✅ Studio Brussels' 500 Greatest Albums of All-Time

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✅ Studio Brussels' 500 Greatest Albums of All-Time

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Belgian radio channel Studio Brussels put together a list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All-Time. They then asked the listeners to put them in order. Pearl Jam's Ten was crowned number one. I'm not sure if this is eligible, but it sure would be nice to have some more Belgian music on AM.

Here's the list in alphabetical order:

2 Many dj's - As Heard On Radio Soulwax pt2
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Absynthe Minded - Absynthe Minded
Absynthe Minded - Introducing
AC/DC - Back in Black
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
AC/DC - Let There be Rock
Adele - 21
Adele - 19
Admiral Freebee - Admiral Freebee
Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
Air - Moon Safari
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
Alice Cooper - School's Out
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Alt - J - An Awesome Wave
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Anouk - Urban Solitude
Anouk - Together Alone
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Arcade Fire - Reflektor
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I am, That's What I'm Not
Arctic Monkeys - AM
Arctic Monkeys - Favorite Worst Nightmare
Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
Aretha Franklin - Aretha: Lady Soul
Arid - Little Things Of Venom
Arno - Arno
Arsenal - Oyebo Soul
Arsenal - Outsides
Balthazar - Applause
Balthazar - Rats
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill
Beastie Boys - Pauls Boutique
Beck - Sea Change
Beck - Midnite Vultures
Beck - Mutations
Beck - Odelay
Bjork - Debut
Bjork - Post
Bjork - Homogenic
Black Box Revelation - Set Your Head on Fire
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Blink 182 - Enema of the State
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City
Blondie - Parallel Lines
Blur - Parklife
Blur - 13
Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Marley - Live !
Bob Marley - Babylon by Bus
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Catch A Fire
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend
Body Count - Body Count
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.
Bruce Springsteen - The River
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Buddy Holly - 20 Golden Greats
Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club
Burial - Untrue
Bush - Sixteen Stone
Carole King - Tapestry
Cat Power - The Greatest
Channel Zero - Black Fuel
Chic - C'est Chic
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
Coldplay - Parachutes
Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto
Coldplay - X&Y
Counting Crows - August & Everything After
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - Déjà Vu
Crowded House - Woodface
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
D'Angelo - Voodoo
Daan - Victory
Daft Punk - Homework
Daft Punk - Discovery
Daft Punk - Alive 2007
Damien Rice - O
Das Pop - Das Pop
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
David Bowie - Heroes
David Bowie - Station to Station
De Kreuners - s Nachts Kouder dan Buiten
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
De Mens - De Mens
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Deep purple - Deep Purple in Rock
Depeche Mode - Violator
Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
dEUS - Worst Case Scenario
dEUS - The Ideal Crash
dEUS - In a Bar under the Sea
dEUS - Pocket Revolution
dEUS - Vantage Point
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Dire Straits - Dire Straits
Disclosure - Settle
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Dr. Dre - The Chronic 2001
Duran Duran - Rio
Echo and the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
Editors - An End Has A Start
Editors - The Weight Of Your Love
Editors - In this Light and on this Evening
Editors - The Back Room
Eels - Beautiful Freak
Eels - Hombre Lobo
Eels - Electro Shock Blues
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys
Elbow - Asleep In The Back
ELO - Out of the Blue
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Armed Forces
Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley
Eminem - The Marshal Mathers LP
Eminem - The Eminem Show
Eric Clapton - Unplugged
Eric Clapton - Slowhand
Erykah Badu - Baduizm
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
Eurythmics - Touch
Evil Superstars - Boogie-Children-R-Us
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Faithless - Outrospective
Faithless - Reverence
Fatboy Slim - You've come a long way, baby
Feist - Let It die
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Fleetwood Mac - Tango In The Night
Flip Kowlier - Ocharme ik
Florence and the Machine - Lungs
Florence and the Machine - Ceremonials
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters - One By One
Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention - Freak Out!
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Front 242 - Front by Front
Gabriel Rios - Ghostboy
Gabriel Rios - This Marauder's Midnight
Garbage - Garbage
Genesis - Invisible Touch
George Michael - Faith
Goose - Bring it on
Goose - Synrise
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
Gorky - Gorky
Gotye - Making Mirrors
Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
Grant Lee Buffalo - Fuzzy
Green Day - American Idiot
Green Day - Dookie
Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Guns n' Roses - Use Your Illusion 1
Hole - Live Through This
Hoover - A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular
Hooverphonic - The Magnificent Tree
Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
Ike and Tina Turner - Proud Mary: The Best of Ike and Tina Turner
Intergalactic Lovers - Greetings & Salutations
Interpol - Antics
Inxs - Kick
Iron maiden - The Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Jack White - Blunderbuss
Jake Bugg - Jake Bugg
James Blake - James Blake
James Brown - Sex Machine
James Brown - Live at the Apollo
Jamiroquai - Travelling Without Moving
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch the Throne
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
Joe Jackson - Look Sharp!
John Lennon - Imagine
John Lennon - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Joy Divison - Closer
Justice - †
K’s Choice - Cocoon Crash
Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
Kanye West - The College Dropout
Kanye West - Graduation
Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night
Kings Of Leon - Because Of The Times
Kiss - Alive
Kraftwerk - Radioactivity
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
Lamb - What Sound
Laurent Garnier - Unreasonable Behaviour
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
Leftfield - Leftism
Lenny Kravitz - Are you gonna go my way
Lenny Kravitz - Let love rule
Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavoured Water
Linkin park - Hybrid Theory
live - Throwing Copper
Lou Reed - Berlin
Lou reed - Transformer
Love - Forever Changes
Madness - One Step Beyond
Madonna - Ray of light
Magnus - The Body Gave You Everything
Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists
Mano Negra - Puta's Fever
Manu Chao - Clandestino
Manu Chao - Próxima Estación: Esperanza
Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Metallica - The Black Album
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - ... And Justice for All
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Metallica - Kill 'Em All
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
Michael Jackson - Bad
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Millionaire - Outside The Simian Flock
Milow - The Bigger Picture
Moby - Play
Moby - 18
Moloko - Statues
Moondog Jr. - Everyday I wear a Greasy Black Feather On My Hat
Morphine - Cure For Pain
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
Mumford & Sons - Babel
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
Muse - Black Holes & Revelations
Muse - Absolution
Muse - The Resistance
Muse - The 2nd law
Muse - Showbiz
N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
Nas - Illmatic
Neil Young - Harvest
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
Netsky - 2
Netsky - Netsky
Nick Cave - Murder Ballads
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Let Love In
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Nine inch nails - The downward spiral
Nirvana - Nevermind
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged In New York
Nirvana - In Utero
Nirvana - Bleach
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
No Doubt - Rock Steady
Noordkaap - Gigant
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
Novastar - Novastar
Novastar - Almost Bangor
Oasis - (What’s The Story) Morning Glory
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Orbital - In Sides
Oscar and the Wolf - Entity
Otis Redding - The Dock of the Bay
Outkast - Stankonia
Ozark Henry - Birthmarks
Patti Smith - Horses
Paul Simon - Graceland
Paul Weller - Wild Wood
Pearl Jam - Ten
Pearl Jam - Lightning Bolt
Pearl Jam - Vs.
Pearl Jam - Yield
Peter Gabriel - So
Phil Collins - Face Value
Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That
Pinback - Blue Screen Life
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Pixies - Doolittle
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
Placebo - Black Market Music
Portishead - Dummy
Portishead - Portishead
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
Prince - Purple Rain
Prince - Sign 'O' the Times
Prince - Controversy
Prince - 1999
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Pulp - Different Class
Queen - A Night At The Opera
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyse
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
Queens Of The Stone Age - ... Like Clockwork
R.E.M - Out of Time
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
R.E.M. - Document
R.E.M. - Green
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead - Pablo honey
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Rammstein - Mutter
Rammstein - Sehnsucht
Ramones - The Ramones
Ramones - Rocket to Russia
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Californication
Robert Palmer - Riptide
Robyn - Body Talk
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
Saint Germain - Tourist
Santana - Abraxas
School is Cool - Entropology
Selah Sue - Selah Sue
Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Sigur Ros - ()
Sigur Ros - Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust
Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream
Simple Minds - Sparkle in the Rain
Sinead o' Connor - The Lion and the Cobra
Skunk Anansie - Post Orgasmic Chill
Skunk Anansie - Stoosh
Skunk Anansie - Paranoid & Sunburnt
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Slipknot - Slipknot
Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle
Snow Patrol - Eyes Open
Snow Patrol - Final Straw
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth - Goo
Sonic Youth - Dirty
Soulwax - Nite Versions
Soulwax - Much Against Everyones Advice
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Spearhead - Home
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
Stevie Wonder - Songs In the Key of Life
Stevie Wonder - Innervision
Stromae - Cheese
Stromae - Racine Carrée
Suede - Suede
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
SX - Arche
System Of A Down - Toxicity
t Hof Van Commerce - En in Izzegem
T. Rex - Electric Warrior
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
TC Matic - TC Matic
TC Matic - Choco
Television - Marquee Moon
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Beatles - The White Album
The Beatles - Revolver
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
The Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
The Black Keys - El Camino
The Black Keys - Brothers
The Breeders - Last Splash
The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
The Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
The Clash - London Calling
The Clash - Sandinista !
The Cure - Disintegration
The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
The Cure - Boys Don’t Cry
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
The Doors - The Doors
The Doors - L.A. Woman
The Eagles - Hotel California
The Fugees - The Score
The Human League - Dare
The Killers - Hot Fuss
The Killers - Sam's Town
The Kinks - Kinks
The Knife - Silent Shout
The Last shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement
The National - High Violet
The National - Trouble Will Find Me
The Offspring - Smash
The Offspring - Americana
The Police - Reggatta de Blanc
The Police - Outlandos d'Amour
The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
The Rolling stones - Let it Bleed
The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St.
THE SCABS - Royalty in Exile
The Scene - Open
The Scene - Blauw
The Sisters Of Mercy - First and Last and Always
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
The Smiths - Meat is murder
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
The Stooges - The Stooges
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
The Streets - The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living
The Strokes - Is This It
The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional
The Van Jets - Halo
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Undergound & Nico
The Verve - Urban Hymns
The War On Drugs - Lost in the Dream
The Waterboys - This is the Sea
The White Stripes - Elephant
The White Stripes - Icky Thump
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
The Who - Who's Next
The Who - Tommy
The XX - xx
The XX - Coexist
Therapy? - Troublegum
Tom Waits - Closing Time
Tom Waits - Mule Variations
Tool - Lateralus
Tool - Aenema
Tool - 10,000 Days
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Triggerfinger - By Absence Of The Sun
Triggerfinger - All This Dancin' Around
Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History
U2 - Achtung Baby
U2 - The Joshua Tree
U2 - Rattle and Hum
U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
U2 - The unforgettable fire
U2 - War
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Underworld - Beaucoup fish
Vaccines - What did you expect from the Vaccines
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
Various Artists - Music from the Motion Picture Pulp Fiction
Various Artists - Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More
Various Artists - Trainspotting (soundtrack)
Various artists - The Reservoir Dogs: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Weezer - Weezer (Blue Album)
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
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Hum... Not much support for the French rock scene from our Belgian neighbours, heh? :P No matter, that's still great to see more Arno and TC Matic. However, I'm puzzled by the inclusion of Stromae's Cheese, because it's nowhere near the quality of Racine carrée IMO. It has one fantastic song, but aside from one or two others, the rest of the album is pretty dull.

Very rock-oriented list, but the inclusion of two Underworld albums made my day! Most underrated band ever :)
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A Belgian list of 500 albums without Jacques Brel! :(
I think the list would be eligible anyway.

There are several lists from Studio Brussels at rocklist.net: http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/studio.htm
Is this the first time the staff put together a list for listeners to choose from?
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Henrik wrote:A Belgian list of 500 albums without Jacques Brel! :(
I think the list would be eligible anyway.

There are several lists from Studio Brussels at rocklist.net: http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/studio.htm
Is this the first time the staff put together a list for listeners to choose from?
I can't answer your last question, since I'm not Belgian myself, but for the lack of Jacques Brel, I think it's safe to assume that this list is rock-exclusive (with a few token albums in other genres, but obviously not chanson).
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Henrik wrote:A Belgian list of 500 albums without Jacques Brel! :(
I think the list would be eligible anyway.

There are several lists from Studio Brussels at rocklist.net: http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/studio.htm
Is this the first time the staff put together a list for listeners to choose from?
I'm not 100% sure, but I think it's indeed the first time they did this.

Studio Brussels is a self-proclaimed radio station for youngsters and, as Pierre already mentioned, it's extremely (alternative) rock-oriented, so indeed no Jacques Brel :angry-banghead: , but lots of dEUS and Balthazar. :happy-partydance:


@Pierre, it's a Flemish radio station, so that probably explains the lack of French-language albums. I'm actually surprised Serge Gainsbourg got in.
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Chilton wrote: @Pierre, it's a Flemish radio station, so that probably explains the lack of French-language albums. I'm actually surprised Serge Gainsbourg got in.
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation!
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