101 Essential records
Interesting results could be found if you combine different cumulative lists of all time greatest albums.
This list includes:
- www.acclaimedmusic.net all-time top 25 albums
- Rolling stone all-time top 25 albums (2012 edition)
- sputnikmusic all-time top 25
- rate your music all-time top 25
- NME all-time top 25 albums, published in 2013
- 10 all-time top albums from metalstorms
- 25 bestselling albums as listed here:
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/08/the-best-selling-albums-of-all-time.html
Although there are artists that is not here, but it should be is (Neil Young, The Who, Ramones and U2), I think this list reflects different genres and different criteria for selecting essential records, It is not definite list, but it is good starting point and something that everyone needs to be familiar what critics and mass public usually thinks that is the best/important.
Sputnikmusic allows lists with only 100 albums, so Yes - Close to the Edge is not listed. |
| 1 |  | ABBA
ABBA Gold |
| 2 |  | AC/DC
Back In Black |
| 3 |  | Adele
21 |
| 4 |  | Alanis Morissette
Jagged Little Pill |
| 5 |  | Arcade Fire
Funeral |
| 6 |  | Arctic Monkeys
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not |
| 7 |  | Bee Gees
Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack |
| 8 |  | Black Sabbath
Paranoid |
| 9 |  | Blur
Parklife |
| 10 |  | Bob Dylan
Blonde on Blonde |
| 11 |  | Bob Dylan
Blood on the Tracks |
| 12 |  | Bob Dylan
Highway 61 Revisited |
| 13 |  | Bob Marley and The Wailers
Legend |
| 14 |  | Bruce Springsteen
Born to Run |
| 15 |  | Bruce Springsteen
Born in the U.S.A. |
| 16 |  | Celine Dion
Let's Talk About Love |
| 17 |  | Charles Mingus
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady |
| 18 |  | Chuck Berry
The Great Twenty-Eight |
| 19 |  | David Bowie
Hunky Dory |
| 20 |  | David Bowie
Low |
| 21 |  | David Bowie
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars |
| 22 |  | Death
Symbolic |
| 23 |  | Eagles
Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) |
| 24 |  | Eagles
Hotel California |
| 25 |  | Elvis Presley
The Sun Sessions |
| 26 |  | Fleetwood Mac
Rumours |
| 27 |  | Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| 28 |  | Guns N' Roses
Appetite for Destruction |
| 29 |  | GZA
Liquid Swords |
| 30 |  | Igor Stravinsky
Le Sacre du Printemps |
| 31 |  | Iron Maiden
The Number of the Beast |
| 32 |  | Iron Maiden
Powerslave |
| 33 |  | James Brown
Live At The Apollo |
| 34 |  | John Coltrane
A Love Supreme |
| 35 |  | John Lennon
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band |
| 36 |  | Joy Division
Closer |
| 37 |  | Joy Division
Unknown Pleasures |
| 38 |  | Judas Priest
Painkiller |
| 39 |  | Kanye West
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| 40 |  | Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp a Butterfly |
| 41 |  | King Crimson
In the Court of the Crimson King |
| 42 |  | Koji Kondo
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time OST |
| 43 |  | Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin IV |
| 44 |  | Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 |
| 45 |  | Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 |
| 46 |  | Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 14 in C# minor, Op. 27 |
| 47 |  | Madonna
The Immaculate Collection |
| 48 |  | Marvin Gaye
What's Going On |
| 49 |  | Meat Loaf
Bat Out of Hell |
| 50 |  | Megadeth
Rust in Peace |
| 51 |  | Metallica
Metallica |
| 52 |  | metallica
Ride the Lightning |
| 53 |  | Metallica
Master of Puppets |
| 54 |  | Michael Jackson
Thriller |
| 55 |  | Michael Jackson
Bad |
| 56 |  | Miles Davis
Kind of Blue |
| 57 |  | My Bloody Valentine
Loveless |
| 58 |  | Nas
Illmatic |
| 59 |  | Neutral Milk Hotel
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| 60 |  | Nick Drake
Pink Moon |
| 61 |  | Nirvana
Nevermind |
| 62 |  | Oasis
Definitely Maybe |
| 63 |  | Opeth
Blackwater Park |
| 64 |  | Patti Smith
Horses |
| 65 |  | Pink Floyd
The Wall |
| 66 |  | Pink Floyd
The Dark Side of the Moon |
| 67 |  | Pink Floyd
Animals |
| 68 |  | Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here |
| 69 |  | Pixies
Doolittle |
| 70 |  | PJ Harvey
Let England Shake |
| 71 |  | Public Enemy
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back |
| 72 |  | Pulp
Different Class |
| 73 |  | Radiohead
Kid A |
| 74 |  | Radiohead
OK Computer |
| 75 |  | Radiohead
In Rainbows |
| 76 |  | Robert Johnson
The Complete Recordings |
| 77 |  | Santana
Supernatural |
| 78 |  | Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 |
| 79 |  | Sex Pistols
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols |
| 80 |  | Shania Twain
Come On Over |
| 81 |  | Stevie Wonder
Innervisions |
| 82 |  | Talking Heads
Remain in Light |
| 83 |  | Television
Marquee Moon |
| 84 |  | The Beach Boys
Pet Sounds |
| 85 |  | The Beatles
1 |
| 86 |  | The Beatles
Rubber Soul |
| 87 |  | The Beatles
Revolver |
| 88 |  | The Beatles
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| 89 |  | The Beatles
The Beatles |
| 90 |  | The Beatles
Abbey Road |
| 91 |  | The Clash
London Calling |
| 92 |  | The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Are You Experienced |
| 93 |  | The Rolling Stones
Exile on Main St. |
| 94 |  | The Smiths
The Queen Is Dead |
| 95 |  | The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses |
| 96 |  | The Strokes
Is This It |
| 97 |  | The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground & Nico |
| 98 |  | Van Morrison
Astral Weeks |
| 99 |  | Whitney Houston
The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album |
| 100 |  | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem in D minor, K. 626 |
| 101 |  | Wu-Tang Clan
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
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