AllMusic 5 Star Albums

Roots

Blues

• Champion Jack Dupree – Blues from the Gutter (April 1959)
• Etta James – At Last! (November 15, 1960)
• Muddy Waters – At Newport 1960 (November 15, 1960)
• Lightnin’ Slim – Rooster Blues (1960)
• Bobby “Blue” Bland – Two Steps from the Blues (January 1, 1961)
• John Lee Hooker – Plays and Sings the Blues (1961)
• Robert Johnson – King of the Delta Blues Singers (1961)
• John Lee Hooker – Burnin’ (March 1962)
• Etta James – Rocks the House (December 13, 1963)
• Mississippi Fred McDowell – Mississippi Delta Blues (August 1964)
• B.B. King – Live at the Regal (February 1965)
• Skip James – Today! (1965)
• John Mayall – Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton (July 22, 1966)
• Magic Sam Blues Band – West Side Soul (1967)
• Robert Johnson – King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. 2 (1970)
• B.B. King – Live in Cook County Jail (January 1971)
• Charley Patton – Founder of the Delta Blues (1971)
• Otis Spann – Walking the Blues (1972)
• Muddy Waters – Hard Again (January 10, 1977)
• Buckwheat Zydeco Ils Sont Partis Band – 100% Fortified Zydeco (1983)
• Robert Cray – Bad Influence (1983)
• Robert Cray – Strong Persuader (November 17, 1986)

Folk

• Woody Guthrie – Dust Bowl Ballads, Vol. 1 (1940)
• Woody Guthrie – Dust Bowl Ballads, Vol. 2 (1940)
• Various Artists – Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol. 1 (1952)
• Various Artists – Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol. 2 (1952)
• Various Artists – Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol. 3 (1952)
• Woody Guthrie – Songs to Grow on for Mother and Child (1956)
• Woody Guthrie – Bound for Glory (1956)
• The Weavers – The Weavers at Carnegie Hall (April 1957)
• Elizabeth Cotten – Folksongs & Instrumentals with Guitar (1958)
• Pete Seeger – Sleep-Time: Songs & Stories (1958)
• Joan Baez – Joan Baez (1960)
• Dave Van Ronk – Dave Van Ronk, Folksinger (1962)
• Bob Dylan – The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (May 27, 1963)
• Davy Graham – The Guitar Player (1963)
• The New Christy Minstrels – Ramblin’ Featuring Green, Green (1963)
• Buffy Sainte-Marie – It’s My Way! (April 1964)
• Bob Dylan – Another Side of Bob Dylan (August 8, 1964)
• Doc Watson – Doc Watson (1964)
• Woody Guthrie – Library of Congress Recordings, Vols. 1-3 (1964)
• Bob Dylan – Bringing It All Back Home (March 22, 1965)
• The Byrds – Mr. Tambourine Man (June 21, 1965)
• Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited (August 30, 1965)
• Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde (May 16, 1966)
• The Byrds – Younger Than Yesterday (February 6, 1967)
• Bob Dylan – John Wesley Harding (December 27, 1967)
• The Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo (August 30, 1968)
• Bob Dylan – Nashville Skyline (April 9, 1969)
• Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks (January 17, 1975)
• Bob Dylan / The Band – The Basement Tapes (June 26, 1975)

Country

• The Louvin Brothers – Tragic Songs of Life (October 1956)
• Hank Thompson – Dance Ranch (1958)
• The Louvin Brothers – Satan Is Real (November 16, 1959)
• Hank Thompson – Songs for Rounders (1959)
• The Country Gentlemen – Country Songs, Old and New (1960)
• Buck Owens – Buck Owens Sings Harlan Howard (August 28, 1961)
• Faron Young – Hello Walls (1961)
• Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys – Foggy Mountain Banjo (1961)
• Hank Thompson – At the Golden Nugget (1961)
• Ray Charles – Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (April 1962)
• Ray Charles – Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Volume Two (October 1962)
• Buck Owens and His Buckaroos – I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail (March 1, 1965)
• Buck Owens and His Buckaroos – The Carnegie Hall Concert (July 25, 1966)
• Hank Thompson – A Six Pack to Go (1966)
• Hank Thompson – On Tap, in the Can or in the Bottle (1968)

Popular

Folk Revival, Folk-Pop & Folk-Rock

• Burl Ives – The Wayfaring Stranger (1955)
• The Weavers – The Weavers at Carnegie Hall (April 1957)
• Elizabeth Cotten – Folksongs & Instrumentals with Guitar (1958)
• Pete Seeger – Sleep-Time: Songs & Stories (1958)
• Joan Baez – Joan Baez (1960)
• Dave Van Ronk – Dave Van Ronk, Folksinger (1962)
• Bob Dylan – The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (May 27, 1963)
• Davy Graham – The Guitar Player (1963)
• The New Christy Minstrels – Ramblin’ Featuring Green, Green (1963)
• Buffy Sainte-Marie – It’s My Way! (April 1964)
• Bob Dylan – Another Side of Bob Dylan (August 8, 1964)
• Doc Watson – Doc Watson (1964)
• Woody Guthrie – Library of Congress Recordings, Vols. 1-3 (1964)
• Bob Dylan – Bringing It All Back Home (March 22, 1965)
• The Byrds – Mr. Tambourine Man (June 21, 1965)
• Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited (August 30, 1965)
• Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde (May 16, 1966)
• The Byrds – Younger Than Yesterday (February 6, 1967)
• Bob Dylan – John Wesley Harding (December 27, 1967)
• The Incredible String Band – The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter (March 1968)
• The Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo (August 30, 1968)
• Dillard & Clark – The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark (October 1968)
• Bob Dylan – Nashville Skyline (April 9, 1969)
• Fairport Convention – Unhalfbricking (July 1969)
• Fairport Convention – Liege & Lief (December 1969)
• Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks (January 17, 1975)
• Bob Dylan / The Band – The Basement Tapes (June 26, 1975)

Singer/Songwriter & Soft Rock

• Simon & Garfunkel – Bookends (March 1968)
• Van Morrison – Astral Weeks (November 29, 1968)
• Bob Dylan – Nashville Skyline (April 9, 1969)
• Neil Young with Crazy Horse – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (May 14, 1969)
• Crosby, Stills & Nash – Crosby, Stills & Nash (May 29, 1969)
• Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water (January 26, 1970)
• Van Morrison – Moondance (January 27, 1970)
• James Taylor – Sweet Baby James (February 1, 1970)
• Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Déjà Vu (March 11, 1970)
• Neil Young – After the Gold Rush (August 31, 1970)
• Elton John – Tumbleweed Connection (October 30, 1970)
• Joni Mitchell – Blue (June 30, 1971)
• Paul Simon – Paul Simon (January 24, 1972)
• Jackson Browne – Jackson Browne (January 1972)
• Elton John – Honky Château (May 19, 1972)
• Paul Simon – There Goes Rhymin’ Simon (May 5, 1973)
• Joni Mitchell – Court and Spark (January 17, 1974)
• Richard and Linda Thompson – I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (April 30, 1974)
• Neil Young – On the Beach (July 16, 1974)
• Jackson Browne – Late for the Sky (September 13, 1974)
• Linda Ronstadt – Heart Like a Wheel (November 19, 1974)
• Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks (January 17, 1975)
• Joan Baez – Diamonds & Rust (April 1975)
• Elton John – Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (May 19, 1975)
• Neil Young – Tonight’s the Night (June 20, 1975)
• Bob Dylan / The Band – The Basement Tapes (June 26, 1975)
• Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Rust Never Sleeps (June 27, 1979)
• Richard & Linda Thompson – Shoot Out the Lights (March 15, 1982)
• Paul Simon – Graceland (August 25, 1986)

Country-Rock

• Bob Dylan – The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (May 27, 1963)
• Buffy Sainte-Marie – It’s My Way! (April 1964)
• Bob Dylan – Another Side of Bob Dylan (August 8, 1964)
• Bob Dylan – Bringing It All Back Home (March 22, 1965)
• The Byrds – Mr. Tambourine Man (June 21, 1965)
• Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited (August 30, 1965)
• Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde (May 16, 1966)
• The Byrds – Younger Than Yesterday (February 6, 1967)
• Bob Dylan – John Wesley Harding (December 27, 1967)
• The Incredible String Band – The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter (March 1968)
• Simon & Garfunkel – Bookends (March 1968)
• The Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo (August 30, 1968)
• Dillard & Clark – The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark (October 1968)
• Bob Dylan – Nashville Skyline (April 9, 1969)
• Crosby, Stills & Nash – Crosby, Stills & Nash (May 29, 1969)
• Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water (January 26, 1970)
• Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Déjà Vu (March 11, 1970)
• Joni Mitchell – Blue (June 30, 1971)
• Joni Mitchell – Court and Spark (January 17, 1974)
• Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks (January 17, 1975)
• Joan Baez – Diamonds & Rust (April 1975)
• Bob Dylan / The Band – The Basement Tapes (June 26, 1975)

Rock & Roll, AM Pop, British Invasion & Blue-Eyed Soul

• Elvis Presley – Elvis Presley (March 23, 1956)
• Big Joe Turner – The Boss of the Blues (June 1956)
• Elvis Presley – Elvis (October 19, 1956)
• The Everly Brothers – The Everly Brothers (January 1958)
• Bo Diddley – Bo Diddley (1958)
• The Beatles – Please Please Me (March 22, 1963)
• The Beatles – With the Beatles (November 22, 1963)
• The Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night [Soundtrack] (July 10, 1964)
• The Beatles – Beatles for Sale (December 4, 1964)
• The Rolling Stones – 12 X 5 (October 17, 1964)
• The Beach Boys – Today! (March 8, 1965)
• The Rolling Stones – The Rolling Stones, Now! (April 1965)
• The Beatles – Help! [Soundtrack] (August 6, 1965)
• The Who – My Generation (1965)
• The Rolling Stones – Aftermath (June 1966)
• The Kinks – Face to Face (October 28, 1966)
• The Animals – Animalism (November 21, 1966)
• The Kinks – Something Else by the Kinks (September 15, 1967)
• The Band – Music from Big Pink (July 1, 1968)
• Elvis Presley – From Elvis in Memphis (June 17, 1969)
• Creedence Clearwater Revival – Green River (August 3, 1969)
• The Band – The Band (September 22, 1969)
• Creedence Clearwater Revival – Willy and the Poor Boys (November 2, 1969)
• Creedence Clearwater Revival – Cosmo’s Factory (July 16, 1970)

Psychedelic/Garage & Acid Rock

• The Beatles – Rubber Soul (December 3, 1965)
• The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds (May 16, 1966)
• The Beatles – Revolver (August 5, 1966)
• The Doors – The Doors (January 4, 1967)
• The Rolling Stones – Between the Buttons (January 1967)
• Jefferson Airplane – Surrealistic Pillow (February 1, 1967)
• The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (May 26, 1967)
• Moby Grape – Moby Grape (June 6, 1967)
• Small Faces – Small Faces (June 23, 1967) / There Are But Four Small Faces (February 1968)
• Pink Floyd – The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (August 5, 1967)
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced (August 23, 1967)
• Buffalo Springfield – Buffalo Springfield Again (October 30, 1967)
• The Beatles – Magical Mystery Tour (November 27, 1967)
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Axis: Bold as Love (December 1,  1967)
• The Who – The Who Sell Out (December 15, 1967)
• Small Faces – Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake (May 24, 1968)
• Big Brother & the Holding Company – Cheap Thrills (August 12, 1968)
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland (October 16, 1968)
• Traffic – Traffic (October 1968)
• Quicksilver Messenger Service – Happy Trails (March 29, 1969)
• Almendra – Almendra (November 29, 1969)
• Various Artists – Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968 (October 2, 1972)

Album Rock, Arena Rock, Blues-Rock & Southern Rock

• The Beatles – The White Album (November 22, 1968)
• The Kinks – The Village Green Preservation Society (November 22, 1968)
• The Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet (December 6, 1968)
• The Beatles – Abbey Road (September 26, 1969)
• The Kinks – Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) (October 10, 1969)
• The Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed (November 28, 1969)
• Rod Stewart – Gasoline Alley (June 12, 1970)
• Elton John – Tumbleweed Connection (October 30, 1970)
• Derek and the Dominos – Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (November 9, 1970)
• John Lennon – Plastic Ono Band (December 11, 1970)
• The Who – Live at Leeds (1970)
• Little Feat – Little Feat (January 1971)
• Faces – Long Player (February 1971)
• The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers (April 23, 1971)
• Rod Stewart – Every Picture Tells a Story (May 18, 1971)
• The Who – Who’s Next (August 14, 1971)
• John Lennon – Imagine (September 9, 1971)
• Faces – A Nod Is as Good as a Wink… to a Blind Horse (November 17, 1971)
• Little Feat – Sailin’ Shoes (February 1972)
• Elton John – Honky Château (May 19, 1972)
• The Rolling Stones – Exile on Main St. (May 26, 1972)
• Rod Stewart – Never a Dull Moment (July 21, 1972)
• Bruce Springsteen – Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. (January 5, 1973)
• Little Feat – Dixie Chicken (January 25, 1973)
• Lynyrd Skynyrd – (Pronounced ‘Lĕh-‘nérd ‘Skin-‘nérd) (August 13, 1973)
• Bruce Springsteen – The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (September 11, 1973)
• The Who – Quadrophenia (1973)
• Bob Seger – Seven (March 1974)
• Lynyrd Skynyrd – Second Helping (April 15, 1974)
• Elton John – Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (May 19, 1975)
• Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run (August 25, 1975)
• Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band – Live Bullet (April 12, 1976)
• Graham Parker – Howlin’ Wind (July 1976)
• Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band – Night Moves (October 22, 1976)
• The Rolling Stones – Some Girls (June 9, 1978)
• Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Damn the Torpedoes (October 19, 1979)
• Bruce Springsteen – The River (October 10, 1980)
• Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska (September 30, 1982)
• Bruce Springsteen – Born in the U.S.A. (June 4, 1984)
• Bruce Springsteen – Tunnel of Love (October 9, 1987)

Hard Rock & Heavy Metal

• Jeff Beck – Truth (July 29, 1968)
• Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin (January 12, 1969)
• Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II (October 22, 1969)
• Black Sabbath – Paranoid (September 18, 1970)
• Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin III (October 5, 1970)
• Black Sabbath – Master of Reality (July 21, 1971)
• Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV (November 8, 1971)
• Deep Purple – Machine Head (March 25, 1972)
• Black Sabbath – Vol. 4 (September 25, 1972)
• Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy (March 28, 1973)
• Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti (February 24, 1975)
• Aerosmith – Toys in the Attic (April 1975)
• Queen – A Night at the Opera (November 21, 1975)
• Thin Lizzy – Jailbreak (March 26, 1976)
• Aerosmith – Rocks (May 1976)
• AC/DC – Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (September 1976)
• Van Halen – Van Halen (February 10, 1978)
• AC/DC – Highway to Hell (August 1979)
• Judas Priest – British Steel (April 1980)
• AC/DC – Back in Black (August 1980)
• Def Leppard – Pyromania (January 20, 1983)
• Metallica – Kill ‘Em All (July 25, 1983)
• Van Halen – 1984 (January 9, 1984)
• Metallica – Ride the Lightning (July 27, 1984)
• Celtic Frost – To Mega Therion (October 27, 1985)
• Metallica – Master of Puppets (March 3, 1986)
• Slayer – Reign in Blood (October 7, 1986)
• Death – Scream Bloody Gore (May 25, 1987)
• Napalm Death – Scum (July 1, 1987)
• Guns N’ Roses – Appetite for Destruction (July 21, 1987)
• Def Leppard – Hysteria (August 3, 1987)
• Dismember – Like an Everflowing Stream (May 28, 1991)
• Darkthrone – A Blaze in the Northern Sky (February 26, 1992)
• Earth – Earth 2 (February 5, 1993)
• Emperor – In the Nightside Eclipse (February 21, 1994)
• At the Gates – Slaughter of the Soul (November 14, 1995)
• In Flames – The Jester Race (February 20, 1996)
• Neurosis – Through Silver in Blood (April 23, 1996)
• Queens of the Stone Age – Rated R (June 6, 2000)
• Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory (October 24, 2000)
• Electric Wizard – Dopethrone (November 28, 2000)
• Opeth – Blackwater Park (February 27, 2001)
• System of a Down – Toxicity (September 4, 2001)
• Andrew W.K. – I Get Wet (November 13, 2001)
• Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf (August 27, 2002)
• Isis – Oceanic (September 17, 2002)
• Lightning Bolt – Wonderful Rainbow (March 4, 2003)
• Dimmu Borgir – Death Cult Armaggedon (September 9, 2003)
• Necrophagist – Onset of Putrefaction (November 25, 2003)
• Mastodon – Leviathan (August 31, 2004)
• Arcade Fire – Funeral (September 14, 2004)
• Trivium – Ascendancy (March 15, 2005)
• Opeth – Ghost Reveries (August 30, 2005)
• Boris – Pink (November 18, 2005)
• Agalloch – Ashes Against the Grain (August 8, 2006)
• Sentenced – Manifesto of Sentenced (March 2, 2009)
• Baroness – Blue Record (October 13, 2009)
• Harvey Milk – A Small Turn of Human Kindness (May 18, 2010)
• Kylesa – Spiral Shadow (August 20, 2010)
• Agalloch – Marrow of the Spirit (November 22, 2010)
• Krallice – Diotima (April 25, 2011)
• Liturgy – Aesthethica (May 10, 2011)
• Symphony X – Iconoclast (June 20, 2011)
• Solstafir – Svartir Sandar (October 17, 2011)
• Torche – Harmonicraft (April 23, 2012)
• Panopticon – Kentucky (June 4, 2012)
• Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind (October 8, 2012)
• Kvelertak – Meir (March 25, 2013)
• Queens of the Stone Age – …Like Clockwork (June 4, 2013)
• Deafheaven – Sunbather (June 11, 2013)
• Haken – The Mountain (September 2, 2013)
• Ghost – Meliora (May 11, 2015)

Experimental Rock, Art Rock, Prog-Rock & Ambient

• The Mothers of Invention – Freak Out! (June 27, 1966)
• The Velvet Underground & Nico – The Velvet Underground & Nico (March 12, 1967)
• Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band – Safe as Milk (June 1967)
• The Velvet Underground – White Light/White Heat (January 30, 1968)
• The Mothers of Invention – We’re Only in It for the Money (March 4, 1968)
• The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground (March 1969)
• Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica (June 16, 1969)
• The Velvet Underground – Loaded (November 15, 1970)
• David Bowie – Hunky Dory (December 17, 1971)
• David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (June 6, 1972)
• Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon (March 1, 1973)
• Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure (March 23, 1973)
• Brian Eno – Here Come the Warm Jets (January 1974)
• The Velvet Underground – 1969: Velvet Underground Live with Lou Reed (September 1974)
• Roxy Music – Country Life (November 15, 1974)
• Brian Eno – Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (November 1974)
• Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here (September 15, 1975)
• Roxy Music – Siren (October 24, 1975)
• Brian Eno – Another Green World (November 14, 1975)
• David Bowie – Low (January 14, 1977)
• David Bowie – “Heroes” (October 14, 1977)
• Brian Eno – Before and After Science (December 1977)
• Brian Eno – Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978)
• Brian Eno – Music for Films (October 1978)
• Brian Eno / Jon Hassell – Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics (April 1980)
• David Bowie – Scary Monsters (September 12, 1980)
• Brian Eno / David Byrne – My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (February 1981)
• Roxy Music – Avalon (May 28, 1982)
• Brian Eno – Thursday Afternoon (October 1985)
• David Bowie – Blackstar (January 8, 2016)

Proto-Punk, Glam Rock & Power Pop

• MC5 – Kick Out the Jams (February 1969)
• The Stooges – Fun House (July 7, 1970)
• Todd Rundgren – Runt. The Ballad of Todd Rundgren (June 24, 1971)
• T. Rex – Electric Warrior (September 24, 1971)
• Todd Rundgren – Something/Anything? (February 1972)
• Big Star – #1 Record (April 24, 1972)
• T. Rex – The Slider (July 21, 1972)
• Mott the Hoople – All the Young Dudes (September 8, 1972)
• Iggy and the Stooges – Raw Power (February 7, 1973)
• Todd Rundgren – A Wizard, a True Star (March 2, 1973)
• Mott the Hoople – Mott (July 20, 1973)
• New York Dolls – New York Dolls (July 27, 1973)
• The Modern Lovers – The Modern Lovers (August 1973)
• New York Dolls – Too Much Too Soon (May 10, 1974)
• Flamin’ Groovies – Shake Some Action (June 1976)
• Dwight Tilley Band – Sincerely (July 1976)
• Iggy Pop – Lust for Life (August 29, 1977)
• Big Star – 3rd (March 18, 1978) / Third/Sister Lovers (1985)

Punk, Post-Punk & New Wave

• Patti Smith – Horses (November 10, 1975)
• Ramones – Ramones (April 23, 1976)
• Cheap Trick – Cheap Trick (February 3, 1977)
• Television – Marquee Moon (February 8, 1977)
• Iggy Pop – The Idiot (March 18, 1977)
• The Clash – The Clash (April 8, 1977)
• The Damned – Damned Damned Damned (April 16, 1977)
• Elvis Costello – My Aim Is True (July 22, 1977)
• Talking Heads – Talking Heads: 77 (September 16, 1977)
• Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols (October 28, 1977)
• Ramones – Rocket to Russia (November 4, 1977)
• Wire – Pink Flag (December 1977)
• Elvis Costello – This Year’s Model (March 17, 1978)
• Nick Lowe – Jesus of Cool [UK] (March 1978) / Pure Pop for Now People [US] (1978)
• Cheap Trick – Heaven Tonight (April 24, 1978)
• The Cars – The Cars (June 6, 1978)
• Lurkers – Fulham Fallout (June 1978)
• Talking Heads – More Songs About Buildings and Food (July 14, 1978)
• Wire – Chairs Missing (September 8, 1978)
• Blondie – Parallel Lines (September 23, 1978)
• Cheap Trick – At Budokan (October 8, 1978)
• The Jam – All Mod Cons (November 3, 1978)
• Elvis Costello and the Attractions – Armed Forces (January 5, 1979)
• Graham Parker – Squeezing Out Sparks (March 1979)
• Joe Jackson – Look Sharp! (April 1979)
• Nick Lowe – Labour of Lust (June 9, 1979)
• Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures (June 15, 1979)
• The B-52’s – The B-52’s (July 6, 1979)
• The Specials – The Specials (October 19, 1979)
• The Jam – Setting Sons (November 16, 1979)
• The Clash – London Calling (December 14, 1979)
• Pretenders – Pretenders (January 3, 1980)
• Elvis Costello and the Attractions – Get Happy!! (February 15, 1980)
• Squeeze – Argybargy (March 1980)
• X – Los Angeles (April 26, 1980)
• The English Beat – I Just Can’t Stop It (May 23, 1980)
• The Soft Boys – Underwater Moonlight (June 28, 1980)
• Echo and the Bunnymen – Crocodiles (July 18, 1980)
• Joy Division – Closer (July 18, 1980)
• The Police – Zenyatta Mondatta (October 3, 1980)
• Talking Heads – Remain in Light (October 8, 1980)
• Rockpile – Seconds of Pleasure (October 1980)
• The Jam – Sound Affects (November 28, 1980)
• Elvis Costello & the Attractions – Trust (January 23, 1981)
• The Psychedelic Furs – Talk Talk Talk (May 15, 1981)
• Squeeze – East Side Story (May 15, 1981)
• X – Wild Gift (May 1981)
• The Human League – Dare! (October 16, 1981)
• Black Flag – Damaged (December 5, 1981)
• Marshall Crenshaw – Marshall Crenshaw (April 28, 1982)
• Elvis Costello and the Attractions – Imperial Bedroom (July 2, 1982)
• Kevin Rowland & Dexys Midnight Runners – Too-Rye-Ay (July 22, 1982)
• X – Under the Big Black Sun (July 1982)
• The Pretenders – Learning to Crawl (January 21, 1984)
• The Cars – Heartbeat City (March 13, 1984)
• Echo & the Bunnymen – Ocean Rain (May 4, 1984)

Alternative Rock, Indie Rock, Grunge & Britpop

• U2 – War (February 28, 1983)
• R.E.M. – Murmur (April 12, 1983)
• Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes (April 13, 1983)
• Aztec Camera – High Land, Hard Rain (April 1983)
• Rain Parade – Emergency Third Rail Power Trip (1983)
• The Smiths – The Smiths (February 20, 1984)
• R.E.M. – Reckoning (April 19, 1984)
• Meat Puppets – Meat Puppets II (April 1984)
• Hüsker Dü – Zen Arcade (July 1, 1984)
• Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime (July 3, 1984)
• The Replacements – Let It Be (October 2, 1984)
• The Smiths – Hatful of Hollow (November 12, 1984)
• Hüsker Dü – New Day Rising (January 1985)
• The Replacements – Tim (September 18, 1985)
• Hüsker Dü – Flip Your Wig (September 1985)
• The Jesus and Mary Chain – Psychocandy (November 18, 1985)
• The Triffids – Born Sandy Devotional (March 24, 1986)
• The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead (June 16, 1986)
• Throwing Muses – Throwing Muses (September 1986)
• XTC – Skylarking (October 27, 1986)
• Hüsker Dü – Warehouse: Songs and Stories (January 19, 1987)
• U2 – The Joshua Tree (March 9, 1987)
• Sonic Youth – Sister (June 1, 1987)
• Dinosaur Jr. – You’re Living All Over Me (December 14, 1987)
• Pixies – Surfer Rosa (March 21, 1988)
• Tracy Chapman – Tracy Chapman (April 5, 1988)
• Michelle Shocked – Short Sharp Shocked (August 15, 1988)
• Jane’s Addiction – Nothing’s Shocking (August 23, 1988)
• The Go-Betweens – 16 Lovers Lane (August 1988)
• Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation (October 18, 1988)
• The Residents – God in Three Persons (1988)
• Pixies – Doolittle (April 18, 1989)
• Fugazi – 13 Songs (September 1, 1989)
• Nine Inch Nails – Pretty Hate Machine (October 20, 1989)
• Depeche Mode – Violator (March 19, 1990)
• Cocteau Twins – Heaven or Las Vegas (September 17, 1990)
• Happy Mondays – Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches (November 5, 1990)
• Slint – Spiderland (April 2, 1991)
• The Wedding Present – Seamonsters (May 27, 1991)
• Pearl Jam – Ten (August 27, 1991)
• Nirvana – Nevermind (September 24, 1991)
• Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magik (September 24, 1991)
• Primal Scream – Screamadelica (October 8, 1991)
• Matthew Sweet – Girlfriend (October 22, 1991)
• My Bloody Valentine – Loveless (November 5, 1991)
• U2 – Achtung Baby (November 18, 1991)
• Teenage Fanclub – Bandwagonesque (November 19, 1991)
• Tori Amos – Little Earthquakes (February 21, 1992)
• Pavement – Slanted and Enchanted (April 20, 1992)
• R.E.M. – Automatic for the People (October 6, 1992)
• Ween – Pure Guava (November 10, 1992)
• Love Spirals Downwards – Idylls (1992)
• Motorpsycho – Demon Box (February 1993)
• Suede – Suede (March 29, 1993)
• PJ Harvey – Rid of Me (May 4, 1993)
• Red House Painters – Red House Painters [Roller-Coaster] (May 21, 1993)
• Urge Overkill – Saturation (June 8, 1993)
• Liz Phair – Exile in Guyville (June 22, 1993)
• The Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream (July 27, 1993)
• Nirvana – In Utero (September 21, 1993)
• Green Day – Dookie (February 1, 1994)
• Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (February 14, 1994)
• Beck – Mellow Gold (March 1, 1994)
• Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral (March 8, 1994)
• Soundgarden – Superunknown (March 8, 1994)
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Let Love In (April 19, 1994)
• Weezer – Weezer [Blue Album] (May 10, 1994)
• Jeff Buckley – Grace (August 23, 1994)
• Oasis – Definitely Maybe (August 29, 1994)
• Nirvana – MTV Unplugged in New York (November 1, 1994)
• Radiohead – The Bends (April 4, 1995)
• Supergrass – I Should Coco (July 18, 1995)
• The Boo Radleys – Wake Up! (September 12, 1995)
• Oasis – (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? (October 3, 1995)
• Pulp – Different Class (October 30, 1995)
• Tortoise – Millions Now Living Will Never Die (January 30, 1996)
• Rocketship – A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness (February 13, 1996)
• Stereolab – Emperor Tomato Ketchup (April 24, 1996)
• Beck – Odelay (June 18, 1996)
• Weezer – Pinkerton (September 24, 1996)
• Belle and Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinister (November 18, 1996)
• Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One (April 22, 1997)
• Radiohead – OK Computer (July 1, 1997)
• The Verve – Urban Hymns (September 30, 1997)
• Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (February 10, 1998)
• Wilco – Summerteeth (March 9, 1999)
• The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin (June 22, 1999)
• Beachwood Sparks – Beachwood Sparks (March 21, 2000)
• Broadcast – The Noise Made by People (April 18, 2000)
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (September 12, 2000)
• Radiohead – Kid A (October 2, 2000)
• The Shins – Oh, Inverted World (June 19, 2001)
• The White Stripes – White Blood Cells (July 3, 2001)
• The Microphones – The Glow, Pt. 2 (September 11, 2011)
• Drive-By Truckers – Southern Rock Opera (September 25, 2001)
• The Strokes – Is This It (September 25, 2001)
• …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – Source Tags & Codes (February 26, 2002)
• Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (April 23, 2002)
• Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights (August 20, 2002)
• Beck – Sea Change (September 24, 2002)
• The White Stripes – Elephant (April 1, 2003)
• Broadcast – Haha Sound (August 12, 2003)
• Death Cab for Cutie – Transatlanticism (October 7, 2003)
• The Go! Team – Thunder, Lightning, Strike (September 13, 2004)
• Arcade Fire – Funeral (September 14, 2004)
• Green Day – American Idiot (September 21, 2004)
• Gorillaz – Demon Days (May 24, 2005)
• Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (February 21, 2006)
• Camera Obscura – Let’s Get Out of This Country (June 6, 2006)
• Muse – Black Holes & Revelations (July 11, 2006)
• Grizzly Bear – Yellow House (September 5, 2006)
• Bonnie “Prince” Billy – The Letting Go (September 19, 2006)
• The Long Blondes – Someone to Drive You Home (November 6, 2006)
• LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver (March 20, 2007)
• Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (July 10, 2007)
• Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend (January 29, 2008)
• The Kills – Midnight Boom (March 18, 2008)
• Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes (June 3, 2008)
• Grouper – Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill (June 10, 2008)
• Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion (January 20, 2009)
• Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca (June 5, 2009)
• The xx – The xx (August 18, 2009)
• Nirvana – Live at Reading (November 3, 2009)
• Beach House – Teen Dream (January 26, 2010)
• Ariel Pink‘s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today (June 8, 2010)
• Arcade Fire – The Suburbs (August 3, 2010)
• Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest (September 28, 2010)
• PJ Harvey – Let England Shake (February 15, 2011)
• Veronica Falls – Veronica Falls (September 20, 2011)
• M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (October 18, 2011)
• Florence + the Machine – Ceremonials (October 31, 2011)
• Aaron Dilloway – Modern Jester (November 20, 2011)
• Grimes – Visions (March 12, 2012)
• Chromatics – Kill for Love (March 26, 2012)
• Tame Impala – Lonerism (October 8, 2012)
• Tony Molina – Dissed and Dismissed (February 26, 2013)
• Kurt Vile – Wakin on a Pretty Daze (April 8, 2013)
• Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City (May 14, 2013)
• Arctic Monkeys – AM (September 9, 2013)
• Chvrches – The Bones of What You Believe (September 24, 2013)
• Real Estate – Atlas (March 3, 2014)
• The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream (March 17, 2014)
• Future Islands – Singles (March 25, 2014)
• Mac DeMarco – Salad Days (April 1, 2014)
• Fear of Men – Loom (April 22, 2014)
• Sleaford Mods – Divide and Exit (April 28, 2014)
• Alvvays – Alvvays (July 22, 2014)
• FKA Twigs – LP1 (August 6, 2014)
• Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear (February 9, 2015)
• Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (March 23, 2015)
• Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell (March 30, 2015)
• Julia Holter – Have You in My Wilderness (September 21, 2015)
• Beat Happening – Look Around (September 22, 2015)
• The Long Ryders – Final Wild Songs (January 29, 2016)
• King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity (April 29, 2016)
• Mitski – Puberty 2 (June 17, 2016)
• Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree (September 9, 2016)
• Mount Eerie – A Crow Looked at Me (March 24, 2017)
• Lorde – Melodrama (June 16, 2017)
• St. Vincent – Masseducation (October 13, 2017)
• Pylon – Pylon Box (November 6, 2020)
• Yumbo – The Fruit of Errata (June 18, 2021)

Rap & Hip-Hop

• Run-D.M.C. – Run-D.M.C. (March 27, 1984)
• Run-D.M.C. – King of Rock (January 21, 1985)
• LL Cool J – Radio (November 18, 1985)
• Mantronix – Mantronix: The Album (1985)
• Run-D.M.C. – Raising Hell (May 15, 1986)
• Beastie Boys – Licensed to Ill (November 15, 1986)
• Boogie Down Productions – Criminal Minded (March 3, 1987)
• Eric B. & Rakim – Paid in Full (July 7, 1987)
• DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince – He’s the DJ, I’m the Rapper (March 29, 1988)
• Boogie Down Productions – By All Means Necessary (April 1988)
• EPMD – Strictly Business (June 7, 1988)
• Stetsasonic – In Full Gear (June 21, 1988)
• Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (June 28, 1988)
• Eric B. & Rakim – Follow the Leader (July 26, 1988)
• N.W.A – Straight Outta Compton (August 9, 1988)
• Ultramagnetic MC’s – Critical Beatdown (October 4, 1988)
• Slick Rick – The Great Adventures of Slick Rick (November 1, 1988)
• Jungle Brothers – Straight Out the Jungle (November 8, 1988)
• De La Soul – 3 Feet High and Rising (January 24, 1989)
• Too $hort – Life Is… Too $hort (January 31, 1989)
• The 2 Live Crew – As Nasty as They Wanna Be (February 7, 1989)
• Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique (July 25, 1989)
• The D.O.C. – No One Can Do It Better (July 25, 1989)
• Young MC – Stone Cold Rhymin’ (September 5, 1989)
• Ice-T – The Iceberg: Freedom of Speech… Just Watch What You Say (October 10, 1989)
• 3rd Bass – The Cactus Album (October 23, 1989)
• Digital Underground – Sex Packets (March 20, 1990)
• Public Enemy – Fear of a Black Planet (April 10, 1990)
• Ice Cube – AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted (May 16, 1990)
• LL Cool J – Mama Said Knock You Out (September 14, 1990)
• Gang Starr – Step in the Arena (January 15, 1991)
• Ice-T – O.G. Original Gangster (May 14, 1991)
• Leaders of the New School – A Future Without a Past… (July 2, 1991)
• Main Source – Breaking Atoms (July 23, 1991)
• Cypress Hill – Cypress Hill (August 13, 1991)
• P.M. Dawn – Of the Heart, Of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience (September 24, 1991)
• A Tribe Called Quest – The Low End Theory (September 24, 1991)
• Public Enemy – Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black (October 1, 1991)
• Black Sheep – A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing (October 22, 1991)
• Organized Konfusion – Organized Konfusion (October 29, 1991)
• Ice Cube – Death Certificate (October 31, 1991)
• Das EFX – Dead Serious (April 7, 1992)
• Beastie Boys – Check Your Head (April 21, 1992)
• Gang Starr – Daily Operation (May 5, 1992)
• Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth – Mecca and the Soul Brother (June 9, 1992)
• The Pharcyde – Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde (November 24, 1992)
• Dr. Dre – The Chronic (December 15, 1992)
• Freestyle Fellowship – Inner City Griots (April 28, 1993)
• Souls of Mischief – 93 ’til Infinity (September 6, 1993)
• A Tribe Called Quest – Midnight Marauders (November 9, 1993)
• Wu Tang Clan – Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (November 9, 1993)
• Snoop Dogg – Doggystyle (November 23, 1993)
• Nas – Illmatic (April 19, 1994)
• Jeru the Damaja – The Sun Rises in the East (May 24, 1994)
• The Notorious B.I.G. – Ready to Die (September 13, 1994)
• 2Pac – Me Against the World (March 14, 1995)
• Mobb Deep – The Infamous (April 25, 1995)
• Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx (August 1, 1995)
• Aceyalone – All Balls Don’t Bounce (October 24, 1995)
• GZA – Liquid Swords (November 7, 1995)
• Goodie Mob – Soul Food (November 21, 1995)
• 2Pac – All Eyez on Me (February 13, 1996)
• Fugees – The Score (February 13, 1996)
• Dr. Octagon – Dr. Octagonecologyst (May 6, 1996)
• Jay-Z – Reasonable Doubt (June 25, 1996)
• Missy Elliott – Supa Dupa Fly (July 15, 1997)
• Company Flow – Funcrusher Plus (July 28, 1997)
• Black Star – Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star (September 29, 1998)
• OutKast – Aquemini (September 29, 1998)
• Eminem – The Slim Shady LP (February 23, 1999)
• The Roots – Things Fall Apart (February 23, 1999)
• Mos Def – Black on Both Sides (October 12, 1999)
• Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP (May 23, 2000)
• Jurassic 5 – Quality Control (June 6, 2000)
• Quasimoto – The Unseen (June 13, 2000)
• OutKast – Stankonia (October 31, 2000)
• Jay-Z – The Blueprint (September 11, 2001)
• Missy Elliott – Under Construction (November 12, 2002)
• Dizzee Rascal – Boy in da Corner (January 20, 2004)
• Kanye West – The College Dropout (February 10, 2004)
• Madvillain – Madvillainy (March 23, 2004)
• Kanye West – Late Registration (August 30, 2005)
• J Dilla – Donuts (February 7, 2006)
• Clipse – Hell Hath No Fury (November 28, 2006)
• Death Grips – The Money Store (April 23, 2012)
• Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city (October 22, 2012)
• Kanye West – Yeezus (June 18, 2013)
• Danny Brown – Old (October 1, 2013)
• Calle 13 – MultiViral (February 28, 2014)
• Ana Tijoux – Vengo (March 18, 2014)
• Shabazz Palaces – Lese Majesty (July 29, 2014)
• Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 2 (October 24, 2014)
• Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly (March 16, 2015)
• Vince Staples – Summertime ’06 (June 30, 2015)
• Future – DS2 (July 17, 2015)
• Chance the Rapper – Coloring Book (May 12, 2016)
• Kae Tempest – Let Them Eat Chaos (October 14, 2016)
• A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service (November 11, 2016)
• Tyler, The Creator – Flower Boy (July 21, 2017)

Electronic

• Pauline Oliveros – The Roots of the Moment (1988)
• Inner City – Big Fun (May 29, 1989)
• The KLF – Chill Out (February 5, 1990)
• Al Gromer Khan – Mahogany Nights (1990)
• The KLF – The White Room (March 4, 1991)
• The Orb – The Orb’s Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld (April 2, 1991)
• LFO – Frequencies (July 22, 1991)
• Massive Attack – Blue Lines (August 6, 1991)
• Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (February 12, 1992)
• The Orb – U.F.Orb (July 6, 1992)
• Moby – Moby (July 27, 1992)
• The Prodigy – Experience (October 20, 1992)
• The Black Dog – Bytes (March 8, 1993)
• Orbital – Orbital 2 (May 24, 1993)
• Björk – Debut (July 5, 1993)
• µ-Ziq – Tango N’ Vectif (November 1993)
• Tod Dockstader – Apocalypse (1993)
• Underworld – Dubnobasswithmyheadman (January 24, 1994)
• The Future Sound of London – Lifeforms (May 27, 1994)
• Global Communication – 76:14 (June 1, 1994)
• The Prodigy – Music for the Jilted Generation (July 1994)
• Portishead – Dummy (August 22, 1994)
• Plastikman – Musik (November 8, 1994)
• Leftfield – Leftism (January 30, 1995)
• Tricky – Maxinquaye (February 20, 1995)
• Wagon Christ – Throbbing Pouch (March 20, 1995)
• Björk – Post (June 13, 1995)
• Goldie – Timeless (July 31, 1995)
• The Chemical Brothers – Exit Planet Dust (August 15, 1995)
• Mouse on Mars – Iaora Tahiti (October 3, 1995)
• Autechre – Tri Repetae (November 3, 1995)
• Coldcut – Journeys by DJ: 70 Minutes of Madness (1995)
• Model 500 – Classics (1995)
• Robert Hood – Nighttime World Volume I (1995)
• Underworld – Second Toughest in the Infants (March 12, 1996)
• LTJ Bukem – Logical Progression, Level 1 (April 1996)
• Slam – Headstates (May 13, 1996)
• Jeff Mills – Live at the Liquid Room, Tokyo (May 20, 1996)
• Dave Angel – Classics (May 28, 1996)
• DJ Shadow – Endtroducing….. (November 19, 1996)
• Basic Channel – BCD (December 2, 1996)
• Daft Punk – Homework (January 20, 1997)
• Carl Craig – More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art (March 24, 1997)
• The Chemical Brothers – Dig Your Own Hole (April 7, 1997)
• Squarepusher – Hard Normal Daddy (April 28, 1997)
• µ-Ziq – Lunatic Harness (June 30, 1997)
• Mouse on Mars – Autoditacker (August 18, 1997)
• Björk – Homogenic (September 22, 1997)
• Moodymann – Silent Introduction (October 20, 1997)
• Roni Size / Reprazent – New Forms (October 28, 1997)
• Kevin Saunderson – Faces & Phases (November 18, 1997)
• Air – Moon Safari (January 19, 1998)
• Massive Attack – Mezzanine (April 27, 1998)
• Photek – Form & Function (September 14, 1998)
• Boards of Canada – Music Has the Right to Children (September 22, 1998)
• Fatboy Slim – You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby (October 12, 1998)
• Basement Jaxx – Remedy (August 3, 1999)
• Gas – Pop (March 28, 2000)
• Broadcast – The Noise Made by People (April 18, 2000)
• Plaid – Trainer (July 10, 2000)
• Frankie Knuckles – The Godfather of House Music: Trax Classics (2000)
• Daft Punk – Discovery (March 13, 2001)
• Basement Jaxx – Rooty (June 26, 2001)
• Fennesz – Endless Summer (July 3, 2001)
• Michael Mayer – Immer (February 26, 2002)
• Aphex Twin – 26 Mixes for Cash (March 25, 2003)
• Four Tet – Rounds (May 5, 2003)
• Broadcast – Haha Sound (August 12, 2003)
• Ricardo Villalobos – Alcachofa (September 19, 2003)
• Max Richter – The Blue Notebooks (March 23, 2004)
• M.I.A. – Arular (March 22, 2005)
• M.I.A. – Kala (August 20, 2007)
• Burial – Untrue (November 5, 2007)
• Flying Lotus – Los Angeles (June 10, 2008)
• The Bug – London Zoo (July 7, 2008)
• Basic Channel – BCD-2 (July 8, 2008)
• Actress – Splazsh (June 8, 2010)
• Oneohtrix Point Never – Replica (November 5, 2011)
• James Blake – Overgrown (April 5, 2013)
• Daft Punk – Random Access Memories (May 20, 2013)
• Disclosure – Settle (June 11, 2013)
• Aphex Twin – Syro (September 22, 2014)
• Flying Lotus – You’re Dead! (October 7, 2014)
• Björk – Vulnicura (January 20, 2015)
• Floating Points – Elaenia (November 13, 2015)
• Jlin – Black Origami (May 19, 2017)

Jazz

Big Band & Swing

• Duke Ellington / Coleman Hawkins – Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins (1962)
• Duke Ellington – Sacred Music (1966)
• Duke Ellington – …And His Mother Called Him Bill (1967)

Bop

• Charlie Parker – The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever (May 15, 1953)
• The Quintet – Jazz at Massey Hall (1953)

Vocal Jazz & Traditional Pop

• Louis Armstrong – Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy (1954)
• Frank Sinatra – In the Wee Small Hours (April 25, 1955)
• Frank Sinatra – Songs for Swingin’ Lovers! (March 5, 1956)
• Frank Sinatra – A Swingin’ Affair! (May 6, 1957)
• Frank Sinatra – Where Are You? (September 2, 1957)
• Frank Sinatra – Come Fly with Me (January 6, 1958)
• Frank Sinatra – Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely (September 8, 1958)
• Frank Sinatra – Come Dance with Me! (January 5, 1959)
• Frank Sinatra – Nice ‘n’ Easy (July 25, 1960)
• John Coltrane / Johnny Hartman – John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (1963)
• Frank Sinatra – September of My Years (August 1965)

Cool & West Coast Jazz

• The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Jazz Goes to College (March 1954)
• Miles Davis – Birth of the Cool [Compilation] (February 1957)
• Miles Davis – ‘Round About Midnight (March 18, 1957)
• Miles Davis – Miles Ahead (November 1957)
• Art Pepper – Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section (1957)
• Gil Evans – Gil Evans & Ten (1957)
• Miles Davis – Porgy and Bess (March 9, 1959)
• The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Time Out (December 14, 1959)
• Art Pepper – Plus Eleven (1959)
• Miles Davis – Sketches of Spain (July 18, 1960)
• Art Pepper – Straight Life (March 1980)

Hard Bop & Modal Music

• Sonny Rollins – Sonny Rollins Plus 4 (August 1956)
• Sonny Rollins – Saxophone Colossus (1956)
• Sonny Rollins – Way Out West (March 7, 1957)
• Tommy Flanagan / John Coltrane / Kenny Burrell / Idrees Sulieman – The Cats (April 18, 1957)
• Sonny Rollins – A Night at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1 (November 3, 1957)
• Sonny Rollins – A Night at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 2 (November 3, 1957)
• Miles Davis – Bags’ Groove [Compilation] (December 1957)
• John Coltrane – Blue Train (January 1958)
• Miles Davis Quintet – Relaxin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet (March 1958)
• Miles Davis – Milestones (April 1958)
• Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers – Moanin’ (1958)
• Milt Jackson / John Coltrane – Bags & Trane (January 15, 1959)
• Miles Davis – Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants (May 1959)
• Miles Davis – Kind of Blue (August 17, 1959)
• John Coltrane – Giant Steps (January 1960)
• Miles Davis Quintet – Workin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet (January 1960)
• John Coltrane – My Favorite Things (March 1961)
• Miles Davis Quintet – Steamin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet (May 1961)
• Bill Evans Trio – Sunday at the Village Vanguard (October 1961)
• Bill Evans Trio – Waltz for Debby (1962)
• Lee Morgan – The Sidewinder (December 21, 1963)
• Herbie Hancock – Empyrean Isles (November 1964)
• Lee Morgan – Cornbread (1965)
• Larry Young – Unity (August 1966)
• Lee Morgan – Search for the New Land (August 1966)
• Herbie Hancock – Maiden Voyage (1966)
• Sonny Rollins – East Broadway Run Down (1966)
• Miles Davis Quintet – Miles Smiles (February 16, 1967)

Post-Bop

• Charles Mingus – Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956)
• Charles Mingus – The Clown (September 1957)
• Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah Um (October 1959)
• Charles Mingus – Blues & Roots (March 1960)
• Charles Mingus – Mingus at Antibes (July 13, 1960)
• Thelonious Monk / John Coltrane – Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane (December 1961)
• Charles Mingus – Oh Yeah (April 1962)
• Charles Mingus – Tijuana Moods (June 1962)
• Charles Mingus – The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (July 1963)
• Charles Mingus – Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (January 9, 1964)
• Miles Davis – Nefertiti (March 1968)
• Charles Mingus – The Great Concert of Charles Mingus (1971)
• Charles Mingus – Let My Children Hear Music (1972)

Avant-Garde Jazz & Free Jazz

• Ornette Coleman – The Shape of Jazz to Come (November 1959)
• Ornette Coleman – Change of the Century (May 1960)
• Ornette Coleman Double Quartet – Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (September 1961)
• John Coltrane – Live at Birdland (October 8, 1963)
• Archie Shepp – Four for Trane (August 10, 1964)
• John Coltrane – A Love Supreme (February 1965)
• Archie Shepp – Fire Music (September 1965)
• John Coltrane – Ascension (February 1966)
• Ornette Coleman – Science Fiction (February 1971)
• Archie Shepp – The Cry of My People (June 1973)
• Archie Shepp – Attica Blues Big Band (October 24, 1979)

Fusion & Crossover Jazz

• Miles Davis – In a Silent Way (July 30, 1969)
• The Tony Williams Lifetime – Emergency! (August 1969)
• Miles Davis – Bitches Brew (March 30, 1970)
• John McLaughlin – My Goal’s Beyond (June 1970)
• Miles Davis – A Tribute to Jack Johnson (February 24, 1971)
• Herbie Hancock – Mwandishi (March 1971)
• Hubert Laws – Afro-Classic (March 1971)
• Weather Report – Weather Report (May 12, 1971)
• Mahavishnu Orchestra – The Inner Mounting Flame (August 14, 1971)
• Herbie Hancock – Crossings (May 1972)
• Chick Corea / Return to Forever – Return to Forever (September 1972)
• Miles Davis – On the Corner (October 11, 1972)
• Chick Corea and Return to Forever – Light as a Feather (1972)
• Mahavishnu Orchestra – Birds of Fire (January 3, 1973)
• Billy Cobham – Spectrum (October 1, 1973)
• Herbie Hancock – Head Hunters (October 13, 1973)
• Hubert Laws – In the Beginning (February 1974)
• Lonnie Liston Smith & the Cosmic Echoes – Expansions (1974)
• The Crusaders – Free as the Wind (December 1976)
• Weather Report – Heavy Weather (March 1977)
• Al Di Meola – Elegant Gypsy (April 1977)
• Al Di Meola – Casino (February 25, 1978)
• Pat Metheny Group – Pat Metheny Group (January 1978)
• Al Di Meola – Splendido Hotel (May 10, 1980)
• Joe Zawinul – Di•a•lects (1986)
• David Torn – Cloud About Mercury (1987)
• Michael Brecker – Michael Brecker (1987)
• Tony Williams – Tokyo Live (April 6, 1993)
• Herbie Mann – America/Brasil (September 6, 1997)