According to Wikipedia, “Acclaimed Music is a website created by Henrik Franzon, a statistician from Stockholm Sweden in September 2001. Franz has statistically aggregated hundreds of published lists that rank songs and albums into aggregated rankings by year, decade, and all-time.” The lists include a ranking of the top 3000 albums, of which the top 100 are listed here. According to the website, this list was last updated 7/15/2018.
Also, check out annual picks for album of the year.
1. The Beach Boys Pet Sounds (1966)
2. The Beatles Revolver (1966)
3. Nirvana Nevermind (1991)
4. Velvet Underground & Nico Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
5. The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
6. The Clash London Calling (1979)
7. Marvin Gaye What’s Going On (1971)
8. Radiohead OK Computer (1997)
9. The Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street (1972)
10. Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde (1966)
11. Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
12. The Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols (1977)
13. The Beatles The Beatles (aka “The White Album”) (1968)
14. The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced? (1967)
15. Van Morrison Astral Weeks (1968)
16. David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
17. Bruce Springsteen Born to Run (1975)
18. Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988)
19. Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
20. The Beatles Abbey Road (1969)
21. Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks (1975)
22. The Smiths The Queen Is Dead (1986)
23. Patti Smith Horses (1975)
24. Television Marquee Moon (1977)
25. Michael Jackson Thriller (1982)
26. The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland (1968)
27. Arcade Fire Funeral (2004)
28. Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
29. Prince Sign ‘O’ the Times (1987)
30. The Doors The Doors (1967)
31. The Beatles Rubber Soul (1965)
32. The Who Who’s Next (1971)
33. The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet (1968)
34. Talking Heads Remain in Light (1980)
35. Miles Davis Kind of Blue (1959)
36. The Strokes Is This It (2001)
37. Massive Attack Blue Lines (1991)
38. Radiohead Kid A (2000)
39. Ramones Ramones (1976)
40. U2 The Joshua Tree (1987)
41. The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed (1969)
42. R.E.M. Automatic for the People (1992)
43. Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life (1976)
44. James Brown Live at the Apollo Volume 1 (live, 1962)
45. Joy Division Closer (1980)
46. Stevie Wonder Innervisions (1973)
47. The Pixies Doolittle (1989)
48. The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers (1971)
49. Prince & the Revolution Purple Rain (soundtrack, 1984)
50. Love Forever Changes (1967)
51. Beck Odelay (1996)
52. Joni Mitchell Blue (1971)
53. Neil Young After the Gold Rush (1970)
54. Jeff Buckley Grace (1994)
55. The Stone Roses The Stone Roses (1989)
56. Sly & the Family Stone There’s a Riot Goin’ On (1972)
57. The Band The Band (1969)
58. My Bloody Valentine Loveless (1991)
59. Portishead Dummy (1994)
60. Fleetwood Mac Rumours (1977)
61. John Coltrane A Love Supreme (1965)
62. Sonic Youth Daydream Nation (1988)
63. Guns N’ Roses Appetite for Destruction (1987)
64. Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)
65. The Clash The Clash (1977)
66. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica (1969)
67. Joy Division Unknown Pleasures (1979)
68. Otis Redding Otis Blue (1965)
69. R.E.M. Murmur (1983)
70. David Bowie Hunky Dory (1971)
71. John Lennon Plastic Ono Band (1970)
72. Carole King Tapestry (1971)
73. Paul Simon Graceland (1986)
74. De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising (1989)
75. Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2001)
76. DJ Shadow Endtroducing… (1996)
77. Oasis What's the Story Morning Glory (1995)
78. The White Stripes Elephant (2003)
79. Radiohead The Bends (1995)
80. U2 Achtung Baby (1991)
81. Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy (1985)
82. Miles Davis Bitches Brew (1970)
83. Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II (1969)
84. Lou Reed Transformer (1972)
85. Radiohead In Rainbows (2007)
86. Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
87. Primal Scream Screamadelica (1991)
88. Elvis Costello & The Attractions This Year’s Model (1978)
89. Derek and the Dominos Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs (1970)
90. The Band Music from Big Pink (1968)
91. Sufjan Stevens Illinois (2005)
92. Tom Waits Rain Dogs (1985)
93. Oasis Definitely Maybe (1994)
94. Aretha Franklin I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (1967)
95. John Lennon Imagine (1971)
96. Van Morrison Moondance (1970)
97. Neil Young Harvest (1972)
98. The Stooges Fun House (1970)
99. The Stooges Raw Power (1973)
100. Pixies Surfer Rosa (1988)
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