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.