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

Frank Sinatra – In the Wee Small Hours

Elvis Presley – Elvis Presley

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

Count Basie – Atomic Mr Basie

Thelonious Monk – Brilliant Corners

Sabϊ – Palo Congo

Miles Davis – Birth of the Cool

Machito – Kenya

Little Richard – Here’s Little Richard

Tito Puente & His Orchestra – Dance Mania

Billie Holiday – Lady in Satin

Jack Elliott – Jack Takes the Floor

Sarah Vaughan – At Mister Kelly’s

Ella Fitzgerald – Sings the Gershwin Song Book

Ray Charles – Genius of...

Miles Davis – Kind of Blue

Marty Robbins – Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs

Dave Brubeck – Time Out

Joan Baez – Joan Baez

Elvis Presley – Elvis is Back!

Miriam Makeba – Miriam Makeba

Everly Brothers – A Date with the...

Jimmy Smith – Back at the Chicken Shack

Muddy Waters – At Newport

Bill Evans – Sunday at the Village Vanguard

Ray Charles - Modern Sounds in Country & Western Music

Booker T & the MGs – Green Onions

Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd – Jazz Samba

Ray Price – Night Life

Beatles – With the Beatles

Bob Dylan – Freewheelin’...

Phil Spector & Various Artists – A Christmas Gift for You

Sam Cooke – Live at the Harlem Square

Charles Mingus – Black Saint & the Sinner Lady

James Brown– Live at the Apollo

Stan Getz & Joγo Gilberto – Getz/Gilberto

Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night

Jacques Brel – Olympia 64

Solomon Burke – Rock ‘n’ Soul

Dusty Springfield - A Girl Called Dusty

Rolling Stones – Rolling Stones

Buck Owens – I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail

Jerry Lee Lewis – Live at the Star Club, Hamburg

Sonics – Here Are the...

Bob Dylan – Bringing it All Back Home

Otis Redding – Otis Blue... Sings Soul

Beach Boys – Today!

John Coltrane – A Love Supreme

B.B. King – Live at the Regal

Beatles – Rubber Soul

Bert Jansch – Bert Jansch

Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man

Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited

Who – My Generation

Beatles – Revolver

Beach Boys – Pet Sounds

Fred Neil – Fred Neil

Byrds – Fifth Dimension

Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde

Monks – Black Monk Time

Kinks – Face to Face

Mamas & the Papas – If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

Paul Revere & the Raiders – Midnight Ride

Mothers of Invention (Frank Zappa) – 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

Nina Simone– Wild is the Wind

Astrud Gilberto – Beach Samba

Nico – Chelsea Girl

Beatles – Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Country Joe & the Fish – Electric Music for the Mind & Body

Buffalo Springfield – Again

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Safe as Milk

Moby Grape – Moby Grape

Love – Da Capo

Beau Brummels – Triangle

Monkees – Headquarters

Tim Buckley – Goodbye & Hello

Love – Forever Changes

Cream – Disraeli Gears

Pink Floyd – Piper at the Gates of Dawn

Who – Sell Out

Velvet Underground - & Nico

Frank Sinatra - Frank Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Doors – Doors

Young Rascals – Groovin’

Jefferson Airplane – Surrealistic Pillow

Kinks – Something Else by the...

Donovan – Sunshine Superman

Merle Haggard – I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Jimi Hendrix – Are You Experienced

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

Velvet Underground – White Light/White Heat

Jimi Hendrix – Axis: Bold as Love

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

Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet

Traffic – Traffic

Incredible String Band – Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter

Kinks – Village Green Preservation Society

Ravi Shankar – Sounds of India

Mutantes – Mutantes

Jimi Hendrix – Electric Ladyland

Leonard Cohen – Songs of...

Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison

Laura Nyro – Eli & the Thirteenth Confession

Aretha Franklin – 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

Jeff Beck – Truth

Caetano Veloso – Caetano Veloso

Scott Walker – Scott 2

Zombies – Odessey & Oracle

Van Morrison – Astral Weeks

Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo

Beatles – Beatles [The White Album]

Mothers of Invention (Frank Zappa) – We’re Only in it for the Money

Neil Young – Everybody Knows This is Nowhere

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica

Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bayou Country

Stills Crosby & Nash – Stills Crosby & Nash

Blood, Sweat & Tears - Blood, Sweat & Tears

Flying Burrito Brothers – Gilded Palace of Sin

Johnny Cash – At San Quentin

Creedence Clearwater Revival – Green River

Beatles – Abbey Road

Who – Tommy

Miles Davis – In a Silent Way

Bee Gees – Odessa

Pentangle – Basket of Light

Rolling Stones – Let it Bleed

Nick Drake – Five Leaves Left

Dusty Springfield – Dusty in Memphis

Elvis Presley – From Elvis in Memphis

Velvet Underground – Velvet Underground

Quicksilver Messenger Service – Happy Trails

Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin

Band – Band

Led Zeppelin – II

MC5 – Kick Out the Jams

Temptations – Cloud Nine

Sly & the Family Stone – Stand!

Tim Buckley – Happy Sad

Chicago Transit Authority - Chicago Transit Authority

Fairport Convention – Unhalfbricking

Youngbloods – Elephant Mountain

Isaac Hayes – 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

Leonard Cohen – Songs from a Room

Fairport Convention – Liege & Lief

Scott Walker – Scott 4

Stooges – Stooges

Alexander ‘Skip’ Spence – Oar

Frank Zappa – Hot Rats

Creedence Clearwater Revival – Cosmo’s Factory

Derek & the Dominos – Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs

Miles Davis – Bitches Brew

Spirit – Twelve Dreams of Dr Sardonicus

Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath

Doors – Morrison Hotel

Carpenters – Close to You

Stephen Stills – Stephen Stills

John Lennon – Plastic Ono Band

Stills Crosby, Nash & Young – Dιjΰ vu

Black Sabbath – Paranoid

Neil Young – After the Gold Rush

Led Zeppelin – III

Deep Purple – In Rock

Van Morrison – Moondance

Grateful Dead – American Beauty

Nick Drake – Bryter Layter

Ananda Shankar – Ananda Shankar

Who – Live at Leeds

Soft Machine – Third

Rod Stewart – Gasoline Alley

George Harrison – All Things Must Pass

Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water

Cat Stevens – Tea for the Tillerman

Traffic – John Barleycorn Must Die

Stooges – Fun House

James Taylor – Sweet Baby James

Paul McCartney – McCartney

Santana – Abraxas

Syd Barrett – Madcap Laughs

Jethro Tull – Aqualung

David Crosby – If Only I Could Remember My Name

Sly & the Family Stone – There’s a Riot Goin’ On

Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On

Yes – Yes Album

Bee Gees – Trafalgar

Who – Who’s Next

Carole King – Tapestry

Isaac Hayes – Shaft: Music from the Soundtrack

Allman Brothers – At Fillmore East

Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers

John Lennon – Imagine

Beach Boys – Surf’s Up

Yes – Fragile

Doors – LA Woman

Can – Tago Mago

Elton John – Madman Across the Water

Dolly Parton – Coat of Many Colors

Don McLean – American Pie

Lake Emerson & Palmer – Tarkus

Led Zeppelin – IV

Serge Gainsbourg – Histoire de Melody Nelson

Rod Stewart – Every Picture Tells a Story

Lake Emerson & Palmer – Pictures at an Exhibition

Leonard Cohen – Songs of Love & Hate

Joni Mitchell – Blue

Funkadelic – Maggot Brain

Janis Joplin – Pearl

Fela Kuti - With Ginger Baker: Live!

Faces – A Nod is as Good as a Wink... To a Blind Horse

Flamin’ Groovies – Teenage Head

Gene Clark – White Light

John Prine – John Prine

Harry Nilsson – Nilsson Schmilsson

T.Rex – Electric Warrior

David Bowie – Hunky Dory

Randy Newman – Sail Away

Deep Purple – Machine Head

Big Star – N0 1 Record

Black Sabbath – Vol 4

Steely Dan – Can’t Buy a Thrill

Neil Young – Harvest

Curtis Mayfield – Superfly: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Slade – Slayed?

Deep Purple – Made in Japan

Yes – Close to the Edge

Lou Reed – Transformer

Hugh Masekela – Home is Where the Music Is

Milton Nascimento & Lo Borges – Clube da Esquina

Todd Rundgren – Something/Anything

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

Stevie Wonder – Talking Book

Stephen Still – Manassas

T.Rex – Slider

David Ackles – American Gothic

>Eagles – Eagles

Tim Buckley – Greetings from LA

Nick Drake – Pink Moon

Paul Simon – Paul Simon

Roxy Music – Roxy Music (1st Album)

Alice Cooper – School’s Out

Temptations – All Directions

David Bowie – Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

War – World is a Ghetto

Al Green – Let’s Stay Together

Rolling Stones – Exile on Main St

Lynyrd Skynyrd – Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd

Incredible Bongo Band – Bongo Rock

David Bowie – Aladdin Sane

King Crimson – Lark’s Tongues in Aspic

Bob Marley & the Wailers – Catch a Fire

Hawkwind – Space Ritual

John Cale – Paris 1919

Can – Future Days

Lou Reed – Berlin

Genesis – Selling England by the Pound

Marvin Gaye – Let’s Get it On

John Martyn – Solid Air

Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure

Faust – IV

Herbie Hancock – Head Hunters

Mott the Hoople – Mott

Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells

Todd Rundgren – A Wizard, a True Star

Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Steely Dan – Countdown to Ecstasy

Waylon Jennings – Honky Tonk Heroes

Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon

Stevie Wonder – Innervisions

ZZ Top – Tres Hombres

Paul McCartney & 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

Brian Eno – Here Come the Warm Jets

Bad Company – Bad Company

Genesis – Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

Shuggie Otis – Inspiration Information

Stevie Wonder – Fullfillingness’ First Finale

Eric Clapton – 461 Ocean Boulevard

Kraftwerk – Autobahn

Van Morrison – It’s Too Late to Stop Now

Joni Mitchell – Court & Spark

Queen – II

Roxy Music – Country Life

Tangerine Dream – Phaedra

Sparks – Kimono My House

Supertramp – Crime of the Century

Richard Thompson & Linda – I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight

Scott-Heron, Gil & Brian Jackson – Winter in America

Queen – Sheer Heart Attack

10cc – Sheet Music

Neil Young – On the Beach

George Jones – Grand Tour

Gene Clark – No Other

Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic

Randy Newman – Good Old Boys

Bob Marley & the Wailers – Natty Dread

Robert Wyatt – Rock Bottom

Gram Parsons – Grievous Angel

Brian Eno – Another Green World

Dictators – Go Girl Crazy!

Neu! – ‘75

Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti

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10179,Keith Jarrett – Kφln Concert

Aerosmith – Toys in the Attic

David Bowie – Young Americans

Burning Spear – Marcus Garvey

Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run

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

Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks

Patti Smith – Horses

Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here

Queen – A Night at the Opera

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

Modern Lovers – Modern Lovers

David Bowie – Station to Station

Joni Mitchell – Hejira

Boston – Boston

Eagles – Hotel California

ABBA – Arrival

Kiss – Destroyer

Rush – 2112

Jorge Ben – Αfrica Brasil

Joan Armatrading – Joan Armatrading

Aerosmith – Rocks

Parliament – Mothership Connection

Penguin Cafι Orchestra – Music from the Penguin Cafι

Jean Michel Jarre – Oxygene

Ramones – Ramones

Fela Kuti – Zombie

Peter Tosh – Legalize It

Stevie Wonder – Songs in the Key of Life

Peter Frampton – Frampton Comes Alive

Brian Eno – Before & After Science

Kraftwerk – Trans-Europe Express

Billy Joel – The Stranger

Bob Marley & the Wailers – Exodus

Electric Light Orchestra – Out of the Blue

Weather Report – Heavy Weather

Muddy Waters – Hard Again

Stranglers – Rattus Norvegicus

Clash – Clash

David Bowie – Low

Steely Dan – Aja

Wire – Pink Flag

Martyn, John – One World

Talking Heads – 77

Fleetwood Mac – Rumours

David Bowie – ‘Heroes’

Dennis Wilson – Pacific Ocean Blue

Suicide – Suicide

Iggy Pop – The Idiot

Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel (I)

Television – Marquee Moon

Meat Loaf – Bat Out of Hell

Elvis Costello – My Aim is True

Iggy Pop – Lust for Life

Ian Dury – New Boots & Panties!!

Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks

Pere Ubu – Modern Dance

Kraftwerk – Man Machine

Blondie – Parallel Lines

Elis Regina – Vento de Maio

Pere Ubu – Dub Housing

Only Ones – Only Ones

Elvis Costello – This Year’s Model

Jam – All Mod Cons

Joe Ely – Honky Tonk Masquerade

Adverts – Crossing the Red Sea with the...

Big Star – Third (ou Sister Lovers)

Residents – Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

Public Image Ltd – Public Image

Magazine – Real Life

Bruce Springsteen– 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

Willie Colσn & Rubιn Blades – Siembra

Cars – Cars

Devo – Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Dire Straits – Dire Straits

Saints – Eternally Yours

Marvin Gaye – Here, My Dear

Willie Nelson – Stardust

Chic – C’est Chic

X-ray Spex – Germ Free Adolescents

Brian Eno – Ambient 1: Music for Airports

Siouxsie & the Banshees – Scream

AC/DC – Highway to Hell

Sister Sledge – We Are Family

Crusaders – Street Life

Germs – GI

B52s – B52s

Holger Czukay – Movies

Police – Reggatta de Blanc

Fall – Live at the Witch Trials

Talking Heads – Fear of Music

Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures

Chic – Risquι

Undertones – Undertones

Clash – London Calling

Japan – Quiet Life

Marianne Faithfull – Broken English

Slits – Cut

Elvis Costello – Armed Forces

Neil Young – Rust Never Sleeps

Gang of Four – Entertainment!

Cheap Trick – At Budokan

Fleetwood Mac – Tusk

Pink Floyd – Wall, the

Public Image Ltd – Metal Box

Michael Jackson – Off the Wall

Damned – Machine Gun Etiquette

Gary Numan – Pleasure Principle

Specials – Specials

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

Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel (III)

Soft Boys – Underwater Moonlight

Cure – Seventeen Seconds

Echo & the Bunnymen – Crocodiles

Motφrhead – Ace of Spades

Killing Joke – Killing Joke

Judas Priest – British Steel

Circle Jerks – Group Sex

Talking Heads – Remain in Light

Joy Division – Closer

Iron Maiden – Iron Maiden

Undertones – Hypnotised

Jam – Sound Affects

Tom Waits – Heartattack & Vine

UB40 – Signing Off

Teardrop Explodes – Kilimanjaro

Specials – More Specials

Steve Winwood – Arc of a Diver

Pretenders – Pretenders

Einstόrzende Neubauten – Kollaps

Siouxsie & the Banshees – Juju

Heaven 17 – Penthouse & Pavement

Go-Gos – Beauty & the Beat

Motφrhead – No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith

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

Bauhaus – Mask

Bobby Womack – Poet

Tom Tom Club – Tom Tom Club

Rush – Moving Pictures

ABBA – Visitors

ABC – Lexicon of Love

Prince – 1999

Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five – The Message

Elvis Costello – Imperial Bedroom

Cure – Pornography

Dexys Midnight Runners – Too Rye Ay

Simple Minds – New Gold Dream

Madness – Rise & Fall

Donald Fagen – Nightfly

Haircut One Hundred – Pelican West

Kate Bush – Dreaming, the

Orange Juice – Rip it Up

Michael Jackson – Thriller

Birthday Party – Junkyard

Venom – Black Metal

Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska

Associates – Sulk

Iron Maiden – Number of the Beast

Duran Duran – Rio

Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes

Malcolm McLaren – Duck Rock

Def Leppard – Pyromania

REM – Murmur

The The – Soul Mining

Tom Waits – Swordfishtrombones

Blue Nile – A Walk Across the Rooftops

Hanoi Rocks – Back to Mystery City

Cyndi Lauper – She’s So Unusual

Paul Simon – Hearts & Bones

Echo & the Bunnymen – Porcupine

ZZ Top – Eliminator

Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)

U2 – War

Police – Synchronicity

Meat Puppets – II

Culture Club – Colour by Numbers

,Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Welcome to the Pleasuredome

Run DMC – Run DMC

Sade – Diamond Life

Cocteau Twins – Treasure

Minor Threat – Out of Step

Van Halen – 1984

Prince – Purple Rain

Replacements – Let it Be

Style Council – Cafι Bleu

Tina Turner – Private Dancer

Echo & the Bunnymen – Ocean Rain

Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime

Lloyd Cole & the Commotions – Rattlesnakes

Youssou N’Dour – Immigrιs

Bruce Springsteen – Born in the USA

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

Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms

Prefab Sprout – Steve McQueen

Mekons – Fear & Whiskey

Big Black – Atomizer

Suzanne Vega – Suzanne Vega

Pogues – Rum, Sodomy & the Lash

Kate Bush – Hounds of Love

Smiths – Meat is Murder

Tom Waits – 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

Elvis Costello – Blood & Chocolate

Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force – Planet Rock: The Album

Beastie Boys – Licensed to Ill

Metallica – Master of Puppets

The The – Infected

Nanci Griffith – Last of the True Believers

Billy Bragg – Talking with the Taxman About Poetry

Talk Talk – Colour of Spring

Megadeth – Peace Sells... But Who’s Buying?

Bon Jovi – Slippery When Wet

Sonic Youth – Evol

Slayer – Reign in Blood

Throwing Muses – Throwing Muses

Simon, Paul – Graceland

Run DMC – Raising Hell

XTC – Skylarking

Steve Earle – Guitar Town

Bad Brains – I Against I

Anita Baker – Rapture

Smiths – Queen is Dead

Peter Gabriel – So

Anthrax – Among the Living

Dinosaur Jr – You’re Living All Over Me

Dolly Parton 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

George Michael – Faith

Hόsker Dό – Warehouse: Songs & Stories

Butthole Surfers – Locust Abortion Technician

Astor Piazzolla & 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

Michael Jackson – Bad

Pet Shop Boys – Actually

U2 – Joshua Tree

Terence Trent D’Arby – Introducing the Hardline According

Pogues – If I Should Fall from Grace with God

Leonard Cohen – 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

Tracy Chapman – Tracy Chapman

My Bloody Valentine – Isn’t Anything

Pixies – Surfer Rosa

Metallica – And Justice for All

Dinosaur Jr – Bug

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

Kate Bush – Sensual World

Cure – Disintegration

808 State – 808:90

Coldcut – What’s That Noise?

Barry Adamson – Moss Side Story

Aerosmith – Pump

Pixies – Doolittle

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

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

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

A Tribe Called Quest – 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

Julian Cope – Peggy Suicide

Gang Starr – Step in the Arena

MC Solaar - Qui Sθme le Vent Rιcolte 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

A Tribe Called Quest – 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 [The Black Album]

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

Paul Weller – Wild Wood

Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream

Auteurs – New Wave

Liz Phair – Exile in Guyville

Afghan Whigs – Gentlemen

Aimee Mann – Whatever

Grant Lee Buffalo – Fuzzy

Nirvana – In Utero

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

Bjφrk – Debut

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

Oasis – Definitely Maybe

Soundgarden – Superunknown

Offspring – Smash

Drive Like Jehu – Yank Crime

Blur – Parklife

G Love & Special Sauce - G Love & Special Sauce

Ali Farka Tourι – Talking Timbuktu

Hole – Live Through This

Massive Attack – Protection

Manic Street Preachers – Holy Bible

Suede – Dog Man Star

Notorious BIG – Ready to Die

Jeff Buckley – Grace

Orbital – Snivilisation

Nirvana – MTV Unplugged in New York

Nine Inch Nails – Downward Spiral

Prodigy – Music for the Jilted Generation

Green Day – Dookie

Foo Fighters – Foo Fighters

Garbage – Garbage

Nightmares on Wax – Smokers Delight

Tricky – Maxinquaye

Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness

Rocket from the Crypt – Scream, Dracula, Scream

Chemical Brothers – Exit Planet Dust

2Pac – Me Against the World

Elastica – Elastica

Supergrass – I Should Coco

Radiohead – 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

Oasis – (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?

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

Belle & Sebastian – Tigermilk

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

Belle & Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinister

Blur – Blur

o Radiohead – OK Computer

Finley Quaye – Maverick a Strike

Missy Elliott Misdemeanor – Supa Dupa Fly

Chemical Brothers – Dig Your Own Hole

Primal Scream – Vanishing Point

Robert Wyatt – Shleep

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

Verve – Urban Hymns

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

XTC – Apple Venus: Volume 1

Skunk Anansie – Post Orgasmic Chill

Incubus – Make Yourself

Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs

Travis – Man Who

Slipknot – Slipknot

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

Metallica – S&M

Bonnie Prince Billy – I See a Darkness

Shack – HMS Fable

Basement Jaxx – Remedy

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication

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

Bjφrk – Vespertine

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

Bruce Springsteen – The Rising

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

Morrissey – You Are the Quarry

Bjφrk – Medϊlla

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