100 Greatest Rock Drumming Albums

Criteria: These Drumming Albums were chosen for their innovation, originality, influence, skill, and technical ability of the drummer.
Rock Drumming Albums
1. Lateralus
Tool (Danny Carey)
2. 2112
Rush (Neil Peart)
3. Awake
Dream Theater (Mike Portnoy)
4. Machine Head
Deep Purple (Ian Paice)
5. Brain Salad Surgery
Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Carl Palmer)
6. Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin (John Bonham)
7. Fresh Cream
Cream (Ginger Baker)
8. Who's Next
The Who (Keith Moon)
9. Fragile
Yes (Bill Bruford)
10. Frizzle Fry
Primus (Tim Alexander)
11. Red
King Crimson (Bill Bruford)
12. Moving Pictures
Rush (Neil Peart)
13. Crash
Dave Matthews Band (Carter Beauford)
14. Are You Experienced
Jimi Hendrix Experience (Mitch Mitchell)
15. Regatta De Blanc
The Police (Stewart Copeland)
16. Vanilla Fudge
Near The Beginning (Carmine Appice)
17. Situation Dangerous
Bozzio Levin Stevens (Terry Bozzio)
18. Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin (John Bonham)
19. Siamese Dream
Smashing Pumpkins (Jimmy Chamberlin)
20. Badmotorfinger
Soundgarden (Matt Cameron)
21. Aja
Steely Dan (Steve Gadd)
22. Rust In Peace
Megadeth (Nick Menza)
23. De-Loused In The Comatorium
The Mars Volta (Jon Theodore)
24. Strange New Flesh
Colosseum II (John Hiseman)
25. In The Court Of The Crimson King
King Crimson (Michael Giles)
26. Season Of The Abyss
Slayer (Dave Lombardo)
27. Blackwater Park
Opeth (Martin Lopez)
28. Killers
Iron Maiden (Clive Burr)
29. Tommy
The Who (Keith Moon)
30. Spring Session M
Missing Persons (Terry Bozzio)
31. Scenes From a Memory
Dream Theater (Mike Portnoy)
32. Ænima
Tool (Danny Carey)
33. Reinventing The Steel
Pantera (Vinnie Paul)
34. Paranoid
Black Sabbath (Bill Ward)
35. Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin (John Bonham)
36. Outlandos D'Amour
The Police (Stewart Copeland)
37. Over-Nite Sensation
Frank Zappa (Ralph Humphrey)
38. Hemispheres
Rush (Neil Peart)
39. What If
Dixie Dregs (Rod Morgenstein)
40. Tarkus
Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Carl Palmer)
41. In Rock
Deep Purple (Ian Paice)
42. Deliverance
Opeth (Martin Lopez)
43. Reign In Blood
Slayer (Dave Lombardo)
44. Disraeli Gears
Cream (Ginger Baker)
45. Piece Of Mind
Iron Maiden (Nicko McBrain)
46. Systematic Chaos
Dream Theater (Mike Portnoy)
47. Before These Crowded Streets
Dave Matthews Band (Carter Beauford)
48. Physical Graffitti
Led Zeppelin (John Bonham)
49. Quadrophenia
The Who (Keith Moon)
50. Tago Mago
CAN (Jaki Liebezeit)
51. Rising
Rainbow (Cozy Powell)
52. Fly By Night
Rush (Neil Peart)
53. Third
The Soft Machine (Robert Wyatt)
54. Liquid Tension Experiment 2
Liquid Tension Experiment (Mike Portnoy)
55. Life Begins Again
Jimmy Chamberlin Complex (Jimmy Chamberlin)
56. Don Caballero 2
Don Caballero (Damon Che)
57. Mastodon
Blood Mountain (Brann Dailor)
58. The Grand Pecking Order
Oysterhead (Stewart Copeland)
59. Superunknown
Soundgarden (Matt Cameron)
60. Before These Crowded Streets
Dave Matthews Band (Carter Beauford)
61. Blow By Blow
Jeff Beck (Richard Bailey)
62. Discipline
King Crimson (Bill Bruford)
63. Fireball
Deep Purple (Ian Paice)
64. Struttin'
The Meters (Zigaboo Modeliste)
65. You
Gong (Pierre Moerlen)
66. Beck, Bogert & Appice
Beck, Bogert Appice & (Carmine Appice)
67. The System Has Failed
Megadeth (Vinnie Colaiuta)
68. Sailing The Seas Of Cheese
Primus (Tim Alexander)
69. Joe's Garage
Frank Zappa (Vinnie Colaiuta)
70. Ghost In The Machine
The Police (Stewart Copeland)
71. Combat Rock
The Clash (Topper Headon)
72. The Bedlam In Goliath
The Mars Volta (Thomas Pridgen)
73. Fear Of A Blank Planet
Porcupine Tree (Gavin Harrison)
74. Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Red Hot Chili Peppers (Chad Smith)
75. Death Walks Behind You
Atomic Rooster (Carl Palmer)
76. Yesterday And Tomorrow
Y&T (Leonard Haze)
77. Revolver
The Beatles (Ringo Starr)
78. Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath (Bill Ward)
79. Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
Smashing Pumpkins (Jimmy Camberlin)
80. The Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden (Clive Burr)
81. Presence
Led Zeppelin (John Bonham)
82. ...& And Justice For All
Metallica (Lars Ulrich)
83. Mastodon
Leviathan (Brann Dailor)
84. Battles
Mirrored (John Stanier)
85. Electric Ladyland
Jimi Hendrix Experience (Mitch Mitchell)
86. Far Beyond Driven
Pantera (Vinnie Paul)
87. A Farewell To Kings
Rush (Neil Peart)
88. Let It Bleed
Rolling Stones (Charlie Watts)
89. Black Light Syndrome
Bozzio Levin Stevens (Terry Bozzio)
90. The Big Eyeball In The Sky
Colonel Claypool's Bucket Of Bernie Brains (Bryan Mantia)
91. World Class Listening Problem
Don Caballero (Damon Che)
92. The Sound of Perseverance
Death (Richard Christy)
93. The Power To Believe
King Crimson (Pat Mastelotto)
94. One-Trick Pony
Paul Simon (Steve Gadd)
95. Gish
Smashing Pumpkins (Jimmy Chamberlin)
96. Ghost Reveries
Opeth (Martin Lopez)
97. Trilogy
Emerson Lake & Palmer (Carl Palmer)
98. Songs For The Terestrially Challenged
The Speaking Canaries (Noah Leger)
99. Contradictions Collapse
Meshuggah (Tomas Haake)
100. Songs For The Deaf
Queens Of The Stone Age (Dave Grohl)

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List Begun: 2008-11-20