Top 100 Albums of All-Time List (as of January 2025)

Recently I decided to update my Top 100 Albums of All-time list (mainly rock/pop, not counting soundtracks, Classical, and so on). Albums with an asterisk indicate new additions

1. Add N to (X): Avant Hard (1999)

2. Alice in Chains: Dirt (1992)

3. Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (1992)

4. Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works Volume 2 (1994)

5. Bauhaus: In the Flat Field (1980)

6. Brendan Perry: Eye of the Hunter (1999)

7. Chappell Roan: The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (2023) *

8. Chris & Cosey: Heartbeat (1981) *

9. Chrome: Half Machine Lip Moves (1979)

10. Cibo Matto: Stereo Type A (1999)

11. Coil: Horse Rotorvator (1986)

12. The Cure: Seventeen Seconds (1980) *

13. The Cure: The Top (1984) *

14. Current 93: Dogs Blood Rising (1984)

15. Current 93: Imperium (1987)

16. Current 93: Black Ships Ate the Sky (2006)

17. Cut Hands: Festival of the Dead (2014)

18. D.A.F.: Alles Ist Gut (1981)

19. David Bowie: The Next Day (2013)

20. Dead Can Dance: Dead Can Dance (1984)

21. Depeche Mode: Black Celebration (1986)

22. Depeche Mode: Playing the Angel (2005)

23. Depeche Mode: Violator (1990) *

24. Durutti Column: The Return of the Durutti Column (1980) *

25. Einstürzende Neubauten: Halber Mensch (1985)

26. Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Brain Salad Surgery (1973)

27. Fad Gadget: Gag (1984)

28. Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes (2008) *

29. Fleetwood Mac: Rumours (1977)

30. Fleetwood Mac: Tusk (1979)

31. Front Line Assembly: The Initial Command (1987) *

32. Garbage: Garbage (1995) *

33. Genesis: Invisible Touch (1986)

34. Harry Styles: Fine Line (2019)

35. Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures (1979)

36. Joy Division: Closer (1980)

37. Kate Bush: Hounds of Love (1985)

38. Keane: Under the Iron Sea (2006) *

39. King Crimson: Red (1974) *

40. Lady Gaga: The Fame (2008)

41. Lady Gaga: Artpop (2013)

42. Lady Gaga: Chromatica (2020)

43. Ladytron: Ladytron (2019)

44. Lindsey Buckingham: Lindsey Buckingham (2021) *

45. Madonna: Like a Virgin (1984)

46. Manic Street Preachers: The Holy Bible (1994)

47. Manic Street Preachers: Journal for Plague Lovers (2009)

48. Meg & Dia: Here, Here and Here (2009) *

49. Ministry: The Land of Rape & Honey (1988)

50. Ministry: Filth Pig (1996)

51. Ministry: Animositisomina (2003) *

52. Ministry: Houses of the Mole (2004) *

53. Natalie Imbruglia: Left of the Middle (1998) *

54. Nico: The Marble Index (1968)

55. Nine Inch Nails: Pretty Hate Machine (1989)

56. Nine Inch Nails: The Downward Spiral (1994)

57. Nine Inch Nails: The Fragile (1999)

58. Nine Inch Nails: Hesitation Marks (2013)

59. NON: Children of the Black Sun (2002) *

60. Nurse With Wound: Merzbild Schwet (1980)

61. ohGr: Welt (2001) *

62. Pink Floyd: The Wall (1979)

63. The Pixies: Doolittle (1989) *

64. The Police: Synchronicity (1983)

65. Public Enemy: Fear of a Black Planet (1990)

66. Public Image Limited: Second Edition (1980)

67. The Residents: The Third Reich & Roll (1976)

68. Rilo Kiley: Under the Blacklight (2007)

69. Sara Bareilles: The Blessed Unrest (2013) *

70. Scott Walker: The Drift (2006) *

71. Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel: Nail (1985)

72. The Shins: Heartworms (2017) *

73. Silicon Teens: Music for Parties (1980) *

74. Siouxsie & the Banshees: The Scream (1978)

75. Siouxsie & the Banshees: Join Hands (1979)

76. Siouxsie & the Banshees: Kaleidoscope (1980)

77. Siouxsie & the Banshees: Juju (1981) *

78. Siouxsie & the Banshees: A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982)

79. Skinny Puppy: Cleanse, Fold and Manipulate (1987)

80. Soft Cell: This Last Night in Sodom (1984)

81. Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation (1988)

82. Sonic Youth: Murray Street (2002)

83. Sting: The Dream of the Blue Turtles (1985)

84. Sting: The Soul Cages (1991) *

85. Sting: Ten Summoner’s Tales (1993) *

86. Suicide: A Way of Life (1988)

87. Suzanne Vega: Days of Open Hand (1990)

88. Suzanne Vega: Nine Objects of Desire (1996)

89. Swans: Children of God (1987)

90. Switchblade Symphony: Serpentine Gallery (1995)

91. Terry Riley: Shri Camel (1978)

92. Throbbing Gristle: Heathen Earth (1980)

93. Utada Hikaru: Ultra Blue (2006)

94. Vainio Väisänen Vega: Endless (1998) *

95. The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)

96. The Velvet Underground: White Light/White Heat (1968)

97. Whitehouse: Bird Seed (2003)

98. Wire: A Bell is a Cup… (1988)

99. Yes: Fragile (1972) *

100. Yola: Walk Through Fire (2019) *

The old list (from 2020):

https://onyxglossary.blogspot.com/2020/06/top-100-albums-of-all-time-as-of-june.html

100. Yola: Walk Through Fire (2019) *