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A note: This is for English-language lists. I'm sure someone will start a thread for non-English-language lists.
Henrik- included are the lists that were on the 2015 summary, but, from what I can tell, didn't make the cut for the new update. And I will add
If I missed any of the below in the new update, or if they are not eligible, let me know, and I will delete. The songs lists will be in a separate post.
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Albums
*Albumrock / Albums /Decade (2000s)
http://www.albumrock.net/dossier-discor ... html?x=149
http://www.albumrock.net/dossier-discor ... html?x=155
http://www.albumrock.net/dossier-discor ... html?x=159
http://www.albumrock.net/dossier-discor ... html?x=168
http://www.albumrock.net/dossier-discor ... html?x=180
http://www.albumrock.net/dossier-discor ... html?x=192
*Andrew Earles: Gimme indie rock - 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996 (2014)
https://www.amazon.com/Gimme-Indie-Rock ... 0760346488
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4555
*Anthony Fantano - The Needle Drop- Classic Albums
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3377
*Assante Ernesto & Castaldo Gino - 33 discs without which one can not live
http://withoutmusicians.it/walk-line-11 ... f=3&t=4124
*Ben Ratliff (USA) - The New York Times Essential Library: Jazz: A Critics Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings (2002)
http://www.amazon.com/New-York-Times-Es ... F8&s=books
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3639
*Charlotte Blum (France): Le metal en 100 CD
https://www.discogs.com/lists/Book-Le-m ... 002/204025
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3692
*Christian Eudeline: From Hard Rock to Heavy Metal: The 100 Cult Albums (2014)
https://www.senscritique.com/liste/Du_H ... 00#page-1/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4157#p61115
*Christian Eudeline - 100 Essentials Hard Albums (2007)
http://www.critiqueslibres.com/i.php/vcrit/15668
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4955
*Christophe Brault - Le guide des albums de 1964 à 2004
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3726
*Christophe Conte - L'anti discothèque idéale (2015)
http://www.discogs.com/lists/Book-Lanti ... &limit=250
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3285
*Classic Rock - 100 Greatest Albums of the 70s
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3646
*Complex - The 100 Best Albums of the 2000s
http://uk.complex.com/music/2011/11/the ... the-2000s/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3672
*Classic Rock Magazine (UK) - The Real 100 Greatest Albums of the 80s (2016)
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4979
*Complex - Nas' 25 Favorite Albums (2012)
http://www.complex.com/music/2012/05/na ... te-albums/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4909
*Complex - Kendrick Lamar's 25 Favorite Albums
http://uk.complex.com/music/2012/10/ken ... te-albums/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4983
*D'Head Banger: 100 Best Hard Albums (1990)
http://docslide.fr/documents/les-100-me ... -rock.html#
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4690
*David Hepworth - 1971: Never a Dull Moment- Rock's Golden Year
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3955
*Decibel - Metal Hall of Fame
http://decibelmagazine.com/hall-of-fame ... e-list-new
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2649
*Decibel Magazine: Top 100 Old-school Metal Albums of All Time (2015)
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/DrRock197 ... _all_time/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4934
*Deena Weinstein's Heavy Metal: The Music and Its Culture (2009)
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4588
*Dick Weissman - Blues (2005)
https://books.google.fr/books/about/Blu ... edir_esc=y
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4550
*Diffuser - Various lists (H indicated they probably wouldn't be added in 2017)
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4308&p=64500#p63064
*Drowned in Sound - In Depth: Lost Albums 2000-2015
http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4149 ... -2000-2015
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3777
*Empire - The Greatest Movie Soundtracks: A Celebration
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1780&p=59889#p59889
*Engaged Media - The 100 Greatest Vinyl Records of All Time (2015)
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3256
*Entertainment Weekly - 25 Greatest Albums, 1990-2014
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3046
*FlavorWire - The 50 Essential Women-in-Music Albums
http://flavorwire.com/39305/the-50-esse ... ums-ranked
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3844
*FNAC - The Ideal Discography - 823 Indispensables Albums (2015)
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3072
*FNAC - Le Guide Jazz : La discothèque idéale en 200 CD
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/destroyh ... 0_cd__fnac_/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3871
*FNAC - Pop-Rock: 1980-1999 (2010)
http://www.senscritique.com/liste/La_di ... 85#page-1/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4542
*FNAC - Pop-Rock: 1960-1979 (2010)
http://www.senscritique.com/liste/La_di ... _79/365538
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4542
*Grant Smithies: Soundtrack - 118 Great New Zealand Albums
http://www.arcadiabookshop.co.nz/produc ... landalbums
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2946
*The Guardian: DJ John Peel's 20 Favorite Albums (1997)
http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/Top_20_Albums\
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4802
*Hard Rock Magazine: 100 Best Albums 1984-1993 (1993)
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/barbanet/ ... zine-1993/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4830
*Hard Rock Magazine: 50 Best Albums 1990-1995 (1995)
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/barbanet/ ... zine-1995/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4832
*Hard Rock Magazine: Top 50 Live Albums (1999)
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Hoagie/th ... ve_albums/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4835
*Harvard Hip-Hop Archive - The Most Influential Hip-Hop Albums
http://hiphoparchive.org/blog/3513-harv ... p-classics
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4766
*Hervé Guilleminot (France): La New Wave en 100 CD
https://www.discogs.com/lists/Book-La-N ... -CD/207370
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3686
*HipHop DX - The 25 Most Important Albums of the Decade So Far
http://hiphopdx.com/editorials/id.2844/ ... ade-so-far
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3412
*Honolulu Magazine - The 50 Greatest Hawai'i Albums of All Time
http://www.honolulumagazine.com/Honolul ... -All-Time/
http://www.honolulumagazine.com/Honolul ... ll-Time-2/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3783
*Houston Press - The 30 Best Texas Albums
http://www.houstonpress.com/music/the-3 ... ms-6596553
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3822
*Inrockuptibles - 50 Greatest OST
http://www.lesinrocks.com/2001/07/10/mu ... -11218331/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3699
*The Irish Times - The top 40 Irish albums
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/the-t ... s-1.898706
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2888
*Jazz Magazine - 101 chefs-d'oeuvre
http://www.jazzmagazine.com/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3446
*John M. Borack - Shake Some Action: 200 Greatest Power-Pop Albums
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/jgnikkila ... op_albums/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4245
*Journals/Kurt Cobain - Kurt Cobain's Top 50 Albums
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4803
http://nirvana.wikia.com/wiki/Kurt_Coba ... _50_Albums
*Kerrang!: 666 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die (2012)
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Turkey_Be ... e_you_die/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4841
*Le Mot et le Reste (collection)- Various albums books
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3570
*Les Inrocks - 30 Years of Inrocks: Our Best Albums Since 1986
http://www.lesinrocks.com/2016/02/10/mu ... -11804135/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3479
*Les Inrocks - Top 100 Best English (and Their Welsh, Scottish and Irish Neighbors) Albums
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4096
*Les Inrocks - 100 Meilleurs Albums Anglais et U.S.
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4170
*Lorenzo Barbagli - After the Flood: Progressive rock 1976-2010 (Italia, 2011)
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4892
*Loudwire - Top 70 Hard Rock + Metal Albums of the 1970s
http://loudwire.com/top-hard-rock-metal ... allery-1=1
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4897
*Loudwire - Top 80 Hard Rock + Metal Albums of the 1980s
http://loudwire.com/top-hard-rock-metal-albums-1980s/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3413
*Loudwire - Top 90 Hard Rock + Metal Albums of the 1990s
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4887
*Loudwire - Top 50 Metal Albums of All Time (2015)
http://loudwire.com/top-metal-albums-of-all-time/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4782
*Loudwire - Top 100 Hard Rock + Metal Albums of the 21st Century
http://loudwire.com/top-100-hard-rock-m ... allery-1=2
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4886
*The Merciless Book of Metal Lists - Top 20 Metal Albums EVER
https://www.amazon.com/Merciless-Book-M ... 1419707388
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4020
*Mercury Prize 2015 Nominations
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3089
*Music Magazine 40th anniversary top 100 lists (Japan, 2009)
http://music-1969-1979.seesaa.net/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4630
*Musikexpress (Germany) - The Best Albums 2000-2015
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3131
*Musikexpress (Germany) - The 75 Most Influential Records of All Times
http://www.musikexpress.de/die-75-einfl ... ten-20797/
https://www.discogs.com/lists/The-75-mo ... mes/195372
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3839
* Musikexpress (Germany) - 50 Masterpieces: The Best Unknown Albums of the 70's
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4102
*NME - 50 Albums to Hear Before You Die (Update of 2014 list?)
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3762
*NME - 50 Albums Released in 1985 That Still Sound Great Today
http://www.nme.com/photos/50-albums-rel ... day/369836
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3767
*NME - 100 Lost Albums You Need to Know (2015)
http://www.nme.com/list/100-lost-albums ... -know-1337
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4813
*Olivier Cachin (France): Les 100 albums essentiels du Rap
https://www.amazon.fr/Hip-Hop-Lauthenti ... entries*=0
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3695
*Olivier Cachin & Christophe Geudin (France): 100 best film scores
https://www.discogs.com/lists/Book-100- ... din/201017
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3693
*Olivier Cachin & Christophe Geudin (France): Indispensables Soul, Funk et Rnb
https://www.discogs.com/lists/Book-100- ... din/204117
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3685
*Olivier Cachin & Christophe Geudin (France): 100 albums essentiels du Reggae
https://www.discogs.com/lists/Book-100- ... ine/202223
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3684
*Philippe Robert (France): Great Black Music, un parcours en 110 albums essentiels (2013)
https://www.discogs.com/lists/Book-Grea ... els/232096
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3689
*Q - 100 Greatest Albums of the 1990s
http://www.qthemusic.com/12622/100-grea ... -of-q-now/ (A to Z)
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3096
*Q - 476 Modern Classics: The Greatest Albums of the Last 30 Years
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3843
*QuestLove - Mo’ Meta Blues: The 50 Records That Made QuestLove
https://myspace.com/article/2013/07/02/ ... meta-blues
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4983
*Radio Hazak - The Top 100 Israeli Albums Through '89
http://www.radiohazak.com/R-100.html
http://www.radiohazak.com/R-1002.html
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4929
*Ralf Niemczyk (Germany) - 25 Albums for Men (2007)
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3391
*Record Collectors Rock Album Best 100 (Japan, 2007)
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4623
*Record Collectors Rock Album Best 100 60s-70s-80s (Japan, 2007)
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4627
*Revista Zero: 100 Albums You Must Have If You Don't Want To Be Ashamed (2004)
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Rogeriopg ... ta_zero/1/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4933
*Richard Cook & Brian Morton - The Penguin Guide to Jazz
http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books ... 0141048314
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3999&
*Roadie Crew: 100 Greatest Heavy Metal & Classic Rock Albums (Brazil, 2007)
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/YuriBR/10 ... oadie_crew_/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4935#p67818
*Roadie Crew: the 80 best albums of 1980 (Brazil, 2010)
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Rogeriopg ... e_crew_/2/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4949
*Robert Christgau & David Fricke - The 40 Essential Albums of 1967
http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/rs/albums1967-07.php
https://www.discogs.com/lists/The-40-Es ... 007/291062
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3812
*Robert Christgau - '60s Albums
http://rockcriticsarchives.com/intervie ... au/05.html
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3720&p=59893#p59893
*Robert Christgau - '90s Albums
http://rockcriticsarchives.com/intervie ... au/05.html
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3720&p=59893#p59893
*Rolling Stone (Germany) - The 100 Best Jazz Albums
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1262
*Rolling Stone (Germany) - The 100 Best Albums of the 90s
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4088
*Rumba - Year-End Lists, 1990-2015
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3880
*Sean Egan - The Little Black Book of Music: Key Albums & Key Songs
https://books.google.com.au/books/about ... edir_esc=y
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4343
*S.C. Allemang - Confessions of a Vinyl Junkie By David Bowie (25 Favorite Albums)
http://scallemang.ca/projects/david-bow ... te-albums/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4983
*Simon Reynolds - Best of the 1990s
http://simonreynoldsfavesunfaves.blogsp ... simon.html
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4014
*Simon Reynolds - Best of the 2000s
http://simonreynoldsfavesunfaves.blogsp ... orite.html
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4014
*The Skinny - Top 20 Scottish Albums of the Decade
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2524
*Songlines - The 50 Greatest World Music Albums of the Last Five Years (2015)
http://www.songlines.co.uk/world-music- ... e-years-5/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4816
*Sounds of Australia - Sound Recordings with Cultural, Historical and Aesthetic Significance and Relevance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounds_of_Australia
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4787
*Spin - The Top 100 Alternative Albums of the 1960s
http://www.spin.com/2013/03/best-100-al ... tive-list/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2069
*Taste of Country - 100 Greatest Country Albums of All Time
http://tasteofcountry.com/100-best-country-albums-ever/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3793
*Thurston Moore's 13 Favorite Albums
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4983
*Toby Creswell, Craig Mathieson and John O'Donnell - 100 Best Australian Albums
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Best_ ... ian_Albums
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2918
*Tom Waits' Top 20 Favorite Albums of AllTime
http://www.openculture.com/2016/04/tom- ... -time.html
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4983
*Treble - Best of the 60s Project
http://www.treblezine.com/treble-best-o ... s-project/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3282
*Triple J (Australia) - Hottest 100 Australian Albums (2015)
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/alltime/11/
*Tsunami Edizioni books (2012 to 2016, mostly heavy metal lists)
http://www.tsunamiedizioni.com/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4928
*Ultimate Classic Rock - Top 100 Albums Series (1960s/1970s/1980s/1990s)
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/classic-rock-lists/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2798
*Ultimate Classic Rock - Top 100 Live Albums
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/live-albums-100/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3769
*Ultimate Classic Rock - 1966's 25 Best Rock Albums
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/1966-rock-albums/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3789
*Ultimate Classic Rock - 1967's Best Rock Albums
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/1967-roc ... llery-1=31
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3814
*Ultimate Classic Rock - Top 10 Albums of 1967, 1968 & 1969
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/top-albums-of-1967/
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/1968-albums/
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/1969-albums/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3774
*Ultimate Classic Rock - Top 10 Albums of 1971, 1972, 1973 & 1974
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/top-albums-of-1971/
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/top-albums-of-1972/
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/1973-albums/
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/1974-albums
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3785
*Ultimate Classic Rock - Top 10 Albums of 1977, 1978 and 1979
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/top-10-albums-of-1977/
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/1978-albums/
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/1979-albums/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3786
*Ultimate Classic Rock - Top 10 Albums of 1980s and 1990s
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/top-albums-of-1981/
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/top-albums-of-1982/
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/1983-albums/
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/1984-albums/
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/1986-best-rock-albums/
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/top-albums-of-1987/
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/1988-albums/
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/1989-albums/
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/top-albums-of-1991/
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/1993-albums/
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/1994-albums/
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/1998-albums/
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/1999-albums/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3787
*Ultimate Classic Rock - Top 10 Albums of 2003 and 2008
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/2003-albums/
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/2008-albums/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3788
*Ultimate Classic Rock - Top 10 Debut Albums and Double Albums
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/top-debut-albums/
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/double-albums/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3775
*Ultimate Classic Rock - Masterpieces: The Very Best Albums From More Than 100 Classic Rock Acts
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/best-alb ... k-artists/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4795
*Uncut - 200 Greatest Albums of All Time
http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/Uncut_P2 ... lbums_2016
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3324
*Večernji: 101 albums for a desert island (Croatia, 2008)
http://www.vecernji.hr/glazba/101-album ... tok-838487
http://www.vecernji.hr/glazba/popis-alb ... 101-838521
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4651
*Way Too Indie - Best 50 Albums Of The Decade So Far
http://waytooindie.com/features/50-best ... -decade-1/
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3519
*XXL - 30 Albums That Will Make You Appreciate Hip-Hop
http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2016/03/hip- ... allery-1=1
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3766