Year Artist Album All Time Rank
1) 1959 Miles Davis Kind of Blue 47
2) 1956 Elvis Presley Elvis Presley 138
3) 1957 Little Richard Here Comes Little Richard 149
4) 1959 John Coltrane Giant Steps 150
5) 1954 Frank Sinatra In the Wee Small Hours 180
6) 1959 Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come 275
7) 1959 Bo Diddley Go Bo Diddley 280
8) 1959 Ray Charles Modern Songs of Country... 326
9) 1955 Frank Sinatra Songs for Swingin' Lovers 334
10) 1959 Miles Davis Sketches of Spain 418
-1960's
1) 1966 The Beatles Revolver 1
2) 1968 The Beatles The White Album 2
3) 1967 The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's 4
4) 1969 The Beatles Abbey Road 5
5) 1966 The Beach Boys Pet Sounds 7
6) 1967 The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico 11
7) 1965 The Beatles Rubber Soul 16
8) 1966 Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde 17
9) 1965 Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited 23
10) 1968 Van Morrison Astral Weeks 24
-1970's
1) 1973 Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon 6
2) 1975 Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks 9
3) 1979 The Clash London Calling 12
4) 1977 The Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollucks 13
5) 1972 The Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street 14
6) 1972 David Bowie Ziggy Stardust 15
7) 1971 Marvin Gaye What's Going On? 18
8) 1975 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run 21
9) 1977 Fleetwood Mac Rumours 22
10) 1971 The Who Who's Next 25
-1980's
1) 1987 U2 The Joshua Tree 8
2) 1986 The Smiths The Queen is Dead 26
3) 1989 The Stone Roses The Stone Roses 31
4) 1982 Michael Jackson Thriller 35
5) 1986 Paul Simon Graceland 41
6) 1987 Prince Sign 'o' the Times 43
7) 1988 Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions 48
8) 1989 Pixies Doolittle 51
9) 1980 Joy Division Closer 52
10) 1987 Guns 'N' Roses Appetite for Destruction 62
-1990's
1) 1991 Nirvana Nevermind 3
2) 1997 Radiohead OK Computer 10
3) 1992 R.E.M. Automatic for the People 19
4) 1995 Radiohead The Bends 20
5) 1991 U2 Achtung Baby 30
6) 1991 Pearl Jam Ten 33
7) 1995 Oasis Morning Glory 55
8) 1991 Metallica Metallica 61
9) 1995 Allanis Morrisete Jagged Little Pill 64
10) 1994 Jeff Buckley Grace 65
-2000's
1) 2000 U2 All That You Can't Leave... 96
2) 2001 Strokes Is This It 104
3) 2000 Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 142
4) 2000 Radiohead Kid A 194
5) 2000 Coldplay Parachutes 200
6) 2002 Eminem The Eminem Show 275
7) 2002 Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head 277
8) 2002 Bobby Bland Two Steps from the Blues 281
9) 2001 The White Stripes White Blood Cells 282
10) 2003 The White Stripes Elephant 365
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