Albums

A long list of albums that I don’t want to forget. I was curious to see the albums I’ve enjoyed ordered by year released.

Haven’t been picky—if it brings back memories I stick it here.

Each album cover is compressed down to about ~2kb and only loads as it comes into view. You should expect the page to load up to 1MB of album covers as you scroll.

Please Please Me
The Beatles • 1963
With The Beatles
The Beatles • 1963
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan • 1963
A Hard Day's Night
The Beatles • 1964
Beatles For Sale
The Beatles • 1964
Help!
The Beatles • 1965
Rubber Soul
The Beatles • 1965
Revolver
The Beatles • 1966
Pet Sounds
The Beach Boys • 1966
The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground • 1967
Forever Changes
Love • 1967
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles • 1967
Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles • 1967
At Folsom Prison
Johnny Cash • 1968
The Beatles
The Beatles • 1968
One of the first albums I bought with my own money along with Pet Sounds. Top drawer.
Abbey Road
The Beatles • 1969
In The Court Of The Crimson King
King Crimson • 1969
Willy And The Poor Boys
Creedence Clearwater Revival • 1969
Let It Be
The Beatles • 1970
Abraxas
Santana • 1970
Paranoid
Black Sabbath • 1970
Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin • 1971
Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones • 1971
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
David Bowie • 1972
The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd • 1973
Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac • 1975
Jailbreak
Thin Lizzy • 1976
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
AC/DC • 1976
The Clash
The Clash • 1977
Rumours
Fleetwood Mac • 1977
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols • 1977
Parallel Lines
Blondie • 1978
Van Halen
Van Halen • 1978
London Calling
The Clash • 1979
Drums And Wires
XTC • 1979
Back In Black
AC/DC • 1980
Ska 'N' B
Bad Manners • 1980
Business As Usual
Men At Work • 1981
Parents had this album in the car when I was younger and I still remember every word.
Escape
Journey • 1981
Combat Rock
The Clash • 1982
Upstairs At Eric's
Yazoo • 1982
Love Over Gold
Dire Straits • 1982
Thriller
Michael Jackson • 1982
The Lexicon Of Love
ABC • 1982
Labour of Love I
UB40 • 1983
The Hurting
Tears For Fears • 1983
Genesis
Genesis • 1983
Speaking in Tongues
Talking Heads • 1983
The Smiths
The Smiths • 1984
Purple Rain
Prince • 1984
Age of Consent
Bronski Beat • 1984
Songs From The Big Chair
Tears For Fears • 1985
Brothers In Arms
Dire Straits • 1985
The Queen Is Dead
The Smiths • 1986
Invisible Touch
Genesis • 1986
Belting through the house from a massive black CD player in my parents' bedroom.
Please
Pet Shop Boys • 1986
Strangeways, Here We Come
The Smiths • 1987
Appetite For Destruction
Guns N' Roses • 1987
Kick
INXS • 1987
Hysteria
Def Leppard • 1987
Labour of Love II
UB40 • 1989
Disintegration
The Cure • 1989
Skid Row
Skid Row • 1989
She Hangs Brightly
Mazzy Star • 1990
We Can't Dance
Genesis • 1991
Stars
Simply Red • 1991
Screamadelica
Primal Scream • 1991
Woodface
Crowded House • 1991
A Century Ends
David Gray • 1993
Black Sunday
Cypress Hill • 1993
So Tonight That I Might See
Mazzy Star • 1993
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Wu-Tang Clan • 1993
Illmatic
Nas • 1994
Portrait Of An American Family
Marilyn Manson • 1994
Ready To Die
The Notorious B.I.G. • 1994
Dookie
Green Day • 1994
Music for the Jilted Generation
The Prodigy • 1994
Dummy
Portishead • 1994
Parklife
Blur • 1994
Life
Simply Red • 1995
Different Class
Pulp • 1995
Placebo
Placebo • 1996
First heard Placebo when the Pure Morning music video was on Kerrang every morning before school.
It Was Written
Nas • 1996
Among My Swan
Mazzy Star • 1996
Everything Must Go
Manic Street Preachers • 1996
Life After Death
The Notorious B.I.G. • 1997
The Fat of the Land
The Prodigy • 1997
'Breathe' before football matches, 'Smack My Bitch Up' before nights out.
White Ladder
David Gray • 1998
Parents had a copied CD which would cut half of the first word off some verses and my brain still expects to hear it that way.
Mechanical Animals
Marilyn Manson • 1998
It's Dark And Hell Is Hot
DMX • 1998
Mezzanine
Massive Attack • 1998
Moment Of Truth
Gang Starr • 1998
International Velvet
Catatonia • 1998
Hooray For Boobies
Bloodhound Gang • 1999
Enema Of The State
blink-182 • 1999
Listened to this playing Lego Racers on the PC under the stairs. Had the music video for All The Small Things on the CD, must have watched it a thousand times.
The Slim Shady LP
Eminem • 1999
Play
Moby • 1999
Performance And Cocktails
Stereophonics • 1999
Holy Wood
Marilyn Manson • 2000
The Marshall Mathers LP
Eminem • 2000
Stankonia
Outkast • 2000
Is This It
The Strokes • 2001
2001
Dr. Dre • 2001
Discovery
Daft Punk • 2001
The Good Times
Afroman • 2001
White Blood Cells
The White Stripes • 2001
Gorillaz
Gorillaz • 2001
Toxicity
System Of A Down • 2001
One of my favourite albums of all time. Loved it right through school.
Just Enough Education To Perform
Stereophonics • 2001
Songs About Jane
Maroon 5 • 2002
The first album I remember listening to on repeat, sat in the attic room not long after we'd moved to a new house.
Original Pirate Material
The Streets • 2002
On repeat in University labs.
The Young and The Hopeless
Good Charlotte • 2002
Audioslave
Audioslave • 2002
American IV: The Man Comes Around
Johnny Cash • 2002
Busted
Busted • 2002
Room On Fire
The Strokes • 2003
Elephunk
Black Eyed Peas • 2003
blink-182
blink-182 • 2003
The Golden Age Of Grotesque
Marilyn Manson • 2003
Elephant
The White Stripes • 2003
Fire
Electric Six • 2003
The College Dropout
Kanye West • 2004
A Grand Don't Come for Free
The Streets • 2004
Encore
Eminem • 2004
Greatest Hits
Goldie Lookin Chain • 2004
When my dad would take me to work and leave me sitting in the van I'd have this on as much as I could trying to learn the words.
Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
My Chemical Romance • 2004
American Idiot
Green Day • 2004
Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned
The Prodigy • 2004
Scissor Sisters
Scissor Sisters • 2004
Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand • 2004
Hopes and Fears
Keane • 2004
Life In Slow Motion
David Gray • 2005
Late Registration
Kanye West • 2005
Hefty Fine
Bloodhound Gang • 2005
Kerrang, pre-drinks before Pop Factory.
A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
Panic! At The Disco • 2005
Mezmerize
System Of A Down • 2005
Hypnotize
System Of A Down • 2005
City of Evil
Avenged Sevenfold • 2005
Move Along
All American Rejects • 2005
Seems like yesterday I bought the music video to 'It Ends Tonight' on iTunes so I could watch it on my iPod 7 Classic.
First Impressions Of Earth
The Strokes • 2006
The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living
The Streets • 2006
The Black Parade
My Chemical Romance • 2006
Back To Black
Amy Winehouse • 2006
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Arctic Monkeys • 2006
Liberation Transmission
Lostprophets • 2006
Panic Prevention
Jamie T • 2007
Graduation
Kanye West • 2007
These Streets
Paolo Nutini • 2007
Life In Cartoon Motion
MIKA • 2007
Favourite Worst Nightmare
Arctic Monkeys • 2007
Señor and the Queen - EP
The Gaslight Anthem • 2008
Reminds me of the childhood friend who introduced me to it, sat in his front-room before going out.
The Fame
Lady Gaga • 2008
Chock-full of secondary school bangers.
Random Album Title
deadmau5 • 2008
Driving to 'I Remember' at night.
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The xx • 2009
Kaleidoscope
Tiësto • 2009
Invaders Must Die
The Prodigy • 2009
Sunny Side Up
Paolo Nutini • 2009
Feel The Steel
Steel Panther • 2009
Ocean Eyes
Owl City • 2009
I Speak Because I Can
Laura Marling • 2010
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kanye West • 2010
$0$
Die Antwoord • 2010
Thank Me Later
Drake • 2010
Won't Go Quietly
Example • 2010
Angles
The Strokes • 2011
Someone I knew had Maccu Picchu start playing every time their Tumblr page loaded and that swooping start is burned into my mind forever.
What Did You Expect from the Vaccines?
The Vaccines • 2011
No More Idols
Chase & Status • 2011
Balls Out
Steel Panther • 2011
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Ed Sheeran • 2011
Loose Change
Ed Sheeran • 2011
An Awesome Wave
alt-J • 2012
Sex
The 1975 • 2012
Born To Die
Lana Del Rey • 2012
Paradise
Lana Del Rey • 2012
Come Of Age
The Vaccines • 2012
Red
Taylor Swift • 2012
Comedown Machine
The Strokes • 2013
Once I Was An Eagle
Laura Marling • 2013
The Blue Collars
The Blue Collars • 2013
Lifting in the basement of our second-year home in University.
The 1975
The 1975 • 2013
July Talk
July Talk • 2013
Absolute Zero
Little Green Cars • 2013
Born Sinner
J. Cole • 2013
If You Wait
London Grammar • 2013
Album hit like a fucking train at the time, sat around pissing time away waiting for life to start.
Random Access Memories
Daft Punk • 2013
AM
Arctic Monkeys • 2013
Pure Heroine
Lorde • 2013
The Bones Of What You Believe
CHVRCHES • 2013
The Balcony
Catfish and the Bottlemen • 2014
Ultraviolence
Lana Del Rey • 2014
Days of Thunder
The Midnight • 2014
Ephemera
Little Green Cars • 2014
2014 Forest Hills Drive
J. Cole • 2014
1989
Taylor Swift • 2014
We Slept At Last
Marika Hackman • 2015
Stayed in the University labs overnight to work on assignments countless times with this on repeat.
Honeymoon
Lana Del Rey • 2015
5AM (Expanded Edition)
Amber Run • 2015
Late night moody driving music when I'd come home from University.
Hard-Off
Bloodhound Gang • 2015
Purpose
Justin Bieber • 2015
The entire playlist for every nightclub in Cardiff at one point.
Every Open Eye
CHVRCHES • 2015
The Ride
Catfish and the Bottlemen • 2016
I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it
The 1975 • 2016
Endless Summer
The Midnight • 2016
West Kirby County Primary
Bill Ryder-Jones • 2016
Yesterday's Gone
Loyle Carner • 2017
RELAXER
alt-J • 2017
Nocturnal
The Midnight • 2017
Cigarettes After Sex
Cigarettes After Sex • 2017
Brutalism
IDLES • 2017
Erratic Cinematic
Gerry Cinnamon • 2017
reputation
Taylor Swift • 2017
don't smile at me
Billie Eilish • 2017
A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
The 1975 • 2018
Kids
The Midnight • 2018
The Girl, the Cat, and the Tree
LAUSSE THE CAT • 2018
Not Waving, But Drowning
Loyle Carner • 2019
Norman Fucking Rockwell!
Lana Del Rey • 2019
hugo
Loyle Carner • 2022
Rhys from GLC Presents Raz Pookie
Rhys from GLC • 2022
Dream Big
Soda Blonde • 2023