What.cd’s Top 500 Albums of All Time

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　　The top 500 albums of all time as voted by the What.cd community. Compiled in 2010.

1. Radiohead - OK Computer
2. The Beatles - Abbey Road
3. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
4. Radiohead - Kid A
5. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
6. The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album)
7. The Velvet Underground and Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
8. Nirvana - Nevermind
9. The Beatles - Revolver
10. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
11. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
12. Arcade Fire - Funeral
13. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
14. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
15. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
16. The Clash - London Calling
17. Radiohead - In Rainbows
18. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
19. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
20. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
21. Michael Jackson - Thriller
22. Pixies - Doolittle
23. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing…
24. Radiohead - The Bends
25. Can - Tago Mago
26. The Beatles - Rubber Soul
27. Pink Floyd - The Wall
28. Pink Floyd - Animals
29. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
30. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
31. Tool - Lateralus
32. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
33. The Strokes - Is This It
34. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
35. The Doors - The Doors
36. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
37. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
38. Daft Punk - Discovery
39. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
40. Portishead - Dummy
41. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
42. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
43. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - F♯ A♯ ∞
44. Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
45. Nas - Illmatic
46. Joanna Newsom - Ys
47. Muse - Absolution
48. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
49. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
50. Pearl Jam - Ten
51. Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
52. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
53. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
54. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
55. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
56. Metallica - Master of Puppets
57. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
58. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
59. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
60. Animal Collective - Feels
61. Nirvana - In Utero
62. The Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium
63. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
64. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
65. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
66. The Who - Who’s Next
67. Weezer - Weezer (Blue Album)
68. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
69. Talking Heads - Remain In Light
70. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
71. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
72. David Bowie - Low
73. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
74. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
75. Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
76. Guns N’ Roses - Appetite for Destruction
77. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
78. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
79. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
80. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
81. Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
82. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
83. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
84. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
85. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
86. The White Stripes - Elephant
87. Jeff Buckley - Grace
88. The Knife - Silent Shout
89. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
90. The Postal Service - Give Up
91. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
92. Television - Marquee Moon
93. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
94. Björk - Homogenic
95. Joy Division - Closer
96. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
97. Muse - Origin of Symmetry
98. David Bowie - Hunky Dory
99. Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
100. The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
101. The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
102. The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
103. The Cure - Disintegration
104. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
105. Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
106. The Who - Quadrophenia
107. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
108. Tool - Ænima
109. AC/DC - Back In Black
110. The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
111. Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians (ECM)
112. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
113. The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
114. Radiohead - Amnesiac
115. Gang of Four - Entertainment!
116. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
117. The Beatles - Help!
118. Massive Attack - Blue Lines
119. U2 - The Joshua Tree
120. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
121. Oasis - (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?
122. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
123. M83 - Saturdays=Youth
124. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
125. Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
126. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!
127. Queen - A Night at the Opera
128. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
129. Burial - Untrue
130. The Band - Music from Big Pink
131. The National - Alligator
132. Sigur Rós - ( )
133. Belle & Sebastian - If You’re Feeling Sinister
134. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
135. Sublime - 40oz. To Freedom
136. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
137. Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
138. of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
139. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
140. Slint - Spiderland
141. R.E.M. - Murmur
142. Brian Eno - Another Green World
143. Weezer - Pinkerton
144. The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
145. GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords
146. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
147. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
148. Justice - † (Cross)
149. Coldplay - Parachutes
150. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
151. The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
152. Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique
153. Death from Above 1979 - You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine
154. Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
155. Sublime - Sublime
156. Lou Reed - Transformer
157. Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols
158. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus
159. System of a Down - Toxicity
160. The Replacements - Let It Be
161. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
162. Galaxie 500 - On Fire
163. Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
164. The Who - Tommy
165. The xx - xx
166. Björk - Post
167. Elliott Smith - XO
168. The Velvet Underground - White Light / White Heat
169. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
170. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
171. The Libertines - The Libertines
172. Ramones - Ramones
173. The Kinks - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
174. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
175. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
176. J Dilla - Donuts
177. Paul Simon - Graceland
178. Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
179. Soundgarden - Superunknown
180. Dr. Dre - The Chronic
181. John Lennon - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
182. Elliott Smith - Either/Or
183. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
184. The Killers - Hot Fuss
185. Slowdive - Souvlaki
186. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
187. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
188. Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb
189. Grateful Dead - American Beauty
190. Pink Floyd - Meddle
191. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
192. Daft Punk - Alive 2007
193. George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
194. Rush - Moving Pictures
195. Metallica - Metallica
196. Van Morrison - Moondance
197. Dinosaur Jr. - You’re Living All Over Me
198. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
199. The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
200. The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
201. Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power
202. Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson
203. The Who - The Who Sell Out
204. William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops
205. King Crimson - Red
206. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
207. Yann Tiersen - Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain
208. Wire - Chairs Missing
209. R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
210. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
211. Fennesz - Endless Summer
212. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
213. Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith
214. The Clash - The Clash
215. The National - Boxer
216. The Kinks - Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
217. Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope
218. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
219. Neil Young - Harvest
220. Why? - Alopecia
221. White Lies - To Lose My Life…
222. Rush - 2112
223. Deftones - White Pony
224. Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
225. Beck - Sea Change
226. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
227. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
228. Wire - Pink Flag
229. Neil Young - On the Beach
230. Sigur Rós - Takk…
231. Outkast - Aquemini
232. Interpol - Antics
233. Madvillain - Madvillainy
234. Can - Future Days
235. The White Stripes - Icky Thump
236. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
237. Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
238. Brand New - Deja Entendu
239. Beck - Guero
240. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
241. Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue
242. Otis Redding - Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
243. Kraftwerk - Trans Europa Express / Trans-Europe Express
244. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
245. The Beatles - A Hard Day’s Night
246. Pixies - Bossanova
247. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold As Love
248. The Police - Reggatta de Blanc
249. Autechre - Tri Repetae
250. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
251. Cocteau Twins - Treasure
252. Moby - Play
253. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
254. Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
255. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
256. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
257. Opeth - Blackwater Park
258. M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
259. Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
260. The Decemberists - Picaresque
261. Say Anything - …Is a Real Boy
262. Ratatat - Classics
263. Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One
264. M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
265. The Streets - Original Pirate Material
266. The Doors - L.A. Woman
267. Kraftwerk - Computerwelt / Computer World
268. Sun Ra - Atlantis
269. Love - Forever Changes
270. Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
271. Leftfield - Leftism
272. Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production of Eggs
273. Meat loaf - Bat Out of Hell
274. Deerhunter - Microcastle / Weird Era Continued
275. Bright Eyes - I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
276. Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand
277. John Lennon - Imagine
278. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
279. Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II
280. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
281. Portishead - Third
282. Clint Mansell - The Fountain
283. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
284. Gorillaz - Gorillaz
285. Cream - Disraeli Gears
286. Air - Moon Safari
287. Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
288. The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
289. Can - Ege Bamyasi
290. The Beatles - Let It Be
291. Mogwai - Young Team
292. The Flashbulb - Soundtrack to a Vacant Life
293. The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
294. Prince - Purple Rain
295. Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island
296. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
297. Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
298. Fugees - The Score
299. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
300. Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch
301. Sonic Youth - Goo
302. Patti Smith - Horses
303. Pearl Jam - No Code
304. MF DOOM - Operation: Doomsday
305. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
306. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
307. Joni Mitchell - Blue
308. Brian Wilson - SMiLE
309. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
310. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
311. Talking Heads - 77
312. Metric - Fantasies
313. Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
314. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
315. CAKE - Comfort Eagle
316. Dire Straits - Dire Straits
317. John Coltrane - Giant Steps
318. Supertramp - Breakfast in America
319. David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World
320. Fugazi - Repeater + 3 Songs
321. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
322. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
323. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
324. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
325. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
326. Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
327. Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk
328. Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come: A Chimerical Bombination in 12 Bursts
329. Dave Matthews Band - Under the Table and Dreaming
330. The Specials - Specials
331. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
332. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
333. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
334. Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
335. Aphex Twin - Drukqs
336. The Dresden Dolls - Yes, Virginia…
337. The Doors - Strange Days
338. RJD2 - Deadringer
339. The Band - The Band
340. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
341. Blur - Parklife
342. Scott Walker - The Drift
343. Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
344. Neil Young - Tonight’s the Night
345. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
346. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
347. Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
348. Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way
349. Battles - Mirrored
350. The Rolling Stones - Aftermath
351. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
352. Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
353. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
354. Talking Heads - Fear of Music
355. Sebadoh - Bakesale
356. Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
357. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
358. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
359. Neu! - Neu!
360. Black Star - Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
361. Air - Talkie Walkie
362. Wolfmother - Wolfmother
363. The Strokes - Room On Fire
364. The Kinks - Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround Part One
365. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
366. Alice in Chains - Dirt
367. Electric Six - Fire
368. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
369. Counting Crows - August and Everything After
370. Bob Dylan - Another Side of Bob Dylan
371. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
372. Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites
373. The Flaming Lips - At War with the Mystics
374. Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
375. Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
376. Björk - Vespertine
377. The Wailers - Burnin'
378. The Velvet Underground - Loaded
379. Guided by Voices - Alien Lanes
380. CAKE - Fashion Nugget
381. The Flashbulb - Kirlian Selections
382. Rise Against - Siren Song of the Counter Culture
383. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
384. Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
385. Kashiwa Daisuke - Program Music I
386. Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
387. Jackson Browne - Late for the Sky
388. John Coltrane - Ascension
389. Pavement - Brighten the Corners
390. PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
391. Alkaline Trio - Goddamnit
392. of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins
393. Prince - Dirty Mind
394. Elliott Smith - Figure 8
395. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
396. Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
397. Bon Jovi - Keep the Faith
398. Brian Eno - Before and After Science
399. Boston - Boston
400. The Who - Live at Leeds
401. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Safe As Milk
402. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
403. Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
404. Mercury Rev - Deserter’s Songs
405. The Police - Outlandos d’Amour
406. Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
407. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
408. Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports
409. Balmorhea - All Is Wild, All Is Silent
410. Dream Theater - Images and Words
411. Ween - The Mollusk
412. Pixies - Trompe le Monde
413. Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive!
414. This Heat - Deceit
415. The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2
416. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
417. Interpol - Our Love to Admire
418. Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
419. Soft Machine - Third
420. Four Tet - Rounds
421. Nirvana - Bleach
422. Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade
423. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
424. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
425. Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
426. Jurassic 5 - Power in Numbers
427. Minor Threat - Complete Discography
428. Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
429. The Allman Brothers Band - Eat a Peach
430. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
431. Squirrel Nut Zippers - Hot
432. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
433. Shpongle - Tales of the Inexpressible
434. Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother
435. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
436. Bad Brains - Bad Brains
437. Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
438. Bob Dylan and The Band - The Basement Tapes
439. Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
440. The Stooges - Fun House
441. My Morning Jacket - Z
442. Autechre - Incunabula
443. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
444. Tiësto - Just Be
445. Kings of Leon - Only by the Night
446. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
447. Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4
448. Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
449. Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention - We’re Only in It for the Money
450. Beach House - Teen Dream
451. Rise Against - Revolutions Per Minute
452. Kyuss - Welcome To Sky Valley
453. Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants
454. Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On
455. Dredg - El Cielo
456. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
457. The Police - Synchronicity
458. Kraftwerk - Autobahn
459. Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
460. New Order - Substance
461. Elton John - Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road
462. Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
463. Taking Back Sunday - Where You Want To Be
464. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo’s Factory
465. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O.
466. Metric - Live It Out
467. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
468. R.E.M. - Out of Time
469. Amon Tobin - Bricolage
470. Blink-182 - Enema of the State
471. Dan Deacon - Bromst
472. Blackalicious - Nia
473. Happy Mondays - Pills ’n’ Thrills and Bellyaches
474. The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
475. Infected Mushroom - IM the Supervisor
476. The Verve - Urban Hymns
477. Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
478. The Libertines - Up the Bracket
479. Built to Spill - Perfect from Now On
480. Damien Rice - O
481. Paul McCartney - Ram
482. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
483. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
484. Yes - The Yes Album
485. Metallica - …And Justice for All
486. The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas
487. Wilco - Summerteeth
488. The Roots - Illadelph Halflife
489. Buddy Guy - Sweet Tea
490. The KLF - Chill Out
491. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
492. Pearl Jam - Vs.
493. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
494. The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
495. Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
496. The Stooges - The Stooges
497. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
498. Global Communication - 76:14
499. Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
500. She Wants Revenge - She Wants Revenge