50 álbuns essenciais para conhecer muito sobre rock

A partir da seleção publicada na "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" da edição norte-americana da revista Rolling Stone, destacamos alguns álbuns fundamentais na história do rock e que devem fazer parte de uma discoteca básica sobre o gênero. Eles são apresentados em ordem cronológica de lançamento:

Elvis Presley – ELVIS PRESLEY – RCA, 1956
Here’s Little Richard – LITTLE RICHARD – Specialty, 1957
Please Please Me – THE BEATLES – Capitol, 1963
Highway 61 Revisited – BOB DYLAN – Columbia, 1965
The Who Sings My Generation – THE WHO – MCA, 1965
Pet Sounds – THE BEACH BOYS – Capitol, 1966
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – THE BEATLES – Capitol, 1967
The Velvet Underground – THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO – MGM/ Verve, 1967
Are You Experienced? – THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE – MCA, 1967
The Doors – THE DOORS – Elektra, 1967
Os Mutantes – OS MUTANTES – Polydor, 1968
Beggars Banquet – THE ROLLING STONES, Abkco, 1968
Led Zeppelin II – LED ZEPPELIN – Atlantic, 1969
Let It Bleed – THE ROLLING STONES – Abkco, 1969
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere – NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSES – Warner Bros, 1969
Led Zeppelin IV – LED ZEPPELIN – Atlantic, 1971
Paranoid – BLACK SABBATH – Warner Bros, 1971
Exile on main Street – THE ROLLING STONES – Virgin, 1972
Transformer – LOU REED – RCA, 1972
The Dark Side of the Moon – PINK FLOYD – EMI, 1973
Raw Power – IGGY POP & THE STOOGES – Columbia, 1973
For Your Pleasure – ROXY MUSIC – Virgin, 1973
Born to Run – BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – Columbia, 1975
A Night at the Opera – QUEEN – Hollywood, 1975
Ramones – RAMONES – Warner Archives/Rhino, 1976
Changesone – DAVID BOWIE – RCA, 1976
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols – SEX PISTOLS – Warner Bros, 1977
Parallel Lines – BLONDIE – Capitol, 1978
The Wall – PINK FLOYD – Harvest/Capitol, 1979
Closer – JOY DIVISION – Warner Bros, 1980
London Calling – THE CLASH – Epic, 1980
Back in Black – AC/DC – Atlantic, 1980
Heaven Up Here – ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN – Sire, 1981
Ghost in the Machine – THE POLICE – Interscope, 1981
Oh, no! It’s Devo – DEVO – Warner Bros, 1982
Imperial Bedroom – ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS – Columbia, 1982
The Great Twenty-Eight – CHUCK BERRY – Chess, 1982
Stop Making Sense – TALKING HEADS – Warner Bros, 1984
The Queen Is Dead – THE SMITHS – Sire, 1986
The Joshua Tree – U2 – Island, 1987
Substance – NEW ORDER –Qwest, 1987
Desintegration – THE CURE – Elektra, 1989
The Stone Roses – THE STONE ROSES – Silvertone, 1989
Metallica – METALLICA – Elektra, 1991
Nevermind – NIRVANA – Geffen, 1991
Ten – PEARL JAM – Epic, 1991
Automatic for the People – R.E.M. – Warner Bros, 1992
Ok Computer – RADIOHEAD – Capitol, 1997
Is This It – THE STROKES – RCA, 2001
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not – ARCTIC MONKEYS – Domino, 2006