1000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die

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• 1,000 Recordings, by Artist
• 1,000 Recordings, by Title
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• Blues
• Classical
• Country
• Electronica
• Folk
• Gospel
• Hip-Hop
• Jazz
• Musicals
• Opera
• Pop
• R&B
• Rock
• Vocals
• World
  
  Algeria, Andes, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Celtic, China, Colombia, Congo, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, Germany, Greece, Guinea, Haiti, Hawaii, Hebrew, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Jamaica, Japan, Klezmer, Latin, Latin America, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Middle East, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Tanzania, Trinidad, Turkey, Venezuela, Zimbabwe

About 1,000 Recordings

Celebrate the joy, the revelation, the mystery, the fun, the sheer shivers-up-the-spine pleasure of great music.

Essential operas. Milestone rock albums. An education in the blues. The world of world. Classical from Bach to Bartók to Beethoven to Brahms. And dozens of unexpected gems, surprising discoveries, and long-lost masterpieces.

This is an online version of the list (published alphabetically in the book). The entries in the book break down genre bias and broaden every listener’s horizons—think Miles Davis to Claude Debussy to the melodic story-songs of The Decemberists. And the writing is passionate, informed, opinionated.

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