1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die is a highly readable list of the best, the most important, and the most influential pop albums from 1955 through 2003. Carefully selected by a team of 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 featured comes with an authoritative description of its importance and influence. Among the critics involved in selecting the list are some of the best known music reviewers and commentators, including Theunis Bates (music writer for Time and urban editor at worldpop.com), Jon Harrington (staff writer at MTV), Seth Jacobson (writer for Dazed & Confused), as well as many others.

羅伯特·迪默裏（Robert Dimery）是自由樂評人，曾為Time Out、Vogue等多傢知名雜誌撰寫專欄和樂評，創作並齣版過不少關於搖滾音樂的圖書。

為瞭編寫本書，羅伯特·迪默裏邀集來自世界各地五十多個城市的九十多位資深樂評人共同組成本書的創作團隊，包括為《時代》雜誌寫樂評的Theunis Bates、MTV的資深員工Jon Harrington、音樂雜誌Dazed & Confused的專欄作傢Seth Jacobson等。

羅伯特·迪默裏其他作品：《有生之年非聽不可的1001首歌》《搖滾天堂》《經典唱片》《經典單麯》