My favourite pop/rock albums: Overview

December 1965 The Beatles: Rubber Soul
August 1966 The Beatles: Revolver
October 1966 Simon and Garfunkel: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
May 1967 The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
August 1967 Pink Floyd: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
December 1967 Leonard Cohen: Songs of Leonard Cohen
April 1968 Simon and Garfunkel: Bookends
June 1968 Pink Floyd: A Saucerful of Secrets
January 1970 Simon and Garfunkel: Bridge over Troubled Water
March 1971 Leonard Cohen: Songs of Love and Hate
June 1971 Joni Mitchell: Blue
October 1971 Don McLean: American Pie
October 1971 Pink Floyd: Meddle
November 1971 Earth and Fire: Song of the Marching Children
November 1971 Genesis: Nursery Cryme
December 1971 David Bowie: Hunky Dory
April 1972 Jim Croce: You Don't Mess Around with Jim
June 1972 David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust
June 1972 Roxy Music: Roxy Music
September 1972 Yes: Close to the Edge
October 1972 Genesis: Foxtrot
March 1973 Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon
March 1973 Roxy Music: For Your Pleasure
April 1973 David Bowie: Aladdin Sane
April 1973 The Eagles: Desperado
May 1973 The Carpenters: Now and Then
July 1973 Jim Croce: Life and Times
October 1973 Genesis: Selling England By The Pound
November 1973 Roxy Music: Stranded
December 1973 Jim Croce: I Got a Name
December 1973 Yes: Tales from Topographic Oceans
January 1974 Joni Mitchell: Court and Spark
February 1974 Janis Ian: Stars
February 1974 Steely Dan: Pretzel Logic
March 1974 Camel: Mirage
April 1974 Focus: Hamburger Concerto
May 1974 David Bowie: Diamond Dogs
September 1974 Supertramp: Crime of the Century
November 1974 Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
November 1974 Kraftwerk: Autobahn
November 1974 Queen: Sheer Heart Attack
November 1974 Yes: Relayer
March 1975 10cc: The Original Soundtrack
March 1975 Janis Ian: Between the Lines
April 1975 Harmonium: Si On Avait Besoin d'Une Cinquième Saison
June 1975 The Eagles: One of these Nights
July 1975 Renaissance: Scheherazade and Other Stories
September 1975 Brian Eno: Another Green World
September 1975 Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
October 1975 Kayak: Royal Bed Bouncer
October 1975 Paul Simon: Still Crazy After All These Years
October 1975 Roxy Music: Siren
November 1975 Queen: A Night at the Opera
January 1976 10cc: How Dare You!
January 1976 David Bowie: Station to Station
January 1976 Pollen: Pollen
February 1976 Genesis: A Trick of the Tail
March 1976 Camel: Moonmadness
April 1976 Brian Protheroe: I/You
July 1976 Al Stewart: Year of the Cat
September 1976 Bryan Ferry: Let's Stick Together
September 1976 Electric Light Orchestra: A New World Record
December 1976 Genesis: Wind and Wuthering
December 1976 Jean-Michel Jarre: Oxygène
December 1976 Queen: A Day at the Races
December 1976 The Eagles: Hotel California
January 1977 David Bowie: Low
January 1977 Pink Floyd: Animals
February 1977 Peter Gabriel: Peter Gabriel 1
April 1977 Supertramp: Even in the Quietest Moments...
July 1977 Yes: Going for the One
September 1977 Billy Joel: The Stranger
September 1977 Kayak: Starlight Dancer
September 1977 Steely Dan: Aja
October 1977 David Bowie: "Heroes"
October 1977 Meat Loaf: Bat out of Hell
December 1977 Brian Eno: Before and after Science
February 1978 Kate Bush: The Kick Inside
June 1978 Jeff Wayne: The War of the Worlds
June 1978 The Alan Parsons Project: Pyramid
September 1978 Brian Eno: Ambient 1: Music for Airports
September 1978 Brian Eno: Music for Films
October 1978 Dire Straits: Dire Straits
December 1978 Jean-Michel Jarre: Équinoxe
January 1979 Neuschwanstein: Battlement
March 1979 Supertramp: Breakfast in America
May 1979 David Bowie: Lodger
May 1979 Fischer-Z: Word Salad
November 1979 Pink Floyd: The Wall
December 1979 Japan: Quiet Life
April 1980 Harold Budd and Brian Eno: Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror
May 1980 Fischer-Z: Going Deaf for a Living
May 1980 Peter Gabriel: Peter Gabriel 3
May 1980 Roxy Music: Flesh + Blood
June 1980 Queen: The Game
September 1980 David Bowie: Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
September 1980 Kate Bush: Never for Ever
October 1980 Dire Straits: Making Movies
October 1980 Japan: Gentlemen Take Polaroids
October 1980 Talking Heads: Remain in Light
November 1980 The Alan Parsons Project: The Turn of a Friendly Card
March 1981 Fischer-Z: Red Skies over Paradise
March 1981 Kayak: Merlin
July 1981 Electric Light Orchestra: Time
October 1981 Martha and the Muffins: This Is the Ice Age
October 1981 The Human League: Dare
November 1981 Japan: Tin Drum
March 1982 Brian Eno: Ambient 4: On Land
May 1982 Roxy Music: Avalon
June 1982 Joe Jackson: Night and Day
August 1982 BAP: Vun Drinne Noh Drusse
September 1982 Dire Straits: Love over Gold
September 1982 Kate Bush: The Dreaming
September 1982 Peter Gabriel: Peter Gabriel 4
January 1983 Bacamarte: Depois Do Fim
January 1983 Nena: Nena
March 1983 Marillion: Script for a Jester's Tear
March 1983 Tears For Fears: The Hurting
October 1983 China Crisis: Working with Fire and Steel
February 1984 Talk Talk: It's My Life
March 1984 Joe Jackson: Body and Soul
June 1984 David Sylvian: Brilliant Trees
August 1984 Harold Budd and Brian Eno: The Pearl
October 1984 Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Welcome to the Pleasuredome
October 1984 This Mortal Coil: It'll End in Tears
May 1985 Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms
June 1985 Marillion: Misplaced Childhood
June 1985 Sting: The Dream of the Blue Turtles
June 1985 Talking Heads: Little Creatures
September 1985 Kate Bush: Hounds of Love
February 1986 Talk Talk: The Colour of Spring
May 1986 Peter Gabriel: So
August 1986 Paul Simon: Graceland
September 1986 David Sylvian: Gone to Earth
June 1987 Marillion: Clutching at Straws
July 1987 Dead Can Dance: Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
October 1987 Sting: ...Nothing Like the Sun
November 1987 David Sylvian: Secrets of the Beehive
March 1988 David Sylvian and Holger Czukay: Plight and Premonition
September 1988 Enya: Watermark
September 1988 Talk Talk: Spirit of Eden
September 1989 David Sylvian and Holger Czukay: Flux + Mutability
October 1989 Kate Bush: The Sensual World
January 1990 Fish: Vigil in a wilderness of mirrors
May 1990 Mazzy Star: She Hangs Brightly
March 1991 R.E.M.: Out of Time
April 1991 Rain Tree Crow: Rain Tree Crow
May 1991 Loreena McKennitt: The Visit
June 1991 Pendragon: The World
September 1991 Talk Talk: Laughing Stock
November 1991 Enya: Shepherd Moons
January 1992 Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes
March 1992 k.d. lang: Ingénue
September 1992 Peter Gabriel: Us
October 1992 R.E.M.: Automatic for the People
March 1993 Suede: Suede
March 1993 The Cranberries: Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?
May 1993 Aimee Mann: Whatever
September 1993 Dead Can Dance: Into the Labyrinth
October 1993 Mazzy Star: So Tonight That I Might See
October 1993 Sarah McLachlan: Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
December 1993 Pendragon: The Window of Life
January 1994 Tori Amos: Under the Pink
March 1994 Loreena McKennitt: The Mask and Mirror
June 1994 No-Man: Flowermouth
August 1994 Portishead: Dummy
October 1994 The Cranberries: No Need to Argue
January 1995 Porcupine Tree: The Sky Moves Sideways
February 1995 Wolfgang Niedecken: Leopardefell
March 1995 Radiohead: The Bends
June 1995 Alanis Morissette: Jagged Little Pill
June 1995 Natalie Merchant: Tigerlily
October 1995 Oasis: (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
March 1996 Pendragon: The Masquerade Overture
September 1996 Porcupine Tree: Signify
October 1996 Beth Orton: Trailer Park
October 1996 Mazzy Star: Among My Swan
February 1997 Texas: White on Blonde
May 1997 Radiohead: OK Computer
July 1997 Sarah McLachlan: Surfacing
September 1997 Loreena McKennitt: The Book of Secrets
September 1997 Portishead: Portishead
January 1998 Mark Hollis: Mark Hollis
April 1998 Arena: The Visitor
May 1998 Natalie Merchant: Ophelia
May 1998 Tori Amos: From the Choirgirl Hotel
June 1998 Godspeed You! Black Emperor: F♯ A♯ ∞
March 1999 Beth Orton: Central Reservation
March 1999 David Sylvian: Dead Bees on a Cake
March 1999 Porcupine Tree: Stupid Dream
April 1999 The Cranberries: Bury the Hatchet
June 1999 Sigur Rós: Ágætis byrjun
October 1999 Bryan Ferry: As Time Goes By
October 1999 Camel: Rajaz
November 1999 Emilíana Torrini: Love in the Time of Science
May 2000 Aimee Mann: Bachelor No. 2
May 2000 Porcupine Tree: Lightbulb Sun
July 2000 Coldplay: Parachutes
October 2000 Radiohead: Kid A
March 2001 No-Man: Returning Jesus
April 2001 Anne Sofie von Otter with Elvis Costello: For the Stars
May 2001 R.E.M.: Reveal
June 2001 Radiohead: Amnesiac
October 2001 Garbage: Beautiful Garbage
April 2002 Bryan Ferry: Frantic
July 2002 Beth Orton: Daybreaker
July 2002 Camel: A Nod and a Wink
August 2002 Coldplay: A Rush of Blood to the Head
September 2002 Peter Gabriel: Up
September 2002 Porcupine Tree: In Absentia
October 2002 Sigur Rós: ()
October 2002 Tori Amos: Scarlet's Walk
November 2002 Vienna Teng: Waking Hour
March 2003 Kayak: Merlin - Bard of the Unseen
April 2003 Opeth: Damnation
September 2003 No-Man: Together We're Stranger
November 2003 Explosions in the Sky: The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
November 2003 Sarah McLachlan: Afterglow
February 2004 Vienna Teng: Warm Strangers
May 2004 Keane: Hopes and Fears
June 2004 IQ: Dark Matter
July 2004 k.d. lang: Hymns of the 49th Parallel
August 2004 Nouvelle Vague: Nouvelle Vague
September 2004 Green Day: American Idiot
September 2004 Riverside: Out of Myself
February 2005 Tori Amos: The Beekeeper
March 2005 Porcupine Tree: Deadwing
June 2005 Coldplay: X&Y
July 2005 Editors: The Back Room
July 2005 Imogen Heap: Speak for Yourself
September 2005 Sigur Rós: Takk...
October 2005 Riverside: Second Life Syndrome
November 2005 Kate Bush: Aerial
June 2006 Keane: Under the Iron Sea
July 2006 Linda Ronstadt and Ann Savoy: Adieu False Heart
July 2006 Vienna Teng: Dreaming Through the Noise
September 2006 Bat for Lashes: Fur and Gold
October 2006 Nexus: Perpetuum Karma
February 2007 Blackfield: Blackfield II
April 2007 Porcupine Tree: Fear of a Blank Planet
June 2007 Editors: An End has a Start
July 2007 Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago
July 2007 St. Vincent: Marry Me
September 2007 Riverside: Rapid Eye Movement
February 2008 k.d. lang: Watershed
May 2008 No-Man: Schoolyard Ghosts
September 2008 Emiliana Torrini: Me and Armini
November 2008 Steven Wilson: Insurgentes
April 2009 Airbag: Identity
April 2009 Bat for Lashes: Two Suns
April 2009 Vienna Teng: Inland Territory
May 2009 St. Vincent: Actor
May 2009 Tori Amos: Abnormally Attracted to Sin
August 2009 Imogen Heap: Ellipse
February 2010 Peter Gabriel: Scratch my Back
May 2010 Eivør: Larva
September 2010 Agnes Obel: Philharmonics
June 2011 Bon Iver: Bon Iver
September 2011 St. Vincent: Strange Mercy
September 2011 Steven Wilson: Grace for Drowning
September 2011 Tori Amos: Night of Hunters
October 2011 Airbag: All RIghts Removed
May 2012 Sigur Rós: Valtari
May 2012 Storm Corrosion: Storm Corrosion
October 2012 Bat for Lashes: The Haunted Man
October 2012 Steve Hackett: Genesis Revisited II
February 2013 Steven Wilson: The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)
March 2013 David Bowie: The Next Day
May 2013 The National: Trouble Will Find Me
June 2013 Editors: The Weight of Your Love
June 2013 Sigur Rós: Kveikur
July 2013 Anna von Hausswolff: Ceremony
September 2013 Agnes Obel: Avantine
September 2013 Airbag: The Greatest Show on Earth
September 2013 Emiliana Torrini: Tookah
September 2013 Fish: A Feast of Consequences
September 2013 Mazzy Star: Seasons of Your Day
May 2014 Tori Amos: Unrepentant Geraldines
June 2014 Lana Del Rey: Ultraviolence
February 2015 Eivør: Bridges
February 2015 Steven Wilson: Hand. Cannot. Erase.
September 2015 Eivør: Slør
September 2015 Lana Del Rey: Honeymoon
November 2015 Anna von Hausswolff: The Miraculous
January 2016 David Bowie: Blackstar
May 2016 Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool
June 2016 Airbag: Disconnected
July 2016 Bat For Lashes: The Bride
October 2016 Agnes Obel: Citizen of Glass
August 2017 Steven Wilson: To the Bone
September 2017 Tori Amos: Native Invader
September 2018 Riverside: Wasteland
March 2018 Anna von Hausswolff: Dead Magic
April 2019 Andrew Roussak: Storm Warning
August 2019 Lana Del Rey: Norman Fucking Rockwell
September 2019 Bat For Lashes: Lost Girls
October 2019 Angel Olsen: All Mirrors
February 2020 Agnes Obel: Myopia
February 2020 Pendragon: Love over Fear
June 2020 Airbag: A Day at the Beach
September 2020 Anna von Hausswolff: All Thoughts Fly
January 2021 Steven Wilson: The Future Bites
March 2021 Lana Del Rey: Chemtrails over the Country Club
May 2021 St. Vincent: Daddy's Home
October 2021 Lana Del Rey: Blue Banisters
October 2021 Tori Amos: Ocean to Ocean
June 2022 Angel Olsen: Big Time
September 2023 Steven Wilson: The Harmony Codex
December 2023 Peter Gabriel: I/O
June 2024 Airbag: The Century of the Self
March 2025 IQ: Dominion
March 2025 Steven Wilson: The Overview
October 2025 Anna von Hausswolff: Iconoclasts