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Rate Your Music's Top 100 Albums

The site rateyourmusic.com has a list of the top 100 albums of all time, based on user ratings. Guess the top 100.
As of Feb 14, 2023. (I will try to update once a year)
Exact chart settings were based on the "Top albums of all-time" button:
https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/all-time/deweight:live,archival,soundtrack/
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Year
Artist
Album
1
2015
Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp a Butterfly
2
1997
Radiohead
OK Computer
3
1975
Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here
4
2007
Radiohead
In Rainbows
5
2004
Madvillain
Madvillainy
6
1969
King Crimson
In the Court of the Crimson King
7
2000
Radiohead
Kid A
8
2012
Kendrick Lamar
good kid, m.A.A.d city
9
1991
My Bloody Valentine
Loveless
10
1973
Pink Floyd
The Dark Side of the Moon
11
1969
The Beatles
Abbey Road
12
1980
Talking Heads
Remain in Light
13
1972
David Bowie
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
14
1963
Mingus
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
15
1967
The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground & Nico
16
1994
Nas
Illmatic
17
1965
John Coltrane
A Love Supreme
18
1966
The Beatles
Revolver
19
2000
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
20
2001
Björk
Vespertine
21
1970
Black Sabbath
Paranoid
22
1989
The Cure
Disintegration
23
1993
Wu-Tang Clan
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
24
1959
Miles Davis
Kind of Blue
25
2010
Kanye West
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
26
1996
Fishmans
Long Season
27
1991
Slint
Spiderland
28
1977
Pink Floyd
Animals
29
1974
King Crimson
Red
30
1966
The Beach Boys
Pet Sounds
31
1998
Neutral Milk Hotel
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
32
1972
Nick Drake
Pink Moon
33
1976
Stevie Wonder
Songs in the Key of Life
34
2012
Death Grips
The Money Store
35
1994
Portishead
Dummy
36
2001
The Microphones
The Glow Pt. 2
37
1986
The Smiths
The Queen Is Dead
38
1993
Slowdive
Souvlaki
39
2004
Kanye West
The College Dropout
40
2016
Danny Brown
Atrocity Exhibition
41
1969
Miles Davis
In a Silent Way
42
1979
Joy Division
Unknown Pleasures
43
1967
The Beatles
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
44
1985
Kate Bush
Hounds of Love
45
1990
Cocteau Twins
Heaven or Las Vegas
46
1999
Fishmans
98.12.28 男達の別れ (98.12.28 Otokotachi no Wakare)
47
2019
Tyler, the Creator
Igor
48
2016
Frank Ocean
Blonde
49
1997
Björk
Homogenic
50
1997
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
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Year
Artist
Album
51
1991
A Tribe Called Quest
The Low End Theory
52
1968
The Beatles
The Beatles [White Album]
53
1970
Miles Davis
Bitches Brew
54
1977
David Bowie
Low
55
1997
Elliott Smith
Either / Or
56
2004
MF DOOM
Mm.. Food
57
1971
Marvin Gaye
What's Going On
58
1996
DJ Shadow
Endtroducing.....
59
1972
Yes
Close to the Edge
60
1989
Pixies
Doolittle
61
1977
Television
Marquee Moon
62
2016
David Bowie
★ [Blackstar]
63
1965
Bob Dylan
Highway 61 Revisited
64
1996
Swans
Soundtracks for the Blind
65
2005
Sufjan Stevens
Illinois
66
1992
Aphex Twin
Selected Ambient Works 85-92
67
1968
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Electric Ladyland
68
1971
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin [IV]
69
2006
J Dilla
Donuts
70
2008
Have a Nice Life
Deathconsciousness
71
2001
Daft Punk
Discovery
72
1971
Black Sabbath
Master of Reality
73
1991
Talk Talk
Laughing Stock
74
1966
Bob Dylan
Blonde on Blonde
75
1976
David Bowie
Station to Station
76
1967
The Doors
The Doors
77
1969
Pharoah Sanders
Karma
78
1980
Joy Division
Closer
79
1975
Bob Dylan
Blood on the Tracks
80
1991
Nirvana
Nevermind
81
1998
OutKast
Aquemini
82
1993
Nirvana
In Utero
83
1984
Metallica
Ride the Lightning
84
2022
Black Country, New Road
Ants From Up There
85
2015
Sufjan Stevens
Carrie & Lowell
86
2005
Kanye West
Late Registration
87
1994
Nine Inch Nails
The Downward Spiral
88
1967
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Are You Experienced
89
1993
A Tribe Called Quest
Midnight Marauders
90
1967
Leonard Cohen
Songs of Leonard Cohen
91
1995
Death
Symbolic
92
1995
Genius/GZA
Liquid Swords
93
2003
Sweet Trip
Velocity : Design : Comfort
94
1973
Can
Future Days
95
1973
Stevie Wonder
Innervisions
96
1998
Massive Attack
Mezzanine
97
1969
The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground
98
1972
Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges
Clube da Esquina
99
1986
Metallica
Master of Puppets
100
1970
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath
+8
Level 82
Aug 8, 2021
I guessed pretty hate machine, the downward spiral, the fragile, and with teeth, decided that the users at rateyourmusic have awful taste, then gave up.
+2
Level 82
Sep 5, 2021
lol the downward spiral reached #115
+2
Level 24
Jun 15, 2023
TDS is in the top 100 now. Hopefully, it continues to rise.
+4
Level 54
Aug 8, 2021
Nice quiz, but Aquemini is the album and Outkast is the artist - please fix!
+4
Level 63
Aug 9, 2021
not sure how i didn't notice that. thanks.
+5
Level 67
Aug 8, 2021
Radiohead is good, but they're not this good.
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Level 74
Nov 19, 2021
I think there's a very strong case for OK Computer as the greatest album of all time, and I'd rank Kid A pretty high as well. Although do I think the list as a whole feels very one note and too concentrated among a few artists.
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Level 62
Nov 21, 2021
Radiohead are this good. But I don't think OK Computer deserves to be even considered as the "greatest album of all time." Nowhere close. Everything they made after is better in my opinion.
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Level 66
Jul 18, 2023
I really like OK Computer's first half; the second half's pretty whatever aside from "No Surprises" and maybe "Lucky". And Kid A never did much for me; I much prefer The Bends.
+4
Level 86
Nov 19, 2021
this has to be one of the oddest all time album lists I have ever seen! it includes artists that have hardly made any splash on the music scene which tells me the survey was suspect in that the pool of who decided was the best albums had to be tiny. I know any list like this is subjective but the lack of what other lists (rolling stone magazine, Apple Music, MTV, Grammys, etc etc,) list as the best of all time is what makes this list very suspect.
+11
Level 74
Nov 20, 2021
I doubt the pool is as small as you think it is. Rate your music, while very much an echo chamber of no-life music nerds (which is what leads to some of the weird results), is by far the most popular music rating site on the internet, and all of the albums on this list have been voted on by over 10,000 people (the Stevie Wonder one is the lowest, with just over 12,000 ratings). The actual list gives a lot more data on why things were ranked the way they are.
+3
Level 77
Mar 5, 2023
Making a “splash in the music scene” is pretty vague. Are you referring to music that was unsuccessful in the mainstream? Music aficionados generally don’t want to listen to the same mainstream, cookie cutter music all the time. And keep in mind that the Grammys are just a reflection of what the music industry thinks is good music. Listening to some of this music, it’s pretty clear that these albums are selected by people who see music as expressive art, not something just for entertainment.
+7
Level 68
Nov 20, 2021
music nerds give music nerds such a bad name holy mother
+5
Level 72
Oct 30, 2022
The all-time chart has changed a lot since I first started using the site in ~2014. Hard to believe that To Pimp a Butterfly has risen all the way to #2, and Madvillainy to #7. Hip-hop used to be not as well-respected on the site.
+3
Level 71
Feb 27, 2023
was pretty disappointed that there wasn’t a taylor swift album here but then i realised her best work isn’t known by the general public
+6
Level 58
Dec 11, 2023
bait?
+5
Level 77
Mar 5, 2023
Thanks a ton for this quiz. I’m listening to Madvillainy because of this list. I used to be a DJ and must’ve gone through 100,000 singles in my time. Some of the music is way too pretentious for my taste, but some of this is amazing music I’ve never heard!
+3
Level 63
Mar 5, 2023
thanks for taking it! rym can def be overly pretentious at times but its def a great way to find to new music, and to keep track of what you've listened to. also madvillainy slaps, glad this list got you to listen to it :)
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Level 46
Mar 30, 2023
As a rym user, we all know the best albums are the ones with terrible ratings on it
+2
Level 37
Jan 5, 2024
What an atrocious list.