재즈 팬으로 좀 실망스러운 음반선정이지만, 눈여겨 봐둘만한 음반들이다. 100위 안에 재즈 음반은 존 콜트레인과 마일즈 데이비스 이외에도 뽑힐 만한 음반들이 쟁쟁하다. 잡지의 성향이나 편집자들의 취향이 많이 반영되어 락앤록이 다수다. 그리고 한국인에게 좀 생소한 음반들도 있다. 원문을 타고가면 500개의 음반을 만날 수 있다. 각 음반에 대한 음반평이 있으니 참고하면서 들어보자.
롤링스톤지에서 2005년에 발간한 500 Greatest Albums of All Times에 실린 명반 목록이다. 나중에 이 책을 구해서 몇명이 어떤 기준으로 명반을 뽑았는지 살펴봐야겠다.
- Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles
- Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys
- Revolver, The Beatles
- Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan
- Rubber Soul, The Beatles
- What’s Going On, Marvin Gaye
- Exile on Main Street, The Rolling Stones
- London Calling, The Clash
- Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan
- The Beatles (“The White Album”), The Beatles
- The Sun Sessions, Elvis Presley
- Kind of Blue, Miles Davis
- Velvet Underground and Nico, The Velvet Underground
- Abbey Road, The Beatles
- Are You Experienced?, The Jimi Hendrix Experience
- Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan
- Nevermind, Nirvana
- Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen
- Astral Weeks, Van Morrison
- Thriller, Michael Jackson
- The Great Twenty-Eight, Chuck Berry
- Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon
- Innervisions, Stevie Wonder
- Live at the Apollo (1963), James Brown
- Rumours, Fleetwood Mac
- The Joshua Tree, U2
- King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. 1, Robert Johnson
- Who’s Next, The Who
- Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin
- Blue, Joni Mitchell
- Bringing It All Back Home, Bob Dylan
- Let It Bleed, The Rolling Stones
- Ramones, Ramones
- Music From Big Pink, The Band
- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, David Bowie
- Tapestry, Carole King
- Hotel California, The Eagles
- The Anthology, 1947 – 1972, Muddy Waters
- Please Please Me, The Beatles
- Forever Changes, Love
- Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols, The Sex Pistols
- The Doors, The Doors
- The Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd
- Horses, Patti Smith
- The Band, The Band
- Legend, Bob Marley and the Wailers
- A Love Supreme, John Coltrane
- It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Public Enemy
- At Fillmore East, The Allman Brothers Band
- Here’s Little Richard, Little Richard
- Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon and Garfunkel
- Greatest Hits, Al Green
- The Birth of Soul: The Complete Atlantic Rhythm and Blues Recordings, 1952 – 1959, Ray Charles
- Electric Ladyland, The Jimi Hendrix Experience
- Elvis Presley, Elvis Presley
- Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder
- Beggars Banquet, The Rolling Stones
- Trout Mask Replica, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
- Meet the Beatles, The Beatles
- Greatest Hits, Sly and the Family Stone
- Appetite for Destruction, Guns n’ Roses
- Achtung Baby, U2
- Sticky Fingers, The Rolling Stones
- Phil Spector, Back to Mono (1958 – 1969), Various Artists
- Moondance, Van Morrison
- Led Zeppelin IV, Led Zeppelin
- The Stranger, Billy Joel
- Off the Wall, Michael Jackson
- Superfly, Curtis Mayfield
- Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin
- After the Gold Rush, Neil Young
- Purple Rain, Prince
- Back in Black, AC/DC
- Otis Blue, Otis Redding
- Led Zeppelin II, Led Zeppelin
- Imagine, John Lennon
- The Clash, The Clash
- Harvest, Neil Young
- Star Time, James Brown
- Odessey and Oracle, The Zombies
- Graceland, Paul Simon
- Axis: Bold as Love, The Jimi Hendrix Experience
- I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You, Aretha Franklin
- Lady Soul, Aretha Franklin
- Born in the U.S.A., Bruce Springsteen
- Let It Be, The Beatles
- The Wall, Pink Floyd
- At Folsom Prison, Johnny Cash
- Dusty in Memphis, Dusty Springfield
- Talking Book, Stevie Wonder
- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Elton John
- 20 Golden Greats, Buddy Holly
- Sign ‘o’ the Times, Prince
- Bitches Brew, Miles Davis
- Green River, Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Tommy, The Who
- The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan
- This Year’s Model, Elvis Costello
- There’s a Riot Goin’ On, Sly and the Family Stone
- In the Wee Small Hours, Frank Sinatra
