BestEverAlbums.com, in its own words, “calculates a ranking from over 60,000 greatest album charts to allow visitors to look up the greatest music albums in history.” The grandaddy of all lists is there ranking of 10,000 albums. I’ve listed the top 100 here.
Check out other publications and organizations’ best-of album lists here.
1. Radiohead OK Computer (1997)
2. Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
3. The Beatles Abbey Road (1969)
4. The Beatles Revolver (1966)
5. Radiohead Kid A (2000)
6. Radiohead In Rainbows (2007)
7. The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
8. Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here (1975)
9. David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
10. The Velvet Underground & Nico Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
11. The Beach Boys Pet Sounds (1966)
12. Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
13. The Beatles The Beatles (aka “The White Album”) (1968)
14. Nirvana Nevermind (1991)
15. Arcade Fire Funeral (2004)
16. Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)
17. The Smiths The Queen Is Dead (1986)
18. Pixies Doolittle (1989)
19. Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly (2015)
20. The Clash London Calling (1979)
21. Fleetwood Mac Rumours (1977)
22. My Bloody Valentine Loveless (1991)
23. Radiohead The Bends (1995)
24. The Strokes Is This It (2001)
25. King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)
26. Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
27. Talking Heads Remain in Light (1980)
28. The Beatles Rubber Soul (1965)
29. Pink Floyd The Wall (1979)
30. The Doors The Doors (1967)
31. The Cure Disintegration (1989)
32. Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde (1966)
33. Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)
34. The Stone Roses The Stone Roses (1989)
35. Kendrick Lamar Good Kid m.A.A.d. City (2012)
36. Pink Floyd Animals (1977)
37. Miles Davis Kind of Blue (1959)
38. Joy Division Unknown Pleasures (1979)
39. Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced? (1967)
40. The Who Who’s Next (1971)
41. Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks (1975)
42. Sufjan Stevens Illinois (2005)
43. Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II (1969)
44. The Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street (1972)
45. David Bowie Hunky Dory (1971)
46. Arcade Fire The Suburbs (2010)
47. Television Marquee Moon (1977)
48. Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2001)
49. R.E.M. Automatic for the People (1992)
50. Pearl Jam Ten (1991)
51. Nick Drake Pink Moon (1972)
52. Marvin Gaye What’s Going On (1971)
53. U2 The Joshua Tree (1987)
54. David Bowie Low (1/14/77)
55. Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream (1993)
56. Black Sabbath Paranoid (1970)
57. The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers (1971)
58. Kate Bush Hounds of Love (1985)
59. Jeff Buckley Grace (1994)
60. Nirvana In Utero (1993)
61. Oasis (What’s the Story) Morning Glory (1995)
62. The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed (1969)
63. Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin I (1969)
64. The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland (1968)
65. Nas Illmatic (1994)
66. Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (2006)
67. Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell (2015)
68. Van Morrison Astral Weeks (1968)
69. Sonic Youth Daydream Nation (1988)
70. Sigur Rós Ágaetis Byrjun (1999)
71. Bruce Springsteen Born to Run (1975)
72. Love Forever Changes (1967)
73. Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)
74. Joni Mitchell Blue (1971)
75. John Coltrane A Love Supreme (1965)
76. Portishead Dummy (1994)
77. Michael Jackson Thriller (1982)
78. Tame Impala Lonerism (2012)
79. Joy Division Closer (1980)
80. Weezer Weezer (aka “The Blue Album”) (1994)
81. Prince & the Revolution Purple Rain (soundtrack, 1984)
82. Madvillain Madvillainy (2004)
83. Neil Young After the Gold Rush (1970)
84. The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
85. Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995)
86. Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life (1976)
87. The Zombies Odessey & Oracle (1968)
88. Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights (2002)
89. Godspeed You Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennae to Heaven (2000)
90. Yes Close to the Edge (1972)
91. Frank Ocean Blond (2016)
92. Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963)
93. Björk Homogenic (1997)
94. The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground (1969)
95. LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver (2007)
96. Slint Spiderland (1991)
97. Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang Clan (36 Chambers) (1993)
98. Pixies Surfer Rosa (1988)
99. George Harrison All Things Must Pass (1970)
100. Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti (1975)
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