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The best Italian albums of all time

The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: Bollicine — Vasco Rossi · La voce del padrone — Franco Battiato · Una donna per amico — Lucio Battisti. (Updated Jul 10, 2026.)

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.

il_cantautore · · 20 items · 0 votes · 3 comments · updated Jul 10, 2026

Automatically translated (original in Italiano). See the original

Top 20

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    Bollicine — Vasco Rossi

    1983. 'Vita spericolata' and 'Bollicine'; number one on the list.

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    La voce del padrone — Franco Battiato

    1981. 'Centro di gravità permanente' and 'Cuccurucucù'; the first Italian album to sell over a million copies.

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    Una donna per amico — Lucio Battisti

    1978. With lyrics by Mogol, recorded in London.

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    Crêuza de mä — Fabrizio De André

    1984. Sung in Genoese with Mauro Pagani, among Mediterranean sounds.

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    Lorenzo 1994 — Jovanotti

    1994. 'Serenata rap' and 'Penso positivo'.

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    Ovunque proteggi — Vinicio Capossela

    2006. A journey through myth and the sacred, from the Minotaur to the saints.

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    Siberia — Diaframma

    1984. Federico Fiumani's Florentine new wave.

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    Linea gotica — CSI

    1996. Giovanni Lindo Ferretti and Massimo Zamboni after CCCP.

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    Arbeit macht frei — Area

    1973. Political jazz-rock and Demetrio Stratos' voice.

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    Adriano Celentano con Giulio Libano e la sua orchestra — Adriano Celentano

    1960. 'Il molleggiato' and Italian-style rock'n'roll.

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    Buon compleanno Elvis — Luciano Ligabue

    1995. 'Certe notti' and small-town Emilian rock.

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    1964-1985 Affinità-divergenze… — CCCP Fedeli alla Linea

    1986. Pro-Soviet punk from Reggio Emilia.

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    I buoni e i cattivi — Edoardo Bennato

    1974. Neapolitan rock and satire.

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    Mio fratello è figlio unico — Rino Gaetano

    1976. Irony and melancholy in Italian songwriting.

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    Elio Samaga Hukapan Kariyana Turu — Elio e le Storie Tese

    1989. The debut of Italy's most surreal and virtuoso band.

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    Microchip emozionale — Subsonica

    1999. Electronics and rock from Turin, with 'Tutti i miei sbagli'.

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    Nero a metà — Pino Daniele

    1980. Blues and Naples, with 'Quando' and 'A me me piace 'o blues'.

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    Stanze — Massimo Volume

    1993. Emidio Clementi's spoken word over post-rock guitars.

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    WoW — Verdena

    2011. A double album by the Bergamo trio.

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    Rimmel — Francesco De Gregori

    1975. 'Pablo', 'Buonanotte fiorellino' and Roman singer-songwriting.

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paolaroma · Italiano

Crêuza de mä di De André, un capolavoro in genovese.

smanettone_palermo · Italiano

Bollicine primo... per me La voce del padrone di Battiato è il miglior disco italiano di sempre.

G. Mancini · Italiano

Siberia dei Diaframma tra i migliori, finalmente qualcuno che se ne ricorda.

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