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LONG LIVE VINYL (UK) - 100 Essential Albums

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THE VINYL BUYER'S BIBLE
Special issue of the UK printed magazine with plenty of best albums lists covering different genres and
most prominent artists, including this one.

100 Essential Albums by the experts from Discogs:

1 PINK FLOYD The Dark Side Of The Moon 1973
2 THE BEATLES Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band 1967
3 MICHAEL JACKSON Thriller 1982
4 PINK FLOYD Wish You Were Here 1975
5 THE BEATLES Abbey Road 1969
6 FLEETWOOD MAC Rumours 1977
7 LED ZEPPELIN Led Zeppelin IV 1971
8 PINK FLOYD The Wall 1979
9 THE BEATLES The Beatles (White Album) 1968
10 LED ZEPPELIN Led Zeppelin II 1969
11 THE BEATLES Revolver 1966
12 LED ZEPPELIN Led Zeppelin 1969
13 THE BEATLES Rubber Soul 1965
14 DAVID BOWIE The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars 1972
15 DIRE STRAITS Brothers In Arms 1985
16 LED ZEPPELIN Led Zeppelin III 1970
17 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Born In The U.S.A. 1984
18 EAGLES Hotel California 1976
19 THE BEATLES 1967-1970 1973
20 PINK FLOYD Animals 1977
21 PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION Purple Rain 1984
22 NEIL YOUNG Harvest 1972
23 BLACK SABBATH Paranoid 1970
24 PINK FLOYD Meddle 1971
25 THE BEATLES 1962-1966 1973
26 MILES DAVIS Kind Of Blue 1959
27 AC/DC Back In Black 1980
28 LED ZEPPELIN Houses Of The Holy 1973
29 THE BEATLES Let It Be 1970
30 SIMON AND GARFUNKEL Bridge Over Troubled Water 1970
31 THE DOORS The Doors 1967
32 SUPERTRAMP Breakfast In America 1979
33 THE BEATLES Magical Mystery Tour 1967
34 DAVID BOWIE Let's Dance 1983
35 DIRE STRAITS Dire Straits 1978
36 U2 The Joshua Tree 1987
37 THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE Are You Experienced 1967
38 RADIOHEAD OK Computer 1997
39 CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG Déjà Vu 1970
40 LED ZEPPELIN Physical Graffiti 1975
41 STEWIE WONDER Songs In The Key of Life 1976
42 THE WHO Who's Next 1971
43 THE CLASH London Calling 1979
44 SEX PISTOLS Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols 1977
45 THE POLICE Synchronicity 1983
46 VARIOUS Saturday Night Fever (Soundtrack) 1977
47 NIRVANA Nevermind 1991
48 QUEEN A Night At The Opera 1975
49 THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO The Velvet Underground & Nico 1967
59 SIMON AND GARFUNKEL Simon And Garfunkel's Greatest Hits 1972
51 THE ROLLING STONES Sticky Fingers 1971
52 THE ROLLING STONES Some Girls 1978
53 MICHAEL JACKSON BAD 1987
54 BOSTON Boston 1976
55 GUNS N' ROSES Appetite For Destruction 1987
56 THE ROLLING STONES Let It Bleed 1969
57 THE DOORS L.A. Woman 1971
58 LED ZEPPELIN In Through The Out Door 1979
59 BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS Legend 1984
60 NEIL YOUNG After The Gold Rush 1970
61 DAVID BOWIE Hunky Dory 1971
62 SANTANA Abraxas 1970
63 THE POLICE Zenyatta Mondatta 1980
64 PINK FLOYD Ummagumma 1969
65 BLACK SABBATH Black Sabbath 1970
66 THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE Electric Ladyland 1968
67 NEW ORDER Blue Monday EP 1983
68 KING CRIMSON In The Court Of The Crimson King 1969
69 JETHRO TULL Aqualung 1971
70 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Born To Run 1975
71 PAUL SIMON Graceland 1986
72 JOY DIVISION Unknown Pleasures 1979
73 THE POLICE Regatta De Blanc 1979
74 PINK FLOYD Atom Heart Mother 1970
75 MICHAEL JACKSON Off The Wall 1979
76 AC/DC Highway To Hell 1979
77 BLACK SABBATH Master Of Reality 1971
78 JOHN LENNON AND YOKO ONO Double Fantasy 1980
79 BLONDIE Parallel Lines 1978
80 THE BEACH BOYS Pet Sounds 1966
81 MEAT LOAF Bat Out Of Hell 1977
82 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The River 1980
83 DAVID BOWIE Blackstar 2016
84 THE POLICE Ghost In The Machine 1981
85 MIKE OLDFIELD Tubular Bells 1973
86 FLEETWOOD MAC Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac 1968
87 DAFT PUNK Random Access Memories 2013
88 ELTON JOHN Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 1973
89 JOHN LENNON Imagine 1971
90 DEEP PURPLE Machine Head 1971
91 DAVID BOWIE Aladdin Sane 1973
92 BOB DYLAN Desire 1976
93 STEELY DAN Aja 1977
94 IRON MAIDEN The Number Of The Beast 1982
95 THE POLICE Outlandos D'Amour 1978
96 EAGLES Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 1976
97 SUPERTRAMP Crime Of The Century 1974
98 QUEEN News Of The World 1977
99 CAROLE KING Tapestry 1971
100 THE ROLLING STONES Exile On Main St. 1972
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40 Essential Hip-Hop Albums:
(alphabetical)

2PAC All Eyez On Me 1996
50 CENT Get Rich Or Die Tryin' 2003
A TRIBE CALLED QUEST The Low And Theory 1991
BEASTIE BOYS Paul's Boutique 1989
BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS Criminal Minded 1987
COMMON Be 2005
CYPRESS HILL Black Sunday 1993
DE LA SOUL 3 Feet High And Rising 1989
DJ SHADOW Endtroducing… 1996
DMX It's Dark & Hell Is Hot 1998
DR. DRE The Chronic 1992
EMINEM Marshall Matters LP 2000
ERIC B. & RAKIM Paid In Full 1987
FUGEES The Score (Refugee Camp) 1996
GANG STARR Step In The Arena 1990
ICE CUBE Death Certificate 1991
ICE-T O.G. Original Gangster 1991
JAY-Z The Blueprint 2001
JURASSIC 5 Quality Control 2000
KANYE WEST The College Dropout 2004
KENDRICK LAMAR Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City 2012
LUPE FIASCO Food And Liquor 2006
MISSY ELLIOTT Supa Dupa Fly 1997
MOBB DEEP The Infamous 1995
MOS DEF Black On Both Sides 1999
N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton 1988
NAS Illmatic 1994
NOTORIOUS B.I.G. Ready To Die 1994
OUTKAST Speakerboxxx/The Love Below 2003
PETE ROCK & C.L. SMOOTH Mecca And The Soul Brother 1992
PHARCYDE Labcabincalifornia 1995
PUBLIC ENEMY It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back 1988
ROOTS Things Fall Apart 1999
RUN-D.M.C. Run-D.M.C. 1984
SALT-N-PEPA Hot, Cool & Vicious 1986
SLICK RICK The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick 1988
SNOOP DOGGY DOGG Doggystyle 1993
ULTRAMAGNETIC MC'S Critical Beatdown 1988
WARREN G Regulate… G Funk Era 1994
WU-TANG CLAN Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) 1993
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40 Essential Jazz Albums:
(alphabetical)

ALBERT AYLER Spiritual Unity 1964
ANDREW HILL Point Of Departure 1964
ART BLAKEY Moanin' 1958
ART PEPPER Meets The Rhythm Section 1957
BILL EVANS TRIO Waltz For Debby 1961
BOBBY HUTCHERSON Dialogue 1965
BOOKER ERVIN The Freedom Book 1963
CHARLES MINGUS Mingus Ah Um 1959
CHET BAKER In New York 1958
CLIFFORD BROWN & MAX ROACH Study In Brown 1955
DEXTER GORDON Our Man In Paris 1963
DON RENDELL & IAN CARR 5TET Dusk Fire 1966
ERIC DOLPHY Out To Lunch! 1964
FREDDIE HUBBARD Red Clay 1970
GRANT GREEN Idle Moments 1963
HANK MOBLEY Soul Station 1960
HERBIE HANCOCK Empyrean Isles 1964
JIMMY SMITH Back At The Chicken Shack 1960
JOE HENDERSON Mode For Joe 1966
JOHN COLTRANE A Love Supreme 1964
KENNY DORHAM Afro-Cuban 1955
LEE MORGAN The Sidewinder 1963
MILES DAVIS Kind Of Blue 1959
OLIVER NELSON The Blues And The Abstract Truth 1961
ORNETTE COLEMAN The Shape Of Jazz To Come 1959
PHAROAH SANDERS Karma 1969
ROY HAYNES Cracklin' 1963
SONNY ROLLINS Saxophone Colossus 1956
STAN GETZ & JOAO GILBERTO Getz/Gilberto 1963
SUN RA The Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra, Vol. 1 1965
THE AHMAD JAMAL TRIO The Awakening 1970
THE CANNONBALL ADDERLEY QUINTET In San Francisco 1959
THE DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET Time Out 1959
THE HORACE SILVER QUINTET Song For My Father 1964
THE MODERN JAZZ QUARTET Concorde 1955
THE STAN TRACEY QUARTET Jazz Suite Inspired By Dylans Thomas' Under Milk Wood 1999
THE TUBBY HAYES QUARTET Mexican Green 1968
THELONIOUS MONK Brilliant Corners 1957
TINA BROOKS True Blue 1960
WES MONTGOMERY The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of Wes Montgomery 1960
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40 Essential Country Albums:
(alphabetical)

BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS Knee Deep In Blue Grass 1958
BOBBIE GENTRY Ode To Billie Joe 1967
BUCK OWENS & HIS BUCKAROOS I've Got A Tiger By The Tail 1965
CHRIS STAPLETON Traveller 2015
DIXIE CHICKS Wide Open Spaces 1998
DOLLY PARTON Coat Of Many Colors 1971
DWIGHT YOAKAM Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc.,Etc. 1986
EMMYLOU HARRIS Pieces Of The Sky 1975
ERNEST TUBB The Daddy Of 'Em All 1957
GEORGE JONES The Grand Tour 1974
GEORGE JONES & TAMMY WYNETTE Golden Ring 1976
GEORGE STRAIT Strait From The Heart 1982
GLEN CAMPBELL Galveston 1969
GUY CLARK Old No. 1 1975
HANK WILLIAMS SR. Moanin' The Blues 1952
JOE ELY Honky Tonk Masquerade 1978
JOHNNY CASH With His Hot And Blue Guitar! 1957
JOHNNY CASH At Folsom Prison 1968
JOHNNY CASH American Recordings 1994
KITTY WELLS Country Hit Parade 1956
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON Kristofferson 1970
LEFTY FRIZZELL The One And Only Lefty Frizzell 1959
LORETTA LYNN Fist City 1968
LORETTA LYNN Van Lear Rose 2004
LYLE LOVETT Pontiac 1987
MARGO PRICE Midwest Darmer's Daughter 2016
MERLE HAGGARD Mama Tried 1968
NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND Will The Circle Be Unbroken 1972
PATSY CLINE Showcase 1961
RANDY TRAVIS Storms Of Life 1986
RAY CHARLES Modern Sounds In Country And Western 1962
ROSANNE CASH Black Cadillac 2006
STEVE EARLE Guitar Town 1986
STEVE EARLE & THE DEL McCOURY BAND The Mountain 1999
STURGILL SIMPSON Metamodern Sounds In Country Music 2014
THE HIGHWAYMEN Highwayman 1985
THE LOUVIN BROTHERS Satan Is Real 1959
VARIOUS ARTISTS O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Soundtrack) 2000
WAYLON JENNINGS Honky Tonk Heroes 1973
WILLIE NELSON Shotgun Willie 1973
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40 Essential Reggae Albums:
(alphabetical)

AUGUSTUS PABLO King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown 1976
BEENIE MAN Art And Life 2000
BIG YOUTH Screaming Target 1973
BLACK UHURU Red 1981
BOB ANDY & MARCIA GRIFFITHS Young, Gifted And Black 1970
BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS Exodus 1977
BUJU BANTON Til Shiloh 1995
BUNNY WAILER Blackheart Man 1976
BURNING SPEAR Marcus Garvey 1975
BUSHMAN Nyah Man Chant 1997
CULTURE Two Sevens Clash 1978
DENNIS BROWN Wolf & Leopards 1977
DESMOND DEKKER This Is Desmond Dekkar 1969
DILLINGER CB 200 1976
DR. ALIMANTADO Best Dressed Chicken In Town 1978
GARNETT SILK It's Growing 1992
GREGORY ISAACS Night Nurse 1982
HUGH MUNDELL Africa Must Be Free By 1983 1978
JIMMY CLIFF The Harder They Come 1972
JUNIOR MURVIN Police & Thieves 1977
KEITH HUDSON Pick A Dub 1974
LINTON KWESI JOHNSON Dread Beat An' Blood 1978
MAX ROMEO & THE UPSETTERS War Ina Babylon 1976
MIGHTY DIAMONDS Right Time 1976
MISTY IN ROOTS Live At The Counter Eurovision 1979 1979
PETER TOSH Legalize It 1976
PRINCE BUSTER I Feel The Spirit 1963
PROTOJE Ancient Future 2015
SIZZLA Black Woman & Child 1997
STEEL PULSE Handsworth Revolution 1978
TAPPA ZUKIE In Dub 1977
THE CONGOS Heart Of The Congos 1977
THE HEPTONES Party Time 1977
THE PARAGONS On The Beach 1967
THE SKATALITES Ska-Boo-Da-Ba 1965
THE UPSETTERS Super Ape 1976
THE WAILERS Catch A Fire 1973
TOOTS & THE MAYTALS Funky Kingston 1972
U-ROY Version Galore 1971
YELLOWMAN Mister Yellowman 1982
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Marlon wrote: Sat Jan 13, 2018 9:15 pm 40 Essential Hip-Hop Albums:
(alphabetical)

2PAC All Eyez On Me 1996
50 CENT Get Rich Or Die Tryin' 2003
A TRIBE CALLED QUEST The Low And Theory 1991
BEASTIE BOYS Paul's Boutique 1989
BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS Criminal Minded 1987
COMMON Be 2005
CYPRESS HILL Black Sunday 1993
DE LA SOUL 3 Feet High And Rising 1989
DJ SHADOW Endtroducing… 1996
DMX It's Dark & Hell Is Hot 1998
DR. DRE The Chronic 1992
EMINEM Marshall Matters LP 2000
ERIC B. & RAKIM Paid In Full 1987
FUGEES The Score (Refugee Camp) 1996
GANG STARR Step In The Arena 1990
ICE CUBE Death Certificate 1991
ICE-T O.G. Original Gangster 1991
JAY-Z The Blueprint 2001
JURASSIC 5 Quality Control 2000
KANYE WEST The College Dropout 2004
KENDRICK LAMAR Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City 2012
LUPE FIASCO Food And Liquor 2006
MISSY ELLIOTT Supa Dupa Fly 1997
MOBB DEEP The Infamous 1995
MOS DEF Black On Both Sides 1999
N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton 1988
NAS Illmatic 1994
NOTORIOUS B.I.G. Ready To Die 1994
OUTKAST Speakerboxxx/The Love Below 2003
PETE ROCK & C.L. SMOOTH Mecca And The Soul Brother 1992
PHARCYDE Labcabincalifornia 1995
PUBLIC ENEMY It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back 1988
ROOTS Things Fall Apart 1999
RUN-D.M.C. Run-D.M.C. 1984
SALT-N-PEPA Hot, Cool & Vicious 1986
SLICK RICK The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick 1988
SNOOP DOGGY DOGG Doggystyle 1993
ULTRAMAGNETIC MC'S Critical Beatdown 1988
WARREN G Regulate… G Funk Era 1994
WU-TANG CLAN Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) 1993
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Vacantjoy wrote: Wed Apr 26, 2023 6:19 pm The Top 10 Essential Metal Vinyl
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Rage Against The Machine ➚ – Rage Against The Machine

9
Judas Priest ➚ – Sad Wings Of Destiny

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Iron Maiden ➚ – Powerslave

7
Megadeth ➚ – Rust In Peace

6
Dio ➚ – Holy Diver

5
Metallica ➚ – Master Of Puppets

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Black Sabbath ➚ – Black Sabbath

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Iron Maiden ➚ – The Number Of The Beast

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Metallica ➚ – Metallica

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Marlon wrote: Sat Jan 13, 2018 11:08 pm 40 Essential Reggae Albums:
(alphabetical)

AUGUSTUS PABLO King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown 1976
BEENIE MAN Art And Life 2000
BIG YOUTH Screaming Target 1973
BLACK UHURU Red 1981
BOB ANDY & MARCIA GRIFFITHS Young, Gifted And Black 1970
BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS Exodus 1977
BUJU BANTON Til Shiloh 1995
BUNNY WAILER Blackheart Man 1976
BURNING SPEAR Marcus Garvey 1975
BUSHMAN Nyah Man Chant 1997
CULTURE Two Sevens Clash 1978
DENNIS BROWN Wolf & Leopards 1977
DESMOND DEKKER This Is Desmond Dekkar 1969
DILLINGER CB 200 1976
DR. ALIMANTADO Best Dressed Chicken In Town 1978
GARNETT SILK It's Growing 1992
GREGORY ISAACS Night Nurse 1982
HUGH MUNDELL Africa Must Be Free By 1983 1978
JIMMY CLIFF The Harder They Come 1972
JUNIOR MURVIN Police & Thieves 1977
KEITH HUDSON Pick A Dub 1974
LINTON KWESI JOHNSON Dread Beat An' Blood 1978
MAX ROMEO & THE UPSETTERS War Ina Babylon 1976
MIGHTY DIAMONDS Right Time 1976
MISTY IN ROOTS Live At The Counter Eurovision 1979 1979
PETER TOSH Legalize It 1976
PRINCE BUSTER I Feel The Spirit 1963
PROTOJE Ancient Future 2015
SIZZLA Black Woman & Child 1997
STEEL PULSE Handsworth Revolution 1978
TAPPA ZUKIE In Dub 1977
THE CONGOS Heart Of The Congos 1977
THE HEPTONES Party Time 1977
THE PARAGONS On The Beach 1967
THE SKATALITES Ska-Boo-Da-Ba 1965
THE UPSETTERS Super Ape 1976
THE WAILERS Catch A Fire 1973
TOOTS & THE MAYTALS Funky Kingston 1972
U-ROY Version Galore 1971
YELLOWMAN Mister Yellowman 1982
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The Top 40 Essential Post-Punk Vinyl
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