Various - 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
1001 Discos que hay que escuchar antes de morir
Les 1001 albums qu'il faut avoir ιcoutιs dans sa vie
1950s


Louvin Brothers Tragic Songs of Life
Louis Prima Wildest
Fats Domino This is Fats
Duke Ellington At Newport
Frank Sinatra Songs for Swingin Lovers!
Crickets Chirping




Machito Kenya
Little Richard Heres Little Richard



Sarah Vaughan At Mister Kellys

Ray Charles Genius of...

Marty Robbins Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs

1960s
Joan Baez Joan Baez

Miriam Makeba Miriam Makeba
Everly Brothers A Date with the...



Ray Charles - Modern Sounds in Country & Western Music
Booker T & the MGs Green Onions

Ray Price Night Life

Beatles – With the Beatles


Sam Cooke Live at the Harlem Square




Jacques Brel Olympia 64
Solomon Burke Rock n Soul
Dusty Springfield - A Girl Called Dusty

Buck Owens Ive Got a Tiger by the Tail
Jerry Lee Lewis Live at the Star Club, Hamburg
Sonics Here Are the...

Otis Redding Otis Blue... Sings Soul


B.B. King Live at the Regal



Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man




Fred Neil Fred Neil


Monks Black Monk Time

Mamas & the Papas If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears
Paul Revere & the Raiders Midnight Ride



13th Floor Elevators Psychedelic Sounds of the...






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
Tim Buckley Goodbye & Hello





Velvet Underground - & Nico
Frank Sinatra - Frank Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim




Donovan Sunshine Superman
Merle Haggard Im a Lonesome Fugitive

Electric Prunes I Had too Much to Dream (Last Night)
Loretta Lynn Dont Come Home a Drinkin (With Lovin on Your Mind)
Shivkumar Sharma Call of the Valley


Aretha Franklin I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You




Ravi Shankar Sounds of India
Mutantes Mutantes


Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison





United States of America United States of America
Dr John Gris Gris






Caetano Veloso Caetano Veloso


Van Morrison Astral Weeks



Neil Young Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica

Stills Crosby & Nash Stills Crosby & Nash
Blood, Sweat & Tears - Blood, Sweat & Tears
Flying Burrito Brothers Gilded Palace of Sin
Johnny Cash At San Quentin




Bee Gees Odessa



Dusty Springfield Dusty in Memphis






MC5 Kick Out the Jams
Temptations Cloud Nine

Tim Buckley Happy Sad
Chicago Transit Authority - Chicago Transit Authority

Youngbloods Elephant Mountain

Grateful Dead Live/Dead





Stooges Stooges
Alexander Skip Spence Oar

1970s



Spirit Twelve Dreams of Dr Sardonicus



Stephen Stills Stephen Stills



Neil Young After the Gold Rush


Van Morrison Moondance


Ananda Shankar Ananda Shankar





Cat Stevens Tea for the Tillerman







David Crosby If Only I Could Remember My Name



Bee Gees Trafalgar











Dolly Parton Coat of Many Colors
Don McLean American Pie







Funkadelic Maggot Brain

Fela Kuti - With Ginger Baker: Live!
Faces A Nod is as Good as a Wink... To a Blind Horse
Flamin Groovies Teenage Head

John Prine John Prine



Randy Newman Sail Away










Hugh Masekela Home is Where the Music Is
Milton Nascimento & Lo Borges Clube da Esquina

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

Stephen Still Manassas

David Ackles American Gothic

Tim Buckley Greetings from LA



Alice Cooper Schools Out
Temptations All Directions

War World is a Ghetto



Incredible Bongo Band Bongo Rock



Hawkwind Space Ritual
John Cale Paris 1919




John Martyn Solid Air

Faust IV






Waylon Jennings Honky Tonk Heroes


ZZ Top Tres Hombres

Sensational Alex Harvey Band Next
Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies

Isley Brothers 3 + 3




Shuggie Otis Inspiration Information


Kraftwerk Autobahn

Joni Mitchell Court & Spark






Scott-Heron, Gil & Brian Jackson Winter in America



George Jones Grand Tour
Gene Clark No Other

Randy Newman Good Old Boys




Dictators Go Girl Crazy!
Neu! 75

10179,i
10179,Keith Jarrett Kφln Concert


Burning Spear Marcus Garvey

Emmylou Harris Pieces of the Sky
Dion Born to Be With You
Joni Mitchell Hissing of Summer Lawns
Rahul Dev Burman Shalimar
Neil Young Tonights the Night




Willie Nelson Red Headed Stranger
Earth, Wind & Fire Thats the Way of the World
Curtis Mayfield Theres No Place Like America Today
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers


Joni Mitchell Hejira




Rush 2112
Jorge Ben Αfrica Brasil
Joan Armatrading Joan Armatrading


Penguin Cafι Orchestra Music from the Penguin Cafι
Jean Michel Jarre Oxygene

Fela Kuti Zombie
Peter Tosh Legalize It



Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express




Muddy Waters Hard Again





Martyn, John One World

Fleetwood Mac Rumours

Dennis Wilson Pacific Ocean Blue
Suicide Suicide
Iggy Pop The Idiot




Iggy Pop Lust for Life


Pere Ubu Modern Dance
Kraftwerk Man Machine

Elis Regina Vento de Maio
Pere Ubu Dub Housing
Only Ones Only Ones


Joe Ely Honky Tonk Masquerade


Residents Duck Stab/Buster & Glen
Public Image Ltd Public Image



Throbbing Gristle DOA: Third & Final Report


Buzzcocks Another Music in a Different Kitchen

Willie Colσn & Rubιn Blades Siembra
Cars Cars


Saints Eternally Yours
Marvin Gaye Here, My Dear
Willie Nelson Stardust





Sister Sledge We Are Family
Crusaders Street Life
Germs GI
B52s B52s


Fall Live at the Witch Trials

Joy Division Unknown Pleasures
Chic Risquι
Undertones Undertones


Marianne Faithfull Broken English
Slits Cut

Neil Young Rust Never Sleeps


Fleetwood Mac Tusk


Michael Jackson Off the Wall


Specials Specials
1980s
Adam & the Ants Kings of the Wild Frontier
Dexys Midnight Runners Searching for the Young Soul Rebels

Cramps Songs the Lord Taught Us


Soft Boys Underwater Moonlight

Echo & the Bunnymen Crocodiles



Circle Jerks Group Sex

Joy Division Closer
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden
Undertones Hypnotised

Tom Waits Heartattack & Vine
UB40 Signing Off
Teardrop Explodes Kilimanjaro
Specials More Specials




Heaven 17 Penthouse & Pavement
Go-Gos Beauty & the Beat

Soft Cell Non Stop Erotic Cabaret
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) Architecture & Morality
Brian Eno & 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

Bobby Womack Poet
Tom Tom Club Tom Tom Club
Rush Moving Pictures

ABC Lexicon of Love
Prince 1999
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five The Message


Dexys Midnight Runners Too Rye Ay
Simple Minds New Gold Dream
Madness Rise & Fall



Orange Juice Rip it Up

Birthday Party Junkyard
Venom Black Metal

Associates Sulk
Iron Maiden Number of the Beast

Violent Femmes Violent Femmes
Malcolm McLaren Duck Rock

REM Murmur
The The Soul Mining

Blue Nile A Walk Across the Rooftops



Echo & the Bunnymen Porcupine
ZZ Top Eliminator
Eurythmics Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
U2 War

Meat Puppets II

Frankie Goes to Hollywood Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Run DMC Run DMC


Minor Threat Out of Step

Prince Purple Rain
Replacements Let it Be

Tina Turner Private Dancer
Echo & the Bunnymen Ocean Rain
Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime
Lloyd Cole & the Commotions Rattlesnakes
Youssou NDour Immigrιs

Fall This Nations Saving Grace
Abdullah Ibrahim Water from an Ancient Well
Aha Hunting High & Low
Tears for Fears Songs from the Big Chair

Prefab Sprout Steve McQueen
Mekons Fear & Whiskey
Big Black Atomizer
Suzanne Vega Suzanne Vega
Pogues Rum, Sodomy & the Lash




New Order Low Life
Simply Red Picture Book
Dexys Midnight Runners Dont Stand Me Down
Scritti Politti Cupid & Psyche 85

Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force Planet Rock: The Album
Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill

The The Infected
Nanci Griffith Last of the True Believers

Talk Talk Colour of Spring
Megadeth Peace Sells... But Whos Buying?

Sonic Youth Evol
Slayer Reign in Blood
Throwing Muses Throwing Muses

Run DMC Raising Hell

Steve Earle Guitar Town
Bad Brains I Against I
Anita Baker Rapture


Anthrax Among the Living

Dolly Parton with Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris Trio




Depeche Mode Music for the Masses
Sisters of Mercy Floodland
George Michael Faith
Hόsker Dό Warehouse: Songs & Stories
Butthole Surfers Locust Abortion Technician
Astor Piazzolla & Gary Burton New Tango

Guns N Roses Appetite for Destruction

Ladysmith Black Mambazo Shaka Zulu
Laibach Opus Dei
Napalm Death Scum
Sonic Youth Sister
Triffids Calenture
Michael Jackson Bad
Pet Shop Boys Actually

Terence Trent DArby Introducing the Hardline According
Pogues If I Should Fall from Grace with God

Waterboys Fishermans Blues
Fishbone Truth & Soul

Living Colour - Vivid
Mudhoney Superfuzz Bigmuff
REM Green
Happy Mondays Bummed
Go Betweens 16 Lovers Lane
Cowboy Junkies Trinity Session
Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman
My Bloody Valentine Isnt Anything



Dagmar Krause Tank Battles
k.d. Lang Shadowland
American Music Club California
Morrissey Viva Hate
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation
Sugarcubes Lifes Too Good
Dwight Yoakam Beuenas Noches from a Lonely Roomn
Janes Addiction Nothings Shocking
Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Faith No More Real Thing
Lenny Kravtiz Let Love Rule
John Lee Hooker Healer
New Order Technique
Madonna Like a Prayer
Queen Latifah All Hail the Queen
Spacemen 3 Playing with Fire
Firehouse Fromohio
Beastie Boys Pauls Boutique
Young Gods I' Eau Rouge
John Zorn Spy vs Spy: Music of Ornette Coleman
Stone Roses Stone Roses
Neneh Cherry Raw Like Sushi
Baaba Maal & Mansour Seck Djam Leelii

Cure Disintegration
808 State 808:90
Coldcut Whats That Noise?
Barry Adamson Moss Side Story


Bonnie Raitt Nick of Time
Fugazi Repeater
Soul II Soul Club Classics: Vol One
De La Soul 3 Feet High & Rising
Janet Jackson Rhythm Nation 1814
Jungle Brothers Done by the Forces of Nature
NWA Straight Outta Compton
1990s

Shamen En-Tact
Deee Lite World Clique

Black Crowes Shake Your Money Maker


Megadeth Rust in Peace
Digital Underground Sex Packets
Pet Shop Boys Behaviour
Happy Mondays Pills n Thrills and Bellyaches
George Michael Listen Without Prejudice: Vol 1
Neil Young Ragged Glory
Ice Cube AmeriKKKas Most Wanted
Janes Addiction Ritual de lo Habitual
LL Cool J Mama Said Knock You Out
Public Enemy Fear of a Black Planet
Sinιad OConnor I Do Not Want What I Havent Got

Sonic Youth Goo
Ride Nowhere
My Bloody Valentine Loveless


Cypress Hill Cypress Hill
Julian Cope Peggy Suicide
Gang Starr Step in the Arena
MC Solaar - Qui Sθme le Vent Rιcolte le Tempo
Jah Wobble Rising Above Bedlam

Ice T OG: Original Gangster
Mudhoney Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
Public Enemy Apocalypse 91... Enemy Strikes Back

Pearl Jam Ten
Saint Etienne Foxbase Alpha
Sepultura Arise
Slint Spiderland
U2 Achtung Baby
KLF White Room


Teenage Fanclub Bandwagonesque

Pavement Slanted & Enchanted
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Arrested Development 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life
Koffi Olomidι Haut de Gamme: Koweοt, Rive Gauche
Morrissey Your Arsenal
Baaba Maal Lam Toro
Lemonheads Its a Shame About Ray

Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury
k.d. Lang Ingιnue
Dr Dre Chronic
REM Automatic for the People
Pharcyde Bizarre Ride II
Spiritualized Lazer Guided Melodies
Sugar Copper Blue
Tom Waits Bone Machine
Sonic Youth Dirty
Stereo MCs Connected
Ministry Psalm 69
Tori Amos Little Earthquakes
Ice Cube Predator
Pantera Vulgar Display of Power
Alice in Chains Dirt
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Henrys Dream
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Devotional Songs
P.J. Harvey Dry
Suede Suede

Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream
Auteurs New Wave
Liz Phair Exile in Guyville
Afghan Whigs Gentlemen
Aimee Mann Whatever
Grant Lee Buffalo Fuzzy

Jamiroquai Emergency on Planet Earth
Pet Shop Boys Very
P.J. Harvey Rid of Me
Blur Modern Life is Rubbish
Sheryl Crow Tuesday Night Music Club
Fall Infotainment Scan
Wu Tang Clan Enter the Wu Tang

Orbital Orbital [aka Brown Album]
Snoop Doggy Dogg Doggystyle
Sebadoh Bubble & Scrape
Boo Radleys Giant Steps
William Orbit Strange Cargo: III
Method Man Tical
Frank Black 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
Elvis Costello Brutal Youth
Morrissey Vauxhall & I
TLC CrazySexyCool

Soundgarden Superunknown
Offspring Smash
Drive Like Jehu Yank Crime

G Love & Special Sauce - G Love & Special Sauce
Ali Farka Tourι Talking Timbuktu
Hole Live Through This

Manic Street Preachers Holy Bible
Suede Dog Man Star
Notorious BIG Ready to Die
Jeff Buckley Grace
Orbital Snivilisation

Nine Inch Nails Downward Spiral
Prodigy Music for the Jilted Generation
Green Day Dookie

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

2Pac Me Against the World
Elastica Elastica
Supergrass I Should Coco
Radiohead The Bends
Guided by Voices Alien Lanes
Femi Kuti Femi Kuti
Verve A Northern Soul
Genius GZA Liquid Swords
Pulp Different Class
Leftfield Leftism
DAngelo Brown Sugar

Goldie Timeless
Alanis Morissette 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

DJ Shadow Endtroducing
Eels Beautiful Freak
Divine Comedy Casanova
Fiona Apple Tidal
Wilco Being There
Sepultura Roots
Barry Adamson 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
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Murder Ballads
LTJ Bukem 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


o Radiohead OK Computer
Finley Quaye Maverick a Strike
Missy Elliott Misdemeanor Supa Dupa Fly



David Holmes Lets Get Killed
Sleater Kinney Dig Me Out
Prodigy Fat of the Land
Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Boatmans Call
Divine Comedy A Short Album About Love
Cornershop When I was Born for the 7th Time
Daft Punk Homework
Robbie Williams Life Thru a Lens
Mariah Carey Butterfly
Supergrass In it for the Money
Bob Dylan Time Out of Mind
Roni Size & Reprazent New Forms
Elliott Smith Either/Or

Spiritualized Ladies & Gentlemen, We are Floating in Space
Dandy Warhols Dandy Warhols
Bob Dylan Bootleg Series Vol 4: Live 1966
Manu Chao Clandestino
Billy Bragg & Wilco Mermaid Avenue
Turbonegro Apocalypse Dudes
Fatboy Slim Youve Come a Long Way, Baby
David Gray White Ladder
Lucinda Williams Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Pulp This is Hardcore
Madonna Ray of Light
Lauryn Hill Miseducation
Hole Celebrity Skin
Mercury Rev Deserters 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
Khalθd Kenza
Kid Rock Devil Without a Cause
Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children
Suba - Sγo Paulo Confessions

Skunk Anansie Post Orgasmic Chill
Incubus Make Yourself
Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs
Travis Man Who

Beth Orton Central Reservation
Nitin Sawhney Beyond Skin
Death in Vegas Contino Sessions
Moby Play
Flaming Lips Soft Bulletin
Les Rhymes Digitales Darkdancer
Le Tigre Le Tigre
Eminem Slim Shady LP
Britney Spears Baby One More Time

Bonnie Prince Billy I See a Darkness
Shack HMS Fable
Basement Jaxx Remedy

Sigur Rσs Αgζtis Byrjun
2000 onwards (up to 2007)
Doves Lost Souls
Air Virgin Suicides: Original Motion Picture Score
Ryan Adams Heartbreaker
Bebel Gilberto Tanto Tempo
MJ Cole Sincere
Emmylou Harris Red Dirt Girl
Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish & the Hot Dog Flavored Water
Radiohead Kid A
U2 All That You Cant Leave Behind
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory
Elliott Smith Figure 8
Badly Drawn Boy Hour of Bewilderbeast
P.J. Harvey Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Erykah Badu Mamas Gun
Coldplay Parachutes
Common Like Water for Chocolate
Mike Ladd 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
Ute Lemper Punishing Kiss
Madonna Music
Avalanches Since I Left You
OutKast Stankonia
Radiohead Amnesiac
Silver Jews Bright Flight

Gorillaz Gorillaz
Ryan Adams Gold
Destinys Child Survivor
Strokes Is This It
Gillian Welch Time (The Revelator)
Gotan Project La Revancha del Tango
White Stripes White Blood Cells
Beta Band Hot Shots II
Jay Z Blueprint
Rφyksopp 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
Norah Jones Come Away with Me
Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head
Coral Coral
Johnny Cash American IV: Man Comes Around
Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Doves Last Broadcast
Missy Elliott Under Construction

Beck Sea Change
Justin Timberlake - Justified
Roots Phrenology
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever to Tell
Hives Your New Favourite Band
Radiohead Hail to the Thief
Calexico Feast of Wire
Darkness Permission to Land
White Stripes Elephant
Dizzee Rascal Boy in da Corner
Outkast Speakerboxxx/Love Below
Kings of Leon Youth & Young Manhood
Mars Volta Deloused in the Comatorium
Lightning Bolt Wonderful Rainbow
Rufus Wainwright Want One
Scissor Sisters Scissor Sisters


Mylo Destroy Rock & Roll
Brian Wilson - Smile
Icarus Line Penance Soirιe
Arcade Fire Funeral
Devendra Banhart Rejoicing in the Hands
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus
Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand
kanYe West College Dropout
Cee-Lo Green Is the Soul Machine
TV on the Radio Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
Liars They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
Streets A Grand Dont Come for Free
Rufus Wainwright Want Two
Zutons - Who Killed The Zutons?
Killers Hot Fuss
Ozomatli - Street Signs
Green Day - American Idiot
Common - Be
Richard Hawley - Coles Corner
Antony & The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
MIA Arular
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
Christina Aguilera - Back to Basics
Ali Farka Tourι - Savane
Muse - Black Holes & Revelations
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Joanna Newson - Ys
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
The Good The Bad & The Queen - The Good The Bad & The Queen