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

The All Time Top 200 Albums
(Based on Critics Lists from USA + Canada)
Rank	Artist	Album	Year	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	The Beatles	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	1967
2	Nirvana	Nevermind	1991		Listen
3	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Are You Experienced?	1967		Listen
4	The Beatles	Revolver	1966
5	Bob Dylan	Blonde on Blonde	1966		Listen
6	The Rolling Stones	Exile on Main St	1972		Listen
7	The Beach Boys	Pet Sounds	1966		Listen
8	Bob Dylan	Highway 61 Revisited	1965		Listen
9	The Clash	London Calling	1979		Listen
10	The Velvet Underground & Nico	The Velvet Underground & Nico	1967		Listen
11	Marvin Gaye	What's Going On	1971		Listen
12	The Beatles	The Beatles ("The White Album")	1968
13	Public Enemy	It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back	1988		Listen
14	Sex Pistols	Never Mind the Bollocks - Here's the Sex Pistols	1977		Listen
15	Van Morrison	Astral Weeks	1968		Listen
16	Bruce Springsteen	Born to Run	1975		Listen
17	The Beatles	Abbey Road	1969
18	Bob Dylan	Blood on the Tracks	1975		Listen
19	Pink Floyd	The Dark Side of the Moon	1973		Listen
20	Miles Davis	Kind of Blue	1959		Listen
21	Michael Jackson	Thriller	1982		Listen
22	The Beatles	Rubber Soul	1965
23	The Who	Who's Next	1971		Listen
24	Radiohead	OK Computer	1997		Listen
25	Led Zeppelin	IV	1971		Listen
26	Stevie Wonder	Innervisions	1973		Listen
27	The Rolling Stones	Let It Bleed	1969		Listen
28	Fleetwood Mac	Rumours	1977		Listen
29	R.E.M.	Murmur	1983		Listen
30	The Rolling Stones	Beggar's Banquet	1968		Listen
31	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Electric Ladyland	1968		Listen
32	U2	The Joshua Tree	1987		Listen
33	Prince and The Revolution	Purple Rain	1984		Listen
34	James Brown	Live at the Apollo	1963		Listen
35	Bob Dylan	Bringing It All Back Home	1965		Listen
36	Stevie Wonder	Songs in the Key of Life	1976		Listen
37	Patti Smith	Horses	1975		Listen
38	Van Morrison	Moondance	1970		Listen
39	Joni Mitchell	Blue	1971		Listen
40	David Bowie	The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars	1972		Listen
41	Prince	Sign 'O' the Times	1987		Listen
42	The Band	The Band	1969		Listen
43	Carole King	Tapestry	1971		Listen
44	Ramones	Ramones	1976		Listen
45	The Clash	The Clash	1977		Listen
46	John Coltrane	A Love Supreme	1965		Listen
47	Derek and The Dominos	Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs	1970		Listen
48	Aretha Franklin	I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You	1967		Listen
49	The Rolling Stones	Sticky Fingers	1971		Listen
50	Beck	Odelay	1996		Listen
51	Beastie Boys	Paul's Boutique	1989
52	Paul Simon	Graceland	1986		Listen
53	Talking Heads	Remain in Light	1980		Listen
54	The Doors	The Doors	1967		Listen
55	Elvis Costello	My Aim Is True	1977		Listen
56	Guns 'n' Roses	Appetite for Destruction	1987		Listen
57	My Bloody Valentine	Loveless	1991		Listen
58	Elvis Costello	This Year's Model	1978		Listen
59	The Band	Music from Big Pink	1968		Listen
60	Television	Marquee Moon	1977		Listen
61	U2	Achtung, Baby	1991		Listen
62	Joni Mitchell	Court and Spark	1974		Listen
63	Sly and the Family Stone	There's a Riot Goin' On	1971		Listen
64	John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band	John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band	1970
65	Pavement	Slanted and Enchanted	1992		Listen
66	Michael Jackson	Off the Wall	1979		Listen
67	Dusty Springfield	Dusty in Memphis	1969		Listen
68	Neil Young	After the Goldrush	1970		Listen
69	N.W.A.	Straight Outta Compton	1988		Listen
70	Miles Davis	Bitches Brew	1970		Listen
71	Bruce Springsteen	Born in the U.S.A.	1984		Listen
72	The Original Soundtrack	Saturday Night Fever	1977		Listen
73	Otis Redding	Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul	1965		Listen
74	Sonic Youth	Daydream Nation	1988		Listen
75	Ray Charles	Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music	1962		Listen
76	De La Soul	3 Feet High and Rising	1989		Listen
77	Dr. Dre	The Chronic	1992		Listen
78	The Rolling Stones	Aftermath	1966		Listen
79	Led Zeppelin	II	1969		Listen
80	Pretenders	Pretenders	1980		Listen
81	Sly and the Family Stone	Stand!	1969		Listen
82	Wilco	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot	2002		Listen
83	Aretha Franklin	Lady Soul	1968		Listen
84	The Byrds	Sweetheart of the Rodeo	1968		Listen
85	Stevie Wonder	Talking Book	1972		Listen
86	Lauryn Hill	The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill	1998		Listen
87	Liz Phair	Exile in Guyville	1993		Listen
88	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin	1969		Listen
89	Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band	Trout Mask Replica	1969
90	The Stooges	Fun House	1970		Listen
91	The Replacements	Let It Be	1984		Listen
92	The Smiths	The Queen Is Dead	1986		Listen
93	Radiohead	The Bends	1995		Listen
94	Curtis Mayfield	Superfly	1972		Listen
95	The Who	Tommy	1969		Listen
96	David Bowie	Hunky Dory	1971
97	The Strokes	Is This It	2001		Listen
98	Public Enemy	Fear of a Black Planet	1990		Listen
99	Jefferson Airplane	Surrealistic Pillow	1967		Listen
100	The Velvet Underground	Loaded	1970		Listen
101	Joy Division	Closer	1980		Listen
102	Rod Stewart	Every Picture Tells a Story	1971		Listen
103	Radiohead	Kid A	2000		Listen
104	Blondie	Parallel Lines	1978		Listen
105	Love	Forever Changes	1967		Listen
106	The Original Soundtrack	The Harder They Come	1972		Listen
107	Elvis Presley	Elvis Presley	1956		Listen
108	OutKast	Stankonia	2000		Listen
109	The Allman Brothers Band	At Fillmore East	1971		Listen
110	Sufjan Stevens	Illinois	2005		Listen
111	Run-D.M.C.	Raising Hell	1986		Listen
112	Prince and The Revolution	1999	1982		Listen
113	Simon and Garfunkel	Bridge Over Troubled Water	1970		Listen
114	John Lennon	Imagine	1971
115	Eno	Another Green World	1975		Listen
116	M.I.A.	Arular	2005		Listen
117	Pixies	Doolittle	1989		Listen
118	Neil Young & Crazy Horse	Rust Never Sleeps	1979		Listen
119	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Axis: Bold as Love	1967		Listen
120	Nirvana	In Utero	1993		Listen
121	Gang of Four	Entertainment!	1979
122	AC/DC	Back in Black	1980		Listen
123	A Tribe Called Quest	The Low End Theory	1991		Listen
124	The Beatles	With the Beatles/Meet the Beatles!	1963
125	Bruce Springsteen	Darkness on the Edge of Town	1978		Listen
126	The White Stripes	White Blood Cells	2001		Listen
127	The Who	The Who Sell Out	1967		Listen
128	Wu-Tang Clan	Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)	1993		Listen
129	B.B. King	Live at the Regal	1965		Listen
130	Bruce Springsteen	Nebraska	1982		Listen
131	Frank Sinatra	In the Wee Small Hours	1955		Listen
132	R.E.M.	Automatic for the People	1992		Listen
133	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Green River	1969		Listen
134	Marvin Gaye	Let's Get It On	1973		Listen
135	DJ Shadow	Endtroducing.....	1996		Listen
136	Pixies	Surfer Rosa	1988		Listen
137	Iggy and The Stooges	Raw Power	1973		Listen
138	Johnny Cash	At Folsom Prison	1968		Listen
139	Eminem	The Marshall Mathers LP	2000		Listen
140	Tom Waits	Rain Dogs	1985		Listen
141	Minutemen	Double Nickels on the Dime	1984		Listen
142	Bob Marley and The Wailers	Natty Dread	1974		Listen
143	Beastie Boys	Licensed to Ill	1986		Listen
144	The Modern Lovers	The Modern Lovers	1976		Listen
145	Massive Attack	Blue Lines	1991		Listen
146	David Bowie	Low	1977		Listen
147	Al Green	Call Me	1973		Listen
148	Funkadelic	One Nation Under a Groove	1978		Listen
149	Neil Young	Tonight's the Night	1975		Listen
150	Wire	Pink Flag	1977		Listen
151	Lucinda Williams	Car Wheels on a Gravel Road	1998		Listen
152	The Eagles	Hotel California	1976
153	The Velvet Underground	The Velvet Underground	1969		Listen
154	Portishead	Dummy	1994		Listen
155	Richard and Linda Thompson	Shoot Out the Lights	1982		Listen
156	Smashing Pumpkins	Siamese Dream	1993		Listen
157	Brian Wilson	SMiLE	2004		Listen
158	H�sker D�	Zen Arcade	1984		Listen
159	The Police	Synchronicity	1983		Listen
160	Grateful Dead	American Beauty	1970		Listen
161	P J Harvey	To Bring You My Love	1995		Listen
162	Elton John	Goodbye Yellow Brick Road	1973		Listen
163	Grateful Dead	Workingman's Dead	1970		Listen
164	James Taylor	Sweet Baby James	1970		Listen
165	Bob Dylan and The Band	The Basement Tapes	1975		Listen
166	The Stone Roses	The Stone Roses	1989		Listen
167	Kanye West	College Dropout	2004		Listen
168	Simon and Garfunkel	Bookends	1968		Listen
169	The Wailers	Catch a Fire	1973		Listen
170	Parliament	Mothership Connection	1975		Listen
171	The Mothers of Invention	We're Only in It for the Money	1968		Listen
172	Ornette Coleman	The Shape of Jazz to Come	1959		Listen
173	The Kinks	Something Else by the Kinks	1967		Listen
174	Pink Floyd	The Wall	1979		Listen
175	Pavement	Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain	1994		Listen
176	Jeff Buckley	Grace	1994		Listen
177	The White Stripes	Elephant	2003		Listen
178	New York Dolls	New York Dolls	1973		Listen
179	The Jesus and Mary Chain	Psychocandy	1985		Listen
180	Elvis Costello and The Attractions	Armed Forces	1979
181	Talking Heads	More Songs About Buildings and Food	1978		Listen
182	Frank Sinatra	Songs for Swingin' Lovers	1956		Listen
183	Led Zeppelin	Physical Graffiti	1975		Listen
184	Pearl Jam	Ten	1991		Listen
185	Metallica	Metallica ("The Black Album")	1991		Listen
186	John Coltrane	Giant Steps	1959		Listen
187	Hole	Live Through This	1994		Listen
188	Franz Ferdinand	Franz Ferdinand	2004		Listen
189	Elvis Presley	From Elvis in Memphis	1969		Listen
190	Dave Brubeck	Time Out	1959		Listen
191	The Arcade Fire	Funeral	2004		Listen
192	Bob Dylan	Love and Theft	2001		Listen
193	Nick Drake	Pink Moon	1972		Listen
194	The Velvet Underground	White Light/White Heat	1968		Listen
195	Nas	Illmatic	1994		Listen
196	Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	D�j� Vu	1970		Listen
197	Prince	Dirty Mind	1980		Listen
198	Joy Division	Unknown Pleasures	1979		Listen
199	The Byrds	Mr. Tambourine Man	1965		Listen
200	Miles Davis	In a Silent Way	1969		Listen