2003 Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time

1 The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

2 The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds

3 The Beatles – Revolver

4 Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited

5 The Beatles – Rubber Soul

6 Marvin Gaye – What's Going On

7 The Rolling Stones – Exile On Main St.

8 The Clash – London Calling

9 Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde

10 The Beatles – The Beatles (The White Album)

11 Elvis Presley – The Sun Sessions

12 Miles Davis – Kind of Blue

13 The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico

14 The Beatles – Abbey Road

15 The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced?

16 Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks

17 Nirvana – Nevermind

18 Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run

19 Van Morrison – Astral Weeks

20 Michael Jackson – Thriller

21 Chuck Berry – The Great Twenty-Eight

22 John Lennon – Plastic Ono Band

23 Stevie Wonder – Innervisions

24 James Brown – Live at the Apollo (1963)

25 Fleetwood Mac – Rumours

26 U2 – The Joshua Tree

27 Robert Johnson – King of the Delta Blues Singers

28 The Who – Who's Next

29 Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin

30 Joni Mitchell – Blue

31 Bob Dylan – Bringing It All Back Home

32 The Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed

33 Ramones – Ramones

34 The Band – Music From Big Pink

35 David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars

36 Carole King – Tapestry

37 The Eagles – Hotel California

38 Muddy Waters – The Anthology 1947–1972

39 The Beatles – Please Please Me

40 Love – Forever Changes

41 The Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols

42 The Doors – The Doors

43 Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon

44 Patti Smith – Horses

45 The Band – The Band

46 Bob Marley and the Wailers – Legend

47 John Coltrane – A Love Supreme

48 Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

49 The Allman Brothers Band – At Fillmore East

50 Little Richard – Here's Little Richard,

51 Simon and Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water

52 Al Green – Greatest Hits

53 Ray Charles – The Birth of Soul: The Complete Atlantic Rhythm and Blues Recordings 1952 – 1959

54 The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland

55 Elvis Presley – Elvis Presley

56 Stevie Wonder – Songs in the Key of Life

57 The Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet

58 Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica

59 The Beatles – Meet the Beatles

60 Sly and the Family Stone – Greatest Hits

61 Guns N' Roses – Appetite for Destruction

62 U2 – Achtung Baby

63 The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers

64 Various Artists – Phil Spector: Back to Mono (1958–1969)

65 Van Morrison – Moondance

66 Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV

67 Billy Joel – The Stranger

68 Michael Jackson – Off the Wall

69 Curtis Mayfield – Superfly

70 Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti

71 Neil Young – After the Gold Rush

72 Prince – Purple Rain

73 AC/DC – Back in Black

74 Otis Redding – Otis Blue

75 Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II

76 John Lennon – Imagine

77 The Clash – The Clash

78 Neil Young – Harvest

79 James Brown – Star Time

80 The Zombies – Odessey and Oracle

81 Paul Simon – Graceland

82 The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Axis: Bold as Love

83 Aretha Franklin – I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

84 Aretha Franklin – Lady Soul

85 Bruce Springsteen – Born in the U.S.A.

86 The Beatles – Let It Be

87 Pink Floyd – The Wall

88 Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison

89 Dusty Springfield – Dusty in Memphis

90 Stevie Wonder – Talking Book

91 Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

92 Buddy Holly – 20 Golden Greats

93 Prince – Sign 'o' the Times

94 Miles Davis – Bitches Brew

95 Creedence Clearwater Revival – Green River

96 The Who – Tommy

97 Bob Dylan – The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

98 Elvis Costello – This Year's Model

99 Sly and the Family Stone – There's a Riot Goin' On

100 Frank Sinatra – In the Wee Small Hours

101 Cream – Fresh Cream

102 John Coltrane – Giant Steps

103 James Taylor – Sweet Baby James

104 Ray Charles – Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

105 Ramones – Rocket to Russia

106 Sam Cooke – Portrait of a Legend 1951–1964

107 David Bowie – Hunky Dory

108 The Rolling Stones – Aftermath

109 The Velvet Underground – Loaded

110 Radiohead – The Bends

111 Joni Mitchell – Court and Spark

112 Cream – Disraeli Gears

113 The Who – The Who Sell Out

114 The Rolling Stones – Out of Our Heads

115 Derek and the Dominos – Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

116 Etta James – At Last

117 The Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo

118 Sly and the Family Stone – Stand!

119 Various Artists – The Harder They Come Original Soundtrack

120 Run-DMC – Raising Hell

121 Moby Grape – Moby Grape

122 Janis Joplin – Pearl

123 Bob Marley and the Wailers – Catch a Fire

124 The Byrds – Younger Than Yesterday

125 The Stooges – Raw Power

126 Talking Heads – Remain in Light

127 The Mamas and the Papas – If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears

128 Television – Marquee Moon

129 Hank Williams – 40 Greatest Hits

130 Black Sabbath – Paranoid

131 Various Artists – Saturday Night Fever

132 Bruce Springsteen – The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle

133 The Notorious B.I.G. – Ready to Die

134 Pavement – Slanted and Enchanted

135 Elton John – Greatest Hits

136 The Replacements – Tim

137 Dr. Dre – The Chronic

138 The Meters – Rejuvenation

139 U2 – All That You Can't Leave Behind

140 Blondie – Parallel Lines

141 B.B. King – Live at the Regal

142 Various Artists – Phil Spector, A Christmas Gift for You

143 Dr. John – Gris-Gris

144 N.W.A – Straight Outta Compton

145 Steely Dan – Aja

146 Jefferson Airplane – Surrealistic Pillow

147 Otis Redding – Dreams to Remember: The Otis Redding Anthology

148 Crosby Stills Nash and Young – Déjà Vu

149 Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy

150 Santana – Santana

151 Bruce Springsteen – Darkness on the Edge of Town

152 The B-52's – The B-52's

153 Howlin' Wolf – Moanin' in the Moonlight

154 A Tribe Called Quest – The Low End Theory

155 The Pretenders – Pretenders

156 Beastie Boys – Paul's Boutique

157 Joy Division – Closer

158 Elton John – Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy

159 Kiss – Alive

160 T. Rex – Electric Warrior

161 Otis Redding – The Dock of the Bay

162 Radiohead – OK Computer

163 Prince – 1999

164 Linda Ronstadt – Heart Like a Wheel

165 Marvin Gaye – Let's Get It On

166 Elvis Costello – Imperial Bedroom

167 Metallica – Master of Puppets

168 Elvis Costello – My Aim Is True

169 Bob Marley – Exodus

170 The Who – Live at Leeds

171 The Byrds – The Notorious Byrd Brothers

172 Rod Stewart – Every Picture Tells a Story

173 Todd Rundgren – Something/Anything?

174 Bob Dylan – Desire

175 The Carpenters – Close to You

176 Aerosmith – Rocks

177 Parliament/Funkadelic – One Nation Under a Groove

178 The Byrds – Greatest Hits

179 Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions – The Anthology 1961–1977

180 Abba – The Definitive Collection

181 The Rolling Stones – The Rolling Stones, Now!

182 Bob Marley and the Wailers – Natty Dread

183 Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac

184 Willie Nelson – Red Headed Stranger

185 The Stooges – The Stooges

186 Sly and the Family Stone – Fresh

187 Peter Gabriel – So

188 Buffalo Springfield – Buffalo Springfield Again

189 Quicksilver Messenger Service – Happy Trails

190 Elvis Presley – From Elvis in Memphis

191 The Stooges – Funhouse

192 The Flying Burrito Brothers – The Gilded Palace of Sin

193 Green Day – Dookie

194 Lou Reed – Transformer

195 John Mayall With Eric Clapton – Bluesbreakers

196 Various Artists – Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965–1968

197 R.E.M. – Murmur

198 Little Walter – The Best of

199 AC/DC – Highway to Hell

200 Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral

201 Simon and Garfunkel – Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme

202 Michael Jackson – Bad

203 Cream – Wheels of Fire

204 Prince – Dirty Mind

205 Santana – Abraxas

206 Cat Stevens – Tea for the Tillerman

207 Pearl Jam – Ten

208 Neil Young With Crazy Horse – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

209 Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here

210 Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

211 The Rolling Stones – Tattoo You

212 Ike and Tina Turner – Proud Mary: The Best of Ike and Tina Turner

213 New York Dolls – New York Dolls

214 Bo Diddley – Bo Diddley/Go Bo Diddley

215 Bobby Bland – Two Steps From the Blues

216 The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead

217 Beastie Boys – Licensed to Ill

218 The Meters – Look-Ka Py Py

219 My Bloody Valentine – Loveless

220 Professor Longhair – New Orleans Piano

221 U2 – War

222 Neil Diamond – The Neil Diamond Collection

223 Howlin' Wolf – Howlin' Wolf

224 Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska

225 Hank Williams – The Complete Hank Williams

226 Pixies – Doolittle

227 Eric B. and Rakim – Paid in Full

228 Aerosmith – Toys in the Attic

229 Bonnie Raitt – Nick of Time

230 Queen – A Night at the Opera

231 The Kinks – The Kink Kronikles

232 The Byrds – Mr. Tambourine Man

233 Simon and Garfunkel – Bookends

234 Patsy Cline – The Ultimate Collection

235 Jackie Wilson – Mr. Excitement!

236 The Who – The Who Sings My Generation

237 Madonna – Like a Prayer

238 Steely Dan – Can't Buy a Thrill

239 The Replacements – Let It Be

240 Run-DMC – Run-DMC

241 Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath

242 Jerry Lee Lewis – The Jerry Lee Lewis Anthology: All Killer No Filler!

243 The Mothers of Invention – Freak Out!

244 Grateful Dead – Live Dead

245 Nick Drake – Bryter Layter

246 Ornette Coleman – The Shape of Jazz to Come

247 R.E.M. – Automatic for the People

248 Jay-Z – Reasonable Doubt

249 David Bowie – Low

250 Bruce Springsteen – The River

251 Otis Redding – The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul

252 Metallica – Metallica

253 Kraftwerk – Trans-Europe Express

254 Whitney Houston – Whitney Houston

255 The Kinks – The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society

256 Janet Jackson – The Velvet Rope

257 Willie Nelson – Stardust

258 Grateful Dead – American Beauty

259 Crosby Stills and Nash – Crosby Stills and Nash

260 Buena Vista Social Club – Buena Vista Social Club

261 Tracy Chapman – Tracy Chapman

262 Grateful Dead – Workingman's Dead

263 Ray Charles – The Genius of Ray Charles

264 Blood, Sweat and Tears – Child Is Father to the Man

265 Creedence Clearwater Revival – Cosmo's Factory

266 The Who – Quadrophenia

267 Paul Simon – There Goes Rhymin' Simon

268 The Jesus and Mary Chain – Psycho Candy

269 The Rolling Stones – Some Girls

270 The Beach Boys – The Beach Boys Today!

271 Smokey Robinson and the Miracles – Going to a Go-Go

272 Labelle – Nightbirds

273 Eminem – The Slim Shady LP

274 Parliament – Mothership Connection

275 Janet Jackson – Rhythm Nation 1814

276 Harry Smith, (Editor) – Anthology of American Folk Music

277 David Bowie – Aladdin Sane

278 Madonna – The Immaculate Collection

279 Mary J. Blige – My Life

280 Muddy Waters – Folk Singer

281 Barry White – Can't Get Enough

282 The Cars – The Cars

283 Nick Drake – Five Leaves Left

284 Stevie Wonder – Music of My Mind

285 Al Green – I'm Still in Love With You

286 X – Los Angeles

287 Grateful Dead – Anthem of the Sun

288 The Kinks – Something Else by the Kinks

289 Al Green – Call Me

290 Talking Heads – Talking Heads: 77

291 Bob Dylan – The Basement Tapes

292 The Velvet Underground – White Light / White Heat

293 Simon and Garfunkel – Greatest Hits

294 MC5 – Kick Out the Jams

295 The Smiths – Meat Is Murder

296 The Mothers of Invention – We're Only In It For the Money

297 Weezer – Weezer (Blaues Album)

298 Black Sabbath – Master of Reality

299 Dolly Parton – Coat of Many Colors

300 Public Enemy – Fear of a Black Planet

301 Bob Dylan – John Wesley Harding

302 Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP

303 Jeff Buckley – Grace

304 Lucinda Williams – Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

305 Beck – Odelay

306 Frank Sinatra – Songs for Swingin' Lovers

307 Roxy Music – Avalon

308 Various Artists – The Sun Records Collection

309 Jane's Addiction – Nothing's Shocking

310 Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magik

311 Nirvana – Unplugged in New York

312 Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

313 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Damn the Torpedoes

314 The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground

315 Pixies – Surfer Rosa

316 No Doubt – Rock Steady

317 Eminem – The Eminem Show

318 The O'Jays – Back Stabbers

319 Bob Marley and the Wailers – Burnin'

320 Nick Drake – Pink Moon

321 Randy Newman – Sail Away

322 The Police – Ghost in the Machine

323 David Bowie – Station to Station

324 Linda Ronstadt – The Very Best of Linda Ronstadt

325 Eric Clapton – Slowhand

326 The Cure – Disintegration

327 Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill

328 Liz Phair – Exile in Guyville

329 Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation

330 James Brown – In the Jungle Groove

331 Neil Young – Tonight's the Night

332 The Beatles – Help!

333 Richard and Linda Thompson – Shoot Out the Lights

334 X – Wild Gift

335 Graham Parker – Squeezing Out Sparks

336 Soundgarden – Superunknown

337 Jethro Tull – Aqualung

338 Big Brother and the Holding Company – Cheap Thrills

339 Tom Waits – The Heart of Saturday Night

340 Black Flag – Damaged

341 Moby – Play

342 Depeche Mode – Violator

343 Meat Loaf – Bat Out of Hell

344 Lou Reed – Berlin

345 Talking Heads – Stop Making Sense

346 De La Soul – 3 Feet High and Rising

347 Pink Floyd – The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

348 Muddy Waters – At Newport 1960

349 The Yardbirds – Roger the Engineer (a.k.a. Over Under Sideways Down)

350 Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Rust Never Sleeps

351 Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms

352 Billy Joel – 52nd Street

353 The Yardbirds – Having a Rave Up With the Yardbirds

354 Randy Newman – 12 Songs

355 The Rolling Stones – Between the Buttons

356 Miles Davis – Sketches of Spain

357 Elton John – Honky Chateau

358 Buzzcocks – Singles Going Steady

359 Outkast – Stankonia

360 The Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream

361 Joy Division – Substance

362 The Doors – L.A. Woman

363 Madonna – Ray of Light

364 Johnny Cash – American Recordings

365 The Smiths – Louder Than Bombs

366 Mott the Hoople – Mott

367 The Strokes – Is This It

368 Rage Against the Machine – Rage Against the Machine

369 The Police – Reggatta de Blanc

370 Jefferson Airplane – Volunteers

371 Roxy Music – Siren

372 Jackson Browne – Late for the Sky

373 Björk – Post

374 The Eagles – The Eagles

375 John Lee Hooker – The Ultimate Collection (1948 – 1990)

376 Oasis – (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

377 TLC – CrazySexyCool

378 Toots and the Maytals – Funky Kingston

379 Bruce Springsteen – Greetings from Asbury Park

380 The Beach Boys – Sunflower

381 Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers – Modern Lovers

382 Talking Heads – More Songs About Buildings and Food

383 The Who – A Quick One (Happy Jack)

384 Def Leppard – Pyromania

385 Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic

386 Wu-Tang Clan – Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

387 Roxy Music – Country Life

388 The Beatles – A Hard Day's Night

389 Don Henley – The End of the Innocence

390 The White Stripes – Elephant

391 Jackson Browne – The Pretender

392 Creedence Clearwater Revival – Willy and the Poor Boys

393 Randy Newman – Good Old Boys

394 Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure

395 Massive Attack – Blue Lines

396 ZZ Top – Eliminator

397 Tom Waits – Rain Dogs

398 The Temptations – Anthology

399 Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication

400 Nas – Illmatic

401 Lynyrd Skynyrd – (Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd)

402 Dr. John – Dr. John's Gumbo

403 Big Star – Radio City

404 The Clash – Sandinista!

405 PJ Harvey – Rid of Me

406 Sinead O' Connor – I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

407 The Doors – Strange Days

408 Bob Dylan – Time Out of Mind

409 Eric Clapton – 461 Ocean Boulevard

410 Wire – Pink Flag

411 Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime

412 Massive Attack – Mezzanine

413 Go-Go's – Beauty and the Beat

414 James Brown – Greatest Hits

415 Van Halen – Van Halen

416 Tom Waits – Mule Variations

417 U2 – Boy

418 Wings – Band on the Run

419 Portishead – Dummy

420 The Beatles – With the Beatles

421 Buddy Holly and the Crickets – The "Chirping" Crickets

422 Various Artists – The Best of the Girl Groups, Volumes 1 and 2

423 The Mamas and the Papas – Greatest Hits

424 Robert Johnson – King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. 2

425 David Bowie – Changesone

426 Rage Against the Machine – The Battle of Los Angeles

427 The Ronettes – Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica

428 Radiohead – Kid A

429 Gram Parsons – Grievous Angel

430 Cheap Trick – At Budokan

431 Diana Ross and The Supremes – Anthology

432 Peter Wolf – Sleepless

433 Brian Eno – Another Green World

434 The Police – Outlandos D'Amour

435 PJ Harvey – To Bring You My Love

436 Brian Eno – Here Come the Warm Jets

437 George Harrison – All Things Must Pass

438 Big Star – #1 Record

439 Nirvana – In Utero

440 Beck – Sea Change

441 No Doubt – Tragic Kingdom

442 The Cure – Boys Don't Cry

443 Sam Cooke – Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963

444 Boogie Down Productions – Criminal Minded

445 The Pogues – Rum Sodomy and the Lash

446 Suicide – Suicide

447 Devo – Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!

448 Cheap Trick – In Color

449 War – The World Is a Ghetto

450 Steve Miller Band – Fly Like an Eagle

451 MC5 – Back in the USA

452 Madonna – Music

453 Jane's Addiction – Ritual de lo Habitual

454 Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto Featuring Antonio Carlos Jobim – Getz/Gilberto

455 The Police – Synchronicity

456 Big Star – Third/Sister Lovers

457 Jackson Browne – For Everyman

458 John Prine – John Prine

459 EPMD – Strictly Business

460 Alice Cooper – Love It to Death

461 Los Lobos – How Will the Wolf Survive?

462 Marvin Gaye – Here, My Dear

463 Elton John – Tumbleweed Connection

464 Jay-Z – The Blueprint

465 The Drifters – Golden Hits

466 Hole – Live Through This

467 Bob Dylan – Love and Theft

468 Elton John – Elton John

469 Public Image Ltd. – Metal Box

470 R.E.M. – Document

471 Echo and the Bunnymen – Heaven Up Here

472 Def Leppard – Hysteria

473 Coldplay – A Rush Of Blood To The Head

474 Otis Redding – Live in Europe

475 Bruce Springsteen – Tunnel of Love

476 The Paul Butterfield Blues Band – The Paul Butterfield Blues Band

477 Fugees – The Score

478 LL Cool J – Radio

479 Richard and Linda Thompson – I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight

480 George Michael – Faith

481 The Smiths – The Smiths

482 Elvis Costello and the Attractions – Armed Forces

483 The Notorious B.I.G. – Life After Death

484 Merle Haggard – Branded Man

485 Loretta Lynn – All Time Greatest Hits

486 Funkadelic – Maggot Brain

487 The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

488 D'Angelo – Voodoo

489 Steve Earle – Guitar Town

490 Gang of Four – Entertainment!

491 Mott the Hoople – All the Young Dudes

492 Pearl Jam – Vitalogy

493 Earth, Wind and Fire – That's the Way of the World

494 Cyndi Lauper – She's So Unusual

495 Hüsker Dü – New Day Rising

496 Kiss – Destroyer

497 Public Enemy – Yo! Bum Rush the Show

498 ZZ Top – Tres Hombres

499 Albert King – Born Under a Bad Sign

500 Eurythmics – Touch