1950s
o Presley, Elvis – Elvis Presley (1956)
o Fitzgerald, Ella – Sings the Gershwin Song Book
1960s
o Presley, Elvis – Elvis is Back!
o Beatles – With the…
o Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night
o Brel, Jacques – Olympia 64
o Rolling Stones – Rolling Stones (1st Album)
o Beatles – Revolver
o Simone, Nina – Wild is the Wind
o Beatles – Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
o Doors – Doors (1st Album)
o Hendrix, Jimi – Are You Experienced
o Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet
o Beatles – Beatles [aka White Album]
o Beatles – Abbey Road
o Who – Tommy
o Presley, Elvis – From Elvis in Memphis
1970s
o Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath (1st Album)
o Doors – Morrison Hotel
o Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water
o McCartney, Paul – McCartney (1970)
o Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers
o Lennon, John – Imagine
o Beach Boys – Surf’s Up
o Doors – LA Woman
o Gainsbourg, Serge – Histoire de Melody Nelson
o Simon, Paul – Paul Simon (1972)
o Roxy Music – Roxy Music (1st Album)
o Bowie, David – Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
o Marley, Bob & the Wailers – Catch a Fire
o Oldfield, Mike – Tubular Bells
o Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
o McCartney, Paul & Wings – Band on the Run
o Kraftwerk – Autobahn
o Queen – II
o Tangerine Dream – Phaedra
o Marley, Bob & the Wailers – Natty Dread
o Springsteen, Bruce – Born to Run
o Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
o Eagles – Hotel California
o ABBA – Arrival
o Kiss – Destroyer
o Jarre, Jean Michel – Oxygene
o Ramones – Ramones (1st Album)
o Tosh, Peter – Legalize It
o Kraftwerk – Trans-Europe Express
o Marley, Bob & the Wailers – Exodus
o Clash – Clash (1st Album)
o Talking Heads – 77
o Iggy Pop – Lust for Life
o Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the…
o Pere Ubu – Modern Dance
o Kraftwerk – Man Machine
o Blondie – Parallel Lines
o Public Image Ltd – Public Image
o Talking Heads – More Songs About Buildings & Food
o Buzzcocks – Another Music in a Different Kitchen
o Van Halen – Van Halen (1st Album)
o Cars – Cars (1st Album)
o Devo – que: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
o Dire Straits – Dire Straits (1st Album)
o Chic – C’est Chic
o Eno, Brian – Ambient 1: Music for Airports
o Siouxsie & the Banshees – Scream, the
o AC/DC – Highway to Hell
o Sister Sledge – We Are Family
o B52s – B52s (1st Album)
o Police – Reggatta de Blanc
o Talking Heads – Fear of Music
o Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
o Clash – London Calling
o Japan – Quiet Life
o Pink Floyd – Wall, the
o Public Image Ltd – Metal Box
o Jackson, Michael – Off the Wall
o Damned – Machine Gun Etiquette
o Numan, Gary – Pleasure Principle
o Specials – Specials (1st Album)
1980s
o Adam & the Ants – Kings of the Wild Frontier
o AC/DC – Back in Black
o Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
o Gabriel, Peter – Peter Gabriel (III)
o Cure – Seventeen Seconds
o Echo & the Bunnymen – Crocodiles
o Motörhead – Ace of Spades
o Killing Joke – Killing Joke (1st Album)
o Talking Heads – Remain in Light
o Joy Division – Closer
o Iron Maiden – Iron Maiden (1st Album)
o UB40 – Signing Off
o Pretenders – Pretenders (1st Album)
o Siouxsie & the Banshees – Juju
o Heaven 17 – Penthouse & Pavement
o Motörhead – No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith
o Soft Cell – Non Stop Erotic Cabaret
o Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Architecture & Morality
o Eno, Brian & David Byrne – My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
o Black Flag – Damaged
o Psychedelic Furs – Talk, Talk, Talk
o Human League – Dare
o Bauhaus – Mask
o ABBA – Visitors
o ABC – Lexicon of Love
o Prince – 1999
o Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five – Message, the
o Cure – Pornography
o Simple Minds – New Gold Dream (81, 82, 83, 84)
o Madness – Rise & Fall
o Jackson, Michael – Thriller
o Birthday Party – Junkyard
o Iron Maiden – Number of the Beast
o Duran Duran – Rio
o REM – Murmur
o The The – Soul Mining
o Lauper, Cyndi – She’s So Unusual
o Simon, Paul – Hearts & Bones
o Echo & the Bunnymen – Porcupine
o ZZ Top – Eliminator
o Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
o U2 – War
o Police – Synchronicity
o Culture Club – Colour by Numbers
o Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Welcome to the Pleasuredome
o Run DMC – Run DMC (1984)
o Sade – Diamond Life
o Cocteau Twins – Treasure
o Van Halen – 1984
o Prince – Purple Rain
o Style Council – Café Bleu
o Turner, Tina – Private Dancer
o Echo & the Bunnymen – Ocean Rain
o Cole, Lloyd & the Commotions – Rattlesnakes
o N’Dour, Youssou – Immigrés
o Springsteen, Bruce – Born in the USA
o Aha – Hunting High & Low
o Tears for Fears – Songs from the Big Chair
o Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms
o Prefab Sprout – Steve McQueen (aka Two Wheels Good)
o Vega, Suzanne – Suzanne Vega (1st Album)
o Smiths – Meat is Murder
o Jesus & Mary Chain – Psychocandy
o New Order – Low Life
o Simply Red – Picture Book
o Scritti Politti – Cupid & Psyche 85
o Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force – Planet Rock: The Album
o Beastie Boys – Licensed to Ill
o Metallica – Master of Puppets
o Talk Talk – Colour of Spring
o Bon Jovi – Slippery When Wet
o Sonic Youth – Evol
o Slayer – Reign in Blood
o Simon, Paul – Graceland
o Run DMC – Raising Hell
o XTC – Skylarking
o Smiths – Queen is Dead
o Gabriel, Peter – So
o Prince – Sign ‘O’ the Times
o Cult – Electric
o Depeche Mode – Music for the Masses
o Sisters of Mercy – Floodland
o Michael, George – Faith
o Hüsker Dü – Warehouse: Songs & Stories
o Piazzolla, Astor & Gary Burton – New Tango
o Smiths – Strangeways Here We Come
o Guns N’ Roses – Appetite for Destruction
o Jesus & Mary Chain – Darklands
o Napalm Death – Scum
o Sonic Youth – Sister
o Jackson, Michael – Bad
o Pet Shop Boys – Actually
o U2 – Joshua Tree
o D’Arby, Terence Trent – Introducing the Hardline According to…
o Waterboys – Fisherman’s Blues
o Everything But the Girl – Idlewild
o Living Colour - Vivid
o REM – Green
o Happy Mondays – Bummed
o Chapman, Tracy – Tracy Chapman (1st Album)
o My Bloody Valentine – Isn’t Anything
o Metallica – And Justice for All
o lang, k.d. – Shadowland
o Morrissey – Viva Hate
o Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation
o Sugarcubes – Life’s Too Good
o Jane’s Addiction – Nothing’s Shocking
o Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
o Faith No More – Real Thing
o Kravtiz, Lenny – Let Love Rule
o New Order – Technique
o Madonna – Like a Prayer
o Queen Latifah – All Hail the Queen
o Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique
o Stone Roses – Stone Roses (1st Album)
o Cherry, Neneh – Raw Like Sushi
o Cure – Disintegration
o Coldcut – What’s That Noise?
o Soul II Soul – Club Classics: Vol One
o De La Soul – 3 Feet High & Rising
o Jackson, Janet – Rhythm Nation 1814
1990s
o Cocteau Twins – Heaven or Las Vegas
o Shamen – En-Tact
o Deee Lite – World Clique
o La’s – La’s
o Black Crowes – Shake Your Money Maker
o Depeche Mode – Violator
o Digital Underground – Sex Packets
o Pet Shop Boys – Behaviour
o Happy Mondays – Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches
o Michael, George – Listen Without Prejudice: Vol 1
o Ice Cube – AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted
o LL Cool J – Mama Said Knock You Out
o Public Enemy – Fear of a Black Planet
o O’Connor, Sinéad – I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got
o Tribe Called Quest, a – People’s Instinctive Travels & the Paths of Rhythm
o Sonic Youth – Goo
o Nirvana – Nevermind
o Crowded House – Woodface
o Cypress Hill – Cypress Hill (1st Album)
o MC Solaar - Qui Sème le Vent Récolte le Tempo
o Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magik
o Ice T – OG: Original Gangster
o Public Enemy – Apocalypse 91… Enemy Strikes Back
o Pearl Jam – Ten
o Saint Etienne – Foxbase Alpha
o Sepultura – Arise
o U2 – Achtung Baby
o KLF – White Room
o Massive Attack – Blue Lines
o Metallica – Metallica [aka Black Album]
o Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 85-92
o Arrested Development – 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life of…
o Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine (1st Album)
o Dr Dre – Chronic, the
o REM – Automatic for the People
o Sonic Youth – Dirty
o Stereo MCs – Connected
o Ministry – Psalm 69 (Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs)
o Pantera – Vulgar Display of Power
o Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
o Nirvana – In Utero
o Jamiroquai – Emergency on Planet Earth
o Pet Shop Boys – Very
o Blur – Modern Life is Rubbish
o Crow, Sheryl – Tuesday Night Music Club
o Björk – Debut
o Orbital – Orbital [aka Brown Album]
o Snoop Doggy Dogg – Doggystyle
o Method Man – Tical
o Portishead – Dummy
o Beastie Boys – Ill Communication
o Oasis – Definitely Maybe
o Soundgarden – Superunknown
o Offspring – Smash
o Blur – Parklife
o Massive Attack – Protection
o Notorious BIG – Ready to Die
o Orbital – Snivilisation
o Nirvana – MTV Unplugged in New York
o Nine Inch Nails – Downward Spiral
o Prodigy – Music for the Jilted Generation
o Green Day – Dookie
o Foo Fighters – Foo Fighters (1st Album)
o Garbage – Garbage (1st Album)
o Nightmares on Wax – Smokers Delight
o Tricky – Maxinquaye
o Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness
o Chemical Brothers – Exit Planet Dust
o Elastica – Elastica (1st Album)
o Radiohead – Bends, the
o Verve – A Northern Soul
o Leftfield – Leftism
o Oasis – (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?
o Morissette, Alanis – Jagged Little Pill
o Fatboy Slim – Better Living Through Chemistry
o Stereolab – Emperor Tomato Ketchup
o Beck – Odelay
o DJ Shadow – Endtroducing
o Maxwell – Urban Hang Suite
o Everything But the Girl – Walking Wounded
o Underworld – Second Toughest in the Infants
o Cardigans – First Band on the Moon
o Marilyn Manson – Antichrist Superstar
o Blur – Blur (1997)
o Radiohead – OK Computer
o Chemical Brothers – Dig Your Own Hole
o Prodigy – Fat of the Land
o Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club (1997)
o Daft Punk – Homework
o Williams, Robbie – Life Thru a Lens
o Verve – Urban Hymns
o Chao, Manu – Clandestino
o Fatboy Slim – You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
o Madonna – Ray of Light
o System of a Down - System of a Down (1st Album)
o Queen of the Stone Age - Queen of the Stone Age (1st Album)
o Air – Moon Safari
o Korn – Follow the Leader
o Khalèd, (Cheb) – Kenza
o Kid Rock – Devil Without a Cause
o Boards of Canada – Music Has the Right to Children
o XTC – Apple Venus: Volume 1
o Skunk Anansie – Post Orgasmic Chill
o Incubus – Make Yourself
o Slipknot – Slipknot (1st Album)
o Death in Vegas – Contino Sessions
o Moby – Play
o Eminem – Slim Shady LP
o Spears, Britney – Baby One More Time
o Metallica – S&M
o Basement Jaxx – Remedy
o Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication
2000s
o Air – Virgin Suicides: Original Motion Picture Score
o Limp Bizkit – Chocolate Starfish & the Hot Dog Flavored Water
o Radiohead – Kid A
o U2 – All That You Can’t Leave Behind
o Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory
o Harvey, P.J. – Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
o Coldplay – Parachutes
o Eminem – Marshall Mathers LP
o Goldfrapp – Felt Mountain
o Madonna – Music
o Radiohead – Amnesiac
o Björk – Vespertine
o Gorillaz – Gorillaz (1st Album)
o Strokes – Is This It
o Gotan Project – Revancha del Tango, la
o White Stripes – White Blood Cells
o Röyksopp – Melody AM
o Jones, Norah – Come Away with Me
o Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head
o Aguilera, Christina – Stripped
o Beck – Sea Change
o Timberlake, Justin – Justified
o Vines – Highly Evolved
o Hives – Your New Favourite Band
o Radiohead – Hail to the Thief
o Winehouse, Amy – Frank
o White Stripes – Elephant
o OutKast – Speakerboxxx/Love Below
o Mars Volta – Deloused in the Comatorium
o Scissor Sisters – Scissor Sisters (1st Album)
o Morrissey – You Are the Quarry
o Björk – Medúlla
o Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand (1st Album)
o N*E*R*D – Fly or Die
o Killers – Hot Fuss
o Beck – Guero
o White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan