Quintessence Editions - 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die (2006)

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 – Here’s Little Richard

Sarah Vaughan – At Mister Kelly’s

Ray Charles – Genius of...

Marty Robbins – Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs

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 – I’ve 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 – I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Electric Prunes – I Had too Much to Dream (Last Night)

Loretta Lynn – Don’t 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

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 – School’s 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

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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 – Tonight’s the Night

Willie Nelson – Red Headed Stranger

Earth, Wind & Fire – That’s the Way of the World

Curtis Mayfield – There’s 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

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 N’Dour – Immigrιs

Fall – This Nation’s 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 – Don’t 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 Who’s 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 D’Arby – Introducing the Hardline According

Pogues – If I Should Fall from Grace with God

Waterboys – Fisherman’s 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 – Isn’t Anything

Dagmar Krause – Tank Battles

k.d. Lang – Shadowland

American Music Club – California

Morrissey – Viva Hate

Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation

Sugarcubes – Life’s Too Good

Dwight Yoakam – 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

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 – Paul’s 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 – What’s 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

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 – 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

Sinιad O’Connor – I Do Not Want What I Haven’t 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 – It’s 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 – Henry’s 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

D’Angelo – 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 – Let’s 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 – Boatman’s 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 – You’ve 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 – 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

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

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 Can’t 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 – Mama’s 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

Destiny’s 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 Don’t 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