Bob's best; Wild, snarling, prophetic and downright hilarious, quite simply a masterpiece.

Otis Redding bridges the gap between black and white popular music and presents the past and the future of soul music.

Words cannot adequitly describe the beauty, do yourself a favour and buy this.

Unable to contain his genius to two sides of an lp rock's poet-in-chief delivers "that wild mercury sound" and possibly his strongest set of songs

One of rock's true originals: That is both Zappa and his amazing debut album.

The Picasso of the electric guitar; and thats just the beginnig of this albums talents, the best from a man who never did less than brilliant.

Respect; both a great song and the perfect word to sum up what is quite possibly the greatest soul album ever.

In Jim Morrison rock had found one of the great frontmen and with his poetic, esoteric lyrics allied with a fusion of blues, jazz and eastern music they made an album they'd never equal, let alone bettered.

Clapton on guitar, Bruce on bass, Baker on drums; what more could a person want?

Syd Barrett, acid soaked genius.

Eccentric, eclectic, kaliedoscopic and multi-faceted rock milestone.

Yet more Hendrix, everything this man did is worth owning, especially this classic.

Another stunner from Aretha

With the addition of Gram Parsons the Byrds do Country Rock and set the scene for much of the Seventies.

Quintesentially quirky English eccentricity as the Kinks revel in a bygone era that probably never really existed.

The Rolling Stones just kept getting better, Gimme Shelter is one of the all time greats.

One of the most stunning debuts in rock history.

George Harrison considered The Band to be the greatest band in the world. Listen to this and you might agree with him.

Pure proto-punk power.

We started this list with the beginning of rock and know we finnish it with the beginning of heavy metal.