1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

1950s

• Sinatra, Frank – In the Wee Small Hours
• Presley, Elvis – Elvis Presley
• Louvin Brothers – Tragic Songs of Life
• Prima, Louis – Wildest
• Domino, Fats – This is Fats
• Ellington, Duke – At Newport
• 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
• 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…
• Davis, Miles – Kind of Blue
• Robbins, Marty – Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs
• Brubeck, Dave – Time Out

1960s

• Baez, Joan – Joan Baez
• Presley, Elvis – Elvis is Back!
• Makeba, Miriam – Miriam Makeba
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Byrds, Mr Tambourine Man
• Dylan, Bob – Highway 61 Revisited
• Who – My Generation
• Beatles – Revolver
• Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
• Neil, Fred – Fred Neil
• 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]
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Incredible String Band – Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter
• Kinks – Village Green Preservation Society
• Shankar, Ravi – Sounds of India
• Mutantes, os – Mutantes, os
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Quicksilver Messenger Service – Happy Trails
• Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin
• Band – Band
• 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
• 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
• Spence, Alexander ‘Skip’ – Oar
• Zappa, Frank – Hot Rats

1970s

• 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
• Doors – Morrison Hotel
• Carpenters – Close to You
• Still, Stephen – Stephen Stills
• 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
• Who – Live at Leeds
• 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
• McCartney, Paul – McCartney
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Buckley, Tim – Greetings from LA
• Drake, Nick – Pink Moon
• Simon, Paul – Paul Simon
• Roxy Music – Roxy Music
• 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
• Eno, Brian – Here Come the Warm Jets
• Bad Company – Bad Company
• 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
• Burman, Rahul Dev – Shalimar
• 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
• Modern Lovers – Modern Lovers
• Bowie, David – Station to Station
• Mitchell, Joni – Hejira
• Boston – Boston
• Eagles – Hotel California
• ABBA – Arrival
• Kiss – Destroyer
• Rush – 2112
• Ben, Jorge – África Brasil
• Armatrading, Joan – Joan Armatrading
• Aerosmith – Rocks
• Parliament – Mothership Connection
• Penguin Café Orchestra – Music from the Penguin Café
• Jarre, Jean Michel – Oxygene
• Ramones – Ramones
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Colón, Willie & Rubén Blades – Siembra
• Cars – Cars
• Devo – Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
• Dire Straits – Dire Straits
• 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
• 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
• 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

1980s

• 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
• Judas Priest – British Steel
• Circle Jerks – Group Sex
• Talking Heads – Remain in Light
• Joy Division – Closer
• Iron Maiden – Iron Maiden
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• A-ha – 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Kravitz, 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 – L’eau Rouge
• Zorn, John – Spy vs Spy: The Music of Ornette Coleman
• Stone Roses – Stone Roses
• 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

1990s

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Garbage – Garbage
• 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
• Supergrass – I Should Coco
• Radiohead – Bends, the
• Guided by Voices – Alien Lanes
• Kuti, Femi – Femi Kuti
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Queen of the Stone Age - Queen of the Stone Age
• 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
• 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
• 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

2000s

• 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+o 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
• 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
• 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
• Aguilera, Christina – Stripped
• Roots – Phrenology
• Beck – Sea Change
• 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
• White Stripes – Elephant
• Dizzee Rascal – Boy in da Corner
• Kings of Leon – Youth & Young Manhood
• Thrills – So Much for the City
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever to Tell
• OutKast – Speakerboxxx/Love Below
• 50 Cent – Get Rich or Die Tryin’
• Mars Volta – Deloused in the Comatorium
• Lightning Bolt – Wonderful Rainbow
• Wainwright, Rufus – Want One
• Scissor Sisters – Scissor Sisters
• Morrissey – You Are the Quarry
• Björk – Medúlla
• Mylo – Destroy Rock & Roll
• Wilson, Brian – SMiLE
• 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
• N.E.R.D – Fly or Die
• Beta Band – Heroes to Zeros
• Ozamatli – Street Signs
• Libertines – Libertines
• 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
• Zutons – Who Killed the Zutons?
• Killers – Hot Fuss
• Kings of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak
• MIA (UK) – Arular
• Beck – Guero
• White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan