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100 Greatest Classic Rock Albums

100 Greatest Classic Rock Albums
Magazine

The 100 Greatest Rock Albums Of All Time is a celebration of some of the finest music ever made, 146 pages dedicated to the albums that changed the world. Voted for by Classic Rock readers, these are the records that have soundtracked the lives of generations, from The Beatles to Guns N' Roses and Metallica, via the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd. For beginners, it's the perfect guide to the albums you should own – for everyone else, it's a reminder of why they loved them in the first place.

THE 100 GREATEST ROCK ALBUMS OF ALL TIME

100 Greatest Classic Rock Albums

Bubbling Under • To make the top 100, we asked Classic Rock readers to vote on a long-list of 200 albums. There was also an open field, where readers could vote for anyone they liked. Here are the albums that just fell short of the top 100…

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Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

Peace Sells…But Who’s Buying?

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Superunknown

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Sabotage

Cheap Trick At Budokan

Beggars Banquet

Tres Hombres

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Destroyer

Hunky Dory

Fragile

Highway 61 Revisited

Operation: Mindcrime

Rage Against The Machine

1987

Burn

Ramones

Billion Dollar Babies

OK Computer

Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

Tommy

Slippery When Wet

Brothers In Arms

Powerage

Born In The USA

Disraeli Gears

Alive!

Strangers In The Night

Axis: Bold As Love

(Pronounced ‘Lĕh-’nérd ‘Skin-’nérd’)

Live At Leeds

Bad Company

Live And Dangerous

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Ace Of Spades

In Rock

Let There Be Rock

Pyromania

In The Court Of The Crimson King

Quadrophenia

Rocks

Aqualung

Jailbreak

British Steel

Pet Sounds

Born To Run

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Purple Rain

1984

Let It Bleed

London Calling

At Fillmore East

Master Of Reality

Bat Out Of Hell

Electric Ladyland

The Joshua Tree

Toys In The Attic

Hysteria

L.A. Woman

Holy Diver

Exile On Main St.

Nevermind

Ten

Blizzard Of Ozz

Moving Pictures

Hotel California

Boston

Metallica (aka The Black Album)

Sticky Fingers

Who’s Next

Rumours

The Doors

Revolver

Machine Head

Aladdin Sane

Are You Experienced

Rainbow Rising

Paranoid

2112

The Wall

Master Of Puppets

Ziggy Stardust

A Night At The Opera

Physical Graffiti

The Beatles (aka The White Album)

The Number Of The Beast

Van Halen

Led Zeppelin

Highway To Hell

Abbey Road

Back In Black

Appetite For Destruction

Wish You Were Here

Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

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The Dark Side Of The Moon

PINK FLOYD • The making of THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Fly Me To The Moon • The previous eight years had seen Pink Floyd struggling to find their sound. With The Dark Side Of The Moon they nailed it and went global.

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