
o Happy Mondays – Bummed
•
o Go Betweens – 16 Lovers Lane
•
o Cowboy Junkies – Trinity Session
•
o Chapman, Tracy – Tracy
Chapman (1st Album)
•
o My Bloody Valentine – Isn’t
Anything
•
o Pixies – Surfer Rosa
•
o Metallica – And Justice for All
•
o Dinosaur Jr – Bug
•
o Krause, Dagmar – Tank Battles
•
o lang, k.d. – Shadowland
•
o American Music Club –
California
12
•
o Morrissey – Viva Hate
•
o Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation
•
o Sugarcubes – Life’s Too Good
•
o Yoakam, Dwight – Beuenas
Noches from a Lonely Roomn
•
o Jane’s Addiction – Nothing’s
Shocking
•
o Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation
of Millions to Hold Us Back
•
o Faith No More – Real Thing
•
o Kravtiz, Lenny – Let Love Rule
•
o Hooker, John Lee – Healer, the
•
o New Order – Technique
•
o Madonna – Like a Prayer
•
o Queen Latifah – All Hail the
Queen
•
o Spacemen 3 – Playing with Fire
•
o fIREHOSE – fROMOHIO
•
o Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique
•
o Young Gods – Eau Rouge, l’
•
o Zorn, John – Spy vs Spy: Music
of Ornette Coleman
•
o Stone Roses – Stone Roses (1st
Album)
•
o Cherry, Neneh – Raw Like Sushi
•
o Maal, Baaba & Mansour Seck –
Djam Leelii
•
o Bush, Kate – Sensual World
•
o Cure – Disintegration
•
o 808 State – 808:90
•
o Coldcut – What’s That Noise?
•
o Adamson, Barry – Moss Side
Story
•
o Aerosmith – Pump
•
o Pixies – Doolittle
•
o Raitt, Bonnie – Nick of Time
•
o Fugazi – Repeater
•
o Soul II Soul – Club Classics: Vol
One
•
o De La Soul – 3 Feet High &
Rising
•
o Jackson, Janet – Rhythm Nation
1814
•
o Jungle Brothers – Done by the
Forces of Nature
•
o NWA – Straight Outta Compton
•
o Cocteau Twins – Heaven or Las
Vegas
•
o Shamen – En-Tact
•
o Deee Lite – World Clique
•
o La’s – La’s
•
o Black Crowes – Shake Your
Money Maker
•
o Depeche Mode – Violator
•
o Pixies – Bossanova
•
o Megadeth – Rust in Peace
•
o Digital Underground – Sex
Packets
•
o Pet Shop Boys – Behaviour
•
o Happy Mondays – Pills ‘n’ Thrills
and Bellyaches
•
o Michael, George – Listen Without
Prejudice: Vol 1
•
o Young, Neil – Ragged Glory
•
o Ice Cube – AmeriKKKa’s Most
Wanted
•
o Jane’s Addiction – Ritual de lo
Habitual
•
o LL Cool J – Mama Said Knock
You Out
•
o Public Enemy – Fear of a Black
Planet
•
o O’Connor, Sinéad – I Do Not
Want What I Haven’t Got
13
•
o Tribe Called Quest, a – People’s
Instinctive Travels & the Paths of
Rhythm
•
o Sonic Youth – Goo
•
o Ride – Nowhere
•
o My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
•
o Nirvana – Nevermind
•
o Crowded House – Woodface
•
o Cypress Hill – Cypress Hill (1st
Album)
•
o Cope, Julian – Peggy Suicide
•
o Gang Starr – Step in the Arena
•
o MC Solaar - Qui Sème le Vent
Récolte le Tempo
•
o Jah Wobble – Rising Above
Bedlam
•
o Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood
Sugar Sex Magik
•
o Ice T – OG: Original Gangster
•
o Mudhoney – Every Good Boy
Deserves Fudge
•
o Public Enemy – Apocalypse 91…
Enemy Strikes Back
•
o Tribe Called Quest, a – Low End
Theory
•
o Pearl Jam – Ten
•
o Saint Etienne – Foxbase Alpha
•
o Sepultura – Arise
•
o Slint – Spiderland
•
o U2 – Achtung Baby
•
o KLF – White Room
•
o Massive Attack – Blue Lines
•
o Primal Scream – Screamadelica
•
o Teenage Fanclub –
Bandwagonesque
•
o Metallica – Metallica [aka Black
Album]
•
o Pavement – Slanted & Enchanted
•
o Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient
Works 85-92
•
o Arrested Development – 3 Years,
5 Months & 2 Days in the Life of…
•
o Olomidé, Koffi – Haut de
Gamme: Koweït, Rive Gauche
•
o Morrissey – Your Arsenal
•
o Maal, Baaba – Lam Toro
•
o Lemonheads – It’s a Shame
About Ray
•
o Rage Against the Machine - Rage
Against the Machine (1st Album)
•
o Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
– Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury
•
o lang, k.d. – Ingénue
•
o Dr Dre – Chronic, the
•
o REM – Automatic for the People
•
o Pharcyde – Bizarre Ride II the…
•
o Spiritualized – Lazer Guided
Melodies
•
o Sugar – Copper Blue
•
o Waits, Tom – Bone Machine
•
o Sonic Youth – Dirty
•
o Stereo MCs – Connected
•
o Ministry – Psalm 69 (Way to
Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs)
•
o Amos, Tori – Little Earthquakes
•
o Ice Cube – Predator
•
o Pantera – Vulgar Display of
Power
•
o Alice in Chains – Dirt
•
o Cave, Nick & the Bad Seeds –
Henry’s Dream, by…
•
o Khan, Nusrat Fateh Ali –
Devotional Songs
•
o Harvey, P.J. – Dry
•
o Suede – Suede (1st Album)
•
o Weller, Paul – Wild Wood
14
•
o Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese
Dream
•
o Auteurs – New Wave
•
o Phair, Liz – Exile in Guyville
•
o Afghan Whigs – Gentlemen
•
o Mann, Aimee – Whatever
•
o Grant Lee Buffalo – Fuzzy
•
o Nirvana – In Utero
•
o Jamiroquai – Emergency on
Planet Earth
•
o Pet Shop Boys – Very
•
o Harvey, P.J. – Rid of Me
•
o Blur – Modern Life is Rubbish
•
o Crow, Sheryl – Tuesday Night
Music Club
•
o Fall – Infotainment Scan
•
o Wu Tang Clan – Enter the Wu
Tang (36 Chambers)
•
o Björk – Debut
•
o Orbital – Orbital [aka Brown
Album]
•
o Snoop Doggy Dogg – Doggystyle
•
o Sebadoh – Bubble & Scrape
•
o Boo Radleys – Giant Steps
•
o Orbit, William – Strange Cargo:
III
•
o Method Man – Tical
•
o Black, Frank – Teenager of the
Year
•
o Girls Against Boys – Venus
Luxure No 1 Baby
•
o Jeru the Damaja – Sun Rises in
the East
•
o Pavement – Crooked Rain,
Crooked Rain
•
o Portishead – Dummy
•
o Sabres of Paradise – Haunted
Dancehall
•
o Nas – Illmatic
•
o Beastie Boys – Ill
Communication
•
o Costello, Elvis – Brutal Youth
•
o Morrissey – Vauxhall & I
•
o TLC – CrazySexyCool
•
o Oasis – Definitely Maybe
•
o Soundgarden – Superunknown
•
o Offspring – Smash
•
o Drive Like Jehu – Yank Crime
•
o Blur – Parklife
•
o G Love & Special Sauce - G
Love & Special Sauce (1994)
•
o Touré, Ali Farka – Talking
Timbuktu
•
o Hole – Live Through This
•
o Massive Attack – Protection
•
o Manic Street Preachers – Holy
Bible
•
o Suede – Dog Man Star
•
o Notorious BIG – Ready to Die
•
o Buckley, Jeff – Grace
•
o Orbital – Snivilisation
•
o Nirvana – MTV Unplugged in
New York
•
o Nine Inch Nails – Downward
Spiral
•
o Prodigy – Music for the Jilted
Generation
•
o Green Day – Dookie
•
o Foo Fighters – Foo Fighters (1st
Album)
•
o Garbage – Garbage (1st Album)
•
o Nightmares on Wax – Smokers
Delight
•
o Tricky – Maxinquaye
15
•
o Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban
Linx
•
o Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon
Collie & the Infinite Sadness
•
o Rocket from the Crypt – Scream,
Dracula, Scream
•
o Chemical Brothers – Exit Planet
Dust
•
o 2Pac – Me Against the World
•
o Elastica – Elastica (1st Album)
•
o Supergrass – I Should Coco
•
o Radiohead – Bends, the
•
o Guided by Voices – Alien Lanes
•
o Kuti, Femi – Femi Kuti (1995)
•
o Verve – A Northern Soul
•
o Genius GZA – Liquid Swords
•
o Pulp – Different Class
•
o Leftfield – Leftism
•
o D’Angelo – Brown Sugar
•
o Oasis – (What’s the Story)
Morning Glory?
•
o Goldie – Timeless
•
o Morissette, Alanis – Jagged Little
Pill
•
o Screaming Trees – Dust
•
o Super Furry Animals – Fuzzy
Logic
•
o Fatboy Slim – Better Living
Through Chemistry
•
o Dr Octagon – Dr
Octagonecologyst
•
o Stereolab – Emperor Tomato
Ketchup
•
o Tortoise – Millions Now Living
Will Never Die
•
o Beck – Odelay
•
o Belle & Sebastian – Tigermilk
•
o DJ Shadow – Endtroducing
•
o Eels – Beautiful Freak
•
o Divine Comedy – Casanova
•
o Apple, Fiona – Tidal
•
o Wilco – Being There
•
o Sepultura – Roots
•
o Adamson, Barry – Oedipus
Schmoedipus
•
o Fun Lovin’ Criminals – Come
Find Yourself
•
o Maxwell – Urban Hang Suite
•
o Charlatans – Tellin’ Stories
•
o Manic Street Preachers –
Everything Must Go
•
o Everything But the Girl –
Walking Wounded
•
o Cave, Nick & the Bad Seeds –
Murder Ballads
•
o Bukem, LTJ – Logical
Progression
•
o Underworld – Second Toughest
in the Infants
•
o Jon Spencer Blues Explosion –
Now I Got Worry
•
o Cardigans – First Band on the
Moon
•
o Marilyn Manson – Antichrist
Superstar
•
o Fugees – Score, the
•
o Ash – 1977
•
o Belle & Sebastian – If You’re
Feeling Sinister
•
o Blur – Blur (1997)
•
o Radiohead – OK Computer
•
o Quaye, Finley – Maverick a
Strike
•
o Elliott, Missy Misdemeanor –
Supa Dupa Fly
•
o Chemical Brothers – Dig Your
Own Hole
16
•
o Primal Scream – Vanishing Point
•
o Wyatt, Robert – Shleep
•
o Holmes, David – Let’s Get Killed
•
o Sleater Kinney – Dig Me Out
•
o Prodigy – Fat of the Land
•
o Buena Vista Social Club - Buena
Vista Social Club (1997)
•
o Cave, Nick & the Bad Seeds –
Boatman’s Call
•
o Divine Comedy – A Short Album
About Love
•
o Cornershop – When I was Born
for the 7th Time
•
o Daft Punk – Homework
•
o Williams, Robbie – Life Thru a
Lens
•
o Carey, Mariah – Butterfly
•
o Supergrass – In it for the Money
•
o Dylan, Bob – Time Out of Mind
•
o Size, Roni & Reprazent – New
Forms
•
o Smith, Elliott – Either/Or
•
o Verve – Urban Hymns
•
o Spiritualized – Ladies &
Gentlemen, We are Floating in
Space
•
o Dandy Warhols – Dandy Warhols
(1997)
•
o Dylan, Bob – Bootleg Series Vol
4: Live 1966 [rec: 1966 at Free
Trade Hall, Manchester]
•
o Chao, Manu – Clandestino
•
o Bragg, Billy & Wilco – Mermaid
Avenue
•
o Turbonegro – Apocalypse Dudes
•
o Fatboy Slim – You’ve Come a
Long Way, Baby
•
o Gray, David – White Ladder
•
o Williams, Lucinda – Car Wheels
on a Gravel Road
•
o Pulp – This is Hardcore
•
o Madonna – Ray of Light
•
o Hill, Lauryn – Miseducation of…
•
o Hole – Celebrity Skin
•
o Mercury Rev – Deserter’s Songs
•
o System of a Down - System of a
Down (1st Album)
•
o Queen of the Stone Age - Queen
of the Stone Age (1st Album)
•
o Air – Moon Safari
•
o Singh, Talvin – OK
•
o Korn – Follow the Leader
•
o Khalèd, (Cheb) – Kenza
•
o Kid Rock – Devil Without a
Cause
•
o Boards of Canada – Music Has
the Right to Children
•
o Suba - São Paulo Confessions
•
o XTC – Apple Venus: Volume 1
•
o Skunk Anansie – Post Orgasmic
Chill
•
o Incubus – Make Yourself
•
o Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs
•
o Travis – Man Who
•
o Slipknot – Slipknot (1st Album)
•
o Orton, Beth – Central
Reservation
•
o Sawhney, Nitin – Beyond Skin
•
o Death in Vegas – Contino
Sessions
•
o Moby – Play
•
o Flaming Lips – Soft Bulletin
•
o Rhymes Digitales, les –
Darkdancer
•
o Tigre, le – Tigre, le (1999)
17
•
o Eminem – Slim Shady LP
•
o Spears, Britney – Baby One More
Time
•
o Metallica – S&M
•
o Bonnie Prince Billy – I See a
Darkness
•
o Shack – HMS Fable
•
o Basement Jaxx – Remedy
•
o Red Hot Chili Peppers –
Californication
•
o Sigur Rós – Ágætis Byrjun
•
o Doves – Lost Souls
•
o Air – Virgin Suicides: Original
Motion Picture Score
•
o Adams, Ryan – Heartbreaker
•
o Gilberto, Bebel – Tanto Tempo
•
o Cole, MJ – Sincere
•
o Harris, Emmylou – Red Dirt Girl
•
o Limp Bizkit – Chocolate Starfish
& the Hot Dog Flavored Water
•
o Radiohead – Kid A
•
o U2 – All That You Can’t Leave
Behind
•
o Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory
•
o Smith, Elliott – Figure 8
•
o Badly Drawn Boy – Hour of
Bewilderbeast
•
o Harvey, P.J. – Stories from the
City, Stories from the Sea
•
o Badu, Erykah – Mama’s Gun
•
o Coldplay – Parachutes
•
o Common – Like Water for
Chocolate
•
o Ladd, Mike – Welcome to the
Afterfuture
•
o Red Snapper – Our Aim is to
Satisfy
•
o Eminem – Marshall Mathers LP
•
o Goldfrapp – Felt Mountain
•
o Giant Sand – Chore of
Enchantment
•
o Lambchop – Nixon
•
o Lemper, Ute – Punishing Kiss
•
o Madonna – Music
•
o Avalanches – Since I Left You
•
o OutKast – Stankonia
•
o Radiohead – Amnesiac
•
o Silver Jews – Bright Flight
•
o Björk – Vespertine
•
o Gorillaz – Gorillaz (1st Album)
•
o Adams, Ryan – Gold
•
o Destiny’s Child – Survivor
•
o Strokes – Is This It
•
o Welch, Gillian – Time (The
Revelator)
•
o Gotan Project – Revancha del
Tango, la
•
o White Stripes – White Blood
Cells
•
o Beta Band – Hot Shots II
•
o Jay Z – Blueprint
•
o Röyksopp – Melody AM
•
o Drive-By Truckers – Southern
Rock Opera
•
o Super Furry Animals – Rings
Around the World
•
o Jurassic 5 – Power in Numbers
•
o Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
•
o Ms Dynamite – A Little Deeper
•
o Bees – Sunshine Hit Me
•
o Jones, Norah – Come Away with
Me
•
o Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to
the Head
18
•
o Coral – Coral (2002)
•
o Cash, Johnny – American IV:
Man Comes Around
•
o Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles
the Pink Robots
•
o Doves – Last Broadcast
•
o Elliott, Missy – Under
Construction
•
o Springsteen, Bruce – Rising, the
•
o Aguilera, Christina – Stripped
•
o Roots – Phrenology
•
o Beck – Sea Change
•
o Timberlake, Justin – Justified
•
o Vines – Highly Evolved
•
o Hives – Your New Favourite
Band
•
o Radiohead – Hail to the Thief
•
o Winehouse, Amy – Frank
•
o Calexico – Feast of Wire
•
o Darkness – Permission to Land
•
o White Stripes – Elephant
•
o Dizzee Rascal – Boy in da Corner
•
o Kings of Leon – Youth & Young
Manhood
•
o Thrills – So Much for the City
•
o Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever to Tell
•
o OutKast – Speakerboxxx/Love
Below
•
o 50 Cent – Get Rich or Die Tryin’
•
o Mars Volta – Deloused in the
Comatorium
•
o Lightning Bolt – Wonderful
Rainbow
•
o Wainwright, Rufus – Want One
•
o Scissor Sisters – Scissor Sisters
(1st Album)
•
o Morrissey – You Are the Quarry
•
o Björk – Medúlla
•
o Mylo – Destroy Rock & Roll
•
o Wilson, Brian – SMiLE
•
o Icarus Line – Penance Soirée
•
o Arcade Fire – Funeral
•
o Banhart, Devendra – Rejoicing in
the Hands
•
o Cave, Nick & the Bad Seeds –
Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus
•
o Franz Ferdinand – Franz
Ferdinand (1st Album)
•
o N*E*R*D – Fly or Die
•
o Beta Band – Heroes to Zeros
•
o Ozamatli – Street Signs
•
o Libertines – Libertines (1st
Album)
•
o West, kanYe – College Dropout
•
o Green, Cee-Lo – Is the Soul
Machine
•
o TV on the Radio – Desperate
Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
•
o Liars – They Were Wrong, So We
Drowned
•
o Streets – A Grand Don’t Come
for Free
•
o Wainwright, Rufus – Want Two
•
o Zutons – Who Killed the Zutons?
•
o Killers – Hot Fuss
•
o Kings of Leon – Aha Shake
Heartbreak
•
o MIA (UK) – Arular
•
o Beck – Guero
•
o White Stripes – Get Behind Me
Satan
19