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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