NME's The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time List

1 - The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
2 - The Beatles - Revolver
4 - The Strokes - Is This It
5 - The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
6 - Pulp - Different Class
7 - The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
8 - Pixies - Doolittle
9 - The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album)
10 - Oasis - Definitely Maybe
11 - Nirvana - Nevermind
12 - Patti Smith - Horses
13 - Arcade Fire - Funeral
14 - David Bowie - Low
15 - PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
16 - Joy Division - Closer
17 - Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
18 - My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
19 - Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
20 - Radiohead - OK Computer
21 - Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
22 - Blur - Parklife
23 - David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
24 - The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
25 - Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
26 - The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
27 - Primal Scream - Screamadelica
28 - Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
29 - Television - Marquee Moon
30 - Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
31 - Suede - Dog Man Star
32 - Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
33 - Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish
34 - The Beatles - Abbey Road
35 - Nirvana - In Utero
36 - Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
37 - Love - Forever Changes
38 - Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
39 - The Clash - London Calling
40 - Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
41 - Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
42 - Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
43 - The Beatles - Rubber Soul
44 - Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
45 - Blondie - Parallel Lines
46 - Björk - Debut
47 - The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come
48 - Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
49 - LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
50 - Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis
51 - Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
52 - The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
53 - David Bowie - Station to Station
54 - Talking Heads - Remain in Light
55 - The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
56 - Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
57 - Kraftwerk - The Man Machine (Die Mensch-Maschine)
58 - Pixies - Surfer Rosa
59 - Radiohead - In Rainbows
60 - Massive Attack - Blue Lines
61 - The Clash - The Clash
62 - Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
63 - Joni Mitchell - Blue
64 - Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
65 - R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
66 - Radiohead - The Bends
67 - Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
68 - Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
69 - R.E.M. - Murmur
70 - The Libertines - Up the Bracket
71 - Neil Young - Harvest
72 - Lou Reed - Transformer
73 - Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
74 - Nas - Illmatic
75 - Green Day - Dookie
76 - Daft Punk - Discovery
77 - The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
78 - Suede - Suede
79 - Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
80 - The Stooges - Raw Power
81 - Kraftwerk - Trans Europa Express (Trans-Europe Express)
82 - Carole King - Tapestry
83 - The Band - The Band
84 - Hole - Live Through This
85 - Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
86 - Jeff Buckley - Grace
87 - The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
88 - Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
89 - Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
90 - The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free
91 - Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain
92 - Super Furry Animals - Radiator
93 - Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
94 - The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
95 - Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
96 - Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
97 - The Smiths - The Smiths
98 - Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea
99 - The Libertines - The Libertines
100 - The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
101 - Kraftwerk - Computer World (Computerwelt)
102 - The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
103 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
104 - The Stooges - Fun House
105 - Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
106 - Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
107 - Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
108 - Weezer - Pinkerton
109 - Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
110 - Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief
111 - The Human League - Dare!
112 - Genius/GZA - Liquid Swords
113 - Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
114 - Radiohead - Kid A
115 - Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
116 - The White Stripes - Elephant
117 - ABC - The Lexicon of Love
118 - Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
119 - Pulp - His 'N' Hers
120 - De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
121 - Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
122 - New Order - Technique
123 - Blur - 13
124 - Paul Simon - Graceland
125 - James Brown & The Famous Flames - Live at the Apollo
126 - Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
127 - Ramones - Ramones
128 - The Verve - Urban Hymns
129 - Neil Young - On the Beach
130 - Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights
131 - Michael Jackson - Thriller
132 - Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
133 - John Lennon & Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
134 - PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
135 - Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
136 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
137 - Blur - Blur
138 - Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
139 - The Cure - Disintegration
140 - Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
141 - Bob Marley & The Wailers - Natty Dread
142 - Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson
143 - Bob Dylan - Desire
144 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
145 - The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
146 - At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
147 - Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE
148 - Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
149 - Elliott Smith - Either/Or
150 - The Streets - Original Pirate Material
151 - PJ Harvey - Dry
152 - Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
153 - The La's - The La's
154 - PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
155 - The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
156 - Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
157 - The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
158 - Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
159 - Gang of Four - Entertainment!
160 - Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
161 - Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
162 - The National - Boxer
163 - Neu! - Neu! '75
164 - Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
165 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Let Love In
166 - Pulp - This Is Hardcore
167 - Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
168 - Portishead - Dummy
169 - Dexys Midnight Runners - Don't Stand Me Down
170 - The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
171 - Talking Heads - Fear of Music
172 - Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
173 - Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
174 - Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
175 - David Bowie - Young Americans
176 - Rufus Wainwright - Want One
177 - Mogwai - Young Team
178 - The Coral - The Coral
179 - Missy Elliott - Miss E ...So Addictive
180 - X-Ray Spex - Germfree Adolescents
181 - Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
182 - Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
183 - OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
184 - M.I.A. - Kala
185 - Eric B. & Rakim - Paid in Full
186 - Jay Z - The Blueprint
187 - My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
188 - John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
189 - Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star
190 - Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
191 - Elastica - Elastica
192 - Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
193 - Ryan Adams - Gold
194 - Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
195 - The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
196 - The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus
197 - AC/DC - Back in Black
198 - Prince - Sign “☮” the Times (Sign 'O' the Times)
199 - The Boo Radleys - Giant Steps
200 - The Breeders - Last Splash
201 - The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
202 - Tricky - Maxinquaye
203 - Beach House - Teen Dream
204 - Michael Jackson - Bad
205 - N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
206 - Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
207 - Janis Joplin - Pearl
208 - Chic - Risqué
209 - Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
210 - The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
211 - Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
212 - Kings of Leon - Youth & Young Manhood
213 - Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove
214 - AIR - Moon Safari
215 - Massive Attack - Mezzanine
216 - New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
217 - Iggy Pop - Lust for Life
218 - The Horrors - Primary Colours
219 - The Jam - All Mod Cons
220 - The National - Alligator
221 - Marianne Faithfull - Broken English
222 - Fever Ray - Fever Ray
223 - Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
224 - Echo & The Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
225 - T. Rex - Electric Warrior
226 - The Doors - The Doors
227 - John Lennon - Imagine
228 - Pavement - Brighten the Corners
229 - Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box
230 - David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
231 - Dr. Dre - The Chronic
232 - Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
233 - Babyshambles - Down in Albion
234 - Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour
235 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
236 - Suicide - Suicide
237 - The xx - xx
238 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
239 - Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner
240 - Ian Dury - New Boots and Panties!!
241 - Madonna - Ray of Light
242 - Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
243 - Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns
244 - Wild Beasts - Smother
245 - Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic
246 - Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
247 - Glasvegas - Glasvegas
248 - Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
249 - The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
250 - Weezer - Weezer
251 - The Beach Boys - Surf's Up
252 - Grimes - Visions
253 - Pussy Galore - Exile On Main Street
254 - The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
255 - Metronomy - The English Riviera
256 - Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
257 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call
258 - Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
259 - Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush the Show
260 - The Specials - Specials
261 - Bob Marley & The Wailers - Live!
262 - Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
263 - Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
264 - The Beatles - Please Please Me
265 - Hole - Celebrity Skin
266 - Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
267 - Dr. Feelgood - Stupidity
268 - Todd Rundgren - Todd
269 - The Horrors - Skying
270 - The Kinks - The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
271 - The Velvet Underground - Loaded
272 - Coldplay - Parachutes
273 - Kanye West - The College Dropout
274 - R.E.M. - Green
275 - The Who - Quadrophenia
276 - Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
277 - The Sundays - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
278 - The Slits - Cut
279 - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
280 - Aphex Twin - Drukqs
281 - Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
282 - Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix
283 - Roxy Music - Roxy Music
284 - Fugazi - 13 Songs
285 - Marvin Gaye - Midnight Love
286 - Screaming Trees - Dust
287 - Slayer - Reign in Blood
288 - Stevie Wonder - Music of My Mind
289 - The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
290 - The Bluetones - Expecting To Fly
291 - The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday
292 - The Cribs - The New Fellas
293 - Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain
294 - Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
295 - Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle
296 - David Bowie - Let's Dance
297 - Can - Ege Bamyasi
298 - Malcolm McLaren - Duck Rock
299 - The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
300 - The Who - The Who by Numbers
301 - Arthur Russell - World of Echo
302 - Daft Punk - Homework
303 - Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
304 - The Orb - U.F.Orb
305 - Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story
306 - Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
307 - Beck - Midnite Vultures
308 - The Lemonheads - It's a Shame About Ray
309 - Metallica - Metallica
310 - Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy
311 - Super Furry Animals - Guerrilla
312 - Cocteau Twins - Treasure
313 - Tom Waits - Franks Wild Years
314 - Slint - Spiderland
315 - Big Brother & The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
316 - Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Imperial Bedroom
317 - Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel
318 - Ice-T - O.G. Original Gangster
319 - The Who - Who's Next
320 - Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
321 - Doves - Lost Souls
322 - LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
323 - Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
324 - R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
325 - Beck - Sea Change
326 - Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
327 - Beck - Mutations
328 - The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
329 - David Bowie - "Heroes"
330 - Portishead - Third
331 - MC5 - Kick Out the Jams
332 - Shack - HMS Fable
333 - Paul McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run
334 - The Avalanches - Since I Left You
335 - Queens of the Stone Age - …Like Clockwork
336 - Neneh Cherry - Raw Like Sushi
337 - Danger Mouse - The Grey Album
338 - The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
339 - Pearl Jam - Ten
340 - Sister Sledge - We Are Family
341 - Tom Waits - Closing Time
342 - Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies
343 - Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
344 - EELS - Beautiful Freak
345 - Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Punch the Clock
346 - New Order - Low-Life
347 - Sonic Youth - Dirty
348 - Whitney Houston - Whitney
349 - alt-J (∆) - An Awesome Wave
350 - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - B.R.M.C.
351 - The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo
352 - The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
353 - mclusky - mclusky Do Dallas
354 - Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
355 - New York Dolls - New York Dolls
356 - Pixies - Bossanova
357 - Sugar - Copper Blue
358 - Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
359 - Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention - We're Only in It for the Money
360 - The Strokes - Room on Fire
361 - Faces - A Nod Is as Good as a Wink... to a Blind Horse
362 - Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
363 - Black Flag - Damaged
364 - Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
365 - Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
366 - Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
367 - Metronomy - Nights Out
368 - Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
369 - St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
370 - The Cribs - Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever
371 - Beck - Odelay
372 - Big Black - Atomizer
373 - Curtis Mayfield - There's No Place Like America Today
374 - Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours
375 - Morrissey - Vauxhall And I
376 - Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963
377 - Roy Harper - Stormcock
378 - Wire - Pink Flag
379 - Belle and Sebastian - The Boy with the Arab Strap
380 - Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
381 - David Bowie - Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
382 - Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
383 - The Long Blondes - Someone To Drive You Home
384 - Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley
385 - The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
386 - Gillian Welch - Revival
387 - The Clash - Combat Rock
388 - Tim Buckley - Happy Sad
389 - Le Tigre - Le Tigre
390 - The Verve - A Northern Soul
391 - Burial - Burial
392 - Edan - Beauty and the Beat
393 - Prince - Dirty Mind
394 - Wire - Chairs Missing
395 - The White Stripes - De Stijl
396 - Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F.
397 - Jay Z - Reasonable Doubt
398 - Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
399 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
400 - The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
401 - Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats
402 - Mystery Jets - Twenty One
403 - Björk - Vespertine
404 - Gene Clark - No Other
405 - Otis Redding - Otis Blue / Otis Redding Sings Soul
406 - Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
407 - Ride - Going Blank Again
408 - Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
409 - Can - Tago Mago
410 - Interpol - Antics
411 - Madvillain - Madvillainy
412 - DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....
413 - Happy Mondays - Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches
414 - The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
415 - Chet Baker - Chet Baker Sings
416 - Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
417 - Ash - 1977
418 - EELS - Electro-Shock Blues
419 - Spiritualized - Let It Come Down
420 - A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
421 - Big Star - Radio City
422 - Kevin Rowland & Dexys Midnight Runners - Too-Rye-Ay
423 - The Who - Live at Leeds
424 - U2 - The Joshua Tree
425 - Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra - Nancy & Lee
426 - Sonic Youth - Goo
427 - Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
428 - Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.
429 - Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
430 - Scott Walker - Scott 4
431 - Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
432 - Tindersticks - Tindersticks
433 - Dr. Dre - 2001
434 - Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
435 - Patti Smith Group - Easter
436 - Battles - Mirrored
437 - TV on the Radio - Dear Science
438 - Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
439 - The Futureheads - The Futureheads
440 - Billy Bragg - Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy
441 - ABBA - Arrival
442 - Al Green - Al Green Is Love
443 - Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
444 - Depeche Mode - Violator
445 - Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
446 - Hot Chip - The Warning
447 - David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
448 - Suede - Sci-Fi Lullabies
449 - Arctic Monkeys - AM
450 - PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
451 - Big Star - Third/Sister Lovers
452 - The B-52's - The B-52's
453 - The House of Love - The House Of Love (Creation)
454 - Destiny's Child - The Writing's On The Wall
455 - Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
456 - Frank Sinatra - September of My Years
457 - Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
458 - Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
459 - Jay Z - The Black Album
460 - Nirvana - Bleach
461 - Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists
462 - Metallica - Master of Puppets
463 - The Breeders - Pod
464 - Kings of Leon - Because of the Times
465 - The National - High Violet
466 - Wu-Tang Clan - The W
467 - Iggy Pop - The Idiot
468 - The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
469 - The Beach Boys - Holland
470 - Kanye West - Graduation
471 - MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
472 - The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
473 - The Verve - A Storm In Heaven
474 - Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
475 - Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo
476 - Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
477 - Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
478 - The National - Trouble Will Find Me
479 - Throwing Muses - The Real Ramona
480 - Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
481 - Brian Wilson - Smile
482 - Billie Holiday - Lady in Satin
483 - Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Blood & Chocolate
484 - Bruce Springsteen - The River
485 - Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
486 - Björk - Homogenic
487 - The Jam - Sound Affects
488 - Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
489 - The Wedding Present - George Best
490 - MC5 - Back in the USA
491 - Pet Shop Boys - Actually
492 - These New Puritans - Hidden
493 - This Mortal Coil - Blood
494 - The Cure - The Head on the Door
495 - The Killers - Hot Fuss
496 - Girls - Album
497 - Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
498 - Lou Reed - Berlin
499 - Belly - Star
500 - OutKast - Stankonia