Monday, February 28, 2011

Q Magazine's Top 100 Albums of All Time

First posted 2/28/2011; updated 8/12/2020.

Q Magazine:

The Top 100 Albums

Q magazine is a British magazine that has been around since the mid-‘80s. While its U.S. counterparts seem dead-set on always putting a scantily clad babe on their covers or shoving in non-musical content that supposedly fits the same demographic, Q is all music. Over the years, they’ve put out a number of best-of-all-time album lists. I’ve aggregated 16 of them (see the links at the bottom of the page) for a ranking you won’t find in any of their magazines.

Also, check out annual picks for album of the year.

1. Radiohead OK Computer (1997)
2. Oasis Definitely Maybe (1994)
3. The Stone Roses The Stone Roses (1989)
4. The Verve Urban Hymns (1997)
5. Primal Scream Screamadelica (1991)
6. Blur Parklife (1994)
7. Oasis What’s the Story Morning Glory (1995)
8. Radiohead The Bends (1995)
9. Nirvana Nevermind (1991)
10. U2 Achtung Baby (1991)

11. The Smiths The Queen Is Dead (1986)
12. Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols (1977)
13. Massive Attack Blue Lines (1991)
14. The Beatles Revolver (1966)
15. The Clash London Calling (1979)
16. Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
17. U2 The Joshua Tree (1987)
18. R.E.M. Automatic for the People (1992)
19. David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
20. Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002)

21. Manic Street Preachers Everything Must Go (1996)
22. Pulp Different Class (1995)
23. The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
24. Jeff Buckley Grace (1994)
25. Kate Bush Hounds of Love (1985)
26. The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed (1969)
27. Guns N’ Roses Appetite for Destruction (1987)
28. Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
29. Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible (1994)
30. Velvet Underground & Nico Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)

31. David Bowie Hunky Dory (1971)
32. Nirvana In Utero (1993)
33. The Prodigy Fat of the Land (1997)
34. Prince Sign ‘O’ the Times (1987)
35. Portishead Dummy (1994)
36. Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988)
37. The Strokes Is This It (2001)
38. The Beatles The Beatles (aka “The White Album”) (1968)
39. Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks (1975)
40. The Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street (1972)

41. Van Morrison Astral Weeks (1968)
42. Coldplay Parachutes (2000)
43. The Beach Boys Pet Sounds (1966)
44. Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole (1997)
45. Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill (1995)
46. Depeche Mode Violator (1990)
47. Madonna Ray of Light (1998)
48. Pearl Jam Ten (1991)
49. Beck Odelay (1996)
50. Stereophonics Word Gets Around (1997)

51. The Beatles Abbey Road (1969)
52. Radiohead Kid A (2000)
53. The Beatles Rubber Soul (1965)
54. Queen A Night at the Opera (1975)
55. Joy Division Unknown Pleasures (1979)
56. The Pixies Doolittle (1989)
57. Joy Division Closer (1980)
58. Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication (1999)
59. Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995)
60. Fleetwood Mac Rumours (1977)

61. Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here (1975)
62. Michael Jackson Thriller (1982)
63. Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti (1975)
64. The Who Who’s Next (1971)
65. The Specials The Specials (1979)
66. Marvin Gaye What’s Going On (1971)
67. Pink Floyd The Wall (1979)
68. Muse Origin of Symmetry (2001)
69. The Human League Dare! (1981)
70. The Jam All Mod Cons (1978)

71. The Cure Disintegration (1989)
72. The Prodigy Music for the Jilted Generation (1994)
73. Happy Mondays Pills ‘N’ Thrills and Bellyaches (1990)
74. Leftfield Leftism (1995)
75. Travis The Man Who (1999)
76. Metallica Metallica (aka “The Black Album”) (1991) 77. Moby Play (1999)
78. R.E.M. Out of Time (1991)
79. PJ Harvey Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (2000)
80. The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers (1971)

81. Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (2006)
82. Muse Black Holes & Revelations (2006)
83. Gorillaz Demon Days (2005)
84. The White Stripes White Blood Cells (2001)
85. Roxy Music For Your Pleasure (1973)
86. Radiohead In Rainbows (2007)
87. Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)
88. The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland (1968)
89. The Libertines Up the Bracket (2002)
90. Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited (1965)

91. Nick Drake Bryter Layter (1970)
92. Amy Winehouse Back to Black (2006)
93. The Small Faces Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake (1968)
94. Bruce Springsteen Born to Run (1975)
95. Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
96. Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine (1992)
97. My Bloody Valentine Loveless (1991)
98. David Bowie Low (1977)
99. Oasis Be Here Now (1997)
100. Dexy’s Midnight Runners Searching for the Young Soul Rebels (1980)


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