38 Greatest Albums of All Time

Albums are rated by how well they sound when listened to from beginning to the end without interruptions. That's the reason why there is no Nevermind by Nirvana or Rain Dogs by Tom Waits on the list, since they contain a few songs that ruin the flow of the record. There are also no live albums or compilations.

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#1 | "Rage Against the Machine" — Rage Against the Machine

#2 | "L.A. Woman" — The Doors

#3 | "Blue Valentine" — Tom Waits

#4 | "Sound of Silver" — LCD Soundsystem

#5 | "Morrison Hotel" — The Doors

#6 | "The Velvet Underground & Nico" — The Velvet Underground

#7 | "Odelay" — Beck

#8 | "Ramones" — Ramones

#9 | "To Pimp a Butterfly" — Kendrick Lamar

#10 | "Razdor" — Majke

#11 | "The Low End Theory" — A Tribe Called Quest

#12 | "!!Destroy-Oh-Boy!!" — New Bomb Turks

#13 | "Unknown Pleasures" — Joy Division

#14 | "In Utero" — Nirvana

#15 | "Death and the Bible" — The Tiger Lillies

#16 | "Check Your Head" — Beastie Boys

#17 | "Funhouse" — Stooges

#18 | "Swordfishtrombones" — Tom Waits

#19 | "Safe as Milk" — Captain Beefheart

#20 | "Brown Album" — Primus

#21 | "Tourist" — St Germain

#22 | "Midnite Vultures" — Beck

#23 | "I Whistle - You Dance" — Dicky B. Hardy

#24 | "Smash" — The Offspring

#25 | "Run the Jewels 2" — Run the Jewels

#26 | "Cansei de Ser Sexy" — CSS

#27 | "The Velvet Underground" — The Velvet Underground

#28 | "Spiderland" — Slint

#29 | "Franks Wild Years" — Tom Waits

#30 | "Are We Not Men? We Are Devo!" — Devo

#31 | "Surfer Rosa" — Pixies

#32 | "One" — NoMeansNo

#33 | "Stereopathetic Soulmanure" — Beck

#34 | "Clandestino" — Manu Chao

#35 | "Illmatic" — Nas

#36 | "Amphibios" — Matter

#37 | "Nemesis Divina" — Satyricon

#38 | "Repeater" — Fugazi

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