Rolling Stone Argentina's The 100 Greatest Albums of National Rock

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The 100 Greatest Albums of National Rock (Spanish: Los 100 mejores discos del rock nacional) is a 2007 special issue of Rolling Stone Argentina, the local edition of the American magazine that is published monthly by S.A. La Nación. It was made available in newsstands on April 3.{{cite magazine|language=es |date=April 3, 2007|title=Los 100 mejores discos del rock nacional|journal=Rolling Stone Argentina|publisher=S.A. La Nación}} That month, Rolling Stone Argentina was issued as a special "double anniversary edition", with the list being released alongside the magazine's usual publication. The issue celebrated the forty years of Argentine rock and the nine years of Rolling Stone Argentina.{{cite web|url=https://www.lanacion.com.ar/espectaculos/musica/artaud-es-el-mejor-disco-de-rock-local-nid896471|title=Artaud es el mejor disco de rock local|date=April 2, 2007|accessdate=June 3, 2019|work=La Nación|language=es|publisher=S.A. La Nación}} In 2013, a revised "bookazine" edition of the list was released, incorporating more albums from the 2000s.{{cite magazine|language=es |date=June 2013|title=Los 100 mejores discos del rock nacional|journal=Rolling Stone Argentina|publisher=S.A. La Nación|isbn=9789871690442}}

The list focuses on Argentine rock, which is locally known as rock nacional (Spanish for "national rock") and is considered a distinct style of rock music, born in the late 1960s in Buenos Aires at a time when the city was experiencing a cultural blossoming.{{cite AV media|people=Gaffet, Hernán (Director)|year=2006|title=Argentina Beat|medium=Documentary film|language=es|location=Buenos Aires, Argentina|publisher=Produced by Poleri-Foligna-Gaffet. Published on YouTube by Claudio Gabis' Gabispace|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ErFopbKwbk|accessdate=April 16, 2018}} Rock nacional has been defined as "fusion music of various rhythms, completely identifiable as belonging to the urban areas of the country. It is a synthesis of the original [rock] with other expressions that, in the opinion of the foreigners, sometimes sounds like tango or [folk music]."{{cite web |url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/areas/cultura/cpphc/sitios/detalle.php?id=3|title=Sitios de interés cultural: La Perla del Once|language=es|publisher=Government of the City of Buenos Aires|access-date=December 26, 2016}} Although rock and roll already existed in Argentina, the countercultural, young bohemians of Buenos Aires were the first to create a local version of rock that spoke of their own concerns, with the particularity of featuring Spanish lyrics at a time when it was frowned upon.{{cite AV media|people=Neumeyer, Lily (Producer)|date=December 12, 1996|title=Mejor hablar de ciertas cosas: Pequeñas historias del rock argentino|medium=Television documentary|language=es|publisher=MTV Latin America|id=LSPE008}}{{cite book |last=González|first=Yanko|year=2013|title=La construcción histórica de la juventud en América Latina: Bohemios, Rockanroleros y Revolucionarios|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6fngCQAAQBAJ|language=es|publisher=Cuarto Propio|isbn=978-9562606400|page=241}} The release of Los Gatos' debut single, "La balsa" on July 3, 1967 is generally considered to be the origin of the movement, as it established its commercial viability and turned it into a widespread youth culture phenomenon.{{cite book |last=Alabarces|first=Pablo|date=November 1, 1993|title=Entre gatos y violadores: el rock nacional en la cultura argentina|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oI7dGDgP2K0C|language=es|publisher=Colihue|pages=43–45|isbn=9505812434}} For this reason, The 100 Greatest Albums of National Rock only includes records released after "La balsa", and was issued in commemoration of the forty years of the single's release or, in other words, the fortieth anniversary of the genre.

The number one album was Artaud by Luis Alberto Spinetta (credited to Pescado Rabioso).{{cite web|url=http://www.rollingstone.com.ar/912751-artaud-pescado-rabioso|title=Artaud|last=Schanton|first=Pablo|date=May 29, 2007|language=es|accessdate=June 3, 2019|publisher=S.A. La Nación|work=Rolling Stone Argentina}}