Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: 2012 edition

~ Release group series

Release groups

#	Year	Title	Artist	Type	Rating	Releases
1	1967	Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band	The Beatles	Album	4.55	75
2	1966	Pet Sounds	The Beach Boys	Album	4.3	55
3	1966	Revolver	The Beatles	Album	4.65	63
4	1965	Highway 61 Revisited	Bob Dylan	Album	4.25	37
5	1965	Rubber Soul	The Beatles	Album	4.45	102
6	1971	What’s Going On	Marvin Gaye	Album	4.35	47
7	1972	Exile on Main St.	The Rolling Stones	Album	4.3	52
8	1979	London Calling	The Clash	Album	4.2	42
9	1966	Blonde on Blonde	Bob Dylan	Album	4.1	58
10	1968	The Beatles (The White Album)	The Beatles	Album	4.35	57
11	1975	The Sun Sessions	Elvis Presley	Album + Compilation	3	5
12	1959	Kind of Blue	Miles Davis	Album	4.45	131
13	1967	The Velvet Underground & Nico	The Velvet Underground & Nico	Album	4.4	43
14	1969	Abbey Road	The Beatles	Album	4.55	69
15	1967	Are You Experienced	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Album	4.05	54
16	1975	Blood on the Tracks	Bob Dylan	Album	4.2	27
17	1991	Nevermind	Nirvana	Album	4.5	93
18	1975	Born to Run	Bruce Springsteen	Album	4.1	102
19	1968	Astral Weeks	Van Morrison	Album	3.9	17
20	1982	Thriller	Michael Jackson	Album	4.5	84
21	1982	The Great Twenty‐Eight	Chuck Berry	Album + Compilation	4	4
22	1990	The Complete Recordings	Robert Johnson	Album + Compilation	4.5	12
23	1970	John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band	John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band	Album	4.1	26
24	1973	Innervisions	Stevie Wonder	Album	4.65	35
25	1963	Live at the Apollo, 1962	James Brown	Album + Live	4	12
26	1977	Rumours	Fleetwood Mac	Album	4.3	76
27	1987	The Joshua Tree	U2	Album	4.3	63
28	1971	Who’s Next	The Who	Album	4.4	66
29	1969	Led Zeppelin (I)	Led Zeppelin	Album	4.5	64
30	1971	Blue	Joni Mitchell	Album	4.15	28
31	1965	Bringing It All Back Home	Bob Dylan	Album	4.25	45
32	1969	Let It Bleed	The Rolling Stones	Album	4.3	40
33	1976	Ramones	Ramones	Album	4.2	21
34	1968	Music From Big Pink	The Band	Album	3.7	24
35	1972	The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars	David Bowie	Album	4.65	59
36	1971	Tapestry	Carole King	Album	3.8	184
37	1976	Hotel California	Eagles	Album	4.3	65
38	2001	The Anthology	Muddy Waters	Album + Compilation	2.5	1
39	1963	Please Please Me	The Beatles	Album	3.85	76
40	1967	Forever Changes	Love	Album	4.1	21
41	1977	Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols	Sex Pistols	Album	4.3	52
42	1967	The Doors	The Doors	Album	4.6	50
43	1973	The Dark Side of the Moon	Pink Floyd	Album	4.75	139
44	1975	Horses	Patti Smith	Album	4.3	26
45	1969	The Band (“The Brown Album”)	The Band	Album	4	22
46	1984	Legend: The Best of Bob Marley and The Wailers	Bob Marley & The Wailers	Album + Compilation	4.15	68
47	1965	A Love Supreme	John Coltrane	Album	4.5	46
48	1988	It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back	Public Enemy	Album	3.65	28
49	1971	At Fillmore East	The Allman Brothers Band	Album + Live	4	33
50	1957	Here’s Little Richard	Little Richard	Album	4	11
51	1970	Bridge Over Troubled Water	Simon and Garfunkel	Album	4.15	44
52	1975	Greatest Hits	Al Green	Album + Compilation	4	17
53	1964	Meet The Beatles!	The Beatles	Album	4.2	35
54	1991	The Birth of Soul	Ray Charles	Album + Compilation	3	2
55	1968	Electric Ladyland	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Album	4.3	57
56	1956	Elvis Presley	Elvis Presley	Album	3.9	18
57	1976	Songs in the Key of Life	Stevie Wonder	Album	4.35	34
58	1968	Beggars Banquet	The Rolling Stones	Album	4.25	32
59	1976	Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits	Creedence Clearwater Revival featuring John Fogerty	Album + Compilation	4.8	38
60	1969	Trout Mask Replica	Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	Album	4	11
61	1970	Greatest Hits	Sly & the Family Stone	Album + Compilation	3.5	7
62	1987	Appetite for Destruction	Guns N’ Roses	Album	4.4	68
63	1991	Achtung Baby	U2	Album	4.35	41
64	1971	Sticky Fingers	The Rolling Stones	Album	4.35	49
65	1991	Back to Mono (1958–1969)	Phil Spector	Album + Compilation	2	3
66	1970	Moondance	Van Morrison	Album	4	34
67	2000	Kid A	Radiohead	Album	4.5	29
68	1979	Off the Wall	Michael Jackson	Album	3.8	45
69	1971	[Led Zeppelin IV]	Led Zeppelin	Album	4.8	83
70	1977	The Stranger	Billy Joel	Album	4.15	48
71	1986	Graceland	Paul Simon	Album	4.4	45
72	1972	Superfly	Curtis Mayfield	Album + Soundtrack	4.25	22
73	1975	Physical Graffiti	Led Zeppelin	Album	4.1	42
74	1970	After the Gold Rush	Neil Young	Album	4.45	27
75	1991	Star Time	James Brown	Album + Compilation	4.5	4
76	1984	Purple Rain	Prince and The Revolution	Album + Soundtrack	4.3	47
77	1980	Back in Black	AC/DC	Album	4.4	57
78	1965	Otis Blue / Otis Redding Sings Soul	Otis Redding	Album	4.25	19
79	1969	Led Zeppelin II	Led Zeppelin	Album	4.5	62
80	1971	Imagine	John Lennon	Album	4.05	46
81	1977	The Clash	The Clash	Album	4.15	25
82	1972	Harvest	Neil Young	Album	4.35	29
83	1967	Axis: Bold as Love	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Album	4	45
84	1967	I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You	Aretha Franklin	Album	3.55	20
85	1968	Lady Soul	Aretha Franklin	Album	4	15
86	1984	Born in the U.S.A.	Bruce Springsteen	Album	4.4	213
87	1979	The Wall	Pink Floyd	Album	4.5	91
88	1968	At Folsom Prison	Johnny Cash	Album + Live	4	19
89	1969	Dusty in Memphis	Dusty Springfield	Album	3.65	20
90	1972	Talking Book	Stevie Wonder	Album	4	25
91	1973	Goodbye Yellow Brick Road	Elton John	Album	3.95	58
92	1978	20 Golden Greats	Buddy Holly	Album + Compilation	3	6
93	1987	Sign “☮︎” the Times	Prince	Album	4.1	23
94	1978	40 Greatest Hits	Hank Williams	Album + Compilation	3	5
95	1970	Bitches Brew	Miles Davis	Album	4.5	44
96	1969	Tommy	The Who	Album	4.25	49
97	1963	The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan	Bob Dylan	Album	4.25	31
98	1978	This Year’s Model	Elvis Costello	Album	4.35	24
99	1971	There’s a Riot Goin’ On	Sly & the Family Stone	Album	3.35	21
100	1968	Odessey and Oracle	The Zombies	Album	3.9	26

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