Top 100 Albums

Rank Title Year Band
1 Born to Run 1975 Bruce Springsteen
2 The Wall 1979 Pink Floyd
3 Trout Mask Replica 1969 Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
4 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars 1972 David Bowie
5 Pet Sounds 1966 The Beach Boys
6 De-Loused in the Comatorium 2003 The Mars Volta
7 The Joshua Tree 1987 U2
8 Appetite for Destruction 1987 Guns N’ Roses
9 Dark Side of the Moon 1973 Pink Floyd
10 Thriller 1982 Michael Jackson
11 Born in the U.S.A. 1984 Bruce Springsteen
12 Achtung Baby 1991 U2
13 Revolver 1966 The Beatles
14 Rumours 1977 Fleetwood Mac
15 Led Zeppelin II 1969 Led Zeppelin
16 Highway 61 Revisited 1965 Bob Dylan
17 Ten 1991 Pearl Jam
18 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967 The Beatles
19 An Innocent Man 1983 Billy Joel
20 Marquee Moon 1977 Television
21 Nihil 1995 KMFDM
22 Nevermind 1991 Nirvana
23 Kid A 2000 Radiohead
24 Aquemini 1998 Outkast
25 Tapestry 1971 Carole King
26 Funeral 2004 Arcade Fire
27 Disintegration 1989 The Cure
28 Purple 1994 Stone Temple Pilots
29 Out of Time 1991 R.E.M.
30 The Clash 1977 The Clash
31 A Hard Day’s Night 1964 The Beatles
32 Jagged Little Pill 1995 Alanis Morissette
33 The Downward Spiral 1994 Nine Inch Nails
34 Who’s Next 1971 The Who
35 Mezzanine 1998 Massive Attack
36 August and Everything After 1993 Counting Crows
37 Abbey Road 1969 The Beatles
38 Vitalogy 1994 Pearl Jam
39 Chinese Democracy 2008 Guns N’ Roses
40 Spice 1996 The Spice Girls
41 Paranoid 1970 Black Sabbath
42 Sticky Fingers 1971 The Rolling Stones
43 The Velvet Underground & Nico 1967 The Velvet Underground
44 Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs 1970 Derek and the Dominoes
45 Physical Graffiti 1975 Led Zeppelin
46 Broken 1992 Nine Inch Nails
47 Loveless 1991 My Bloody Valentine
48 Let It Bleed 1969 The Rolling Stones
49 Fleetwood Mac 1975 Fleetwood Mac
50 Prick 1995 Prick
51 Wish You Were Here 1975 Pink Floyd
52 Low 1977 David Bowie
53 Music from Big Pink 1968 The Band
54 Exile on Main St. 1972 The Rolling Stones
55 Magical Mystery Tour 1967 The Beatles
56 Led Zeppelin III 1970 Led Zeppelin
57 Tommy 1969 The Who
58 Fun House 1970 The Stooges
59 Remain in Light 1980 Talking Heads
60 The Book of Secrets 1997 Loreena McKennitt
61 A Night at the Opera 1975 Queen
62 The Love Below/Speakerboxxx 2003 Outkast
63 She’s So Unusual 1983 Cyndi Lauper
64 Pretty Hate Machine 1989 Nine Inch Nails
65 Automatic for the People 1992 R.E.M.
66 Smile 1997 Brian Wilson
67 London Calling 1979 The Clash
68 Recipe for Hate 1993 Bad Religion
69 Like a Prayer 1989 Madonna
70 Grace 1994 Jeff Buckley
71 Shangri La Dee Da 2001 Stone Temple Pilots
72 The Beach Boys Today! 1965 The Beach Boys
73 Meddle 1971 Pink Floyd
74 Hang-Ups 1997 Goldfinger
75 What’s Going On 1971 Marvin Gaye
76 Tiny Music: Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop 1996 Stone Temple Pilots
77 …And Justice For All 1998 Metallica
78 OK Computer 1997 Radiohead
79 Our Newest Album Ever! 1997 Five Iron Frenzy
80 Life in the So-Called Space Age 1998 God Lives Underwater
81 Are You Experienced? 1967 The Jimi Hendrix Experience
82 All Things Must Pass 1970 George Harrison
83 All Summer Long 1964 The Beach Boys
84 Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain 1994 Pavement
85 Dookie 1994 Green Day
86 Led Zeppelin IV 1971 Led Zeppelin
87 The Stone Roses 1989 The Stone Roses
88 The Velvet Underground 1969 The Velvet Underground
89 Escape 1981 Journey
90 Californication 1999 Red Hot Chili Peppers
91 Odessey & Oracle 1967 The Zombies
92 Yield 1998 Pearl Jam
93 Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes 1977 Jimmy Buffett
94 This Year’s Model 1978 Elvis Costello
95 Weezer 1994 Weezer
96 Safe As Milk 1967 Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
97 Hunky Dory 1971 David Bowie
98 Nebraska 1982 Bruce Springsteen
99 Is This It 2001 The Strokes
100 The Doors 1967 The Doors

2 Responses to “Top 100 Albums”

  1. My RSS feeder was SHOCKED to get a new Nineflick post. You’re list is interesting, and as it is a personal list, one can’t find fault in it. However, any group listed below the Spice Girls has to be appalled.

  2. I knew Spice would be brought up promptly. It really is a great album, if you’re man enough to admit you like girlie pop. I think that is a logical sentence.

    To be honest, I feel pretty good about the top 20 or so. I feel like my enjoyment of those albums is pretty well differentiated. After that, it gets noticeably harder, in part because you have to make calls that go completely against the grain (for instance, I think Nihil is a really fantastic album. But it’s not really known as such.) So things could definitely be shuffled up a bit.

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