According to this book:
 

 
 
What do you think of their list?
 
Any glaring omissions?
 
How many of these do you own? (I have only 17)
 
The list (in order):
 
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1. Bob Dylan -------------------------- Highway 61 Revisited
2. The Beatles ------------------------ Revolver
3. The Clash -------------------------- London Calling
4. Nirvana ---------------------------- Nevermind
5. Van Morrison ----------------------- Astral Weeks
6. Joni Mitchell ---------------------- Blue
7. The Rolling Stones ----------------- Sticky Fingers
8. Fleetwood Mac ---------------------- Rumours
9. The Velvet Underground & Nico ------ The Velvet Underground & Nico
10. Public Enemy ----------------------- It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
11. The Beach Boys --------------------- Pet Sounds
12. Bruce Springsteen ------------------ Darkness On The Edge Of Town
13. Television ------------------------- Marquee Moon
14. Little Richard --------------------- Here’s Little Richard
15. Led Zeppelin ----------------------- IV
16. Radiohead -------------------------- OK Computer
17. The Band --------------------------- The Band
18. The Beatles ------------------------ The Beatles (The White Album)
19. Pixies ----------------------------- Doolittle
20. John Lennon ------------------------ John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
21. U2 --------------------------------- Achtung Baby
22. Simon And Garfunkel ---------------- Bridge Over Troubled Waters
23. Bob Dylan -------------------------- Blonde On Blonde
24. Sex Pistols ------------------------ Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols
25. Prince ----------------------------- Sign O’ The Times
26. Arcade Fire ------------------------ Funeral
27. Michael Jackson -------------------- Thriller
28. Neil Young ------------------------- On The Beach
29. Jay-Z ------------------------------ The Blueprint
30. Massive Attack --------------------- Blue Lines
31. The Smiths ------------------------- The Queen Is Dead
32. Carole King ------------------------ Tapestry
33. David Bowie ------------------------ Hunky Dory
34. Ray Charles ------------------------ Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music
35. Paul Simon ------------------------- Graceland
36. Iggy And The Stooges --------------- Raw Power
37. The Jimi Hendrix Experience -------- Are You Experienced
38. Aretha Franklin -------------------- Lady Soul
39. Ramones ---------------------------- Ramones
40. The Rolling Stones ----------------- Exile On Main St
41. Patti Smith ------------------------ Horses
42. Miles Davis ------------------------ Kind Of Blue
43. Sonic Youth ------------------------ Daydream Nation
44. Bruce Springsteen ------------------ Born To Run
45. The Beatles ------------------------ Abbey Road
46. Guns N’ Roses ---------------------- Appetite For Destruction
47. Black Sabbath ---------------------- Paranoid
48. George Harrison -------------------- All Things Must Pass
49. Green Day -------------------------- American Idiot
50. The Doors -------------------------- The Doors
51. Pink Floyd ------------------------- The Dark Side Of The Moon
52. James Brown ------------------------ Live At The Apollo
53. Creedence Clearwater Revival ------- Cosmo’s Factory
54. Pearl Jam -------------------------- Vs
55. The Wailers ------------------------ Burnin’
56. The Monkees ------------------------ Headquarters
57. Talking Heads ---------------------- Remain In Light
58. Rod Stewart ------------------------ Every Picture Tells A Story
59. Devo ------------------------------- Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
60. Chuck Berry ------------------------ After School Session
61. Eminem ----------------------------- The Marshall Mathers LP
62. Blondie ---------------------------- Parallel Lines
63. Dusty Springfield ------------------ Dusty In Memphis
64. R.E.M. ----------------------------- Automatic For The People
65. The Supremes ----------------------- Where Did Our Love Go
66. Oasis ------------------------------ (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?
67. Kanye West -------------------------- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
68. Jeff Buckley ------------------------ Grace
69. The White Stripes ------------------- Elephant
70. Eagles ------------------------------ Hotel California
71. Wilco ------------------------------- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
72. Beastie Boys ------------------------ Paul’s Boutique
73. Tom Waits --------------------------- Rain Dogs
74. Kate Bush --------------------------- Hounds Of Love
75. The Who ----------------------------- Live At Leeds
76. Joy Division ------------------------ Closer
77. Kraftwerk --------------------------- Trans-Europe Express
78. Randy Newman ------------------------ Sail Away
79. Pavement ---------------------------- Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
80. Curtis Mayfield --------------------- Curtis
81. Roxy Music -------------------------- For Your Pleasure
82. The Strokes ------------------------- Is This It
83. Midnight Oil ------------------------ Diesel And Dust
84. Coldplay ---------------------------- Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
85. The Kinks --------------------------- The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
86. Pretenders -------------------------- Pretenders
87. The Modern Lovers ------------------- The Modern Lovers
88. Primal Scream ----------------------- Screamadelica
89. Fairport Convention ----------------- Unhalfbricking
90. Elvis Costello And The Attractions -- This Year’s Model
91. Portishead -------------------------- Dummy
92. AC/DC ------------------------------- Back In Black
93. Beck -------------------------------- Odelay
94. Gang Of Four ------------------------ Entertainment
95. Marvin Gaye ------------------------- What’s Going On
96. Arctic Monkeys ---------------------- Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I Am
97. Queen ------------------------------- A Night At The Opera
98. Derek And The Dominos --------------- Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs
99. P J Harvey -------------------------- Let England Shake
100. The Byrds --------------------------- Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

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I currently have 65.  Some of those I have more than one version of (e.g., original & remaster or reissue), some I have as part of a larger box set (the lazy way to get multiple albums), some are still on my "wish list" and a few fall into the "Who the heck wants this crap???" category (like Jay-Z).
 
 
Oh yeah, and a few I had forgotten about or had never heard of (and will need to check out).  Thanks for posting this Steve!

Wot...no 'Half Man Half Biscuit'?
 
I only have 13 of those listed. *shrugs*
 
Midnight Oil ..does anyone remember more than one song off that album?

Oh yeah, naturally I've got quite a few that I prefer better than those listed, but I don't know where to begin listing them!  They fall in many genres like Prog (example: Tangerine Dream - Melrose), Classic Rock (example: Cars - Cars), Corporate Rock (example: Boston - Don't Look Back), Pop (example: Madonna - Madonna), Jazz (example: Rippingtons - Tourist In Paradise), Underground (Lords of Acid - Lust), Synthpop (example: Pet Shop Boys - Please), New Wave (example: Psychedelic Furs - Mirror Moves), Industrial (example: Machines of Loving Grace - Concentration), Gothic Rock (examples: Cure - Disintegration or Sisters of Mercy - Floodland), New Age (examples: Richard Burmer - On the Third Extreme or Enya - Shepherd Moons), Piano Rock (example: Tori Amos - From the Choir Girl Hotel), Soul (example: Sade - Diamond Life), Art Rock (example: Roxy Music - Avalon), Heavy Metal (example: Ratt - Out of the Cellar), Hard Rock (example: Toys In the Attic), Metal (examples: Metalica - Black Album, Accept - Balls to the Wall & Restless and Wild, several from Iron Maiden and Judas Priest), etc., etc.!

Nothing from Peter Gabriel..I'd put PG4 ('Security')and 'So' in my top 100. No Tull..'Stand Up' I think. No Steely Dan 'The Royal Scam' should be in there. Plus Marc Cohn's debut.

 
Jame-Z - orf to bed with you now, it must be very late oop there in the land of the haggis munchers.
 
Plus, being so close to the Arctic Circle must mean your tootsies are always freezing. Crack open the 20 year-old malt and throw another set of bagpipes on the fire if you'd be so good old bean.
 
I'll wager at this time of the year it gets dark up there before noon don't it? Still, once you get the electricity and town gas you'll be fine
 
 
 
 

We usually look out for 'greylight' around 11am, which is closely followed by 'doom' at 11.10.
 
Still, could be worse.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Could be in Bromsgrove.
 

"Midnight Oil ..does anyone remember more than one song off that album?"
 
that's why these lists are so variable.
is the criteria album sales or the authors(basically, Rolling Stone) pick?
This album was also highly critical of the politics of the day,particularly with the struggle to recognise and reconcile with the original inhabitants and to be an Oils fan was a political statement in itself and it`s position may reflect it`s cultural significance rather than it`s worldwide sales?
    
 

jamesg1213
Nothing from Peter Gabriel..I'd put PG4 ('Security')and 'So' in my top 100. No Tull..'Stand Up' I think. No Steely Dan 'The Royal Scam' should be in there. Plus Marc Cohn's debut.

I might put Aja above Royal Scam even.  A great CD to take when you're setting up sound and want to compare with a known source.
 
I just don't think you can quantify the "Top 100" like they're trying to.  Even an attempt broken out by genre would be daunting.

Nothing by Genesis?  Nothing by Supertramp?  Nothing by Yes?  Nothing by Muse?  Nothing by Grateful Dead?  I could go on.
 
And yet we have an Oasis album? 
 
Just ignore this type of ridiculous crap!  It's guaranteed to elevate your blood pressure to an unhealthy level.