# The best Italian albums of all time

The top 20 of Rolling Stone Italia's 100 most beautiful Italian albums of all time, voted by 100 figures from Italian culture for the magazine's hundredth issue.

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- Aug 11, 2024 · il_cantautore
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## Top 20

1. **Bollicine — Vasco Rossi** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1983. 'Vita spericolata' and 'Bollicine'; number one on the list.
2. **La voce del padrone — Franco Battiato** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1981. 'Centro di gravità permanente' and 'Cuccurucucù'; the first Italian album to sell over a million copies.
3. **Una donna per amico — Lucio Battisti** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1978. With lyrics by Mogol, recorded in London.
4. **Crêuza de mä — Fabrizio De André** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1984. Sung in Genoese with Mauro Pagani, among Mediterranean sounds.
5. **Lorenzo 1994 — Jovanotti** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1994. 'Serenata rap' and 'Penso positivo'.
6. **Ovunque proteggi — Vinicio Capossela** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2006. A journey through myth and the sacred, from the Minotaur to the saints.
7. **Siberia — Diaframma** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1984. Federico Fiumani's Florentine new wave.
8. **Linea gotica — CSI** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1996. Giovanni Lindo Ferretti and Massimo Zamboni after CCCP.
9. **Arbeit macht frei — Area** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1973. Political jazz-rock and Demetrio Stratos' voice.
10. **Adriano Celentano con Giulio Libano e la sua orchestra — Adriano Celentano** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1960. 'Il molleggiato' and Italian-style rock'n'roll.
11. **Buon compleanno Elvis — Luciano Ligabue** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1995. 'Certe notti' and small-town Emilian rock.
12. **1964-1985 Affinità-divergenze… — CCCP Fedeli alla Linea** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1986. Pro-Soviet punk from Reggio Emilia.
13. **I buoni e i cattivi — Edoardo Bennato** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1974. Neapolitan rock and satire.
14. **Mio fratello è figlio unico — Rino Gaetano** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1976. Irony and melancholy in Italian songwriting.
15. **Elio Samaga Hukapan Kariyana Turu — Elio e le Storie Tese** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1989. The debut of Italy's most surreal and virtuoso band.
16. **Microchip emozionale — Subsonica** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1999. Electronics and rock from Turin, with 'Tutti i miei sbagli'.
17. **Nero a metà — Pino Daniele** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1980. Blues and Naples, with 'Quando' and 'A me me piace 'o blues'.
18. **Stanze — Massimo Volume** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1993. Emidio Clementi's spoken word over post-rock guitars.
19. **WoW — Verdena** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2011. A double album by the Bergamo trio.
20. **Rimmel — Francesco De Gregori** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1975. 'Pablo', 'Buonanotte fiorellino' and Roman singer-songwriting.

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