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 11/29/2020.
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1. The Beach Boys Pet Sounds (1966)
2. Nirvana Nevermind (1991)
3. The Beatles Revolver (1966)
4. Velvet Underground & Nico Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
5. Marvin Gaye What’s Going On (1971)
6. The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
7. The Clash London Calling (1979)
8. Radiohead OK Computer (1997)
9. Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde (1966)
10. The Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street (1972)
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. Bruce Springsteen Born to Run (1975)
17. Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly (2015)
18. Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988)
19. David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
20. The Beatles Abbey Road (1969)
21. Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
22. Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks (1975)
23. Michael Jackson Thriller (1982)
24. Arcade Fire Funeral (2004)
25. Patti Smith Horses (1975)
26. Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)
27. The Smiths The Queen Is Dead (1986)
28. Television Marquee Moon (1977)
29. Miles Davis Kind of Blue (1959)
30. Prince Sign ‘O’ the Times (1987)
31. The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland (1968)
32. The Beatles Rubber Soul (1965)
33. Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
34. The Strokes Is This It (2001)
35. Radiohead Kid A (2000)
36. The Doors The Doors (1967)
37. Talking Heads Remain in Light (1980)
38. The Who Who’s Next (1971)
39. The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet (1968)
40. U2 The Joshua Tree (1987)
41. Ramones Ramones (1976)
42. The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed (1969)
43. Massive Attack Blue Lines (1991)
44. James Brown Live at the Apollo Volume 1 (live, 1962)
45. Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life (1976)
46. R.E.M. Automatic for the People (1992)
47. Prince & the Revolution Purple Rain (soundtrack, 1984)
48. Stevie Wonder Innervisions (1973)
49. Joni Mitchell Blue (1971)
50. Beck Odelay (1996)
51. The Pixies Doolittle (1989)
52. John Coltrane A Love Supreme (1965)
53. The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers (1971)
54. My Bloody Valentine Loveless (1991)
55. Joy Division Closer (1980)
56. Love Forever Changes (1967)
57. The Band The Band (1969)
58. Jeff Buckley Grace (1994)
59. Fleetwood Mac Rumours (1977)
60. Neil Young After the Gold Rush (1970)
61. Sly & the Family Stone There’s a Riot Goin’ On (1971)
62. Portishead Dummy (1994)
63. Guns N’ Roses Appetite for Destruction (1987)
64. Sonic Youth Daydream Nation (1988)
65. Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2001)
66. Frank Ocean Channel Orange (2012)
67. The Stone Roses The Stone Roses (1989)
68. The Clash The Clash (1977)
69. Carole King Tapestry (1971)
70. R.E.M. Murmur (1983)
71. Paul Simon Graceland (1986)
72. David Bowie Blackstar (2016)
73. De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising (1989)
74. Otis Redding Otis Blue (1965)
75. David Bowie Hunky Dory (1971)
76. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica (1969)
77. John Lennon Plastic Ono Band (1970)
78. Joy Division Unknown Pleasures (1979)
79. DJ Shadow Endtroducing… (1996)
80. Miles Davis Bitches Brew (1970)
81. The White Stripes Elephant (2003)
82. U2 Achtung Baby (1991)
83. Oasis (What’s the Story) Morning Glory (1995)
84. Radiohead The Bends (1995)
85. Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
86. Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy (1985)
87. Aretha Franklin I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (1967)
88. Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II (1969)
89. Derek and the Dominos Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs (1970)
90. Beastie Boys Paul’s Boutique (1989)
91. Radiohead In Rainbows (2007)
92. Elvis Costello & The Attractions This Year’s Model (1978)
93. The Band Music from Big Pink (1968)
94. Pavement Slanted and Enchanted (1992)
95. Sufjan Stevens Illinois (2005)
96. Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang Clan (36 Chambers) (1993)
97. N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton (1989)
98. Dusty Springfield Dusty in Memphis (1969)
99. Lou Reed Transformer (1972)
100. Nirvana In Utero (1993)
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