Q - 250 best albums of Q's lifetime (february 2011)

Samengesteld door de lezers.
Het is overduidelijk een Engelse lijst.
Het eerste nummer van Q verscheen in oktober 1986.
De lezers mochten a.h.w. de beste platen van de laatste 25 jaar kiezen.

Verschenen in nummer 295 (februari 2012)

1	Radiohead	OK computer	1997
2	Nirvana	Nevermind	1991
3	Oasis	(What's the story) Morning glory?	1995
4	Oasis	Definitely maybe	1994
5	Arctic monkeys	Whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not	2006
6	U2	The Joshua tree	1987
7	Stone roses	The Stone roses	1989
8	Radiohead	The bends	1995
9	U2	Achtung baby	1991
10	Muse	Black holes and revelations	2006
11	Strokes	Is this it	2001
12	Coldplay	A rush of blood to the head	2002
13	Blur	Parklife	1994
14	Primal scream	Screamadelica	1991
15	White stripes	White blood cells	2001
16	Neutral milk hotel	In the aeroplane over the sea	1998
17	Killers	Hot fuss	2004
18	Radiohead	Kid A	2000
19	Arcade fire	Funeral	2004
20	Green day	American idiot	2004
21	Manic street preachers	The holy bible	1994
22	Muse	Absolution	2003
23	Radiohead	In rainbows	2007
24	Kings of Leon	Only by the night	2008
25	Gorillaz	Demon days	2005
26	Muse	Origin of symmetry	2001
27	Guns n' roses	Appetite for destruction	1987
28	Verve	Urban hymns	1997
29	R.E.M.	Automatic for the people	1992
30	My bloody Valentine	Loveless	1991
31	Jeff Buckley	Grace	1994
32	Killers	Sam's town	2006
33	Michael Jackson	Bad	1987
34	Keane	Hopes and fears	2004
35	Kasabian	West ryder pauper lunatic asylum	2009
36	Florence + the Machine	Lungs	2009
37	Pulp	Different class	1995
38	Cure	Disintegration	1989
39	Coldplay	Parachutes	2000
40	Libertines	Up the bracket	2002
41	Pearl jam	Ten	1991
42	Red hot chili peppers	Californication	1999
43	Depeche mode	Violator	1990
44	Rage against the machine	Rage against the machine	1992
45	Chemical brothers	Dig your own hole	1997
46	U2	All that you can't leave behind	2000
47	Kasabian	Kasabian	2004
48	Pixies	Doolittle	1989
49	Manic street preachers	Everything must go	1996
50	Amy Winehouse	Back to black	2006
51	Keane	Under the iron sea	2006
52	Coldplay	Viva la vida (or death and all his friends)	2008
53	Muse	The resistance	2009
54	White stripes	Elephant	2003
55	Kings of Leon	Because of the times	2007
56	Nirvana	In utero	1993
57	Queens of the Stone age	Songs for the deaf	2002
58	Alanis Morissette	Jagged little pill	1995
59	Smashing pumpkins	Mellon Collie and the infinite sadness	1995
60	Paul Weller	Wild wood	1993
61	Elbow	The seldom seen kid	2008
62	Kings of Leon	A-ha shake heartbreak	2004
63	Green day	Dookie	1994
64	Gorillaz	Plastic beach	2010
65	Sonic youth	Daydream nation	1988
66	Eminem	The Marshall Mathers lp	2000
67	Metallica	Metallica	1991
68	LCD soundsystem	Sound of silver	2007
69	Portishead	Dummy	1994
70	Depeche mode	Songs of faith and devotion	1993
71	Libertines	The Libertines	2004
72	Massive attack	Blue lines	1991
73	New order	Technique	1989
74	Arcade fire	Neon bible	2007
75	Massive attack	Mezzanine	1998
76	Blur	Blur	1997
77	Manic street preachers	Generation terrorists	1992
78	Beck	Odelay	1996
79	Smiths	Strangeways, here we come	1987
80	Kings of Leon	Youth & young manhood	2003
81	Suede	Dog man star	1994
82	Mumford & Sons	Sigh no more	2009
83	Vampire weekend	Vampire weekend	2008
84	Kaiser chiefs	Employment	2005
85	Foo fighters	The colour and the shape	1997
86	Oasis	Don't believe the truth	2005
87	Arctic monkeys	Favourite worst nightmare	2007
88	Fatboy Slim	You've come a long way	1998
89	Prince	Sign o the times	1987
90	Def leppard	Hysteria	1987
91	Stereophonics	Word gets around	1997
92	Bloc party	Silent alarm	2005
93	Pink floyd	The division bell	1994
94	Lady Gaga	The fame	2008
95	U2	How to dismantle an atomic bomb	2004
96	Prodigy	The fat of the land	1997
97	Streets	Original pirate material	2002
98	Blur	13	1999
99	Aphex twin	Selected ambient works 85-92	1992
100	Coldplay	X&Y	2005
101	Snow patrol	Final straw	2004
102	Nine inch nails	The downward spiral	1994
103	Bon Iver	For Emma, forever ago	2007
104	Prodigy	Music for the jilted generation	1994
105	Fleet foxes	Fleet foxes	2008
106	Blur	Modern life is rubbish	1993
107	Happy mondays	Pills 'n' thrills and bellyaches	1990
108	Glasvegas	Glasvegas	2008
109	Public enemy	It takes a nation of millions to hold us back	1988
110	MGMT	Oracular spectacular	2008
111	Gorillaz	Gorillaz	2001
112	Smashing pumpkins	Siamese dream	1993
113	Paul Weller	Stanley road	1995
114	U2	No line on the horizon	2009
115	Doves	Lost souls	2000
116	Suede	Suede	1993
117	Leftfield	Leftism	1995
118	Air	Moon safari	1998
119	Queens of the Stone age	Rated R	2000
120	Daft punk	Discovery	2001
121	Interpol	Turn on the bright lights	2002
122	George Michael	Faith	1987
123	Beck	Sea change	2002
124	La's	The La's	1990
125	Franz Ferdinand	Franz Ferdinand	2004
126	Red hot chili peppers	Blood sugar sex magik	1991
127	Muse	Showbiz	1999
128	Paolo Nutini	Sunny side up	2009
129	Radiohead	Amnesiac	2001
130	Orb	U.F. Orb	1992
131	Wilco	Yankee hotel Foxtrot	2002
132	Nirvana	Unplugged in New York	1994
133	Björk	Post	1995
134	Pavement	Crooked rain, crooked rain	1994
135	Tricky	Maxinquaye	1995
136	Streets	A grand don't come for free	2004
137	Travis	The man who	1999
138	Spiritualized	Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space	1997
139	R.E.M.	Out of time	1991
140	Linkin park	Hybrid theory	2000
141	Weezer	Weezer ("blue album")	1994
142	Beastie boys	Paul's boutique	1989
143	David Gray	White ladder	2000
144	Killers	Day & age	2008
145	Badly Drawn boy	The hour of bewilderbeast	2000
146	Moby	Play	1999
147	Oasis	Be here now	1997
148	Nas	Illmatic	1994
149	Elbow	Leaders of the free world	2005
150	Foo fighters	Foo fighters	1995
151	Stereophonics	Performance and cocktails	1999
152	Alicia Keys	Songs in A minor	2001
153	Mercury rev	The deserter's song	1998
154	Pixies	Surfer Rosa	1988
155	Stone roses	The second coming	1994
156	Pet shop boys	Actually	1987
157	Supergrass	I should coco	1995
158	Wu-Tang clan	Enter the Wu-Tang (36 chambers)	1993
159	Sigur Rós	Takk ...	2005
160	Nick Cave and the Bad seeds	The boatman's call	1997
161	Flaming lips	The soft bulletin	1999
162	Lauryn Hill	The miseducation of Lauryn Hill	1998
163	Teenage fanclub	Bandwagonesque	1991
164	XX	XX	2009
165	Scissor sisters	Scissor sisters	2004
166	Bruce Springsteen	The rising	2002
167	PJ Harvey	Rid of me	1993
168	Pulp	His 'n' hers	1994
169	U2	Zooropa	1993
170	Johnny Cash	American recordings	1994
171	Good, the Bad & the Queen	The Good, the Bad & the Queen	2006
172	Neil Young	Ragged glory	1990
173	Dr. Dre	The chronic	1992
174	Aerosmith	Pump	1989
175	Madonna	Ray of light	1998
176	Talk talk	Spirit of Eden	1988
177	David Bowie	Heathen	2002
178	Ryan Adams	Heartbreaker	2000
179	Yeah Yeah Yeahs	Fever to tell	2003
180	Slint	Spiderland	1991
181	Inxs	Kick	1987
182	Emmylou Harris	Wrecking ball	1995
183	Damien Rice	O	2003
184	Elastica	Elastica	1995
185	Bob Dylan	Time out of mind	1997
186	Pogues	If I should fall from grace with God	1988
187	Lou Reed	New York	1989
188	Jay-Z	The blueprint	2001
189	Amy Winehouse	Frank	2003
190	Kate Bush	Aerial	2005
191	Fleetwood mac	Tango in the night	1987
192	Animal collective	Merriweather post pavilion	2009
193	Waterboys	Fisherman's blues	1988
194	U2	Pop	1997
195	Goldfrapp	Felt mountain	2000
196	Lemonheads	It's a shame about Ray	1992
197	Tom Waits	Mule variations	1999
198	N.W.A.	Straight outta Compton	1988
199	National	Boxer	2007
200	Boards of Canada	Music has the right to children	1998
201	Verve	A Northern soul	1995
202	DJ Shadow	Endtroducing	1996
203	Arctic monkeys	Humbug	2009
204	Radiohead	Pablo Honey	1993
205	Belle and Sebastian	The boy with the Arab strap	1998
206	Bruce Springsteen	Tunnel of love	1987
207	Oasis	Dig out your soul	2008
208	Alice in chains	Dirt	1992
209	De la soul	3 feet high and rising	1989
210	Joanna Newsom	Ys	2006
211	Kula shaker	K	1996
212	Dido	No angel	1999
213	Weezer	Pinkerton	1996
214	Madonna	Like a prayer	1989
215	Fugees	The score	1996
216	Elliott Smith	XO	1998
217	Paul Simon	Graceland	1986
218	Robert Plant & Alison Krauss	Raising sand	2007
219	Blue Nile	Hats	1989
220	Bright eyes	I'm wide awake it's morning	2005
221	Modest mouse	The moon & Antarctica	2000
222	KLF	The white room	1991
223	Robbie Williams	I've been expecting you	1998
224	Roger Waters	Amused to death	1992
225	Fall	Extricate	1990
226	Tracy Chapman	Tracy Chapman	1988
227	Godspeed you black emperor!	F#a#oo	1997
228	Galaxie 500	On fire	1989
229	Jane's addiction	Nothing's shocking	1988
230	Jay-Z	The black album	2003
231	Crowded house	Together alone	1993
232	Dizzee Rascal	Boy in da corner	2003
233	Morrissey	Viva hate	1988
234	Leonard Cohen	I'm your man	1988
235	Cocteau twins	Heaven or Las Vegas	1990
236	Beastie boys	Ill communication	1994
237	Nick Cave and the Bad seeds	Tender prey	1988
238	James	Seven	1992
239	Soul II Soul	Club classics, vol. 1	1989
240	Take that	Beautiful world live	2006
241	PJ Harvey	Stories from the city, stories from the sea	2000
242	Ben Folds five	Whatever and ever amen	1997
243	KT Tunstall	Eye to the telescope	2004
244	Antony & the Johnsons	I am a bird now	2005
245	Röyksopp	Melody a.m.	2001
246	Outkast	Stankonia	2000
247	Slipknot	Slipknot	1999
248	Sugar	Copper blue	1992
249	Orbital	Orbital (= "the green album")	1991
250	Gomez	Bring it on	1998

178	Ryan Adams	Heartbreaker	2000
174	Aerosmith	Pump	1989
118	Air	Moon safari	1998
208	Alice in chains	Dirt	1992
192	Animal collective	Merriweather post pavilion	2009
244	Antony & the Johnsons	I am a bird now	2005
99	Aphex twin	Selected ambient works 85-92	1992
19	Arcade fire	Funeral	2004
74	Arcade fire	Neon bible	2007
87	Arctic monkeys	Favourite worst nightmare	2007
203	Arctic monkeys	Humbug	2009
5	Arctic monkeys	Whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not	2006
145	Badly Drawn boy	The hour of bewilderbeast	2000
236	Beastie boys	Ill communication	1994
142	Beastie boys	Paul's boutique	1989
78	Beck	Odelay	1996
123	Beck	Sea change	2002
205	Belle and Sebastian	The boy with the Arab strap	1998
133	Björk	Post	1995
92	Bloc party	Silent alarm	2005
219	Blue Nile	Hats	1989
98	Blur	13	1999
76	Blur	Blur	1997
106	Blur	Modern life is rubbish	1993
13	Blur	Parklife	1994
200	Boards of Canada	Music has the right to children	1998
103	Bon Iver	For Emma, forever ago	2007
177	David Bowie	Heathen	2002
220	Bright eyes	I'm wide awake it's morning	2005
31	Jeff Buckley	Grace	1994
190	Kate Bush	Aerial	2005
170	Johnny Cash	American recordings	1994
237	Nick Cave and the Bad seeds	Tender prey	1988
160	Nick Cave and the Bad seeds	The boatman's call	1997
226	Tracy Chapman	Tracy Chapman	1988
45	Chemical brothers	Dig your own hole	1997
235	Cocteau twins	Heaven or Las Vegas	1990
234	Leonard Cohen	I'm your man	1988
12	Coldplay	A rush of blood to the head	2002
39	Coldplay	Parachutes	2000
52	Coldplay	Viva la vida (or death and all his friends)	2008
100	Coldplay	X&Y	2005
231	Crowded house	Together alone	1993
38	Cure	Disintegration	1989
120	Daft punk	Discovery	2001
209	De la soul	3 feet high and rising	1989
90	Def leppard	Hysteria	1987
70	Depeche mode	Songs of faith and devotion	1993
43	Depeche mode	Violator	1990
212	Dido	No angel	1999
232	Dizzee Rascal	Boy in da corner	2003
202	DJ Shadow	Endtroducing	1996
115	Doves	Lost souls	2000
173	Dr. Dre	The chronic	1992
185	Bob Dylan	Time out of mind	1997
184	Elastica	Elastica	1995
149	Elbow	Leaders of the free world	2005
61	Elbow	The seldom seen kid	2008
66	Eminem	The Marshall Mathers lp	2000
225	Fall	Extricate	1990
88	Fatboy Slim	You've come a long way	1998
161	Flaming lips	The soft bulletin	1999
105	Fleet foxes	Fleet foxes	2008
191	Fleetwood mac	Tango in the night	1987
36	Florence + the Machine	Lungs	2009
242	Ben Folds five	Whatever and ever amen	1997
150	Foo fighters	Foo fighters	1995
85	Foo fighters	The colour and the shape	1997
125	Franz Ferdinand	Franz Ferdinand	2004
215	Fugees	The score	1996
228	Galaxie 500	On fire	1989
108	Glasvegas	Glasvegas	2008
227	Godspeed you black emperor!	F#a#oo	1997
195	Goldfrapp	Felt mountain	2000
250	Gomez	Bring it on	1998
171	Good, the Bad & the Queen	The Good, the Bad & the Queen	2006
25	Gorillaz	Demon days	2005
111	Gorillaz	Gorillaz	2001
64	Gorillaz	Plastic beach	2010
143	David Gray	White ladder	2000
20	Green day	American idiot	2004
63	Green day	Dookie	1994
27	Guns n' roses	Appetite for destruction	1987
107	Happy mondays	Pills 'n' thrills and bellyaches	1990
182	Emmylou Harris	Wrecking ball	1995
167	PJ Harvey	Rid of me	1993
241	PJ Harvey	Stories from the city, stories from the sea	2000
162	Lauryn Hill	The miseducation of Lauryn Hill	1998
121	Interpol	Turn on the bright lights	2002
181	Inxs	Kick	1987
33	Michael Jackson	Bad	1987
238	James	Seven	1992
229	Jane's addiction	Nothing's shocking	1988
230	Jay-Z	The black album	2003
188	Jay-Z	The blueprint	2001
84	Kaiser chiefs	Employment	2005
47	Kasabian	Kasabian	2004
35	Kasabian	West ryder pauper lunatic asylum	2009
34	Keane	Hopes and fears	2004
51	Keane	Under the iron sea	2006
152	Alicia Keys	Songs in A minor	2001
144	Killers	Day & age	2008
17	Killers	Hot fuss	2004
32	Killers	Sam's town	2006
62	Kings of Leon	A-ha shake heartbreak	2004
55	Kings of Leon	Because of the times	2007
24	Kings of Leon	Only by the night	2008
80	Kings of Leon	Youth & young manhood	2003
222	KLF	The white room	1991
211	Kula shaker	K	1996
94	Lady Gaga	The fame	2008
124	La's	The La's	1990
68	LCD soundsystem	Sound of silver	2007
117	Leftfield	Leftism	1995
196	Lemonheads	It's a shame about Ray	1992
71	Libertines	The Libertines	2004
40	Libertines	Up the bracket	2002
140	Linkin park	Hybrid theory	2000
214	Madonna	Like a prayer	1989
175	Madonna	Ray of light	1998
49	Manic street preachers	Everything must go	1996
77	Manic street preachers	Generation terrorists	1992
21	Manic street preachers	The holy bible	1994
72	Massive attack	Blue lines	1991
75	Massive attack	Mezzanine	1998
153	Mercury rev	The deserter's song	1998
67	Metallica	Metallica	1991
110	MGMT	Oracular spectacular	2008
122	George Michael	Faith	1987
146	Moby	Play	1999
221	Modest mouse	The moon & Antarctica	2000
58	Alanis Morissette	Jagged little pill	1995
233	Morrissey	Viva hate	1988
82	Mumford & Sons	Sigh no more	2009
22	Muse	Absolution	2003
10	Muse	Black holes and revelations	2006
26	Muse	Origin of symmetry	2001
127	Muse	Showbiz	1999
53	Muse	The resistance	2009
30	My bloody Valentine	Loveless	1991
198	N.W.A.	Straight outta Compton	1988
148	Nas	Illmatic	1994
199	National	Boxer	2007
16	Neutral milk hotel	In the aeroplane over the sea	1998
73	New order	Technique	1989
210	Joanna Newsom	Ys	2006
102	Nine inch nails	The downward spiral	1994
56	Nirvana	In utero	1993
2	Nirvana	Nevermind	1991
132	Nirvana	Unplugged in New York	1994
128	Paolo Nutini	Sunny side up	2009
3	Oasis	(What's the story) Morning glory?	1995
147	Oasis	Be here now	1997
4	Oasis	Definitely maybe	1994
207	Oasis	Dig out your soul	2008
86	Oasis	Don't believe the truth	2005
130	Orb	U.F. Orb	1992
249	Orbital	Orbital (= "the green album")	1991
246	Outkast	Stankonia	2000
134	Pavement	Crooked rain, crooked rain	1994
41	Pearl jam	Ten	1991
156	Pet shop boys	Actually	1987
93	Pink floyd	The division bell	1994
48	Pixies	Doolittle	1989
154	Pixies	Surfer Rosa	1988
218	Robert Plant & Alison Krauss	Raising sand	2007
186	Pogues	If I should fall from grace with God	1988
69	Portishead	Dummy	1994
14	Primal scream	Screamadelica	1991
89	Prince	Sign o the times	1987
104	Prodigy	Music for the jilted generation	1994
96	Prodigy	The fat of the land	1997
109	Public enemy	It takes a nation of millions to hold us back	1988
37	Pulp	Different class	1995
168	Pulp	His 'n' hers	1994
119	Queens of the Stone age	Rated R	2000
57	Queens of the Stone age	Songs for the deaf	2002
29	R.E.M.	Automatic for the people	1992
139	R.E.M.	Out of time	1991
129	Radiohead	Amnesiac	2001
23	Radiohead	In rainbows	2007
18	Radiohead	Kid A	2000
1	Radiohead	OK computer	1997
204	Radiohead	Pablo Honey	1993
8	Radiohead	The bends	1995
44	Rage against the machine	Rage against the machine	1992
126	Red hot chili peppers	Blood sugar sex magik	1991
42	Red hot chili peppers	Californication	1999
187	Lou Reed	New York	1989
183	Damien Rice	O	2003
245	Röyksopp	Melody a.m.	2001
165	Scissor sisters	Scissor sisters	2004
159	Sigur Rós	Takk ...	2005
217	Paul Simon	Graceland	1986
180	Slint	Spiderland	1991
247	Slipknot	Slipknot	1999
59	Smashing pumpkins	Mellon Collie and the infinite sadness	1995
112	Smashing pumpkins	Siamese dream	1993
216	Elliott Smith	XO	1998
79	Smiths	Strangeways, here we come	1987
101	Snow patrol	Final straw	2004
65	Sonic youth	Daydream nation	1988
239	Soul II Soul	Club classics, vol. 1	1989
138	Spiritualized	Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space	1997
166	Bruce Springsteen	The rising	2002
206	Bruce Springsteen	Tunnel of love	1987
151	Stereophonics	Performance and cocktails	1999
91	Stereophonics	Word gets around	1997
155	Stone roses	The second coming	1994
7	Stone roses	The Stone roses	1989
136	Streets	A grand don't come for free	2004
97	Streets	Original pirate material	2002
11	Strokes	Is this it	2001
81	Suede	Dog man star	1994
116	Suede	Suede	1993
248	Sugar	Copper blue	1992
157	Supergrass	I should coco	1995
240	Take that	Beautiful world live	2006
176	Talk talk	Spirit of Eden	1988
163	Teenage fanclub	Bandwagonesque	1991
137	Travis	The man who	1999
135	Tricky	Maxinquaye	1995
243	KT Tunstall	Eye to the telescope	2004
9	U2	Achtung baby	1991
46	U2	All that you can't leave behind	2000
95	U2	How to dismantle an atomic bomb	2004
114	U2	No line on the horizon	2009
194	U2	Pop	1997
6	U2	The Joshua tree	1987
169	U2	Zooropa	1993
83	Vampire weekend	Vampire weekend	2008
201	Verve	A Northern soul	1995
28	Verve	Urban hymns	1997
197	Tom Waits	Mule variations	1999
193	Waterboys	Fisherman's blues	1988
224	Roger Waters	Amused to death	1992
213	Weezer	Pinkerton	1996
141	Weezer	Weezer ("blue album")	1994
113	Paul Weller	Stanley road	1995
60	Paul Weller	Wild wood	1993
54	White stripes	Elephant	2003
15	White stripes	White blood cells	2001
131	Wilco	Yankee hotel Foxtrot	2002
223	Robbie Williams	I've been expecting you	1998
50	Amy Winehouse	Back to black	2006
189	Amy Winehouse	Frank	2003
158	Wu-Tang clan	Enter the Wu-Tang (36 chambers)	1993
164	XX	XX	2009
179	Yeah Yeah Yeahs	Fever to tell	2003
172	Neil Young	Ragged glory	1990