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Oct 12, 2019 · We've taken a deep-dive into rock's most monumental moments to present you with the definitive list of the best rock albums of all time
- Appetite For Destruction
A music writer since 1993, formerly Editor of Kerrang! and...
- Quadrophenia
Quadrophenia the album is a record awash with metaphor –...
- Lifehouse
The other was “a Utopian rock music idyll” titled Guitar...
- Debut Album
Modestly but accurately – and then some. Forty years after...
- The Clash
As Chris Knowles points out in his brilliant collection of...
- Iron Maiden
16. Virtual XI (1998) Yes, The Angel & The Gambler is at...
- The Who
16. It’s Hard (1982) While lead single Athena is insipid,...
- Nirvana
Nirvana are one of the biggest and most influential bands in...
- Appetite For Destruction
- Brett Milano
- Little Richard – 17 Grooviest Original Hits. This is it, the essential sound that made most of the greatest rock albums possible. The deeper tracks here, like “Boo-Hoo-Hoo-Hoo” and “Send Me Some Lovin’”, bear out the gospel and blues roots that Little Richard channeled into rock’n’roll.
- Chuck Berry – The Great Twenty-Eight. Chuck Berry was such a master of the rock 45 that his definitive statement has to be this greatest hits album. There’s no filler or deep cuts in sight: Every track is a touchstone, from the debut single “Maybelline” to the Merseybeat nod on “I Wanna Be Your Driver.”
- The Beatles – The Beatles (The White Album) Revolver stands as one of the best rock albums ever. And Sgt. Pepper inspired a million bands to get psychedelic.
- Nirvana – Nevermind. Nevermind wound up having a far greater cultural impact than its creators intended or even wanted. But at the end of the day, songs like lead single “Smells Like Teen Spirit” really were strong enough to make this one of the greatest albums of all time.
- Arcade Fire, ‘Funeral’ Loss, love, forced coming-of-age, and fragile generational hope: Arcade Fire’s debut touched on all these themes as it defined the independent rock of the ‘00s.
- Rufus, Chaka Khan, ‘Ask Rufus’ Fronted by Chaka Khan, one of soul music’s most combustible singers, Rufus built its mid-Seventies sound on heavy-footed, guitar-slathered funk.
- Suicide, ‘Suicide’ These New York synth-punks evoke everything from the Velvet Underground to rockabilly. Martin Rev’s low-budget electronics are violent and hypnotic; Alan Vega screams as a rhythmic device.
- Various Artists, ‘The Indestructible Beat of Soweto’ The greatest album ever to be marketed under the heading “world music,” this 1985 compilation of South African pop was a huge influence on Paul Simon’s Graceland that still sounds jarringly fresh today.
Dec 7, 2022 · From Alvvays’ panoramic anthems to Chat Pile’s scorched-earth sludge, Soul Glo’s bruising hardcore to Wet Leg’s wily indie rock, these are the rock albums that stood out this year.
- Pitchfork
Dec 8, 2021 · The 31 Best Rock Albums of 2021. From Snail Mail’s explosive breakup anthems to the Armed’s conceptual fireworks, Lucy Dacus’ home movies to Mdou Moctar’s virtuosic guitar anthems, these are...
- Pitchfork
Dec 6, 2023 · The 37 Best Rock Albums of 2023. The year in indie rock, punk, singer-songwriter and solo guitar music, shoegaze, metal, and everything in between. By Pitchfork. December 6, 2023.
the week's most popular rock albums, based on multimetric consumption, blending traditional album sales, streaming-equivalent albums and track-equivalent albums, as compiled by luminate.
