
I embarked on this project during the year 2014. I used Rolling Stone's Top 500 Albums list as a guide (below; as updated in 2012). Not long into the project, I learned of another list (see Acclaimed Music) that is perhaps more revered than this list. Too stubborn to turn back, I decided to finish the RS list, and to double-back in 2015 filling in the albums I hadn't already covered. You can continue to follow the project by using the 2015 list (here).
100: The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle (1968)
099: Sly & the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On (1971)
098: Elvis Costello & the Attractions - This Year's Model (1978)
097: Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin` Bob Dylan (1963)
095: Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (1970)
094: Hank Williams - 40 Greatest Hits
093: Prince - Sign 'o' the Times (1987)
091: Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)
090: Stevie Wonder - Talking Book (1972)
089: Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis (1969)
088: Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison (1968)
087: Pink Floyd - The Wall (1979)
086: Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A (1984)
085: Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul (1968)
084: Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (1967)
083: The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis - Bold as Love (1967)
082: Neil Young - Harvest (1972)
081: The Clash - The Clash (1977)
080: John Lennon - Imagine (1971)
079: Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II (1969)
078: Otis Redding - Otis Blue - Otis Redding Sings Soul (1965)
077: AC/DC - Back in Black (1980)
076: Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain (1984)
075: James Brown - Star Time (1991)
074: Neil Young - After the Gold Rush (1970)
073: Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti (1975)
072: Curtis Mayfield - Superfly (1972)
071: Paul Simon - Graceland (1985)
070: Billy Joel - The Stranger (1977)
069: Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
068: Michael Jackson - Off the Wall (1979)
066: Van Morrison - Moondance (1970)
065: Phil Spector - Back to Mono (1958-1969)
064: The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers (1971)
062: Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction (1987)
061: Sly & The Family Stone - Greatest Hits (1970)
060: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica (1969)
059: Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle: 20 Greatest Hits (1976)
058: The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet (1968)
057: Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life (1976)
056: Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley (1956)
055: The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland (1968)
053: The Beatles - Meet the Beatles! (1964)
052: Al Green - Greatest Hits (1975)
051: Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970)
050: Little Richard - Here's Little Richard (1957)
049: The Allman Brothers Band - The Allman Brothers Band at Fillmore East (1971)
048: Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988)
047: John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (1965)
046: Bob Marley and the Wailers - Legend (1984)
045: The Band - The Band (1969)
044: Patti Smith - Horses (1975)
043: Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
042: The Doors - The Doors (1967)
041: The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols (1977)
040: Love - Forever Changes (1967)
039: The Beatles - Please Please Me (1963)
038: Muddy Waters - The Anthology (1947-1972)
037: Eagles - Hotel California (1976)
036: Carole King - Tapestry (1971)
035: David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
034: The Band - Music from Big Pink (1968)
032: The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed (1969)
031: Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
030: Joni Mitchell - Blue (1971)
029: Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin (1969)
028: The Who - Who's Next (1971)
027: U2 - The Joshua Tree (1987)
026: Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (1977)
025: James Brown - Live at the Apollo (1963)
024: Stevie Wonder - Innervisions (1973)
023: John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band (1970)
022: Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings
021: Chuck Berry - The Great Twenty-Eight
020: Michael Jackson - Thriller (1982)
019: Van Morrison - Astral Weeks (1968)
018: Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run (1975)
017: Nirvana - Nevermind (1991)
016: Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks (1974)
015: The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? (1967)
014: The Beatles - Abbey Road (1969)
013: The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
012: Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (1959)
011: Elvis Presley - The Sun Sessions
010: The Beatles - The Beatles (The White Album) (1968)
009: Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde (1966)
008: The Clash - London Calling (1979)
007: The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St (1972)
006: Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (1971)
005: The Beatles - Rubber Soul (1965)
004: Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
003: The Beatles - Revolver (1966)
002: The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (1966)
001: The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)