Oh, what the Hell
1955- Bill Haley and the Comets- Rock Around the Clock
1956- Moondog- Moondog
1957- Sonny Rollins- Way Out West
1958- John Coltrane- Blue Train
1959- Dave Brubeck- Time Out
1960- Charles Mingus- Blues and Roots
1961- John Coltrane- Ole Coltrane
1962- Joan Baez- Joan Baez in Concert
1963- The Beatles- With the Beatles
1964- The Beatles- A Hard Day's Night
1965- The Beatles- Rubber Soul
1966- The Beatles- Revolver
1967- The Beatles- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1968- The Beatles- White Album
1969- The Rolling Stones- Let It Bleed
1970- John Lennon- Plastic Ono Band
1971- David Bowie- Hunky Dory
1972- David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
1973- Stevie Wonder- Innervisions
1974- Richard and Linda Thompson- I Want To See the Bright Lights Tonight
1975- Patti Smith- Horses
1976- Flamin Groovies- Shake Some Action
1977- Sex Pistols- Never Mind the Bollocks
1978- Elvis Costello- This Year's Model
1979- Elvis Costello- Armed Forces
1980- The Clash- London Calling
1981- X- Wild Gift
1982- Bruce Springsteen- Nebraska
1983- REM- Murmur
1984- REM- Reckoning
1985- Jesus and Mary Chain- Psychocandy
1986- XTC- Skylarking
1987- U2- The Joshua Tree
1988- Public Enemy- It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
1989- Camper Van Beethoven- Key Lime Pie
1990- Depeche Mode- Violator
1991- Nirvana- Nevermind
1992- REM- Automatic For the People
1993- Suede- Suede
1994- Guided By Voices- Bee Thousand
1995- Aimee Mann- I'm With Stupid
1996- The Eels- Beautiful Freak
1997- Radiohead- OK Computer
1998- Neutral Milk Hotel- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
1999- Of Montreal- The Gay Parade
2000- Grandaddy- The Sophtware Slump
2001- White Stripes- White Blood Cells
2002- Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2003- The Shins- Chutes Too Narrow
2004- Elliott Smith- From a Basement On a Hill
2005- Sufjan Stevens- Illinois
2006- The Decemberists- The Crane Wife
2007- The New Pornographers- Challengers
2008- Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes
2009- Girls- Album
2010- The Like- Release Me
2011- PJ Harvey- Let England Shake
2012- Goat- World Music (thanks Psy-Fi )
2013- Ty Segall- Sleeper
2014- Casualties of Cool- Casualties of Cool
2015- Sufjan Stevens- Carrie and Lowell
2016- David Bowie- Blackstar
2017- Grandaddy- Last Place