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THE 50 GREATEST ALBUMS

Saturday 05 September 1998 23:02 BST
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1 Revolver - The Beatles

2 Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles

3 White Album - The Beatles

4 Nevermind - Nirvana

5 Abbey Road - The Beatles

6 Pet Sounds -

The Beach Boys

7 Automatic for the People - R.E.M.

8 Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

9 What's the Story (Morning Glory) -

Oasis

10 The Bends - Radiohead

11 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - David Bowie

12 Electric Ladyland - The Jimi Hendrix

Experience

13 Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols -

Sex Pistols

14 The Stone Roses -

The Stone Roses

15 Astral Weeks -

Van Morrison

16 Hunky Dory -

David Bowie

17 Blonde on Blonde -

Bob Dylan

18 The Joshua Tree - U2

19 Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

20 Rubber Soul - The Beatles

21 OK Computer - Radiohead

22 Velvet Underground & Nico -

The Velvet Underground

23 The Queen is Dead -

The Smiths

24 Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan

25 Definitely Maybe -

Oasis

26 Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan

27 Exile on Main Street - The Rolling Stones

28 Achtung Baby - U2

29 London's Calling - The Clash

30 Parklife - Blur

31 Wish You Were Here -

Pink Floyd

32 What's Going On -

Marvyn Gaye

33 The Fat of the Land - Prodigy

34 Dummy - Portishead

35 Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette

36 Be Here Now - Oasis

37 Screamadelica -

Primal Scream

38 Graceland - Paul Simon

39 Led Zeppelin IV -

Led Zeppelin

40 Forever Changes - Love

41 Everything Must Go - Manic

Street Preachers

42 Different Class - Pulp

43 Blue Lines - Massive Attack

44 Let It Bleed - The Rolling

Stones

45 Urban Hymns - The Verve

46 The Wall - Pink Floyd

47 Sign `o' the Times - Prince

48 Kind of Blue - Miles Davis

49 The Band - The Band

50 Physical Graffiti -

Led Zeppelin

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