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Guitar World greatest albums - decade anniversaries lists (2011-2015)

Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2017 10:42 pm
by Pierre
Apparently that was a thing a few years ago at Guitar World - celebrating the tenth, twentieth, thirtieth or fourtieth anniversary of a year with a top of "essential albums of", "albums that defined" "great albums celebrating their #0th anniversary" and other random qualifications. Also, when they say 50, read 5#.

Personal unnecessary achievement: I just managed to find a second list with KISS's Music from 'The Elder'! Embarrassing.

Sparkle and Fade: The 50 Essential Albums of 1995 (2015)
http://www.guitarworld.com/features-new ... 5/%0924697

Faith No More | King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime
Mudhoney | My Brother the Cow
King Crimson | THRAK
Guided by Voices | Alien Lanes
Gov't Mule | Gov't Mule
Gary Moore | Blues for Greeny
Fugazi | Red Medicine
Free Kitten | Nice Ass
Foo Fighters | Foo Fighters
The Flaming Lips | Clouds Taste Metallic
Neil Young | Mirror Ball
Oasis | (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Opeth | Orchid
Ozzy Osbourne | Ozzmosis
Paul Weller | Stanley Road
Pavement | Wowee Zowee
Peter Frampton | Frampton Comes Alive II
Pink Floyd | Pulse
Primus | Tales from the Punchbowl
Prince | The Gold Experience
Pulp | Different Class
Radiohead | The Bends
Ramones | Adios Amigos!
Red Hot Chili Peppers | One Hot Minute
Red House Painters | Ocean Beach
Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow | Stranger in Us All
Sleater-Kinney | Sleater-Kinney
The Smashing Pumpkins | Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Son Volt | Trace
Sonic Youth | Washing Machine
Soul Asylum | Let Your Dim Lights Shine
Teenage Fanclub | Grand Prix
Throwing Muses | University
Van Halen | Balance
The Verve | A Northern Soul
White Zombie | Astro Creep 2000: Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head
Wilco | A.M.
Yo La Tengo | Electr-O-Pura
Extreme | Waiting for the Punchline
Elliott Smith | Elliott Smith
Everclear | Sparkle and Fade
Elastica | Elastica
AC/DC | Ballbreaker
Alice in Chains | Alice in Chains
Anthrax | Stomp 442
B. B. King | Lucille & Friends
The Beatles | Anthology 1
Blur | The Great Escape
Bruce Springsteen | The Ghost of Tom Joad
David Bowie | Outside


Soul to Soul: 50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1985 (2015)
http://www.guitarworld.com/features-new ... 5/%0924476

Mötley Crüe | Theatre of Pain
New Order | Low-Life
Night Ranger | Seven Wishes
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds | The Firstborn Is Dead
The Firm | The Firm
Gary Moore | Run for Cover
Heart | Heart
The Highwaymen | Highwayman
The Hoodoo Gurus | Mars Needs Guitars!
Hüsker Dü | Flip Your Wig
Iron Maiden | Life After Death
The Jesus & Mary Chain | Psychocandy
John Fogerty | Centerfield
John Cougar Mellencamp | Scarecrow
Johnny Winter | Serious Business
Meat Puppets | Up on the Sun
Megadeth | Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good!
Minutemen | 3-Way Tie (For Last)
The Smiths | Meat Is Murder
Slayer | Hell Awaits
Rush | Power Windows
The Replacements | Tim
Red Hot Chili Peppers | Freaky Styley
R.E.M. | Fables of the Reconstruction
Prince & the Revolution | Around the World in a Day
The Pogues | Rum, Sodomy & the Lash
Pat Benatar | Seven the Hard Way
Pantera | I Am the Night
The Dead Milkmen | Big Lizard in My Backyard
Dinosaur Jr. | Dinosaur
Dire Straits | Brothers in Arms
Exodus | Bonded by Blood
The Fall | This Nation's Saving Grace
Descendents | I Don't Want to Grow Up
Dead Kennedys | Frankenchrist
The Cure | The Head on the Door
The Chameleons | What Does Anything Mean? Basically
Bryan Ferry | Boys and Girls
Black Flag | In My Head
B. B. King | Six Silver Strings
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble | Soul to Soul
Sonic Youth | Bad Moon Rising
Anthrax | Spreading the Disease
Albert Collins, Robert Cray & Johnny Copeland | Showdown!
Sting | The Dream of the Blue Turtles
Suzanne Vega | Suzanne Vega
Talking Heads | Little Creatures
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers | Southern Accents
Tom Waits | Rain Dogs
Yngwie J. Malmsteem | Marching Out
ZZ Top | Afterburner


Rubber Soul: 40 Albums That Defined 1965 (2015)
http://www.guitarworld.com/features/rub ... 5/%0924790

B. B. King | Live at the Regal
Bob Dylan | Highway 61 Revisited
Booker T. & the MGs | Soul Dressing
The Byrds | Mr. Tambourine Man
The Byrds | Turn! Turn! Turn!
Chuck Berry | Fresh Berry's
Freddie King | Bonanza of Instrumentals
The Fugs | The Fugs First Album
Jackson C. Frank | Jackson C. Frank
John Coltrane | A Love Supreme
John Fahey | The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers | John Mayall Plays John Mayall
Johnny Cash | Orange Blossom Special
The Kinks | Kinda Kinks
The Kinks | The Kink Kontroversy
The Lovin' Spoonful | Do You Believe in Magic
Manfred Mann | Mann Made
Miles Davis | E.S.P.
The Moody Blues | The Magnificent Moodies
Otis Redding | Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band | The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Paul Simon | The Paul Simon Song Book
Phil Ochs | I Ain't Marching Anymore
The Rolling Stones | Out of Our Heads
The Rolling Stones | The Rolling Stones No. 2
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles | Going to A-Go-Go
The Sonics | Here Are the Sonics!
The Supremes | More Hits by the Supremes
Them | The Angry Young Them
Vince Guaraldi | A Charlie Brown Christmas
The Who | My Generation
The Yardbirds | For Your Love
The Yardbirds | Having a Rave Up
The Zombies | The Zombies
Bob Dylan | Bringing It All Back Home
The Beatles | Rubber Soul
The Beatles | Help!
The Beach Boys | The Beach Boys Today!
The Beach Boys | Summer Days (and Summer Nights!!)
The Animals | Animal Tracks


Blow by Blow: 50 Albums That Defined 1975 (2015)
http://www.guitarworld.com/features-new ... 5/%0924598

Bob Seger | Beautiful Loser
Brian Eno | Another Green World
Bruce Springsteen | Born to Run
Carly Simon | Playing Possum
Chicago | Chicago VIII
Crosby & Nash | Wind on the Water
David Bowie | Young Americans
Dr. Feelgood | Down by the Jetty
Eagles | One of These Nights
Edgar Winter | Jasmine Nightdreams
Electric Light Orchestra | Face the Music
Elton John | Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
Eric Clapton | There's One in Every Crowd
Foghat | Fool for the City
Freddie King | Larger Than Life
Funkadelic | Let's Take It to the Stage
George Harrison | Extra Texture (Read All About It)
Grateful Dead | Blues for Allah
Ian Hunter | Ian Hunter
Jeff Beck | Blow by Blow
Jethro Tull | Minstrel in the Gallery
Joan Baez | Diamonds & Rust
John Lennon | Rock 'n' Roll
Joni Mitchell | The Hissing of Summer Lawns
KISS | Alive!
Kraftwerk | Radioaktivität
Led Zeppelin | Physical Graffiti
Lou Reed | Metal Machine Music
Lynyrd Skynyrd | Nuthin' Fancy
Montrose | Warner Bros. Presents
Neil Young | Tonight's the Night
Neil Young & Crazy Horse | Zuma
Patti Smith | Horses
Paul McCartney and Wings | Venus and Mars
Paul Simon | Still Crazy After All These Years
Pink Floyd | Wish You Were Here
Queen | A Night at the Opera
Rainbow | Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
Return to Forever | No Mystery
Robin Trower | For Earth Below
Rush | Caress of Steel
Steely Dan | Katy Lied
Thin Lizzy | Fighting
Tom Waits | Nighthawks at the Diner
The Who | The Who by Numbers
Bob Marley & the Wailers | Live!
Bob Dylan | Blood on the Tracks
Black Sabbath | Sabotage
Bad Company | Straight Shooter
Alice Cooper | Welcome to My Nightmare
Aerosmith | Toys in the Attic
AC/DC | TNT
ZZ Top | Fandango!


Saints and Sinners: 60 Iconic Albums That Defined 1974 (2014)
http://www.guitarworld.com/features-new ... 4/%0921262

Deep Purple | Burn
KISS | KISS
Steppenwolf | Slow Flux
Fleetwood Mac | Heroes Are Hard to Find
Electric Light Orchestra | Eldorado
Raspberries | Starting Over
Todd Rundgren's Utopia | Todd Rundgren's Utopia
Traffic | When the Eagle Flies
John Lennon | Walls and Bridges
The Rolling Stones | It's Only Rock 'N' Roll
Santana | Borboletta
Montrose | Paper Money
Foghat | Rock and Roll Outlaws
Kraftwerk | Autobahn
Scorpions | Fly to the Rainbow
Yes | Relayer
Gene Clark | No Other
Hot Tuna | The Phosphorescent Rat
Gram Parsons | Grievous Angel
Brian Eno | Here Come the Warm Jets
Roy Harper | Valentine
Slade | Old New Borrowed and Blue
T. Rex | Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow
Ten Years After | Positive Vibrations
UFO | Phenomenon
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel | The Psychomodo
Jerry Garcia | Compliments
Freddie King | Burglar
Ted Nugent's Amboy Dukes | Tooth Fang & Claw
Joe Cocker | I Can Stand a Little Rain
Queen | Queen II
Frank Zappa | Apostrophe (')
Robin Trower | Bridge of Sighs
King Crimson | Starless and Bible Black
Mott the Hoople | The Hoople
Eagles | On the Border
Grand Funk Railroad | Shinin' On
Peter Frampton | Somethin's Happening
Kansas | Kansas
Lynyrd Skynyrd | Second Helping
David Bowie | Diamond Dogs
J. J. Cale | Okie
Procol Harum | Exotic Birds and Fruit
The Residents | Meet the Residents
Blue Öyster Cult | Secret Treaties
Edgar Winter | Shock Treatment
Albert King | I Wanna Get Funky
New York Dolls | Too Much Too Soon
Bad Company | Bad Company
Barclay James Harvest | Everyone Is Everybody Else
Uriah Heep | Wonderworld
Neil Young | On the Beach
Eric Clapton | 461 Ocean Boulevard
Bachman-Turner Overdrive | Not Fragile
Judas Priest | Rocka Rolla
Bob Dylan & the Band | Planet Waves
Big Star | Radio City
Lou Reed | Rock N Roll Animal
Johnny Winter | Saints & Sinners
Rush | Rush
Aerosmith | Get Your Wings


New Found Power: 50 Albums That Defined 2004 (2014)
http://www.guitarworld.com/gw-archive-f ... 4/%0921984

GWAR | War Party
Liars | They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
Primal Fear | Devil's Ground
Probot | Probot
Animal Collective | Sung Tongs
Los Lobos | The Ride
The Cure | The Cure
The Hives | Tyrannosaurus Hives
Rise Against | Siren Song of the Counter Culture
Drive-By Truckers | The Dirty South
Asia | Silent Nation
The Libertines | The Libertines
Lamb of God | Ashes of the Wake
The Black Keys | Rubber Factory
Senses Fail | Let It Enfold You
Dio | Master of the Moon
Kasabian | Kasabian
Arcade Fire | Funeral
Megadeth | The System Has Failed
Green Day | American Idiot
Europe | Start from the Dark
Interpol | Antics
The Explosion | Black Tape
Sum 41 | Chuck
Jimmy Eat World | Futures
Rammstein | Reise, reise
U2 | How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
The Futureheads | The Futureheads
Scorpions | Unbreakable
Motörhead | Inferno
Ministry | Houses of the Mole
Wilco | A Ghost Is Born
Phish | Undermind
The Killers | Hot Fuss
My Chemical Romance | Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
Sonic Youth | Sonic Nurse
Velvet Revolver | Contraband
Slipknot | Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)
DragonForce | Sonic Firestorm
Lenny Kravitz | Baptism
Franz Ferdinand | Franz Ferdinand
Joe Satriani | Is There Love in Space?
Modest Mouse | Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Buckethead | Population Override
Muse | Absolution
Damageplan | New Found Power
The Walkmen | Bows & Arrows
The Hold Steady | Almost Killed Me
The Von Bondies | Pawn Shoppe Heart
TV on the Radio | Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes


Superunknown: 50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1994 (2014)
http://www.guitarworld.com/features-new ... 4/%0921245

Dream Theater | Awake
Edge of Sanity | Purgatory Afterglow
Emperor | In the Nightside Eclipse
Eric Clapton | From the Cradle
Green Day | Dookie
Guided by Voices | Bee Thousand
Hole | Live Through This
Jeff Buckley | Grace
Jimmie Vaughan | Strange Pleasure
Jimmy Page & Robert Plant | No Quarter: Unledded
Johnny Cash | American Recordings
Korn | Korn
Marilyn Manson | Portrait of an American Family
Meat Puppets | Too High to Die
Mötley Crüe | Motley Crue
Oasis | Definitely Maybe
Pantera | Far Beyond Driven
Pavement | Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
P.O.D. | Snuff the Punk
Queensrÿche | Promised Land
Stone Temple Pilots | Purple
Megadeth | Youthanasia
Nine Inch Nails | The Downward Spiral
Nirvana | MTV Unplugged in New York
NOFX | Punk in Drublic
The Offspring | Smash
Pearl Jam | Vitalogy
Pink Floyd | The Division Bell
R.E.M. | Monster
Richard Thompson | Mirror Blue
The Rolling Stones | Voodoo Lounge
Sebadoh | Bakesale
The Smashing Pumpkins | Pisces Iscariot
Sonic Youth | Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
Soundgarden | Superunknown
Suede | Dog Man Star
Testament | Low
Tom Petty | Wildflowers
Dinosaur Jr. | Without a Sound
The Cranberries | No Need to Argue
Bush | Sixteen Stone
Blur | Parklife
Black Sabbath | Cross Purposes
The Black Crowes | Amorica
Beck | Mellow Gold
Beastie Boys | Ill Communication
Alice in Chains | Jar of Flies
Bad Religion | Stranger Than Fiction
Ween | Chocolate & Cheese
Weezer | Weezer (Blue Album)
Yngwie Malmsteem | The Seventh Sign


New Sensations: 50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1984 (2014)
http://www.guitarworld.com/features-new ... 4/%0921242

Anthrax | Fistful of Metal
Mercyful Fate | Don't Break the Oath
Black Flag | My War
Bruce Springsteen | Born in the U.S.A.
Yngwie J. Malmsteem | Rising Force
Quiet Riot | Condition Critical
David Gilmour | About Face
Deep Purple | Perfect Strangers
Red Hot Chili Peppers | The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Steve Vai | Flex-Able
Hüsker Dü | Zen Arcade
Ratt | Out of the Cellar
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts | Glorious Results of a Misspent Youth
King Crimson | Three of a Perfect Pair
The Replacements | Let It Be
Lou Reed | New Sensations
Dio | The Last in Line
Y&T | In Rock We Trust
Metallica | Ride the Lightning
Motörhead | No Remorse
Prince & the Revolution | Purple Rain
Queen | The Works
Queensrÿche | The Warning
Ramones | Too Tough to Die
R.E.M. | Reckoning
Talking Heads | Stop Making Sense
Van Halen | 1984
The Smiths | The Smiths
Roger Waters | The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking
Los Lobos | How Will the Wolf Survive?
The Cure | The Top
Twisted Sister | Stay Hungry
U2 | The Unforgettable Fire
KISS | Animalize
Whitesnake | Slide It In
Johnny Winter | Guitar Slinger
Son Seals | Bad Axe
Pretenders | Learning to Crawl
Johnny Copeland | Texas Twister
The Cult | Dreamtime
Rush | Grace Under Pressure
Minutemen | Double Nickels on the Dime
Spinal Tap | This Is Spinal Tap
Bob Marley | Legend
Iron Maiden | Powerslave
Foreigner | Agent Provocateur
Bon Jovi | Bon Jovi
The Pogues | Red Roses for Me
Judas Priest | Defenders of the Faith
Scorpions | Love at First Sting
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble | Couldn't Stand the Weather


Big Hair and Bigger Riffs: 40 Albums That Defined 1983 (2013)
http://www.guitarworld.com/features-new ... 3/%0919829

Slayer | Show No Mercy
Metallica | Kill 'Em All
Lou Reed | Legendary Hearts
KISS | Lick It Up
The Kinks | State of Confusion
Accept | Balls to the Wall
Journey | Frontiers
Iron Maiden | Piece of Mind
Mötley Crüe | Shout at the Devil
Hanoi Rocks | Back to Mystery City
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble | Texas Flood
Dio | Holy Diver
Black Sabbath | Born Again
Ozzy Osbourne | Bark at the Moon
AC/DC | Flick of the Switch
ZZ Top | Eliminator
Def Leppard | Pyromania
Quiet Riot | Metal Health
David Bowie | Let's Dance
Bad Brains | Rock for Light
Frank Zappa | Baby Snakes
Pantera | Metal Magic
The Police | Synchronicity
Alcatrazz | No Parole from Rock 'n' Roll
Sonic Youth | Confusion Is Sex
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts | Album
Ministry | With Sympathy
Minutemen | What Makes a Man Start Fires?
Violent Femmes | Violent Femmes
Billy Idol | Rebel Yell
R.E.M. | Murmur
Rainbow | Bent Out of Shape
Yes | 90125
Bob Dylan | Infidels
Eric Clapton | Money and Cigarettes
Robert Cray | Bad Influence
Robert Plant | The Principle of Moments
Stray Cats | Rant N' Rave with the Stray Cats
U2 | War
Albert Collins & the Ice Breakers | Don't Lose Your Cool


1973 Photo Gallery: 50 Classic Albums Celebrating Their 40th Anniversary in 2013 (2013)
http://www.guitarworld.com/gw-archive-f ... their-40th

Procol Harum | Grand Hotel
Roxy Music | Stranded
Aerosmith | Aerosmith
Little Feat | Dixie Chicken
John Lennon | Mind Games
Paul McCartney & Wings | Band on the Run
George Harrison | Living in the Material World
Ringo Starr | Ringo
Badfinger | Ass
Toots & the Maytals | Funky Kingston
The Allman Brothers Band | Brothers and Sisters
B. B. King | To Know You Is to Love You
Blue Öyster Cult | Tyranny and Mutation
Mott the Hoople | Mott
Gram Parsons | GP
Montrose | Montrose
Golden Earring | Moontan
Jethro Tull | A Passion Play
Grateful Dead | Wake of the Flood
Deep Purple | Who Do We Think We Are
Freddie King | Woman Across the River
Roy Buchanan | That's What I Am Here For
Thin Lizzy | Vagabonds of the Western World
Al Green | Call Me
The Rolling Stones | Goats Head Soup
Mahavishnu Orchestra | Birds of Fire
Faces | Ooh La La
Bob Marley & the Wailers | Burnin'
Queen | Queen
Bruce Springsteen | The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
Frank Zappa | Over-Nite Sensation
Alice Cooper | Billion Dollar Babies
Eagles | Desperado
King Crimson | Larks' Tongues in Aspic
ZZ Top | Tres Hombres
New York Dolls | New York Dolls
Pink Floyd | The Dark Side of the Moon
Emerson, Lake & Palmer | Brain Salad Surgery
Marvin Gaye | Let's Get It On
Bob Marley & the Wailers | Catch a Fire
Elton John | Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Yes | Tales from Topographic Oceans
Lynyrd Skynyrd | (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd)
David Bowie | Aladdin Sane
Iggy and the Stooges | Raw Power
Genesis | Selling England by the Pound
The Who | Quadrophenia
Led Zeppelin | Houses of the Holy
Black Sabbath | Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Steely Dan | Countdown to Ecstasy


1972 - 50 Classic Albums Celebrating Their 40th Anniversary in 2012 (2012)
http://www.guitarworld.com/features-new ... 2/%0915007

Pink Floyd | Obscured by Clouds
Jackson Browne | Jackson Browne
Grateful Dead | Europe '72
Curtis Mayfield | Super Fly
America | Homecoming
The Moody Blues | Seventh Sojourn
Humble Pie | Smokin'
Frank Zappa | Waka/Jawaka
Jethro Tull | Living in the Past
Uriah Heep | Demons and Wizards
Emerson, Lake & Palmer | Trilogy
Stephen Stills | Manassas
Elton John | Honky Château
T. Rex | The Slider
Deep Purple | Made in Japan
The Allman Brothers Band | Eat a Peach
Big Star | #1 Record
Genesis | Foxtrot
Lou Reed | Transformer
David Bowie | The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Foghat | Foghat
John Lee Hooker | Never Get Out of These Blues Alive
Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention | Just Another Band from LA
The Guess Who | Rockin'
James Gang | Passin' Thru
Neil Young | Harvest
Buddy Guy & Junior Wells | Play the Blues
Van Morrison | Saint Dominic's Preview
Wishbone Ash | Argus
Mott the Hoople | All the Young Dudes
Eagles | Eagles
Jimi Hendrix | Hendrix in the West
Rory Gallagher | Live in Europe
ZZ Top | Rio Grande Mud
Scorpions | Lonesome Crow
Thin Lizzy | Shades of a Blue Orphanage
B. B. King | Guess Who
Jeff Beck | Jeff Beck Group
Alice Cooper | School's Out
Jethro Tull | Thick as a Brick
Yes | Close to the Edge
The Rolling Stones | Exile on Main St.
Deep Purple | Machine Head
Black Sabbath | Vol 4
Edgar Winter | They Only Come Out at Night
Joe Walsh & Barnstorm | Barnstorm
Fleetwood Mac | Bare Trees
Todd Rundgren | Something/Anything?
Albert King | I'll Play the Blues for You
Freddie King | Texas Cannonball


1981 - 50 Great Albums Celebrating Their 30th Anniversary in 2011 (2011)
http://www.guitarworld.com/features/50- ... 1/%0913617

Electric Light Orchestra | Time
Black Sabbath | Mob Rules
Foreigner | 4
Billy Squier | Don't Say No
Elvis Costello | Trust
Frank Zappa | Shut Up n' Play Yer Guitar
Riot | Fire Down Under
Motörhead | No Sleep 'till Hammersmith
Eric Clapton | Another Ticket
KISS | Music from 'The Elder'
Judas Priest | Point of Entry
George Harrison | Somewhere in England
The Who | Face Dances
Def Leppard | High n' Dry
Rainbow | Difficult to Cure
B. B. King | There Must Be a Better World Somewhere
Genesis | Abacab
The Rolling Stones | Tattoo You
Styx | Paradise Theater
U2 | October
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts | I Love Rock n' Roll
ZZ Top | El Loco
Jaco Pastorius | Word of Mouth
Pretenders | Pretenders II
The Allman Brothers Band | Brothers of the Road
Blue Öyster Cult | Fire of Unknown Origin
Accept | Breaker
Peter Frampton | Breaking All the Rules
Hanoi Rocks | Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks
The Michael Schenker Group | MSG
Ramones | Pleasant Dreams
Santana | Zebop!
The Cars | Shake It Up
Tygers of Pan Tang | Spellbound
Minutemen | The Punch Line
Whitesnake | Coma an' Get It
X | Wild Gift
UFO | The Wild, The Willing and the Innocent
Mötley Crüe | Too Fast for Love
Alice Cooper | Special Forces
Ozzy Osbourne | Diary of a Madman
The Police | Ghost in the Machine
Gang of Four | Solid Gold
King Crimson | Discipline
Journey | Escape
Black Flag | Damaged
Van Halen | Fair Warning
Iron Maiden | Killers
AC/DC | For Those About to Rock
Rush | Moving Pictures


1991 - 50 Great Albums Celebrating Their 20th Anniversary in 2011 (2011)
http://www.guitarworld.com/features-new ... 1/%0911659

Butthole Surfers | Pioughd
The Smashing Pumpkins | Gish
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble | The Sky Is Crying
Guns N' Roses | Use Your Illusion I
Guns N' Roses | Use Your Illusion II
U2 | Achtung Baby
Slint | Spiderland
Great White | Hooked
B. B. King | Live at the Apollo
Kyuss | Wretch
Entombed | Clandestine
Blues Traveler | Travelers and Thieves
Iced Earth | Night of the Stormrider
Suffocation | Effigy of the Forgotten
Uriah Heep | Different World
Skyclad | Wayward Sons of Mother Earth
Nirvana | Nevermind
Sepultura | Arise
Prong | Prove You Wrong
My Bloody Valentine | Loveless
Violent Femmes | Why Do Birds Sing?
Teenage Fanclub | Bandwagonesque
Skid Row | Slave to the Grind
The Rolling Stones | Flashpoint
Metallica | Metallica
Sleep | Volume One
Dinosaur Jr. | Green Mind
Temple of the Dog | Temple of the Dog
Pixies | Trompe le monde
Red Hot Chili Peppers | Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Ozzy Osbourne | No More Tears
Type O Negative | Slow, Deep and Hard
Queen | Innuendo
Screaming Trees | Uncle Anesthesia
Mr. Big | Lean Into It
Morbid Angel | Blessed Are the Sick
Hole | Pretty on the Inside
Yes | Union
Fugazi | Steady Diet of Nothing
Motörhead | 1916
Blur | Leisure
Lenny Kravitz | Mama Said
Buddy Guy | Damn Right, I've Got the Blues
Van Halen | For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
Death | Human
The Fabulous Thunderbirds | Walk That Walk, Talk That Talk
Primus | Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Monster Magnet | Spine of God
Pearl Jam | Ten
Soundgarden | Badmotorfinger


1971 Photo Gallery: 50 Classic Albums Celebrating Their 40th Anniversary in 2011 (2011)
http://www.guitarworld.com/features-gea ... rsary-2011

Traffic | The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
Emerson, Lake & Palmer | Pictures at an Exhibition
Don McLean | American Pie
ZZ Top | ZZ Top's First Album
Ten Years After | A Space in Time
David Bowie | Hunky Dory
Marvin Gaye | What's Going On
The Doors | L.A. Woman
T. Rex | Electric Warrior
Funkadelic | Maggot Brain
Janis Joplin | Pearl
Yes | The Yes Album
Mahavishnu Orchestra | The Inner Mounting Flame
Elton John | Madman Across the Water
Santana | Santana III
Uriah Heep | Look at Yourself
Alice Cooper | Killer
B. B. King | B. B. King in London
Howlin' Wolf | The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions
Freddie King | Getting Ready...
America | America
Todd Rundgren | Runt. The Ballad of Todd Rundgren
Leon Russell | Leon Russell and the Shelter People
Johnny Winter | Johnny Winter And... Live
Rory Gallagher | Rory Gallagher
Badfinger | Straight Up
Genesis | Nursery Cryme
Deep Purple | Fireball
Rod Stewart | Every Picture Tells a Story
Jethro Tull | Aqualung
Pink Floyd | Meddle
The Allman Brothers Band | At Fillmore East
John Lennon | Imagine
Paul & Linda McCartney | Ram
The Rolling Stones | Sticky Fingers
Black Sabbath | Master of Reality
Yes | Fragile
The Who | Who's Next
Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin IV
George Harrison | The Concert for Bangla Desh
Albert King | Lovejoy
Jeff Beck | Rough and Ready
Alice Cooper | Love It to Death
The Kinks | Muswell Hillbillies
Faces | A Nod Is as Good as a Wink... To a Blind Horse
Budgie | Budgie
Little Feat | Little Feat
Mountain | Nantucket Sleighride
Thin Lizzy | Thin Lizzy
Van Morrison | Tupelo Honey

I might have missed some. Please don't hesitate to post them if you find them.