Top 10 Albums of All Time

1 – The Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd)

1. Speak to Me ( Mason )
2. Breath ( Waters, Gilmour, Wright )
3. On the Run ( Waters, Gilmour )
4. Time ( Mason, Waters, Gilmour, Wright )
5. The Great Gig in the Sky ( Wright, Clare Torry )
6. Money ( Waters )
7. Us and Them ( Waters, Wright )
8. Any Colour You Like ( Gilmour, Mason, Wright )
9. Brain Damage ( Waters )
10. Eclipse ( Waters )

• Producer: Pink Floyd
• Recorded at Abbey Road Studios (London)
• Released on 1 March, 1973
• Length: 42:59
• Singles: ‘Money’, ‘Time‘/’Us and Them‘

2 – Revolver (The Beatles)

1. Taxman ( Harrison )
2. Eleanor Rigby ( McCartney )
3. I’m Only Sleeping ( Lennon )
4. Love You To ( Harrison )
5. Here, There and Everywhere ( McCartney )
6. Yellow Submarine ( Starr )
7. She Said She Said ( Lennon )
8. God Day Sunshine ( McCartney )
9. And Your Bird Can Sing ( Lennon )
10. For no One ( McCartney )
11. Doctor Robert ( Lennon )
12. I Want to Tell You ( Harrison )
13. Got to Get You into My Life ( McCartney )
14. Tomorrow Never Knows ( Lennon )

• Producer: George Martin
• Recorded at EMI Studios (London)
• Released on 5 August, 1966
• Length: 35:01
• Singles: ‘Yellow Submarine‘/’Eleanor Rigby‘

3 – Are You Experienced? (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)

1. Foxy Lady ( Jimi Hendrix )
2. Manic Depression ( Jimi Hendrix )
3. Red House ( Jimi Hendrix )
4. Can You See Me ( Jimi Hendrix )
5. Love or Confusion ( Jimi Hendrix )
6. I Don’t Live Today ( Jimi Hendrix )
7. May This Be Love ( Jimi Hendrix )
8. Fire ( Jimi Hendrix )
9. Third Stone from the Sun ( Jimi Hendrix )
10. Remember ( Jimi Hendrix )
11. Are You Experienced? ( Jimi Hendrix )

1997 Reissue Bonus Tracks

12. Hey Joe ( Jimi Hendrix )
13. Stone Free ( Jimi Hendrix )
14. Purple Haze ( Jimi Hendrix )
15. 51st Anniversary ( Jimi Hendrix )
16. The Wind Cries Mary ( Jimi Hendrix )
17. Highway Chile ( Jimi Hendrix )

• Producer: Chas Chandler
• Recorded at De Lane Lea, CBS, and Olympic Studios (London)
• Released on 12 May, 1967
• Length: 40:12
• Singles: ‘Hey Joe’/ ‘Stone Free‘, ‘Purple Haze‘/’51st Anniversary‘, ‘The Wind Cries Mary‘/’Highway Chile‘

4 – Led Zeppelin IV (Led Zeppelin)

1. Black Dog ( Jones, Page, Plant )
2. Rock and Roll ( Bonham, Jones, Page, Plant )
3. The Battle of Evermore ( Page, Plant )
4. Stairway to Heaven ( Page, Plant )
5. Misty Mountain Hop ( Jones, Page, Plant )
6. Four Sticks ( Page, Plant )
7. Going to California ( Page, Plant )
8. When the Levee Breaks ( Bonham, Jones, Page, Plant, Memphies Minnie )

• Producer: Jimmy Page
• Recorded at Various Locations
• Released on 8 November, 1971
• Length: 42:25
• Singles: ‘Black Dog’/’Misty Mountain Hop‘, ‘Rock and Roll’/’Four Sticks’

5 – The Velvet Underground and Nico (The Velvet Underground)

1. Sunday Morning ( Reed, Cale )
2. I’m Waiting for the Man ( Reed )
3. Femme Fatale ( Reed )
4. Venus in Furs ( Reed )
5. Run Run Run ( Reed )
6. All Tomorrow’s Parties ( Reed )
7. Heroin ( Reed )
8. There She Goes Again ( Reed )
9. I’ll Be Your Mirror ( Reed )
10. The Black Angel’s Death Song ( Reed, Cale )
11. European Son ( Redd, Cale, Morrison, Tucker)

• Producer: Andy Warhol, Tom Wilson
• Recorded at Various Locations (New York, California)
• Released on 12 March, 1967
• Length: 48:51
• Singles: ‘All Tomorrow’s Parties‘, ‘Sunday Morning‘

6 – Exile on Main Street (The Rolling Stones)

1. Rocks Off ( Jagger, Richards )
2. Rip This Joint ( Jagger, Richards )
3. Shake Your Hips ( Slim Harpo )
4. Casino Boogie ( Jagger, Richards )
5. Tumbling Dice ( Jagger, Richards )
6. Sweet Virginia ( Jagger, Richards )
7. Torn and Frayed ( Jagger, Richards )
8. Sweet Black Angel ( Jagger, Richards )
9. Loving Cup ( Jagger, Richards )
10. Happy ( Jagger, Richards )
11. Turd on the Run ( Jagger, Richards )
12. Ventilator Blues ( Jagger, Richards, Taylor )
13. I Just Want to See His Face ( Jagger, Richards )
14. Let it Loose ( Jagger, Richards )
15. All Down the Line ( Jagger, Richards )
16. Stop Breaking Down ( Johnson )
17. Shine a Light ( Jagger, Richards )
18. Soul Survivor ( Jagger, Richards )

• Producer: Jimmy Miller
• Recorded at Various Locations (Olympic Studios, England, Nellcôte)
• Released on 12 May, 1972
• Length: 67:07
• Singles: ‘Tumbling Dice‘/’Sweet Black Angel‘, ‘Happy‘/’All Down the Line‘

7 – Ok Computer (Radiohead)

1. Airbag ( Radiohead )
2. Paranoid Android ( Radiohead )
3. Subterranean Homesick Alien ( Radiohead )
4. Exit Music (For a Film) ( Radiohead )
5. Let Down ( Radiohead )
6. Karma Police ( Radiohead )
7. Fitter Happier ( Radiohead )
8. Electioneering ( Radiohead )
9. Climbing Up the Walls ( Radiohead )
10. No Surprises ( Radiohead )
11. Lucky ( Radiohead )
12. The Tourist ( Radiohead )

• Producer: Radiohead, Nigel Godrich
• Recorded at Canned Applause in Didcot, St Catherine’s Court in Bath
• Released on 21 May, 1997
• Length: 53:27
• Singles: ‘Paranoid Android‘, ‘Karma Police‘, ‘No Surprises‘

8 – Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan)

1. Like a Rolling Stone ( Bob Dylan )
2. Tombstone Blues ( Bob Dylan )
3. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry ( Bob Dylan )
4. From a Buick 6 ( Bob Dylan )
5. Ballad of a Thin Man ( Bob Dylan )
6. Queen Jane Approximately( Bob Dylan )
7. Highway 61 Revisited ( Bob Dylan )
8. Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues ( Bob Dylan )
9. Desolation Row ( Bob Dylan )

• Producer: Bob Johnston, Tom Wilson (Like a Rolling Stopne)
• Recorded at Columbia Studio A, 799 Seventh Avenue, New York
• Released on 30 August, 1965
• Length: 51:26
• Singles: ‘Like a Rolling Stone‘

9 – Who’s Next (The Who)

1. Baba O’Riley ( Townshend )
2. Bargain ( Townshend )
3. Love Ain’t For Keeping ( Townshend )
4. My Wife ( Entwistle )
5. The Song Is Over ( Townshend )
6. Getting in Tune ( Townshend )
7. Going Mobile ( Townshend )
8. Behind Blue Eyes ( Townshend )
9. Won’t Get Fooled Again ( Townshend )

1995 Reissue Bonus Tracks

10. Pure and Easy ( Townshend )
11. Baby Don’t You Do It ( (Holland, Dozier, Holland )
12. Naked Eye ( Live at the Young Vic 26/4/71 )
13. Water ( Live at the Young Vic 26/4/71 )
14. Too Much of Anything ( Townshend )
15. I Don’t Even Know Myself ( Townshend )
16. Behind Blue Eyes ( Townshend )

• Producer: The Who, Glyn Johns
• Recorded at Olympic Studios (London)
• Released on 14 August, 1971 (UK), 25 August 1971 (US)
• Length: 43:38
• Singles: ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again‘, ‘Baba O’Riley‘, ‘Behind Blue Eyes‘

10 – Definitely Maybe (Oasis)

1. Rock ‘n’ Roll Star ( Noel Gallagher )
2. Shakermaker ( Noel Gallagher )
3. Live Forever ( Noel Gallagher )
4. Up in the Sky ( Noel Gallagher )
5. Columbia ( Noel Gallagher )
6. Supersonic ( Noel Gallagher )
7. Bring It on Down ( Noel Gallagher )
8. Cigarettes & Alcohol ( Noel Gallagher )
9. Digsy’s Dinner ( Noel Gallagher )
10. Slide Away ( Noel Gallagher )
11. Married with Children ( Noel Gallagher )

• Producer: Oasis, Mark Coyle, Owen Morris, Dave Batchelor
• Recorded at Monnow Valley Studio (Monmouth), Sawmills Studio (Cornwall)
• Released on 29 August, 1994
• Length: 51:57
• Singles: ‘Supersonic‘, ‘Shakermaker‘, ‘Live Forever‘, ‘Cigarettes & Alcohol‘, ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Star‘

At One Step of the Top 10:

(no order of preference)

• London Calling (The Clash)
• Pet Sounds (The Beach Boys)
• Born to Run (Bruce Springsteen)
• The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (David Bowie)
• Funeral (Arcade Fire)
• The Doors (The Doors)
• Disraeli Gears (Cream)
• Paranoid (Black Sabbath)
• Grace (Jeff Buckley)
• Nevermind (Nirvana)
• Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (The Beatles)
• Ten (Pearl Jam)
• L.A.Woman (The Doors)
• Let It Bleed (The Rolling Stones)
• Disintegration (The Cure)
• Back in Black (AC/DC)
• Unknown Pleasures (Joy Division)
• Fun House (The Stooges)
• Bringing It All Back Home (Bob Dylan)
• Is This It (The Strokes)
• Metallica (Metallica)
• Hunky Dory (David Bowie)
• Led Zeppelin (Led Zeppelin)
• Murmur (R.E.M.)
• Led Zeppelin II (Led Zeppelin)
• Marquee Moon (Television)
• Surfer Rosa (Pixies)
• Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Neil Young)
• Dummy (Portishead)
• What’s Going On (Marvin Gaye)
• Pink Moon (Nick Drake)
• John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (John Lennon)
• Electric Warrior (T. Rex)
• Blonde on Blonde (Bob Dylan)
• Rubber Soul (The Beatles)
• The Bends (Radiohead)
• Doolitle (Pixies)
• Electric Ladyland (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
• Sticky Fingers (The Rolling Stones)
• Tommy (The Who)

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