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1001 Albums You Must Hear

1001 Albums You Must Hear is an unranked selection published in 2021 — one of the 9 sources behind the music canon, weighted as critics' canon. 230 of its 1088 entries appear in the aggregated canon.

·#1 Record — Big Star
·(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd) — Lynyrd Skynyrd
·(What's The Story) Morning Glory — OasisCanon #82
·...And Justice For All — Metallica
·...Baby One More Time — Britney Spears
·...The Dandy Warhols Come Down — The Dandy Warhols
·16 Lovers Lane — The Go-Betweens
·1977 — Ash
·1984 — Van Halen
·1989 — Taylor Swift
·1999 — PrinceCanon #109
·21 — AdeleCanon #128
·2112 — Rush
·25 — Adele
·3 + 3 — The Isley Brothers
·3 Feet High and Rising — De La SoulCanon #196
·3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of... — Arrested Development
·461 Ocean Boulevard — Eric Clapton
·69 Love Songs — The Magnetic Fields
·90 — 808 State
·A Date With The Everly Brothers — The Everly Brothers
·A Girl Called Dusty — Dusty Springfield
·A Grand Don't Come For Free — The Streets
·A Hard Day's Night — BeatlesCanon #151
·A Little Deeper — Ms. Dynamite
·A Love Supreme — John ColtraneCanon #69
·A Night At The Opera — QueenCanon #165
·A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse — Faces
·A Northern Soul — The Verve
·A Rush Of Blood To The Head — Coldplay
·A Seat at the Table — Solange
·A Short Album About Love — The Divine Comedy
·A Walk Across The Rooftops — The Blue Nile
·A Wizard, A True Star — Todd Rundgren
·Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus — Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
·Abbey Road — BeatlesCanon #1
·Abraxas — SantanaCanon #219
·Ace of Spades — Motörhead
·Achtung Baby — U2Canon #105
·Actually — Pet Shop Boys
·Africa Brasil — Jorge Ben Jor
·After The Gold Rush — Neil YoungCanon #44
·Aftermath — The Rolling StonesCanon #220
·Aha Shake Heartbreak — Kings of Leon
·Aja — Steely DanCanon #101
·Aladdin Sane — David Bowie
·Alien Lanes — Guided By Voices
·All Directions — The Temptations
·All Hail the Queen — Queen Latifah
·All Hope Is Gone — Slipknot
·All Mod Cons — The Jam
·All That You Can't Leave Behind — U2
·All Things Must Pass — George Harrison
·Ambient 1/Music For Airports — Brian Eno
·American Beauty — Grateful DeadCanon #200
·american dream — LCD Soundsystem
·American Gothic — David Ackles
·American Idiot — Green Day
·American IV: The Man Comes Around — Johnny Cash
·American Pie — Don McLean
·AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted — Ice Cube
·Amnesiac — Radiohead
·Among The Living — Anthrax
·Ananda Shankar — Ananda Shankar
·Another Green World — Brian Eno
·Another Music In A Different Kitchen — Buzzcocks
·Antichrist Superstar — Marilyn Manson
·Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black — Public Enemy
·Apocalypse Dudes — Turbonegro
·Appetite For Destruction — Guns N' RosesCanon #41
·Apple Venus Volume 1 — XTC
·Aqualung — Jethro Tull
·Arc Of A Diver — Steve Winwood
·Architecture And Morality — Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
·Are You Experienced — Jimi HendrixCanon #11
·Arise — Sepultura
·Armed Forces — Elvis Costello & The Attractions
·Arrival — ABBA
·Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) — The Kinks
·Arular — M.I.A.
·Astral Weeks — Van MorrisonCanon #27
·At Budokan — Cheap Trick
·At Fillmore East — The Allman Brothers BandCanon #90
·At Folsom Prison — Johnny CashCanon #76
·At Mister Kelly's — Sarah Vaughan
·At Newport 1960 — Muddy Waters
·At San Quentin — Johnny Cash
·Atomizer — Big Black
·Autobahn — Kraftwerk
·Automatic For The People — R.E.M.Canon #170
·Axis: Bold As Love — Jimi HendrixCanon #122
·B-52's — The B-52'sCanon #163
·Back At The Chicken Shack — Jimmy Smith
·Back In Black — AC/DCCanon #59
·Back to Basics — Christina Aguilera
·Back To Black — Amy WinehouseCanon #51
·Back to Mystery City — Hanoi Rocks
·Bad — Michael JacksonCanon #129
·Bad Company — Bad Company
·Band On The Run — Paul McCartney and Wings
·Bandwagonesque — Teenage Fanclub
·Basket of Light — Pentangle
·Bat Out Of Hell — Meat Loaf
·Bayou Country — Creedence Clearwater Revival
·Be — Common
·Beach Samba — Astrud Gilberto
·Beautiful Freak — Eels
·Beauty And The Beat — The Go-Go's
·Before And After Science — Brian Eno
·Beggars Banquet — The Rolling StonesCanon #81
·Behaviour — Pet Shop Boys
·Being There — Wilco
·Berlin — Lou Reed
·Bert Jansch — Bert Jansch
·Better Living Through Chemistry — Fatboy Slim
·BEYONCÉ — Beyoncé
·Beyond Skin — Nitin Sawhney
·Billion Dollar Babies — Alice Cooper
·Birth Of The Cool — Miles Davis
·Bitches Brew — Miles DavisCanon #62
·Bitte Orca — Dirty Projectors
·Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde — The Pharcyde
·Black Holes and Revelations — Muse
·Black Metal — Venom
·Black Monk Time — The Monks
·Black Sabbath — Black Sabbath
·Blackstar — David Bowie
·Blonde On Blonde — Bob DylanCanon #17
·Blood And Chocolate — Elvis Costello & The Attractions
·Blood On The Tracks — Bob DylanCanon #29
·Blood Sugar Sex Magik — Red Hot Chili PeppersCanon #218
·Blood, Sweat & Tears — Blood, Sweat & Tears
·Blue — Joni MitchellCanon #23
·Blue Lines — Massive AttackCanon #131
·Bluesbreakers — John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
·Blunderbuss — Jack White
·Blur — Blur
·Bone Machine — Tom Waits
·Bongo Rock — Incredible Bongo Band
·Bookends — Simon & Garfunkel
·Born In The U.S.A. — Bruce SpringsteenCanon #140
·Born To Be With You — Dion
·Born To Run — Bruce SpringsteenCanon #7
·Bossanova — Pixies
·Boston — Boston
·Boy In Da Corner — Dizzee Rascal
·Bridge Over Troubled Water — Simon & GarfunkelCanon #94
·Bright Flight — Silver Jews
·Brilliant Corners — Thelonious Monk
·Bringing It All Back Home — Bob DylanCanon #53
·British Steel — Judas Priest
·Broken English — Marianne Faithfull
·Brothers — The Black Keys
·Brothers In Arms — Dire Straits
·Brown Sugar — D'Angelo
·Brutal Youth — Elvis Costello
·Bryter Layter — Nick Drake
·Bubble And Scrape — Sebadoh
·Buena Vista Social Club — Buena Vista Social Club
·Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room — Dwight Yoakam
·Buffalo Springfield Again — Buffalo Springfield
·Bug — Dinosaur Jr.
·Bummed — Happy Mondays
·Butterfly — Mariah Carey
·C'est Chic — CHIC
·Caetano Veloso — Caetano Veloso
·Cafe Bleu — The Style Council
·Calenture — The Triffids
·California — American Music Club
·Californication — Red Hot Chili Peppers
·Call of the Valley — Shivkumar Sharma
·Can't Buy A Thrill — Steely DanCanon #180
·Car Wheels On A Gravel Road — Lucinda WilliamsCanon #194
·Casanova — The Divine Comedy
·Catch A Fire — Bob Marley & The WailersCanon #154
·Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine — Cee Lo Green
·Celebrity Skin — Hole
·Central Reservation — Beth Orton
·Channel Orange — Frank OceanCanon #172
·Cheap Thrills — Big Brother & The Holding CompanyCanon #236
·Chelsea Girl — Nico
·Chemtrails Over The Country Club — Lana Del Rey
·Chicago Transit Authority — Chicago
·Chirping Crickets — Buddy Holly & The Crickets
·Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water — Limp Bizkit
·Chore of Enchantment — Giant Sand
·Chris — Christine and the Queens
·Clandestino — Manu Chao
·Close To The Edge — Yes
·Close To You — Carpenters
·Closer — Joy DivisionCanon #108
·Cloud Nine — The Temptations
·Club Classics Vol. One — Soul II Soul
·Clube Da Esquina — Milton Nascimento
·Coat Of Many Colors — Dolly PartonCanon #197
·Coles Corner — Richard Hawley
·Colour By Numbers — Culture Club
·Come Away With Me — Norah Jones
·Come Find Yourself — Fun Lovin' Criminals
·Connected — Stereo MC's
·Copper Blue — Sugar
·Cosmo's Factory — Creedence Clearwater Revival
·Countdown To Ecstasy — Steely Dan
·Country Life — Roxy Music
·Court And Spark — Joni MitchellCanon #142
·Crazysexycool — TLCCanon #245
·Crime Of The Century — Supertramp
·Crocodiles — Echo And The Bunnymen
·Crooked Rain Crooked Rain — Pavement
·Crosby, Stills & Nash — Crosby, Stills & NashCanon #174
·Cross — Justice
·Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts — The Adverts
·Ctrl — SZA
·Cupid & Psyche 85 — Scritti Politti
·Cut — The SlitsCanon #214
·Cypress Hill — Cypress Hill
·D — White Denim
·D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle — Throbbing Gristle
·Da Capo — Love
·Damaged — Black Flag
·Dance Mania — Tito Puente
·Dare! — The Human League
·Darkdancer — Les Rythmes Digitales
·Darklands — The Jesus And Mary Chain
·Darkness on the Edge of Town — Bruce SpringsteenCanon #66
·Daydream Nation — Sonic YouthCanon #103
·Dear Science — TV On The Radio
·Debut — Björk
·Deep Purple In Rock — Deep Purple
·Definitely Maybe — OasisCanon #148
·Deja Vu — Crosby, Stills, Nash & YoungCanon #176
·Deloused in the Comatorium — The Mars Volta
·Deserter's Songs — Mercury Rev
·Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes — TV On The Radio
·Destroy Rock & Roll — Mylo
·Destroyer — KISS
·Devil Without A Cause — Kid Rock
·Devotional Songs — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
·Diamond Life — Sade
·Different Class — PulpCanon #130
·Dig Me Out — Sleater-KinneyCanon #228
·Dig Your Own Hole — The Chemical Brothers
·Dire Straits — Dire Straits
·Dirt — Alice In Chains
·Dirty — Sonic Youth
·Disintegration — The CureCanon #79
·Disraeli Gears — CreamCanon #155
·Djam Leelii — Baaba Maal
·Django Django — Django Django
·Document — R.E.M.
·Dog Man Star — Suede
·Doggystyle — Snoop DoggCanon #241
·Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind) — Loretta Lynn
·Don't Stand Me Down — Dexys Midnight Runners
·Done By The Forces Of Nature — Jungle Brothers
·Dookie — Green Day
·Doolittle — PixiesCanon #87
·Double Nickels On The Dime — Minutemen
·Dr. Octagonecologyst — Dr. Octagon
·Drunk — Thundercat
·Dry — PJ Harvey
·Dub Housing — Pere Ubu
·Duck Rock — Malcolm McLaren
·Duck Stab/Buster & Glen — The Residents
·Dummy — PortisheadCanon #102
·Dust — Screaming Trees
·Dusty In Memphis — Dusty SpringfieldCanon #45
·E.V.O.L. — Sonic Youth
·Eagles — EaglesCanon #234
·Either Or — Elliott SmithCanon #181
·Elastica — Elastica
·Electric — The Cult
·Electric Ladyland — Jimi HendrixCanon #48
·Electric Music For The Mind And Body — Country Joe & The Fish
·Electric Prunes — The Electric Prunes
·Electric Warrior — T. RexCanon #114
·Elephant — The White Stripes
·Elephant Mountain — The Youngbloods
·Eli And The Thirteenth Confession — Laura Nyro
·Eliminator — ZZ Top
·Ellington at Newport — Duke Ellington
·Elvis Is Back — Elvis Presley
·Elvis Presley — Elvis PresleyCanon #164
·Emergency On Planet Earth — Jamiroquai
·Emperor Tomato Ketchup — Stereolab
·En-Tact — The Shamen
·Endtroducing..... — DJ Shadow
·Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) — Wu-Tang ClanCanon #58
·Entertainment — Gang Of FourCanon #179
·Eternally Yours — The Saints
·evermore — Taylor Swift
·Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge — Mudhoney
·Every Picture Tells A Story — Rod StewartCanon #134
·Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere — Neil Young & Crazy HorseCanon #247
·Everything Must Go — Manic Street Preachers
·Exile In Guyville — Liz PhairCanon #161
·Exile On Main Street — The Rolling StonesCanon #30
·Exit Planet Dust — The Chemical Brothers
·Exodus — Bob Marley & The WailersCanon #54
·Face to Face — The Kinks
·Faith — George MichaelCanon #231
·Faust IV — Faust
·Fear and Whiskey — Mekons
·Fear Of A Black Planet — Public EnemyCanon #118
·Fear Of Music — Talking Heads
·Feast of Wire — Calexico
·Felt Mountain — Goldfrapp
·Femi Kuti — Femi Kuti
·Fetch The Bolt Cutters — Fiona Apple
·Fever Ray — Fever Ray
·Fever To Tell — Yeah Yeah Yeahs
·Fifth Dimension — The Byrds
·Figure 8 — Elliott Smith
·Fire Of Love — The Gun Club
·First Band On The Moon — The Cardigans
·Fisherman's Blues — The Waterboys
·Fishscale — Ghostface Killah
·Five Leaves Left — Nick Drake
·Fleet Foxes — Fleet Foxes
·Floodland — Sisters Of Mercy
·Fly Or Die — N.E.R.D
·Follow The Leader — Korn
·Foo Fighters — Foo Fighters
·For Your Pleasure — Roxy MusicCanon #175
·Forever Changes — LoveCanon #74
·Foxbase Alpha — Saint Etienne
·Fragile — Yes
·Frampton Comes Alive — Peter Frampton
·Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim — Frank Sinatra
·Frank — Amy Winehouse
·Franz Ferdinand — Franz Ferdinand
·Freak Out! — The Mothers Of Invention
·Fred Neil — Fred Neil
·Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables — Dead Kennedys
·From Elvis In Memphis — Elvis PresleyCanon #235
·Fromohio — fIREHOSE
·Fulfillingness' First Finale — Stevie Wonder
·Fun House — The StoogesCanon #78
·Funeral — Arcade Fire
·Future Days — Can
·Fuzzy — Grant Lee Buffalo
·Fuzzy Logic — Super Furry Animals
·G. Love And Special Sauce — G. Love & Special Sauce
·Garbage — Garbage
·Gasoline Alley — Rod Stewart
·Gentlemen — The Afghan Whigs
·Germfree Adolescents — X-Ray Spex
·Get Behind Me Satan — The White Stripes
·Get Rich Or Die Tryin' — 50 Cent
·Getz/Gilberto — Stan Getz
·Ghosteen — Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
·GI — Germs
·Giant Steps — The Boo Radleys
·Go Girl Crazy — The Dictators
·Gold — Ryan Adams
·Golden Hour — Kacey Musgraves
·Goo — Sonic Youth
·good kid, m.A.A.d city — Kendrick Lamar
·Good Old Boys — Randy Newman
·Goodbye And Hello — Tim Buckley
·Goodbye Yellow Brick Road — Elton JohnCanon #92
·Gorillaz — Gorillaz
·Grace — Jeff BuckleyCanon #97
·Graceland — Paul SimonCanon #57
·Green — R.E.M.Canon #192
·Green Onions — Booker T. & The MG's
·Green River — Creedence Clearwater Revival
·Greetings From L.A. — Tim Buckley
·GREY Area — Little Simz
·Grievous Angel — Gram Parsons
·Gris Gris — Dr. JohnCanon #243
·Groovin' — The Young Rascals
·Group Sex — Circle Jerks
·Guero — Beck
·Guitar Town — Steve Earle
·Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs — Marty Robbins
·Hail To the Thief — Radiohead
·Halcyon Digest — Deerhunter
·Happy Sad — Tim Buckley
·Happy Trails — Quicksilver Messenger Service
·Hard Again — Muddy Waters
·Harvest — Neil YoungCanon #70
·Haunted Dancehall — The Sabres Of Paradise
·Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche — Koffi Olomide
·Head Hunters — Herbie Hancock
·Headquarters — The Monkees
·Heartattack And Vine — Tom Waits
·Heartbreaker — Ryan Adams
·Hearts And Bones — Paul Simon
·Heaux Tales — Jazmine Sullivan
·Heaven Or Las Vegas — Cocteau Twins
·Heavy Weather — Weather Report
·Hejira — Joni Mitchell
·Henry's Dream — Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
·Here Are the Sonics — The Sonics
·Here Come The Warm Jets — Brian Eno
·Here's Little Richard — Little RichardCanon #126
·Here, My Dear — Marvin Gaye
·Heroes — David Bowie
·Heroes to Zeros — The Beta Band
·High Violet — The National
·Highly Evolved — The Vines
·Highway 61 Revisited — Bob DylanCanon #21
·Highway to Hell — AC/DC
·Histoire De Melody Nelson — Serge Gainsbourg
·Hms Fable — Shack
·Home Is Where The Music Is — Hugh Masekela
·Homework — Daft Punk
·Honky Tonk Heroes — Waylon Jennings
·Honky Tonk Masquerade — Joe Ely
·Horses — Patti SmithCanon #20
·Hot Buttered Soul — Isaac Hayes
·Hot Fuss — The Killers
·Hot Rats — Frank Zappa
·Hot Shots II — The Beta Band
·Hotel California — EaglesCanon #104
·Hounds Of Love — Kate BushCanon #71
·Hunky Dory — David BowieCanon #32
·Hunting High And Low — a-ha
·Hybrid Theory — Linkin Park
·Hypnotised — The Undertones
·Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury — The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
·Hysteria — Def Leppard
·I Against I — Bad Brains
·I Am a Bird Now — Antony and the Johnsons
·I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got — Sinead O'Connor
·I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You — Aretha FranklinCanon #37
·I See A Darkness — Bonnie "Prince" Billy
·I See You — The xx
·I Should Coco — Supergrass
·I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight — Richard Thompson
·I'm Your Man — Leonard Cohen
·Idlewild — Everything But The Girl
·If I Could Only Remember My Name — David Crosby
·If I Should Fall From Grace With God — The Pogues
·If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears — The Mamas & The Papas
·If You're Feeling Sinister — Belle & Sebastian
·Ill Communication — Beastie Boys
·Illinois — Sufjan Stevens
·Illmatic — NasCanon #67
·Imagine — John LennonCanon #110
·Immigrés — Youssou N'Dour
·Imperial Bedroom — Elvis Costello & The Attractions
·In A Silent Way — Miles Davis
·In It For The Money — Supergrass
·In Our Heads — Hot Chip
·In Rainbows — RadioheadCanon #215
·In The Court Of The Crimson King — King Crimson
·In The Wee Small Hours — Frank SinatraCanon #124
·In Utero — NirvanaCanon #127
·In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida — Iron Butterfly
·Infected — The The
·Ingenue — k.d. lang
·Innervisions — Stevie WonderCanon #19
·Inspiration Information — Shuggie Otis
·Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby — Terence Trent D'Arby
·Iron Maiden — Iron Maiden
·Is This It — The StrokesCanon #91
·Isn't Anything — My Bloody Valentine
·It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back — Public EnemyCanon #13
·It's A Shame About Ray — The Lemonheads
·It's Blitz! — Yeah Yeah Yeahs
·It's Too Late to Stop Now — Van Morrison
·I’m a Lonesome Fugitive — Merle Haggard
·I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail — Buck Owens
·Jack Takes the Floor — Ramblin' Jack Elliott
·Jagged Little Pill — Alanis MorissetteCanon #115
·James Brown Live At The Apollo — James Brown
·Jazz Samba — Stan Getz
·Joan Armatrading — Joan Armatrading
·Joan Baez — Joan Baez
·John Barleycorn Must Die — Traffic
·John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band — John Lennon
·John Prine — John PrineCanon #223
·Juju — Siouxsie And The Banshees
·Junkyard — The Birthday Party
·Justified — Justin Timberlake
·Kala — M.I.A.
·KE*A*H** (Psalm 69) — Ministry
·Kenya — Machito
·Kenza — Khaled
·Kick Out The Jams (Live) — MC5
·Kid A — RadioheadCanon #56
·Kilimanjaro — The Teardrop Explodes
·Killing Joke — Killing Joke
·Kimono My House — Sparks
·Kind Of Blue — Miles DavisCanon #12
·Kings Of The Wild Frontier — Adam & The Ants
·KIWANUKA — Michael Kiwanuka
·Kollaps — Einstürzende Neubauten
·Konnichiwa — Skepta
·L'Eau Rouge — The Young Gods
·L.A. Woman — The Doors
·La Revancha Del Tango — Gotan Project
·Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space — Spiritualized
·Lady In Satin — Billie Holiday
·Lady Soul — Aretha FranklinCanon #35
·Lam Toro — Baaba Maal
·Larks' Tongues In Aspic — King Crimson
·Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs — Derek & The DominosCanon #158
·Lazer Guided Melodies — Spiritualized
·Le Tigre — Le Tigre
·Led Zeppelin — Led ZeppelinCanon #31
·Led Zeppelin II — Led Zeppelin
·Led Zeppelin III — Led Zeppelin
·Led Zeppelin IV — Led Zeppelin
·Leftism — Leftfield
·Legalize It — Peter Tosh
·Let England Shake — PJ Harvey
·Let It Be — The ReplacementsCanon #157
·Let It Bleed — The Rolling StonesCanon #28
·Let Love Rule — Lenny Kravitz
·Let's Get It On — Marvin Gaye
·Let's Get Killed — David Holmes
·Let's Stay Together — Al Green
·Licensed To Ill — Beastie BoysCanon #198
·Liege And Lief — Fairport Convention
·Life Thru A Lens — Robbie Williams
·Life's Too Good — The Sugarcubes
·Like A Prayer — MadonnaCanon #199
·Like Water For Chocolate — Common
·Liquid Swords — GZACanon #222
·Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 — George Michael
·Little Earthquakes — Tori Amos
·Live / Dead — Grateful Dead
·Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert) — Bob Dylan
·Live And Dangerous — Thin Lizzy
·Live At Leeds — The WhoCanon #206
·Live At The Harlem Square Club — Sam CookeCanon #226
·Live At The Regal — B.B. KingCanon #210
·Live At The Star Club, Hamburg — Jerry Lee Lewis
·Live At The Witch Trials — The Fall
·Live Through This — HoleCanon #99
·Live! — Fela Kuti
·Locust Abortion Technician — Butthole Surfers
·Logical Progression — LTJ Bukem
·London Calling — The ClashCanon #10
·Lost In The Dream — The War On Drugs
·Lost Souls — Doves
·Loveless — My Bloody ValentineCanon #84
·Low — David BowieCanon #95
·Low-Life — New Order
·LP1 — FKA twigs
·Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor — Lupe Fiasco
·Lust For Life — Iggy Pop
·m b v — My Bloody Valentine
·Machine Gun Etiquette — The Damned
·Machine Head — Deep Purple
·Made In Japan — Deep Purple
·Madman Across The Water — Elton John
·Maggot Brain — FunkadelicCanon #224
·Make Yourself — Incubus
·Mama Said Knock You Out — LL Cool J
·Mama's Gun — Erykah Badu
·Manassas — Stephen Stills
·Marcus Garvey — Burning Spear
·Marquee Moon — TelevisionCanon #65
·Mask — Bauhaus
·Master Of Puppets — MetallicaCanon #93
·Maverick A Strike — Finley Quaye
·Maxinquaye — Tricky
·Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite — Maxwell
·McCartney — Paul McCartney
·Me Against The World — 2Pac
·Meat Is Murder — The Smiths
·Meat Puppets II — Meat Puppets
·Medúlla — Björk
·Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness — The Smashing Pumpkins
·Melodrama — Lorde
·Melody A.M. — Röyksopp
·Mermaid Avenue — Billy Bragg
·Merriweather Post Pavilion — Animal Collective
·Metal Box — Public Image Ltd.
·Metallica — MetallicaCanon #162
·Microshift — Hookworms
·Midnight Ride — Paul Revere & The Raiders
·Millions Now Living Will Never Die — Tortoise
·Miriam Makeba — Miriam Makeba
·Moby Grape — Moby Grape
·Modern Kosmology — Jane Weaver
·Modern Life Is Rubbish — Blur
·Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music — Ray CharlesCanon #139
·Moon Safari — Air
·Moondance — Van MorrisonCanon #68
·More Songs About Buildings And Food — Talking Heads
·More Specials — The Specials
·Morrison Hotel — The Doors
·Moss Side Story — Barry Adamson
·Mothership Connection — ParliamentCanon #208
·Mott — Mott The Hoople
·Movies — Holger Czukay
·Moving Pictures — Rush
·Mr. Tambourine Man — The ByrdsCanon #230
·MTV Unplugged In New York — Nirvana
·Murder Ballads — Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
·Murmur — R.E.M.Canon #169
·Music — Madonna
·Music For The Jilted Generation — The Prodigy
·Music for the Masses — Depeche Mode
·Music From Big Pink — The BandCanon #119
·Music From The Penguin Cafe — Penguin Cafe Orchestra
·Music Has The Right To Children — Boards of Canada
·Music in Exile — Songhoy Blues
·My Aim Is True — Elvis CostelloCanon #185
·My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy — Kanye WestCanon #63
·My Generation — The Who
·My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts — Brian Eno
·Myths Of The Near Future — Klaxons
·Natty Dread — Bob Marley & The WailersCanon #209
·Nebraska — Bruce SpringsteenCanon #100
·Neon Bible — Arcade Fire
·NEU! 75 — Neu!
·Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols — Sex Pistols
·Nevermind — NirvanaCanon #9
·New Boots And Panties — Ian Dury
·New Forms — Roni Size
·New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84) — Simple Minds
·New Wave — The Auteurs
·New York Dolls — New York DollsCanon #190
·Next — The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
·Nick Of Time — Bonnie Raitt
·Night Life — Ray Price
·Nighthawks At The Diner — Tom Waits
·Nilsson Schmilsson — Harry Nilsson
·Nixon — Lambchop
·No Other — Gene Clark
·No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live) — Motörhead
·Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret — Soft Cell
·Nothing's Shocking — Jane's Addiction
·Now I Got Worry — The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
·Nowhere — Ride
·O.G. Original Gangster — Ice T
·Oar — Alexander 'Skip' Spence
·Ocean Rain — Echo And The Bunnymen
·Odelay — Beck
·Odessa — Bee Gees
·Odessey And Oracle — The ZombiesCanon #98
·Oedipus Schmoedipus — Barry Adamson
·Off The Wall — Michael JacksonCanon #49
·Ogden's Nut Gone Flake — Small Faces
·OK — Talvin Singh
·OK Computer — RadioheadCanon #38
·Olympia 64 — Jacques Brel
·On The Beach — Neil YoungCanon #191
·One Nation Under A Groove — Funkadelic
·One World — John Martyn
·Only Built 4 Cuban Linx — Raekwon
·Only By The Night — Kings of Leon
·Opus Dei — Laibach
·Oracular Spectacular — MGMT
·Orbital 2 — Orbital
·Os Mutantes — Os Mutantes
·Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul — Otis Redding
·Our Aim Is To Satisfy — Red Snapper
·Out of Step — Minor Threat
·Out Of The Blue — Electric Light Orchestra
·Oxygène — Jean-Michel Jarre
·Pacific Ocean Blue — Dennis Wilson
·Palo Congo — Sabu
·Parachutes — Coldplay
·Parallel Lines — BlondieCanon #80
·Paranoid — Black SabbathCanon #120
·Paris 1919 — John Cale
·Parklife — BlurCanon #238
·Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme — Simon & Garfunkel
·Paul Simon — Paul Simon
·Paul's Boutique — Beastie BoysCanon #42
·Peace Sells...But Who's Buying — Megadeth
·Pearl — Janis JoplinCanon #135
·Peggy Suicide — Julian Cope
·Pelican West — Haircut 100
·Penance Soiree — The Icarus Line
·Penthouse And Pavement — Heaven 17
·People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm — A Tribe Called Quest
·Permission to Land — The Darkness
·Pet Sounds — The Beach BoysCanon #3
·Peter Gabriel — Peter Gabriel
·Peter Gabriel 3 — Peter Gabriel
·Phaedra — Tangerine Dream
·Phrenology — The Roots
·Physical Graffiti — Led ZeppelinCanon #112
·Picture Book — Simply Red
·Pictures At An Exhibition — Emerson, Lake & Palmer
·Pieces Of The Sky — Emmylou Harris
·Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches — Happy Mondays
·Pink Flag — WireCanon #250
·Pink Moon — Nick Drake
·Planet Rock: The Album — Afrika Bambaataa
·Play — Moby
·Playing With Fire — Spacemen 3
·Porcupine — Echo And The Bunnymen
·Pornography — The Cure
·Post Orgasmic Chill — Skunk Anansie
·Power In Numbers — Jurassic 5
·Pretenders — PretendersCanon #116
·Pretzel Logic — Steely Dan
·Private Dancer — Tina Turner
·Protection — Massive Attack
·Psychocandy — The Jesus And Mary ChainCanon #244
·Public Image: First Issue — Public Image Ltd.
·Pump — Aerosmith
·Punishing Kiss — Ute Lemper
·Purple Rain — PrinceCanon #8
·Pyromania — Def Leppard
·Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo — Devo
·Queen II — Queen
·Queen Of Denmark — John Grant
·Queens of the Stone Age — Queens Of The Stone Age
·Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo — MC Solaar
·Quiet Life — Japan
·Rage Against The Machine — Rage Against The MachineCanon #240
·Ragged Glory — Neil Young & Crazy Horse
·Rain Dogs — Tom WaitsCanon #186
·Raising Hell — Run-D.M.C.Canon #159
·Ramones — RamonesCanon #36
·Rapture — Anita Baker
·Rattlesnakes — Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
·Rattus Norvegicus — The Stranglers
·Raw Like Sushi — Neneh Cherry
·Raw Power — The StoogesCanon #146
·Ray Of Light — MadonnaCanon #193
·Ready To Die — The Notorious B.I.G.Canon #61
·Real Life — Magazine
·Red Dirt Girl — Emmylou Harris
·Red Headed Stranger — Willie NelsonCanon #201
·Reggatta De Blanc — The Police
·Reign In Blood — Slayer
·Rejoicing In The Hands — Devendra Banhart
·Remain In Light — Talking HeadsCanon #39
·Remedy — Basement Jaxx
·Repeater — Fugazi
·Revolver — BeatlesCanon #2
·Rhythm Nation 1814 — Janet Jackson
·Rid Of Me — PJ HarveyCanon #205
·Rings Around The World — Super Furry Animals
·Rio — Duran Duran
·Rip It Up — Orange Juice
·Rising Above Bedlam — Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
·Risque — CHIC
·Ritual De Lo Habitual — Jane's Addiction
·Rock 'N Soul — Solomon Burke
·Rock Bottom — Robert Wyatt
·Rocks — Aerosmith
·Roger the Engineer — The Yardbirds
·Roots — Sepultura
·Roxy Music — Roxy Music
·Rubber Soul — BeatlesCanon #16
·Rum Sodomy & The Lash — The Pogues
·Rumours — Fleetwood MacCanon #22
·Run-D.M.C. — Run-D.M.C.
·Rust In Peace — Megadeth
·Rust Never Sleeps — Neil Young & Crazy Horse
·S&M — Metallica
·S.F. Sorrow — The Pretty Things
·Safe As Milk — Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
·Sail Away — Randy NewmanCanon #249
·Savane — Ali Farka Touré
·School's Out — Alice Cooper
·Scissor Sisters — Scissor Sisters
·Scott 2 — Scott Walker
·Scott 4 — Scott Walker
·Scream, Dracula, Scream — Rocket From The Crypt
·Screamadelica — Primal ScreamCanon #233
·Scum — Napalm Death
·Sea Change — Beck
·Searching For The Young Soul Rebels — Dexys Midnight Runners
·Second Toughest In The Infants — Underworld
·Selected Ambient Works 85-92 — Aphex Twin
·Selling England By The Pound — Genesis
·Seventeen Seconds — The Cure
·Seventh Tree — Goldfrapp
·Sex Packets — Digital Underground
·Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band — BeatlesCanon #18
·Shadowland — k.d. lang
·Shaft — Isaac Hayes
·Shaka Zulu — Ladysmith Black Mambazo
·Shake Your Money Maker — The Black Crowes
·Shalimar — Rahul Dev Burman
·She's So Unusual — Cyndi LauperCanon #248
·Sheer Heart Attack — Queen
·Sheet Music — 10cc
·Shleep — Robert Wyatt
·Siamese Dream — The Smashing Pumpkins
·Siembra — Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
·Sign 'O' The Times — PrinceCanon #77
·Signing Off — UB40
·Since I Left You — The Avalanches
·Sincere — Mj Cole
·Sister — Sonic Youth
·Skylarking — XTC
·Slanted And Enchanted — PavementCanon #111
·Slayed? — Slade
·Slipknot — Slipknot
·Slippery When Wet — Bon Jovi
·Smash — The Offspring
·Smile — Brian Wilson
·Smokers Delight — Nightmares On Wax
·Snivilisation — Orbital
·So — Peter GabrielCanon #232
·So Much For The City — The Thrills
·Solid Air — John Martyn
·Something Else By The Kinks — The Kinks
·Something/Anything? — Todd Rundgren
·Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle — Bill Callahan
·Songs For Swingin' Lovers! — Frank Sinatra
·Songs From A Room — Leonard Cohen
·Songs From The Big Chair — Tears For Fears
·Songs In The Key Of Life — Stevie WonderCanon #5
·Songs Of Leonard Cohen — Leonard CohenCanon #167
·Songs Of Love And Hate — Leonard Cohen
·Songs The Lord Taught Us — The Cramps
·Soul Mining — The The
·Sound Affects — The Jam
·Sound of Silver — LCD SoundsystemCanon #237
·Southern Rock Opera — Drive-By Truckers
·Space Ritual — Hawkwind
·Speakerboxxx/The Love Below — OutKastCanon #225
·Spiderland — Slint
·Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman — John Zorn
·Stand! — Sly & The Family StoneCanon #107
·Stankonia — OutKastCanon #178
·Stardust — Willie Nelson
·Station To Station — David BowieCanon #83
·Step In The Arena — Gang Starr
·Stephen Stills — Stephen Stills
·Steve McQueen — Prefab Sprout
·Sticky Fingers — The Rolling StonesCanon #34
·Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea — PJ Harvey
·Straight Outta Compton — N.W.A.Canon #50
·Strange Cargo III — William Orbit
·Strangeways, Here We Come — The Smiths
·Street Life — The Crusaders
·Street Signs — Ozomatli
·Stripped — Christina Aguilera
·Suede — Suede
·Suicide — Suicide
·Sulk — The Associates
·Sunday At The Village Vanguard — Bill Evans Trio
·Sunshine Hit Me — The Bees
·Sunshine Superman — Donovan
·Supa Dupa Fly — Missy ElliottCanon #177
·Superfly — Curtis MayfieldCanon #123
·Superfuzz Bigmuff — Mudhoney
·Superunknown — Soundgarden
·Surf's Up — The Beach Boys
·Surfer Rosa — PixiesCanon #173
·Surrealistic Pillow — Jefferson Airplane
·Survivor — Destiny's Child
·Suzanne Vega — Suzanne Vega
·Sweet Baby James — James TaylorCanon #132
·Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) — Eurythmics
·Sweetheart Of The Rodeo — The ByrdsCanon #156
·Swordfishtrombones — Tom Waits
·Synchronicity — The PoliceCanon #229
·System Of A Down — System Of A Down
·São Paulo Confessions — Suba
·Tago Mago — Can
·Take Me Apart — Kelela
·Talk Talk Talk — The Psychedelic Furs
·Talking Book — Stevie WonderCanon #96
·Talking Heads 77 — Talking Heads
·Talking Timbuktu — Ali Farka Touré
·Talking With the Taxman About Poetry — Billy Bragg
·Tank Battles — Dagmar Krause
·Tanto Tempo — Bebel Gilberto
·Tapestry — Carole KingCanon #14
·Tarkus — Emerson, Lake & Palmer
·Tea for the Tillerman — Cat StevensCanon #182
·Technique — New Order
·Teen Dream — Beach House
·Teenage Head — Flamin' Groovies
·Teenager Of The Year — Frank Black
·Tellin’ Stories — The Charlatans
·Ten — Pearl JamCanon #188
·That's The Way Of The World — Earth, Wind & Fire
·The Age Of The Understatement — The Last Shadow Puppets
·The ArchAndroid — Janelle Monáe
·The Atomic Mr Basie — Count Basie & His Orchestra
·The Band — The BandCanon #153
·The Beach Boys Today! — The Beach Boys
·The Bends — RadioheadCanon #136
·The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady — Charles Mingus
·The Blueprint — JAY ZCanon #75
·The Boatman's Call — Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
·The Bones Of What You Believe — CHVRCHES
·The Cars — The Cars
·The Chronic — Dr. DreCanon #46
·The Clash — The ClashCanon #72
·The College Dropout — Kanye WestCanon #121
·The Colour Of Spring — Talk Talk
·The Contino Sessions — Death In Vegas
·The Coral — The Coral
·The Dark Side Of The Moon — Pink FloydCanon #24
·The Doors — The DoorsCanon #60
·The Downward Spiral — Nine Inch NailsCanon #149
·The Dreaming — Kate Bush
·The Fat Of The Land — The Prodigy
·The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan — Bob DylanCanon #137
·The Genius Of Ray Charles — Ray Charles
·The Gershwin Songbook — Ella Fitzgerald
·The Gilded Palace Of Sin — The Flying Burrito Brothers
·The Good, The Bad & The Queen — The Good, The Bad & The Queen
·The Grand Tour — George Jones
·The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter — The Incredible String Band
·The Healer — John Lee Hooker
·The Hissing Of Summer Lawns — Joni MitchellCanon #202
·The Holy Bible — Manic Street Preachers
·The Hour Of Bewilderbeast — Badly Drawn Boy
·The Idiot — Iggy Pop
·The Infotainment Scan — The Fall
·The Joshua Tree — U2Canon #47
·The Köln Concert — Keith Jarrett
·The La's — The La's
·The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway — Genesis
·The Last Broadcast — Doves
·The Last Of The True Believers — Nanci Griffith
·The Lexicon Of Love — ABC
·The Libertines — The Libertines
·The Low End Theory — A Tribe Called QuestCanon #73
·The Madcap Laughs — Syd Barrett
·The Man Machine — Kraftwerk
·The Man Who — Travis
·The Marshall Mathers LP — EminemCanon #106
·The Message — Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
·The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill — Lauryn HillCanon #33
·The Modern Dance — Pere Ubu
·The Modern Lovers — The Modern LoversCanon #203
·The New Tango — Astor Piazzolla
·The Next Day — David Bowie
·The Nightfly — Donald Fagen
·The Notorious Byrd Brothers — The Byrds
·The Number Of The Beast — Iron Maiden
·The Only Ones — The Only Ones
·The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn — Pink FloydCanon #152
·The Pleasure Principle — Gary Numan
·The Poet — Bobby Womack
·The Predator — Ice Cube
·The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators — The 13th Floor Elevators
·The Queen Is Dead — The SmithsCanon #64
·The Real Thing — Faith No More
·The Renaissance — Q-Tip
·The Rise & Fall — Madness
·The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars — David BowieCanon #43
·The Rising — Bruce Springsteen
·The Rolling Stones — The Rolling Stones
·The Score — FugeesCanon #227
·The Scream — Siouxsie And The Banshees
·The Seldom Seen Kid — Elbow
·The Sensual World — Kate Bush
·The Slider — T. Rex
·The Slim Shady LP — EminemCanon #246
·The Soft Bulletin — The Flaming Lips
·The Sounds Of India — Ravi Shankar
·The Specials — The Specials
·The Stone Roses — The Stone RosesCanon #144
·The Stooges — The Stooges
·The Stranger — Billy JoelCanon #125
·The Suburbs — Arcade Fire
·The Sun Rises In The East — Jeru The Damaja
·The Trinity Session — Cowboy Junkies
·The Undertones — The Undertones
·The United States Of America — The United States Of America
·The Velvet Underground — The Velvet UndergroundCanon #26
·The Velvet Underground & Nico — The Velvet Underground
·The Village Green Preservation Society — The Kinks
·The Visitors — ABBA
·The Wall — Pink FloydCanon #145
·The White Album — BeatlesCanon #15
·The White Room — The KLF
·The Who Sell Out — The WhoCanon #212
·The Wildest! — Louis Prima
·The World is a Ghetto — War
·The Yes Album — Yes
·There's A Riot Goin' On — Sly & The Family StoneCanon #133
·There's No Place Like America Today — Curtis Mayfield
·They Were Wrong, So We Drowned — Liars
·Third — Soft Machine
·Third — Portishead
·Third/Sister Lovers — Big Star
·This Is Fats Domino — Fats Domino
·This Is Hardcore — Pulp
·This Nation’s Saving Grace — The Fall
·This Year's Model — Elvis Costello & The AttractionsCanon #143
·Thriller — Michael JacksonCanon #6
·Throwing Muses — Throwing Muses
·Tical — Method Man
·Tidal — Fiona Apple
·Tigermilk — Belle & Sebastian
·Time (The Revelator) — Gillian Welch
·Time Out — The Dave Brubeck Quartet
·Time Out Of Mind — Bob Dylan
·Timeless — Goldie
·To Pimp A Butterfly — Kendrick LamarCanon #171
·Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers — Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
·Tom Tom Club — Tom Tom Club
·Tommy — The WhoCanon #147
·Tonight's The Night — Neil Young
·Too Rye Ay — Dexys Midnight Runners
·Toys In The Attic — Aerosmith
·Tracy Chapman — Tracy ChapmanCanon #242
·Trafalgar — Bee Gees
·Traffic — Traffic
·Tragic Songs of Life — The Louvin Brothers
·Trans Europe Express — KraftwerkCanon #86
·Transformer — Lou ReedCanon #85
·Treasure — Cocteau Twins
·Tres Hombres — ZZ Top
·Triangle — The Beau Brummels
·Trio — Dolly Parton
·Trout Mask Replica — Captain Beefheart & His Magic BandCanon #217
·Truth — Jeff Beck
·Truth And Soul — Fishbone
·Tubular Bells — Mike Oldfield
·Tuesday Night Music Club — Sheryl Crow
·Tusk — Fleetwood Mac
·Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus — Spirit
·Two Dancers — Wild Beasts
·Under Construction — Missy Elliott
·Underwater Moonlight — The Soft Boys
·Unhalfbricking — Fairport Convention
·Unknown Pleasures — Joy DivisionCanon #138
·Untitled (Black Is) — SAULT
·Urban Hymns — The Verve
·Van Halen — Van Halen
·Vanishing Point — Primal Scream
·Vauxhall And I — Morrissey
·Veckatimest — Grizzly Bear
·Vento De Maio — Elis Regina
·Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby — Girls Against Boys
·Very — Pet Shop Boys
·Vespertine — Björk
·Vincebus Eruptum — Blue Cheer
·Violator — Depeche ModeCanon #195
·Violent Femmes — Violent Femmes
·Virgin Suicides — Air
·Viva Hate — Morrissey
·Vivid — Living Colour
·Vol. 4 — Black Sabbath
·Vulgar Display Of Power — Pantera
·Vulnicura — Björk
·Walking Wounded — Everything But The Girl
·Want One — Rufus Wainwright
·Want Two — Rufus Wainwright
·War — U2
·Warehouse: Songs And Stories — Hüsker Dü
·Water From An Ancient Well — Abdullah Ibrahim
·We Are Family — Sister Sledge
·We're Only In It For The Money — The Mothers Of Invention
·Welcome to the Afterfuture — Mike Ladd
·Welcome To The Pleasuredome — Frankie Goes To Hollywood
·What's Going On — Marvin GayeCanon #4
·What's That Noise? — Coldcut
·Whatever — Aimee Mann
·Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not — Arctic Monkeys
·When I Was Born For The 7th Time — Cornershop
·White Blood Cells — The White Stripes
·White Ladder — David Gray
·White Light — Gene Clark
·White Light / White Heat — The Velvet UndergroundCanon #187
·Who Killed...... The Zutons? — The Zutons
·Who's Next — The WhoCanon #40
·Wild Gift — X
·Wild Is The Wind — Nina Simone
·Wild Wood — Paul Weller
·Will The Circle Be Unbroken — Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
·Winter In America — Gil Scott-Heron
·Wish You Were Here — Pink FloydCanon #221
·With The Beatles — Beatles
·Wonderful Rainbow — Lightning Bolt
·Woodface — Crowded House
·World Clique — Deee-Lite
·xx — The xx
·Yank Crime — Drive Like Jehu
·Yankee Hotel Foxtrot — Wilco
·Yeezus — Kanye West
·Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots — The Flaming Lips
·You Are The Quarry — Morrissey
·You Want It Darker — Leonard Cohen
·You're Living All Over Me — Dinosaur Jr.
·You've Come a Long Way Baby — Fatboy Slim
·Young Americans — David Bowie
·Younger Than Yesterday — The ByrdsCanon #239
·Your Arsenal — Morrissey
·Your New Favourite Band — The Hives
·Youth And Young Manhood — Kings of Leon
·Ys — Joanna Newsom
·Zombie — Fela Kuti
·Ágætis Byrjun — Sigur Rós

List compiled and published by its original authors; positions shown as published. Canon ranks link to each entry's full evidence page.