# Best Sophomore Albums

A curated list by [turkman429](https://waxlog.com/user/turkman429) on Waxlog.

41 releases · last updated 2026-09-21

## Releases

1. **Aerosmith** — Get Your Wings
2. **Black Sabbath** — Paranoid
3. **Nirvana** — Nevermind
4. **Daft Punk** — Discovery
5. **Live** — Throwing Copper
6. **Alice In Chains** — Dirt
7. **The Smashing Pumpkins** — Siamese Dream
8. **Pearl Jam** — Vs.
9. **Led Zeppelin & Led Zeppelin** — Led Zeppelin II = レッド・ツェッペリン II
10. **Fleetwood Mac** — Rumours
11. **The Alan Parsons Project** — I Robot
12. **Collective Soul** — Collective Soul
13. **Radiohead** — The Bends
14. **Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young** — Déjà Vu
15. **Sting** — ...Nothing Like The Sun
16. **Stone Temple Pilots** — Purple
17. **System Of A Down** — Toxicity
18. **T. Rex** — Electric Warrior
19. **Tears For Fears** — Songs From The Big Chair
20. **Tenacious D** — The Pick Of Destiny
21. **The Stooges** — Fun House
22. **The Strokes** — Room On Fire
23. **Rage Against The Machine** — Evil Empire
24. **Santana** — Abraxas
25. **Seal** — Seal
26. **Sponge** — Wax Ecstatic
27. **Steppenwolf** — The Second
28. **Steven Wilson** — Grace For Drowning
29. **Nine Inch Nails** — The Downward Spiral
30. **Noah And The Whale** — The First Days Of Spring
31. **Norah Jones** — Feels Like Home
32. **Oasis** — \(What's The Story\) Morning Glory?
33. **Oingo Boingo** — Nothing To Fear
34. **Ozzy Osbourne** — Diary Of A Madman
35. **John Lennon** — Imagine
36. **Kansas** — Song For America
37. **Lord Huron** — Strange Trails
38. **Lynyrd Skynyrd** — Second Helping
39. **Mumford & Sons** — Babel
40. **The Mars Volta** — Frances The Mute
41. **The Monkees** — More Of The Monkees

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