Rolling Stone published its list of the 100 greatest LPs in 1987... the 200 in 1997... the 500 in 2003... revised in 2012... and LAST YEAR came the biggest revision yet. If you're like me, you love going through these to see which ones you have, or which guilty pleasures made the list. Some of my observations follow...
1) Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
2) The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
3) Joni Mitchell - Blue
4) Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
5) The Beatles - Abbey Road
6) Nirvana - Nevermind
7) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
8) Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain
9) Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
10) Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
11) The Beatles - Revolver
12) Michael Jackson - Thriller
13) Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
14) The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
15) Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
16) The Clash - London Calling
17) Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
18) Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
19) Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
20) Radiohead - Kid A
21) Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
22) The Notorious B.I.G - Ready to Die
23) The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
24) The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper
25) Carole King - Tapestry
26) Patti Smith - Horses
27) Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
28) D'Angelo - Voodoo
29) The Beatles - The Beatles
30) The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
31) Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
32) Beyoncé - Lemonade
33) Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
34) Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
35) The Beatles - Rubber Soul
36) Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
37) Dr. Dre - The Chronic
38) Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
39) Talking Heads - Remain in Light
40) David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
41) The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
42) Radiohead - OK Computer
43) A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
44) Nas - Illmatic
45) Prince - Sign "O" the Times
46) Paul Simon - Graceland
47) Ramones - Ramones
48) Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend
49) OutKast - Aquemini
50) Jay-Z - The Blueprint
51) Chuck Berry - The Great Twenty-Eight
52) David Bowie - Station to Station
53) The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
54) James Brown - Star Time
55) Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
56) Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
57) The Band - The Band
58) Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
59) Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
60) Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
61) Eric B. & Rakim - Paid in Full
62) Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
63) Steely Dan - Aja
64) OutKast - Stankonia
65) James Brown - Live at the Apollo
66) John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
67) Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
68) Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
69) Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
70) N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
71) Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus
72) Neil Young - Harvest
73) My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
74) Kanye West - The College Dropout
75) Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
76) Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
77) The Who - Who's Next
78) Elvis Presley - The Sun Sessions
79) Frank Ocean - Blonde
80) Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
81) Beyoncé - Beyoncé
82) Sly & The Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On
83) Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis
84) AC/DC - Back in Black
85) John Lennon - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
86) The Doors - The Doors
87) Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
88) David Bowie - Hunky Dory
89) Erykah Badu - Baduizm
90) Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
91) Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
92) The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love
93) Missy Elliott - Supa Dupa Fly
94) The Stooges - Funhouse
95) Drake - Take Care
96) REM - Automatic for the People
97) Metallica - Master of Puppets
98) Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
99) Taylor Swift - Red
100) The Band - Music from Big Pink
101) Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
102) The Clash - The Clash
103) De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
104) The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
105) The Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East
106) Hole - Live Through This
107) Television - Marquee Moon
108) Fiona Apple - When the Pawn
109) Lou Reed - Transformer
110) Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
111) Janet Jackson - Control
112) Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
113) The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
114) The Strokes - Is This It
115) Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city
116) The Cure - Disintegration
117) Kanye West - Late Registration
118) Eagles - Hotel California
119) Sly & The Family Stone - Stand!
120) Van Morrison - Moondance
121) Elvis Costello & The Attractions - This Year's Model
122) Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
123) Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
124) U2 - Achtung Baby
125) Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
126) Mary J. Blige - My Life
127) Ray Charles - Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
128) Queen - A Night At The Opera
129) Pink Floyd - The Wall
130) Prince - 1999
131) Portishead - Dummy
132) Hank Williams - 40 Greatest Hits
133) Joni Mitchell - Hejira
134) Fugees - The Score
135) U2 - The Joshua Tree
136) Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
137) Adele - 21
138) Madonna - The Immaculate Collection
139) Black Sabbath - Paranoid
140) Bob Marley & The Wailers - Catch a Fire
141) Pixies - Doolittle
142) Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.
143) The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
144) Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
145) Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
146) Blondie - Parallel Lines
147) Jeff Buckley - Grace
148) Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
149) John Prine - John Prine
150) Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
151) George Michael - Faith
152) Pretenders - Pretenders
153) PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
154) Aretha Franklin - Amazing Grace
155) Jay-Z - The Black Album
156) The Replacements - Let It Be
157) Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
158) Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun
159) The Police - Synchronicity
160) Pearl Jam - Ten
161) Crosby, Stills & Nash - Crosby, Stills & Nash
162) Pulp - Different Class
163) Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Soundtrack
164) Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
165) REM - Murmur
166) Buddy Holly & the Crickets - 20 Golden Greats
167) Depeche Mode - Violator
168) Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
169) Billy Joel - The Stranger
170) Cream - Disraeli Gears
171) Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
172) Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
173) Nirvana - In Utero
174) Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come
175) Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
176) Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
177) Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story
178) Otis Redding - Otis Blue / Otis Redding Sings Soul
179) The Notorious B.I.G - Life After Death
180) Love - Forever Changes
181) Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
182) James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
183) D'Angelo - Brown Sugar
184) Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual
185) The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
186) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
187) Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
188) T. Rex - Electric Warrior
189) Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out
190) The Who - Tommy
191) Etta James - At Last!
192) Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
193) Creedence Clearwater Revival - Willy and the Poor Boys
194) Michael Jackson - Bad
195) Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
196) Robyn - Body Talk
197) The Beatles - Meet the Beatles!
198) The B-52's - The B-52's
199) Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
200) Sade - Diamond Life
201) A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
202) Björk - Homogenic
203) Nick Drake - Pink Moon
204) Kanye West - Graduation
205) Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
206) David Bowie - Low
207) Eagles - Eagles
208) Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
209) Run-D.M.C. - Raising Hell
210) Ray Charles - The Birth of Soul
211) Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
212) Nina Simone - Wild is the Wind
213) Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel
214) Tom Petty - Wildflowers
215) Grateful Dead - American Beauty
216) Elliott Smith - Either/Or
217) Oasis - Definitely Maybe
218) TLC - CrazySexyCool
219) Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
220) Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déjà Vu
221) Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
222) Madonna - Ray of Light
223) John Lennon - Imagine
224) The Chicks - Fly
225) Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
226) Derek and The Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
227) Little Richard - Here's Little Richard
228) De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead
229) Patsy Cline - The Ultimate Collection
230) Rihanna - ANTI
231) Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes
232) John Coltrane - Giant Steps
233) Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
234) Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
235) Metallica - Metallica
236) Daft Punk - Discovery
237) Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
238) Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
239) Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
240) Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963
241) Massive Attack - Blue Lines
242) The Velvet Underground - Loaded
243) The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
244) Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
245) Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
246) LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
247) Sade - Love Deluxe
248) Green Day - American Idiot
249) Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston
250) Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
251) Elton John - Honky Château
252) Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
253) Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
254) Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
255) Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
256) Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
257) Dolly Parton - Coat of Many Colors
258) Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns
259) Janis Joplin - Pearl
260) The Slits - Cut
261) Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
262) New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
263) The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
264) Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
265) Pavement - Wowee Zowee
266) The Beatles - Help!
267) Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
268) Randy Newman - Sail Away
269) Kanye West - Yeezus
270) Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
271) Mary J. Blige - What's the 411?
272) The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
273) Gang of Four - Entertainment!
274) The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo
275) Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
276) Radiohead - The Bends
277) Alicia Keys - The Diary of Alicia Keys
278) Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
279) Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
280) 50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin'
281) Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson
282) Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours
283) Donna Summer - Bad Girls
284) Merle Haggard - Down Every Road 1962-1994
285) Big Star - Third/Sister Lovers
286) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
287) The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
288) The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
289) Björk - Post
290) OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
291) Destiny's Child - The Writing's on the Wall
292) Van Halen - Van Halen
293) The Breeders - Last Splash
294) Weezer - Weezer (Blue Album)
295) Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
296) Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps
297) Peter Gabriel - So
298) Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
299) B.B. King - Live At the Regal
300) Shania Twain - Come on Over
301) New York Dolls - New York Dolls
302) Neil Young - Tonight's The Night
303) ABBA - The Definitive Collection
304) Bill Withers - Just As I Am
305) KISS - Alive!
306) Al Green - I'm Still in Love with You
307) Sam Cooke - Portrait of a Legend 1951-1964
308) Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
309) Joy Division - Closer
310) Wire - Pink Flag
311) Neil Young - On The Beach
312) Solange - A Seat at the Table
313) PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
314) Aaliyah - One in a Million
315) ROSALÍA - EL MAL QUERER
316) The Who - The Who Sell Out
317) Billie Holiday - Lady in Satin
318) Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope
319) The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
320) X - Los Angeles
321) Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell!
322) Elvis Presley - From Elvis In Memphis
323) The Clash - Sandinista!
324) Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
325) Jerry Lee Lewis - All Killer, No Filler: The Anthology
326) Prince - Dirty Mind
327) The Who - Live at Leeds
328) Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
329) DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
330) The Rolling Stones - Aftermath
331) Madonna - Like a Prayer
332) Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley
333) Bill Withers - Still Bill
334) Santana - Abraxas
335) Bob Dylan & The Band - The Basement Tapes
336) Roxy Music - Avalon
337) Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
338) Brian Eno - Another Green World
339) Janet Jackson - Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814
340) Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
341) The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
342) The Beatles - Let It Be
343) Sly & The Family Stone - Greatest Hits
344) Toots & The Maytals - Funky Kingston
345) Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
346) Arctic Monkeys - AM
347) GZA - Liquid Swords
348) Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
349) MC5 - Kick Out the Jams
350) Stevie Wonder - Music of My Mind
351) Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
352) Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
353) The Cars - The Cars
354) X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents
355) Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
356) Dr. John - Gris-Gris
357) Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
358) Sonic Youth - Goo
359) Big Star - Radio City
360) Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove
361) My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
362) Luther Vandross - Never Too Much
363) Parliament - Mothership Connection
364) Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food
365) Madvillain - Madvillainy
366) Aerosmith - Rocks
367) Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late
368) George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
369) Mobb Deep - The Infamous
370) Lil Wayne - Tha Carter II
371) The Temptations - Anthology
372) Big Brother and The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
373) Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
374) Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers
375) Green Day - Dookie
376) Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
377) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
378) Run-D.M.C. - Run-D.M.C.
379) Rush - Moving Pictures
380) Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
381) Lynyrd Skynyrd - (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd)
382) Tame Impala - Currents
383) Massive Attack - Mezzanine
384) The Kinks - The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
385) Ramones - Rocket to Russia
386) J Dilla - Donuts
387) Radiohead - In Rainbows
388) Aretha Franklin - Young, Gifted and Black
389) Mariah Carey - The Emancipation of Mimi
390) Pixies - Surfer Rosa
391) Kelis - Kaleidoscope
392) Ike & Tina Turner - Proud Mary: The Best of Ike & Tina Turner
393) Taylor Swift - 1989
394) Diana Ross - Diana
395) D'Angelo and The Vanguard - Black Messiah
396) Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything?
397) Billie Eilish - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?
398) The Raincoats - The Raincoats
399) Brian Wilson - SMiLE
400) The Go-Go's - Beauty and the Beat
401) Blondie - Blondie
402) Fela Kuti & Africa 70 - Expensive Shit
403) Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
404) Anita Baker - Rapture
405) Various Artists - Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968
406) The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
407) Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
408) Motörhead - Ace of Spades
409) Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
410) The Beach Boys - Wild Honey
411) Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
412) Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - Going to a Go-Go
413) Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
414) Chic - Risqué
415) The Meters - Look-Ka Py Py
416) The Roots - Things Fall Apart
417) Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz To Come
418) Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
419) Eric Church - Chief
420) Earth, Wind & Fire - That's the Way of the World
421) M.I.A. - Arular
422) Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
423) Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
424) Beck - Odelay
425) Paul Simon - Paul Simon
426) Lucinda Williams - Lucinda Williams
427) Al Green - Call Me
428) Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising
429) Four Tops - Reach Out
430) Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
431) Los Lobos - How Will the Wolf Survive?
432) Usher - Confessions
433) LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
434) Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
435) Pet Shop Boys - Actually
436) 2Pac - All Eyez on Me
437) Primal Scream - Screamadelica
438) Blur - Parklife
439) James Brown - Sex Machine
440) Loretta Lynn - Coal Miner's Daughter
441) Britney Spears - Blackout
442) The Weeknd - Beauty Behind the Madness
443) David Bowie - Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
444) Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
445) Yes - Close to the Edge
446) Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda
447) Bad Bunny - X 100PRE
448) Otis Redding - Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul
449) The White Stripes - Elephant
450) Paul McCartney & Linda McCartney - Ram
451) Roberta Flack - First Take
452) Diana Ross & The Supremes - Anthology
453) Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
454) Can - Ege Bamyasi
455) Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley / Go Bo Diddley
456) Al Green - Greatest Hits
457) Sinéad O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
458) Jason Isbell - Southeastern
459) Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon: The End of Day
460) Lorde - Melodrama
461) Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
462) The Flying Burrito Brothers - The Gilded Palace of Sin
463) Laura Nyro - Eli and the Thirteenth Confession
464) The Isley Brothers - 3 + 3
465) King Sunny Adé - The Best of the Classic Years
466) The Beach Boys - The Beach Boys Today!
467) Maxwell - BLACKsummers'night
468) The Rolling Stones - Some Girls
469) Manu Chao - Clandestino
470) Juvenile - 400 Degreez
471) Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
472) SZA - Ctrl
473) Daddy Yankee - Barrio Fino
474) Big Star - #1 Record
475) Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow
476) Sparks - Kimono My House
477) Howlin' Wolf - Moanin' in the Moonlight
478) The Kinks - Something Else by The Kinks
479) Selena - Amor Prohíbido
480) Miranda Lambert - The Weight of These Wings
481) Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
482) The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
483) Muddy Waters - The Anthology
484) Lady Gaga - Born This Way
485) Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
486) John Mayer - Continuum
487) Black Flag - Damaged
488) The Stooges - The Stooges
489) Phil Spector - Back to Mono (1958-1969)
490) Linda Ronstadt - Heart Like a Wheel
491) Harry Styles - Fine Line
492) Bonnie Raitt - Nick of Time
493) Marvin Gaye - Here, My Dear
494) The Ronettes - Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica
495) Boyz II Men - II
496) Shakira - Dónde Están los Ladrones?
497) Various Artists - The Indestructible Beat of Soweto
498) Suicide - Suicide
499) Rufus & Chaka Khan - Ask Rufus
500) Arcade Fire - Funeral
Here's a table comparing the 2003 list versus the 2012 and 2020 revisions.
**Someone finally realized that Phil Spector's Christmas album is included within the Back to Mono boxed set... so no need to include them both!
**AC/DC - Back in Black... aka half of corporate classic rock radio's playlist. They need to stop including this, please
**Bob Dylan - Love and Theft: it's enough already, RS! No one cares about anything after "Blood On the Tracks"
**Fiona Apple has three albums (Extraordinary Machine, The Idler Wheel, When the Pawn) but not Tidal? Isn't that her best one?
**Fleetwood Mac's Rumours made the list, but not their self-titled album right before that, nor Then Play On
**Frank Sinatra: In the Wee Small Hours... but not "Songs For Swingin' Lovers"? Or they could have just included one of the anthologies of his Capitol years
**Isaac Hayes, Hot Buttered Soul... but not Shaft?
**Joni Mitchell has several albums... but why the decent-yet-unexciting The Hissing of Summer Lawns
**Madonna: Ray of Light (lame) but not Like a Virgin? What?
**Paul McCartney: Ram, but not Band On the Run? Or how about Wingspan (which includes generous doses of both)? I still love Ram, though, so it's fine
**Beach Boys: Wild Honey... BORING. They also included Brian Wilson's solo version of Smile. WHAT?!
**Beatles: the big controversy is that they've been downgraded on this list in general. But the oddest thing to is that their first UK album, Please Please Me (aka Early Beatles in the US) is absent. It's usually considered one of their best... it's got Love Me Do, Please Please Me, Boys, I Saw Her Standing There, Twist & Shout... would have been nice to include that instead of...
**Sly & The Family Stone, Stand!... it's a great album, but most of it is already on Greatest Hits (which is also on the list)
**Yes: Close to the Edge... I always thought The Yes Album was better, or even Fragile
**Richard & Linda Thompson, I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight... I never understood why critics peed their pants over this. Speaking of which:
**Kanye and Neil Young have the same number of entries
**Springsteen's classic run from "The Wild, The Innocent" through "Born In the USA" remains... except for "The River." Odd.
**Steely Dan: Pretzel Logic has been removed but Aja and Can't Buy a Thrill still made the cut
Some further deletions since 2003:
-Moby Grape (121 in 2003), the 1952 Anthology Of American Folk Music (#276 in 2003), The Carpenters' lone entry from 2003 ("Close to You"), Frank Zappa (Freak Out was 243, We're Only In It For The Money was 296), plus Barry White, Jane's Addiction, No Doubt, The O'Jays, Mamas & the Papas, Soundgarden, Jethro Tull, Yardbirds, Meat Loaf, Moby, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Labelle, Mott the Hoople, Graham Parker, Jackson Browne, John Lee Hooker, Bjork, Def Leppard, ZZ Top, Jackie Wilson, Neil Diamond, Paul Butterfield, Cheap Trick, Gram Parsons, The Pogues, War, Alice Cooper, EPMD, The Drifters, Echo & the Bunnymen, Steve Earle, Albert King, Eurythmics, Buffalo Springfield, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Little Walter, Bobby Bland, Professor Longhair, Buena Vista Social Club, Blood, Sweat & Tears
-And I'm surprised the Black Keys haven't made any of these lists
Here's the RS article if you feel like clicking through 900 pages and crashing your browser:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/
