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Studio Brussels Top 100 albums of all time

posted: May 14, 2010

If you've been following my website for a while, you might have noticed a little trend - music lists. Yes, I admit, I'm a big fan of top whatevers, as well as what you might call an avid trainspotter of music.

So when my favourite radio station decided to air a list of the top 100 albums of all time, naturally I couldn't resist listening and posting the list in it's entirety.

Before I jump to the list, I would like to mention that I've made a little promise to myself. While I do know most songs, I've never listened to all the albums in the list. Therefor, I have decided to make a little effort, find all the albums contained herein (besides the ones I already own), and listen to all of them in descending list order.

With a daily commute of over one hour, there sure is plenty of time to listen to them, and if the ones in my collection are an indication of the quality of music within the list, I'm in for some real nice rides...

On to the list!!

Studio Brussels Top 100 albums of all time
Nr. Artist Title Own?
1 Pearl Jam Ten
2 Nirvana Nevermind yes
3 Radiohead Ok Computer
4 Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon
5 Metallica The Black Album yes
6 Queens Of The Stone Age Songs For The Deaf
7 Muse Origin Of Symmetry
8 Metallica Master Of Puppets yes
9 Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
10 The Beatles Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band
11 Eels Beautiful Freak
12 U2 Achtung Baby
13 Bloc Party Silent Alarm
14 Kings Of Leon Only By The Night yes
15 Rage At Machine Rage Against The Machine
16 Neil Young Harvest
17 The Doors The Doors
18 The Beatles The White Album
19 Jeff Buckley Grace
20 Oasis What's My Story Morning Glory
21 Tool Aenima
22 Editors An End Has A Start
23 Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication
24 Cure Disintegration
25 Pixies Doolittle
26 Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland
27 Tool Lateralus
28 Nirvana Unplugged In New York
29 Deus Worst Case Scenario
30 Michael Jackson Thriller
31 Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here yes
32 Radiohead The Bends yes
33 Muse Absolution
34 Prince Sign O' The Times
35 Coldplay A Rush Of Blood To The Head
36 Muse Black Holes & Revelations
37 Pixies Surfer Rosa & Come On Pelgrim
38 Joy Division Unknown Pleasures
39 Green Day American Idiot
40 Radiohead In Rainbows
41 U2 The Joshua Tree yes
42 Pink Floyd The Wall yes
43 Tom Waits Closing Time
44 Daft Punk Homework yes
45 Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV yes
46 Metallica And Justice For All yes
47 Velvet Underground & Nico Velvet Underground & Nico
48 Bruce Springsteen Born To Run
49 Deus Ideal Crash
50 The Smiths The Queen Is Dead
51 Simple Minds New Gold Dream
52 Arcade Fire Funeral
53 Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness yes
54 Fleetwood Mac Rumours
55 Guns & Roses Appetite For Destruction yes
56 Iron Maiden The Number Of The Beast yes
57 The Clash London Calling yes
58 Muse The Resistance
59 Foo Fighters The Colour & The Shape
60 Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik yes
61 Radiohead Kid A
62 Depeche Mode Violator
63 Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers
64 R.E.M. Automatic For The People
65 Afghan Whigs Gentlemen
66 Air Moon Safari
67 Bob Dylan Blood On The Tracks
68 The Beatles Revolver
69 Joy Division Closer
70 The Doors LA Woman
71 Massive Attack Mezzanine yes
72 Therapy? Troublegum yes
73 AC/DC Back In Black
74 Coldplay Viva La Vida
75 Moby Play yes
76 Sex Pistols Never Mind The Bollocks yes
77 Live Throwing Copper
78 Oasis Definitely Maybe
79 Bob Marley Babylon By Bus
80 Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream
81 Rolling Stones Exile On Main Street
82 Cure P*rnography
83 Prince Purple Rain
84 Elbow The Seldom Seen Kid
85 Triffids Born Sandy Devotional
86 K's Choice Cocoon Crash
87 Admiral Freebee Admiral Freebee
88 White Stripes Elephant
89 Deus In A Bar, Under The Sea
90 The Black Box Revelation Set Your Head On Fire
91 Paul Simon Graceland
92 MGMT Oracular Spectacular
93 The Killers Hot Fuss
94 Nick Cave The Boatman's Call
95 Sigur Ros Agaetis Byrjun
96 Lou Reed Berlin
97 Arctic Monkeys Your Favourite Worst Nightmare
98 The Sisters Of Mercy First & Last & Always yes
99 Amy Winehouse Back To Black yes
100 David Bowie The Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders Of Mars

Naturally there are lots and lots of albums which are equally great, but aren't featured in the list. If you think there's an album I might like, whatever genre it may be, feel free to suggest it to me: I love discovering new music just as much as I enjoy the classics!

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