Rolling Stone Record Guide 2004

Rolling Stone Record Guide

5-Star Albums From The Fourth Edition (2004)

“This fourth edition contains an impressive – 70% - amount of new material. Readers will find fresh updates to entries on established artists, hundreds of brand new entries on the people and recordings that epitomize the 90s and the sounds of the 21st century – from Beck to OutKast to the White Stripes & beyond…” Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 2004 Edited by Nathan Brackett (Senior Editor at Rolling Stone) & Christian Hoard (contributor to Rolling Stone & Village Voice).

The Albums are usually entered here in the order they are listed in the book. Artists are often given sub-entries in the book: ie – Baader Meinhof and Black Box Recorder are listed under the Auteurs, but as none of these get 5 Stars, it doesn’t affect this list! Label and year of release is only given here when absolutely necessary to identify an album, often in the case of self-titled albums, and Greatest Hits & Best Of compilations. As the book only lists albums available at the time of writing, previous 5-Star LPs are sometimes deleted and therefore now not in this list, this doesn’t necessarily mean they’ve been down-rated. (ie Fairport Convention’s Unhalfbricking received 5-Stars in the 3rd edition, but isn’t in this list, it wasn’t given a lower rating, just temporarily deleted).

A

AC/DC – Back in Black
Aerosmith – Greatest Hits
Alexander, Arthur – Ultimate
Allman Brothers Band – At Fillmore East
Allman Brothers Band – Beginnings
Allman Brothers Band – Dreams [box set]
Aphex Twin – Windowlicker [EP]

B

Bad Brains – Bad Brains (1982)
Bad Brains – I Against I
Bad Brains – Black Dots
Baker, Lavern – Precious Memories/Sings (2 on 1)
Baker, Lavern – Soul on Fire: Best of
Baker, Lavern – Legend At Her Best
Band – Music from Big Pink
Band – Band [3rd album]
Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
Beach Boys – Sunflower (2 on 1 with Surf’s Up)
Beach Boys – Pet Sounds Box
Beastie Boys – Licensed to Ill
Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique
Beatles – Please Please Me
Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night [UK]
Beatles – Help! [UK]
Beatles – Rubber Soul
Beatles – Revolver
Beatles – Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Beatles – Beatles [White Album]
Beatles – Abbey Road
Beatles – 1962–1966
Beatles – Past Masters Vol One
Beatles – 1
Beck – Mellow Gold
Beck – Odelay
Belle & Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinister
Bennett, Tony – Jazz
Bennett, Tony – Forty Years of Artistry [box set]
Bennett, Tony – Perfectly Frank
Berry, Chuck – Great Twenty Eight
Berry, Chuck – Chess Box
Berry, Chuck – Anthology
B52s – Wild Planet
Big Star – Radio City
Big Star – Third/Sister Lovers
Big Star – #1 Record/Radio City (2 on 1)
Black Flag – Wasted… Again
Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath [1st album]
Black Sabbath – Paranoid
Black Sabbath – Black Box: Complete Original 1970-1978
Black Uhuru – Liberation: Island Anthology
Bland, Bobby Blue – Two Steps from the Blues
Bland, Bobby Blue – I Pity the Fool: Duke Recordings Volume 1
Bland, Bobby Blue – Turn On Your Love Light: Duke Recordings Volume 2
Bland, Bobby Blue – That Did It!: Duke Recordings Volume 3
Blind Lemon Jefferson – Best of [Yazoo]
Boogie Down Productions – Criminal Minded
Bowie, David – Hunky Dory
Bowie, David – Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars
Bowie, David – Aladdin Sane
Bowie, David – Station to Station
Bowie, David – Changesonebowie
Bowie, David – Low
Bowie, David – Lodger
Bowie, David – Changesbowie
Bowie, David – Singles 1969-1993
Broonzy, Big Bill – Young… 1928-1935
Broonzy, Big Bill – Do That Guitar Rag
Brown, Charles – Driftin’ Blues: Best of…
Brown, James – Live at the Apollo (1963)
Brown, James – Live at the Apollo Volume II (1968)
Brown, James – Solid Gold
Brown, James – Doing It to Death
Brown, James – In the Jungle Groove
Brown, James – Star Time [box set]
Brown, James – 20 All-Time Greatest Hits
Brown, James – JB40: 40th Anniversary Collection
Brown, James – Funk Power, 1970: a Brand New Thang
Browne, Jackson – Late for the Sky
Browne, Jackson – Running On Empty
Browne, Jackson – Very Best of (2004)
Buckley, Jeff – Grace
Buffalo Springfield – Again
Buffalo Springfield – Box Set
Buzzcocks – Singles Going Steady
Byrds – Mr Tambourine Man
Byrds – Notorious Byrd Brothers
Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Byrds – Greatest Hits [Columbia/Legacy 1999]

C

Can – Tago Mago
Carter, James – Real Quietstorm
Carter, James – Conversin’ with the Elders
Carter, James – Chasin’ the Gypsy
Carter Family – Country Music Hall of Fame Series
Carter Family – On Border Radio: Volume 3
Cash, Johnny – At Folsom Prison
Cash, Johnny – Man in Black: 1959-1962 [Bear Family]
Cash, Johnny – American Recordings
Cash, Johnny – Man in Black: 1963-1969 [Bear Family]
Cash, Johnny – Complete Sun Singles [Varèse Sarabande]
Cash, Johnny – Essential Sun Singles [Varèse Sarabande
Charles, Ray – Modern Sounds in Country & Western
Charles, Ray – Modern Sounds in Country & Western, Volume 2
Charles, Ray – 25th Anniversary in Show Business Salute to…
Charles, Ray – Greatest Country & Western Hits: 1962-1965
Charles, Ray – Anthology [Rhino]
Charles, Ray – Birth of Soul: 1952-59 [Atlantic]
Charles, Ray [with Cleo Laine] – Porgy & Bess
Chenier, Clifton – I’m Here
Chenier, Clifton – Zydeco Dynamite: the Anthology
Clapton, Eric – 461 Ocean Boulevard
Clapton, Eric – Slowhand
Clapton, Eric – Crossroads [box set]
Clash – Clash [1st album]
Clash – London Calling
Clash – Clash [1st album – U.S./Canada edition]
Cline, Patsy – Collection [box set]
Coasters – 50 Coastin’ Classics
Cohen, Leonard – Songs of [1st album]
Cohen, Leonard – Songs of Love & Hate
Cohen, Leonard – Best of [Columbia 1975]
Coleman, Ornette – Shape of Jazz to Come
Coleman, Ornette – Beauty is a Rare Thing [box set]
Coltrane, John – Live at the Village Vanguard [aka Live at the VV: the Master Takes]
Coltrane, John – A Love Supreme
Coltrane, John – Ascension
Coltrane, John – Classic Quartet: Complete Impulse Studio Recordings [box set]
Cooke, Sam – With the Soul Stirrers [Speciality, 1991]
Cooke, Sam – Jesus Gave Me Water
Cooke, Sam – Last Mile of the Way
Cooke, Sam – Man Who Invented Soul [box set]
Costello, Elvis – My Aim Is True
Costello, Elvis – This Year’s Model
Costello, Elvis – Trust
Costello, Elvis – King of America
Cream – Strange Brew: Very Best of
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Green River
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Willy & the Poor Boys
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Cosmo’s Factory
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Chronicle
Cure – Staring at the Sea: the Singles
Cure – Disintegration

D

Darin, Bobby – As Long as I’m Singing: Collection [box set]
Davis, Miles – Birth of the Cool
Davis, Miles – Cookin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet
Davis, Miles – Relaxin’ with Miles
Davis, Miles – Workin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet
Davis, Miles – Steamin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet
Davis, Miles – Round About Midnight
Davis, Miles – Porgy & Bess
Davis, Miles – Kind of Blue
Davis, Miles – Sketches of Spain
Davis, Miles – Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel
Davis, Miles – Nefertiti
Davis, Miles – In a Silent Way
Davis, Miles – Bitches Brew
Davis, Miles – A Tribute to Jack Johnson
Davis, Miles – Pangaea
Davis, Miles – Chronicle: Complete Prestige Recordings
Davis, Miles – & the Jazz Giants [Prestige, 1991]
Davis, Miles – Live at Montreux
Davis, Miles – Quintet, 1965-1968: Complete Columbia Studio Recordings
Davis, Miles – Complete Bitches Brew Sessions
Davis, Miles – & John Coltrane: Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961
Davis, Miles – Essential [Columbia/Legacy 2001]
Davis, Miles – Best of [Columbia/Legacy 2002]
Def Leppard – Hysteria
Def Leppard – Vault: Greatest Hits 1985-1990
De La Soul – 3 Feet High & Rising
De La Soul – Timeless: the Singles Collection
Delfonics – La La Means I Love You: Definitive Collection
Depeche Mode – Singles 81-85
Depeche Mode – Singles 86-98
Dion – King of the New York Streets [box set]
Dixon, Willie [& Various Artists] – Chess Box
DJ Shadow – Endtroducing
Dr Dre – Chronic
Domino, Fats – Walking to New Orleans [box set, orig title: They Call Me the Fat Man]
Donovan – Greatest Hits [Epic 1969]
Doors – Morrison Hotel
Doors – Very Best of [Rhino 2001]
Doors – Legacy: the Absolute Best [Rhino 2003]
Drake, Nick – Five Leaves Left
Drake, Nick – Pink Moon
Drifters – All Time Greatest Hits & More: 1959-1965
Drifters – Rockin’ & Driftin’: the Drifters Box
Dylan, Bob – Freewheelin’
Dylan, Bob – Bringing It All Back Home
Dylan, Bob – Highway 61 Revisited
Dylan, Bob – Blonde on Blonde
Dylan, Bob – John Wesley Harding
Dylan, Bob – Greatest Hits: Volume 2
Dylan, Bob – Basement Tapes
Dylan, Bob – Blood on the Tracks
Dylan, Bob – Biograph
Dylan, Bob – Bootleg Series: Vols 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991
Dylan, Bob – Time Out of Mind
Dylan, Bob – Live 1966 (Bootleg Series Vol 4)
Dylan, Bob – Love & Theft

E

Eagles – Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975
Earth Wind & Fire – Best of: Volume 1 [ARC/Columbia 1978]
Elliott, Missy – Supa Dupa Fly
Eminem – Marshall Mathers LP
English Beat [aka ‘The Beat’ in the UK] – I Just Can’t Stop It
English Beat [aka ‘The Beat’ in the UK] – Beat This: Best of
Eno, Brian – Another Green World
Eno, Brian – Before & After Science
Eno, Brian – Desert Island Selection
Eno, Brian – Eno Box II: Vocals [box set]
Eno, Brian & J Peter Schwalm – Music for Onmyoji
EPMD – Strictly Business
Eric B & Rakim – Paid in Full
Eric B & Rakim – Paid in Full: Platinum Edition
Everly Brothers – Cadence Classics: Their 20 Greatest Hits
Everly Brothers – Heartaches & Harmonies [box set]

F

Fairport Convention – Fairport Convention (1968)
Ferry, Bryan – These Foolish Things
Flaming Lips – Soft Bulletin
Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
Flying Burrito Brothers – Gilded Palace of Sin
Flying Burrito Brothers – Hot Burritos! Anthology 1969-1972
Four Seasons – Anthology [Rhino 1988]
Four Seasons – In Season: Anthology [Rhino 2001]
Franklin, Aretha – I Never Loved a Man (the Way I Love You)
Franklin, Aretha – Lady Soul
Franklin, Aretha – Amazing Grace
Franklin, Aretha – 30 Greatest Hits
Franklin, Aretha – Queen of Soul: the Atlantic Recordings [box set]
Franklin, Aretha – Amazing Grace: the Complete Recordings
Frizzell, Lefty – Look What Thoughts Can Do: Final Recordings of…
Funkadelic – Best of the Early Years [Westbound 1977]

G

Gabriel, Peter – So
Gang of Four – Entertainment!
Gang of Four – 100 Flowers Bloom: Anthology
Gang Starr – Daily Operation
Gaye, Marvin – What’s Going On
Gaye, Marvin – Let’s Get It On
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five – Message from Beat Street: Best of [Rhino 1994]
Grateful Dead – Workingman’s Dead
Grateful Dead – American Beauty
Grateful Dead – Dick’s Picks Volume 4 [Fillmore East, NYC 13&14/2/70]
Grateful Dead – Dick’s Picks Volume 8 [Harpur College, Binghamton, NY 1970]
Green, Al – Call Me
Green, Al – Greatest Hits Vol 1 [Hi 1975]
Green, Al – Very Best of… [Music Club 2001]
Green Day – Dookie
Green Day – International Superhits
Guns N’ Roses – Appetite for Destruction
Guns N’ Roses – Use Your Illusion I
Guthrie, Woody – This Land Is Your Land: Asch Recordings Vol 1
Guthrie, Woody – Muleskinner Blues: Asch Recordings Vol 2
Guthrie, Woody – Hard Travelin’: Asch Recordings Vol 3
Guthrie, Woody – Buffalo Skinners: Asch Recordings Vol 4
Guthrie, Woody – Asch Recordings Vols 1-4 [box set]

H

Haggard, Merle – Lonesome Fugitive: Collection [Razor & Tie]
Haggard, Merle – 40 # 1 Hits [Capitol 2004]
Hancock, Herbie – Sextant
Hancock, Herbie – Best of… The Blue Note Years [Blue Note 1988]
Hancock, Herbie – 1 + 1 [Verve 1997]
Harris, Emmylou – Wrecking Ball
Harvey, PJ – Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Hendrix, Jimi – Are You Experienced?
Hendrix, Jimi – Axis: Bold As Love
Hendrix, Jimi – Electric Ladyland
Hendrix, Jimi – Smash Hits
Hitchcock, Robyn & the Egyptians – Greatest Hits [A&M 1996]
Hole – Live Through This
Holiday, Billie – Quintessential Vols 1-9 [Columbia 1987-1991]
Holiday, Billie – Legacy: 1933-1958 [Columbia 1991]
Holiday, Billie – Complete Decca Recordings [Decca 1991]
Holiday, Billie – Complete on Verve: 1945-1949 [PolyGram 1995]
Holiday, Billie – Greatest Hits [Columbia/Legacy 1998]
Holiday, Billie – Ken Burns’ Jazz Collection
Holiday, Billie – Lady Day: Complete on Columbia 1933-1944 [Sony 2001]
Holly, Buddy – Collection [MCA 1993]
Holy Modal Rounders – Have Moicy!
Hooker, John Lee – Plays & Sings the Blues [Vee Jay 1961]
Hooker, John Lee – Best of [GNP Crescendo 1987]
Hooker, John Lee – Ultimate Collection [Rhino 1991]
Hooker, John Lee – Legendary Modern Recordings 1948-1954 [Flair/Virgin 1993]
Hooker, John Lee – Early Years [Tomato/Rhino 1994]
Hooker, John Lee – Alternative Boogie: Early Studio Recordings 1948-1952 [Capitol 1995]
Hooker, John Lee – Detroit 1948-1949 [Atlantic/Savoy 2000]
Hopkins, Lightnin’ – Lightnin’ Hopkins [Smithsonian Folkways 1959]
Hopkins, Lightnin’ [with Sonny Terry] – Last Night Blues – [OBC 1992]
Hopkins, Lightnin’– Complete Aladdin Recordings [EMI 1991]
Hopkins, Lightnin’ – Complete Prestige/Bluesville Recordings [Prestige 1991]
Hopkins, Lightnin’ – Mojo Hand: Anthology
Hopkins, Lightnin’ – Lightnin’ & the Blues: Herald Sessions
House, Son – Original Delta Blues [Columbia/Legacy 1998]
Howlin’ Wolf – Howlin’ Wolf/Moanin’ in the Moonlight (2 on 1)
Howlin’ Wolf – Greatest Sides Vol 1 [Chess 1967]
Howlin’ Wolf – Memphis Days: Definitive Edition Vol 1 [Bear Family]
Howlin’ Wolf – Memphis Days: Definitive Edition Vol 2 [Bear Family]
Howlin’ Wolf – Chess Box
Hüsker Dü – Zen Arcade
Hüsker Dü – New Day Rising

I

Ice Cube – AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted
Impressions – Curtis Mayfield & the Impressions: Anthology 1961-1977
Impressions – Ultimate Collection [Hip-O 2001]
Ink Spots – Anthology [MCA 1998]
Isley Brothers – It’s Your Thing: Story of the…

J

Jackson 5 – Ultimate Collection [Motown 1995]
Jackson, Mahalia – Live at Newport
Jackson, Mahalia – Essential [Columbia/Legacy 2004]
Jackson, Michael – Thriller
Jackson, Wanda – Vintage Collections Series [Capitol 1996]
Jam – Sound Affects
Jam – Greatest Hits [Polydor 1991]
James, Elmore – Complete Story [Capricorn 1992]
James, Elmore – Sky is Crying: History of [Rhino 1993]
James, Etta – Sweetest Peaches: Chess Years, Vol 2
James, Etta – Essential [Chess/MCA 1993]
James, Etta – Mystery Lady: Songs of Billie Holiday
James, Etta – Chess Box
Jan & Dean – Anthology Album [One Way 1996]
Jayhawks – Hollywood Town Hall
Jay Z – Reasonable Doubt
Jay Z – Blueprint
Jefferson Airplane – 2400 Fulton Street [RCA 1987 compilation]
Jennings, Waylon – Honky Tonk Heroes [RCA 1970]
Jesus & Mary Chain – Psychocandy
Jobim, Antonio Carlos – Wave [Warner Bros 1967]
Jobim, Antonio Carlos – Elis & Tom [Verve 1974]
Jobim, Antonio Carlos – Finest Hour [Verve 2000]
John, Elton – Honky Chateau
John, Elton – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
John, Elton – Greatest Hits [Rocket/Island 1974]
John, Elton – Greatest Hits # 2 [MCA 1977]
Jones, George – Cup of Loneliness: Classic Mercury Years
Jones, George – Spirit of Country: Essential
Jordan, Louis – Best of [1975, MCA 1989]
Jordan, Louis – Five Guys Named Moe: Decca Recordings [MCA 1992]
Jordan, Louis – Let the Good Times Roll: Anthology 1938-1953 [MCA 1999]
Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division – Closer
Joy Division – Heart & Soul [box set]

K

Khan, Nusrat Fateh Ali – Rapture: Essential Collection [Music Club 1997]
King, BB – Live at the Regal
King, BB – Greatest Hits [MCA 1998]
King, Carole – Tapestry
King, Carole – A Natural Woman: Ode Collection
King Crimson – Larks’ Tongues in Aspic
King Crimson – Frame by Frame [box set]
Kinks – Face to Face
Kinks – Something Else By the…
Kinks – Are the Village Green Preservation Society
Kinks – Kink Kronikles
Kraftwerk – Trans Europe Express
Kuti, Fela Anikulapo – Best Best of [MCA 1999]

L

Lead Belly – Last Sessions
Lead Belly – Library of Congress Recordings Vol 1: Midnight Special
Lead Belly – Library of Congress Recordings Vol 2: Gwine Dig a Hole to Put the Devil in
Lead Belly – Library of Congress Recordings Vol 3: Let it Shine on me
Lead Belly – Library of Congress Recordings Vol 4: the Titanic
Lead Belly – Library of Congress Recordings Vol 5: Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
Lead Belly – Library of Congress Recordings Vol 6:- Go Down Old Hannah
Lead Belly – Where Did You Sleep Last Night: Legacy Vol 1 [Smithsonian Folkways]
Lead Belly – Bourgeois Blues: Legacy Vol 2 [Smithsonian Folkways]
Lead Belly – Shout On: Legacy Vol 3 [Smithsonian Folkways]
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin [1st Album]
Led Zeppelin – II
Led Zeppelin – IV [aka Untitled]
Lee, Brenda – Anthology Vols 1 & 2: 1956-1980 [MCA 1991]
Lennon, John – Plastic Ono Band
Lewis, Jerry Lee – 18 Original Sun Greatest Hits [Rhino 1984]
Lewis, Jerry Lee – Original Golden Hits: Volumes 1 & 2 [Collectables 1999]
Little Richard – His Biggest Hits [1959, Speciality 1991]
Little Richard – Speciality Sessions
Little Richard – Georgia Peach
Los Lobos – Kiko
Love – Forever Changes (Deluxe Edition)
Luna – Penthouse
Lymon, Frankie & the Teenagers – At the London Palladium
Lymon, Frankie & the Teenagers – For Collectors Only [Collectables]
Lymon, Frankie & the Teenagers – Very Best of [Rhino 1998]
Lynn, Loretta – Country Music Hall of Fame [MCA 1991]
Lynn, Loretta – Honky Tonk Girl: Collection [MCA 1994 box set]
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Street Survivors
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Gold & Platinum
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Lynyrd Skynyrd [box set]

M

Maal, Baaba & Mansour Seck - Djam Leelii: Adventurers
Madonna – Immaculate Collection
Marley, Bob & the Wailers – Burnin’
Marley, Bob & the Wailers – Natty Dread
Marley, Bob & the Wailers – Legend: the Best of…
Marley, Bob & the Wailers – Songs of Freedom [box set]
Massive Attack – Blue Lines
Mayfield, Curtis – Superfly
Mayfield, Curtis – Anthology: 1961-1977
Mayfield, Curtis – People Get Ready: the Story
Mayfield, Percy – Poet of the Blues
Meters – Funky Miracle [Charly 1991]
Meters – Funkify Your Life: Anthology
Meters – Very Best of [Rhino 1997]
Mingus, Charles – Mingus Ah Um
Minor Threat – Complete Discography
Minutemen – What Makes a Man Start Fires
Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime
Mitchell, Joni – Blue
Mitchell, Joni – Court & Spark
Mobb Deep – the Infamous
Monroe, Bill – Music of [MCA 1994]
Morrison, Van – Astral Weeks
Morrison, Van – Tupelo Honey
Morrison, Van – Saint Dominic’s Preview
Morrison, Van – Veedon Fleece
Morrison, Van – Best of [Mercury 1990]
Morrissey – Your Arsenal
Morrissey – World of…
My Bloody Valentine – Loveless

N

Nas – Illmatic
Nascimento, Milton – Milton [A&M 1976]
Nelson, Willie – Nite Life: Greatest Hits & Rare Tracks [Rhino 1990]
Newman, Randy – 12 Songs
Newman, Randy – Sail Away
New Order – Substance
New York Dolls – New York Dolls [1st Album]
Nirvana – Nevermind
Nirvana – Unplugged in New York
Notorious BIG – Ready to Die
Notorious BIG – Life After Death
NWA – Straight Outta Compton

O

Oasis – Definitely Maybe
Oasis – (What’s the Story) Morning Glory
Ohio Players – Gold
Orbison, Roy – All Time Greatest Hits of [Monument 1972]
Orbison, Roy – Legendary [CBS Special Products 1990]
Orbison, Roy – Complete Sun Sessions [Varese Sarabande]
OutKast – Aquemini

P & Q

Palmieri, Eddie – Azúcar pa’ Ti [Tico 1965]
Palmieri, Eddie – Sun of Latin Music [Coco 1974]
Palmieri, Eddie – Unfinished Masterpiece
Palmieri, Eddie with Cal Tjader – El Sonido Nuevo (New Soul Sound)
Parker, Charlie – Yardbird Suite: Ultimate Collection [Rhino 1997]
Parker, Charlie – Complete Savoy Sessions
Parker, Charlie – Complete Dial Sessions
Parliament – Mothership Connection
Parliament – Clones of Dr Funkenstein
Parliament – Funked Up: Very Best of
Parsons, Gram – Grievous Angel
Parsons, Gram – GP/Grievous Angel [2 on 1]
Parton, Dolly – Best of [RCA 1975]
Parton, Dolly – Essential Vol One: I Will Always Love You
Parton, Dolly – Essential Vol Two
Patton, Charley – Founder of the Delta Blues 1929-34 [Yazoo]
Patton, Charley – King of the Delta Blues: Music of [Yazoo]
Patton, Charley – Masters of the Delta Blues: Friends of… [Yazoo]
Patton, Charley – Complete Recorded Works [PeaVine]
Patton, Charley – Screamin’ & Hollerin’ the Blues: Worlds of [Revenant]
Pavement – Slanted & Enchanted
Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Pavement – Brighten the Corners
Pavement – Slanted & Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe
Pearl Jam – Live: 11/6/00 Seattle, Washington
Perry, Lee Scratch – Roast Fish Collie Weed & Cornbread
Pet Shop Boys – Discography: Complete Singles Collection
Pickett, Wilson – Greatest Hits [Atlantic 1973]
Pickett, Wilson – A Man and a Half: Best of
Pink Floyd – Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd – Echoes
Pixies – Surfer Rosa
Platters – Magic Touch: Anthology
Presley, Elvis – Elvis Presley (1956)
Presley, Elvis – Elvis (1956)
Presley, Elvis – Christmas Album
Presley, Elvis – Golden Records Vol 1 [RCA 1958]
Presley, Elvis – His Hand in Mine
Presley, Elvis – 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can’t Be Wrong: Golden Records Vol 2
Presley, Elvis – How Great Thou Art
Presley, Elvis – Elvis (NBC TV)
Presley, Elvis – From Elvis in Memphis
Presley, Elvis – Known Only to Him: Gospel 1957-1971
Presley, Elvis – King of Rock ‘n’ Roll: Complete 50s Masters
Presley, Elvis – Top Ten Hits [RCA 1987]
Presley, Elvis – From Nashville to Memphis: Essential 60s Masters
Presley, Elvis – Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Songs
Presley, Elvis – If Every Day was Like Christmas
Presley, Elvis – Walk a Mile in My Shoes: Essential 70s Masters
Presley, Elvis – Sunrise [RCA 1999]
Presley, Elvis – 30 # 1 Hits [BMG 2003]
Pretenders – Pretenders [1st Album]
Pretenders – Learning to Crawl
Prince – Dirty Mind
Prince – Purple Rain
Prince – Sign O’ the Times
Prine, John – John Prine [1st Album]
Prine, John – Great Days: Anthology
Prine, John – In Spite of Ourselves
Professor Longhair – Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Professor Longhair – Fess: Anthology
Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Public Enemy – Fear of a Black Planet
Puente, Tito – In Percussion (1956)
Puente, Tito – Dance Mania (1958)
Puente, Tito – Tambo (1960)
Puente, Tito – Best of Dance Mania, Plus Unreleased Outtakes
Puente, Tito – 50 Years of Swing [RMM 1997]
Puente, Tito – Complete RCA Recordings: Volume One
Puente, Tito – Complete RCA Recordings: Volume Two

R

Radiohead – the Bends
Radiohead – OK Computer
Radiohead – Kid A
Radiohead – Hail to the Thief
Ramones – Ramones (1st Album)
Ramones – Rocket to Russia
Redding, Otis – Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
Redding, Otis – Soul Album
Redding, Otis – History of [Atco 1968]
Redding, Otis – Immortal [Atco 1968]
Redding, Otis – In Person at the Whiskey a Go Go
Redding, Otis – Otis: the Definitive [Rhino 1993]
Reed, Jimmy – Best of [1974]
Reed, Jimmy – Big Boss Man [Collectables 2001]
REM – Murmur
REM – Life’s Rich Pageant
Replacements – Let It Be
Richman, Jonathan – Modern Lovers
Roches – Roches (1st Album)
Rock, Pete & CL Smooth – Mecca & the Soul Brother
Rolling Stones – Now!
Rolling Stones – Big Hits (High Tide & Green Grass)
Rolling Stones – Aftermath (U.S. Version)
Rolling Stones – Between the Buttons
Rolling Stones – Flowers
Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet
Rolling Stones – Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol 2)
Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed
Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers
Rolling Stones – Hot Rocks 1964-1971
Rolling Stones – Exile on Main Street
Rolling Stones – More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies)
Rolling Stones – Singles Collection: London Years
Rolling Stones – Forty Licks
Rollins, Sonny – Tenor Madness
Rollins, Sonny – A Night at the Village Vanguard
Ronettes – Best of the… [Abkco 1992]
Ronstadt, Linda – Heart Like a Wheel
Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure
Roxy Music – Country Life
Roxy Music – Siren
Roxy Music – Greatest Hits (1977)
Rundgren, Todd – Something/Anything?
Run DMC – Raising Hell
Run DMC – Greatest Hits (2002)

S

Santana – Abraxas
Santana – Greatest Hits (1974)
Santana – Lotus
Scaggs, Box – Silk Degrees
Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the…
Shannon, Del – Greatest Hits [Rhino 1990]
Shannon, Del – 25 All Time Greatest Hits [Varèse Sarabande 2001]
Shannon, Del – Runaway: Very Best of [Collectables 2002]
Shirelles – Anthology [Rhino 1986]
Silver Jews – American Water
Simon, Paul – Paul Simon (1st Album)
Simon, Paul – Still Crazy After All These Years
Simon, Paul – Greatest Hits, Etc (1977)
Simon, Paul – Graceland
Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon & Garfunkel – Greatest Hits (1972)
Simon & Garfunkel – Essential [Columbia/Legacy 2003]
Sinatra, Frank – Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
Sinatra, Frank – Capitol Years [Capitol 1990]
Sinatra, Frank – Reprise Collection [Reprise 1990]
Sleater Kinney – Call the Doctor
Sly & the Family Stone – Stand!
Sly & the Family Stone – Greatest Hits (1970)
Sly & the Family Stone – There’s a Riot Goin’ On
Sly & the Family Stone – Essential [Epic/Legacy 2002]
Smith, Bessie – Collection [Columbia 1989]
Smith, Bessie – Collection Essential [Columbia 1997]
Smith, Elliott – Elliott Smith (1995)
Smith, Elliott – Figure 8
Smith, Patti – Horses
Smiths – Queen is Dead
Smiths – Louder Than Bombs
Snoop Dogg – Doggystyle
Social Distortion – White Light White Heat White Trash
Sonic Youth – Sister
Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation
Soul Stirrers [featuring Sam Cooke] – Sam Cooke with the… [Speciality 1992]
Soul Stirrers [featuring RH Harris ]– Shine On Me
Soul Stirrers [featuring Sam Cooke] – Jesus Gave Me Water
Soul Stirrers [featuring Sam Cooke] – Last Mile of the Way
Soundgarden – Superunknown
Specials – Specials (1st Album)
Specials – Ghost Town [EP]
Specials – Singles Collection [Chrysalis 1991]
Spector, Phil (producer) – Back to Mono [box set]
Spinners (U.S.) – A One of a Kind Love Affair: Anthology
Springfield, Dusty – Dusty in Memphis
Springsteen, Bruce – Born to Run
Springsteen, Bruce – Darkness on the Edge of Town
Springsteen, Bruce – Nebraska
Springsteen, Bruce – Born in the USA
Springsteen, Bruce – Tunnel of Love
Staple Sisters – Best of the… [1975]
Staple Sisters – Glory! It’s the… [Recall 2002]
Steely Dan – Countdown to Ecstasy
Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic
Stewart, Rod – Every Picture Tells a Story
Stewart, Rod – Storyteller: Complete Anthology 1964-1990
Stooges – Fun House
Stray Cats – Runaway Boys: a Retrospective 81-92
Strokes – Is This It?
Summer, Donna – Bad Girls (Deluxe Edition)
Super Furry Animals – Rings Around the World
Sweet – Best of [Capitol 1992]

T

Talking Heads – Remain in Light
Taylor, James – Sweet Baby James
Television – Marquee Moon
Television – Live at the Old Waldorf
Temptations – Anthology 1964-1973 [Motown 1973]
They Might Be Giants – Dial a Song: 20 Years of…
Thompson, Richard & Linda – Shoot Out the Lights
Tjader, Cal – Soul Sauce
Tjader, Cal – Primo
Tjader, Cal with Eddie Palmieri – El Sonido Nuevo (New Soul Sound)
Tony! Toni! Toné! – House of Music
Toots & the Maytals – Monkey Man (1971)
Toots & the Maytals – Funky Kingston (1973)
Toots & the Maytals – Reggae Greats
T Rex – Electric Warrior
Tribe Called Quest, a – Low End Theory
Turner, Ike & Tina – Dance with… & Their Kings of Rhythm [1961]
Turner, Joe – Big Joe Turner’s Greatest Hits (1951)
Turner, Joe – Memorial Album: Rhythm & Blues Years [Atlantic 1986]
Turner, Joe – I’ve Been to Kansas City: Volume 1
Turner, Joe – Jumpin’ with Joe: Complete Aladdin & Imperial Recordings
Turner, Joe – Every Day In the Week
Turner, Joe – Big, Bad & Blue: Big Joe Turner Anthology
Turner, Joe – Joe Turner/Rockin’ the Blues (2 on 1)
2Pac [Tupac Shakur] – Strictly 4 My NIGGAZ
2Pac [Tupac Shakur] All Eyez on Me
2Pac [Tupac Shakur] Greatest Hits (1998)

U & V

U2 – Joshua Tree
U2 – Achtung Baby
Valens, Ritchie – Come On Let’s Go [Del-Fi 1998]
Velvet Underground - & Nico
Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground (3rd Album)
Velvet Underground - Loaded
Velvet Underground - Peel Slowly & See [box set]
Vincent, Gene – Screaming End: Best of… & His Blue Caps

W

Waits, Tom – Rain Dogs
Walker, T-Bone – Complete Imperial Recordings 1950-1954
Walker, T-Bone – Blues Masters: Very Best of [Rhino 2000]
Waters, Muddy – At Newport 1960
Waters, Muddy – Trouble No More (Singles 1955-1959)
Waters, Muddy – Chess Box
Waters, Muddy – One More Mile: Chess Collectables Vol 1
Weezer – Pinkerton
Who – Sings My Generation
Who – Sell Out
Who – Live at Leeds
Who – Who’s Next
Who – Meaty Beaty Big & Bouncy
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Williams, Hank – 40 Greatest Hits [Mercury 1978]
Williams, Hank – Original Singles Collection… Plus [Mercury 1992]
Williams, Hank – Complete [box set]
Williams, Hank – Ultimate Collection [Universal 2002]
Williams, Lucinda – Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Wills, Bob & His Texas Playboys – McKinney Sisters [Rhino 1990]
Wills, Bob & His Texas Playboys – Anthology 1935-1973 [Rhino 1991]
Wills, Bob & His Texas Playboys – Take Me Back to Tulsa: Original Columbia Recordings Vol 1
Wills, Bob & His Texas Playboys – Stay a Little Longer: Original Columbia Recordings Vol 2
Wilson, Jackie – 20 Greatest Hits [Brunswick 2002]
Wire – Pink Flag
Wonder, Stevie – Talking Book
Wonder, Stevie – Innervisions
Wonder, Stevie – Songs in the Key of Life
Wonder, Stevie – At the Close of a Century
Wu-Tang Clan – Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

X, Y & Z

X – Wild Gift
X Ray Spex – Germfree Adolescents
XTC – Skylarking
Yardbirds – Roger the Engineer
Yardbirds – Ultimate [Rhino 2001]
Yo La Tengo – Painful
Yo La Tengo – Elect-O-Pura
Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Young, Neil – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Young, Neil – After the Gold Rush
Young, Neil – Tonight’s the Night
Young, Neil – Comes a Time
Young, Neil – Rust Never Sleeps
Young, Neil – Ragged Glory
Zappa, Frank & the Mothers of Invention – We’re Only In It For the Money
Zappa, Frank & the Mothers of Invention – Uncle Meat
Zappa, Frank & the Mothers of Invention – Threesome No 1 [compilation of 1st 3 albums]
Zé, Tom – Best of… Massive Hits
Zevon, Warren – Warren Zevon [Asylum 1976]
Zevon, Warren – Excitable Boy

Anthologies & Soundtracks

Atlantic Rhythm & Blues 1947-1974 [box set, volumes available individually]
Can You Dig It?: the 70s Soul Experience [Rhino 2002]
Chess Blues [MCA 1992]
Doo Wop Box [Rhino 1993]
Harder They Come [Soundtrack]
History of Township Music [Wrasse 2001]
Motown: the Classic Years [UTV 2000]
Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968 [box set]
Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts from the British Empire & Beyond [box set]
Perfect Beats Vol 2 [Tommy Boy 1998]
Saturday Night Fever: the Original Movie Sound Track
Stax Story [Fantasy 2000]
Stax-Volt Singles: Complete Vol 1 1959-1968
Ultimate Breaks & Beats: Volumes 1-25 [Street Beat] (vinyl release only)