893 Essential Albums

Welcome to this year's 893 Essential Albums of all time countdown! The year 2016 was the last time we compiled this list with your help, but so many powerful releases have come out in the intervening six years — albums that have pushed artistic boundaries and have flipped the script on the music industry.

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800
Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Against Me!
801
I Know You Got Soul
Paid in Full
Eric B. and Rakim
802
Inertiatic ESP
De-Loused in the Comatorium
The Mars Volta
803
It's My Way!
Buffy Sainte-Marie
804
Funky Kingston
Toots & the Maytals
805
Oye Como Va
Abraxas
Santana
806
Wake Up
Silhouette of Sirens
Chastity Brown
807
Stay (I Missed You)
Tails
Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
808
Dog
Dog
Charlie Parr
809
The Runaways
The Runaways
810
Special
Version 2.0
Garbage
811
Run Through the Jungle
Cosmo's Factory
Creedence Clearwater Revival
812
I Want You to Want Me (Live)
At Budokan
Cheap Trick
813
Lucky Denver Mint
Clarity
Jimmy Eat World
814
Wherever Is Your Heart
The Firewatcher's Daughter
Brandi Carlile
815
Deep Cuts
The Knife
816
Ferris Wheel
Free Love
Sylvan Esso
817
Mclusky Do Dallas
Mclusky
818
One Armed Scissor
Relationship of Command
At the Drive-In
819
Magic Man
Dreamboat Annie
Heart
820
The Libertines
The Libertines
821
Hymnostic
Big Red Machine
Big Red Machine
822
What You Do To Me
Bandwagonesque
Teenage Fanclub
823
Rooty
Basement Jaxx
824
Little Talks
My Head is an Animal
Of Monsters and Men
825
Dr. Feelgood
Motley Crue
826
Sunflower
Things We Lost In the Fire
Low
827
Stay Gold
Stay Gold
First Aid Kit
828
Bachelorette
Are You Shakespearienced?
Trip Shakespeare
829
Buena
Cure for Pain
Morphine
830
Crash Into Me
Crash
Dave Matthews Band
831
Speed of Sound
X&Y
Coldplay
832
Only the Good Die Young
The Stranger
Billy Joel
833
Under the Table
Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Fiona Apple
834
Creep
Pablo Honey
Radiohead
835
We Got the Beat
Beauty and the Beat
The Go-Go's
836
Blue Lines
Blue Lines
Massive Attack
837
Personality Crisis
New York Dolls
New York Dolls
838
Baduizm
Erykah Badu
839
Lost In Yesterday
The Slow Rush
Tame Impala
840
All the Small Things
Enema of the State
Blink-182
841
Germfree Adolescents
X-Ray Spex
842
Werewolves of London
Excitable Boy
Warren Zevon
843
Untitled 1
( )
Sigur Rós
844
Ice Cream
Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Sarah McLachlan
845
Computer World
Computer World
Kraftwerk
846
No Excuses
Jar of Flies
Alice in Chains
847
Digital Witness
St. Vincent
St. Vincent
848
Big River
I Walk the Line
Johnny Cash
849
You Turn Me On I'm a Radio
For the Roses
Joni Mitchell
850
Peaches en Regalia
Hot Rats
Frank Zappa
851
No Rain
Blind Melon
Blind Melon
852
exile feat. Bon Iver
folklore
Taylor Swift
853
Hang Loose
Boys and Girls
Alabama Shakes
854
Love Sick
Time Out of Mind
Bob Dylan
855
Feed the Tree
Star
Belly
856
Peepshow
Siouxsie and the Banshees
857
Hello There
In Color
Cheap Trick
858
Hero
Kiwanuka
Michael Kiwanuka
859
Midlife Crisis
Angel Dust
Faith No More
860
Walk This Way
Toys in the Attic
Aerosmith
861
Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old
You Forgot It In People
Broken Social Scene
862
Fire and Rain
Sweet Baby James
James Taylor
863
Call Your Girlfriend
Body Talk
Robyn
864
Is That Love
East Side Story
Squeeze
865
Diamond Life
Sade
866
Needle in the Camel's Eye
Here Come the Warm Jets
Brian Eno
867
Siva
Gish
Smashing Pumpkins
868
Running on Empty
Running on Empty
Jackson Browne
869
The Jean Genie
Aladdin Sane
David Bowie
870
Turn It Around
Wildewoman
Lucius
871
Shadows of Tomorrow
Madvillainy
Madvillain
872
Rusty Cage
Badmotorfinger
Soundgarden
873
Galileo
Rites of Passage
Indigo Girls
874
Color of Her Eyes
Billy's Live Bait
Gear Daddies
875
Leave It Alone
Punk in Drublic
NOFX
876
Loser
Mellow Gold
Beck
877
Percolator
Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Stereolab
878
Shaft
Shaft
Isaac Hayes
879
Kelly Watch the Stars
Moon Safari
Air
880
Kerplunk
Green Day
881
Crimes of Passion
Pat Benatar
882
99.9 F°
Suzanne Vega
883
Dig Your Own Hole
Chemical Brothers
884
Electricity
Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Spiritualized
885
Needle in the Hay
Elliott Smith
Elliott Smith
886
Say You Love Me
Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac
887
(Pronounced 'Leh-'nerd 'Skin-'nerd)
Lynyrd Skynyrd
888
Use It
Twin Cinema
The New Pornographers
889
Praise You
You've Come a Long Way, Baby
Fatboy Slim
890
On How Life Is
Macy Gray
891
Pretty Pimpin
B'lieve I'm Goin Down...
Kurt Vile
892
Johnny Hit and Run Paulene
Los Angeles
X
893
Endtroducing
DJ Shadow