893 Essential Albums 50 - 99

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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50
Can't Hardly Wait
Pleased to Meet Me
The Replacements
51
Blitzkrieg Bop
Ramones
Ramones
52
Street Fighting Man
Beggars Banquet
The Rolling Stones
53
Blowin' in the Wind
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
54
Juice
Cuz I Love You
Lizzo
55
Last Goodbye
Grace
Jeff Buckley
56
Master of Puppets
Master of Puppets
Metallica
57
When You Sleep
Loveless
My Bloody Valentine
58
Hurt
The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails
59
Bohemian Rhapsody
A Night at the Opera
Queen
60
Nightswimming
Automatic for the People
R.E.M.
61
Love Song
Disintegration
The Cure
62
Wild Horses
Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones
63
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Lucinda Williams
64
Seven Nation Army
Elephant
The White Stripes
65
Mysterious Ways
Achtung Baby
U2
66
Skinny Love
For Emma, Forever Ago
Bon Iver
67
Friend of the Devil
American Beauty
Grateful Dead
68
Ramble On
Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin
69
Wonderwall
(What's the Story) Morning Glory
Oasis
70
1999
1999
Prince
71
Shadowboxer
Tidal
Fiona Apple
72
Don't Believe The Hype
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Public Enemy
73
Cecelia
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon and Garfunkel
74
Last Nite
Is This It
The Strokes
75
One More Time
Discovery
Daft Punk
76
Changes
Hunky Dory
David Bowie
77
Another Brick In The Wall Part II
The Wall
Pink Floyd
78
Ready or Not
The Score
Fugees
79
Here Comes Your Man
Doolittle
Pixies
80
Everything In Its Right Place
Kid A
Radiohead
81
Fell In Love With a Girl
White Blood Cells
The White Stripes
82
El Scorcho
Pinkerton
Weezer
83
Someone Like You
21
Adele
84
Badlands
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Bruce Springsteen
85
Basket Case
Dookie
Green Day
86
Express Yourself
Straight Outta Compton
N.W.A
87
Sign O' The Times
Sign O' the Times
Prince
88
Fake Plastic Trees
The Bends
Radiohead
89
The Boy with the Thorn in His Side
The Queen is Dead
The Smiths
90
Rehab
Back to Black
Amy Winehouse
91
Once in a Lifetime
Remain in Light
Talking Heads
92
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
Rubber Soul
The Beatles
93
God Save the Queen
Never Mind the Bollocks
Sex Pistols
94
Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
Funeral
Arcade Fire
95
Sour Times
Dummy
Portishead
96
Heart of Glass
Parallel Lines
Blondie
97
Towers
Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Bon Iver
98
Personal Jesus
Violator
Depeche Mode
99
Make Me Feel
Dirty Computer
Janelle Monáe