Lists of albums
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This is a list of musical albums with articles in the Wikipedia. For a list of particularly notable albums (with or without an extant article) see List of albums by genre.
- 10,000 Maniacs - In My Tribe - 1987
- 3rd Bass - The Cactus Album - 1989
- ? & the Mysterians - Ninety-Six Tears - 1966
- ABBA - Super Trouper - 1980
- ABBA - Waterloo - 1974
- AC/DC - Back in Black - 1980
- AC/DC - Highway to Hell - 1979
- Adam & the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier
- Aerosmith - Rocks - 1976
- The Afghan Whigs - Congregation - 1991
- AFI - Art of Drowning - 2000
- Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force - Planet Rock - The Album - 1986
- Al Green - Call Me - 1973
- Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination - 1975
- Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill - 1995
- Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies - 1973
- Alice in Chains - Dirt - 1992
- The Allman Brothers Band - Live at Fillmore East - 1971
- America - Homecoming - 1973
- Ani DiFranco - Ani DiFranco - 1989
- The Animals - Animalism - 1966
- Anthrax - Among the Living - 1987
- Anthrax - Persistence of Time - 1990
- Anthrax - State of Euphoria - 1988
- Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do - 1995
- Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You - 1967
- Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul - 1968
- Aretha Franklin - Young, Gifted and Black - 1971
- Arrested Development - Three Years, Five Months, Two Days in the Life of - 1992
- Arthur Brown - Crazy World of Arthur Brown - 1968
- Ash - 1977 (album) - 1996
- Asia - Asia (album) - 1982
- Audioslave - Audioslave - 2002
- Augustus Pablo - East of the River Nile - 1977
- Average White Band - AWB - 1974
- The B-52's - The B-52s (album) - 1979
- Babes in Toyland - Fontanelle - 1992
- Bad Brains - I Against I - 1986
- Bad Company - Bad Company (album) - 1974
- Bad Religion - Suffer - 1988
- Badfinger - No Dice - 1970
- Badfinger - Straight Up - 1971
- Bananarama - Deep Sea Skiving - 1983
- The Band - Music from Big Pink - 1968
- The Band - The Band - 1969
- Barenaked Ladies - Barenaked Lunch
- Barrington Levy - Englishman - 1979
- Barry White - Stone Gon' - 1973
- The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds - 1966
- The Beach Boys - Endless Summer - 1974
- The Beach Boys - Smile
- Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill - 1986
- Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique - 1989
- The Beatles - 1
- The Beatles - Abbey Road - 1969
- The Beatles - Beatles for Sale - 1964
- The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night - 1964
- The Beatles - Help! - 1965
- The Beatles - Let It Be - 1970
- The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour - 1967
- The Beatles - Meet the Beatles - 1964
- The Beatles - Please Please Me - 1963
- The Beatles - Revolver - 1966
- The Beatles - Rubber Soul - 1965
- The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - 1967
- The Beatles - The White Album - 1968
- The Beatles - With the Beatles - 1963
- The Beatles - Yellow Submarine - 1969
- Beck - Mellow Gold - 1994 - breakthrough album
- Beck - Midnite Vultures - 1999
- Beck - Mutations - 1998
- Beck - Odelay - 1996
- Beck - One Foot in the Grave - 1994
- Beck - Sea Change - 2002
- The Bee Gees - The Bee Gees' First - 1967
- The Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever - 1977 - blockbuster album that established the primacy of disco on the American pop charts
- Beenie Man - Blessed - 1995
- Ben Folds - Rocking the Suburbs - 2001
- Ben Harper - Fight for Your Mind - 1995
- Big Star - Radio City - 1974
- Billy Bragg - Talking with the Taxman about Poetry - 1986
- Billy Idol - Rebel Yell - 1983
- Billy Joel - The Piano Man - 1973
- Björk - Debut - 1993
- Blackstar - Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Blackstar
- Black Crowes - Amorica - 1994
- Black Crowes - Shake Your Moneymaker - 1990
- Black Flag - Damaged - 1981
- Black Sabbath - Master of Reality - 1971
- Black Sabbath - Paranoid - 1971
- Black Uhuru - Chill Out - 1982
- Blind Faith - Blind Faith - 1969
- Blind Melon - Blind Melon - 1992
- blink-182 - Buddha
- blink-182 - Enema of the State - 1999
- Blondie - Parallel Lines - 1978
- Blood, Sweat & Tears - Child Is Father to the Man - 1968
- Bloodhound Gang - One Fierce Beer Coaster - 1996
- Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum - 1968
- Blue Oyster Cult - Agents of Fortune - 1976
- Blues Traveler - Four - 1994
- Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish - 1993
- Blur - Parklife - 1994
- Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks - 1975
- Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde - 1966
- Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home - 1965
- Bob Dylan & The Band - The Basement Tapes - 1975
- Bob Marley & the Wailers - Exodus - 1977
- Bob Marley & the Wailers - Uprising - 1980
- Bob Marley & the Wailers - Burnin' - 1973
- Bob Marley & the Wailers - Catch a Fire - 1973
- Bob Marley & the Wailers - Natty Dread - 1974
- Bob Seger - Live Bullet - 1976
- Bon Jovi - Crossroad
- Bon Jovi - Crush - 2000
- Bon Jovi - New Jersey
- Bone Thugs N Harmony - E 1999 Eternal - 1995
- Bonnie Raitt - Nick of Time - 1989
- Booker T. & the MGs - Green Onions - 1962
- Bootsy Collins - Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band - 1976
- Boston - Boston - 1976
- Bounty Killer - My Xperience - 1996
- Bread - Bread - 1969
- The Breeders - Last Splash - 1993
- Brian Eno - Another Green World - 1975
- Bright Eyes - Every Day and Every Night - 2000
- Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors - 2000
- Bright Eyes - Letting Off the Happiness - 1998
- Bright Eyes - Lifted or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground - 2002
- Brigitte Fontaine & Areski Belkacem - Vous and Nous - 1977
- Brinsley Schwarz - Silver Pistol - 1972
- Britney Spears - Oops!...I Did It Again - 2000
- Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band - Born in the U.S.A. - 1984
- Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band - Born to Run - 1975 - Springsteen's breakthough album that included the blockbuster title track and made him a mainstream star
- Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band - Greetings from Asbury Park, New Jersey - 1973 - debut album that began a series of articles hyping Springsteen as the next big thing in music
- Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band - Nebraska - 1982 - critically acclaimed album released only after Springsteen scrapped the record and released the stripped-down demos
- Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band - The Wild, the Innocent and the E-Street Shuffle - 1973
- Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band - Darkness on the Edge of Town - 1978
- Budgie - Bandolier - 1975
- Budgie - Budgie - 1971
- Budgie - Deliver Us from Evil - 1982
- Budgie - If I Were Britannia I'd Waive the Rules - 1976
- Budgie - In For The Kill - 1974
- Budgie - Never Turn Your Back on a Friend - 1973
- Budgie - Nightflight - 1981
- Budgie - Power Supply - 1980
- Budgie - Squawk - 1971
- Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield Again - 1967
- Buju Banton - Till Shiloh - 1995
- Bunny Wailer - Liberation - 1989
- Burning Spear - Man in the Hills - 1976
- Bush - Sixteen Stone - 1994
- The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo - 1968
- Carcass - Heartwork - 1994
- Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious - 1991
- Carcass - Swansong - 1996
- Carcass - Wake Up And Smell The...Carcass - 1997
- Celtic Frost - Into the Pandemonium - 1987
- Chris Cornell - Euphoria Morning - 1999
- The Clash - London Calling - 1979
- Cocteau Twins - Head over Heels - 1983 - influential dream pop album that could be considered the genesis of Britpop, space rock, twee pop and shoegazing
- Culture Club - Kissing to Be Clever - 1982
- The Cure - Disintegration - 1989
- The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys - 1979
- Curtis Mayfield - Superfly - 1972
- Crass - Bullshit Detecter - 1980 - 1984
- Crass - The Feeding of the 5000 - 1978
- Crass - Stations of the Crass - 1979
- Crass - Yes Sir, I Will - 1983
- Culture Club - Kissing to Be Clever - 1982
- Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual - 1984 - one of the first albums made a blockbuster by MTV
- D'Angelo - Voodoo - 2000
- David Bowie - Aladdin Sane - 1973
- David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - 1972 - classic glam rock concept album that tells the story of a cross-dressing Martian rock star
- De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising - 1989 - widely considered the first alternative hip hop album, both praised and derided upon its release for uplifting and optimistic lyrics
- Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables - 1980
- The Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist - 1985
- Dead Prez - Let's Get Free - 2000
- Def Jef - Just a Poet with a Soul - 1989
- Deftones - Adrenaline - 1995
- Deftones - Around the Fur - 1997
- Deftones - White Pony - 2000
- Diamond Head - Canterbury
- Dismember - Like an Ever Flowing Stream
- DJ Spooky - Songs of a Dead Dreamer
- The Doors - The Doors
- Dr. Dre - The Chronic - 1992 - one of the first major hip hop albums, established the popular supremacy of West Coast rap and g funk, and also launched the career of Snoop Doggy Dogg
- Dredg - El Cielo
- Dredg - Leitmotif
- Duran Duran - Rio
- The Eagles - Hotel California
- Entombed - Clandestine
- Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard
- Erykah Badu - Baduizm
- Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
- Faith Hill - Breathe
- Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
- Frank Zappa - We're Only in It for the Money
- Fugazi - 13 Songs
- Funkadelic - Free Your Mind... And Your Ass Will Follow
- Funkadelic - Funkadelic
- Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
- Funkadelic - America Eats Its Young
- Funkadelic - Cosmic Slop
- Funkadelic - Standing on the Verge of Getting It On
- Funkadelic - Let's Take It to the Stage
- Funkadelic - Hardcore Jollies
- Funkadelic - Tales of Kidd Funkadelic
- Funkadelic - Uncle Jam Wants You
- Funkadelic - Electric Spanking of War Babies
- Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove
- Gang Starr - No More Mr. Nice Guy
- George Strait - Right or Wrong
- The Get-Up Kids - Something to Write Home About
- Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
- Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience
- The Go-Go's - The Beauty and the Beat
- Godsmack - Faceless
- The Grateful Dead - American Beauty
- Green Day - Dookie - 1994
- Green Day - Insomniac - 1995
- Green Day - Nimrod - 1997
- Green Day - Shenanigans - 2002
- Green River - Rehab Doll/Dry As a Bone - 1988
- Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction - 1987 - breakthrough debut that made grungey hair metal mainstream for a few years
- Guru - Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 - 1993 - critically acclaimed album that cemented the sound of jazz rap
- GZA - Liquid Swords
- Helmet - Aftertaste - 1997
- Helmet - Betty - 1994
- Helmet - Born Annoying - 1994
- Helmet - Meantime - 1992
- Helmet - Strap It On - 1991
- Ice-T - Rhyme Pays
- Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
- Jackson Browne - Late for the Sky
- Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Jukebox
- Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
- Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
- Jethro Tull - A
- Jethro Tull - Aqualung
- Jimmy Buffett - Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
- Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come - 1972 - soundtrack that became the first major success for reggae outside of Jamaica and other Caribbean islands
- Journey - Escape
- Journey - Infinity
- Journey - Journey
- Joy Division - Closer
- Jungle Brothers - Done By the Forces of Nature
- Juvenile - 400 Degreez
- Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing - 2002
- King Diamond - Conspiracy
- The Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society
- Kool & the Gang - Spirit of the Boogie
- Korn - Korn - 1994
- Korn - Untouchables - 2002
- Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun - 1992 - critically acclaimed classic album that established the conventions of stoner metal
- Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - 1998 - pioneering nu soul album that became a major mainstream success
- Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy - 1973
- Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I - 1969
- Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II - 1969
- Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III - 1970
- Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV - 1971
- Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti - 1975
- Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same - 1976
- Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
- Linkin Park - Meteora
- Lit - A Place in the Sun
- Love - Forever Changes
- Madonna - Like a Virgin
- Marvin Gaye - What's Going On?
- Mary J Blige - What's the 411?
- Massive Attack - Blue Lines
- Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
- Megadeth - Cryptic Writings
- Megadeth - Hidden Treasures
- Megadeth - Rude Awakening
- Megadeth - Rust in Peace
- Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What?
- Megadeth - The World Needs a Hero
- Megadeth - Youthanasia
- Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson - Pancho & Lefty
- Metallica - ...And Justice For All - 1988
- Metallica - The Black Album - 1991 - major commercial breakthrough
- Metallica - Garage Inc - 1998
- Metallica - Kill 'Em All - 1983
- Metallica - Load - 1996
- Metallica - Master Of Puppets - 1986
- Metallica - Ride the Lightning - 1984
- Metallica - Reload - 1997
- Metallica - S&M - 1999
- Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
- Ministry - The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste
- Ministry - Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs
- Moby - Animal Rights
- Monty Python team - Monty Python Sings
- Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
- Mos Def & Talib Kweli - Black Star
- Mötley Crüe - Dr. Feelgood
- My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
- Nas - Illmatic
- Natalie Merchant - Tigerlily
- The Nazz - The Nazz
- Neil Young - Harvest
- New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
- The New York Dolls - The New York Dolls
- Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral - 1994
- Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile - 1999
- Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine - 1989
- Nirvana - Bleach
- Nirvana - Nevermind - major commercial success. Believed by many to have changed the music industry
- Nirvana - Incesticide
- Nirvana - In Utero
- Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York - 1994
- Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death
- 'N Sync - No Strings Attached
- N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton - 1989 - first blockbuster gangsta rap album that stirred controversy, especially the track "Fuck Tha Police"
- Oasis - Definitely Maybe - 1994 - debut album that brought Britpop to the top of the charts
- The Offspring - Smash
- Ol' Dirty Bastard - Nigga Please
- One Minute Silence - Available in All Colours
- Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz
- Ozzy Osbourne - Down to Earth
- Parliament - Mothership Connection
- Patti Smith - Horses
- Paul Simon - Paul Simon
- Pantera - Cowboys from Hell - 1990
- Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power - 1992
- Parliament - Mothership Connection
- Pearl Jam - Ten - 1991
- Pearl Jam - Vitalogy - 1994
- Pet Lamb - Sweaty Handshake - 1995
- Pink Floyd - Animals
- Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
- Pink Floyd - The Wall
- Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
- PJ Harvey - Dry
- The Police - Synchronicity
- Presidents of the United States of America - Presidents of the United States of America
- Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
- Queen Latifah - All Hail the Queen
- Queens of the Stone Age - R - 2000
- Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf - 2002
- Quiet Riot - Metal Health
- Radiohead - Amnesiac
- Radiohead - The Bends
- Radiohead - Drill
- Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
- Radiohead - Kid A
- Radiohead - OK Computer
- Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx- 1995 - widely considered one of the best Wu-Tang solo albums and a masterpiece of mafioso rap
- Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire - 1996
- Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine - 1992
- Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles - 1999
- Rainbow - Rainbow Rising
- The Ramones - Rocket to Russia
- The Ramones - The Ramones
- Rancid - ...And Out Come the Wolves
- Rancid - Let's Go
- Randy Newman - 12 Songs
- Ratt - Out of the Cellar
- Reba McEntire - My Kind of Country
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik - 1991
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication - 1999 - popular album critically acclaimed by many critics but derided by some fans as a sell-out record that abandoned much of the band's funk roots
- The Replacements - Tim
- Run-D.M.C. - Raising Hell
- Rush - Rush
- Santana - Abraxas
- Sepultura - Beneath the Remains - 1989
- Sepultura - Chaos A.D. - 1993
- Sepultura - Roots - 1996
- Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
- Shellac - At Action Park
- Shellac - 1000 Hurts
- Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge over Troubled Water
- Skid Row - Slave to the Grind
- Slayer - Decade of Aggression - 1991
- Slayer - God Hates Us All - 2001
- Slayer - Hell Awaits - 1985
- Slayer - Reign in Blood - 1986
- Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss - 1990
- Slayer - Show No Mercy - 1983
- Slayer - South of Heaven - 1988
- Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
- Slipknot - Iowa - [[2001]
- Slipknot - Mate.Feed.Kill.Repeat - 1996
- Slipknot - Slipknot - 1999
- The Smashing Pumpkins - Gish - 1991
- The Smashing Pumpkins - Lull - 1991
- The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - 1995
- The Smashing Pumpkins - Pisces Iscariot - 1994
- The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream - 1993
- The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
- Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle
- Social Distortion - Mainline (The Wreckage of the Past)
- Social Distortion - Mommy's Little Monster
- Social Distortion - Social Distortion
- Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
- Soundgarden - Screaming Life/Fopp (Compilation of two EPs)
- Soundgarden - Ultramega OK
- Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
- Soundgarden - Superunknown
- Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
- Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
- The Stooges - Raw Power
- The Strokes - Is This It
- Styx - The Grand Illusion
- Sublime - 40 Oz. to Freedom
- Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler
- Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One
- System of a Down - Steal This Album!
- System of a Down - System of a Down
- System of a Down - Toxicity
- The Specials - More Specials
- Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food
- Therapy? - Caucasian Psychosis
- Therapy? - Babyteeth
- Therapy? - Infernal Love
- Therapy? - Nurse
- Therapy? - Pleasure Death
- Therapy? - Semi-Detached
- Therapy? - Shameless
- Therapy? - So Much For the Ten Year Plan
- Therapy? - Suicide Pact-You First
- Therapy? - Troublegum
- They Might Be Giants - The Pink Album
- They Might Be Giants - They Might Be Giants
- Tina Turner - Private Dancer - 1984 - debut solo album that made Turner a star and proved husband Ike Turner was not the sole cause of her previous success
- Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes
- Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
- Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
- Tool - Ænima - 1996
- Tool - 'Lateralus - 2001
- Tool - Opiate - 1992
- Tool - Salival - 2000
- Tool - Undertow - 1993
- Tori Amos - Boys For Pele
- Tori Amos - From the Choirgirl Hotel
- Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
- Tori Amos - Strange Little Girls
- Tori Amos - To Venus And Back
- Tori Amos - Under the Pink
- Tori Amos - Y Kant Tori Read
- A Tribe Called Quest - The Low-End Theory - 1991 - widely considered one of the best alternative hip hop albums, revolutionized the genre
- UFO - Flying
- UFO - Lights Out
- U2 - Achtung Baby, Boy
- Van Halen - Van Halen
- Van Halen - Van Halen II
- Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
- Van Morrison - Moondance
- The Vandals - Peace Thru Vandalism
- The Vandals - The Quickening
- Various Artists - O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack - 2000 - surprise blockbuster that proved hardcore bluegrass and country music could sell among mainstream audiences
- Various Artists - The Best of Bond...James Bond
- Various Artists - The Best Christmas Album in the World...Ever!
- The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
- The Verve - Urban Hymns
- Weezer - The Blue Album - 1994
- Weezer - The Green Album - 2001
- Weezer - Pinkerton - 1996
- White Zombie - Astro Creep: 2000 - Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head - 1995
- The Who - My Generation
- The Who - A Quick One
- The Who - The Who Sell Out
- The Who - Tommy
- The Who - Who's Next
- The Who - Quadrophenia
- The Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers - 1993 - critically acclaimed East Coast hip hop album that helped keep the genre alive with G funk dominated the charts
- Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Trial by Fire
- ZZ Top - Afterburner