Lists

 ;Lists

*http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/1001Albums.htm 1001 Albums/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/steveparker/1001albums.htm 1001 albums

*http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2006/jul/16/popandrock.shopping 2006 Observer 50

*VH1 100

*http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-19691231 Rolling Stone 500 Albums

*NME

*http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-100-greatest-albums/articles/the-results Channel4 100 Greatest Albums

*http://www.listsofbests.com/list/13644 Q magazine 100 Best 2006

;Others

*http://www.time.com/time/2006/100albums/index.html Time

*http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/mojo.html#100 MOJO

*[http://www.soundandvisionmag.com/article/top-50-albums-all-time Top 50 (2008)] [[Sound & Vision (magazine)|Sound & Vision]]

*[http://www.rocklist.co.uk/virgin_1000.htm virgin_1000]

*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/nov/19/1000tohearbeforeyoudie6 Guardian 1000 to hear before you die]

;Best ofs

*[http://www.besteveralbums.com/ Best Ever Albums]

*[http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/ acclaimedmusic.net]

*[http://martijn-2000.tripod.com/ All Time Top 100 Albums martijn-2000]

*[http://www.rocklist.co.uk/index.htm rocklist.co.uk]

1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die

 Tom Moon

1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die: A Listener’s Life List

Published by Workman Publishing Company Inc, August 2008.


o ABBA - Gold
o Dimi Mint Abba - Music & Songs of Mauritania
o Muhal Richard Abrams Orchestra - Blu Blu Blu
o AC/DC - Back in Black
o John Adams - Death of Klinghoffer [John Adams / London Symphony Orchestra]
o John Adams - Harmonium (ECM) [Eo de Waart / San Francisco Symphony Orchestra]
o Johnny Adams - Real Me: Sings Doc Pomus
o Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
o Cannonball Adderley Quintet - Live At the Lighthouse
o King Sunny Adé - Best of the Classic Years
o Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
o Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force - Planet Rock [12”]
o Mahmoud Ahmed - Éthiopiques Vol 7: Erè Mèla Mèla
o Air - Air Lore
o Arthur Alexander - Ultimate
o Alice Cooper - School’s Out [7”]
o Alice in Chains - Dirt
o Mose Allison - Allison Wonderland: Anthology
o Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East
o Almanac Singers - Their Complete General Recordings
o Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass - Whipped Cream & Other Delights
o Amigos Invisibles - Arepa 3000: A Venezuelan Journey Into Space
o Albert Ammons & Meade Lux Lewis - First Day
o Marian Anderson - Spirituals
o Animals - House of the Rising Sun [7”]
o Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
o Fiona Apple - When the Pawn...
o Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
o Martha Argerich - Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 3 / Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto
o Louis Armstrong - Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings [Legacy/Sony]
o Arrested Development - 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life of...
o Art Ensemble of Chicago - Urban Bushmen
o Fred Astaire - Steppin’ Out: Astaire Sings
o Chet Atkins & Les Paul - Chester & Lester
o Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity
o Baby Huey & the Babysitters - Story: Living Legend
o JS Bach - Brandenburg Concertos / Concerto Italiano [Rinaldo Alessandrini]
o JS Bach - Cantatas BWV 82 & 199 [Lorraine Hunt Lieberson]
o JS Bach - Goldberg Variations (A State of Wonder: 1955 & 1981 Recordings) [Glenn Gould]
o JS Bach - Mass in B minor [Philippe Herreweghe / Collegium Vocale]
o JS Bach - Partitas Nos 1 & 4 / Sonata in G minor (JS Bach: Vol 1) [Sergio Fiorentino]
o JS Bach - Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin: Complete [Arthur Grumiaux]
o JS Bach - Suites for Cello: Vols 1 & 2 [Pablo Casals]
o JS Bach - Well-Tempered Clavier: Book 1 [Till Fellner]
o Bad Brains - I Against I
o Baden Powell [Baden Powell de Aquino] - Universo Musical de…
o Erykah Badu - Mama’s Gun
o Joan Baez - Joan Baez (1960)
o Anita Baker - Rapture
o Chet Baker - Let’s Get Lost: Best of Chet Baker Sings
o Balfa Brothers - Play Traditional Cajun Music
o Hank Ballard & the Midnighters - Singin’ & Swingin’
o Band - Band [2nd Album]
o Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings [Leonard Slatkin / St Louis Symphony Orchestra]
o Ray Barretto - Barretto-Power
o Béla Bartók - Six String Quartets [Takács Quartet]
o Béla Bartók - Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta [Fritz Reiner / Chicago Symphony Orchestra]
o Béla Bartók - Concerto No 3 for Piano & Orchestra (with Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6) [Annie Fischer / Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra / Ferenc Fricsay]
o Cecilia Bartoli - Vivaldi Album
o Count Basie Orchestra - Original American Decca Recordings
o Count Basie Orchestra with Joe Williams - Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings
o Waldemar Bastos - Pretaluz
o Batacumbele - Con un Poco de Songo
o Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
o Beach Boys - Good Vibrations [7”]
o Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
o Billy Bean - Trio: Rediscovered
o Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique
o Beatles - A Hard Day’s Night
o Beatles - Abbey Road
o Beatles - Beatles [White Album]
o Beatles - Revolver
o Beatles - Rubber Soul
o Beatles - Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
o Beau Brummels - Triangle
o BeauSoleil - Bayou Deluxe: Best of Michael Doucet & BeauSoleil
o Sidney Bechet - Ken Burns’ Jazz
o Beck - Mutations
o Bee Gees & Various Artists - Saturday Night Fever: Soundtrack
o Ludwig van Beethoven - Missa Solemnis [Otto Kelmperer / New Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra]
o Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Concertos Nos 1-5 [Rudolf Serkin / Bavarian Radio Symphony & Chorus / Rafael Kubelík]
o Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Concertos Nos 4 & 5 [Arthur Schoonderwoerd / Cristofori Ensemble]
o Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Trio No 6 ‘Archduke’ & Violin Sonata No 9 ‘Kreutzer’ [Jacques Thibaud, Pablo Casals, Alfred Cortot]
o Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quartets Ops 131 & 135 [Leonard Bernstein / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra]
o Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphonies Nos 1-9 [David Zinman / Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich]
o Bix Beiderbecke - Vol 1: Singin’ the Blues
o Harry Belafonte - Live in Concert at the Carnegie Hall
o Peter Bellamy - The Transports
o Belle & Sebastian - If You’re Feeling Sinister
o Vincenzo Bellini - Norma [Maria Callas / Chorus & Orchestra of La Scala, Milan / Tullio Serafin]
o Bembeya Jazz National - Syliphone Years
o Jorge Ben - África-Brasil
o Benedictine Monks of the Abbey of St Maurice & St Maur, Clervaux - Salve Regina: Gregorian Chant
o Tony Bennett & Bill Evans - Tony Bennett-Bill Evans Album
o Alban Berg - Violin Concerto (with Igor Stravinsky’ Violin Concerto) [Mark Kaplan / Budapest Festival Orchestra / Lawrence Foster]
o Alban Berg - Wozzeck [Ingo Metzmacher / Hamburg State Philharmonic]
o Luciano Berio - Sinfonia: for eight voices & orchestra [Péter Eötvös / London Voices / Göteborgs Symfoniker]
o Hector Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique [Sir John Eliot Gardiner / Orchestre Révolutionnaire
o Hector Berlioz - Les Troyens [Sir John Eliot Gardiner / Monteverdi Choir / Chorus of the Théâtre du Châtelet]
o Leonard Bernstein - West Side Story: Original Broadway Cast
o Chuck Berry - Anthology [Chess/MCA]
o Asha Bhosle - Rough Guide to Asha Bhosle
o Big Daddy Kane - Long Live the Kane
o Big Star - #1 Record / Radio City (2 on 1)
o Georges Bizet - Carmen [Victoria de los Angeles / French Radio Orchestra & Chorus / Sir Thomas Beecham]
o Björk - Homogenic
o Black Flag - Damaged
o Black Sabbath - Paranoid
o Blind Blake - Ragtime Guitar’s Foremost Fingerpicker
o Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Moanin’
o Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland - Two Steps from the Blues
o Paul Bley - Fragments
o Blind Boys of Alabama - Spirit of the Century
o Blind Faith - Blind Faith
o Blondie - Parallel Lines
o Bloque - Bloque
o Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley (1958)
o Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick & Joe Stein - Fiddler on the Roof: Original Broadway Cast
o Dock Boggs - His Folkway Years: 1963-1968
o Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy - I See a Darkness
o Boogie Down Productions - By All Means Necessary
o Booker T & MGs - Melting Pot
o James Booker - New Orleans Piano Wizard: Live!
o Lô Borges - Lô Borges
o Boston - Boston
o Bothy Band - Old Hag You Have Killed Me
o Boukman Eksperyans - Kalfou Danjare
o David Bowie - Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars
o Boys of the Lough - Live at Passim
o Alex Bradford & the Abyssinian Baptist Church Choir - Shakin’ the Rafters
o Johannes Brahms - Four Symphonies [Gunther Wand / NDR Symphony Orchestra]
o Johannes Brahms - Lieder [Bernarda Fink & Roger Vignoles]
o Johannes Brahms - Piano Concerto No 2 [Sviatoslav Richter / Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Erich Leinsdorf]
o Johannes Brahms - Sonatas: for cello & piano Ops 38, 99 & 108 [Yo-Yo Ma / Emanuel Ax]
o Johannes Brahms - Violin Sonatas Ops 78, 100 & 108 [Josef Suk / Julius Katchen]
o Anthony Braxton - For Alto
o Bright Eyes - I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
o Benjamin Britten - Peter Grimes [Jon Vickers / Heather Harper / Royal Opera House Orchestra & Chorus / Sir Colin Davis]
o Big Bill Broonzy - Young Big Bill Broonzy: 1928-1935
o Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers - Any Other Way to Go?
o Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet - Clifford Brown & Max Roach (1954)
o James Brown - Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine [7”]
o James Brown - Live at the Apollo (1962)
o James Brown - Soul Pride: Instrumentals 1960-1969
o Oscar Brown, Jr - Sin & Soul... and Then Some
o Ruth Brown - Miss Rhythm
o Jackson Browne - Late for the Sky
o Anton Bruckner - Symphony No 7 [Georg Tintner / Royal Scottish National Orchestra]
o Jeff Buckley - Grace
o Lord Buckley - His Royal Hipness
o Tim Buckley - Dream Letter: Live in London, 1968
o Buckwheat Zydeco - Zydeco Party
o Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club
o Buffalo Springfield - Retrospective
o Bulgarian Women’s National Radio & Television Chorus - Mystère des Voix Bulgares
o Solomon Burke - Don’t Give Up On Me
o Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
o RL Burnside - Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down
o Kate Bush - Kick Inside
o William Byrd - Harpsichord Music [Gustav Leonhardt]
o Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man
o Cachao y Su Ritmo Caliente - Descargas: Cuban Jam Sessions in Miniature
o Café Tacuba - Cuatro Caminos
o Uri Caine - Urlicht/Primal Light
o Camarón de la Isla - Leyenda del Tiempo
o Can - Tago Mago
o Nati Cano’s Mariachi los Camperos - ¡Viva el Mariachi!
o Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
o Caravans - Best of the Caravans
o James Carr - You Got My Mind Messed Up
o Carter Family - 1927-1934
o Elliott Carter - Symphonia: Sum Fluxae Pretium Spei / Clarinet Concerto [Oliver Knussen / BBC Symphony Orchestra]
o Martin Carthy with Dave Swarbrick - Byker Hill
o Cartola - Cartola (1976)
o Enrico Caruso - 21 Favorite Arias
o Cascabulho - Hunger Gives You a Headache
o Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
o Johnny Cash - American Recordings
o Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
o Dorival Caymmi - E Seu Violão
o Emmanuel Chabrier - Roi Malgré Lui [Charles Dutoit / New Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus of Radio France]
o Manu Chao - Clandestino: Esperando la Ultima Ola…
o Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
o Ray Charles - Atlantic Years: Best of...
o Ray Charles - Modern Sounds in Country & Western Music: Vols 1 & 2
o Marc-Antoine Charpentier - Médée [Lorraine Hunt / Arts Florissants / William Christie]
o Hariprasad Chaurasia - Raga Darbari Kanada / Dhun in Raga Mishra Pilu
o Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
o Clifton Chenier - Bogalusa Boogie
o Don Cherry - Old & New Dreams
o Vic Chesnutt - Is the Actor Happy?
o Chic - C’est Chic
o Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority
o Chico Science & Nação Zumbi - Lama ao Caos
o Chieftains - 4
o Sonny Chillingworth - Endlessly
o Frédéric Chopin - Ballades & Scherzos [Arthur Rubinstein]
o Frédéric Chopin - Nocturnes [Maria João Pires]
o Frédéric Chopin - Piano Concertos: Nos 1 & 2 [Krystian Zimerman / Polish Festival Orchestra]
o Charlie Christian with the Benny Goodman Sextet - Genius of the Electric Guitar
o Clancy Brothers / Dubliners - Irish Drinking Songs: Come Fill Your Glass with Us
o Clannad - Macalla
o Guy Clark - Old No 1
o Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin’
o Clash - London Calling
o Harvey Lavan ‘Van’ Cliburn - Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 3 / Serge Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 3
o Jimmy Cliff & Various Artists - Harder They Come: Soundtrack
o Patsy Cline - Collection (box set)
o Coasters - Yakety Yak [7”]
o Eddie Cochran - Summertime Blues [7”]
o Joe Cocker - Mad Dogs & Englishmen
o Codona - Volume 3
o Leonard Cohen - Songs of...
o Nat King Cole & His Trio - After Midnight: Complete Session
o Ornette Coleman - Shape of Jazz to Come
o Willie Colón & Rubén Blades - Siembra
o John Coltrane - & Johnny Hartman
o John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
o John Coltrane - Blue Train
o Comedian Harmonists - Comedian Harmonists [Hannibal compilation]
o Ry Cooder - Paradise & Lunch
o Ry Cooder & Vishwa Mohan Bhatt - A Meeting by the River
o Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963
o Sam Cooke - With the Soul Stirrers
o Aaron Copland - Symphony No 3 [Leonard Bernstein / New York Philharmonic]
o Chick Corea & Return to Forever - Light as a Feather
o Cortijo - Y Su Máquina del Tiempo (& His Time Machine)
o Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Armed Forces
o Cream - Disraeli Gears
o Creedence Clearwater Revival - Willy & the Poor Boys
o Régine Crespin - Sings Berlioz & Ravel [Ernest Ansermet / Orchestre de la Suisse Romande]
o Bing Crosby - A Centennial Anthology of His Decca Recordings
o Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déjà Vu
o George Crumb - Black Angels (Thirteen Images from the Dark Land) [Kronos Quartet]
o Celia Cruz & Johnny Pacheco - Celia y Johnny
o Cure - Head on the Door
o Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
o D’Angelo - Brown Sugar
o IK Dairo & His Blue Spots - Definitive
o Dick Dale & His Del-Tones - King of the Surf Guitar: Best of...
o Karen Dalton - It’s So Hard to Tell Who’s Going to Love You the Best
o Danger Mouse - Grey Album [unofficial]
o Bobby Darin - That’s All
o Reverend Gary Davis - Harlem Street Singer
o Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
o Miles Davis - Complete ‘In a Silent Way’ Sessions
o Miles Davis - Highlights from the Plugged Nickel
o Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
o Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
o Sammy Davis, Jr - I Gotta Right to Swing
o De Danann with Mary Black - Song for Ireland
o De La Soul - 3 Feet High & Rising
o Claude Debussy - Pelléas et Mélisande [Roger Désormière / Chœurs Yvonne Gouverné & Orchestre Symphonique]
o Claude Debussy - Preludes [Krystian Zimerman]
o Decemberists - Crane Wife
o Deep Purple - Machine Head
o Sandy Denny - Sandy
o Derek & the Dominos - Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs
o Paul Desmond with Jim Hall - Take Ten
o Toumani Diabaté & Ballaké Sissoko - New Ancient Strings
o Neil Diamond - Hot August Night
o Manu Dibango - Soul Makossa [7”]
o Digital Underground - Sex Packets
o Dion - The Wanderer [7”]
o Dixie Chicks - Wide Open Spaces
o Dixie Hummingbirds - Thank You for One More Day: 70th Anniversary of the...
o Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner
o DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
o Djavan - Luz
o Dr Dre - The Chronic
o Dr John - Gris-Gris
o Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
o Fats Domino - They Call Me the Fat Man: Legendary Imperial Recordings
o Doors - Doors
o Thomas A Dorsey - Precious Lord: Recordings of the Great Gospel Songs of...
o Dave Douglas - Charms of the Night Sky
o Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
o Doris Duke - I’m a Loser: Swamp Dogg Sessions & More
o Vernon Duke & Ira Gershwin - Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 [Broadway Cast Recording]
o Henri Dutilleux - Cello Concerto ‘Tout un Monde Lointain’ [Mstislav Rostropovich / Orchestre de Paris / Serge Baudo]
o Antonín Dvořák - Symphony No 9 [Mariss Jansons / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam]
o Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
o Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
o Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
o Bob Dylan - Love & Theft
o Eagles - Hotel California
o Snooks Eaglin - New Orleans Street Singer
o Steve Earle - Transcendental Blues
o Earth, Wind & Fire - All ‘n All
o Edward Elgar - Cello Concerto [Jacqueline du Pré / BBC Symphony Orchestra / John Barbirolli]
o Edward Elgar - Symphony No 1 [Edward Elgar / London Symphony Orchestra]
o Duke Ellington - Far East Suite
o Duke Ellington - Never No Lament: Blanton-Webster Band
o Missy Elliott - Respect ME
o Ramblin’ Jack Elliott - Essential [Vanguard]
o Emerson, Lake, & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
o Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP
o Brian Eno - Another Green World
o Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports
o Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
o Eric B & Rakim - Paid in Full
o Alejandro Escovedo - Gravity
o ESG - A South Bronx Story
o Estrellas de Areito - Los Heroes
o Bill Evans & Jim Hall - Undercurrent
o Bill Evans - Sunday at the Village Vanguard / Waltz for Debby
o Everly Brothers - Cadence Classics: Their 20 Greatest Hits
o Césaria Évora - Césaria
o John Fahey - Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death
o Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief
o Manuel de Falla - Sombrero de Tres Picos (Three-Cornered Hat) [Ernest Ansermet / Orchestre de la Suisse Romande]
o Tal Farlow - Swinging Guitar of...
o Fatboy Slim - Better Living Through Chemistry
o Gabriel Fauré - Requiem / Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite) / Pavane [Charles Dutoit / Montreal Symphony Orchestra & Chorus]
o Faust - Faust / So Far (2 on 1)
o Cheo Feliciano - Cheo (1972)
o José Feliciano - Sentimiento, la Voz, y la Guitarra
o Narvel Felts - Drift Away: Best of Narvel Felts 1973-1979
o Fishbone - Truth & Soul
o Ella Fitzgerald - Sings the Cole Porter Song Book
o Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Ella & Louis
o Roberta Flack - First Time Ever I Saw Your Face [7”]
o Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin
o Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs - Foggy Mountain Jamboree
o Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac (1975)
o Fleetwood Mac - Then Play On
o Frank Emilio Flynn - Musica Original de Cuba
o Four Freshman - & 5 Trombones
o Four Tops - Anthology
o Franco & TPOK Jazz - Rough Guide to Franco
o Aretha Franklin - Amazing Grace
o Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
o Lefty Frizzell - Look What Thoughts Can Do
o Fugazi - Repeater
o Fugees - The Score
o Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
o Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel [III]
o Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson
o Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour 1974
o Gang of Four - Entertainment!
o Jan Garbarek & Ralph Towner - Dis
o Carlos Gardel - Best of...
o Judy Garland - Judy at Carnegie Hall
o Erroll Garner - Concert by the Sea
o Djivan Gasparyan - I Will Not Be Sad in this World
o Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On
o Marvin Gaye - Let’s Get it On
o Marvin Gaye - I Heard it Through the Grapevine [7”]
o Genesis - Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
o George Gershwin - Complete Works for Piano & Orchestra (including Rhapsody in Blue) [Michael Boriskin / Eos Orchestra / John Sheffer]
o George Gershwin - Porgy & Bess [Anne Brown / Eva Jessye Choir / Decca Symphony Orchestra / Alexander Smallens]
o Stan Getz & João Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
o Ghazal [Kayhan Kalhor, Shujaat Husain Khan, Swapan Chaudhuri] - Lost Songs of the Silk Road
o Joe Gibbs / Errol Thompson - Mighty Two
o Gilbert & Sullivan - The Mikado [Sir Charles Mackerras / Orchestra & Chorus of the Welsh National Opera]
o Bebel Gilberto - Tanto Tempo
o João Gilberto - João Gilberto (1973)
o Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra - Afro
o Jimmy Giuffre - 1961
o Philip Glass & Robert Wilson - Einstein on the Beach [Michael Riesman]
o Osvaldo Golijov - Ainadamar [Dawn Upshaw / Atlanta Symphony Chorus & Orchestra / Robert Spano]
o Gong - Gazeuse!
o Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - Complete 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert
o Dexter Gordon - Go!
o Henryk Górecki - Symphony No 3 ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs’ [Dawn Upshaw / London Sinfonietta / David Zinman]
o Hildegard of Bingen - A Feather on the Breath of God: Sequences & Hymns [Gothic Voices with Emma Kirkby]
o Gran Combo de Puerto Rico - 30 Aniversario
o Grateful Dead - American Beauty
o Green Day - American Idiot
o Al Green - Call Me
o Grant Green - Feelin’ the Spirit
o Edvard Grieg - Lyric Pieces [Emil Gilels]
o Edvard Grieg - Piano Concerto (with Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto) [Leif Ove Andsnes / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Mariss Jansons]
o Bessie Griffin & the Gospel Pearls - Live at ‘The Bear’ in Chicago
o Juan Luis Guerra y 440 - Fogaraté!
o Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand
o Guns N’ Roses - Appetite for Destruction
o Woody Guthrie - Dust Bowl Ballads
o Buddy Guy - Damn Right, I’ve Got the Blues
o Charlie Haden - Nocturnes
o Merle Haggard & the Strangers - Mama Tried
o Bill Haley & His Comets - Rock Around the Clock [78rpm / 7”]
o Tom T Hall - In Search of a Song
o Oscar Hammerstein II & Jerome Kern - Show Boat [Frederica von Stade / Ambrosian Chorus / London Sinfonietta / John McGlinn]
o Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
o Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
o George Frideric Handel - Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar) [Magdalena Kožená / Musiciens du Louvre / Marc Minkowski]
o George Frideric Handel - Messiah [Paul McCreesh / Gabrieli Consort & Players]
o George Frideric Handel - Water Music / Music for the Royal Fireworks) [Hervé Niquet / Concert Spirituel Orchestra]
o Larry Harlow - Salsa
o Joe Harriott Double Quintet - Indo-Jazz Suite
o Emmylou Harris - Pieces of the Sky
o George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
o George Harrison & Various Artists - Concert for Bangladesh
o PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
o Clara Haskil - Wolfgang Mozart: Piano Concerto No 20 / Domenico Scarlatti: 11 Sonatas
o Donny Hathaway - Everything is Everything
o Coleman Hawkins - Body & Soul [78rpm]
o Ted Hawkins - Next Hundred Years
o Joseph Haydn - 12 ‘London’ Symphonies [Eugen Jochum / London Philharmonic Orchestra]
o Isaac Hayes - Shaft: Soundtrack
o Ofra Haza - Fifty Gates of Wisdom: Yemenite Songs
o Jascha Heifetz - Johannes Brahms - Violin Concerto / Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto
o Fletcher Henderson - A Study in Frustration: Story
o Joe Henderson - Power to the People
o Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
o Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsies
o Jerry Herman - Hello Dolly! [Original Broadway Cast]
o Bernard Herrmann - Psycho [Joel McNeely / Royal Scottish National Orchestra]
o Andrew Hill - Point of Departure
o Lauryn Hill - Miseducation of...
o Roscoe Holcomb - High Lonesome Sound
o Dave Holland - Conference of the Birds
o Billie Holliday - Ultimate Collection [Verve, 2006]
o Buddy Holly - Collection: 50 Classic Recordings
o Gustav Holst - The Planets [William Steinberg / Boston Symphony Orchestra]
o John Lee Hooker - Plays & Sings the Blues
o Sol Hoopii - Master of the Hawaiian Guitar: Volumes 1 & 2
o Lightnin’ Hopkins - Lightnin’ Hopkins (1959)
o Shirley Horn - Close Enough for Love
o Vladimir Horowitz - Horowitz at the Met (includes works by Domenico Scarlatti; Frédéric Chopin; Franz Liszt; Sergei Rachmaninoff)
o Son House - Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues
o Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston
o Howlin’ Wolf - Moanin’ in the Moonlight
o Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay
o Mississippi John Hurt - Today!
o Husker Dü - Zen Arcade
o Bobby Hutcherson - Components
o Huun-Huur-Tu - Orphan’s Lament
o Abdullah Ibrahim - Yarona
o Iggy & the Stooges - Raw Power
o Ilê Aiyê - Canto Negro
o Incredible String Band - Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter
o Isley Brothers - Heat is On
o Burl Ives - Wayfaring Stranger [Columbia]
o Charles Ives - Symphony No 2 / Symphony No 3 ‘Camp Meeting’ [Leonard Bernstein / New York Philharmonic]
o Jackson 5 - I Want You Back [7”]
o Joe Jackson - Night & Day
o Mahalia Jackson - Apollo Sessions: 1946-1951
o Michael Jackson - Thriller
o Ahmad Jamal - But Not for Me: At the Pershing
o Elmore James - Sky is Crying: History of...
o Etta James - Tell Mama
o Rick James - Street Songs
o Skip James - Complete Early Recordings of Skip James
o Leoš Janáček - Piano Works [Rafael Lubelik]
o Jane’s Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
o Keith Jarrett - Köln Concert
o Keith Jarrett - My Song
o Eddie Jefferson - Jazz Singer
o Waylon Jennings - Honky Tonk Heroes
o Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
o Flaco Jiménez - Squeeze Box King
o Antônio Carlos Jobim - Composer of ‘Desafinado’ Plays
o Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
o Little Willie John - Very Best of... [Collectables]
o Blind Willie Johnson - Complete
o James P Johnson - Original: 1942-1945
o Lonnie Johnson - Original Guitar Wizard
o Robert Johnson - Complete Recordings
o Tommy Johnson - Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order: 1928-1929
o Freedy Johnston - Can You Fly
o Joi - We Are Three
o Fern Jones - Glory Road
o George Jones - Grand Tour
o Norah Jones - Come Away with Me
o Rickie Lee Jones - Pirates
o Janis Joplin - Pearl
o Scott Joplin - Elite Syncopations: Classic Ragtime from Rare Piano Rolls 1859-1917
o Louis Jordan - Best of Louis Jordan [MCA]
o Josquin Desprez - Missa Pange Lingua / Motets [Bernard Fabre-Garrus / A Sei Voci]
o Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
o Henry Kaiser & David Lindley with Musicians from Madagascar - A World Out of Time
o Pepe Kalle - Gigantafrique!
o Oum Kalthoum [aka Oum Kalsoum] - Legend of Arab Music
o John Kander & Fred Ebb - Chicago: The Musical (1996 Broadway Revival Cast)
o Salif Keita - Moffou
o Khalèd - N’ssi, N’ssi
o Ali Akbar Khan - Traditional Music of India
o Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - In Concert in Paris
o Junior Kimbrough - All Night Long
o King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
o Albert King - Born Under a Bad Sign
o BB King - Live at the Regal
o Carole King - Tapestry
o Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society
o Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Volunteered Slavery
o Kiss - Rock & Roll All Nite [7”]
o Gladys Knight & the Pips - Imagination
o Kodŏ - Live at Acropolis, Athens, Greece
o Konono No 1 - Congotronics
o Leo Kottke - 6 & 12 String Guitar
o Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
o Alison Krauss - I’ve Got That Old Feeling
o Fela Kuti - Confusion / Gentleman (2 on 1)
o Steve Lacy & Mal Waldron - Hot House
o Lambert, Hendricks, & Ross - Hottest New Group in Jazz
o Héctor Lavoe - De ti Depende
o Lead Belly - Where Did You Sleep Last Night? Legacy Vol 1
o Ernesto Lecuona - Ultimate Collection: Lecuona Plays Lecuona
o Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won
o Led Zeppelin - II
o Peggy Lee - Black Coffee
o Michel Legrand - Legrand Jazz
o John Lennon - Imagine
o Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe - My Fair Lady [Rex Harrison / Julie Andrews]
o Jerry Lee Lewis - Live at the Star Club, Hamburg
o Dinu Lipatti - Besançon Festival 1950 [includes works by JS Bach / Frédéric Chopin / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Franz Schubert]
o Franz Liszt - Two Piano Concertos / Piano Sonata [Kirill Kondrashin / London Symphony Orchestra / Sviatoslav Richter]
o Little Richard - Georgia Peach [Speciality]
o Little Richard - Sings the Gospel
o Booker Little - Out Front
o Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice - Jesus Christ Superstar (1971) [Ian Gillan / Murray Head / Yvonne Elliman / etc]
o Los Lobos - Kiko
o Julie London - Julie… At Home / Around Midnight (2 on 1)
o Louvin Brothers - Satan is Real
o Joe Lovano - Quartets: Live at the Village Vanguard
o Love - Forever Changes
o Lyle Lovett - Joshua Judges Ruth
o Loretta Lynn - Definitive Collection
o Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird [track]
o Baaba Maal with Mansour Seck - Djam Leelii
o Guillaume de Machaut - Motets [Hilliard Ensemble]
o Madonna - Ray of Light
o Madredeus - O Espírito da Paz
o Magic Sam - West Side Soul
o Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
o Mahavishnu Orchestra with John McLaughlin - Inner Mounting Flame
o Mahlathini & the Mahotella Queens - Paris: Soweto
o Gustav Mahler - Lied von der Erde [Christina Ludwig / Fritz Wunderlich / Philharmonia Orchestra / Otto Klemperer]
o Gustav Mahler - Symphony No 4 [Bernard Haitink]
o Gustav Mahler - Symphony No 9 [Leonard Bernstein / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra]
o Mamas & the Papas - California Dreamin’ [7”]
o Henry Mancini - Breakfast at Tiffany’s: Soundtrack
o Thomas Mapfumo & the Blacks Unlimited - Chimurenga Singles: 1976-1980
o Irén Marik - Bartók in the Desert: Art of... [includes works by Béla Bartók / Claude Debussy / Franz Liszt / etc]
o Bob Marley & the Wailers - Exodus
o Bob Marley & the Wailers - Natty Dread
o Mars Volta - Bedlam in Goliath
o Martha & the Vandellas - Dancing in the Street [7”]
o Pat Martino - Head & Heart: Consciousness / Live! (2 on 1)
o Bohuslav Martinů - Julietta [Maria Tauberova / Orchestra of the National Theatre, Prague / Jaroslav Krombholc]
o John Martyn - Solid Air
o Jules Massenet - Manon [Victoria de los Angeles / Choeurs et Orchestre du Théâtre National de l’Opéra-Comique / Pierre Monteux]
o Johnny Mathis - Open Fire, Two Guitars
o Dave Band Matthews - The Gorge
o Nicholas Maw - Violin Concerto [Joshua Bell / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Roger Norrington]
o John Mayall’s Blues Breakers - With Eric Clapton
o Curtis Mayfield - There’s no Place Like America Today
o Les McCann with Eddie Harris - Swiss Movement: Recorded Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland
o Eugene McDaniels - Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse
o MC5 - Kick Out the Jams
o Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Kate & Anna McGarrigle
o Loreena McKennitt - The Visit
o Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing
o Carmen McRae - Carmen Sings Monk
o Blind Willie McTell - Definitive
o Brad Mehldau - Largo
o M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
o Mekons - Rock ‘n’ Roll
o Memphis Minnie - Hoodoo Lady: 1933-1937
o Yehudi Menuhin - Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto / Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto [Wilhelm Furtwängler]
o Olivier Messiaen - Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps (Quartet for the End of Time) [Paul Meyer / Gil Shaham / Jian Wang / Myung-Whun Chung]
o Olivier Messiaen - Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus (Twenty Ways of Looking at the Infant Jesus) [Pierre-Laure Aimard]
o Metallica - Master of Puppets
o Meters - Look-Ka Py Py
o Pat Metheny Group - Pat Metheny Group
o Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli - Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G / Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 4 [Ettore Gracis / Philharmonia Orchestra]
o Michelle Shocked - Short Sharp Shocked
o Mighty Diamonds - Right Time
o Mighty Sparrow / Lord Kitchener - 16 Carnival Hits
o Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
o Ministry - Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste
o Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
o Mississippi Sheiks - Honey Babe Let the Deal Go Down: Best of the...
o Joni Mitchell - Court & Spark
o Hank Mobley - Soul Station
o Modern Jazz Quartet - European Concert
o Modern Lovers - Modern Lovers
o Juana Molina - Segundo
o Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane - At Carnegie Hall
o Thelonious Monk - Unique [Riverside]
o Bill Monroe - Music of Bill Monroe from 1936 to 1994
o Gabriela Montero - Bach & Beyond
o Claudio Monteverdi - Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610 (Vespers of the Blessed Virgin) [Rinaldo Alessandrini / Concerto Italiano]
o Wes Montgomery - Smokin’ at the Half Note
o Tete Montoliu - Solo Piano
o Moondog - Viking of Sixth Avenue
o Douglas Moore & John Latouche - Ballad of Baby Doe [John Moriarty / Cast & Orchestra of Central City Opera]
o Jason Moran - Bandwagon
o Beny Moré - Cuban Originals
o Lee Morgan - Search for the New Land
o Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
o Ennio Morricone - A Fistful of Film Music
o Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
o Jelly Roll Morton - Birth of the Hot
o Mos Def & Talib Kweli - Are Black Star
o Mother Love Bone - Apple
o Paul Motian - On Broadway: Vol 1
o Tom Moulton - A Tom Moulton Mix
o Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Late Symphonies [Leonard Bernstein / Wiener Philharmoniker]
o Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Marriage of Figaro [Véronique Gens / Concerto Köln / René Jacobs]
o Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concertos Nos 12 & 18 / Piano Sonata No 11 [Lili Kraus / Boston Symphony Orchestra / Pierre Monteux]
o Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem [Bernard Labadie / Violons du Roy]
o Muddy Waters - At Newport, 1960
o Maria Muldaur - Maria Muldaur
o Hugh Mundell - Africa Must Be Free by 1983
o Muñequitos de Matanzas - Ito Ibah Echu: Sacred Yoruba Music of Cuba
o Modest Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov [Valery Gergiev / Kirov Opera & Orchestra]
o Modest Mussorgsky - The Nursery / Sunless / Songs & Dances of Death [Boris Christoff / Alexandre Labinsky]
o Os Mutantes - Mutantes (1969)
o My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
o My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
o Youssou N’Dour - Immigrés
o Nas - Illmatic
o Milton Nascimento - Clube da Esquina (1972)
o Fats Navarro & Tadd Dameron - Complete Blue Note & Capitol Recordings of...
o Oliver Nelson - Blues & the Abstract Truth
o Ricky Nelson - Greatest Hits [Capitol]
o Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
o Willie Nelson - Stardust
o Neu! - Neu! ‘75
o Aaron Neville - Tell it Like it Is [Par-Lo]
o Phineas Newborn, Jr - A World of Piano!
o Randy Newman - 12 Songs
o Herbie Nichols - Complete Blue Note Recordings
o Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson
o Nine Inch Nails - Downward Spiral
o Nirvana - Nevermind
o Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Will the Circle Be Unbroken
o No Doubt - Rock Steady
o Notorious BIG - Ready to Die
o Les Nubians - Princesses Nubiennes
o NWA - Straight Outta Compton
o Laura Nyro - Eli & the Thirteenth Confession
o Sinéad O’Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got
o O’Jays - Back Stabbers
o Paul Oakenfold - Tranceport
o Phil Ochs - There & Now: Live in Vancouver 1968
o Odetta - Sings Ballads & Blues
o King Oliver & His Creole Jazz Band - Off the Record: Complete 1923 Jazz Band Recordings
o Remmy Ongala & Orchestre Super Matimila - Songs for the Poor Man
o Roy Orbison - For the Lonely: 18 Greatest Hits
o Orchestra Baobab - Pirates Choice
o Orishas - Antidiotico
o Orquesta Casino de la Playa - Memories of Cuba: 1937-1944
o Beth Orton - Central Reservation
o Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information
o OutKast - Stankonia
o Buck Owens - Sings Harlan Howard
o Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
o Gabby Pahinui - Best of the Gabby Band: 1972-1977
o Eddie Palmieri - Eddie Palmieri (1982)
o Eddie Palmieri - La Perfecta
o Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
o Ivo Papasov & His Orchestra - Balkanology
o Parisa - Baz Amadam: Concert de Parisa au Royal Festival Hall
o Charlie Parker - A Studio Chronicle: 1940-1948 [JSP]
o Charlie Parker - Bird with Strings
o Graham Parker & the Rumour - Squeezing out Sparks / Live Sparks
o Parliament - Mothership Connection
o Gram Parsons GP / Grievous Angel (2 on 1)
o Arvo Pärt - Tabula Rasa [Gidon Kremer / Fratres / Keith Jarrett]
o Dolly Parton - Coat of Many Colors
o Hermeto Pascoal - Slaves Mass
o Charley Patton - Founder of the Delta Blues
o Billy Paul - Me & Mrs Jones [7”]
o Les Paul & Mary Ford - Best of the Capitol Masters: 90th Birthday Edition
o Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
o Johnny Paycheck - On His Way: Little Darlin’ Sound of...
o Pearl Jam - Ten
o Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham - Live from This Theatre: Live
o Pentangle - Basket of Light
o Art Pepper - Meets the Rhythm Section
o Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
o Carl Perkins - Dance Album of...
o Itzhak Perlman - Live in the Fiddler’s House
o Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry - Arkology
o Peter, Paul & Mary - Peter, Paul & Mary (1962)
o Oscar Peterson Trio - Night Train
o Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
o Sam Phillips - Fan Dance
o Washington Phillips - Key to the Kingdom
o Edith Piaf - Voice of the Sparrow
o Astor Piazzólla - Tango: Zero Hour
o Wilson Pickett - The Exciting...
o Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
o Pixies - Doolittle
o Poet & the Roots [Linton Kwesi Johnson] - Dread Beat an’ Blood
o Pogues - If I Should Fall from Grace with God
o Police - Synchronicity
o Charlie Poole - You Ain’t Talkin’ to Me: Charlie Poole & the Roots of Country Music
o Cole Porter - Anything Goes: First Recording of the Original 1934 Version [John McGlinn / London Symphony Orchestra]
o Portishead - Dummy
o Bud Powell - Amazing: Vol 1
o Elvis Presley - Elvis at Sun
o Elvis Presley - How Great Thou Art
o Pretenders - Learning to Crawl
o Pretty Things - Get the Picture?
o Louis Prima - Wildest!
o Prince & the Revolution - Purple Rain
o Prince - Sign ‘O’ the Times
o John Prine - John Prine
o Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale [7”]
o Professor Longhair - New Orleans Piano
o Serge Prokofiev - Romeo & Juliet Op 64 [Lorin Maazel / Cleveland Orchestra]
o Propellerheads - Decksanddrumsandrockandroll
o Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
o Giacomo Puccini - La Bohème [Mirella Freni / Luciano Pavarotti / Berlin Philharmoniker / Herbert von Karajan]
o Giacomo Puccini - Turandot [Joan Sutherland / Luciano Pavarotti / John Alldis Choir / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Zubin Mehta]
o Tito Puente & His Orchestra - Dance Mania!
o Queen - A Night at the Opera
o Sergei Rachmaninov - All-Night Vigil (Vespers) Op 37 [Paul Hillier / Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir]
o Sergei Rachmaninov - His Complete Recordings [RCA Red Seal]
o Radiohead - OK Computer
o Ma Rainey - Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
o Bonnie Raitt - Give it Up
o Jean-Philippe Rameau - Platée [Gilles Ragon / Jennifer Smith / Musiciens du Louvre / Ensemble Vocal Françoise Herr / Marc Minkowski]
o Ramones - Ramones
o Willis Alan Ramsey - Willis Alan Ramsey
o Ernest Ranglin - Below the Bassline
o Maurice Ravel - Boléro / Modest Mussorgsky arr Ravel: Tableaux d’une Exposition / Claude Debussy: La Mer [Herbert von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic]
o Maurice Ravel - Heure Espagnole / Enfant et les Sortilèges (with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol / Igor Stravinsky: Chant du Rossignol) [Lorin Maazel / Orchestra National de la RTF]
o Maurice Ravel - Œuvre pour Piano (Complete Works for Piano) [Alexandre Tharaud]
o Otis Redding - Otis Blue: Sings Soul
o Jimmy Reed - Very Best of Jimmy Reed [Blues Masters/Rhino]
o Lou Reed - New York
o Elís Regina - Como e Porque
o Elís Regina & Antônio Carlos Jobim - Elís & Tom
o Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians (Live in Budapest) [Amadinda & Musicians]
o Django Reinhardt - Classic Early Recordings in Chronological Order: 1934-1939
o REM - Murmur
o Replacements - Let it Be
o Charlie Rich - Behind Closed Doors
o Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade [Kirill Kondrashin / Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam]
o Minnie Riperton - Perfect Angel
o Ismaël Rivera con Kako y Su Orquesta - Último en la Avenida
o Max Roach - Featuring the Legendary Hasaan
o Max Roach - We Insist! Freedom Now Suite
o Steve Roach - Dreamtime Return
o Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs
o Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - Ultimate Collection
o Tabu Ley Rochereau - Voice of Lightness: Congo Classics 1961-1977
o Jimmie Rodgers - Essential
o Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II - Sound of Music: Film Soundtrack
o Amália Rodrigues - Art of...
o Arsenio Rodríguez y Su Conjunto - Montuneando: 1946-1950
o Tito Rodriguez - At the Palladium: Live!
o Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St
o Rolling Stones - Singles Collection: London Years
o Sonny Rollins - A Night at the Village Vanguard
o Linda Ronstadt - Heart Like a Wheel
o Roots - Phrenology
o Roxy Music - Avalon
o Run DMC - Raising Hell
o Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything?
o Otis Rush - Essential Collection: Classic Cobra Recordings
o Tom Rush - Circle Game
o Arthur Russell - World of Arthur Russell
o Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels - Devil with a Blue Dress On/Good Golly, Miss Molly [7”]
o Kaija Saariaho - Amour de Loin [Gerald Finley / Dawn Upshaw / Finnish National Opera / Esa-Pekka Salonen]
o Sade - Promise
o Dino Saluzzi - Cité de la Musique
o Oumou Sangare - Ko Sira
o Mongo Santamaria - Drums & Chants
o Santana - Abraxas
o Gustavo Santaolalla - Ronroco
o Moacir Santos - Coisas
o Sasha - Global Underground 013: Ibiza
o Erik Satie - Gnossiennes / Gymnopédies / Ogives / etc [Reinbert DeLeeuw]
o Lalo Schifrin - Bullitt: Soundtrack
o Arnold Schoenberg - Gurreleider [Simon Rattle / Berlin Philharmoniker]
o Franz Schubert - Piano Sonata in B flat D960 [Clifford Curzon]
o Franz Schubert - Symphony No 9 [Wilhelm Furtwängler / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra]
o Franz Schubert - 12 Lieder / Moments Musicaux [Elisabeth Schwarzkopf / Edwin Fischer]
o Jill Scott - Who is Jill Scott? Words & Sounds Vol 1
o Jimmy Scott - Falling in Love is Wonderful
o Tony Scott - Music for Zen Meditation & Other Joys
o Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces of a Man
o Screaming Trees - Dust
o Márta Sebestyén & Muzsikás - Márta Sebestyén & Muzsikás
o Pete Seeger - We Shall Overcome: Complete Carnegie Hall Concert
o Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band - Turn the Page [7”]
o Andrés Segovia - Art of Segovia [includes works by Francisco Tárrega; Joaquín Turina; Heitor Villa-Lobos; etc]
o Sepultura - Roots
o Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols
o Shakira - Dónde Están los Ladrones?
o Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack [7”]
o Ravi Shankar - Three Ragas (1956)
o Sonny Sharrock - Ask the Ages
o Archie Shepp & Horace Parlan - Goin’ Home
o Wayne Shorter - JuJu
o Wayne Shorter - Native Dancer
o Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No 5 / Symphony No 9 [Bernard Haitink / Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam]
o Dmitri Shostakovich - Violin Concerto No 1 / Cello Concerto No 1 [David Oistrakh / Mstislav Rostropovich]
o Jean Sibelius - Symphony No 5 / Symphony No 7 / En Saga [Sir Colin Davis / Boston Symphony Orchestra]
o Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
o Silly Wizard - Wild & Beautiful
o Horace Silver Quintet - Song for My Father
o Paul Simon - Graceland
o Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
o Nina Simone - Anthology [RCA, 2003]
o Simply Red - Picture Book
o Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swingin’ Lovers!
o Frank Sinatra - Sings for Only the Lonely
o Frank Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim - Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim
o Sir Douglas Quintet - Mendocino
o Slayer - Reign in Blood
o Sleater-Kinney - Call the Doctor
o Percy Sledge - When a Man Loves a Woman [7”]
o Slum Village - Fantastic: Vol 1
o Sly & the Family Stone - Stand!
o Bedřich Smetana - Má Vlast [Rafæl Kubelík / Czech Philharmonic Orchestra]
o Bessie Smith - Essential
o Elliott Smith - XO
o Huey ‘Piano’ Smith & His Clowns - This is...
o Jimmy Smith - Back at the Chicken Shack
o Doctor Lonnie Smith - Live at the Club Mozambique
o Patti Smith - Horses
o Willie ‘The Lion’ Smith - Lion Roars! His Greatest 1934-1944
o Smiths - Queen is Dead
o Hank Snow - Essential [RCA, 1997]
o Stephen Sondheim - A Little Night Music: Original Broadway Cast
o Stephen Sondheim - Sweeney Todd: Live at the New York Philharmonic [Patti LuPone / George Hearn / Davis Gaines / Audra McDonald / Heidi Grant Murphy]
o Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
o Soul Brothers - Rough Guide to the Soul Brothers
o Soundgarden - Superunknown
o Britney Spears - Toxic [single]
o Phil Spector & Various Artists - Back to Mono: 1958-1969
o Alexander ‘Skip’ Spence - Oar
o Jimmie Spheeris - Isle of View
o Davy Spillane & Kevin Glackin - Forgotten Days
o Spiritualized - Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
o Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis
o Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band - Born to Run
o Carl Stalling - Carl Stalling Project: Music from Warner Bros Cartoons: 1936-1958
o Stanley Brothers - Complete Columbia Recordings
o Staple Singers - Best of the...
o Andy Statman - Between Heaven & Earth: Music of the Jewish Mystics
o Steeleye Span - Parcel of Rogues
o Steely Dan - Aja
o Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
o Isaac Stern - Édouard Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole / Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No 1 [Eugene Ormandy / Philadelphia Orchestra]
o Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
o Sufjan Stevens - (Come on, Feel The) Illinoise
o Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story
o Karlheinz Stockhausen - Stimmung [Paul Hillier / Theatre of Voices]
o Stone Roses - Stone Roses
o Johann Strauss (II) - Die Fledermaus/New Year’s Concert [Clemens Krauss / Wiener Philharmoniker / Chor der Wiener Staatsoper]
o Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra [Karl Böhm / Berlin Philharmonic]
o Richard Strauss - Elektra [Birgit Nilsson / Wiener Philharmoniker / Sir Georg Solti]
o Richard Strauss - Four Last Songs [Jessye Norman / Gewandhausorchester Leipzig / Kurt Masur]
o Richard Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier [Elisabeth Schwarzkopf / Philharmonic Orchestra / Herbert von Karajan]
o Igor Stravinsky - Rite of Spring / Petrushka [Pierre Boulez / Cleveland Orchestra]
o Streets - Original Pirate Material
o Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra - Polkapalooza
o Jule Styne & Bob Merrill - Funny Girl: Original Broadway Cast [Barbra Streisand / Sydney Chaplin]
o Sukay - Cumbre
o Donna Summer - I Feel Love [12”]
o Sun Ra & His Arkestra - Jazz in Silhouette
o Supremes - You Keep Me Hangin’ On [7”]
o Swan Silvertones - Swan Silvertones / Saviour Pass Me Not (2 on 1)
o System of a Down - Toxicity
o T.Rex - Electric Warrior
o Taj Mahal - Natch’l Blues
o Talking Heads - Remain in Light
o Tangerine Dream - Rubycon
o Taraf de Haïdouks - Taraf de Haïdouks
o Howard Tate - Get it While You Can
o Art Tatum - Piano Starts Here: Live at the Shrine
o Cecil Taylor - Silent Tongues
o James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
o Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker [Valery Gergiev / Kirov Orchestra]
o Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No 1 / Violin Concerto [Martha Argerich / Nathan Milstein]
o Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky - Symphony No 6 ‘Pathétique’ / Symphonies 4 & 5 [Yevgeny Mravinsky / Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra]
o Television - Marquee Moon
o Temptations - Ain’t Too Proud to Beg [7”]
o 10cc - I’m Not in Love [7”]
o Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order: 1938-1947
o Mikis Theodorakis - Best of Mikis Theodorakis [Delta]
o 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere
o Leon Thomas - Spirits Known & Unknown
o Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights
o Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog: Peacock Recordings
o Cal Tjader - Primo
o Tokens - Lion Sleeps Tonight [7”]
o Toots & the Maytals - Funky Kingston / In the Dark (2 on 1)
o Mel Tormé - Swings Shubert Alley
o Peter Tosh - Talking Revolution: Live at the ‘One Love’ Peace Concert
o Ali Farka Touré - The River
o Touré Kunda - Live: Paris, Ziguinchor
o Allen Toussaint & Various Artists - Finger Poppin’ & Stompin’ Feet: 20 Classic Productions for Minit Records 1960-1962
o Ralph Towner - Solstice
o Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die
o A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
o Lennie Tristano - Tristano / New Tristano (2 on 1)
o Ernest Tubb - Definitive Collection [MCA/Universal]
o Özel Türkbas - How to Make Your Husband a Sultan: Belly Dance with...
o Big Joe Turner - Big, Bad & Blue: Anthology
o Ike & Tina Turner - Proud Mary & Other Hits
o 2Pac - All Eyez on Me
o McCoy Tyner - Real McCoy
o U2 - Joshua Tree
o Francisco Ulloa - Ultramerengue! Squeezebox Merengue from the Dominican Dynamaestro
o Ultramagnetic MCs - Critical Beatdown
o Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne
o United Sacred Harp Musical Association Singing Convention - Southern Journey Vol 9: Harp of a Thousand Strings (All Day Singing from the Sacred Harp)
o Usher - Confessions
o Ritchie Valens - La Bamba [7”]
o Dave Van Ronk - Inside... (Inside/Folksinger)
o Los Van Van - ¡Ay Dios, Ampárame!
o Townes Van Zandt - Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas
o Edgar Varèse - Complete Works [Riccardo Chailly / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Asko Ensemble]
o Sarah Vaughan - Live in Japan
o Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Sky is Crying
o Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing
o Caetano Veloso - Livro
o Caetano Veloso & Gilberto Gil - Caetano et Gil: Tropicália 2
o Velvet Underground - & Nico
o Giuseppe Verdi - Aida [Leontyne Price / Jon Vickers / Orchestra e Coro dell’Opera di Roma / Sir Georg Solti]
o Giuseppe Verdi - Falstaff [Giuseppe Valdengo / Herva Nelli / NBC Orchestra / Arturo Toscanini]
o Giuseppe Verdi - Requiem [Leontyne Price / Jussi Björling / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Fritz Reiner]
o Heitor Villa-Lobos - Bachianas Brasileiras: Nos 1, 2, 5 & 9 [Victoria de los Angeles / Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française / Heitor Villa-Lobos]
o Antonio Vivaldi - Four Seasons [Janine Jansen]
o Kevin Volans - Hunting/Gathering [Duke Quartet]
o Richard Wagner - Götterdämmerung [Birgit Nilsson / Chorus & Orchestra of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Georg Solti]
o Richard Wagner - Tristan & Isolde [Deborah Voigt / Thomas Moser / Chorus & Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera / Christian Thielemann]
o Richard Wagner - Die Walküre [Astrid Varnay / Hans Hotter / Bayreuther Festspiele Orchester / Joseph Keilberth]
o Rufus Wainwright - Want One
o Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
o Fats Waller - If You Got to Ask, You Ain’t Got It!
o William Walton - Symphony No 1 / Belshazzar’s Feast [Thomas Hampson / Chorus & Orchestra of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Simon Rattle]
o War - Why Can’t We Be Friends?
o Clara Ward - Take My Hand, Precious Lord
o Dionne Warwick - Collection: Her All-Time Greatest Hits [Rhino]
o Dinah Washington - Dinah! (1956)
o Weather Report - Heavy Weather
o Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht - Sieben Todsünden (Seven Deadly Sins) / Berlin Theatre Songs [Lotte Lenya]
o Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
o kanYe West - College Dropout
o Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant - Stratosphere Boogie: Flaming Guitars of…
o Randy Weston - Spirits of Our Ancestors
o Kenny Wheeler - Gnu High
o Barry White - Can’t Get Enough
o White Stripes - Elephant
o Chris Whitley - Living with the Law
o Who - Tommy
o Who - Who’s Next
o Wilco Who - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
o Wild Tchoupitoulas - Wild Tchoupitoulas
o Tony Williams Lifetime - Emergency!
o Hank Williams - 40 Greatest Hits
o Lucinda Williams - Sweet Old World
o Marion Williams - Strong Again
o Mary Lou Williams - Zodiac Suite: Town Hall Concert
o Sonny Boy Williamson [II] - One Way Out
o Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys - Tiffany Transcriptions (Vol 2: Best of the Tiffanys / Vol 3: Basin St Blues)
o Cassandra Wilson - Blue Light ‘Til Dawn
o Jackie Wilson - Very Best of... [Brunswick/Ace]
o Bill Withers - Still Bill
o Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
o Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
o Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
o Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
o Tammy Wynette - Anniversary: Twenty Years of Hits
o X - Wild Gift
o XTC - Skylarking
o Gorô Yamaguchi - Shakuhachi Music: A Bell Ringing in the Empty Sky
o Yardbirds - Yardbirds [aka Roger the Engineer / Over, Under, Sideways, Down]
o Yes - Yes Album
o Faron Young - Complete Capitol Hits of...
o Larry Young - Unity
o Lester Young - Kansas City Sessions: 1938-1944
o Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
o Frank Zappa - Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life
o Tom Zé - Com Defeito de Fabricação (Fabrication Defect)
o Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
o Zombies - Odessey & Oracle
o ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
o Various Artists - Best of Sugar Hill Records [Sugar Hill/Rhino]
o Various Artists - Cameo-Parkway: 1957-1967 [ABKCO]
o Various Artists - Concert of the Century at Carnegie Hall (1976) [Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Vladimir Horowitz / Yehudi Menuhin / Mstislav Rostropovich / Isaac Stern / Lyndon Woodside / New York Philharmonic / Leonard Bernstein]
o Various Artists - Dazed & Confused: Film Soundtrack
o Various Artists - Doo Wop Box: 101 Vocal Gems from the Golden Age of Rock ‘n’ Roll [Rhino]
o Various Artists - Fabulous Swing Collection: Foot Tappin’ Favorites & Jumpin’ Jitterbugs from the Fabulous Swing Era [RCA]
o Various Artists - From Spirituals to Swing: Legendary 1938 & 1939 Carnegie Hall Concerts [Sidney Bechet / Lester Young / Hot Lips Page / Count Basie Orchestra / etc]
o Various Artists - Great American Train Songs [CMH]
o Various Artists - Great Cantors [David Roitman / Gershon Sirota / Joseph Rosenblatt / etc]
o Various Artists - Indestructible Beat of Soweto
o Various Artists - Music from the Morning of the World: Balinese Gamelan & Ketjak, Ramayana Monkey Chant [Nonesuch]
o Various Artists - Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968
o Various Artists - O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack
o Various Artists - Phases of the Moon: Traditional Chinese Music [Columbia]
o Various Artists - Rembetica: Historic Urban Folk Songs from Greece [Rounder]
o Various Artists - Ska Bonanza: Studio One Ska Years [Heartbeat]
o Various Artists - Spirit Cries: Music from the Rainforests of South America & the Caribbean (LOC Endangered Music Project) [Rykodisc]
o Various Artists - Stormy Weather: Soundtrack [Lena Horne / Fats Waller / Cab Calloway / etc]
o Various Artists - Trainspotting: Soundtrack
o Various Artists - World of Gnawa [Rounder]
o Various Artists - Anthology of American Folk Music: Edited by Harry Smith