Acclaimed Music - The All Time Top 200 Albums <br>(Based on Critics Lists from UK + Ireland)

The All Time Top 200 Albums
(Based on Critics Lists from UK + Ireland)
Rank	Artist	Album	Year	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	The Beach Boys	Pet Sounds	1966		Listen
2	The Velvet Underground & Nico	The Velvet Underground & Nico	1967		Listen
3	Sex Pistols	Never Mind the Bollocks - Here's the Sex Pistols	1977		Listen
4	The Beatles	Revolver	1966
5	Nirvana	Nevermind	1991		Listen
6	Marvin Gaye	What's Going On	1971		Listen
7	The Clash	London Calling	1979		Listen
8	David Bowie	The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars	1972		Listen
9	The Beatles	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	1967
10	Van Morrison	Astral Weeks	1968		Listen
11	Television	Marquee Moon	1977		Listen
12	The Rolling Stones	Exile on Main St	1972		Listen
13	The Stone Roses	The Stone Roses	1989		Listen
14	Bob Dylan	Highway 61 Revisited	1965		Listen
15	Bob Dylan	Blonde on Blonde	1966		Listen
16	Radiohead	OK Computer	1997		Listen
17	Patti Smith	Horses	1975		Listen
18	Bob Dylan	Blood on the Tracks	1975		Listen
19	Primal Scream	Screamadelica	1991		Listen
20	The Beatles	The Beatles ("The White Album")	1968
21	The Smiths	The Queen Is Dead	1986		Listen
22	Oasis	Definitely Maybe	1994		Listen
23	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Are You Experienced?	1967		Listen
24	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Electric Ladyland	1968		Listen
25	Public Enemy	It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back	1988		Listen
26	Massive Attack	Blue Lines	1991		Listen
27	R.E.M.	Automatic for the People	1992		Listen
28	Pink Floyd	The Dark Side of the Moon	1973		Listen
29	Love	Forever Changes	1967		Listen
30	The Clash	The Clash	1977		Listen
31	Led Zeppelin	IV	1971		Listen
32	The Doors	The Doors	1967		Listen
33	James Brown	Live at the Apollo	1963		Listen
34	Joni Mitchell	Blue	1971		Listen
35	Joy Division	Unknown Pleasures	1979		Listen
36	Prince	Sign 'O' the Times	1987		Listen
37	Lou Reed	Transformer	1972
38	Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band	Trout Mask Replica	1969
39	Miles Davis	Kind of Blue	1959		Listen
40	Stevie Wonder	Innervisions	1973		Listen
41	Bruce Springsteen	Born to Run	1975		Listen
42	Joy Division	Closer	1980		Listen
43	Otis Redding	Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul	1965		Listen
44	The Rolling Stones	Let It Bleed	1969		Listen
45	Neil Young	After the Goldrush	1970		Listen
46	Ramones	Ramones	1976		Listen
47	The Beatles	Abbey Road	1969
48	David Bowie	Hunky Dory	1971
49	Radiohead	The Bends	1995		Listen
50	The Band	The Band	1969		Listen
51	Oasis	(What's the Story) Morning Glory?	1995		Listen
52	Pixies	Doolittle	1989		Listen
53	Sly and the Family Stone	There's a Riot Goin' On	1971		Listen
54	Kraftwerk	Trans-Europa Express	1977		Listen
55	Michael Jackson	Thriller	1982		Listen
56	Fleetwood Mac	Rumours	1977		Listen
57	Iggy and The Stooges	Raw Power	1973		Listen
58	Roxy Music	For Your Pleasure	1973		Listen
59	The Who	Who's Next	1971		Listen
60	Stevie Wonder	Songs in the Key of Life	1976		Listen
61	The Rolling Stones	Beggar's Banquet	1968		Listen
62	Jeff Buckley	Grace	1994		Listen
63	De La Soul	3 Feet High and Rising	1989		Listen
64	John Coltrane	A Love Supreme	1965		Listen
65	The Wailers	Catch a Fire	1973		Listen
66	Led Zeppelin	II	1969		Listen
67	The Beatles	Rubber Soul	1965
68	Blondie	Parallel Lines	1978		Listen
69	U2	The Joshua Tree	1987		Listen
70	Pink Floyd	The Piper at the Gates of Dawn	1967		Listen
71	Talking Heads	Remain in Light	1980		Listen
72	Bob Dylan	Bringing It All Back Home	1965		Listen
73	The Rolling Stones	Sticky Fingers	1971		Listen
74	David Bowie	Low	1977		Listen
75	The Strokes	Is This It	2001		Listen
76	Led Zeppelin	Physical Graffiti	1975		Listen
77	AC/DC	Back in Black	1980		Listen
78	Guns 'n' Roses	Appetite for Destruction	1987		Listen
79	Pixies	Surfer Rosa	1988		Listen
80	Kate Bush	Hounds of Love	1985		Listen
81	The Jam	All Mod Cons	1978
82	Iggy Pop	Lust for Life	1977		Listen
83	Blur	Parklife	1994		Listen
84	Nirvana	In Utero	1993		Listen
85	Dusty Springfield	Dusty in Memphis	1969		Listen
86	The Human League	Dare!	1981
87	Tricky	Maxinquaye	1995		Listen
88	The Jesus and Mary Chain	Psychocandy	1985		Listen
89	Pulp	Different Class	1995		Listen
90	Michael Jackson	Off the Wall	1979		Listen
91	Portishead	Dummy	1994		Listen
92	R.E.M.	Murmur	1983		Listen
93	The White Stripes	Elephant	2003		Listen
94	The Eagles	Hotel California	1976
95	Marvin Gaye	Let's Get It On	1973		Listen
96	The Stooges	Fun House	1970		Listen
97	My Bloody Valentine	Loveless	1991		Listen
98	John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band	John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band	1970
99	The Band	Music from Big Pink	1968		Listen
100	Bj�rk	Debut	1993		Listen
101	Paul Simon	Graceland	1986		Listen
102	Stevie Wonder	Talking Book	1972		Listen
103	Happy Mondays	Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches	1990		Listen
104	Sonic Youth	Daydream Nation	1988		Listen
105	Ian Dury and The Blockheads	New Boots and Panties!	1977
106	Nick Drake	Five Leaves Left	1969		Listen
107	Dexy's Midnight Runners	Searching for the Young Soul Rebels	1980
108	The Smiths	The Smiths	1984		Listen
109	Public Image Ltd.	Metal Box/Second Edition	1979		Listen
110	Tom Waits	Rain Dogs	1985		Listen
111	Frank Sinatra	Songs for Swingin' Lovers	1956		Listen
112	Elton John	Goodbye Yellow Brick Road	1973		Listen
113	Neil Young	Harvest	1972		Listen
114	New Order	Technique	1989		Listen
115	The Beatles	A Hard Day's Night	1964
116	The Specials	The Specials	1979		Listen
117	Public Enemy	Fear of a Black Planet	1990		Listen
118	Tom Waits	Swordfishtrombones	1983		Listen
119	John Lennon	Imagine	1971
120	Beck	Odelay	1996		Listen
121	Nick Drake	Bryter Layter	1970		Listen
122	Elvis Costello	My Aim Is True	1977		Listen
123	The Flying Burrito Bros	The Gilded Palace of Sin	1969
124	Bob Dylan	The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan	1963		Listen
125	Lauryn Hill	The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill	1998		Listen
126	Augustus Pablo	King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown	1976		Listen
127	DJ Shadow	Endtroducing.....	1996		Listen
128	Gang of Four	Entertainment!	1979
129	Cream	Disraeli Gears	1967		Listen
130	U2	Achtung, Baby	1991		Listen
131	The Original Soundtrack	The Harder They Come	1972		Listen
132	The Verve	Urban Hymns	1997		Listen
133	Van Morrison	Moondance	1970		Listen
134	Aretha Franklin	I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You	1967		Listen
135	Gram Parsons	Grievous Angel	1974		Listen
136	The Mothers of Invention	We're Only in It for the Money	1968		Listen
137	Joni Mitchell	The Hissing of Summer Lawns	1975		Listen
138	OutKast	Speakerboxxx/The Love Below	2003		Listen
139	The Byrds	The Notorious Byrd Brothers	1968		Listen
140	The Stooges	The Stooges	1969		Listen
141	The Doors	L.A. Woman	1971		Listen
142	The Byrds	Younger Than Yesterday	1967		Listen
143	Bob Marley and The Wailers	Natty Dread	1974		Listen
144	Joni Mitchell	Court and Spark	1974		Listen
145	Prince and The Revolution	Purple Rain	1984		Listen
146	Queen	A Night at the Opera	1975		Listen
147	The Who	The Who Sings My Generation	1965		Listen
148	N.W.A.	Straight Outta Compton	1988		Listen
149	Beastie Boys	Licensed to Ill	1986		Listen
150	Carole King	Tapestry	1971		Listen
151	Arctic Monkeys	Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not	2006
152	Neil Young	On the Beach	1974		Listen
153	Antony and The Johnsons	I Am a Bird Now	2005		Listen
154	The Original Soundtrack	Saturday Night Fever	1977		Listen
155	The Flaming Lips	The Soft Bulletin	1999		Listen
156	Manic Street Preachers	Everything Must Go	1996		Listen
157	Bruce Springsteen	Darkness on the Edge of Town	1978		Listen
158	Neil Young with Crazy Horse	Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere	1969		Listen
159	The Arcade Fire	Funeral	2004		Listen
160	New York Dolls	New York Dolls	1973		Listen
161	The Streets	Original Pirate Material	2002		Listen
162	Talking Heads	Fear of Music	1979		Listen
163	Simon and Garfunkel	Bridge Over Troubled Water	1970		Listen
164	Eminem	The Marshall Mathers LP	2000		Listen
165	Spiritualized	Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space	1997		Listen
166	Franz Ferdinand	Franz Ferdinand	2004		Listen
167	Meat Loaf	Bat out of Hell	1977		Listen
168	Burning Spear	Marcus Garvey	1975
169	Madonna	Like a Prayer	1989		Listen
170	Air	Moon Safari	1998		Listen
171	The LA's	The LA's	1990
172	ABC	The Lexicon of Love	1982		Listen
173	Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	D�j� Vu	1970		Listen
174	The Kinks	The Kinks Are Village Green Preservation Society	1968		Listen
175	Pere Ubu	The Modern Dance	1978		Listen
176	MC5	Kick Out the Jams	1969		Listen
177	Elvis Costello	This Year's Model	1978		Listen
178	Soul II Soul	Club Classics Vol. 1/Keep On Movin'	1989		Listen
179	Metallica	Master of Puppets	1986		Listen
180	Derek and The Dominos	Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs	1970		Listen
181	Bruce Springsteen	Nebraska	1982		Listen
182	Rod Stewart	Every Picture Tells a Story	1971		Listen
183	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Axis: Bold as Love	1967		Listen
184	Roxy Music	Roxy Music	1972		Listen
185	R.E.M.	Out of Time	1991		Listen
186	Thin Lizzy	Live and Dangerous	1978		Listen
187	Leftfield	Leftism	1995		Listen
188	Wire	Pink Flag	1977		Listen
189	The Smiths	Hatful of Hollow	1984		Listen
190	David Bowie	Heroes	1977		Listen
191	The Prodigy	Music for the Jilted Generation	1994		Listen
192	Coldplay	A Rush of Blood to the Head	2002		Listen
193	T. Rex	Electric Warrior	1971		Listen
194	The Velvet Underground	White Light/White Heat	1968		Listen
195	The Who	Live at Leeds	1970
196	Nirvana	MTV Unplugged in New York	1994		Listen
197	Todd Rundgren	Something/Anything?	1972		Listen
198	The Small Faces	Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake	1968
199	Wu-Tang Clan	Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)	1993		Listen
200	P J Harvey	Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea	2000		Listen