NME 500

Records that should be significantly higher are blue, those  that should be significantly lower are red, and those I have not heard are struck through.

01. The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead
02. The Beatles – Revolver
03. David Bowie – Hunky Dory
04. The Strokes – Is This It
05. The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico
06. Pulp – Different Class
07. The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
08. Pixies – Doolittle
09. The Beatles – The Beatles
10. Oasis – Definitely Maybe
11. Nirvana – Nevermind
12. Patti Smith – Horses
13. Arcade Fire – Funeral
14. David Bowie – Low
15. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
16. Joy Division – Closer
17. Public Enemy – It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
18. My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
19. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
20. Radiohead – OK Computer
21. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
22. Blur – Parklife
23. David Bowie – The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
24. The Rolling Stones – Exile On Main St. Street
25. Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On
26. The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
27. Primal Scream – Screamadelica
28. Amy Winehouse – Back To Black
29. Television – Marquee Moon
30. Wu-Tang Clan – Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
31. Suede – Dog Man Star
32. Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique
33. Blur – Modern Life Is Rubbish
34. The Beatles – Abbey Road
35. Nirvana – In Utero
36. Bob Dylan – Blood On The Tracks
37. Love – Forever Changes
38. Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks… Here’s The Sex Pistols
39. The Clash – London Calling
40. Joy Division – Unknown Pleasure
41. Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation
42. Stevie Wonder – Innervisions
43. The Beatles – Rubber Soul
44. Manic Street Preachers – The Holy Bible
45. Blondie – Parallel Lines
46. Björk – Debut
47. The Smiths – Strangeways, Here We Come
48. Kate Bush – Hounds Of Love
49. LCD Soundsystem – Sound Of Silver
50. Dusty Springfield – Dusty In Memphis
51. Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
52. The Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed
53. David Bowie – Station To Station
54. Talking Heads – Remain In Light
55. The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers
56. Neil Young – After The Gold Rush
57. Kraftwerk – The Man Machine
58. Pixies – Surfer Rosa
59. Radiohead – In Rainbows
60. Massive Attack – Blue Lines
61. The Clash – The Clash
62. Bob Dylan – Blonde On Blonde
63. Joni Mitchell – Blue
64. Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited
65. REM – Automatic For The People
66. Radiohead – The Bends
67. Oasis – (What’s The Story) Morning Glory
68. Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
69. REM – Murmur
70. The Libertines – Up The Bracket
71. Neil Young – Harvest
72. Lou Reed – Transformer
73. Bob Dylan – Bringing It All Back Home
74. Nas – IIImatic
75. Green Day – Dookie
76. Daft Punk – Discovery
77. The White Stripes – White Blood Cells
78. Suede – Suede
79. Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue
80. Iggy And The Stooges  Raw Power
81. Kraftwerk – Trans-Europe Express
82. Carole King – Tapestry
83. The Band – The Band
84. Hole – Live Through This
85. Bruce Springsteen – Born To Run
86. Jeff Buckley – Grace
87. The Beatles – Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
88. Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure
89. Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
90. The Streets – A Grand Don’t Come For Free
91. Prince And The Revolution – Purple Rain
92. Super Furry Animals – Radiator
93. Queens Of The Stone Age – Songs For The Deaf
94. The Rolling Stone – Beggars Banquet
95. Talk Talk – Spirit Of Eden
96. Public Enemy – Fear Of A Black Planet
97. The Smiths – The Smiths
98. Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
99. The Libertines – The Libertines
100. The Smiths – Hatful Of Hollow
101. Kraftwerk – Computer World
102. The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
103. The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland
104. The Stooges – Funhouse
105. Tom Waits – Rain Dogs
106. Led Zeppelin – IV
107. Rage Against the Machine – Rage Against the Machine
108. Weezer – Pinkerton
109. Bruce Springsteen – Darkness on the Edge of Town
110. Fairport Convention – Liege and Lief
111. The Human League – Dare
112. GZA – Liquid Swords
113. Belle and Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinister
114. Radiohead – Kid A
115. Teenage Fanclub – Bandwagonesque
116. The White Stripes – Elephant
117. ABC – The Lexicon of Love
118. Dexys Midnight Runners – Searching or the Young Soul Rebels
119. Pulp – His ‘N’ Hers
120. De La Soul – 3 Feet High and Rising
121. Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 85-92
122. New Order – Technique
123. Blur – 13
124. Paul Simon – Graceland
125. James Brown – Live at the Apollo
126. Beastie Boys – Ill Communication
127. Ramones – Ramones
128. The Verve – Urban Hymns
129. Neil Young – On the Beach
130. Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights
131. Michael Jackson – Thriller
132. Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
133. John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band – John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
134. PJ Harvey – Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
135. Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP
136. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever to Tell
137. Blur – Blur
138. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
139. The Cure – Disintegration
140. Nick Drake – Bryter Layter
141. Bob Marley and the Wailers – Natty Dread
142. Serge Gainsbourg – Histoire De Melody Nelson
143. Bob Dylan – Desire
144. The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced
145. The Zombies – Odessey and Oracle
146. At the Drive-In – Relationship of Command
147. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
148. Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska
149. Elliot Smith – Either/Or
150. The Streets – Original Pirate Material
151. PJ Harvey – Dry
152. Mercury Rev – Deserter’s Songs
153. The La’s – The La’s
154. PJ Harvey – To Bring You My Love
155. The Prodigy – Music For the Jilted Generation
156. Spiritualized – Ladies and Gentlemen We’re Floating In Space
157. The Jesus and Mary Chain – Psychocandy
158. Wild Beasts – Two Dancers
159. Gang of Four – Entertainment!
160. Primal Scream – XTRMTR
161. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
162. The National – The Boxer
163. Neu – Neu ’75!
164. Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison
165. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Let Love In
166. Pulp – This is Hardcore
167. Aretha Franklin – Lady Soul
168. Portishead – Dummy
169. Dexys Midnight Runners – Don’t Stand Me Down
170. Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
171. Talking Heads – Fear of Music
172. Stevie Wonder – Songs in the Key of Life
173. Led Zeppelin – III
174. Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
175. David Bowie – Young Americans
176. Rufus Wainwright – Want One
177. Mogwai – Young Team
178. The Coral – The Coral
179. Missy Elliott – Miss E…So Addictive
180. X-Ray Spex – Germ Free Adolescents
181. Boards of Canada – Music Has the Right to Children
182. Manic Street Preachers – Everything Must Go
183. OutKast – Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
184. MIA – Kala
185. Eric B and Rakim – Paid in Full
186. Jay-Z – The Blueprint
187. My Bloody Valentine – Isn’t Anything
188. John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
189. Todd Rungren – A Wizard, A True Star
190. Pink Floyd – Piper At the Gates of Dawn
191. Elastica – Elastica
192. Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
193. Ryan Adams – Gold
194. Guns N’ Roses – Appetite For Destruction
195. The Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night
196. The Stranglers – Rattus Norvegicus
197. AC/DC – Back in Black
198. Prince – Sign O’ The Times
199. The Boo Radleys – Giant Steps
200. The Breeders – Last Splash
201. The Fall – Hex Enduction Hour
202. Tricky – Maxinquaye
203. Beach House – Teen Dream
204. Michael Jackson – Bad
205. NWA – Straight Outta Compton
206. Pavement – Slanted and Enchanted
207. Janis Joplin – Pearl
208. Chic – Risque
209. Kate Bush – The Kick Inside
210. The Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs
211. Grace Jones – Nightclubbing
212. Kings of Leon – Youth and Young Manhood
213. Funkadelic – One Nation Under a Groove
214. Air – Moon Safari
215. Massive Attack – Mezzanine
216. New Order – Power, Corrruption and Lies
217. Iggy Pop – Lust for Life
218. The Horrors – Primary Colours
219. The Jam – All Mod Cons
220. The National – Alligator
221. Marianne Faithful – Broken English
222. Fever Ray – Fever Ray
223. Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
224. Echo and the Bunnymen – Heaven Up Here
225. T Rex – Electric Warrior
226. The Doors – The Doors
227. John Lennon – Imagine
228. Pavement – Brighten the Corners
229. Public Image Ltd – Metal Box
230. David Bowie – Aladdin Sane
231. Dr. Dre – The Chronic
232. Leonard Cohen – The Songs of Leonard Cohen
233. Babyshambles – Down In Albion
234. Pet Shop Boys – Behaviour
235. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Murder Ballads
236. Suicide – Suicide
237. The xx – The xx
238. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones
239. Dizzee Rascal – Boy In Da Corner
240. Ian Dury – New Boots and Panties!!
241. Madonna – Ray of Light
242. Michael Jackson – Off the Wall
243. Joni Mitchell – The Hissing of Summer Lawns
244. Wild Beasts – Smother
245. Super Furry Animals – Fuzzy Logic
246. Nirvana – MTV Unplugged In New York
247. Glasvegas – Glasvegas
248. Eminem – The Slim Shady LP
249. Prodigy – The Fat of the Land
250. Weezer – Weezer
251. The Beach Boys – Surf’s Up
252. Grimes – Visions
253. Pussy Galore – Exile on Main St
254. The Smiths – Meat is Murder
255. Metronomy – The English Riviera
256. Elvis Costello and the Attractions – This Year’s Model
257. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – The Boatman’s Call
258. Nick Drake – Five Leaves Left
259. Public Enemy – Yo! Bum Rush the Stage
260. The Specials – The Specials
261. Bob Marley and the Wailers – Live!
262. Boogie Down Productions – Criminal Minded
263. Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can
264. The Beatles – Please Please Me
265. Hole – Celebrity Skin
266. Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head
267. Dr. Feelgood – Stupidity
268. Todd Rungren – Todd
269. The Horrors – Skying
270. The Kinks – The Village Green Preservation Society
271. The Velvet Underground – Loaded
272. Coldplay – Parachutes
273. Kanye West – The College Dropout
274. R.E.M. – Green
275. The Who – Quadrophenia
276. Echo and the Bunnymen – Ocean Rain
277. The Sundays – Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
278. The Slits – Cut
279. Captain Beefhart and his Magical Band – Trout Mask Replica
280. Aphex Twin – Drukqs
281. Elvis Costello – My Aim is True
282. Teenage Fanclub – Grand Prix
283. Roxy Music – Roxy Music
284. Fugazi – 13 Songs
285. Marvin Gaye – Midnight Love
286. Screaming Trees – Dust
287. Slayer – Reign In Blood
288. Stevie Wonder – Music of My Mind
289. The Modern Lovers – The Modern Lovers
290. The Bluetones – Expecting to Fly
291. The Byrds – Younger than Yesterday
292. The Cribs – The New Fellas
293. Aztec Camera – High Land Hard Rain
294. Klaxons – Myths of the Near Future
295. Snoop Doggy Dogg – Doggystyle
296. David Bowie – Let’s Dance
297. Can – Ege Bamyasi
298. Malcolm McLaren -
299. The Go-Betweens – 16 Lovers Lane
300. The Who – The Who By Numbers
301. Arthur Russell – World of Echo
302. Daft Punk – Homework
303. Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah Um
304. The Orb – UFOrb
305. Rod Stewart – Every Picture Tells a Story
306. Bob Dyan – The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
307. Beck – Midnight Vultures
308. Lemonheads – It’s a Shame About Ray
309. Metallica – Metallica
310. Steely Dan – Countdown to Ecstacy
311. Super Furry Animals – Guerilla
312. Cocteau Twins – Treasure
313. Tom Waits – Frank’s Wild Years
314. Slint – Spiderland
315. Big Brother and the Holding Company – Cheap Thrills
316. Elvis Costello and the Attractions – Imperial Bedroom
317. Gram Parsons – Grievous Angel
318. Ice-T – OG Original Gangster
319. The Who – Who’s Next
320. Tom Waits – Swordfishtrombones
321. Doves – Lost Souls
322. LCD Soundsystem – This is Happening
323. Miles Davis – Bitches Brew
324. R.E.M. – Life’s Rich Pageant
325. Beck – Sea Change
326. Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One
327. Beck – Mutations
328. The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
329. David Bowie – Heroes
330. Portishead – Third
331. MC5 – Kick out the Jams
332. Shack – HMS Fable
333. Paul McCartney and Wings – Band on the Run
334. The Avalanches – Since I Left You
335. Queens of the Stoneage – …Like Clockwork
336. Neneh Cherry – Raw Like Sushi
337. Danger Mouse – The Grey Album
338. Notorious BIG – Ready to Die
339. Pearl Jam – Ten
340. Sister Sledge – We Are Family
341. Tom Waits – Closing Time
342. Spritualized – Lazer Guided Melodies
343. Bob Dylan – John Wesley Harding
344. Eels – Beautiful Freak
345. Elvis Costello – Punch the Clock
346. New Order – Low Life
347. Sonic Youth – Dirty
348. Whitney Houston – Whitney
349. Alt-J – An Awesome Wave
350. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – BRMC
351. The Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo
352. The Velvet Underground – White Light/White Heat
353. Mclusky – Mclusky Do Dallas
354. Isaac Hayes – Hot Buttered Soul
355. New York Dolls – New York Dolls
356. Pixies – Bossanova
357. Sugar – Copper Blue
358. Robert Wyatt – Rock Bottom
359. The Mothers of Invention – We’re Only In it for the Money
360. The Strokes – Room on Fire
361. The Faces – A Nod is as Good as a Wink…the a Bliind Horse
362. Beastie Boys – Hello Nasty
363. Black Flag – Damaged
364. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
365. Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegatables
366. Leonard Cohen – Songs of Love and Hate
367. Metronomy – Nights Out
368. Radiohead – Hail to the Thief
369. St Vincent – Strange Mercy
370. The Cribs – Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever
371. Beck – Odelay
372. Big Black – Atomizer
373. Curtis Mayfield – There’s No Place Like America Today
374. Frank Sinatra – In the Wee Small Hours
375. Morrissey – Vauxhall and I
376. Sam Cooke – Live At The Harlem Square Club
377. Roy Harper – Stormcock
378. Wire – Pink Flag
379. Belle & Sebastian – The Boy With The Arab Strap
380. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
381. David Bowie – Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
382. Simon and Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water
383. The Long Blondes – Someone To Drive You Home
384. Elvis Presley – Elvis Presley
385. The White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan
386. Gillian Welch – Revival
387. The Clash – Combat Rock
388. Tim Buckley – Happy Sad
389. Le Tigre – Le Tigre
390. The Verve – A Northern Soul
391. Burial – Burial
392. Edan – Beauty and the Beat
393. Prince – Dirty Mind
394. Wire – Chairs Missing
395. The White Stripes – De Stijl
396. Heartbreakers – L.A.M.F.
397. Jay-Z – Reasonable Doubt
398. Neil Young – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
399. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – The Lyre of Orpheus/Abattoir Blues
400. The Fall – This Nation’s Saving Grace
401. Throbbing Gristle – 20 Jazz Funk Greats
402. Mystery Jets – Twenty One
403. Bjork – Vespertine
404. Gene Clark – No Other
405. Otis Redding – Otis Blue
406. Queens of the Stone Age – Rated R
407. Ride – Going Blank Again
408. Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
409. Can- Tago Mago
410. Interpol – Antics
411. Madvillain – Madvillainy
412. DJ Shadow – Entroducing…
413. Happy Mondays – Pills N Thrills and Bellyaches
414. The Chemical Brothers – Dig Your Own Hole
415. Chet Baker – Chet Baker Sings
416. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
417. Ash – 1977
418. Eels – Electro-Shock Blues
419. Spiritualized – Let It Come Down
420. A Tribe Called Quest – People’s Instinctive Travels…
421. Big Star – Radio City
422. Dexys Midnight Runners – Too-Rye-Ay
423. The Who – Live at Leeds
424. U2 – The Joshua Tree
425. Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood – Nancy and Lee
426. Sonic Youth – Goo
427. Brian Eno – Here Comes the Warm Jets
428. Bruce Springsteen – Born in the USA
429. Jimmy Eat World – Bleed America
430. Scott Walker – Scott 4
431. Soundgarden – Badmotorfinger
432. Tindersticks – Tindersticks
433. Dr. Dre – 2001
434. Prefab Sprout – Steve McQueen
435. Patti Smith – Easter
436. Battles – Mirrored
437. TV on the Radio – Dear Science
438. Kings of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak
439. The Futureheads – The Futureheads
440. Billy Bragg – Life’s a Riot with Spy vs. Spy
441. ABBA – Arrival
442. Al Green – Al Green is Love
443. Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
444. Depeche Mode – Violator
445. Fleetwood Mac – Tusk
446. Hot Chip – The Warning
447. David Bowie – Diamond Dogs
448. Suede – Sci-Fi Lullabies
449. Arctic Monkeys – AM
450. PJ Harvey – Rid of Me
451. Big Star – Third/Sister Lovers
452. The B-52′s – The B-52′s
453. The House of Love- The House of Love
454. Destiny’s Child – The Writing on the Wall
455. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
456. Frank Sinatra – September of My Years
457. Goldfrapp – Black Cherry
458. Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
459. Jay-Z – The Black Album
460. Nirvana – Bleach
461. Manic Street Preachers – Generation Terrorists
462. Metallica – Master of Puppets
463. The Breeders – Pod
464. Kings of Leon – Because of the Times
465. The National – High Violet
466. Wu-Tang Clan – The W
467. Iggy Pop – The Idiot
468. The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow
469. The Beach Boys – Holland
470. Kanye West – Graduation
471. MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
472. Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
473. The Verve – A Storm in Heaven
474. Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
475. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring for My Halo
476. Foo Fighters- Foo Fighters
477. Crystal Castles- Crystal Castles
478. The National – Trouble Will Find Me
479. Throwing Muses – The Real Ramona
480. Aretha Franklin – I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
481. Brian Wilson – Smile
482. Billie Holiday – Lady in Satin
483. Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Blood and Chocolate
484. Bruce Springsteen – The River
485. Kendrick Lamar – Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
486. Bjork – Homogenic
487. The Jam – Sound Affects
488. Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man
489. The Wedding Present – George Best
490. MC5 – Back in the USA
491. Pet Shop Boys – Actually
492. These New Puritans – Hidden
493. This Mortal Coil – Blood
494. The Cure – The Head on the Door
495. The Killers – Hot Fuss
496. Girls – Album
497. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
498. Lou Reed – Berlin
499. Belly – Star
500. OutKast – Stankonia

Best rock record not on this list: anything by Hüsker Dü or Black Sabbath