Rock
14 albums
Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
The first rock album treated as a single work of art, with an unbroken song sequence, orchestral overdubs, studio effect...
Abbey Road
The last album the Beatles recorded, closing with the celebrated side two medley and the quiet joke of Her Majesty. Geor...
Pet Sounds
Brian Wilson quit touring to build pocket symphonies in the studio with session players, odd instruments and harmonies t...
Highway 61 Revisited
Dylan went electric with a full band and opened with Like a Rolling Stone, a six minute single that broke the three minu...
The Velvet Underground and Nico
Produced by Andy Warhol with a peelable banana cover, it mixed drone, noise and street realism about drugs and desire. I...
Are You Experienced
Hendrix redefined the electric guitar in a single stroke: feedback, wah, backwards tape and blues aggression on Purple H...
Rumours
Written while two couples inside the band were breaking apart, it turned private dysfunction into gleaming California po...
Born to Run
Springsteen third album threw everything into wall of sound street opera: Thunder Road, the title track and Jungleland. ...
The Joshua Tree
U2 absorbed American roots music into wide open delay guitar landscapes: Where the Streets Have No Name and I Still Have...
Revolver
Made as the band was tiring of touring, Revolver pushed studio technique into new territory with backward tapes, automat...
Exile on Main St
A sprawling double album recorded partly in the basement of Nellcote, the villa Keith Richards rented in the south of Fr...
Hotel California
The fifth Eagles album turned the California dream into a story of excess and disillusion. The title track, with its int...
Achtung Baby
Begun at Hansa Studios in a newly reunified Berlin, Achtung Baby reinvented U2 with industrial textures, distorted guita...
Electric Ladyland
The third and final Experience studio album, a double LP recorded largely at the Record Plant in New York. Hendrix stret...