1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die (2005 edition)

~ Release group series

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Release groups

#	Year	Title	Artist	Type	Rating	Releases
1	1955	In the Wee Small Hours	Frank Sinatra	Album	3.5	21
2	1956	Elvis Presley	Elvis Presley	Album	3.9	18
3	1956	Tragic Songs of Life	The Louvin Brothers	Album	2	4
4	1956	The Wildest!	Louis Prima	Album	3	5
5	1956	This Is Fats Domino!	Fats Domino	Album	3.5	5
6	1956	Ellington at Newport	Duke Ellington & His Orchestra	Album + Live	3	7
7	1956	Songs for Swingin’ Lovers!	Frank Sinatra	Album	4	23
8	1957	The “Chirping” Crickets	The Crickets	Album	4	9
9	1958	The Atomic Mr. Basie	Neal Hefti; Basie, Count Basie Orchestra	Album	3.5	27
10	1957	Brilliant Corners	Thelonious Monk	Album	4.25	22
11	1957	Palo Congo	Sabu Martinez	Album	3	2
12	1957	Birth of the Cool	Miles Davis	Album + Compilation	4.45	32
13	1958	Kenya	Machito	Album	3	6
14	1957	Here’s Little Richard	Little Richard	Album	4	11
15	1958	Dance Mania	Tito Puente	Album	2	5
16	1958	Lady in Satin	Billie Holiday	Album	4.5	33
17	1958	Jack Takes the Floor	Jack Elliott	Album	3	3
18	1958	Sarah Vaughan at Mister Kelly’s	Sarah Vaughan and Her Trio	Album + Live	3	5
19	1959	Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book	Ella Fitzgerald	Album	4	10
20	1959	The Genius of Ray Charles	Ray Charles	Album	3	10
21	1959	Kind of Blue	Miles Davis	Album	4.45	130
22	1959	Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs	Marty Robbins	Album	3.5	16
23	1959	Time Out	The Dave Brubeck Quartet	Album	4.35	60
24	1960	Joan Baez	Joan Baez	Album	3.35	16
25	1960	Elvis Is Back!	Elvis Presley	Album	3.8	14
26	1960	Miriam Makeba	Miriam Makeba	Album	3	6
27	1960	A Date With The Everly Brothers	The Everly Brothers	Album	2	5
28	1963	Back at the Chicken Shack	Jimmy Smith	Album	3.5	14
29	1960	Muddy Waters at Newport 1960	Muddy Waters	Album + Live	3	10
30	1961	Sunday at the Village Vanguard	Bill Evans Trio featuring Scott LaFaro	Album + Live	3.5	31
31	1962	Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music	Ray Charles	Album	3.4	8
32	1962	Green Onions	Booker T. & the M.G.s	Album	3.65	18
33	1962	Jazz Samba	Stan Getz / Charlie Byrd	Album	4.35	18
34	1963	Night Life	Ray Price	Album	2	4
35	1963	With The Beatles	The Beatles	Album	3.85	52
36	1963	The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan	Bob Dylan	Album	4.25	31
37	1963	A Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector	Various Artists	Album	2.4	23
38	1985	Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963	Sam Cooke	Album + Live	4	11
39	1963	The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady	Charles Mingus	Album	4	17
40	1963	Live at the Apollo, 1962	James Brown	Album + Live	4	12
41	1964	Getz/Gilberto	Stan Getz / João Gilberto featuring Antônio Carlos Jobim	Album	4.35	36
42	1964	A Hard Day’s Night	The Beatles	Album + Soundtrack	4.15	82
43	1964	Enregistrement public à l’Olympia 1964	Jacques Brel	Album + Live	4	7
44	1964	Rock ’n Soul	Solomon Burke	Album	2	6
45	1964	A Girl Called Dusty	Dusty Springfield	Album	3	3
46	1964	England’s Newest Hit Makers	The Rolling Stones	Album	3.9	37
47	1965	I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail	Buck Owens and His Buckaroos	Album	3	2
48	1964	“Live” at the Star‐Club, Hamburg	Jerry Lee Lewis	Album + Live	3.5	7
49	1965	Here Are The Sonics!!!	The Sonics	Album	2.5	5
50	1965	Bringing It All Back Home	Bob Dylan	Album	4.25	45
51	1965	Otis Blue / Otis Redding Sings Soul	Otis Redding	Album	4.25	19
52	1965	The Beach Boys Today!	The Beach Boys	Album	3.5	11
53	1965	A Love Supreme	John Coltrane	Album	4.5	44
54	1965	Live at the Regal	B.B. King	Album + Live	4.15	18
55	1965	Rubber Soul	The Beatles	Album	4.45	102
56	1965	Bert Jansch	Bert Jansch	Album	4.5	6
57	1965	Mr. Tambourine Man	The Byrds	Album	3.65	17
58	1965	Highway 61 Revisited	Bob Dylan	Album	4.25	37
59	1965	My Generation	The Who	Album	4	24
60	1966	Revolver	The Beatles	Album	4.65	62
61	1966	Pet Sounds	The Beach Boys	Album	4.3	55
62	1967	Fred Neil	Fred Neil	Album	2	4
63	1966	Fifth Dimension	The Byrds	Album	3	16
64	1966	Blonde on Blonde	Bob Dylan	Album	4.1	58
65	1966	Black Monk Time	The Monks	Album	3	9
66	1966	Face to Face	The Kinks	Album	3.3	19
67	1966	If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears	The Mama’s and the Papa’s	Album	3.55	14
68	1966	Midnight Ride	Paul Revere and the Raiders	Album	3.5	2
69	1966	Freak Out!	The Mothers of Invention	Album	4	13
70	1966	Aftermath	The Rolling Stones	Album	4.05	45
71	1966	Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme	Simon and Garfunkel	Album	3.45	21
72	1966	The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators	13th Floor Elevators	Album	3.2	18
73	1966	Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton (“The Beano Album”)	John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers	Album	3.75	24
74	1966	Yardbirds (also known as “Roger the Engineer” and “Over Under Sideways Down”)	The Yardbirds	Album	3	24
75	1966	Wild Is the Wind	Nina Simone	Album	4.5	7
76	1967	Beach Samba	Astrud Gilberto	Album	3	4
77	1967	Chelsea Girl	Nico	Album	3.2	7
78	1967	Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band	The Beatles	Album	4.55	74
79	1967	Electric Music For The Mind And Body	Country Joe and the Fish	Album	3.5	8
80	1967	Buffalo Springfield Again	Buffalo Springfield	Album	3.5	31
81	1967	Moby Grape	Moby Grape	Album	3	6
82	1966	Da Capo	Love	Album	3.35	6
83	1967	Safe as Milk	Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	Album	4.4	19
84	1967	Triangle	The Beau Brummels	Album	2.5	3
85	1967	Headquarters	The Monkees	Album	3.5	15
86	1967	Goodbye and Hello	Tim Buckley	Album	2.5	6
87	1967	Forever Changes	Love	Album	4.05	21
88	1967	Disraeli Gears	Cream	Album	4.45	35
89	1967	The Piper at the Gates of Dawn	Pink Floyd	Album	3.75	80
90	1967	The Who Sell Out	The Who	Album	3.65	28
91	1967	The Velvet Underground & Nico	The Velvet Underground & Nico	Album	4.4	42
92	1967	Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim	Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim	Album	2	10
93	1967	The Doors	The Doors	Album	4.6	49
94	1967	Younger Than Yesterday	The Byrds	Album	3.2	10
95	1967	Groovin’	The Rascals	Album	2	10
96	1967	Surrealistic Pillow	Jefferson Airplane	Album	4.05	30
97	1967	Something Else by The Kinks	The Kinks	Album	3.8	20
98	1966	Sunshine Superman	Donovan	Album	3.65	11
99	1967	I’m a Lonesome Fugitive	Merle Haggard and The Strangers	Album	2	4
100	1967	Are You Experienced	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Album	4.05	54

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