Monday, January 6, 2014

Sales v critics v fans 3.1: Fans top 100 albums of all time

No we turn our attention to the fans top 100 albums of all time, as represented by Rate Your Music in early January, 2014.

The critics top 100 is here and the top 100 by sales is here.

Good news for Radiohead and Pink Floyd fans.


Rank Artist Album Year
1 Radiohead  OK Computer 1997
2 Pink Floyd  The Dark Side of the Moon 1973
3 The Velvet Underground & Nico  The Velvet Underground & Nico 1967
4 Pink Floyd  Wish You Were Here 1975
5 The Beatles  Abbey Road 1969
6 The Beatles  Revolver 1966
7 King Crimson  In the Court of the Crimson King 1969
8 Radiohead  Kid A 2000
9 Led Zeppelin  Led Zeppelin [IV] 1971
10 Miles Davis  Kind of Blue 1959
11 My Bloody Valentine  Loveless 1991
12 Bob Dylan  Highway 61 Revisited 1965
13 John Coltrane  A Love Supreme 1965
14 David Bowie  The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars 1972
15 Black Sabbath  Paranoid 1970
16 Pixies  Doolittle 1989
17 The Beach Boys  Pet Sounds 1966
18 The Beatles  Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967
19 The Doors  The Doors 1967
20 Joy Division  Unknown Pleasures 1979
21 The Clash  London Calling 1979
22 The Beatles  The Beatles [White Album] 1968
23 The Smiths  The Queen Is Dead 1986
24 Nick Drake  Pink Moon 1972
25 Bob Dylan  Blonde on Blonde 1966
26 The Jimi Hendrix Experience  Are You Experienced 1967
27 Talking Heads  Remain in Light 1980
28 Charles Mingus  The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady 1963
29 Television  Marquee Moon 1977
30 Arcade Fire  Funeral 2004
31 Joy Division  Closer 1980
32 Neutral Milk Hotel  In the Aeroplane Over the Sea 1998
33 Pink Floyd  Animals 1977
34 Bob Dylan  Blood on the Tracks 1975
35 The Beatles  Rubber Soul 1965
36 Bob Dylan  Bringing It All Back Home 1965
37 Sonic Youth  Daydream Nation 1988
38 Godspeed You Black Emperor!  Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! 2000
39 Neil Young  After the Gold Rush 1970
40 Led Zeppelin  Led Zeppelin 1969
41 Nirvana  Nevermind 1991
42 Metallica  Master of Puppets 1986
43 Wu-Tang Clan  Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) 1993
44 Led Zeppelin  Led Zeppelin II 1969
45 King Crimson  Red 1974
46 Radiohead  The Bends 1995
47 The Jimi Hendrix Experience  Electric Ladyland 1968
48 Tom Waits  Rain Dogs 1985
49 Sigur Rós  Ágætis byrjun 1999
50 Leonard Cohen  Songs of Leonard Cohen 1967
51 The Velvet Underground  The Velvet Underground 1969
52 David Bowie  Low 1977
53 The Who  Who's Next 1971
54 Black Sabbath  Black Sabbath 1970
55 The Cure  Disintegration 1989
56 Black Sabbath  Master of Reality 1971
57 The Rolling Stones  Sticky Fingers 1971
58 The Stooges  Fun House 1970
59 Nas  Illmatic 1994
60 Miles Davis  In a Silent Way 1969
61 Love  Forever Changes 1967
62 Metallica  Ride the Lightning 1984
63 Portishead  Dummy 1994
64 DJ Shadow  Endtroducing..... 1996
65 The Zombies  Odessey and Oracle 1968
66 David Bowie  Hunky Dory 1971
67 The Rolling Stones  Let It Bleed 1969
68 Godspeed You Black Emperor!  F♯A♯∞ (1995-1997) 1997
69 Radiohead  In Rainbows 2007
70 The Beatles  Magical Mystery Tour 1967
71 Miles Davis  Bitches Brew 1970
72 Can  Tago Mago 1971
73 Yes  Close to the Edge 1972
74 Nick Drake  Five Leaves Left 1969
75 The Velvet Underground  White Light / White Heat 1968
76 Genius/GZA  Liquid Swords 1995
77 Neil Young  On the Beach 1974
78 Pixies  Surfer Rosa 1988
79 The Rolling Stones  Exile on Main St. 1972
80 The Kinks  The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Societ 1968
81 Neil Young with Crazy Horse  Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere 1969
82 Slint  Spiderland 1991
83 Pink Floyd  The Piper at the Gates of Dawn 1967
84 Frank Zappa  Hot Rats 1969
85 Marvin Gaye  What's Going On 1971
86 The Rolling Stones  Beggars Banquet 1968
87 Pink Floyd  Meddle 1971
88 Neil Young  Harvest 1972
89 Megadeth  Rust in Peace 1990
90 Talk Talk  Spirit of Eden 1988
91 Charles Mingus  Mingus Ah Um 1959
92 Slayer  Reign in Blood 1986
93 Van Morrison  Astral Weeks 1968
94 Bob Dylan  The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan 1963
95 Talk Talk  Laughing Stock 1991
96 Led Zeppelin  Led Zeppelin III 1970
97 John Coltrane  Giant Steps 1960
98 Creedence Clearwater Revival  Cosmo's Factory 1970
99 Elliott Smith  Either/Or 1997
100 A Tribe Called Quest  The Low End Theory 1991

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