There were plenty of visceral thrills in Mike McCready’s leads and Eddie Vedder’s vocal flights, but it was all channeled into the dark, sympathetic observations of “Alive,” “Even Flow” and “Jeremy.” Misfits seldom had this much power on their side. While their Seattle brethren Nirvana distrusted everything about traditional hard rock, Pearl Jam saw the opportunity to make it meaningful again. In time, blink-182 proved they had a serious side at this point nobody needed one. For all their bluster, this was a band that knew and loved its audience: If you were hitting your late teens around 1999, “What’s My Age Again?” offered reassurance that you didn’t have to grow up just yet. But few were catchier, funnier, or savvier than Enema of the State. Skate-punk produced a number of the greatest rock albums ever. One thing we’ll say without hesitation: Every one of these albums is worth a listen, whether you’re discovering it for the first time or reconnecting with a longtime favorite. And yes, some of your favorites – and for that matter, some of ours – may be missing, but rock history is so loaded by now that 100 albums can only begin to tell the story. Only one artist appears twice, as a group member and solo, but if you were a Beatle and then made a game-changing solo debut we can cut you some slack. When an artist obviously has more than one essential album, we’ve made a case for the one that we believe to be the most important of the lot. Punk and prog, hardcore and AOR, glam and metal, roots and arena rock – they’ve all got a place on this list, and your ears are better off for absorbing all of it.įinally, this list has been confined strictly to one album per band/artist. Hence the presence of some highly mainstream albums right alongside the indie/underground entries. That said, we’ve tried to spread the wealth around, not favoring one genre of rock over another.
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