| Album | Artist | Rank |
| Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | |
| Pet Sounds | |
| Revolver | |
| Highway 61 Revisited | |
| Rubber Soul | |
| What's Going On | |
| Exile on Main Street | |
| London Calling | |
| Blonde on Blonde | |
| The Beatles (The White Album) | |
| The Sun Sessions | |
| Kind of Blue | |
| Velvet Underground and Nico | |
| Abbey Road | |
| Are You Experienced? | |
| Blood on the Tracks | |
| Nevermind | |
| Born to Run | |
| Astral Weeks | |
| Thriller | |
| The Great Twenty-Eight | |
| Plastic Ono Band | |
| Innervisions | |
| Live at the Apollo (1963) | |
| Rumours | |
| The Joshua Tree | |
| King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. 1 | |
| Who's Next | |
| Led Zeppelin | |
| Blue | |
| Bringing It All Back Home | |
| Let It Bleed | |
| Ramones | |
| Music from Big Pink | |
| | Album | Artist | Rank |
| The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars | |
| Tapestry | |
| Hotel California | |
| The Anthology, 1947 - 1972 | |
| Please Please Me | |
| Forever Changes | |
| Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols | |
| The Doors | |
| The Dark Side of the Moon | |
| Horses | |
| The Band | |
| Legend | |
| A Love Supreme | |
| It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back | |
| At Fillmore East | |
| Here's Little Richard | |
| Bridge Over Troubled Waters | |
| Greatest Hits | |
| The Birth of Soul: The Complete Atlantic Rhythm and Blues Recordings, 1952 - 1959 | |
| Electric Ladyland | |
| Elvis Presley | |
| Songs in the Key of Life | |
| Beggars Banquet | |
| Trout Mask Replica | |
| Meet the Beatles | |
| Greatest Hits | |
| Appetite for Destruction | |
| Achtung Baby | |
| Sticky Fingers | |
| Phil Spector, Back to Mono (1958 - 1969) | |
| Moon Dance | |
| Led Zeppelin IV | |
| The Stranger | |
| Off The Wall | |
| | Album | Artist | Rank |
| Superfly | |
| Physical Graffiti | |
| After the Gold Rush | |
| Purple Rain | |
| Back in Black | |
| Otis Blue | |
| Led Zeppelin II | |
| Imagine | |
| The Clash | |
| Harvest | |
| Star Time | |
| Odessey and Oracle | |
| Graceland | |
| Axis: Bold as Love | |
| I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You | |
| Lady Soul | |
| Born in the U.S.A. | |
| Let it Be | |
| The Wall | |
| At Folsom Prison | |
| Dusty in Memphis | |
| Talking Book | |
| Goodbye Yellow Brick Road | |
| 20 Golden Greats | |
| Sign 'o' the Times | |
| Bitches Brew | |
| Green River | |
| Tommy | |
| The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan | |
| This Year's Model | |
| There's a Riot Goin' On | |
| In the Wee Small Hours | |
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