gridlore | The Greatest albums of all time.

The RollingStone list of the 500 greatest albums is found here

(Albums in italics are ones I used to own. Albums in bold are my favorites. Underlines indicate albums I want.)

1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles
2. Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys
4. Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan
8. London Calling, The Clash
9. Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan
10. The Beatles ("The White Album"), The Beatles
14. Abbey Road, The Beatles
15. Are You Experienced?, The Jimi Hendrix Experience
16. Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan
20. Thriller, Michael Jackson
25. Rumours, Fleetwood Mac
28. Who's Next, The Who
29. Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin
33. Ramones, Ramones
35. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, David Bowie
37. Hotel California, The Eagles
41. Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, The Sex Pistols
42. The Doors, The Doors
43. The Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd
46. Legend, Bob Marley and the Wailers
48. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Public Enemy
61. Appetite for Destruction, Guns n' Roses
66. Led Zeppelin IV, Led Zeppelin
72. Purple Rain, Prince
73. Back in Black, AC/DC
77. The Clash, The Clash
85. Born in the U.S.A., Bruce Springsteen
86. Let It Be, The Beatles
87. The Wall, Pink Floyd
91. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Elton John
95. Green River, Creedence Clearwater Revival
96. Tommy, The Who
120. Raising Hell, Run-DMC
130. Paranoid, Black Sabbath
163. 1999, Prince
167. Master of Puppets, Metallica
170. Live at Leeds, The Who
193. Dookie, Green Day
199. Highway to Hell, AC/DC
209. Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd
213. New York Dolls, New York Dolls
230. A Night at the Opera, Queen
231. The Kink Kronikles, The Kinks
241. Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath
244. Live Dead, Grateful Dead
252. Metallica, Metallica
258. American Beauty, Grateful Dead
262. Workingman's Dead, Grateful Dead
266. Quadrophenia, The Who
282. The Cars, The Cars
286. Los Angeles, X
287. Anthem of the Sun, Grateful Dead
313. Damn the Torpedoes, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
337. Aqualung, Jethro Tull
338. Cheap Thrills, Big Brother and the Holding Company
343. Bat Out of Hell, Meat Loaf
345. Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads
351. Brothers in Arms, Dire Straits
356. Sketches of Spain, Miles Davis
370. Volunteers, Jefferson Airplane
382. More Songs About Buildings and Food, Talking Heads
384. Pyromania, Def Leppard
389. The End of the Innocence, Don Henley
396. Eliminator, ZZ Top
399. Californication, Red Hot Chili Peppers
401. (Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd), Lynyrd Skynyrd
430. At Budokan, Cheap Trick
441. Tragic Kingdom, No Doubt
455. Synchronicity, The Police
460. Love It to Death, Alice Cooper
461. How Will the Wolf Survive?, Los Lobos
472. Hysteria, Def Leppard
491. All the Young Dudes, Mott the Hoople

The large number of formerly-owned albums is due to the introduction of compact disks. I used to have a large number of albums and tapes.. but over the years they warped, shredded, got sold or lost, and I never bothered replacing them.

Pretty good list, over all.