The 125 Greatest Albums
 

Hi guys, I need to make a list for my school project of the greatest albums. All these lists are subjective and there are no perfect lists. I'm just 15 so I can't know every single great album of all times. I haven't arranged this list or ranked it yet so it's very messy but what do you think of it?

1. Tago Mago – Can
2. Monster Movie – Can
3. Ege Bamyasi - Can
4. The White Album – The Beatles
5. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – The Beatles
6. Revolver – The Beatles
7. Rubber Soul – The Beatles
8. Pet Sounds – Beach Boys
9. Maggot Brain – Funkedelic
10. Nevermind – Nirvana
11. Funeral – Arcade Fire
12. Marquee Moon – Television
13. Neu! – Neu!
14. Oxygene – Jean Michel Jarre
15. Ambient 1: Music For Airports – Brian Eno
16. Phaedra – Tangerine Dream
17. Forever Changes – Love
18. Souvlaki – Slowdive
19. Loveless – My Bloody Valentine
20. Trans-Europe Express – Kraftwerk
21. Blonde on Blonde – Bob Dylan
22. Highway 61 Revisited – Bob Dylan
23. The Freewheeling Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan
24. Beggar’s Banquet – Rolling Stones
25. Exile On Main Street – Rolling Stones
26. Psychocandy – The Jesus And Mary Chain
27. Dire Straits – Dire Straits
28. The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead
29. Back in Black – AC/DC
30. Welcome to The Jungle – Guns N’ Roses
31. Horses – Patti Smith
32. Daydream Nation – Sonic Youth
33. After the Gold Rush – Neil Young
34. Harvest – Neil Young
35. Spiderland – Slint
36. Illmatic - Nas
37. 3 Feet High and Rising – De La Soul
38. It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back – Public Enemy
39. Things Fall Apart – The Roots
40. Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A
41. Paul’s Boutique – Beastie Boys
42. Blue Lines – Massive Attack
43. At Fillmore East - The Allman Brothers Band
44. Ramones – The Ramones
45. Are You Experienced – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
46. Electric Ladyland – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
47. Axis: Bold As Love – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
48. What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye
49. Disraeli Gears – Cream
50. Astral Weeks – Van Morrison
51. Master of Puppets – Metallica
52. Paranoid – Black Sabbath
53. Rust in Peace – Megadeth
54. London Calling – The Clash
55. Led Zeppelin II – Led Zeppelin
56. Led Zeppelin IV – Led Zeppelin
57. Purple Rain – Prince
58. Is This It? – The Strokes
59. King Of The Delta Blue Singers – Robert Johnson
60. Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs – Derek And The Dominos
61. Blue – Joni Mitchell
62. Thriller – Michael Jackson
63. Off The Wall – Michael Jackson
64. Elvis Presley – Elvis Presley
65. Freak Out! – Frank Zappa
66. Uncle Meat – Frank Zappa
67. Vol. 2 – Hurt
68. At Folsom Prison – Johnny Cash
69. Exodus – Bob Marley
70. Catch a Fire - Bob Marley
71. Think Tank – Blur
72. Raw Power – The Stooges
73. Screamadelica – Primal Scream
74. In The Court of The Crimson King – King Crimson
75. Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
76. Dark Side of The Moon – Pink Floyd
77. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn – Pink Floyd
78. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders from Mar – David Bowie
79. Low – David Bowie
80. War – U2
81. The Joshua Tree – U2
82. I Have Never Loved A Man Like I Loved You – Aretha Franklin
83. Drums of Passion – Michael Babatunde Olatunji
84. Live at the Apollo – James Brown
85. Elektronik Türküler – Erkin Koray
86. OK Computer – Radiohead
87. The Bends – Radiohead
88. Ágætis Byrjun – Sigur Rós
89. Chuck Berry is On Top – Chuck Berry
90. Siamese Dream – The Smashing Pumpkins
91. Born to Run – Bruce Springsteen
92. Fear Of Music – Taking Heads
93. Remain in Light – Talking Heads
94. Kind of Blue – Miles Davis
95. Bitches Brew – Miles Davis
96. This is Happening – LCD Soundsystem
97. A Love Supreme – John Coltrane
98. Out to Lunch – Eric Dolphy
99. The Earth is Not A Cold Dead Place – Explosions in The Sky
100. Trout Mask Replica – Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
101. Movement – New Order
102. Who’s Next – The Who
103. The Who Sell Out – The Who
104. Doolittle - Pixies
105. The Chicago Transit Authority – Chicago
106. Cosmo’s Factory – Credence Clearwater Revival
107. Superfly – Curtis Mayfield
108. There’s A Riot Going On – Sly and The Family Stone
109. Homogenic – Bjork
110. Swordfishtrombone – Tom Waits
111. Young Team – Mogwai
112. Black Monk Time – The Monks
113. Atlantis – Sun Ra
114. Yankee Foxtrot Hotel – Wilco
115. The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
116. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots – The Flaming Lips
117. Soft Bulletin – The Flaming Lips
118. Let It Be – The Replacements
119. The Velvet Underground and Nico – The Velvet Underground
120. Loaded – The Velvet Underground
121. The Sounds of India – Ravi Shankar
122. Chaina Bhabish – Arnab
123. On Fire – Galaxie 500
124. Rumours – Fleetwood Mac
125. The Saint and The Sinner Lady – Charles Mingus

It's probably not as good as the lists by professionals like Rolling Stone or Pitchfork but I tried making a decent list.

Top 3 being Can albums is a little too subjective. Objectively speaking, The Velvet Underground & Nico is the greatest album of all time, way low at 119. Also, I don't see Nowhere by Ride there, that albums ridiculous.

Dude, Master of Reality blows Paranoid out of the water.

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Good list, Aichuk, you've got very good taste for a 15 year old. I think a few of the artists should have their albums mixed around instead of lumping all of your Can or Jimi Hendrix together. If you actually like those albums best in that order, then that's great, but your teacher might think the list is more like you listing albums you know instead of ranking them.

How many of those albums have you listened to and how many other albums by those on your list have you heard?

I've heard them all, honestly. I can't have bought all but I spend a lot of time listening to new music on Grooveshark. I've heard a few others albums of the ones I ranked.
Btw, haven't I said that I haven't ranked the albums yet. I just finished listing the albums, now I'm gonna have to arrange them from worst to best for my school assignment.

no it doesn't

Aichuk, it looks like you found a typical best album list somewhere on the internet and rearranged it to your liking. While it isn't a bad list, and there are plenty of albums on that list that I love, it doesn't seem like it's your own personal top 125. There's no curveballs on the list that convince me that you thought "fuck it, I love this album and I don't care if everyone else thinks it's shit".

Eh, that's subjective. Personally I wouldn't even consider it the best Velvet Underground album.

If it is your list, surely it's better than Rolling Stone's list. You know what you like better than Rolling Stone do, no?

this is the worst list ive ever seen u say not has good has Rolling stone or pitchfork well this looks like something they would spew out LOL really bad


when u say greatest should that mean of all time

so there is like zero to nothing before the 70's LOL I guess music started in the 70's LOL

that's like 90% amercian and European bands so I guess the rest of the world does not make music

and I guess ROCK is the only thing that can be on this list no other styles allowed LOL

and what is NWA always the only Hip hop band on everyone of these list LOL its like ehhh gotta put a rap band on here lets just put NWA

Neu!, Ambient 1, Souvlaki, Hurt Volume II, Elektronik Thunder, Chaina Bhabish- i never saw them in other lists, but i put them there because i love them

I'm with others on this, it looks exactly like a Rolling Stones list. Nothing too spectacular, just a few changes to make it a little interesting.

Get off that crack cocaine mate.

I wanna see a list with more of this!

Yes but do you like the list mate?

It's decent – you have amazing taste for a 15 year old :).

I always try to criticise music objectively, but obviously creating a list of 125 in that manner is f*cking difficult! In all honesty, ranking personal favourites is just as daunting a task.

The most obvious omissions that I'd peronally include are Abbey Road – arguably the Beatles's finest, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea – one of the best albums most people don't know about, For Your Pleasure – in the words of Morrisey, a truly great British album and Wowee Zowee – Indie Rock's finest, I'm telling you.

Good list.

That's cool. But I've seen Neu!, Souvlaki and Ambient 1 on a few lists. I'll give you the other three however since I'm not familiar with them.

If I was on crack I'd probably still have the ability to respect that other people have different opinions than me.

Their lists would be no better than yours.

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Not much in it, but I'd say Paranoid was slightly better than Master of Reality.

The list is very 'classical', and there isn't much range here. It's very similar to a Rolling Stone list, though the three Can albums at the top spot looks a tad bizarre. But if you're compiling a list of 'great' albums in terms of sheer influence, you've included a great deal of the rock canon. Why are you making this list? a project?

Mary J. Blige - Mary & My Life should be #1 and #2

MoR, brilliant though it is, is not as powerful or as consistent as Paranoid. Anyone who says otherwise is a racist.......fact

Agreed:beer:

Paranoid has some good songs (War Pigs, Iron Man, Fairies Wear Boots), but I like the overall style on Master of Reality better. I even like the fillers on that one; Embryo goes well with Children of the Grave, and Orchid is good on its own. I mentioned Children of the Grave, and Lord of This World and Into the Void are amazing.

Racist

But seriously. Had After Forever (what I consider to be one of the band's worst ever songs) not been on the album and maybe Embryo replaced with an actual track I'd almost be able to agree with you. In my opinion, MoR feels a bit empty at times

I understand this is a school project, so is the list due to the public's reception or is it more personal? List makes sense if we're talking about the big world hoo-haa. Though I don't know why Strokes and Primal Scream are doing on there. Otherwise it's not a bad list. Just confusing...

I like those albums, that's why I put them here. If you don't like them ,then you don't have to include them in your own personal list.

That's why I asked whether it was personal or not. Don't fret.

You need to listen to some Manic Street Preachers

No he doesn't.

Overrated

There are four Beatles albums and three Dylan albums on the list.

I'm not defending the list bro. It doesn't do much for me personally. I was just being controversial by observing that the Manics are overrated (in my humble opinion) It's all banter!

Blonde on Blonde is patchy and over-long....there...I said it

Haha that's fair enough. Being a fan I have to disagree, and the majority of people I speak to haven't even heard of them, but I can understand why you'd think that.

The MSP are one of the best known British bands around:confused:

a valid point

Maybe 10 years ago, not so much nowadays.