Top Albums Overall Rankings 20 Points for a first placing. 1 less for each position below. If albums were not ranked in list, each gets a 10. 103 The Beatles “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” 82 Pink Floyd “The Wall” 65 Fleetwood Mac “Rumours” 62 The Beatles “Revolver” 55 The Beatles “The White Album” 51 The Beatles “Rubber Soul” 50 Joni Mitchell “Court And Spark” 47 The Clash “London Calling” 44 Bob Dylan “Blood On The Tracks” The Eagles “Hotel California” 41 Elton John “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” 40 Bob Dylan “Blonde On Blonde” Van Morrison “Astral Weeks” 39 Counting Crows “August And Everything After” 37 R.E.M. “Murmur” Brian Wilson “SMiLE” 36 Billy Joel “Glass Houses” 35 Beach Boys “Pet Sounds” The Who “Who’s Next” 33 Pink Floyd “Dark Side Of The Moon” The Who “Quadrophenia” 32 AC/DC “Back In Black” Tracy Chapman “Tracy Chapman” Little Feat “Waiting For Columbus” 31 Jethro Tull “Aqualung” 30 Grateful Dead “American Beauty” Supertramp “Breakfast In America” 29 The Beatles “Abbey Road” The Beatles “The Beatles 1967-1970” Boston “Boston” Bruce Springsteen “Born In The U.S.A.” Steely Dan “Aja” 28 The Beatles “The Beatles 1962-1966” Indigo Girls “Rites Of Passage” 26 Van Halen “Van Halen” 25 The Eagles “Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975” 24 Billy Joel “The Stranger” Van Morrison “The Best Of Van Morrison” The Police “Ghost In The Machine” 23 Peter Gabriel “Us” Elton John “Madman Across The Water” Talking Heads “Stop Making Sense” 22 Rolling Stones “Hot Rocks 1964-1971” 21 Neil Young “Harvest” “Saturday Night Fever” (Soundtrack) 20 Beach Boys “Good Vibrations: 30 Years Of The Beach Boys” Sarah Brightman “Eden” Elvis Costello “My Aim Is True” Sheryl Crow “The Globe Sessions” George Gershwin/Andre Pervin “Rhapsody In Blue” The Jayhawks “Rainy Day Music” Kodo “Sai-So: The Remix Project” Led Zeppelin “Led Zeppelin” Joni Mitchell “Blue” Moody Blues “Seventh Sojourn” Pearl Jam “Live Bootleg Series” Red Hot Chili Peppers “Blood Sugar Sex Magik” Rolling Stones “Let It Bleed” Simon & Garfunkel “The Concert In Central Park” Bruce Springsteen “Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.” Yes “Yesshows” 19 Johann Sebastian Bach “Cello Suites Nos. 1-6” Andrea Bocelli “Sueno” Lloyd Cole & the Commotions “1984-1989” John Coltrane “African Brass Vol. 1” David & David “Boomtown” Bob Marley “Exodus” Paul McCartney & Wings “Wingspan” Rush “2112” Santana “Supernatural” Steely Dan “Katy Lied” Traffic “The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys” U2 “Achtung Baby” The Waifs “Up All Night” 18 Trey Anastasio “Trey Anastasio” The Cars “The Cars” Rosanne Cash “The Wheel” Coldplay “Rush To The Head” John Coltrane “Meditations For Quartet” Bob Dylan “Highway 61 Revisited” Marvin Gaye “What’s Going On” Marti Jones “Used Guitars” Janis Joplin “Pearl” Pink Floyd “The Final Cut” The Police “Synchronicity” John Prine “John Prine” Simon & Garfunkel “Greatest Hits” Steely Dan “Can’t Buy A Thrill” Utopia “Oblivion” Muddy Waters “Hard Again” 17 “Avenue Q” (Original Cast) The Band “Best Of The Band” The Bangles “All Over The Place” Greg Brown “Dream Cafe” The Byrds “Sweetheart Of The Rodeo” Neko Case “The Virginian” Deep Forest “Deep Forest” INXS “Kick” Led Zeppelin “Led Zeppelin IV” Bob Marley “Legend” The Pixies “Doolittle” The Police “Regatta de Blanc” Steely Dan “Gaucho” Tom Waits “Nighthawks At Dinner” Lucinda Williams “Car Wheels On A Gravel Road” Neil Young “Decade” 16 Frank Black “Frank Black” Johann Sebastian Bach “Brandenburg Concertos Complete” Eric Clapton & BB King “Riding With The King” Miles Davis “Kind Of Blue” English Beat “What Is Beat?” Phillip Glass “The Hours” (Soundtrack) Patty Griffin “1000 Kisses” Emmylou Harris “Elite Hotel” Hot Tuna “Phosphorescent Rat” Indigo Girls “Indigo Girls” The Kinks “Come Dancing” John Lennon “Imagine” (Soundtrack) Scott Miller “Thus Always To Tyrants” Liz Phair “whitechocolatespaceegg” Paul Simon “There Goes Rhymin’ Simon” Nina Simone “The Essential Nina Simone” Sting “Dream Of The Blue Turtles” James Taylor “Greatest Hits” James Taylor “Never Die Young” 15 Frank Black “Teenager Of The Year” Jackson Browne “The Next Voice You Hear: The Best Of Jackson Browne” Leonard Cohen “Songs Of Love And Hate” The Doors “The Doors” Melissa Etheridge “Melissa Etheridge” Bela Fleck “Flight Of The Cosmic Hippo” Etta James “At Last” Elton John “Greatest Hits” C.W. McCall “Greatest Hits” Robbie Robertson “Robbie Robertson” Seldom Scene “Old Train” Bruce Springsteen “The Rising” Doc Watsoon & David Grisman “Doc & Dawg” Edgar Winter “White Trash” 14 Patsy Cline “Greatest Hits” Sheryl Crow “Tuesday Night Music Club” Bob Dylan “Infidels” Steve Earle “Copperhead Road” Earth, Wind & Fire “I Am” Foreigner “4” “Hedwig And The Angry Inch” (Original Cast) Jane’s Addiction “Nothing’s Shocking” Elton John “Greatest Hits 1970-2002” Dave Matthews “Under The Table And Dreaming” “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?” (Soundtrack) Chris Rice “Run The Earth Watch The Sky” Michelle Shocked “Arkansas Traveler” XTC “Skylarking” (various Artists) “Celtic Heart: Tales Of True Love” 13 Big Star “Radio City” Jimmy Buffett “Volcano” Glenn Campbell “Rhinestone Cowboy” The Cars “Candy-O” Johnny Cash “Essential Johnny Cash” Chicago “Chicago II” The Hollies “Greatest Hits” James Gang “The James Gang Rides Again” Love “Forever Changes” The Lovin’ Spoonful “Everything Playing” Loretta Lynn “Van Lear Rose” Alanis Morissette “Jagged Little Pill” The Rutles “The Rutles” Bob Schneider “Lonelyland” Frank Sinatra “The Very Best Of Frank Sinatra” U2 “The Unforgettable Fire” The Who “My Generation” 12 Beastie Boys “Check Your Head” The Byrds “(Untitled)” The Byrds “Greatest Hits” “Chicago” (Soundtrack) Harry Connick, Jr. “Blue Light Red Light” Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach “Painted From Memory” Cowboy Junkies “Black Eyed Man” Cream “Wheels Of Fire” Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show “Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show Revisited” Grateful Dead “Europe ‘72” Elton John “Caribou” Jack Johnson “Brushfire Fairytales” The Kinks “The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society” Nirvana “Nirvana” Gram Parsons “Grievous Angel” The Pretenders “The Singles” R.E.M. “Out Of Time” Saffire “Ain’t Gonna Hush” Stevie Ray Vaughan “Texas Flood” 11 ABBA “ABBA Gold” The Beatles “With The Beatles” David Bowie “The Man Who Sold The World” Cheap Trick “In Color” Chicago “Chicago Transit Authority” The Clash “Combat Rock” Jim Croce “Greatest Hits” Culture Beat “Serenity” Miles Davis “Kind Of Blue” Doobie Brothers “Minute By Minute” Indigo Girls “Come On Now Social” John Lennon “The John Lennon Collection” Sarah McLachlan “Surfacing” Missing Persons “The Best Of Missing Persons” moe “Warts And All Series” Willie Nelson “Revolutions In Time” Rolling Stones “Beggar’s Banquet” Bruce Springsteen “Born To Run” UB40 “Jeffrey Morgan” Jerry Jeff Walker “By Himself” 10 America “History: America’s Greatest Hits” Badfinger “The Very Best Of Badfinger” David Bowie “Heroes” Bruce Cockburn “Humans” Nat King Cole “The Unforgettable Nat King Cole” John Coltrane “Blue Train” Crosby, Stills & Nash “Crosby Stills & Nash” Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young “So Far” Donna the Buffalo “Conscious Evolution” Earth, Wind & Fire “That’s The Way Of The World” Fleetwood Mac “Tusk” Dan Fogelberg “Greatest Hits” Grieg “Peer Gynt Suites/Holberg Suite” Arlo Guthrie “One Night” “Jesus Christ Superstar - A Rock Opera” (Original Cast) Elton John “Greatest Hits Volume II” Kansas “Vinyl Confessions” Carole King “Tapestry” John Lennon “Walls And Bridges” Madonna “The Immaculate Collection” Glenn Miller “The Essential Glenn Miller” New Order “Substance 1987” Nirvana “Unplugged In New York” Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers “Damn The Torpedos” “The Phantom Of The Opera” (Original Cast) The Replacements “Tim” Sade “Diamond Life” Sting “Fields Of Gold” James Taylor “Sweet Baby James” Yes “Close To The Edge” Yes “Classic Yes” Neil Young “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere” 9 The Band “Music From Big Pink” The Blasters “Testament” The Byrds “Mr. Tambourine Man” John Coltrane “A Love Supreme” Foghat “Stone Blue” Green Day “Dookie” Moody Blues “This Is The Moody Blues” Ozzy Osbourne “Tribute” Phish “Hampton Comes Alive” Iggy Pop “Zombie Birdhouse” Rush “Signals” Traveling Wilburys “Volume One” Violent Femmes “Violent Femmes” 8 Babes In Toyland “Fontanelle” BoDeans “Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams” John Coltrane “Giant Steps” Depeche Mode “Music For The Masses” The Eagles “The Long Run” A Flock Of Seagulls “A Flock Of Seagulls” Crvena Jabuka “Greatest Hits” Van Morrison & the Chieftains “Irish Heartbeat” Prince “1999” R.E.M. “Eponymous” Rush “Hemispheres” Suzanne Vega “Nine Objects Of Desire” Muddy Waters “Muddy ‘Mississippi’ Waters Live” 7 The Allman Brothers Band “Live At The Atlanta Pop Festival: July 3& 5, 1970” The Byrds “The Notorious Byrd Brothers” Cheap Trick “Heaven Tonight” Eric Clapton “Unplugged” The Cure “Disintegration” The Damnwells “Bastards Of The Beat” Billie Holiday “Lady Sings The Blues” Abdullah Ibrahim “Soweto” Michael Jackson “Thriller” Steve James “American Primitive” Jefferson Airplane “Surrealistic Pillow” Aimee Mann “Magnolia” ST Dave Matthews Band “Crash” Meatloaf “Bat Out Of Hell” Robbie Robertson & The Red Road Ensemble “Song For The Native Americans” Bob Seger “Live Bullet” 6 Ryan Adams “Gold” Belle And Sebastian “Tigermilk” David Bowie “The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars” Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians “A Globe Of Frogs” Billie Holiday “Love Songs” Kansas “Point Of Know Return” Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers “Greatest Hits” Poco “Pickin’ Up The Pieces” Roomful Of Blues “Dance All Night” Rusted Root “Remember” The Smiths “The Queen