Only one artist appears twice, as a group member and solo, but if you were a Beatle and then made a game-changing solo debut we can cut you some slack. When an artist obviously has more than one essential album, we’ve made a case for the one that we believe to be the most important of the lot. Punk and prog, hardcore and AOR, glam and metal, roots and arena rock – they’ve all got a place on this list, and your ears are better off for absorbing all of it.įinally, this list has been confined strictly to one album per band/artist. Hence the presence of some highly mainstream albums right alongside the indie/underground entries. That said, we’ve tried to spread the wealth around, not favoring one genre of rock over another.
