Raja
2008-03-23 18:25:47 UTC
This is a 2008 list, so very recent.
http://wtmd.blogspot.com/2008/01/wtmds-897-greatest-albums-of-all-time.html
I looked at the top 250 only for both bands and artists. Here is how
they performed. I would say the biggest surprises are Dave Matthews
Band, Police and Wilco. I wouldnt have expected many albums of theirs
on the list.
Beatles 8
Bruce Springsteen 8
Bob Dylan 7
Led Zeppelin 6
U2 6
Neil Young 5
Rolling Stones 5
Elvis Costello and The Arractions 4
Grateful Dead 4
Police 4
REM 4
Band 3
Dave Matthews Band 3
Jimi Hendrix Experience 3
Pink Floyd 3
Radiohead 3
Stevie Wonder 3
Who 3
Wilco 3
Yes 3
Here is the top 250
Rank Artist Album
1 Beatles Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2 Beatles The Beatles (White)
3 Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon
4 Beatles Abbey Road
5 Clash London Calling
6 Bruce Springsteen Born To Run
7 U2 The Joshua Tree
8 Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks
9 Who Who's Next
10 Beatles Revolver
11 Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV
12 Radiohead OK Computer
13 Paul Simon Graceland
14 Rolling Stones Exile On Main Street
15 Grateful Dead American Beauty
16 Beatles Rubber Soul
17 Neil Young Harvest
18 Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited
19 Nirvana Nevermind
20 Counting Crows August and Everything After
21 Miles Davis Kind Of Blue
22 Fleetwood Mac Rumors
23 Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced?
24 Rolling Stones Let It Bleed
25 Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers
26 Beach Boys Pet Sounds
27 Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II
28 Elvis Costello My Aim Is True
29 Pink Floyd The Wall
30 Bob Dylan Blonde On Blonde
31 Derek & The Dominos Laya And Other Assorted Love Songs
32 Van Morrison Moondance
33 Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
34 Led Zeppelin I
35 Pearl Jam Ten
36 Joni Mitchell Blue
37 Band The Band
38 David Bowie Ziggy Stardust
39 Jeff Buckley Grace
40 Radiohead The Bends
41 U2 Achtung Baby
42 Bob Marley Legend
43 Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
44 Elton John Goodbye Yellowbrick Road
45 Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland
46 Carol King Tapestry
47 Neil Young After The Goldrush
48 Who Tommy
49 CSNY Deja Vu
50 Little Feat Waiting For Columbus
51 Steely Dan Aja
52 Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East
53 Dave Matthews Band Under Table And Dreaming
54 Stevie Wonder Songs In The Key Of Life
55 Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
56 CNNY Crosby, Stills & Nash
57 Pixies Doolittle
58 R.E.M Murmur
59 R.E.M Automatic For The People
60 Sex Pistols Nevermind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols
61 Who Quadrophenia
62 Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique
63 Smiths The Queen Is Dead
64 Bob Dylan Bring It All Back Home
65 Jimi Hendrix Axis: Bold as Love
66 Jethro Tull Aqualung
67 Lucinda Williams Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
68 Doors The Doors
69 Eagles Hotel California
70 Guns N Roses Appetite For Destruction
71 Grateful Dead Workingman's Dead
72 Neutral Milk Hotel In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
73 Simon & Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water
74 Michael Jackson Thriller
75 Oasis (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
76 Dire Straits Brothers In Arms
77 Tori Amos Little Earthquakes
78 Marvin Gaye What's Going On?
79 Van Morrison Astral Weeks
80 Bruce Springsteen The Wild, The Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
81 Replacements Tim
82 Violent Femmes Violent Femmes
83 Police Synchronicity
84 REM Life's Rich Pagaent
85 Bruce Springsteen Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ
86 Tom Petty Damn the Torpedoes
87 Tom Petty Wildflowers
88 Talking Heads Stop Making Sense
89 Radiohead Kid A
90 Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy
91 Peter Gabriel So
92 Velvet Underground Velvet Underground & Nico
93 Cure Disintegration
94 Talking Heads Remain in Light
95 Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill
96 Band Music from the Big Pink
97 Stevie Wonder Innervisions
98 Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti
99 Joni Mitchell Court & Spark
100 Allman Brothers Band Eat a Peach
101 Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
102 Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town
103 Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
104 David Bowie Hunky Dory
105 Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet
106 Weezer The Blue Album
107 Green Day Dookie
108 Elvis Costello This Years Model
109 Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill
110 Prince Purple Rain
111 AC/DC Back in Black
112 Johnny Cash American Recordings
113 U2 The Unforgettable Fire
114 Police Outlandos D'Amour
115 Joni Mitchell Hejira
116 Beck Odelay
117 Cat Stevens Tea fo the Tillerman
118 Talking Heads Talking Heads 77
119 Yes Close to the Edge
120 Queen A Night at the Opera
121 Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head
122 A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory
123 Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magic
124 Band The Last Waltz
125 Billy Joel The Stranger
126 Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison
127 George Harrison All Things Must Pass
128 Moody Blues Days of Future Passed
129 John Coltrane A Love Supreme
130 Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
131 Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow
132 Jackson Browne Late for the Sky
133 Cars The Cars
134 Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
135 John Lennon Imagine
136 My Bloody Valentine Loveless
137 James Taylor Sweet Baby James
138 Cream Disraeli Gears
139 Dave Matthews Band Before These Crowded Streets
140 Beatles Meet the Beatles
141 John Lennon Plastic Ono Band
142 Ray Charles Modern Songs in Country and Western Music
143 Weezer Pinkerton
144 Incubus S.C.I.E.N.C.E
145 Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A
146 Sonic Youth Daydream Nation
147 Ryan Adams Gold
148 Bob Dylan Desire
149 CSNY 4 Way Street
150 Replacements Please to Meet Me
151 U2 War
152 Pogues Rum Sodomy & the Lash
153 Pixies Surfer Rosa
154 Ramones Ramones
155 White Stripes Elephant
156 Wilco Being There
157 Patti Smith Horses
158 Dire Straits Making Movies
159 Simon & Garfunkel Sounds of Silence
160 Stevie Ray Vaughan Texas Flood
161 Steely Dan Can't Buy a Thrill
162 Beatles Let it Be
163 Bruce Springsteen The River
164 Peter Frampton Frampton Comes Alive
165 Traffic The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
166 New Order Substance
167 Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
168 Nick Drake Pink Moon
169 Led Zeppelin III
170 Pretenders Pretenders
171 Bob Marley Exodus
172 Clash The Clash
173 Todd Rundgren Something / Anything
174 Arcade Fire Funeral
175 They Might Be Giants Flood
176 Yes Fragile
177 Black Sabbath Paranoid
178 R.E.M Fables Of Reconstruction
179 Stone Roses The Stone Roses
180 Various Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack
181 R.E.M Out Of Time
182 Jackson Browne The Pretender
183 King Crimson The Court Of The Crimson King
184 Decemberists The Crane Wife
185 Gillian Welch Time (The Revelator)
186 Grateful Dead Live Dead
187 Joe Jackson Look Sharp!
188 Sugar Copper Blue
189 Grateful Dead Europe 72
190 Emmylou Harris Wrecking Ball
191 Liz Phair Exile In Guyville
192 Depeche Mode Violator
193 Police Regatta de Blanc
194 Van Morrison Saint Dominic's Preview
195 XTC Skylarking
196 Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness
197 Rockpile Seconds Of Pleasure
198 Bruce Springsteen Nebraska
199 Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
200 Wilco Sky Blue Sky
201 Van Morrison Tupelo Honey
202 Neil Young Harvest Moon
203 King Crimson Discipline
204 Joe Jackson I'm The Man
205 Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dreams
206 Bruce Springsteen The Rising
207 10,000 Maniacs In My Tribe
208 Little Feat Dixie Chicken
209 White Stripes White Blood Cells
210 Elliott Smith Either/Or
211 Yes Yes
212 Santana Abraxas
213 Damien Rice O
214 Roxy Music Avalon
215 Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
216 Doors L.A Woman
217 Tom Waits The Heart Of Saturday Night
218 Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin
219 Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman
220 David Gray White Ladder
221 Supertramp Breakfast In America
222 Jackson Browne Running On Empty
223 Televison Marquee Moon
224 Nirvana Unplugged In New York
225 Michael Jackson Off The Wall
226 Morphine Cure For Pain
227 U2 Rattle And Hum
228 Warren Zevon Excitable Boy
229 Frank Zappa Apostrophe
230 Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication
231 Elvis Costello Armed Forces
232 Jack Johnson In Between Dreams
233 Dave Matthews Band Crash
234 Various Woodstock : Three Days Of Peace & Music
235 Rolling Stones Some Girls
236 Pavement Slanted & Enchanted
237 Death Cab For Cutie Plans
238 Stevie Wonder Talking Book
239 X Los Angeles
240 Jayhawks Tomorrow The Green Grass
241 XTC English Settlement
242 Beatles Magical Mystery Tour
243 Bob Dylan Nashville Skyline
244 Neil Young Rust Never Sleeps
245 Cream Wheels Of Fire
246 Santana Supernatural
247 Byrds Sweetheart of the Rodeo
248 Tom Waits Rain Dogs
249 Police Zenyatta Mondatta
250 U2 Boy
http://wtmd.blogspot.com/2008/01/wtmds-897-greatest-albums-of-all-time.html
I looked at the top 250 only for both bands and artists. Here is how
they performed. I would say the biggest surprises are Dave Matthews
Band, Police and Wilco. I wouldnt have expected many albums of theirs
on the list.
Beatles 8
Bruce Springsteen 8
Bob Dylan 7
Led Zeppelin 6
U2 6
Neil Young 5
Rolling Stones 5
Elvis Costello and The Arractions 4
Grateful Dead 4
Police 4
REM 4
Band 3
Dave Matthews Band 3
Jimi Hendrix Experience 3
Pink Floyd 3
Radiohead 3
Stevie Wonder 3
Who 3
Wilco 3
Yes 3
Here is the top 250
Rank Artist Album
1 Beatles Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2 Beatles The Beatles (White)
3 Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon
4 Beatles Abbey Road
5 Clash London Calling
6 Bruce Springsteen Born To Run
7 U2 The Joshua Tree
8 Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks
9 Who Who's Next
10 Beatles Revolver
11 Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV
12 Radiohead OK Computer
13 Paul Simon Graceland
14 Rolling Stones Exile On Main Street
15 Grateful Dead American Beauty
16 Beatles Rubber Soul
17 Neil Young Harvest
18 Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited
19 Nirvana Nevermind
20 Counting Crows August and Everything After
21 Miles Davis Kind Of Blue
22 Fleetwood Mac Rumors
23 Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced?
24 Rolling Stones Let It Bleed
25 Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers
26 Beach Boys Pet Sounds
27 Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II
28 Elvis Costello My Aim Is True
29 Pink Floyd The Wall
30 Bob Dylan Blonde On Blonde
31 Derek & The Dominos Laya And Other Assorted Love Songs
32 Van Morrison Moondance
33 Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
34 Led Zeppelin I
35 Pearl Jam Ten
36 Joni Mitchell Blue
37 Band The Band
38 David Bowie Ziggy Stardust
39 Jeff Buckley Grace
40 Radiohead The Bends
41 U2 Achtung Baby
42 Bob Marley Legend
43 Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
44 Elton John Goodbye Yellowbrick Road
45 Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland
46 Carol King Tapestry
47 Neil Young After The Goldrush
48 Who Tommy
49 CSNY Deja Vu
50 Little Feat Waiting For Columbus
51 Steely Dan Aja
52 Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East
53 Dave Matthews Band Under Table And Dreaming
54 Stevie Wonder Songs In The Key Of Life
55 Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
56 CNNY Crosby, Stills & Nash
57 Pixies Doolittle
58 R.E.M Murmur
59 R.E.M Automatic For The People
60 Sex Pistols Nevermind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols
61 Who Quadrophenia
62 Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique
63 Smiths The Queen Is Dead
64 Bob Dylan Bring It All Back Home
65 Jimi Hendrix Axis: Bold as Love
66 Jethro Tull Aqualung
67 Lucinda Williams Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
68 Doors The Doors
69 Eagles Hotel California
70 Guns N Roses Appetite For Destruction
71 Grateful Dead Workingman's Dead
72 Neutral Milk Hotel In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
73 Simon & Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water
74 Michael Jackson Thriller
75 Oasis (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
76 Dire Straits Brothers In Arms
77 Tori Amos Little Earthquakes
78 Marvin Gaye What's Going On?
79 Van Morrison Astral Weeks
80 Bruce Springsteen The Wild, The Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
81 Replacements Tim
82 Violent Femmes Violent Femmes
83 Police Synchronicity
84 REM Life's Rich Pagaent
85 Bruce Springsteen Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ
86 Tom Petty Damn the Torpedoes
87 Tom Petty Wildflowers
88 Talking Heads Stop Making Sense
89 Radiohead Kid A
90 Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy
91 Peter Gabriel So
92 Velvet Underground Velvet Underground & Nico
93 Cure Disintegration
94 Talking Heads Remain in Light
95 Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill
96 Band Music from the Big Pink
97 Stevie Wonder Innervisions
98 Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti
99 Joni Mitchell Court & Spark
100 Allman Brothers Band Eat a Peach
101 Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
102 Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town
103 Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
104 David Bowie Hunky Dory
105 Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet
106 Weezer The Blue Album
107 Green Day Dookie
108 Elvis Costello This Years Model
109 Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill
110 Prince Purple Rain
111 AC/DC Back in Black
112 Johnny Cash American Recordings
113 U2 The Unforgettable Fire
114 Police Outlandos D'Amour
115 Joni Mitchell Hejira
116 Beck Odelay
117 Cat Stevens Tea fo the Tillerman
118 Talking Heads Talking Heads 77
119 Yes Close to the Edge
120 Queen A Night at the Opera
121 Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head
122 A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory
123 Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magic
124 Band The Last Waltz
125 Billy Joel The Stranger
126 Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison
127 George Harrison All Things Must Pass
128 Moody Blues Days of Future Passed
129 John Coltrane A Love Supreme
130 Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
131 Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow
132 Jackson Browne Late for the Sky
133 Cars The Cars
134 Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
135 John Lennon Imagine
136 My Bloody Valentine Loveless
137 James Taylor Sweet Baby James
138 Cream Disraeli Gears
139 Dave Matthews Band Before These Crowded Streets
140 Beatles Meet the Beatles
141 John Lennon Plastic Ono Band
142 Ray Charles Modern Songs in Country and Western Music
143 Weezer Pinkerton
144 Incubus S.C.I.E.N.C.E
145 Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A
146 Sonic Youth Daydream Nation
147 Ryan Adams Gold
148 Bob Dylan Desire
149 CSNY 4 Way Street
150 Replacements Please to Meet Me
151 U2 War
152 Pogues Rum Sodomy & the Lash
153 Pixies Surfer Rosa
154 Ramones Ramones
155 White Stripes Elephant
156 Wilco Being There
157 Patti Smith Horses
158 Dire Straits Making Movies
159 Simon & Garfunkel Sounds of Silence
160 Stevie Ray Vaughan Texas Flood
161 Steely Dan Can't Buy a Thrill
162 Beatles Let it Be
163 Bruce Springsteen The River
164 Peter Frampton Frampton Comes Alive
165 Traffic The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
166 New Order Substance
167 Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
168 Nick Drake Pink Moon
169 Led Zeppelin III
170 Pretenders Pretenders
171 Bob Marley Exodus
172 Clash The Clash
173 Todd Rundgren Something / Anything
174 Arcade Fire Funeral
175 They Might Be Giants Flood
176 Yes Fragile
177 Black Sabbath Paranoid
178 R.E.M Fables Of Reconstruction
179 Stone Roses The Stone Roses
180 Various Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack
181 R.E.M Out Of Time
182 Jackson Browne The Pretender
183 King Crimson The Court Of The Crimson King
184 Decemberists The Crane Wife
185 Gillian Welch Time (The Revelator)
186 Grateful Dead Live Dead
187 Joe Jackson Look Sharp!
188 Sugar Copper Blue
189 Grateful Dead Europe 72
190 Emmylou Harris Wrecking Ball
191 Liz Phair Exile In Guyville
192 Depeche Mode Violator
193 Police Regatta de Blanc
194 Van Morrison Saint Dominic's Preview
195 XTC Skylarking
196 Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness
197 Rockpile Seconds Of Pleasure
198 Bruce Springsteen Nebraska
199 Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
200 Wilco Sky Blue Sky
201 Van Morrison Tupelo Honey
202 Neil Young Harvest Moon
203 King Crimson Discipline
204 Joe Jackson I'm The Man
205 Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dreams
206 Bruce Springsteen The Rising
207 10,000 Maniacs In My Tribe
208 Little Feat Dixie Chicken
209 White Stripes White Blood Cells
210 Elliott Smith Either/Or
211 Yes Yes
212 Santana Abraxas
213 Damien Rice O
214 Roxy Music Avalon
215 Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
216 Doors L.A Woman
217 Tom Waits The Heart Of Saturday Night
218 Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin
219 Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman
220 David Gray White Ladder
221 Supertramp Breakfast In America
222 Jackson Browne Running On Empty
223 Televison Marquee Moon
224 Nirvana Unplugged In New York
225 Michael Jackson Off The Wall
226 Morphine Cure For Pain
227 U2 Rattle And Hum
228 Warren Zevon Excitable Boy
229 Frank Zappa Apostrophe
230 Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication
231 Elvis Costello Armed Forces
232 Jack Johnson In Between Dreams
233 Dave Matthews Band Crash
234 Various Woodstock : Three Days Of Peace & Music
235 Rolling Stones Some Girls
236 Pavement Slanted & Enchanted
237 Death Cab For Cutie Plans
238 Stevie Wonder Talking Book
239 X Los Angeles
240 Jayhawks Tomorrow The Green Grass
241 XTC English Settlement
242 Beatles Magical Mystery Tour
243 Bob Dylan Nashville Skyline
244 Neil Young Rust Never Sleeps
245 Cream Wheels Of Fire
246 Santana Supernatural
247 Byrds Sweetheart of the Rodeo
248 Tom Waits Rain Dogs
249 Police Zenyatta Mondatta
250 U2 Boy