| 1 | 1982 | Nebraska | Bruce Springsteen | Album | 4.1 | 47 |
| 2 | 1980 | Heathen Earth: The Live Sound of TG | Throbbing Gristle | Album | | 6 |
| 3 | 1970 | Fun House | The Stooges | Album | 4.25 | 17 |
| 4 | 1996 | If You’re Feeling Sinister | Belle and Sebastian | Album | 4.15 | 10 |
| 5 | 1976 | Destroyer | KISS | Album | 3.5 | 51 |
| 6 | 1997 | The Boatman’s Call | Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds | Album | 4.15 | 13 |
| 7 | 1966 | Meditations | John Coltrane | Album | 4.4 | 9 |
| 8 | 1968 | Odessey and Oracle | The Zombies | Album | 4 | 25 |
| 9 | 1987 | Sister | Sonic Youth | Album | 3.7 | 13 |
| 10 | 1969 | Liege & Lief | Fairport Convention | Album | 4.35 | 12 |
| 11 | 1967 | The Velvet Underground & Nico | The Velvet Underground & Nico | Album | 4.7 | 38 |
| 12 | 1969 | Live/Dead | The Grateful Dead | Album + Live | 5 | 12 |
| 13 | 1988 | The Shaggs | The Shaggs | Album + Compilation | | 1 |
| 14 | 1985 | Hounds of Love | Kate Bush | Album | 3.7 | 211 |
| 15 | 1985 | Psychocandy | The Jesus and Mary Chain | Album | 3.65 | 18 |
| 16 | 1979 | It’s Alive | Ramones | Album + Live | | 12 |
| 17 | 1998 | The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4: Live 1966: The “Royal Albert Hall” Concert | Bob Dylan | Album + Live | 3.65 | 5 |
| 18 | 1969 | Trout Mask Replica | Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band | Album | 4.2 | 11 |
| 19 | — | Legends of the 20th Century | Jack Kerouac | Album | | 1 |
| 20 | 1977 | Suicide | Suicide | Album | 3.5 | 11 |
| 21 | 1967 | Their Satanic Majesties Request | The Rolling Stones | Album | 4.6 | 26 |
| 22 | 1971 | Maggot Brain | Funkadelic | Album | 3.8 | 9 |
| 23 | 1967 | The Who Sell Out | The Who | Album | 4 | 23 |
| 24 | 1990 | Fear of a Black Planet | Public Enemy | Album | 3.75 | 13 |
| 25 | 1966 | Fifth Dimension | The Byrds | Album | 3 | 15 |
| 26 | 1998 | Get With It: The Essential Recordings | Charlie Feathers | Album + Compilation | | 1 |
| 27 | 1997 | Anthology of American Folk Music | Various Artists | Album + Compilation | 3 | 2 |
| 28 | 1974 | Dark Magus: Live at Carnegie Hall | Miles Davis | Album + Live | 4 | 9 |
| 29 | 1970 | Black Sabbath | Black Sabbath | Album | 4.55 | 41 |
| 30 | 1976 | Blackheart Man | Bunny Wailer | Album | | 7 |
| 31 | 1969 | Oar | Alexander “Skip” Spence | Album | 2 | 6 |
| 32 | 1978 | Third/Sister Lovers | Big Star | Album | | 10 |
| 33 | 1971 | Surf’s Up | The Beach Boys | Album | 3.8 | 6 |
| 34 | 1978 | H’art Songs | Moondog | Album | 5 | 3 |
| 35 | 1998 | Pharaohization: The Best of Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs | Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs | Album + Compilation | | 1 |
| 36 | 1996 | The Singles | Sun Ra | Album + Compilation | | 1 |
| 37 | 1965 | Bleecker & MacDougal | Fred Neil | Album | | 2 |
| 38 | 1968 | The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society | The Kinks | Album | 4.3 | 23 |
| 39 | 1966 | Ride Your Pony - Get Out of My Life Woman | Lee Dorsey | Album | | 2 |
| 40 | 1976 | Radio Ethiopia | Patti Smith Group | Album | 4 | 12 |
| 41 | 1969 | Dusty in Memphis | Dusty Springfield | Album | 4 | 20 |
| 42 | 1999 | Live at the Fillmore East | Jimi Hendrix | Album + Live | 4 | 5 |
| 43 | 1993 | The Complete Sun Sessions | Elvis Presley | Album + Compilation | | 1 |
| 44 | 1963 | The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady | Charles Mingus | Album | 4 | 12 |
| 45 | 1980 | Back in Black | AC/DC | Album | 4.45 | 53 |
| 46 | 1971 | No Roses | Shirley Collins and the Albion Country Band | Album | | 5 |
| 47 | 1977 | Decade | Neil Young | Album + Compilation | 4 | 13 |
| 48 | 2000 | American III: Solitary Man | Johnny Cash | Album | 4.5 | 9 |
| 49 | 1967 | Easter Everywhere | 13th Floor Elevators | Album | 3.35 | 8 |
| 50 | 1976 | Saxophone Solos | Evan Parker | Album | | 4 |
| 51 | 1968 | Live At The Apollo - Volume II | James Brown and The Famous Flames | Album + Live | | 9 |
| 52 | 1996 | All the Pretty Little Horses | Current 93 | Album | | 6 |
| 53 | 1967 | In Greenwich Village | Albert Ayler | Album + Live | | 4 |
| 54 | 1974 | Red | King Crimson | Album | 4.35 | 31 |
| 55 | 1998 | Accelerator | Royal Trux | Album | | 3 |
| 56 | 1975 | Go Girl Crazy | The Dictators | Album | | 4 |
| 57 | 1971 | [Led Zeppelin IV] | Led Zeppelin | Album | 4.75 | 73 |
| 58 | 1970 | Starsailor | Tim Buckley | Album | | 6 |
| 59 | 1968 | Astral Weeks | Van Morrison | Album | 4.35 | 15 |
| 60 | 1968 | The Marble Index | Nico | Album | 5 | 8 |
| 61 | 1990 | The Complete Recordings | Robert Johnson | Album + Compilation | 4.5 | 11 |
| 62 | 1982 | The Blow Up | Television | Album + Live | 5 | 2 |
| 63 | 1994 | Return of the Repressed: The John Fahey Anthology | John Fahey | Album + Compilation | | 1 |
| 64 | 1975 | Neu! ’75 | Neu! | Album | | 6 |
| 65 | 1970 | Back in the USA | MC5 | Album | 3 | 5 |
| 66 | 1993 | Grown Up Wrong | The Real Kids | Album | | 1 |
| 67 | 1968 | God Bless Tiny Tim | Tiny Tim | Album | 4 | 5 |
| 68 | 1987 | The Perfect Prescription | Spacemen 3 | Album | 3.5 | 9 |
| 69 | 1971 | Please to See the King | Steeleye Span | Album | | 8 |
| 70 | 1971 | Alpha Centauri | Tangerine Dream | Album | 3.5 | 9 |
| 71 | 2001 | Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues | Charley Patton | Album + Compilation | | 1 |
| 72 | 1997 | The Road I'm On: A Retrospective | Dion | Album + Compilation | | 2 |
| 73 | 1968 | Music From Big Pink | The Band | Album | 4 | 22 |
| 74 | 1981 | Delay 1968 | CAN | Album + Compilation | 4.75 | 8 |
| 75 | 1995 | Tilt | Scott Walker | Album | 4 | 4 |
| 76 | 1997 | Early Music (Lachrymæ Antiquæ) | Kronos Quartet | Album | | 3 |
| 77 | 1986 | The Queen Is Dead | The Smiths | Album | 4.35 | 31 |
| 78 | 1994 | Mobile Safari | The Pastels | Album | | 5 |
| 79 | 1990 | Songs for Drella | Lou Reed / John Cale | Album | 4.65 | 12 |
| 80 | 1968 | The Beatles | The Beatles | Album | 4.35 | 53 |
| 81 | 1976 | Agents of Fortune | Blue Öyster Cult | Album | 4.4 | 22 |
| 82 | 1988 | Green | R.E.M. | Album | 4.2 | 24 |
| 83 | 1972 | So Far | Faust | Album | 5 | 6 |
| 84 | 1980 | Songs the Lord Taught Us | The Cramps | Album | 3.5 | 7 |
| 85 | 2000 | From a Summer to Another Summer (An Egypt to Another Egypt) | Maher Shalal Hash Baz | Album | | 1 |
| 86 | 1969 | Volunteers | Jefferson Airplane | Album | 4.2 | 15 |
| 87 | 1971 | Songs of Love and Hate | Leonard Cohen | Album | 4.45 | 17 |
| 88 | 1966 | Black Monk Time | The Monks | Album | | 8 |
| 89 | 1977 | Bat Out of Hell | Meat Loaf | Album | 3.95 | 38 |
| 90 | 1975 | Evening Star | Fripp & Eno | Album | 3.35 | 5 |
| 91 | 1985 | Terminal Tower | Pere Ubu | Album + Compilation | 4.5 | 5 |
| 92 | 1959 | Kind of Blue | Miles Davis | Album | 4.55 | 112 |
| 93 | 1968 | Vincebus Eruptum | Blue Cheer | Album | 4 | 9 |
| 94 | 1974 | I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight | Richard & Linda Thompson | Album | 4.25 | 7 |
| 95 | 1998 | NOW | Various Artists | Album + Compilation | | 1 |
| 96 | 1997 | The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 2 | Harry Partch | Album + Compilation | 3 | 2 |
| 97 | 1996 | Guitar Soli | Robbie Basho | Album + Compilation | | 1 |
| 98 | 1968 | The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter | The Incredible String Band | Album | | 5 |
| 99 | 1988 | Straight Outta Compton | N.W.A | Album | 4.2 | 16 |
| 100 | 2000 | In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain | The Carter Family | Album + Compilation | | 1 |
