Rank,Artist,Album
1,The Beatles,Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2,The Beach Boys,Pet Sounds
3,The Beatles,Revolver
4,Bob Dylan,Highway 61 Revisited
5,The Beatles,Rubber Soul
6,Bob Dylan,Blonde on Blonde
7,The Beatles,"The Beatles (""The White Album"")"
8,The Clash,London Calling
9,Bob Dylan,Blood on the Tracks
10,The Beatles,Abbey Road
11,The Velvet Underground,The Velvet Underground & Nico
12,The Rolling Stones,Exile on Main St.
13,Marvin Gaye,What's Going On
14,Joni Mitchell,Blue
15,Nirvana,Nevermind
16,Van Morrison,Astral Weeks
17,The Who,Who's Next
18,Neil Young,After the Gold Rush
19,Led Zeppelin,Led Zeppelin IV
20,Stevie Wonder,Songs in the Key of Life
21,Bob Dylan,Bringing It All Back Home
22,U2,The Joshua Tree
23,Television,Marquee Moon
24,The Rolling Stones,Let It Bleed
25,Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,Trout Mask Replica
26,Patti Smith,Horses
27,Carole King,Tapestry
28,Aretha Franklin,Lady Soul
29,Brian Eno,Another Green World
30,Led Zeppelin,Led Zeppelin II
31,Talking Heads,Remain in Light
32,Radiohead,OK Computer
33,Paul Simon,Graceland
34,Pink Floyd,The Dark Side of the Moon
35,The Smiths,The Queen Is Dead
36,David Bowie,Low
37,Randy Newman,Sail Away
38,Miles Davis,Kind of Blue
39,The Rolling Stones,Sticky Fingers
40,Jimi Hendrix Experience,Are You Experienced
41,Sly & the Family Stone,There's a Riot Goin' On
42,Bob Dylan & the Band,The Basement Tapes
43,Prince and the Revolution,Purple Rain
44,Pavement,Slanted and Enchanted
45,Bruce Springsteen,Born to Run
46,Stevie Wonder,Innervisions
47,Love,Forever Changes
48,Public Enemy,It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
49,The Stooges,Fun House
50,Neil Young,Harvest
51,John Lennon,Plastic Ono Band
52,Bob Dylan,The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
53,Nick Drake,Five Leaves Left
54,R.E.M.,Murmur
55,Michael Jackson,Thriller
56,Wire,Pink Flag
57,Fleetwood Mac,Rumours
58,The Sex Pistols,Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
59,Otis Redding,Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul
60,Dusty Springfield,Dusty in Memphis
61,Sonic Youth,Daydream Nation
62,Prince,Sign 'O' the Times
63,The Byrds,Sweetheart of the Rodeo
64,Joni Mitchell,Hejira
65,Bob Dylan,John Wesley Harding
66,The Replacements,Let It Be
67,Can,Tago Mago
68,Simon & Garfunkel,Bookends
69,Sly & the Family Stone,Stand!
70,Roxy Music,For Your Pleasure
71,Hüsker Dü,Zen Arcade
72,Al Green,Call Me
73,Ray Charles,The Genius of Ray Charles
74,Kraftwerk,Trans-Europe Express
75,Big Star,Third/Sister Lovers
76,The Jimi Hendrix Experience,Electric Ladyland
77,Radiohead,The Bends
78,The Rolling Stones,Beggars Banquet
79,Blondie,Parallel Lines
80,The Band,The Band
81,Bruce Springsteen,Nebraska
82,Neil Young & Crazy Horse,Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
83,Stevie Wonder,Talking Book
84,Tom Waits,Rain Dogs
85,Van Morrison,Moondance
86,My Bloody Valentine,Loveless
87,Gram Parsons,Grievous Angel
88,David Bowie,Station to Station
89,Todd Rundgren,Something/Anything?
90,Pink Floyd,The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
91,Joni Mitchell,The Hissing of Summer Lawns
92,Gang of Four,Entertainment!
93,Kate Bush,Hounds of Love
94,Minutemen,Double Nickels on the Dime
95,P.J. Harvey,Rid of Me
96,The Kinks,The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
97,Talking Heads,Fear of Music
98,Lou Reed,Transformer
99,James Brown,Live at the Apollo
100,Public Image Ltd.,Metal Box
101,Leonard Cohen,Songs of Leonard Cohen
102,Neil Young,On the Beach
103,Pixies,Doolittle
104,Yo La Tengo,I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
105,Prince,Dirty Mind
106,Eminem,The Marshall Mathers LP
107,Love,Da Capo
108,David Bowie,Hunky Dory
109,Derek and the Dominos,Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
110,Elton John,Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
111,X,Wild Gift
112,Paul McCartney & Wings,Band on the Run
113,The Byrds,Younger Than Yesterday
114,Curtis Mayfield,Curtis
115,Pere Ubu,The Modern Dance
116,Nick Drake,Pink Moon
117,Devo,Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
118,Bob Marley & the Wailers,Catch a Fire
119,Big Star,Radio City
120,Funkadelic,Maggot Brain
121,Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention,We're Only in It for the Money
122,John Coltrane,A Love Supreme
123,Beastie Boys,Paul's Boutique
124,Jay-Z,The Blueprint
125,Lucinda Williams,Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
126,Roxy Music,Roxy Music
127,The Ramones,Ramones
128,Frank Sinatra,Songs for Swingin' Lovers!
129,Bruce Springsteen,"The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle"
130,Tim Buckley,Happy Sad
131,Black Sabbath,Paranoid
132,The B-52's,The B-52's
133,The Stooges,Raw Power
134,The Beatles,A Hard Day's Night
135,Sleater-Kinney,Dig Me Out
136,Led Zeppelin,Physical Graffiti
137,George Harrison,All Things Must Pass
138,Ornette Coleman,The Shape of Jazz to Come
139,R.E.M.,Automatic for the People
140,Pink Floyd,Wish You Were Here
141,The Notorious B.I.G.,Ready to Die
142,N.W.A,Straight Outta Compton
143,Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds,Murder Ballads
144,Jackson Browne,Late for the Sky
145,Portishead,Dummy
146,Björk,Homogenic
147,Charles Mingus,The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
148,Liz Phair,Exile in Guyville
149,Run-D.M.C.,Raising Hell
150,Guided by Voices,Bee Thousand
151,The Jesus and Mary Chain,Psychocandy
152,Miles Davis,Bitches Brew
153,Elliott Smith,Either/Or
154,The Kinks,Something Else by the Kinks
155,Joni Mitchell,Court and Spark
156,AC/DC,Back in Black
157,Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers,Damn the Torpedoes
158,Iggy Pop,Lust for Life
159,The Doors,The Doors
160,Beck,Odelay
161,The Zombies,Odessey and Oracle
162,Neutral Milk Hotel,In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
163,Cream,Disraeli Gears
164,Sam Cooke,"Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963"
165,De La Soul,3 Feet High and Rising
166,Aretha Franklin,I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
167,The Pretenders,Pretenders
168,Buzzcocks,Singles Going Steady
169,Moby Grape,Moby Grape
170,Led Zeppelin,Led Zeppelin
171,Dr. Dre,The Chronic
172,Wilco,Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
173,Big Brother & the Holding Company,Cheap Thrills
174,Creedence Clearwater Revival,Green River
175,Björk,Post
176,PJ Harvey,To Bring You My Love
177,Dire Straits,Dire Straits
178,Pulp,Different Class
179,X-Ray Spex,Germfree Adolescents
180,Black Flag,Damaged
181,The Flying Burrito Brothers,The Gilded Palace of Sin
182,Richard Hell & the Voidoids,Blank Generation
183,T. Rex,Electric Warrior
184,Patsy Cline,The Ultimate Collection
185,Galaxie 500,On Fire
186,Isaac Hayes,Hot Buttered Soul
187,Madonna,Like a Prayer
188,New York Dolls,New York Dolls
189,The Specials,The Specials
190,Buffalo Springfield,Buffalo Springfield Again
191,The Gun Club,Fire of Love
192,Pink Floyd,The Wall
193,Dinosaur Jr.,You're Living All Over Me
194,Randy Newman,Good Old Boys
195,Hole,Live Through This
196,The Raincoats,The Raincoats
197,Massive Attack,Blue Lines
198,The Modern Lovers,The Modern Lovers
199,The Allman Brothers Band,At Fillmore East
200,Kanye West,My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
201,Pixies,Surfer Rosa
202,Arcade Fire,Funeral
203,LCD Soundsystem,Sound of Silver
204,The Go-Betweens,16 Lovers Lane
205,Dr. John,Gris-Gris
206,D'Angelo,Voodoo
207,Metallica,Master of Puppets
208,Uncle Tupelo,No Depression
209,Outkast,Aquemini
210,Air,Moon Safari
211,Richard & Linda Thompson,I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
212,The White Stripes,Elephant
213,Cheap Trick,In Color
214,Traffic,The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
215,Echo & the Bunnymen,Heaven Up Here
216,The Stone Roses,The Stone Roses
217,Can,Ege Bamyasi
218,Iggy & the Stooges,Raw Power
219,Smashing Pumpkins,Siamese Dream
220,50 Cent,Get Rich or Die Tryin'
221,Peter Gabriel,Peter Gabriel 3: Melt
222,ABC,The Lexicon of Love
223,Bob Mould,Workbook
224,Guns N' Roses,Appetite for Destruction
225,Violent Femmes,Violent Femmes
226,Dexy's Midnight Runners,Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
227,Ray Charles,Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
228,King Crimson,In the Court of the Crimson King
229,PJ Harvey,"Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea"
230,My Morning Jacket,Z
231,The Feelies,Crazy Rhythms
232,Ice Cube,AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
233,Graham Parker & the Rumour,Squeezing Out Sparks
234,Suicide,Suicide
235,Steely Dan,Can't Buy a Thrill
236,Belle & Sebastian,If You're Feeling Sinister
237,Cocteau Twins,Heaven or Las Vegas
238,The Strokes,Is This It
239,The Cure,Disintegration
240,Eric B. & Rakim,Paid in Full
241,Tom Waits,Swordfishtrombones
242,The Pogues,Rum Sodomy & the Lash
243,The Police,Synchronicity
244,Blur,Parklife
245,Meat Puppets,Meat Puppets II
246,Scritti Politti,Cupid & Psyche 85
247,Supertramp,Crime of the Century
248,Thelonious Monk,Brilliant Corners
249,Big Youth,Screaming Target
250,The Magnetic Fields,69 Love Songs
251,Daft Punk,Discovery
252,Oasis,(What's the Story) Morning Glory?
253,The Impressions,The Impressions' Greatest Hits
254,Radiohead,Kid A
255,ZZ Top,Tres Hombres
256,Squeeze,East Side Story
257,Brian Eno,Before and After Science
258,Quicksilver Messenger Service,Happy Trails
259,The Temptations,Anthology
260,Peter Tosh,Legalize It
261,Flying Lotus,Cosmogramma
262,The Pharcyde,Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
263,Weezer,Weezer (Blue Album)
264,Loretta Lynn,Coal Miner's Daughter
265,Robyn,Body Talk
266,Def Leppard,Pyromania
267,Wu-Tang Clan,Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
268,Rufus & Chaka Khan,Ask Rufus
269,Neil Diamond,The Bang Years 1966–1968
270,Fela Kuti & Africa 70,Expensive Shit
271,Shania Twain,Come On Over
272,A Tribe Called Quest,The Low End Theory
273,The White Stripes,White Blood Cells
274,The Slits,Cut
275,Radiohead,In Rainbows
276,Green Day,Dookie
277,Billy Joel,The Stranger
278,Can,Future Days
279,George Michael,Faith
280,The Isley Brothers,3 + 3
281,Brian Wilson,Smile
282,The Fall,This Nation's Saving Grace
283,Jefferson Airplane,Surrealistic Pillow
284,EPMD,Strictly Business
285,Rod Stewart,Every Picture Tells a Story
286,Todd Rundgren,"A Wizard, a True Star"
287,Primal Scream,Screamadelica
288,The Ronettes,Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes
289,Brian Eno,Here Come the Warm Jets
290,Fiona Apple,When the Pawn...
291,Grateful Dead,Anthem of the Sun
292,Junior Murvin,Police and Thieves
293,Suicide,Suicide
294,Burial,Untrue
295,Coldplay,A Rush of Blood to the Head
296,Diana Ross & the Supremes,Anthology
297,ABBA,The Definitive Collection
298,Donald Fagen,The Nightfly
299,Ghostface Killah,Supreme Clientele
300,Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force,Planet Rock: The Album
301,Parquet Courts,Wide Awake!
302,The Fugees,The Score
303,Ween,Chocolate and Cheese
304,Amy Winehouse,Back to Black
305,OutKast,Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
306,Dolly Parton,Coat of Many Colors
307,The Shangri-Las,Leader of the Pack
308,Motörhead,Ace of Spades
309,Aphex Twin,Selected Ambient Works 85-92
310,Bon Iver,"For Emma, Forever Ago"
311,John Prine,John Prine
312,Vampire Weekend,Modern Vampires of the City
313,The Flaming Lips,The Soft Bulletin
314,Faust,Faust IV
315,Kid Cudi,Man on the Moon: The End of Day
316,Lou Reed,Berlin
317,Solange,When I Get Home
318,The Streets,Original Pirate Material
319,"Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young",Déjà Vu
320,M.I.A.,Kala
321,The Weeknd,House of Balloons
322,Johnny Cash,At Folsom Prison
323,Spiritualized,Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
324,Madvillain,Madvillainy
325,Maxwell,Urban Hang Suite
326,Animal Collective,Merriweather Post Pavilion
327,Toots & the Maytals,Funky Kingston
328,The Human League,Dare
329,Yes,Close to the Edge
330,The Congos,Heart of the Congos
331,Pet Shop Boys,Actually
332,Erykah Badu,Baduizm
333,Disco Inferno,D.I. Go Pop
334,ESG,Come Away with ESG
335,The Sonics,Here Are the Sonics
336,Alice Coltrane,Journey in Satchidananda
337,TLC,CrazySexyCool
338,Tame Impala,Lonerism
339,M.I.A.,Arular
340,Dwight Yoakam,"Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc."
341,Snoop Doggy Dogg,Doggystyle
342,Depeche Mode,Violator
343,Jane's Addiction,Nothing's Shocking
344,Mobb Deep,The Infamous
345,Santana,Santana
346,John Cale,Paris 1919
347,Notorious B.I.G.,Life After Death
348,The Feelies,The Good Earth
349,Frank Ocean,Channel Orange
350,Usher,Confessions
351,Janet Jackson,Control
352,Eagles,Hotel California
353,Neneh Cherry,Raw Like Sushi
354,OutKast,Stankonia
355,Boogie Down Productions,Criminal Minded
356,King Sunny Adé,Juju Music
357,Missy Elliott,Supa Dupa Fly
358,Aerosmith,Rocks
359,Rihanna,Anti
360,Muddy Waters,The Anthology
361,Kendrick Lamar,"good kid, m.A.A.d city"
362,Harry Nilsson,Nilsson Schmilsson
363,Buddy Holly,"The ""Chirping"" Crickets"
364,Nas,Illmatic
365,Raekwon,Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
366,Manu Chao,Clandestino
367,Janelle Monáe,The ArchAndroid
368,Throbbing Gristle,20 Jazz Funk Greats
369,Dead Kennedys,Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
370,Fugazi,Repeater
371,Kanye West,The College Dropout
372,Weezer,Pinkerton
373,Lana Del Rey,Norman Fucking Rockwell!
374,Schoolly D,Saturday Night! The Album
375,Eurythmics,Touch
376,Suede,Suede
377,Carly Rae Jepsen,E•MO•TION
378,Ornette Coleman,Free Jazz
379,Janet Jackson,The Velvet Rope
380,Talk Talk,Laughing Stock
381,Pharoah Sanders,Karma
382,King Tubby,Meets Rockers Uptown
383,Elliott Smith,XO
384,The Chemical Brothers,Dig Your Own Hole
385,Aaliyah,One in a Million
386,Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers,Rockin' and Romance
387,Queens of the Stone Age,Songs for the Deaf
388,War,The World Is a Ghetto
389,Gary Numan/Tubeway Army,The Pleasure Principle
390,Boston,Boston
391,The Mothers of Invention,Freak Out!
392,Chic,Risqué
393,2Pac,All Eyez on Me
394,John Fahey,The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death
395,Meat Loaf,Bat Out of Hell
396,Bon Iver,Bon Iver
397,Can,Soundtracks
398,Pantera,Vulgar Display of Power
399,Mary J. Blige,My Life
400,Dinosaur,You're Living All Over Me
401,Jay-Z,Reasonable Doubt
402,"Tyler, the Creator",Igor
403,Misfits,Walk Among Us
404,The dB's,Stands for Decibels
405,Fela Kuti & Africa 70,Zombie
406,The Meters,Look-Ka Py Py
407,Mariah Carey,The Emancipation of Mimi
408,Bad Bunny,X 100pre
409,Adele,21
410,The Descendents,Milo Goes to College
411,Nicki Minaj,The Pinkprint
412,Soundgarden,Superunknown
413,LL Cool J,Radio
414,Mazzy Star,So Tonight That I Might See
415,Rancid,...And Out Come the Wolves
416,Iron Maiden,The Number of the Beast
417,Saint Etienne,So Tough
418,Bright Eyes,"I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning"
419,Gorillaz,Demon Days
420,J Dilla,Donuts
421,UGK,Ridin' Dirty
422,Travis Scott,Astroworld
423,Rush,Moving Pictures
424,R.E.M.,Reckoning
425,The Mekons,Fear and Whiskey
426,Minutemen,What Makes a Man Start Fires?
427,MC5,Kick Out the Jams
428,Manu Dibango,Soul Makossa
429,Bill Withers,Just As I Am
430,Dizzee Rascal,Boy in da Corner
431,Os Mutantes,Os Mutantes
432,Sade,Diamond Life
433,Drive-By Truckers,Southern Rock Opera
434,Taylor Swift,Red
435,Judas Priest,British Steel
436,Yoko Ono,Fly
437,Boards of Canada,Music Has the Right to Children
438,Beat Happening,Jamboree
439,The Vaselines,Dum-Dum
440,The Avalanches,Since I Left You
441,Lil Wayne,Tha Carter III
442,The Stranglers,Rattus Norvegicus
443,Beyoncé,Beyoncé
444,Ariana Grande,"thank u, next"
445,Bonnie 'Prince' Billy,I See a Darkness
446,Britney Spears,Blackout
447,The Orb,The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
448,Queen,A Night at the Opera
449,Big Thief,U.F.O.F.
450,The Mamas & the Papas,If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears
451,The Mountain Goats,The Sunset Tree
452,Black Lips,Good Bad Not Evil
453,X,Los Angeles
454,Justin Timberlake,FutureSex/LoveSounds
455,Young Thug,Barter 6
456,Dean Martin,Sleep Warm
457,Shakira,Dónde Están los Ladrones?
458,Van Halen,Van Halen
459,Tracy Chapman,Tracy Chapman
460,The Libertines,Up the Bracket
461,Scott Walker,Scott 4
462,Merle Haggard,Mama Tried
463,Alice Cooper,Love It to Death
464,Kate Bush,The Dreaming
465,Yeah Yeah Yeahs,Fever to Tell
466,Jimmy Cliff,The Harder They Come
467,Thin Lizzy,Live and Dangerous
468,Lily Allen,"Alright, Still"
469,Earth Wind & Fire,That's the Way of the World
470,Sinéad O'Connor,I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
471,Cyndi Lauper,She's So Unusual
472,SZA,Ctrl
473,Daddy Yankee,Barrio Fino
474,Big Star,#1 Record
475,Sheryl Crow,Sheryl Crow
476,Sparks,Kimono My House
477,Howlin' Wolf,Moanin' in the Moonlight
478,The Kinks,The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
479,Selena,Amor Prohibido
480,Miranda Lambert,The Weight of These Wings
481,Belle and Sebastian,If You're Feeling Sinister
482,The Pharcyde,Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
483,Muddy Waters,The Anthology
484,Lady Gaga,Born This Way
485,Richard & Linda Thompson,I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
486,John Mayer,Continuum
487,Black Flag,Damaged
488,The Stooges,The Stooges
489,Phil Spector & Various Artists,Back to Mono (1958-1969)
490,Linda Ronstadt,Heart Like a Wheel
491,Harry Styles,Fine Line
492,Bonnie Raitt,Nick of Time
493,Marvin Gaye,"Here, My Dear"
494,The Ronettes,Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes
495,Boyz II Men,II
496,Shakira,Dónde Están los Ladrones?
497,Various Artists,The Indestructible Beat of Soweto
498,Suicide,Suicide
499,Rufus & Chaka Khan,Ask Rufus
500,Arcade Fire,Funeral