Are These The “Best Ever Albums?” Here’s The List From a Long-Standing Community-Organized Website

On BestEverAlbums.com, this over 15-year-old website allows its community to publish “best of” lists of your favorite albums. Starting with a “best ever” list, you can then expand to decade lists and other types as you engage more with the community. The most intriguing part is how these lists then combine to form a massive community “best of” list for every year and decade. From over 50,000 charts, here is the aggregate list of the “best ever albums” of all time!

20. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly (average rating: 90)

Track Pick: “The Blacker The Berry”

19. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead (average rating: 88)

Track Pick: “There Is A Light That Never Goes Out”

18. The Clash - London Calling (average rating: 87)

Track Pick: “London Calling”

17. Pixies - Doolittle (average rating: 88)

Track Pick: “Here Comes Your Man”

16. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (average rating: 87)

Track Pick: “In The Aeroplane Over The Sea”

15. Nirvana - Nevermind (average rating: 87)

Track Pick: “Smells Like Teen Spirit”

14. The Beatles - The Beatles (The White Album) (average rating: 89)

Track Pick: “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”

13. Arcade Fire - Funeral (average rating: 88)

Track Pick: “Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)”

12. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (average rating: 88)

Track Pick: “God Only Knows”

11. Led Zeppelin - Untitled (Led Zeppelin IV) (average rating: 90)

Track Pick: “Stairway To Heaven”

10. The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico (average rating: 89)

Track Pick: “Heroin”

9. David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (average rating: 90)

Track Pick: “Starman”

8. Radiohead - In Rainbows (average rating: 90)

Track Pick: “Reckoner”

7. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (average rating: 91)

Track Pick: “Wish You Were Here”

6. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (average rating: 90)

Track Pick: “A Day In The Life”

5. Radiohead - Kid A (average rating: 89)

Track Pick: “Everything In Its Right Place”

4. The Beatles - Revolver (average rating: 91)

Track Pick: “Eleanor Rigby'

3. The Beatles - Abbey Road (average rating: 92)

Track Pick: “Something”

2. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon (average rating: 92)

Track Pick: “Time”

1. Radiohead - OK Computer (average rating: 92)

Track Pick: “Paranoid Android”

Check out these albums on streaming, or see what the BestEverAlbums community has to say about them.