The 1001 Albums

Here is the list of the 1001 albums that I am randomly choosing an album a day from:

Sinatra, Frank – In the Wee Small Hours

Presley, Elvis – Elvis Presley (1956)

Louvin Brothers – Tragic Songs of Life

Prima, Louis – Wildest

Domino, Fats – This is Fats

Ellington, Duke – At Newport (1956)

Sinatra, Frank – Songs for Swingin’ Lovers!

Crickets – Chirping…

Basie, Count – Atomic Mr Basie

Monk, Thelonious – Brilliant Corners

Sabú [Martínez] – Palo Congo

Davis, Miles – Birth of the Cool

Machito – Kenya

Little Richard – Here’s…

Puente, Tito & His Orchestra – Dance Mania (1958)

Holiday, Billie – Lady in Satin

Elliott, Jack – Jack Takes the Floor

Vaughan, Sarah – At Mister Kelly’s

Fitzgerald, Ella – Sings the Gershwin Song Book

Charles, Ray – Genius of… (1959)

Davis, Miles – Kind of Blue

Robbins, Marty – Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs

Brubeck, Dave – Time Out

Baez, Joan – Joan Baez (1960)

Presley, Elvis – Elvis is Back!

Makeba, Miriam – Miriam Makeba (1960)

Everly Brothers – A Date with the…

Smith, Jimmy – Back at the Chicken Shack

Muddy Waters – At Newport

Evans, Bill – Sunday at the Village Vanguard

Charles, Ray - Modern Sounds in Country & Western Music

Booker T & the MGs – Green Onions

Getz, Stan & Charlie Byrd – Jazz Samba

Price, Ray – Night Life

Beatles – With the…

Dylan, Bob – Freewheelin’…

Spector, Phil & Various Artists – A Christmas Gift for You

Cooke, Sam – Live at the Harlem Square

Mingus, Charles – Black Saint & the Sinner Lady

Brown, James – Live at the Apollo (1963)

Getz, Stan & João Gilberto – Getz/Gilberto

Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night

Brel, Jacques – Olympia 64

Burke, Solomon – Rock ‘n’ Soul

Springfield, Dusty - A Girl Called Dusty

Rolling Stones – Rolling Stones (1st Album)

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

Lewis, Jerry Lee – Live at the Star Club, Hamburg

Sonics – Here Are the…

Dylan, Bob – Bringing it All Back Home

Redding, Otis – Otis Blue… Sings Soul

Beach Boys – Today!

Coltrane, John – A Love Supreme

King, B.B. – Live at the Regal

Beatles – Rubber Soul

Jansch, Bert – Bert Jansch (1st Album)

Byrds, Mr Tambourine Man

Dylan, Bob – Highway 61 Revisited

Who – My Generation

Beatles – Revolver

Beach Boys – Pet Sounds

Neil, Fred – Fred Neil (1st Album)

Byrds – Fifth Dimension

Dylan, Bob – Blonde on Blonde

Monks – Black Monk Time

Kinks – Face to Face

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

Revere, Paul & the Raiders – Midnight Ride

Mothers of Invention – 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 [aka Roger the Engineer] (1st Album)

Simone, Nina – Wild is the Wind

Gilberto, Astrud – 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 (1st Album)

Love – Da Capo

Beau Brummels – Triangle

Monkees – Headquarters

Buckley, Tim – Goodbye & Hello

Love – Forever Changes

Cream – Disraeli Gears

Pink Floyd – Piper at the Gates of Dawn

Who – Sell Out

Velvet Underground - & Nico

Sinatra, Frank - Frank Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Doors – Doors (1st Album)

Byrds – Younger than Yesterday

Young Rascals – Groovin’

Jefferson Airplane – Surrealistic Pillow

Kinks – Something Else by the…

Donovan – Sunshine Superman

Haggard, Merle – I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Hendrix, Jimi – Are You Experienced

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

Lynn, Loretta – Don’t Come Home a Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind)

Sharma, Shivkumar / Brij Bushan Kabra / Hariprasad Chaurasia – Call of the Valley

Velvet Underground – White Light/White Heat

Hendrix, Jimi – Axis: Bold as Love

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

Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet

Traffic – Traffic (2nd Album)

Incredible String Band – Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter

Kinks – Village Green Preservation Society

Shankar, Ravi – Sounds of India (1968)

Mutantes, os – Mutantes, os (1st Album)

Hendrix, Jimi – Electric Ladyland

Cohen, Leonard – Songs of…

Cash, Johnny – At Folsom Prison

Nyro, Laura – Eli & the Thirteenth Confession

Franklin, Aretha – 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

Beck, Jeff – Truth

Veloso, Caetano – Caetano Veloso (1968)

Walker, Scott – Scott 2

Zombies – Odessey & Oracle

Morrison, Van – Astral Weeks

Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo

Beatles – Beatles [aka White Album]

Mothers of Invention – We’re Only in it for the Money

Young, Neil – Everybody Knows This is Nowhere

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica

Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bayou Country

Crosby, Stills & Nash – Crosby, Stills & Nash

Blood, Sweat & Tears - Blood, Sweat & Tears (2nd Album)

Flying Burrito Brothers – Gilded Palace of Sin

Cash, Johnny – At San Quentin

Creedence Clearwater Revival – Green River

Beatles – Abbey Road

Who – Tommy

Davis, Miles – In a Silent Way

Bee Gees – Odessa

Pentangle – Basket of Light

Rolling Stones – Let it Bleed

Drake, Nick – Five Leaves Left

Springfield, Dusty – Dusty in Memphis

Presley, Elvis – From Elvis in Memphis

Velvet Underground – Velvet Underground (3rd Album)

Quicksilver Messenger Service – Happy Trails

Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin (1st Album)

Band – Band (2nd Album)

Led Zeppelin – II

MC5 – Kick Out the Jams

Temptations – Cloud Nine

Sly & the Family Stone – Stand!

Buckley, Tim – Happy Sad

Chicago Transit Authority [Chicago] - Chicago Transit Authority (1969)

Fairport Convention – Unhalfbricking

Youngbloods – Elephant Mountain

Hayes, Isaac – 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

Cohen, Leonard – Songs from a Room

Fairport Convention – Liege & Lief

Walker, Scott – Scott 4

Stooges – Stooges (1st Album)

Spence, Alexander ‘Skip’ – Oar

Zappa, Frank – Hot Rats

Creedence Clearwater Revival – Cosmo’s Factory

Derek & the Dominos – Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs

Davis, Miles – Bitches Brew

Spirit – Twelve Dreams of Dr Sardonicus

Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath (1st Album)

Doors – Morrison Hotel

Carpenters – Close to You

Still, Stephen – Stephen Stills (1st Album)

Lennon, John – Plastic Ono Band

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Déjà vu

Black Sabbath – Paranoid

Young, Neil – After the Gold Rush

Led Zeppelin – III

Deep Purple – In Rock

Morrison, Van – Moondance

Grateful Dead – American Beauty

Drake, Nick – Bryter Layter

Shankar, Ananda – Ananda Shankar (1970)

Who – Live at Leeds(1st Album)

Soft Machine – Third

Stewart, Rod – Gasoline Alley

Harrison, George – All Things Must Pass

Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water

Stevens, Cat – Tea for the Tillerman

Traffic – John Barleycorn Must Die

Stooges – Fun House

Taylor, James – Sweet Baby James

McCartney, Paul – McCartney (1970)

Santana – Abraxas

Barrett, Syd – Madcap Laughs

Jethro Tull – Aqualung

Crosby, David – If Only I Could Remember My Name

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

Gaye, Marvin – What’s Going On

Yes – Yes Album

Bee Gees – Trafalgar

Who – Who’s Next

King, Carole – Tapestry

Hayes, Isaac – Shaft: Music from the Soundtrack

Allman Brothers – At Fillmore East

Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers

Lennon, John – Imagine

Beach Boys – Surf’s Up

Yes – Fragile

Doors – LA Woman

Can – Tago Mago

John, Elton – Madman Across the Water

Parton, Dolly – Coat of Many Colors

McLean, Don – American Pie

Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Tarkus

Led Zeppelin – IV [aka Untitled / aka Four Symbols]

Gainsbourg, Serge – Histoire de Melody Nelson

Stewart, Rod – Every Picture Tells a Story

Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Pictures at an Exhibition

Cohen, Leonard – Songs of Love & Hate

Mitchell, Joni – Blue

Funkadelic – Maggot Brain

Joplin, Janis – Pearl

Kuti, Fela - With Ginger Baker: Live!

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

Flamin’ Groovies – Teenage Head

Clark, Gene – White Light

Prine, John – John Prine (1st Album)

Nilsson, Harry – Nilsson Schmilsson

T.Rex – Electric Warrior

Bowie, David – Hunky Dory

Newman, Randy – Sail Away

Deep Purple – Machine Head

Big Star – # 1 Record

Black Sabbath – Vol 4

Steely Dan – Can’t Buy a Thrill

Young, Neil – Harvest

Mayfield, Curtis – Superfly: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Slade – Slayed?

Deep Purple – Made in Japan

Yes – Close to the Edge

Reed, Lou – Transformer

Masekela, Hugh – Home is Where the Music Is

Nascimento, Milton & Lo Borges – Clube da Esquina (1972)

Rundgren, Todd – Something/Anything

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

Wonder, Stevie – Talking Book

Still, Stephen – Manassas

T.Rex – Slider

Ackles, David – American Gothic

Eagles – Eagles (1st Album)

Buckley, Tim – Greetings from LA

Drake, Nick – Pink Moon

Simon, Paul – Paul Simon (1972)

Roxy Music – Roxy Music (1st Album)

Alice Cooper – School’s Out

Temptations – All Directions

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

War – World is a Ghetto

Green, Al – Let’s Stay Together

Rolling Stones – Exile on Main St

Lynyrd Skynyrd – Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd

Incredible Bongo Band – Bongo Rock

Bowie, David – Aladdin Sane

King Crimson – Lark’s Tongues in Aspic

Marley, Bob & the Wailers – Catch a Fire

Hawkwind – Space Ritual

Cale, John – Paris 1919

Can – Future Days

Reed, Lou – Berlin

Genesis – Selling England by the Pound

Gaye, Marvin – Let’s Get it On

Martyn, John – Solid Air

Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure

Faust – IV

Hancock, Herbie – Head Hunters

Mott the Hoople – Mott

Oldfield, Mike – Tubular Bells

Rundgren, Todd – A Wizard, a True Star

John, Elton – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Steely Dan – Countdown to Ecstasy

Jennings, Waylon – Honky Tonk Heroes

Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon

Wonder, Stevie – Innervisions

ZZ Top – Tres Hombres

McCartney, Paul & 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 (1st Album)

Eno, Brian – Here Come the Warm Jets

Bad Company – Bad Company (1st Album)

Genesis – Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

Otis, Shuggie – Inspiration Information

Wonder, Stevie – Fullfillingness’ First Finale

Clapton, Eric – 461 Ocean Boulevard

Kraftwerk – Autobahn

Morrison, Van – It’s Too Late to Stop Now

Mitchell, Joni – Court & Spark

Queen – II

Roxy Music – Country Life

Tangerine Dream – Phaedra

Sparks – Kimono My House

Supertramp – Crime of the Century

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

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

Queen – Sheer Heart Attack

10cc – Sheet Music

Young, Neil – On the Beach

Jones, George – Grand Tour

Clark, Gene – No Other

Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic

Newman, Randy – Good Old Boys

Marley, Bob & the Wailers – Natty Dread

Wyatt, Robert – Rock Bottom

Parsons, Gram – Grievous Angel

Eno, Brian – Another Green World

Dictators – Go Girl Crazy!

Neu! – ‘75

Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti

Jarrett, Keith – Köln Concert

Aerosmith – Toys in the Attic

Bowie, David – Young Americans

Burning Spear – Marcus Garvey

Springsteen, Bruce – Born to Run

Harris, Emmylou – Pieces of the Sky

Dion – Born to Be With You

Mitchell, Joni – Hissing of Summer Lawns

Waits, Tom – Nighthawks at the Diner

Burman, Rahul Dev – Shalimar (Soundtrack)

Young, Neil – Tonight’s the Night

Dylan, Bob – Blood on the Tracks

Smith, Patti – Horses

Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here

Queen – A Night at the Opera

Nelson, Willie – Red Headed Stranger

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

Mayfield, Curtis – There’s No Place Like America Today

Petty, Tom & the Heartbreakers - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (1st Album)

Modern Lovers – Modern Lovers [Rec 1972, not released until 1976]

Bowie, David – Station to Station

Mitchell, Joni – Hejira

Boston – Boston (1st Album)

Eagles – Hotel California

ABBA – Arrival

Kiss – Destroyer

Rush – 2112

Ben, Jorge – África Brasil

Armatrading, Joan – Joan Armatrading (1st Album)

Aerosmith – Rocks

Parliament – Mothership Connection

Penguin Café Orchestra – Music from the Penguin Café

Jarre, Jean Michel – Oxygene

Ramones – Ramones (1st Album)

Kuti, Fela – Zombie

Tosh, Peter – Legalize It

Wonder, Stevie – Songs in the Key of Life

Frampton, Peter – Frampton Comes Alive

Eno, Brian – Before & After Science

Kraftwerk – Trans-Europe Express

Joel, Billy – Stranger, the

Marley, Bob & the Wailers – Exodus

Electric Light Orchestra – Out of the Blue

Weather Report – Heavy Weather

Muddy Waters – Hard Again

Stranglers – Rattus Norvegicus

Clash – Clash (1st Album)

Bowie, David – Low

Steely Dan – Aja

Wire – Pink Flag

Martyn, John – One World

Talking Heads – 77

Fleetwood Mac – Rumours

Bowie, David – ‘Heroes’

Wilson, Dennis – Pacific Ocean Blue

Suicide – Suicide (1st Album)

Iggy Pop – Idiot, the

Gabriel, Peter – Peter Gabriel (I)

Television – Marquee Moon

Meat Loaf – Bat Out of Hell

Costello, Elvis – My Aim is True

Iggy Pop – Lust for Life

Dury, Ian – New Boots & Panties!!

Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the…

Pere Ubu – Modern Dance

Kraftwerk – Man Machine

Blondie – Parallel Lines

Regina, Elís – Vento de Maio

Pere Ubu – Dub Housing

Only Ones – Only Ones (1st Album)

Costello, Elvis – This Year’s Model

Jam – All Mod Cons

Ely, Joe – Honky Tonk Masquerade

Adverts – Crossing the Red Sea with the…

Big Star – Third (aka Sister Lovers)

Residents – Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

Public Image Ltd – Public Image

Magazine – Real Life

Springsteen, Bruce – 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 (1st Album)

Colón, Willie & Rubén Blades – Siembra

Cars – Cars (1st Album)

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

Dire Straits – Dire Straits (1st Album)

Saints – Eternally Yours

Gaye, Marvin – Here, My Dear

Nelson, Willie – Stardust

Chic – C’est Chic

X-ray Spex – Germ Free Adolescents

Eno, Brian – Ambient 1: Music for Airports

Siouxsie & the Banshees – Scream, the

AC/DC – Highway to Hell

Sister Sledge – We Are Family

Crusaders – Street Life

Germs – GI

B52s – B52s (1st Album)

Czukay, Holger – Movies

Police – Reggatta de Blanc

Fall – Live at the Witch Trials

Talking Heads – Fear of Music

Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures

Chic – Risqué

Undertones – Undertones (1st Album)

Clash – London Calling

Japan – Quiet Life

Faithfull, Marianne – Broken English

Slits – Cut

Costello, Elvis – Armed Forces

Young, Neil – Rust Never Sleeps

Gang of Four – Entertainment!

Cheap Trick – At Budokan

Fleetwood Mac – Tusk

Pink Floyd – Wall, the

Public Image Ltd – Metal Box

Jackson, Michael – Off the Wall

Damned – Machine Gun Etiquette

Numan, Gary – Pleasure Principle

Specials – Specials (1st Album)

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

Gabriel, Peter – Peter Gabriel (III)

Soft Boys – Underwater Moonlight

Cure – Seventeen Seconds

Echo & the Bunnymen – Crocodiles

Motörhead – Ace of Spades

Killing Joke – Killing Joke (1st Album)

Judas Priest – British Steel

Circle Jerks – Group Sex

Talking Heads – Remain in Light

Joy Division – Closer

Iron Maiden – Iron Maiden (1st Album)

Undertones – Hypnotised

Jam – Sound Affects

Waits, Tom – Heartattack & Vine

UB40 – Signing Off

Teardrop Explodes – Kilimanjaro

Specials – More Specials

Winwood, Steve – Arc of a Diver

Pretenders – Pretenders (1st Album)

Einstürzende Neubauten – Kollaps

Siouxsie & the Banshees – Juju

Heaven 17 – Penthouse & Pavement

Go-Gos – Beauty & the Beat

Motörhead – No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith

Soft Cell – Non Stop Erotic Cabaret

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Architecture & Morality

Eno, Brian & 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

Womack, Bobby – Poet

Tom Tom Club – Tom Tom Club (1st Album)

Rush – Moving Pictures

ABBA – Visitors

ABC – Lexicon of Love

Prince – 1999

Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five – Message, the

Costello, Elvis – Imperial Bedroom

Cure – Pornography

Dexys Midnight Runners – Too Rye Ay

Simple Minds – New Gold Dream (81, 82, 83, 84)

Madness – Rise & Fall

Fagen, Donald – Nightfly

Haircut One Hundred – Pelican West

Bush, Kate – Dreaming, the

Orange Juice – Rip it Up

Jackson, Michael – Thriller

Birthday Party – Junkyard

Venom – Black Metal

Springsteen, Bruce – Nebraska

Associates – Sulk

Iron Maiden – Number of the Beast

Duran Duran – Rio

Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes (1st Album)

McLaren, Malcolm – Duck Rock

Def Leppard – Pyromania

REM – Murmur

The The – Soul Mining

Waits, Tom – Swordfishtrombones

Blue Nile – A Walk Across the Rooftops

Hanoi Rocks – Back to Mystery City

Lauper, Cyndi – She’s So Unusual

Simon, Paul – 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 (1984)

Sade – Diamond Life

Cocteau Twins – Treasure

Minor Threat – Out of Step

Van Halen – 1984

Prince – Purple Rain

Replacements – Let it Be

Style Council – Café Bleu

Turner, Tina – Private Dancer

Echo & the Bunnymen – Ocean Rain

Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime

Cole, Lloyd & the Commotions – Rattlesnakes

N’Dour, Youssou – Immigrés

Springsteen, Bruce – Born in the USA

Fall – This Nation’s Saving Grace

Ibrahim, Abdullah – 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 (aka Two Wheels Good)

Mekons – Fear & Whiskey

Big Black – Atomizer

Vega, Suzanne – Suzanne Vega (1st Album)

Pogues – Rum, Sodomy & the Lash

Bush, Kate – Hounds of Love

Smiths – Meat is Murder

Waits, Tom – 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

Costello, Elvis – Blood & Chocolate

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

Beastie Boys – Licensed to Ill

Metallica – Master of Puppets

The The – Infected

Griffith, Nanci – Last of the True Believers

Bragg, Billy – 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 (1986)

Simon, Paul – Graceland

Run DMC – Raising Hell

XTC – Skylarking

Earle, Steve – Guitar Town

Bad Brains – I Against I

Baker, Anita – Rapture

Smiths – Queen is Dead

Gabriel, Peter – So

Anthrax – Among the Living

Dinosaur Jr – You’re Living All Over Me

Parton, Dolly 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

Michael, George – Faith

Hüsker Dü – Warehouse: Songs & Stories

Butthole Surfers – Locust Abortion Technician

Piazzolla, Astor & 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

Jackson, Michael – Bad

Pet Shop Boys – Actually

U2 – Joshua Tree

D’Arby, Terence Trent – Introducing the Hardline According to…

Pogues – If I Should Fall from Grace with God

Cohen, Leonard – 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

Chapman, Tracy – Tracy Chapman (1st Album)

My Bloody Valentine – Isn’t Anything

Pixies – Surfer Rosa

Metallica – And Justice for All

Dinosaur Jr – Bug

Krause, Dagmar – Tank Battles

lang, k.d. – Shadowland

American Music Club – California

Morrissey – Viva Hate

Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation

Sugarcubes – Life’s Too Good

Yoakam, Dwight – 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

Kravtiz, Lenny – Let Love Rule

Hooker, John Lee – Healer, the

New Order – Technique

Madonna – Like a Prayer

Queen Latifah – All Hail the Queen

Spacemen 3 – Playing with Fire

fIREHOSE – fROMOHIO

Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique

Young Gods – Eau Rouge, l’

Zorn, John – Spy vs Spy: Music of Ornette Coleman

Stone Roses – Stone Roses (1st Album)

Cherry, Neneh – Raw Like Sushi

Maal, Baaba & Mansour Seck – Djam Leelii

Bush, Kate – Sensual World

Cure – Disintegration

808 State – 808:90

Coldcut – What’s That Noise?

Adamson, Barry – Moss Side Story

Aerosmith – Pump

Pixies – Doolittle

Raitt, Bonnie – Nick of Time

Fugazi – Repeater

Soul II Soul – Club Classics: Vol One

De La Soul – 3 Feet High & Rising

Jackson, Janet – 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

Michael, George – Listen Without Prejudice: Vol 1

Young, Neil – 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

O’Connor, Sinéad – I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got

Tribe Called Quest, a – 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 (1st Album)

Cope, Julian – Peggy Suicide

Gang Starr – Step in the Arena

MC Solaar - Qui Sème le Vent Récolte 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

Tribe Called Quest, a – 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 [aka Black Album]

Pavement – Slanted & Enchanted

Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Arrested Development – 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life of…

Olomidé, Koffi – Haut de Gamme: Koweït, Rive Gauche

Morrissey – Your Arsenal

Maal, Baaba – Lam Toro

Lemonheads – It’s a Shame About Ray

Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine (1st Album)

Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy – Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury

lang, k.d. – Ingénue

Dr Dre – Chronic, the

REM – Automatic for the People

Pharcyde – Bizarre Ride II the…

Spiritualized – Lazer Guided Melodies

Sugar – Copper Blue

Waits, Tom – Bone Machine

Sonic Youth – Dirty

Stereo MCs – Connected

Ministry – Psalm 69 (Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs)

Amos, Tori – Little Earthquakes

Ice Cube – Predator

Pantera – Vulgar Display of Power

Alice in Chains – Dirt

Cave, Nick & the Bad Seeds – Henry’s Dream, by…

Khan, Nusrat Fateh Ali – Devotional Songs

Harvey, P.J. – Dry

Suede – Suede (1st Album)

Weller, Paul – Wild Wood

Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream

Auteurs – New Wave

Phair, Liz – Exile in Guyville

Afghan Whigs – Gentlemen

Mann, Aimee – Whatever

Grant Lee Buffalo – Fuzzy

Nirvana – In Utero

Jamiroquai – Emergency on Planet Earth

Pet Shop Boys – Very

Harvey, P.J. – Rid of Me

Blur – Modern Life is Rubbish

Crow, Sheryl – Tuesday Night Music Club

Fall – Infotainment Scan

Wu Tang Clan – Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers)

Björk – Debut

Orbital – Orbital [aka Brown Album]

Snoop Doggy Dogg – Doggystyle

Sebadoh – Bubble & Scrape

Boo Radleys – Giant Steps

Orbit, William – Strange Cargo: III

Method Man – Tical

Black, Frank – 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

Costello, Elvis – 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 (1994)

Touré, Ali Farka – Talking Timbuktu

Hole – Live Through This

Massive Attack – Protection

Manic Street Preachers – Holy Bible

Suede – Dog Man Star

Notorious BIG – Ready to Die

Buckley, Jeff – 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 (1st Album)

Garbage – Garbage (1st Album)

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 (1st Album)

Supergrass – I Should Coco

Radiohead – Bends, the

Guided by Voices – Alien Lanes

Kuti, Femi – Femi Kuti (1995)

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

Morissette, Alanis – 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

Apple, Fiona – Tidal

Wilco – Being There

Sepultura – Roots

Adamson, Barry – 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

Cave, Nick & the Bad Seeds – Murder Ballads

Bukem, LTJ – 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 (1997)

Radiohead – OK Computer

Quaye, Finley – Maverick a Strike

Elliott, Missy Misdemeanor – Supa Dupa Fly

Chemical Brothers – Dig Your Own Hole

Primal Scream – Vanishing Point

Wyatt, Robert – Shleep

Holmes, David – Let’s Get Killed

Sleater Kinney – Dig Me Out

Prodigy – Fat of the Land

Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club (1997)

Cave, Nick & 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

Williams, Robbie – Life Thru a Lens

Carey, Mariah – Butterfly

Supergrass – In it for the Money

Dylan, Bob – Time Out of Mind

Size, Roni & Reprazent – New Forms

Smith, Elliott – Either/Or

Verve – Urban Hymns

Spiritualized – Ladies & Gentlemen, We are Floating in Space

Dandy Warhols – Dandy Warhols (1997)

Dylan, Bob – Bootleg Series Vol 4: Live 1966 [rec: 1966 at Free Trade Hall, Manchester]

Chao, Manu – Clandestino

Bragg, Billy & Wilco – Mermaid Avenue

Turbonegro – Apocalypse Dudes

Fatboy Slim – You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby

Gray, David – White Ladder

Williams, Lucinda – Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

Pulp – This is Hardcore

Madonna – Ray of Light

Hill, Lauryn – Miseducation of…

Hole – Celebrity Skin

Mercury Rev – Deserter’s Songs

System of a Down - System of a Down (1st Album)

Queen of the Stone Age - Queen of the Stone Age (1st Album)

Air – Moon Safari

Singh, Talvin – OK

Korn – Follow the Leader

Khalèd, (Cheb) – Kenza

Kid Rock – Devil Without a Cause

Boards of Canada – Music Has the Right to Children

Suba - São 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 (1st Album)

Orton, Beth – Central Reservation

Sawhney, Nitin – Beyond Skin

Death in Vegas – Contino Sessions

Moby – Play

Flaming Lips – Soft Bulletin

Rhymes Digitales, les – Darkdancer

Tigre, le – Tigre, le (1999)

Eminem – Slim Shady LP

Spears, Britney – 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 Rós – Ágætis Byrjun

Doves – Lost Souls

Air – Virgin Suicides: Original Motion Picture Score

Adams, Ryan – Heartbreaker

Gilberto, Bebel – Tanto Tempo

Cole, MJ – Sincere

Harris, Emmylou – 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

Smith, Elliott – Figure 8

Badly Drawn Boy – Hour of Bewilderbeast

Harvey, P.J. – Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea

Badu, Erykah – Mama’s Gun

Coldplay – Parachutes

Common – Like Water for Chocolate

Ladd, Mike – 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

Lemper, Ute – Punishing Kiss

Madonna – Music

Avalanches – Since I Left You

OutKast – Stankonia

Radiohead – Amnesiac

Silver Jews – Bright Flight

Björk – Vespertine

Gorillaz – Gorillaz (1st Album)

Adams, Ryan – Gold

Destiny’s Child – Survivor

Strokes – Is This It

Welch, Gillian – Time (The Revelator)

Gotan Project – Revancha del Tango, la

White Stripes – White Blood Cells

Beta Band – Hot Shots II

Jay Z – Blueprint

Röyksopp – 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

Jones, Norah – Come Away with Me

Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head

Coral – Coral (2002)

Cash, Johnny – American IV: Man Comes Around

Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Doves – Last Broadcast

Elliott, Missy – Under Construction

Springsteen, Bruce – Rising, the

Beck – Sea Change

Roots – Phrenology

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever to Tell

White Stripes – Elephant

Wainwright, Rufus – Want One

OutKast – Speakerboxxx/Love Below

Dizzee Rascal – Boy in da Corner

Mars Volta – Deloused in the Comatorium

Lightning Bolt – Wonderful Rainbow

Morrissey – You Are the Quarry

Björk – Medúlla

Mylo – Destroy Rock & Roll

Scissor Sisters – Scissor Sisters (1st Album)

Icarus Line – Penance Soirée

Arcade Fire – Funeral

Banhart, Devendra – Rejoicing in the Hands

Cave, Nick & the Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus

Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand (1st Album)

West, Kanye – College Dropout

Green, Cee-Lo – 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

Wainwright, Rufus – Want Two

Killers – Hot Fuss

Ozamatli – Street Signs

Green Day – American Idiot

Common – Be

Hawley, Richard – Coles Corner

Antony and the Johnsons – I Am Bird Now

Stevens, Sufjan – Come on Feel the Illinoise

Toure, Ali Farke – Savane

Muse – Black Holes & Revelations

Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Winehouse, Amy – Back to Back

Fiasco, Lupe – Food & Liquor

Ghostface Killah – Fishscale

Aguilera, Christina – Back to Basics

Newsom, Joanna – Ys

Arcade Fire – Neon Bible

The Good, The Bad & The Queen – The Good, The Bad & The Queen

LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver

Radiohead – In Rainbows

M.I.A – Kala

Justice – Cross

Klaxons – Myths of the Near Future