Sales v critics v fans 2.1: Critics top 100 albums of all time

Now its time to shift our focus to the critics.

I started with the top 100 from the Rolling Stone 500 which was compiled in 2009.

"The RS 500 was assembled by the editors of Rolling Stone, based on the results of two extensive polls. In 2003, Rolling Stone asked a panel of 271 artists, producers, industry executives and journalists to pick the greatest albums of all time. In 2009, we asked a similar group of 100 experts to pick the best albums of the 2000s. From those results, Rolling Stone created this new list of the greatest albums of all time."

I combined this with lists published in 2013 by New Musical Express and Entertainment Weekly to create my own meta-list.

Rank	Artist	Album	Year
1	The Beatles	Revolver	1966
2	The Beatles	The Beatles (White Album)	1968
3	The Rolling Stones	Exile on Main Street	1972
4	The Beach Boys	Pet Sounds	1966
5	Nirvana	Nevermind	1991
6	Marvin Gaye	What's Going On	1971
7	The Clash	London Calling	1979
8	The Velvet Underground	The Velvet Underground & Nico	1967
9	Bob Dylan	Blood on the Tracks	1975
10	The Beatles	Abbey Road	1969
11	Stevie Wonder	Innervisions	1973
12	David Bowie	Ziggy Stardust	1972
13	The Beatles	Rubber Soul	1965
14	Bob Dylan	Highway 61 Revisited	1965
15	Joni Mitchell	Blue	1971
16	Fleetwood Mac	Rumours	1977
17	Bruce Springsteen	Born to Run	1975
18	Michael Jackson	Thriller	1982
19	Kanye West	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy	2010
20	Public Enemy	It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back	1988
21	Patti Smith	Horses	1975
22	Jimi Hendrix Experience	Are You Experienced	1967
23	Love	Forever Changes	1967
24	The Smiths	The Queen is Dead	1986
25	John Lennon	Plastic Ono Band	1970
26	Wu-Tang Clan	Enter the Wu-Tang	1993
27	Radiohead	OK Computer	1997
28	The Who	Who's Next	1971
29	Prince and the Revolution	Purple Rain	1984
30	Arcade Fire	Funeral	2004
31	Bob Dylan	Blonde on Blonde	1966
32	The Rolling Stones	Beggars Banquet	1968
33	Chuck Berry	The Great Twenty-Eight	1982
34	The Sex Pistols	Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols	1977
35	The Rolling Stones	Let it Bleed	1969
36	U2	Achtung Baby	1991
37	Van Morrison	Astral Weeks	1968
38	The Beatles	Sgt Pepper's Lonely hearts Club Band	1967
39	Paul Simon	Graceland	1986
40	Pixies	Doolitle	1989
41	Miles Davis	Kind of Blue	1959
42	Aretha Franklin	Lady Soul	1968
43	Television	Marquee Moon	1977
44	Guns N' Roses	Appetite for Destruction	1987
45	My Bloody Valentine	Loveless	1991
46	Neil Young	After the Gold Rush	1970
47	LCD Soundsystem	Sound of Silver	2007
48	Daft Punk	Discovery	2001
49	Johnny Cash	At Folsom Prison	1968
50	Amy Winehouse	Back to Black	2006
51	Bob Dylan	Bringing it all Back Home	1965
52	David Bowie	Hunky Dory	1971
53	Beastie Boys	Paul's Boutique	1989
54	The Strokes	Is This It	2001
55	Pulp	Different Class	1995
56	Otis Redding	Otis Blue	1965
57	The Stone Roses	The Stone Roses	1989
58	Sonic Youth	Daydream Nation	1988
59	Oasis	Definitely Maybe	1994
60	Michael Jackson	Off the Wall	1979
61	Elvis Presley	The Sun Sessions	1999
62	Sly and the Family Stone	Greatest Hits	1970
63	David Bowie	Low	1977
64	PJ Harvey	Let England Shake	2011
65	Joy Division	Closer	1980
66	Lauryn Hill	The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill	1998
67	Elvis Presley	Sunrise (Anthology)	1999
68	Carole King	Tapestry	1971
69	Adele	21	2011
70	The Rolling Stones	Sticky Fingers	1971
71	AC/DC	Back in Black	1980
72	Al Green	Call Me	1973
73	Arctic Monkeys	Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not	2006
74	Robert Johnson	The Complete Recordings	1990
75	Blur	Parklife	1994
76	James Brown	Live at the Apollo	1963
77	Bob Marley and the Wailers	Catch a Fire	1973
78	The Band	The Band	1969
79	U2	The Joshua Tree	1987
80	Primal Scream	Screamadelica	1991
81	Nas	Illimatic	1994
82	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin	1969
83	Talking Heads	Remain in Light	1980
84	Suede	Dog Man Star	1994
85	The Notorious B.I.G.	Ready to Die	1994
86	Ramones	Ramones	1976
87	Blur	Modern Life is Rubbish	1993
88	Band	Music From Big Pink	1968
89	Dusty Springfield	Dusty in Memphis	1969
90	The Rolling Stones	Some Girls	1978
91	Nirvana	In Utero	1993
92	Jay-Z	The Blueprint	2001
93	Pink Floyd	Dark Side of the Moon	1973
94	Eagles	Hotel California	1976
95	Muddy Waters	The Anthology	2001
96	The Beatles	Please Please Me	1963
97	Joy Division	Unknown Pleasures	1979
98	The Clash	The Clash	1977
99	Eminem	The Marshall Mathers LP	2000
100	Doors	The Doors	1967