1001 albums you must hear before you die (2013 edition)
In The Wee Small Hours - Frank Sinatra (1955)
Birth of the Cool - Miles Davis (1956)
Ellington at Newport ‘56 - Duke Ellington (1956)
Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley (1956)
Songs For Swingin’ Lovers - Frank Sinatra (1956)
Tragic Songs Of Life - The Louvin Brothers (1956)
Brilliant Corners - Thelonious Monk (1957)
Here’s Little Richard - Little Richard (1957)
Kenya - Machito (1957)
Palo Congo - Sabu (1957)
The ‘Chirping’ Crickets - The Crickets (1957)
The Atomic Mr Basie - Count Basie (1957)
The Wildest - Louis Prima (1957)
This is Fats Domino - Fats Domino (1957)
Dance Mania - Tito Puente (1958)
Jack Takes the Floor - Ramblin’ Jack Elliott (1958)
Lady in Satin - Billie Holiday (1958)
Live at Mister Kelly’s - Sarah Vaughan (1958)
George Gershwin Songbook - Ella Fitzgerald (1959)
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs - Marty Robbins (1959)
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis (1959)
The Genius of Ray Charles - Ray Charles (1959)
Time Out - Dave Brubeck Quartet (1959)
A Date with the Everly Brothers - The Everly Bothers 1960
Elvis is Back! - Elvis Presley (1960)
Joan Baez - Joan Baez (1960)
Miriam Makeba - Miriam Makeba (1960)
Muddy Waters at Newport - Muddy Waters (1960)
Back at the Chicken Shack - Jimmy Smith (1961)
Sunday at the Village Vanguard - Bill Evans (1961)
Green Onions - Booker T & The MGs (1962)
Jazz Samba - Stan Getz/Charlie Byrd (1962)
Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music - Ray Charles (1962)
A Christmas Gift To You - Phil Spector (1963)
Live at the Apollo - James Brown (1963)
Live At The Harlem Square Club - Sam Cooke (1963)
Night Life - Ray Price (1963)
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus (1963)
With The Beatles - The Beatles (1963)
A Girl Called Dusty - Dusty Springfield (1964)
A Hard Day’s Night - The Beatles (1964)
A Love Supreme - John Coltrane (1964)
Bert Jansch - Bert Jansch (1964)
Getz/Gilberto - Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto (1964)
Olympia ‘64 - Jacques Brel (1964)
Rock & Soul - Solomon Burke (1964)
The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan (1964)
The Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones (1964)
Bringing It All Back Home - Bob Dylan (1965)
Here Are The Sonics - The Sonics (1965)
Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan (1965)
I’ve Got A Tiger By The Tail - Buck Owens (1965)
Live At The Regal - BB King (1965)
Live At The Star Club, Hamburg - Jerry Lee Lewis (1965)
Mr Tambourine Man - The Byrds (1965)
My Generation - The Who(1965)
Otis Blue - Otis Redding (1965)
Rubber Soul - The Beatles (1965)
Today! - The Beach Boys (1965)
Aftermath - The Rolling Stones (1966)
Black Monk Time The Monks (1966)
Blonde On Blonde - Bob Dylan (1966)
Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton - John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers (1966)
Face to Face - The Kinks (1966)
Fifth Dimension - The Byrds (1966)
Freak Out! - Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention (1966)
Fred Neil - Fred Neil (1966)
Mamas And The Papas - Mamas And The Papas (1966)
Midnight Ride - Paul Revere and the Raiders (1966)
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme - Simon & Garfunkel (1966)
Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys (1966)
Revolver - The Beatles (1966)
Sunshine Superman - Donovan (1966)
The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators - The 13th Floor Elevators (1966)
Wild is the Wind - Nina Simone (1966)
Yardbirds - The Yardbirds (1966)
Are You Experienced? - The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1967)
Axis: Bold As Love - The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1967)
Buffalo Springfield Again - Buffalo Springfield (1967)
Chelsea Girl - Nico (1967)
Da Capo - Love (1967)
Disraeli Gears - Cream (1967)
Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’ - Loretta Lynn (1967)
Electric Music For The Mind And Body - Country Joe And The Fish (1967)
Forever Changes - Love (1967)
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim - Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim (1967)
Goodbye And Hello - Tim Buckley (1967)
Groovin’ - The Young Rascals (1967)
Headquarters - The Monkees (1967)
I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night - The Electric Prunes (1967)
I Never Loved a Man the Way That I Love You - Aretha Franklin (1967)
I’m A Lonesome Fugitive Merle Haggard (1967)
Moby Grape - Moby Grape (1967)
Safe As Milk - Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band (1967)
Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles (1967)
Something Else by The Kinks - The Kinks (1967)
Surrealistic Pillow - Jefferson Airplane (1967)
The Doors - The Doors (1967)
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd (1967)
The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground (1967)
The Who Sell Out - The Who 1967
Triangle - The Beau Brummels 1967
We’re Only in it for the Money - The Mothers of Invention 1967
White Light/White Heat - The Velvet Underground 1967
Younger Than Yesterday - The Byrds 1967
Aretha: Lady Soul - Aretha Franklin 1968
Beach Samba - Astrud Gilberto 1968
Beggars Banquet - The Rolling Stones 1968
Bookends - Simon & Garfunkel 1968
Caetano Veloso - Caetano Veloso 1968
Cheap Thrills - Big Brother and the Holding Company 1968
Electric Ladyland - The Jimi Hendrix Experience 1968
Eli And The Thirteenth Confession - Laura Nyro 1968
Happy Sad - Tim Buckley 1968
In-a-gadda-da-vida - Iron Butterfly 1968
Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash 1968
Music from Big Pink - The Band 1968
Oar - Alexander ‘Skip’ Spence 1968
Odessey And Oracle - The Zombies 1968
Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake - The Small Faces 1968
Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes 1968
Scott 2 - Scott Walker 1968
SF Sorrow - The Pretty Things 1968
Songs Of Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen 1968
Sweetheart Of The Rodeo - The Byrds 1968
The Beatles (White Album) - The Beatles 1968
The Call of the Valley - Shivkumar Sharma/Brijbushan Kabra/Hariprasad Chaurasia 1968
The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter - The Incredible String Band 1968
The Notorious Byrd Brothers - The Byrds 1968
The Sounds of India - Ravi Shankar 1968
The United States Of America - The United States Of America 1968
Tommy - The Who 1968
Traffic - Traffic 1968
Truth - Jeff Beck Group 1968
Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks 1968
Vincebus Eruptum - Blue Cheer 1968
Abbey Road - The Beatles 1969
Arthur, or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire - The Kinks 1969
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison 1969
Basket Of Light - Pentangle 1969
Bayou Country - Creedence Clearwater Revival 1969
Blood, Sweat And Tears - Blood, Sweat And Tears 1969
Chicago Transit Authority - Chicago 1969
Cloud Nine - The Temptations 1969
Crosby, Stills And Nash - Crosby, Stills And Nash 1969
Dusty in Memphis - Dusty Springfield 1969
Elephant Mountain - The Youngbloods 1969
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - Neil Young 1969
Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake 1969
From Elvis in Memphis - Elvis Presley 1969
Green River - Creedence Clearwater Revival 1969
Gris Gris - Dr John 1969
Happy Trails - Quicksilver Messenger Service 1969
Hot Buttered Soul - Isaac Hayes 1969
Hot Rats - Frank Zappa 1969
In A Silent Way - Miles Davis 1969
In The Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson 1969
Johnny Cash at San Quentin - Johnny Cash 1969
Kick Out The Jams - The MC5 1969
Led Zeppelin I - Led Zeppelin 1969
Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin 1969
Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones 1969
Liege And Lief - Fairport Convention 1969
Odessa - The Bee Gees 1969
Scott 4 - Scott Walker 1969
Songs From A Room - Leonard Cohen 1969
Stand! - Sly & The Family Stone 1969
The Band - The Band 1969
The Gilded Palace of Sin - The Flying Burrito Brothers 1969
The Stooges - The Stooges 1969
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground 1969
Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band 1969
Unhalfbricking - Fairport Convention 1969
Abraxas - Santana 1970
After The Goldrush - Neil Young 1970
All Things Must Pass - George Harrison 1970
American Beauty - The Grateful Dead 1970
Ananda Shankar - Ananda Shankar 1970
Bitches Brew - Miles Davis 1970
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath 1970
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel 1970
Bryter Later - Nick Drake 1970
Close To You - The Carpenters 1970
Deep Purple in Rock - Deep Purple 1970
Déjà Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 1970
Fun House - Iggy Pop & The Stooges 1970
Gasoline Alley - Rod Stewart 1970
John Barleycorn Must Die - Traffic 1970
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon 1970
Layla And Other Assorted Lovesongs - Derek And The Dominos 1970
Led Zeppelin III - Led Zeppelin 1970
Live at Leeds - The Who 1970
Live/Dead - The Grateful Dead 1970
McCartney - McCartney 1970
Moondance - Van Morrison 1970
Morrison Hotel - The Doors 1970
Paranoid - Black Sabbath 1970
Stephen Stills - Stephen Stills 1970
Sweet Baby James - James Taylor 1970
Tea for the Tillerman - Cat Stevens 1970
The Madcap Laughs - Syd Barrett 1970
Third - Soft Machine 1970
Twelve Dreams of Doctor Sardonicus Spirit 1970
A Nod’s As Good As Wink - The Faces 1971
American Pie - Don McLean 1971
Aqualung - Jethro Tull 1971
Blue - Joni Mitchell 1971
Coat Of Many Colors - Dolly Parton 1971
Cosmo’s Factory - Creedence Clearwater Revival 1971
Electric Warrior - T Rex 1971
Every Picture Tells A Story - Rod Stewart 1971
Fragile - Yes 1971
Histoire de Melody Nelson - Serge Gainsbourg 1971
If Only I Could Remember My Name - David Crosby 1971
Imagine - John Lennon 1971
LA Woman - The Doors 1971
Led Zeppelin IV (Four Symbols) - Led Zeppelin 1971
Live With Ginger Baker - Fela Kuti 1971
Madman Across The Water - Elton John 1971
Maggot Brain - Funkadelic 1971
Nilsson Schmilsson - Harry Nilsson 1971
Pearl - Janis Joplin 1971
Pictures at an Exhibition - Emerson, Lake & Palmer 1971
Shaft - Isaac Hayes 1971
Songs of Love and Hate - Leonard Cohen 1971
Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones 1971
Surf’s Up - The Beach Boys 1971
Tago Mago - Can 1971
Tapestry - Carole King 1971
Tarkus - Emerson, Lake & Palmer 1971
Teenage Head - The Flamin’ Groovies 1971
The Allman Brothers at Fillmore East - The Allman Brothers 1971
The Yes Album - Yes 1971
There’s a Riot Goin’ On - Sly and and The Family Stone 1971
Trafalgar - The Bee Gees 1971
What’s Goin’ On - Marvin Gaye 1971
Who’s Next - The Who 1971
All Directions - The Temptations 1972
American Gothic - David Ackles 1972
Can’t Buy a Thrill - Steely Dan 1972
Close to The Edge - Yes 1972
Clube Da Esquina - Milton Nascimento 1972
Exile on Main Street - The Rolling Stones 1972
Harvest - Neil Young 1972
Home is Where the Music Is - Hugh Masekela 1972
Hunky Dory - David Bowie 1972
John Prine - John Prine 1972
Let’s Stay Together - Al Green 1972
Machine Head - Deep Purple 1972
Marcus Garvey - Burning Spear 1972
No.1 Record - Big Star 1972
Paul Simon - Paul Simon 1972
Pink Moon - Nick Drake 1972
Roxy Music - Roxy Music 1972
Sail Away - Randy Newman 1972
School’s Out - Alice Cooper 1972
Slayed? - Slade 1972
Something/Anything? - Todd Rundgren 1972
Superfly - Curtis Mayfield 1972
Talking Book - Stevie Wonder 1972
The Eagles - The Eagles 1972
The Slider - T Rex 1972
The World Is A Ghetto - War 1972
Transformer - Lou Reed 1972
Volume 4 - Black Sabbath 1972
White Light - Gene Clark 1972
Will The Circle Be Unbroken - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 1972
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - David Bowie 1972
3+3 - The Isley Bros 1973
A Wizard, A True Star - Todd Rundgren 1973
Aladdin Sane - David Bowie 1973
Band On The Run - Paul McCartney & Wings 1973
Berlin - Lou Reed 1973
Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper 1973
Bongo Rock - Michael Viner’s Incredible Bongo Band 1973
Catch A Fire - Bob Marley & The Wailers 1973
Countdown to Ecstasy - Steely Dan 1973
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd (1973)
Faust IV - Faust 1973
For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music 1973
Future Days - Can 1973
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John 1973
Grevious Angel Gram Parsons 1973
Honky Tonk Heroes - Waylon Jennings 1973
Larks Tongues In Aspic - King Crimson 1973
Let’s Get It On - Marvin Gaye 1973
Made In Japan - Deep Purple 1973
Mott - Mott The Hoople 1973
Next - The Sensational Alex Harvey Band 1973
nnervisions - Stevie Wonder 1973
Paris 1919 - John Cale 1973
Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd - Lynyrd Skynyrd 1973
Raw Power - Iggy Pop & The Stooges 1973
Selling England by the Pound - Genesis 1973
Solid Air - John Martyn 1973
Space Ritual - Hawkwind 1973
Stephen Stills - Manassas 1973
The New York Dolls - The New York Dolls 1973
Tres Hombres - ZZ Top 1973
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield 1973
461 Ocean Boulevard - Eric Clapton 1974
Autobahn - Kraftwerk 1974
Bad Company - Bad Company 1974
Blood On The Tracks - Bob Dylan 1974
Country Life - Roxy Music 1974
Court And Spark - Joni Mitchell 1974
Crime Of The Century - Supertramp 1974
Fullfillingness’ First Finale - Stevie Wonder 1974
Good Old Boys - Randy Newman 1974
Headhunters - Herbie Hancock 1974
Here Come the Warm Jets - Brian Eno 1974
I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight - Richard & Linda Thompson 1974
It’s Too Late To Stop Now - Van Morrison 1974
Kimono - My House Sparks 1974
No Other - Gene Clark 1974
On the Beach - Neil Young 1974
Pacific Ocean Blue - Dennis Wilson 1974
Phaedra - Tangerine Dream 1974
Pretzel Logic - Steely Dan 1974
Queen II - Queen 1974
Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt 1974
Sheer Heart Attack - Queen 1974
Sheet Music - 10cc 1974
The Grand Tour - George Jones 1974
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - Genesis 1974
Winter in America - Gill Scott-Heron 1974
A Night At The Opera - Queen 1975
Another Green World - Brian Eno 1975
Born to be With You - Dion 1975
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen 1975
Frampton Comes Alive - Peter Frampton 1975
Go Girl Crazy - The Dictators 1975
Greetings from LA - Tim Buckley 1975
Horses - Patti Smith 1975
Inspiration Information - Shuggie Otis 1975
Natty Dread - Bob Marley & The Wailers 1975
Neu! - 75 Neu! 1975
Nighthawks at the Diner - Tom Waits 1975
Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin 1975
Pieces Of The Sky - Emmylou Harris 1975
Redheaded Stranger - Willie Nelson 1975
Shalimar / College Girl - R.D.Burman / Bappi Lahiri 1975
That’s The Way Of The World - Earth, Wind & Fire 1975
The Hissing of Summer Lawns - Joni Mitchell 1975 -
The Köln Concert - Keith Jarrett 1975
There’s No Place Like America Today - Curtis Mayfield 1975
Tonight’s the Night - Neil Young 1975
Toys in the Attic - Aerosmith 1975
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd 1975
Young Americans - David Bowie 1975
2112 - Rush 1976
Africa/Brasil - Jorge Ben 1976
Arrival - Abba 1976
Boston - Boston 1976
Destroyer - Kiss 1976
Hejeira - Joni Mitchell 1976
Hotel California - The Eagles 1976
Joan Armatrading - Joan Armatrading 1976
Legalize It - Peter Tosh 1976
Mothership Connection - Parliament 1976
Rocks - Aerosmith 1976
Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder 1976
Station to Station - David Bowie 1976
The Ramones - The Ramones 1976
Aja - Steely Dan 1977
Before & After Science - Brian Eno 1977
C’est Chic - Chic Manish 1977
Exodus - Bob Marley & The Wailers 1977
Heavy Weather - Weather Report 1977
Heroes - David Bowie 1977
I - Peter Gabriel 1977
Low - David Bowie 1977
Lust for Life - Iggy Pop 1977
Music From The Penguin Cafe Orchestra - The Penguin Cafe Orchestra 1977
My Aim Is True - Elvis Costello 1977
Never Mind The Bollocks… - The Sex Pistols 1977
New Boots & Panties - Ian Dury & the Blockheads 1977
One World - John Martyn 1977
Out Of The Blue - Electric Light Orchestra 1977
Oxygene - Jean Michel-Jarre 1977
Pink Flag - Wire 1977
Rattus Norvegicus - The Stranglers 1977
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac 1977
Suicide Suicide 1977
Talking Heads “77 - Talking Heads 1977
The Clash - The Clash 1977
The Idiot - Iggy Pop 1977
The Modern Dance - Pere Ubu 1977
The Modern Lovers - Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers 1977
The Stranger - Billy Joel 1977
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers 1977
Trans-Europe Express - Kraftwerk 1977
Zombie - Fela Kuti 1977
All Mod Cons - The Jam 1978
Ambient no.1: Music for Airports - Brian Eno 1978
Another Music In a Different Kitchen - Buzzcocks 1978
At Budokan - Cheap Trick 1978
Bat Out of Hell - Meat Loaf 1978
Darkness on the Edge of Town - Bruce Springsteen 1978
Dire Straits - Dire Straits 1978
DOA - Throbbing Gristle 1978
Dub Housing - Pere Ubu 1978
Duck Stab/Buster & Glen - The Residents 1978
Eternally Yours - The Saints 1978
Germ-Free Adolescents - X-Ray Spex 1978
Hard Again - Muddy Waters 1978
Here, My Dear - Marvin Gaye 1978
Honky Tonk Masquarade - Joe Ely 1978
Live And Dangerous - Thin Lizzy 1978
Marquee Moon - Television 1978
More Songs About Buildings and Food - Talking Heads 1978
One Nation Under A Groove - Funkadelic 1978
Parallel Lines - Blondie 1978
Public Image - Public Image 1978
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! - Devo 1978
Real Life - Magazine 1978
Siembra - Ruben Blades & Willie Colón 1978
Stardust - Willie Nelson 1978
The Cars - The Cars 1978
The Man Machine - Kraftwerk 1978
The Only Ones - The Only Ones 1978
The Scream - Siouxsie And The Banshees 1978
Third/Sister Lovers - Big Star 1978
This Year’s Model - Elvis Costello 1978
Tori Amos - The Adverts 1978
Van Halen 1 - Van Halen 1978
Vento De Maio - Elis Regina 1978
Armed Forces - Elvis Costello 1979
Broken English - Marianne Faithfull 1979
Cut - The Slits 1979
Entertainment! - Gang Of Four 1979
Fear of Music - Talking Heads 1979
GI - Germs 1979
Highway to Hell - AC/DC 1979
Live at the Witch Trials - The Fall 1979
London Calling - The Clash 1979
Machine Gun Etiquette - The Damned 1979
Metal Box/Second Edition - Public Image 1979
Movies - Holger Czukay 1979
Off The Wall - Michael Jackson 1979
Pretenders - Pretenders 1979
Quiet Life - Japan 1979
Regatta De Blanc - The Police 1979
Risqué - Chic 1979
Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young 1979
Specials - The Specials 1979
Street Life - The Crusaders 1979
The B-52’s The B-52’s 1979
The Pleasure Principle Gary Numan 1979
The Undertones The Undertones 1979
The Wall - Pink Floyd (1979)
Tusk - Fleetwood Mac 1979
Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division 1979
We Are Family - Sister Sledge 1979
Ace of Spades - Motörhead 1980
Arc Of A Diver - Steve Winwood 1980
Back in Black - AC/DC 1980
British Steel - Judas Priest 1980
Closer - Joy Division 1980
Crocodiles - Echo & The Bunnymen 1980
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables - Dead Kennedys 1980
Group Sex - Circle Jerks 1980
Heartattack and Vine - Tom Waits 1980
Hypnotised - The Undertones 1980
III - Peter Gabriel 1980
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden 1980
Kilimanjaro - Teardrop Explodes 1980
Killing Joke - Killing Joke 1980
Kings Of The Wild Frontier - Adam & The Ants 1980
More Specials - The Specials 1980
Remain in Light - Talking Heads 1980
Searching for the Young Soul Rebels - Dexys Midnight Runners 1980
Seventeen Seconds - The Cure 1980
Signing Off - UB40 1980
Songs The Lord Taught Us - The Cramps 1980
Sound Affects - The Jam 1980
Underwater Moonlight - The Soft Boys 1980
Beauty And The Beat - Go-Go’s 1981
Damaged - Black Flag 1981
Dare - Human League 1981
Fire Of Love - The Gun Club 1981
Juju - Siouxsie And The Banshees 1981
Kollaps - Einsturzende 1981
Mask - Bauhaus 1981
Moving Pictures - Rush 1981
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts - Brian Eno 1981
No Sleep ‘til Hammersmith - Motörhead 1981
Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret - Soft Cell 1981
Penthouse and Pavement - Heaven 17 1981
Talk Talk Talk - Psychedelic Furs 1981
The Poet - Bobbie Womack 1981
The Tom Tom Club - The Tom Tom Club 1981
The Visitors - Abba 1981
Wild Gift - X 1981
1999 - Prince 1982
Black Metal - Venom 1982
Imperial Bedroom - Elvis Costello 1982
Junkyard - The Birthday Party 1982
Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen 1982
New Gold Dream - Simple Minds 1982
Number Of The Beast - Iron Maiden 1982
Pelican West - Haircut 100 1982
Pornography - The Cure 1982
Rip It Up - Orange Juice 1982
Rise & Fall - Madness 1982
Sulk - The Associates 1982
The Dreaming - Kate Bush 1982
The Lexicon of Love - ABC 1982
The Message - Grand Master Flash & the Furious Five 1982
The Nightfly - Donald Fagen 1982
Thriller - Michael Jackson 1982
Too Rye-Ay - Dexy’s Midnight Runners 1982
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes 1982
Architecture & Morality - OMD 1983
Back to Mystery City - Hanoi Rocks 1983
Colour By Numbers - Culture Club 1983
Duck Rock - Malcolm McLaren 1983
Eliminator - ZZ Top 1983
Hearts and Bones - Paul Simon 1983
Meat Puppets II - Meat Puppets 1983
Murmur - REM 1983
Out Of Step - Minor Threat 1983
Porcupine - Echo & The Bunnymen 1983
Pyromania - Def Leppard 1983
Rio - Duran Duran 1983
Soul Mining - The The 1983
Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics 1983
Swordfishtrombones - Tom Waits 1983
Synchronicity - The Police 1983
War - U2 1983
1984 - Van Halen 1984
A Walk Across The Rooftops - The Blue Nile 1984
Born in the USA - Bruce Springsteen 1984
Café Bleu - Style Council 1984
Diamond Life - Sade 1984
Double Nickels On The Dime - Minutemen 1984
Immigrés - Youssou N’Dour 1984
Let It Be - The Replacements 1984
Ocean Rain - Echo & The Bunnymen 1984
Private Dancer - Tina Turner 1984
Purple Rain - Prince and The Revolution 1984
Rattlesnakes - Lloyd Cole And The Commotions 1984
Run-DMC - Run-DMC 1984
She’s So Unusual - Cindy Lauper 1984
Treasure - Cocteau Twins 1984
Welcome to the Pleasuredome - Frankie Goes To Hollywood 1984
Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits 1985
Cupid and Psyche - Scritti Politti 1985
Don’t Stand Me Down - Dexys Midnight Runners 1985
Fear and Whiskey - The Mekons 1985
Hounds of Love - Kate Bush 1985
Hunting High And Low - A-Ha 1985
Low Life - New Order 1985
Meat is Murder - The Smiths 1985
Picture Book - Simply Red 1985
Psychocandy - The Jesus & Mary Chain 1985
Rain Dogs - Tom Waits 1985
Rum, Sodomy and the Lash - The Pogues 1985
Songs from the Big Chair - Tears for Fears 1985
Steve McQueen - Prefab Sprout 1985
Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega 1985
This Nation’s Saving Grace - The Fall 1985
Water From An Ancient Well - Abdullah Ibrahim 1985
Atomizer - Big Black 1986
Blood and Chocolate - Elvis Costello 1986
EVOL - Sonic Youth 1986
Graceland - Paul Simon 1986
Guitar Town - Steve Earle 1986
I Against I - Bad Brains 1986
Infected - The The 1986
Last fo the True Believers - Nanci Griffith 1986
Licensed to Ill - Beastie Boys 1986
Master of Puppets - Metallica 1986
Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying - Megadeth 1986
Planet Rock: The Album - Afrika Bambaataa 1986
Raising Hell - Run-DMC 1986
Rapture - Anita Baker 1986
Reign in Blood - Slayer 1986
Skylarking - XTC 1986
Slippery When Wet - Bon Jovi 1986
So - Peter Gabriel 1986
Talking With The Taxman About Poetry - Billy Bragg 1986
The Queen is Dead - The Smiths 1986
Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses 1986
Actually - Pet Shop Boys 1987
Among The Living - Anthrax 1987
Appetite for Destruction - Guns N’ Roses 1987
Astor Piazzolla - The New Tango (with Gary Burton) 1987
Bad - Michael Jackson 1987
Calenture - The Triffids 1987
Colour of Spring - Talk Talk 1987
Darklands - The Jesus & Mary Chain 1987
Document - REM 1987
Electric - The Cult 1987
Faith - George Michael 1987
Floodland - Sisters of Mercy 1987
Hysteria - Def Leppard 1987
Introducing The Hardline - Terence Trent D’Arby 1987
Locust Abortion Technician - Butthole Surfers 1987
Music For The Masses - Depeche Mode 1987
Opus Dei - Laibach 1987
Scum - Napalm Death 1987
Shaka Zulu - Ladysmith Black Mambazo 1987
Sign o’ the Times - Prince 1987
Sister - Sonic Youth 1987
Spy Vs Spy - John Zorn 1987
Strangeways Here We Come - The Smiths 1987
The Joshua Tree - U2 1987
Trio - Emmylou Harris, Lisa Rondstadt, Dolly Parton 1987
Warehouse: Songs & Stories - Hüsker Dü 1987
You’re Living All Over Me - Dinosaur Jr 1987
16 Lover’s Lane - Go-Betweens 1988
Buenos Noches from a Lonely Room - Dwight Yoakam 1988
Bug - Dinosaur Jr 1988
Bummed - Happy Mondays 1988
California - American Music Club 1988
Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth 1988
Fisherman’s Blues - The Waterboys 1988
I’m Your Man - Leonard Cohen 1988
Idlewild - Everything But the Girl 1988
If I Should Fall from Grace with God - The Pogues 1988
Isn’t Anything - My Bloody Valentine 1988
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy 1988
Life’s Too Good - The Sugarcubes 1988
Nothing’s Shocking - Jane’s Addiction 1988
Shadowland - k.d. lang 1988
Straight Outta Compton - NWA 1988
Superfuzz Bigmuff - Mudhoney 1988
Surfer Rosa - The Pixies 1988
Tank Battles - Dagmar Krause 1988
The Trinity Sessions - Cowboy Junkies 1988
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman 1988
Truth And Soul - Fishbone 1988
Viva Hate - Morrissey 1988
Vivid - Living Colour 1988
… And Justice For All - Metallica 1988
808:90 808 State 1989
All Hail the Queen - Queen Latifah 1989
Club Classics Vol. One - Soul II Soul 1989
Djam Leeli - Baaba Maal & Mansour Seck 1989
Done By the Forces of Nature - Jungle Brothers 1989
Doolittle - The Pixies 1989
Fromohio - Firehose 1989
Green - REM 1989
L’eau Rouge - The Young Gods 1989
Let Love Rule - Lenny Kravitz 1989
Like a Prayer - Madonna 1989
Moss Side Story - Barry Adamson 1989
Nick of Time - Bonnie Raitt 1989
Paul’s Boutique - Beastie Boys 1989
Playing with Fire - Spacemen 3 1989
Pump - Aerosmith 1989
Raw Like Sushi - Neneh Cherry 1989
Rhythm Nation 1814 - Janet Jackson 1989
Technique - New Order 1989
The Healer - John Lee Hooker 1989
The Real Thing - Faith No More 1989
The Sensual World - Kate Bush 1989
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses 1989
Three Feet High and Rising - De La Soul 1989
What’s That Noise? - Coldcut 1989
AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted - Ice Cube 1990
Behaviour - Pet Shop Boys 1990
Bossanova - The Pixies 1990
Disintegration - The Cure 1990
En-Tact - The Shamen 1990
Fear Of A Black Planet - Public Enemy 1990
Goo - Sonic Youth 1990
Heaven or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins 1990
I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got - Sinead O’Connor 1990
Listen Without Prejudice - George Michael 1990
Mama Said Knock You Out - LL Cool J 1990
Nowhere - Ride 1990
People’s Instinctive Paths - A Tribe Called Quest 1990
Pills ‘n’ Thrills ‘n’ Bellyaches - Happy Mondays 1990
Ragged Glory - Neil Young 1990
Repeater - Fugazi 1990
Ritual De Lo Habitual - Jane’s Addiction 1990
Rust In Peace - Megadeth 1990
Sex Packets - Digital Underground 1990
Shake Your Money Maker - The Black Crowes 1990
The La’s - The La’s 1990
The White Room - KLF 1990
Violator - Depeche Mode 1990
World Clique - Deee-Lite 1990
Achtung Baby - U2 1991
Apocalypse ‘91 … The Enemy Strikes Black - Public Enemy 1991
Arise - Sepultura 1991
Bandwagonesque - Teenage Fanclub 1991
Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chili Peppers 1991
Blue Lines - Massive Attack 1991
Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill 1991
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge - Mudhoney 1991
Foxbase Alpha - Saint Etienne 1991
Haut de Gamme–Koweit Rive Gauche - Koffi Olomide 1991
Loveless - My Bloody Valentine 1991
Metallica - Metallica 1991
Nevermind - Nirvana 1991
O.G. Original Gangster - Ice-T 1991
Peggy Suicide- Julian Cope 1991
Rising Above Bedlam - Jah Wobble And the Invaders of the Heart 1991
Screamadelica - Primal Scream 1991
Spiderland - Slint 1991
Step in the Arena - Gang Starr 1991
The Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest 1991
Woodface - Crowded House 1991
A Vulgar Display Of Power - Pantera 1992
Automatic for the People - REM 1992
Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde - The Pharcyde 1992
Bone Machine - Tom Waits 1992
Connected - Stereo MC’s 1992
Copper Blue - Sugar 1992
Devotional Songs - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party 1992
Dirt - Alice in Chains 1992
Dirty - Sonic Youth 1992
Dry - P.J. Harvey 1992
Henry’s Dream - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds 1992
Hiphoprisy Is The Greatest Luxury - Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy 1992
Ingénue - k.d. lang 1992
It’s A Shame About Ray - The Lemonheads 1992
Lam Toro - Baaba Maal 1992
Lazer Guided Melodies - Spiritualized 1992
Little Earthquakes - Tori Amos 1992
Psalm 69 - Ministry 1992
Selected Ambient Works ‘85–’92 - Aphex Twin 1992
Ten - Pearl Jam 1992
Three Years, Five Months, And Two Days In The Life Of… - Arrested Development 1992
Your Arsenal - Morrissey 1992
Aimee Mann - Whatever 1993
Bubble & Scrape - Sebadoh 1993
Debut - Björk 1993
Doggy Style - Snoop Doggy Dogg 1993
Emergency on Planet Earth - Jamiroquai 1993
Enter The Wu-Tang - Wu-Tang Clan 1993
Fuzzy - Grant Lee Buffalo 1993
Gentleman - The Afghan Whigs 1993
Giant Steps - The Boo Radleys 1993
In Utero - Nirvana 1993
Modern Life is Rubbish - Blur 1993
New Wave - Auteurs 1993
Orbital II - Orbital 1993
Qui Seme Le Vent Recolte Le Tempo - MC Solar 1993
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine 1993
Rid Of Me - P.J. Harvey 1993
Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins 1993
Slanted And Enchanted - Pavement 1993
Strange Cargo III - William Orbit 1993
Suede - Suede 1993
The Chronic - Dr Dre 1993
The Infotainment Scan - The Fall 1993
The Predator - Ice Cube 1993
Tuesday Night Music Club - Sheryl Crow 1993
Venus Luxure No1 Baby - Girls Against Boys 1993
Very - Pet Shops Boys 1993
Wild Wood - Paul Weller 1993
Brutal Youth - Elvis Costello 1994
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement 1994
Definitely Maybe - Oasis 1994
Dog Man Star - Suede 1994
Dookie - Green Day 1994
Dummy - Portishead 1994
Exile in Guyville - Liz Phair 1994
G Love & Special Sauce - G Love & Special Sauce 1994
Haunted Dancehall - Sabres Of Paradise 1994
Ill Communication - Beastie Boys 1994
Illmatic - Nas 1994
Live Through This - Hole 1994
Me Against the World - Tupac Shakur 1994
Music for the Jilted - Generation Prodigy 1994
Parklife - Blur 1994
Protection - Massive Attack 1994
Ready to Die - Notorious B.I.G. 1994
Smash - Offspring 1994
Snivilisation - Orbital 1994
Superunknown - Soundgarden 1994
Talking Timbuktu - Ali Farka Toure with Ry Cooder 1994
Teenager of the Year - Frank Black 1994
The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails 1994
The Holy Bible - The Manic Street Preachers 1994
The Sun Rises In The East - Jeru The Damaja 1994
Tical - Method Man 1994
Unplugged - Nirvana 1994
Vauxhall and I - Morrissey 1994
Yank Crime - Drive Like Jehu 1994
(What’s The Story) Morning Glory? - Oasis 1995
A Northern Soul - The Verve 1995
Alien Lanes - Guided By Voices 1995
Brown Sugar - D’Angelo 1995
CrazySexyCool - TLC 1995
Different Class - Pulp 1995
Elastica - Elastica 1995
Exit Planet Dust - The Chemical Brothers 1995
Femi Kuti - Femi Kuti 1995
Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters 1995
Garbage - Garbage 1995
Grace - Jeff Buckley 1995
I Should Coco - Supergrass 1995
Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette 1995
Leftism - Leftfield 1995
Liquid Swords - Genius/GZA 1995
Maxinquaye - Tricky 1995
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins 1995
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx - Raekwon 1995
Scream, Dracula, Scream! - Rocket From The Crypt 1995
Smoker’s Delight - Nightmares on Wax 1995
The Bends - Radiohead 1995
Timeless - Goldie 1995
1977 - Ash 1996
Antichrist Superstar - Marilyn Manson 1996
Beautiful Freak - The Eels 1996
Being There - Wilco 1996
Better Living Through Chemistry - Fatboy Slim 1996
Casanova - The Divine Comedy 1996
Come Find Yourself - The Fun Lovin’ Criminals 1996
Dr Octagonecologyst - Dr Octagon 1996
Dust - Screaming Trees 1996
Emperor Tomato Ketchup - Stereolab 1996
Endtroducing… - DJ Shadow 1996
Everything Must Go - The Manic Street Preachers 1996
First Band On The Moon The Cardigans 1996
Fuzzy Logic - Super Furry Animals 1996
If You’re Feeling Sinister - Belle & Sebastian 1996
Logical Progression - LTJ Bukem 1996
Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite - Maxwell 1996
Millions Now Living Will Never Die - Tortoise 1996
Murder Ballads - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds 1996
Now I Got Worry - Jon Spencer Blues Explosion 1996
Odelay - Beck 1996
Oedipus Schmoedipus - Barry Adamson 1996
Roots - Sepultura 1996
Second Toughest in the Infants - Underworld 1996
Tellin’ Stories - The Charlatans 1996
The Score - The Fugees 1996
Tidal - Fiona Apple 1996
Tigermilk - Belle & Sebastian 1996
Walking Wounded - Everything But the Girl 1996
A Short Album About Love - The Divine Comedy 1997
Blur - Blur 1997
Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club 1997
Butterfly - Mariah Carey 1997
Dig Me Out - Sleater-Kinney 1997
Dig Your Own Hole - The Chemical Brothers 1997
Either/Or - Elliott Smith 1997
Homework - Daft Punk 1997
In It For The Money - Supergrass 1997
Ladies And Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space - Spiritualized 1997
Let’s Get Killed - David Holmes 1997
Life Thru A Lens - Robbie Williams 1997
Maverick A Strike - Finlay Quaye 1997
New Forms - Roni Size/Reprazent 1997
OK Computer - Radiohead 1997
Schleep - Robert Wyatt 1997
Supa Dupa Fly - Missy Elliott 1997
The Boatman’s Call - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 1997
The Fat of the Land - Prodigy 1997
Time Out of Mind - Bob Dylan 1997
Urban Hymns - The Verve 1997
Vanishing Point - Primal Scream 1997
When I Was Born For The 7th Time - Cornershop 1997
Apocalypse Dudes - Turbonegro 1998
Bob Dylan Live 1966 (‘Royal Albert Hall’ Bootleg) - Bob Dylan 1998
Car Wheels On A Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams 1998
Celebrity Skin - Hole 1998
Clandestino - Manu Chao 1998
Deserter’s Songs - Mercury Rev 1998
Devil Without A Cause - Kid Rock 1998
Follow the Leader - Korn 1998
I See A Darkness - Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy 1998
Kenza - Khaled 1998
Mermaid Avenue - Billy Bragg/Wilco 1998
Moon Safari - Air 1998
Music Has the Right to Children - Boards of Canada 1998
OK - Talvin Singh 1998
Queens Of The Stone Age - Queens Of The Stone Age 1998
Ray of Light - Madonna 1998
System Of A Down - System Of A Down 1998
The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill 1998
This is Hardcore - Pulp 1998
White Ladder - David Gray 1998
You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby - Fatboy Slim 1998
69 Love Songs - The Magnetic Fields 1999
Agaetis Byrjun - Sigur Ros 1999
Apple Venus Vol. 1 - XTC 1999
Beyond Skin - Nitin Sawhney 1999
Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers 1999
Central Reservation - Beth Orton 1999
Darkdancer - Les Rhythmes Digitales 1999
HMS Fable - Shack 1999
Le Tigre - Le Tigre 1999
Make Yourself - Incubus 1999
Play - Moby 1999
Remedy - Basement Jaxx 1999
S&M - Metallica 1999
Slipknot - Slipknot 1999
Suba - Sao Paulo Tales 1999
The Contino Sessions - Death in Vegas 1999
The Man Who - Travis 1999
The Slim Shady LP - Eminem 1999
The Soft Bulletin - Flaming Lips 1999
All That You Can’t Leave Behind - U2 2000
Felt Mountain - Goldfrapp 2000
Figure 8 - Elliott Smith 2000
Heartbreaker - Ryan Adams 2000
Kid A - Radiohead 2000
Like Water For Chocolate - Common 2000
Lost Souls - The Doves 2000
Mama’s Gun - Erykah Badu 2000
Music - Madonna 2000
Nixon - Lambchop 2000
Our Aim is to Satisfy Red Snapper 2000
Parachutes - Coldplay 2000
Punishing Kiss - Ute Lemper 2000
Red Dirt Girl - Emmylou Harris 2000
Since I Left You - The Avalanches 2000
Sincere - MJ Cole 2000
Stankonia - Outkast 2000
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea - PJ Harvey 2000
Tanto Tempo - Bebel Gilberto 2000
The Hour Of Bewilderbeast - Badly Drawn Boy 2000
The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem 2000
The Virgin Suicides - Air 2000
Welcome to the Aftterfuture - Mike Ladd 2000
Bright Flight - Silver Jews 2001
Gold - Ryan Adams 2001
Is This It - The Strokes 2001
La Revancha del Tango - Gotan Project 2001
Melody A.M. - Royksopp 2001
Rings Around the World - Super Furry Animals 2001
Southern Rock Opera - Drive-By Truckers 2001
The Blueprint - Jay-Z 2001
Time (The Revelator) - Gillian Welch 2001
Vespertine - Björk 2001
White Blood Cells - The White Stripes 2001
A Little Deeper Ms Dynamite - 2002
A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay 2002
Come Away With Me - Norah Jones 2002
Hotel Yankee Foxtrot - Wilco 2002
Phrenology - The Roots 2002
Power in Numbers - Jurassic 5 2002
Sea Change - Beck 2002
The Coral - The Coral 2002
The Last Broadcast - The Doves 2002
The Rising - Bruce Springsteen 2002
Under Construction - Missy Elliott 2002
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips 2002
Boy in da Corner - Dizzee Rascal 2003
De-loused at the Crematorium - The Mars Volta 2003
Elephant - The White Stripes 2003
Fever To Tell - Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2003
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below - Outkast 2003
A Grand Don’t Come For Free - The Streets 2004
Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds 2004
American Idiot - Green Day 2004
Cee-Lo Green Is The Soul Machine - Cee-Lo 2004
Destroy Rock & Roll - Mylo 2004
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand 2004
Funeral - Arcade Fire 2004
Penance Soiree - The Icarus Line 2004
Rejoicing in the Hands - Devendra Banhart 2004
The College Dropout - Kanye West 2004
Want Two - Rufus Wainwright 2004
Be - Common 2005
Cole’s Cornes - Richard Hawley 2005
Illinois - Sufjan Stevens 2005
Back to Black - Amy Winehouse 2006
Fishscale - Ghostface Killah 2006
Food & Liqour - Lupe Fiasco 2006
Savane - Ali Farka Touré 2006
Whatever People Say I Am - Arctic Monkeys 2006
Ys - Joanna Newsom 2006
Cross - Justice 2007
In Rainbows - Radiohead 2007
Kala - MIA 2007
The Sound of Silver - LCD Soundsystem 2007
All Hope is Gone - Slipknot 2008
Dear Science - TV on the Radio 2008
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes 2008
Oracular Spectacular - MGMT 2008
Seldom See Kid - Elbow 2008
The Renaissance - Q-Tip 2008
Third - Portishead 2008
It’s Blitz - Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2009
Merriweather Post Pavilion - Animal Collective 2009
Two Dancers - Wild Beasts 2009
xx - The xx 2009
Brothers - The Black Keys 2010
Halcyon Digest - Deerhunter 2010
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West 2010
Queen of Denmark - John Grant 2010
Teen Dream - Beach House 2010
The ArchAndroid - Janelle Monae 2010
21 - Adele 2011
D - White Denim 2011
Let England Shake - P J Harvey 2011
Blunderbuss - Jack White 2012
Channel Orange - Frank Ocean 2012
Django Django - Django Django 2012
Good Kid, m.A.A.d. city - Kendrick Lamar 2012
In Our Heads - Hot Chip 2012
My Bloody Valentine - MBV 2013
The Next Day David Bowie - 2013
