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For your favorite rocker: Jeff Gold's 101 Essential Rock Records—The Golden Age of Vinyl From the Beatles to the Sex Pistols, an overview of rock's most seminal albums.
A two-page spread on each album features large images of each record’s front and back cover and record label, alongside an essay discussing that album’s influence and impact. Each album depicted is the first pressing from the artist’s country of origin—akin to a first edition book.
Includes essays by contributors such as Iggy Pop, Devendra Banhart, David Bowie, Johnny Marr and Yoko Ono.
What are the 101 essential rock records, you ask? Here they are, in chronological order.
1. The Beatles – Please Please Me 2. Bob Dylan – The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan 3. The Rolling Stones – The Rolling Stones 4. Bob Dylan – Another Side of Bob Dylan 5. Davy Graham – Folk Blues & Beyond… 6. Them – Angry Young Them 7. The Byrds – Mr. Tambourine Man 8. Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited 9. The Who – My Generation 10. Simon & Garfunkel – Sounds of Silence 11. The Rolling Stones – Aftermath 12. The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds 13. Bob Dylan – Blonde On Blonde 14. The Mothers of Invention – Freak Out! 15. Yardbirds – Yardbirds 16. John Mayall with Eric Clapton – Blues Breakers 17. The Butterfield Blues Band – East West 18. The Beatles – Revolver 19. Jefferson Airplane – Takes Off 20. The Kinks – Face to Face 21. The 13th Floor Elevators – The Psychedelic Sounds Of 22. Laura Nyro – More Than A New Discovery 23. The Doors – The Doors 24. Jefferson Airplane – Surrealistic Pillow 25. The Velvet Underground & Nico – The Velvet Underground 26. Grateful Dead – Grateful Dead 27. The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced? 28. The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 29. Moby Grape – Moby Grape 30. Tim Buckley – Goodbye and Hello 31. Pink Floyd – The Piper At The Gates of Dawn 32. Buffalo Springfield – Again 33. Love – Forever Changes 34. Cream – Disraeli Gears 35. Traffic – Mr. Fantasy 36. The Who – The Who Sell Out 37. Leonard Cohen – Songs of Leonard Cohen 38. The Velvet Underground – White Light/White Heat 39. Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac 40. The Incredible String Band – The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter 41. The Zombies – Odessey & Oracle 42. Small Faces – Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake 43. The Band – Music From The Big Pink 44. Grateful Dead – Anthem of the Sun 45. Jeff Beck – Truth 46. Big Brother & The Holding Company – Cheap Thrills 47. The Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo 48. The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland 49. Van Morrison – Astral Weeks 50. The Beatles – The Beatles (White Album) 51. The Pretty Things – S.F. Sorrow 52. The Pentangle – Sweet Child 53. The Soft Machine – The Soft Machine 54. Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bayou Country 55. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin 56. The Flying Burrito Bros. – The Gilded Palace of Sin 57. MC5 – Kick Out The Jams 58. Sly And The Family Stand – Stand! 59. Neil Young With Crazy Horse – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere 60. Alexander Spence – Oar 61. The Who – Tommy 62. Crosby, Stills & Nash – Crosby, Stills & Nash 63. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica 64. Blind Faith – Blind Faith 65. Jethro Tull – Stand Up 66. The Stooges – The Stooges 67. Nick Drake – Five Leaves Left 68. King Crimson – In The Court of The Crimson King 69. Vashti Bunyan – Just Another Diamond Day 70. Fairport Convention – Liege & Leaf 71. The Move – Shazam 72. James Taylor – Sweet Baby James 73. Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath 74. Emerson Lake & Palmer – Emerson Lake & Palmer 75. David Bowie – The Man Who Sold The World 76. Cat Stevens – Tea For The Tillerman 77. Carole King – Tapestry 78. Can – Tago Mago 79. Yes – The Yes Album 80. Joni Mitchell – Blue 81. The Allman Brothers Band – At Fillmore East 82. Genesis – Nursery Cryme 83. Faust – Faust 84. The Rolling Stones – Exile On Main St. 85. David Bowie – The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars 86. Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon 87. Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure 88. Iggy And The Stooges – Raw Power 89. New York Dolls – New York Dolls 90. Big Star – #1 Record 91. Kraftwerk – Autobahn 92. Bruce Springsteen – Born To Run 93. Patti Smith – Horses 94. Ramones – Ramones 95. The Modern Lovers – The Modern Lovers 96. AC/DC – Dirty Deeds Done Cheap 97. Fleetwood Mac – Rumors 98. The Damned – The Damned 99. The Clash – The Clash 100. Talking Heads – Talking Heads: 77 101. Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols
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