A humanoid's guide to essential music albums

INTRO 

A humanoid's guide to essential music albums. Which came about during a flight trip, long time ago.

There I read an article listing an album track list that claimed to be the essential music albums set that one should know of ...
 

I found out that Emirates mentioned the "Essential Albums" article as part of their their entertainment system (see snippet below), but I did not find the narrated albums list.

THE STIMULI
As I both knew and even owned a couple of the albums from the article, I decided to first try out the suggested album list. Afterwards trying to build my own an even "better" essential album list:-) Which is below work product.

CRITERIA
First thing first. What defines an essential album? And what makes an album truely great? How much is influenced by context of the album?

I believe one should trust one's own instincts, emotions and subjective impressions (feelings, moods, energy) of one's experience of listening to a particular album. If you listen to an album more than once, it could be a candidate for your own essential list;-)

RESOURCES
I also used below resource sites and tools for trying out new album candidates for my own essential list.

• metacritic - https://www.metacritic.com/music
• BestEverAlbums - https://www.besteveralbums.com/
• tunefind - https://www.tunefind.com/
• Shazam app - https://www.shazam.com/apps
• iTunes/Google Play - Recommendations for you (based on your purchasing profile
• Sea of Tranquility - both https://www.seaoftranquility.org/ and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/SeaofTranquilityProg/featured 

BASELINES
Acclaimed sources that have inspired me in my essential albums quest:

• billboard - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_200
• Rolling Stones Magazine - Top 500 list - https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/
• BBC music magazine - Top 50 list - http://www.classical-music.com/article/50-greatest-recordings-all-time 
• Classic FM - Top 100 list - https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/pictures/artist/100-classical-music-recordings-you-must-own/

My Essential Albums:

Could also be phrased as my favorite albums I would recommend to others to try listen to.

Last updated 02-05-2022 (further reduced, some additions).

2 | Led Zeppelin
1984 | Van Halen
Abbey Road | Beatles
Are You Experienced | the Jimi Hendrix Experience
Back In Black | AC/DC
Back To Black | Amy Winehouse
The Brandenburg Concertos | Johann Sebastian Bach
Blood Sugar Sex Magik | Red Hot Chili Peppers
Blues | Jimi Hendrix
Close To The Edge | Yes
Days Of Future Passed | The Moody Blues
Doolittle | Pixies
The Doors | The Doors
Dummy | Portishead
Elephant | White Stripes
Getz/Gilberto | Stan Getz & João Gilberto
Grace | Jeff Buckley
Head Hunters | Herbie Hancock
Heavy Weather | Weather Report
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | Neutral Milk Hotel
Jagged Little Pill | Alanis Morissette

The Joshua Tree | U2

Kid A | Radiohead
Kind Of Blue | Miles Davis
Lonerism | Tame Impala
Maxinquaye | Tricky
Music Has The Right To Children | Boards Of Canada
Nevermind | Nirvana
A Night at the Opera & Sheer Heart Attack | Queen
The Nightmare Before Christmas | Danny Elfman
Odelay | Beck
Paranoid | Black Sabbath
Remain In Light | Talking Heads
Requiem in D Minor | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem in D Minor | Gabriel Fauré

The Seldom Seen Kid | Elbow
The Snow Goose | Camel
So | Peter Gabriel
Solid Air | John Martyn
Spirit Of Eden | Talk Talk
Stormcock | Roy Harper

Strangers in the Night | UFO
Trilogy | Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Ten | Pearl Jam
A Toda Cuba le Gusta | Afro-Cuban All Stars
In Absentia | Porcupine Tree

Wish You Were Here | Pink Floyd