1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
120 albums from this book I listened to, in order of release year and album. This table can be resorted by clicking on the column header.
| Year | Artist | Name | Total time listened | Tracks played |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | Frank Sinatra | ▶️ In The Wee Small Hours | 1 hour and 31 minutes | 28 |
| 1967 | Pink Floyd | ▶️ The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn | 2 hours and 10 minutes | 34 |
| 1967 | The Doors | ▶️ The Doors | 0 hour and 43 minutes | 11 |
| 1967 | The Jimi Hendrix Experience | ▶️ Are You Experienced | 1 hour and 21 minutes | 23 |
| 1967 | The Velvet Underground | ▶️ The Velvet Underground & Nico | 1 hour and 1 minute | 13 |
| 1968 | Blue Cheer | ▶️ Vincebus Eruptum | 0 hour and 32 minutes | 6 |
| 1968 | Iron Butterfly | ▶️ In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida | 0 hour and 36 minutes | 6 |
| 1968 | Johnny Cash | ▶️ At Folsom Prison | 0 hour and 58 minutes | 20 |
| 1968 | The Jimi Hendrix Experience | ▶️ Electric Ladyland | 2 hours and 1 minute | 25 |
| 1968 | The Mothers Of Invention | ▶️ We're Only In It For The Money | 1 hour and 20 minutes | 40 |
| 1969 | Elvis Presley | ▶️ From Elvis In Memphis | 3 hours and 31 minutes | 64 |
| 1969 | Isaac Hayes | ▶️ Hot Buttered Soul | 0 hour and 45 minutes | 4 |
| 1969 | Johnny Cash | ▶️ At San Quentin | 2 hours and 56 minutes | 54 |
| 1969 | Led Zeppelin | ▶️ Led Zeppelin | 1 hour and 34 minutes | 20 |
| 1969 | Led Zeppelin | ▶️ Led Zeppelin II | 1 hour and 47 minutes | 23 |
| 1969 | Miles Davis | ▶️ In A Silent Way | 1 hour and 16 minutes | 4 |
| 1969 | The Beatles | ▶️ Abbey Road | 3 hours and 13 minutes | 62 |
| 1969 | The Rolling Stones | ▶️ Let It Bleed | 5 hours and 2 minutes | 61 |
| 1969 | The Who | ▶️ Tommy | 1 hour and 46 minutes | 29 |
| 1970 | Black Sabbath | ▶️ Black Sabbath | 18 hours and 29 minutes | 205 |
| 1970 | Black Sabbath | ▶️ Paranoid | 1 day, 8 hours and 48 minutes | 392 |
| 1970 | Led Zeppelin | ▶️ Led Zeppelin III | 2 hours and 18 minutes | 34 |
| 1971 | Led Zeppelin | ▶️ Led Zeppelin IV | 3 hours and 35 minutes | 36 |
| 1971 | T. Rex | ▶️ Electric Warrior | 0 hour and 38 minutes | 11 |
| 1972 | Alice Cooper | ▶️ School's Out | 1 hour and 1 minute | 14 |
| 1972 | Black Sabbath | ▶️ Volume 4 | 9 hours and 29 minutes | 121 |
| 1972 | David Bowie | ▶️ The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars | 2 hours and 7 minutes | 35 |
| 1972 | Deep Purple | ▶️ Machine Head | 9 hours and 30 minutes | 113 |
| 1972 | Deep Purple | ▶️ Made In Japan | 7 hours and 38 minutes | 42 |
| 1972 | Lou Reed | ▶️ Transformer | 1 hour and 53 minutes | 31 |
| 1973 | Elton John | ▶️ Goodbye Yellow Brick Road | 2 hours and 38 minutes | 25 |
| 1973 | Genesis | ▶️ Selling England By The Pound | 2 hours and 40 minutes | 24 |
| 1973 | Herbie Hancock | ▶️ Head Hunters | 0 hour and 41 minutes | 4 |
| 1973 | Lou Reed | ▶️ Berlin | 0 hour and 49 minutes | 10 |
| 1973 | Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band | ▶️ Bongo Rock | 1 hour and 55 minutes | 29 |
| 1973 | Mike Oldfield | ▶️ Tubular Bells | 0 hour and 48 minutes | 2 |
| 1973 | Pink Floyd | ▶️ The Dark Side Of The Moon | 7 hours and 40 minutes | 101 |
| 1973 | ZZ Top | ▶️ Tres Hombres | 0 hour and 51 minutes | 15 |
| 1974 | Queen | ▶️ Queen II | 16 hours and 4 minutes | 245 |
| 1975 | Led Zeppelin | ▶️ Physical Graffiti | 5 hours and 16 minutes | 53 |
| 1975 | Pink Floyd | ▶️ Wish You Were Here | 21 hours and 20 minutes | 157 |
| 1975 | Queen | ▶️ A Night At The Opera | 17 hours and 47 minutes | 292 |
| 1976 | Boston | ▶️ Boston | 2 hours and 15 minutes | 28 |
| 1977 | Iggy Pop | ▶️ Lust For Life | 1 hour and 1 minute | 13 |
| 1977 | Meat Loaf | ▶️ Bat Out Of Hell | 5 hours and 7 minutes | 44 |
| 1977 | Sex Pistols | ▶️ Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols | 1 hour and 32 minutes | 28 |
| 1978 | Blondie | ▶️ Parallel Lines | 1 hour and 47 minutes | 27 |
| 1978 | Dire Straits | ▶️ Dire Straits | 9 hours and 13 minutes | 118 |
| 1978 | Kraftwerk | ▶️ Die Mensch-Maschine | 0 hour and 50 minutes | 10 |
| 1978 | Public Image Ltd. | ▶️ Public Image: First Issue | 0 hour and 40 minutes | 8 |
| 1978 | Van Halen | ▶️ Van Halen | 4 hours and 19 minutes | 79 |
| 1979 | AC/DC | ▶️ Highway To Hell | 2 hours and 58 minutes | 44 |
| 1979 | Marianne Faithfull | ▶️ Broken English | 2 hours and 19 minutes | 30 |
| 1979 | Michael Jackson | ▶️ Off The Wall | 0 hour and 48 minutes | 11 |
| 1979 | Neil Young & Crazy Horse | ▶️ Rust Never Sleeps | 6 hours and 46 minutes | 93 |
| 1979 | Pink Floyd | ▶️ The Wall | 10 hours and 57 minutes | 156 |
| 1979 | The Clash | ▶️ London Calling | 1 hour and 34 minutes | 28 |
| 1979 | The Police | ▶️ Reggatta De Blanc | 1 hour and 52 minutes | 28 |
| 1979 | The Undertones | ▶️ The Undertones | 2 hours and 6 minutes | 59 |
| 1980 | AC/DC | ▶️ Back In Black | 6 hours and 14 minutes | 83 |
| 1980 | Dead Kennedys | ▶️ Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables | 1 hour and 50 minutes | 42 |
| 1980 | Iron Maiden | ▶️ Iron Maiden | 8 hours and 24 minutes | 116 |
| 1980 | Judas Priest | ▶️ British Steel | 2 hours and 55 minutes | 47 |
| 1980 | Motörhead | ▶️ Ace Of Spades | 9 hours and 59 minutes | 181 |
| 1980 | Talking Heads | ▶️ Remain In Light | 7 hours and 9 minutes | 93 |
| 1981 | Motörhead | ▶️ No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith | 14 hours and 48 minutes | 240 |
| 1981 | Soft Cell | ▶️ Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret | 1 hour and 26 minutes | 23 |
| 1985 | Dire Straits | ▶️ Brothers In Arms | 21 hours and 22 minutes | 206 |
| 1986 | Megadeth | ▶️ Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? | 2 hours and 48 minutes | 39 |
| 1986 | Metallica | ▶️ Master Of Puppets | 16 hours and 25 minutes | 140 |
| 1986 | Slayer | ▶️ Reign In Blood | 17 hours and 8 minutes | 332 |
| 1988 | Metallica | ▶️ ...And Justice For All | 11 hours and 59 minutes | 100 |
| 1990 | Megadeth | ▶️ Rust In Peace | 3 hours and 30 minutes | 46 |
| 1991 | Metallica | ▶️ Metallica | 1 day, 14 hours and 28 minutes | 430 |
| 1991 | Nirvana | ▶️ Nevermind | 16 hours and 13 minutes | 207 |
| 1991 | Red Hot Chili Peppers | ▶️ Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 10 hours and 16 minutes | 141 |
| 1992 | Dr. Dre | ▶️ The Chronic | 10 hours and 59 minutes | 166 |
| 1992 | Rage Against The Machine | ▶️ Rage Against The Machine | 1 day, 1 hour and 31 minutes | 292 |
| 1993 | Björk | ▶️ Debut | 1 hour and 36 minutes | 22 |
| 1993 | Pet Shop Boys | ▶️ Very | 21 hours and 15 minutes | 291 |
| 1993 | Snoop Dogg | ▶️ Doggystyle | 11 hours and 0 minute | 163 |
| 1993 | Wu-Tang Clan | ▶️ Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 1 hour and 10 minutes | 15 |
| 1994 | Blur | ▶️ Parklife | 1 hour and 36 minutes | 25 |
| 1994 | Green Day | ▶️ Dookie | 7 hours and 34 minutes | 157 |
| 1994 | Massive Attack | ▶️ Protection | 1 hour and 1 minute | 13 |
| 1994 | Nine Inch Nails | ▶️ The Downward Spiral | 4 hours and 20 minutes | 54 |
| 1994 | Nirvana | ▶️ MTV Unplugged In New York | 6 hours and 17 minutes | 98 |
| 1994 | Oasis | ▶️ Definitely Maybe | 4 hours and 33 minutes | 55 |
| 1994 | Portishead | ▶️ Dummy | 0 hour and 57 minutes | 13 |
| 1994 | Soundgarden | ▶️ Superunknown | 8 hours and 29 minutes | 108 |
| 1994 | The Offspring | ▶️ Smash | 13 hours and 36 minutes | 272 |
| 1994 | The Prodigy | ▶️ Music For The Jilted Generation | 5 hours and 49 minutes | 58 |
| 1995 | Alanis Morissette | ▶️ Jagged Little Pill | 3 hours and 41 minutes | 56 |
| 1995 | Foo Fighters | ▶️ Foo Fighters | 0 hour and 46 minutes | 13 |
| 1995 | Garbage | ▶️ Garbage | 2 hours and 25 minutes | 35 |
| 1995 | The Verve | ▶️ A Northern Soul | 1 hour and 4 minutes | 12 |
| 1996 | Marilyn Manson | ▶️ Antichrist Superstar | 2 hours and 39 minutes | 38 |
| 1997 | The Prodigy | ▶️ The Fat Of The Land | 6 hours and 48 minutes | 70 |
| 1998 | Korn | ▶️ Follow The Leader | 9 hours and 31 minutes | 122 |
| 1999 | Metallica | ▶️ S&M | 17 hours and 26 minutes | 167 |
| 1999 | Moby | ▶️ Play | 1 hour and 29 minutes | 24 |
| 1999 | Red Hot Chili Peppers | ▶️ Californication | 1 day, 7 hours and 32 minutes | 490 |
| 2000 | Coldplay | ▶️ Parachutes | 1 hour and 2 minutes | 15 |
| 2000 | Eminem | ▶️ The Marshall Mathers LP | 4 hours and 5 minutes | 53 |
| 2000 | Madonna | ▶️ Music | 1 hour and 14 minutes | 17 |
| 2000 | PJ Harvey | ▶️ Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea | 0 hour and 57 minutes | 14 |
| 2001 | Björk | ▶️ Vespertine | 1 hour and 1 minute | 13 |
| 2001 | The White Stripes | ▶️ White Blood Cells | 1 hour and 25 minutes | 34 |
| 2002 | Coldplay | ▶️ A Rush Of Blood To The Head | 0 hour and 57 minutes | 12 |
| 2002 | Johnny Cash | ▶️ American IV: The Man Comes Around | 8 hours and 6 minutes | 126 |
| 2002 | Norah Jones | ▶️ Come Away With Me | 0 hour and 48 minutes | 15 |
| 2003 | The White Stripes | ▶️ Elephant | 3 hours and 2 minutes | 49 |
| 2004 | Franz Ferdinand | ▶️ Franz Ferdinand | 1 hour and 0 minute | 17 |
| 2004 | Green Day | ▶️ American Idiot | 13 hours and 53 minutes | 193 |
| 2004 | Morrissey | ▶️ You Are The Quarry | 2 hours and 36 minutes | 48 |
| 2004 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | ▶️ Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus | 1 hour and 27 minutes | 18 |
| 2004 | Rufus Wainwright | ▶️ Want Two | 1 hour and 14 minutes | 17 |
| 2006 | Amy Winehouse | ▶️ Back To Black | 1 hour and 47 minutes | 32 |
| 2009 | The xx | ▶️ xx | 1 hour and 1 minute | 18 |
| 2010 | Arcade Fire | ▶️ The Suburbs | 1 hour and 3 minutes | 16 |