Pitchfork's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

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50s

• 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

  60s

• 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)

• The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterdayo

• 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

  70s

• 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

• James Taylor - 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

• Tom Waits - 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)

  80s

• 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

  90s

• 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

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• 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

• 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 (1st Album)

• 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 (1st Album)

• NER*D – Fly or Die

• Beta Band – Heroes to Zeros

• Ozamatli – Street Signs

• Libertines – Libertines (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

• 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