1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die is a highly readable list of the best, the most important, and most influential pop albums from the 1955 through 2003. By a carefully selected team of the International Critics, each album is a groundbreaking work seminal to the understanding and appreciation of music from the 1950s to the present. Included with each entry are production details and credits as well as reproductions of original album cover art. Perhaps most important of all, each album comes with an authoritative description of its Importance and Featured influence. Among the Critics involved in selected in the list are some of the best known music Reviewers and commentators, including Theunis Bates (music writer for Time and urban editor at worldpop), Jon Harrington (staff writer at MTV), Seth Jacobson (writer for Dazed & confused), as well as many others.