Classic LPs

Inevitably, when critics praise a new Dylan album, they label it the "best since Blood on the Tracks," and with good reason. Inspired by a crumbled...

For the last few months of 1975 and the first few of 1976, Bob Dylan led two tours, both unoffically called 'Rolling Thunder.' The tours were a kin...

Rescued from defunct formats, prised from dark cupboards and brought to light after two decades in cold storage… OKnotOK is released through XL Rec...

Recorded in a cold, amenity-free studio during the Midwestern winter of 1999, the White Stripes debut LP stands alone as the most raw, unpolished a...

Recorded in chunks over a six month period, Outlandos was released in November 1978 and featured at least three classic Police songs (four if you c...

For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) (referred to as For Those About to Rock on its cover) is the eighth studio album by Australian hard rock ba...

While there are lots of bands dealing in either danceable rock or navel-gazing pop, few bands combine the two quite like Foals. On Holy Fire, their...

Occasionally one album can be pinpointed as the turning point in a musical genre. 'Kill 'Em All' is one such album and, boy, did the heavy metal ge...

The first 2 albums may be seminal but quality-wise, 'Master of Reality' is the band's first true classic. Whereas 'Black Sabbath' was a heavy blues...

Overkill is the second album released by Motorhead, in 1979, and their first for Bronze Records. It peaked at number 24 on the UK charts. Bronze Re...

Re-run of the 2004 number 1 album by U2 on vinyl. Contains the hit singles Vertigo, City of Blinding Lights and Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your...

The final album of U2's early period, before the group broadened its sonic palette and lyrical vision, War is a brilliantly conflicted album, sound...

It's only now that you realise how much Daft Punk changed the direction of dance music and they did it with this album.Homework still stands head a...

John Coltrane's landmark 1961 jazz album My Favorite Things was born of the same recording sessions that yielded a majority of the albums Coltrane ...

Released in 1960, Giant Steps was a watershed album for John Coltrane, solidifying the saxophone legend's reputation as one of the most influential...

Blondie' is the eponymous debut album by Blondie, released in December 1976 on Private Stock Records. This album sounds like 1966 - that blissful y...

The first LP to feature drummer Topper Headon, this record was produced by Blue Oyster Cult's mentor Sandy Pearlman.Voted 'Album of the Year' by So...

There is no other album like Bat Out of Hell, unless you want to count the sequel. This is Grand Guignol pop - epic, gothic, operatic, and silly, a...

The American rock band's critically acclaimed debut studio album. Building on their 2001 EP 'The Modern Age', the band members moulded compositions...

In the 1980's, The Cure provided the soundtrack for an entire generation of misfit toys, and if Seventeen Seconds was a wake-up call for the dispos...

On the eve of a post-Thatcherite Britain, the Pale Saints, alongside the likes of Lush, Ride and Slowdive, were ushering in a new wave of British i...

Nimrod, Green Day’s fifth studio album, was originally released on October 14 1997. The Billboard Top10 LP declared “Green Days best!” by Kerrang w...

One of two sets recorded with a mini-big band in the early seventies, Waka / Jawaka is one of the most eclectic releases of Frank Zappa's hyper-ec...

This 1972 album continues the mostly-instrumental, jazz-rock thread of Zappa's work, which began with Hot Rats and continued with Waka / Jawaka. I...