Classifica Album
"33 dischi senza i quali non si può vivere" è un libro di Gino Castaldo e Ernesto Assante.
Dai Beatles agli U2, ma la maggior parte si riferisce agli anni '60 (quando il supporto era in vinile). Per Repubblica hanno aggiornato il numero a 50 (clicca qua). Curiosità: Sgt. Pepper's è al 36° posto.
Per la rivista Time, negli anni sessanta abbiamo:
Secondo la rivista Rolling Stone:
una classifica del 2003 indica questi come i migliori 100 di sempre
- 1) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (The Beatles)
- 2) Pet Sounds (The Beach Boys)
- 3) Revolver (The Beatles)
- 4) Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan)
- 5) Rubber Soul (The Beatles)
- 6) What's Going On (Marvin Gaye)
- 7) Exile on Main Street (The Rolling Stones)
- 8) London Calling (The Clash)
- 9) Blonde on Blonde (Bob Dylan)
- 10) The Beatles (The Beatles)
- 11) The Sun Sessions (Elvis Presley)
- 12) Kind of Blue (Miles Davis)
- 13) The Velvet Underground & Nico (The Velvet Underground)
- 14) Abbey Road (The Beatles)
- 15) Are You Experienced (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
- 16) Blood on the Tracks (Bob Dylan)
- 17) Nevermind (Nirvana)
- 18) Born to Run (Bruce Springsteen)
- 19) Astral Weeks (Van Morrison)
- 20) Thriller (Michael Jackson)
- 21) The Great Twenty-Eight (Chuck Berry)
- 22) Plastic Ono Band (John Lennon)
- 23) Innervisions (Stevie Wonder)
- 24) Live at the Apollo (James Brown)
- 25) Rumours (Fleetwood Mac)
- 26) The Joshua Tree (U2)
- 27) King of the Delta Blues Singers (Robert Johnson)
- 28) Who's Next (The Who)
- 29) Led Zeppelin (Led Zeppelin)
- 30) Blue (Joni Mitchell)
- 31) Bringing It All Back Home (Bob Dylan)
- 32) Let It Bleed (The Rolling Stones)
- 33) The Ramones (The Ramones)
- 34) Music From Big Pink (The Band)
- 35) The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (David Bowie)
- 36) Tapestry (Carole King)
- 37) Hotel California (Eagles)
- 38) The Anthology, 1947 - 1972 (Muddy Waters)
- 39) Please Please Me (The Beatles)
- 40) Forever Changes (Love)
- 41) Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (Sex Pistols)
- 42) The Doors (The Doors)
- 43) Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd)
- 44) Horses (Patti Smith)
- 45) The Band (The Band)
- 46) Legend (Bob Marley and The Wailers)
- 47) A Love Supreme (John Coltrane)
- 48) It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (Public Enemy)
- 49) At Fillmore East (The Allman Brothers Band)
- 50) Here's Little Richard (Little Richard)
- 51) Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon e Garfunkel)
- 52) Greatest Hits (Al Green)
- 53) The Birth of Soul: The Complete Atlantic Rhythm and Blues Recordings (Ray Charles)
- 54) Electric Ladyland (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
- 55) Elvis Presley (Elvis Presley)
- 56) Songs in the Key of Life (Stevie Wonder)
- 57) Beggars Banquet (The Rolling Stones)
- 58) Trout Mask Replica (Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band)
- 59) Meet the Beatles (The Beatles)
- 60) Greatest Hits (Sly and the Family Stone)
- 61) Appetite for Destruction (Guns N' Roses)
- 62) Achtung Baby (U2)
- 63) Sticky Fingers (The Rolling Stones)
- 64) Phil Spector, Back to Mono (1958 - 1969) (Various Artists)
- 65) Moondance (Van Morrison)
- 66) Led Zeppelin IV (Led Zeppelin)
- 67) The Stranger (Billy Joel)
- 68) Off the Wall (Michael Jackson)
- 69) Superfly (Curtis Mayfield)
- 70) Physical Graffiti (Led Zeppelin)
- 71) After the Gold Rush (Neil Young)
- 72) Purple Rain (Prince)
- 73) Back in Black (AC/DC)
- 74) Otis Blue (Otis Redding)
- 75) Led Zeppelin II (Led Zeppelin)
- 76) Imagine (John Lennon)
- 77) The Clash (The Clash)
- 78) Harvest (Neil Young)
- 79) Star Time (James Brown)
- 80) Odessey and Oracle (The Zombies)
- 81) Graceland (Paul Simon)
- 82) Axis: Bold as Love (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
- 83) I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (Aretha Franklin)
- 84) Lady Soul (Aretha Franklin)
- 85) Born in the U.S.A. (Bruce Springsteen)
- 86) Let it Be (The Beatles)
- 87) The Wall (Pink Floyd)
- 88) At Folsom Prison (Johnny Cash)
- 89) Dusty in Memphis (Dusty Springfield)
- 90) Talking Book (Stevie Wonder)
- 91) Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John)
- 92) 20 Golden Greats (Buddy Holly)
- 93) Sign 'o' the Times (Prince)
- 94) Bitches Brew (Miles Davis)
- 95) Green River (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
- 96) Tommy (The Who)
- 97) The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (Bob Dylan)
- 98) This Year's Model (Elvis Costello)
- 99) There's a Riot Goin' On (Sly and the Family Stone)
- 100) In the Wee Small Hours (Frank Sinatra)