Editorial Review
“This is essential reading for anyone with a record collection.” —Buzz
“Virtually indispensable.” —MOJO
Quite simply, the greatest albums of all time—and how they happened. The smartest, most keyed-in music critics from London’s best rock magazine provide opinionated, funny, insightful portraits of the best pop music records ever made. Redesigned and updated to include the most recent releases, and with a new section of artists contributing their top-five albums of all time. Informative, gossipy, and wide ranging, The MOJO Collection is an essential purchase for those who love and live music.
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Customer Reviews
Entertaining to read, lacking in too many areas 
2007-09-03
One of the best albums of 1970 (and arguably a top 100 record from 65-75) was the Grateful Dead's "Workingman's Dead". Instead of that album/cd - we get 1970 choices of Vashti Bunyan, Honeybus, Rodriguez, Family, The Carpenters, Soft Machine and Emmit Rhodes.
Really, that's all you need to know. There are huge holes in every year and I know I could make a better list (and probably you as well if you are reading this review).
Now this book is a fun read (particularly if you dig Planxty and Can - cmon you know those great bands and records - right???). This book is far from definitive and there are quite a few REACHES here. Being a Mojo creation, it's weighted very heavily with UK bands.
very well done, 
2007-02-01
there is a newer book out titled "1001 albums you must hear before you die." you do not need that book. believe me. this is the one you want if you are looking to carefully build a collection of recordings that range wide across a broad spectrum of genres. the music represented here is mostly pop, rock, folk, r&b, with a little of this & that thrown in; so this book will not suffice to lead you through the world of jazz or classical (you will have to look elsewhere to dig through those worlds of sound), but what it does include covers a wide variety of popular sounds. Mojo magazine is the best music magazine i have ever seen (i buy every issue), so I remember being delighted when i first saw this book for sale. all in all, an extremely well done, mammoth-size tome of essays on the making of some of the best recordings ever made. thanks mojo.
MOJO Risin! 
2005-09-14
Basic, but insightful set of reviews. Provides a few titles I haven't explored yet!
Excellent Place to Explore Rock n Roll 2004-08-24
This is an amazing guide to some of the best albums ever made. Sure, it's easy to criticize, a lot of amazing albums are left out, some are included that will make you cringe, but on the whole, this book is probably the best of the "best of" books out there. Page long reviews are wonderful to have, rather than short one-paragraph reviews, and my favorite feature is how they point you to new music. For example, let's say you like "Sea Change" by Beck. Well, the book then suggests you try "Cold Fact" by Rodriguez, an album released in 1970. If you try that and like it, well, then the book says to go next to "It's a Shame About Ray" by the Lemonheads, and so on and so forth. This is a great feature. Go get this book and spend hours reading and exploring.
THEY FORGOT ABOUT COUNTRY!! 2004-03-24
i haven't even read the book but i looked at the index and felt the need to write this review. they have missed a whole genre of music. they should call this book the greatest rock/pop albums of all time. i'm sure its a great book but the title is not specific enough.
Absolutely top 2004-02-06
“This is essential reading for anyone with a record collection.” —Buzz
“Virtually indispensable.” —MOJO
Quite simply, the greatest albums of all time—and how they happened. The smartest, most keyed-in music critics from London’s best rock magazine provide opinionated, funny, insightful portraits of the best pop music records ever made. Redesigned and updated to include the most recent releases, and with a new section of artists contributing their top-five albums of all time. Informative, gossipy, and wide ranging, The MOJO Collection is an essential purchase for those who love and live music.
Absolutely essential 2003-10-16
This collection is indispensible, overkill and then some for list freaks and music junkies on both sides of the Atlantic. If you care about music enough to know the crucial stuff from the crucial bands by heart, this will instantly complete the necessary remainder of your soon-to-be vast musical knowledge.
Now, mind you, this book is not without its blunders. Too many of these records are out of print, or only available on vinyl, although the trend of reissuing many of these albums seems to be suspiciously coming about (perhaps that Gilmore Girls Episode did the trick...). Meanwhile, sections at the end about compilations, soundtracks, obscure reggae collections and a structureless easy listening essay only serve to make things more confusing--stick with the main section, as the book's introduction reccomends. Finally, a few guilty pleasures and obscurities, such as Toto IV and Brian Jones Presents The Pipes Of Pan At Jajouka, are included over such classics as Let it Bleed & Beggars Banquet, Rubber Soul & With The Beatles, Led Zeppelin I & II, This Year's Model & Armed Forces, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, In Utero, 69 Love Songs, and anything by Squeeze, Janis Joplin, Joe Jackson, the Pet Shop Boys, Post-Eno Roxy Music, non-liveatfolsomprison Johnny Cash, the Housemartins/Beautiful South, the Wu-Tang Clan, or non-Aja/Can't Buy A Thrill Steely Dan. But since you're a music fan who's willing to pick this up, chances are you've already heard all those, and thus your problems are all solved.
A note--there are 592 albums in the book's main body, not 600. If I'm wrong, somebody PLEASE post a correction on this page.
A great collection, BUT....... 2003-09-07
....1) "Sticky Fingers" over "Beggar's Banquet?"
2) No Linda Ronstadt AT ALL?? "Heart Like A Wheel" was chopped liver??
3) I seem to remember that, once upon a time, people rated Rod Stewart's "Every Picture Tells A Story" as one of the finest albums ever released. So it doesn't get mentioned here, but an album by Journey DOES???
4) Where the [expletive deleted} are Midnight Oil??
As well as other sins of omission and comission too lengthy to debate.
It's all subjective, you say? Maybe so, but some absences are inexcusable and some selections are VERY questionable indeed!
All that notwithstanding, it's still a great review collection....BUT.....
The Only Resource you will ever need................... 2003-01-07
If you are interested to hear the opinion of the best albums of all time, from the writers of the highly respected British music magazine 'MOJO', then look no further. Arranged in (rather sensibly) chronological order (I hate when writers try to categorize music!), this very informative guide is a must-have for the serious music fan. A page (sometimes more) is devoted to each album, and each description includes the writers opinion, the story behind each album, full track listing, UK and US single releases, chart placings and a list of other notable albums by the artist in question.
This is not a collection to be devoured in a single sitting, but rather is a 'coffee-table' resource to be read at leisure.
Extremely well-written and highly informative, if "The Greatest Albums of All Time" does not inspire you to run to the nearest record store then I will eat my "Pet Sounds' Box Set.
Enjoy!
A great collection 2002-12-17
Ever since I got this book my life has changed. It is like the bible of music, I have purchased a lot of the CD's listed in the book, specially from the 60's and 70's and most of them are absolutely the best ones of their kind, if you are a music fan do not hesitate to purchase this estraordinary publication.
