Top Rock Album Rankings

Critically acclaimed and culturally influential rock albums spanning classic rock, alternative, progressive, punk, and hard rock.

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🌍 World Ranking

▲ Top 5

Yes – Close to the Edge

Fleetwood Mac – Rumours

Pearl Jam – Ten

The Doors - LA Woman

Jethro Tull – Aqualung

▼ Bottom 5

Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory

-4

Oasis – (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

-4

Live – Throwing Copper

-3

Cheap Trick – At Budokan

-2

Deftones – White Pony

-1

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All Items (106)

Yes – Close to the Edge+5

Fleetwood Mac – Rumours+4

Pearl Jam – Ten+4

The Doors - LA Woman+4

Soundgarden – Superunknown+3

Jethro Tull – Aqualung+3

Patti Smith – Horses+2

The Doors - Morrison Hotel+2

Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV+1

Cream – Disraeli Gears+1

The Beatles – Abbey Road—

Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon—

The Rolling Stones – Exile on Main St.—

Nirvana – Nevermind—

Radiohead – OK Computer—

The Who – Who's Next—

David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars—

Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run—

The Clash – London Calling—

The Velvet Underground & Nico – The Velvet Underground & Nico—

U2 – The Joshua Tree—

Queen – A Night at the Opera—

AC/DC – Back in Black—

The Doors – The Doors—

Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited—

Metallica – Master of Puppets—

Black Sabbath – Paranoid—

R.E.M. – Automatic for the People—

The Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream—

The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced—

Rush – Moving Pictures—

Deep Purple – Machine Head—

Eagles – Hotel California—

Green Day – Dookie—

Alice in Chains – Dirt—

The Police – Synchronicity—

Genesis – Selling England by the Pound—

Talking Heads – Remain in Light—

Van Halen – Van Halen—

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Damn the Torpedoes—

Bon Jovi – Slippery When Wet—

Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms—

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magik—

Foo Fighters – The Colour and the Shape—

Arctic Monkeys – AM—

Muse – Absolution—

The Strokes – Is This It—

Kings of Leon – Only by the Night—

My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade—

The Killers – Hot Fuss—

Blur – Parklife—

Pixies – Doolittle—

Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation—

The Cure – Disintegration—

Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures—

Jeff Buckley – Grace—

The White Stripes – Elephant—

Ramones – Ramones—

Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols—

Neil Young – Harvest—

ZZ Top – Eliminator—

Boston – Boston—

Journey – Escape—

Foreigner – Foreigner—

Aerosmith – Toys in the Attic—

Thin Lizzy – Jailbreak—

The Kinks – The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society—

The Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo—

Television – Marquee Moon—

Lou Reed – Transformer—

The Replacements – Let It Be—

Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot—

Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights—

Jane's Addiction – Nothing's Shocking—

Faith No More – Angel Dust—

Stone Temple Pilots – Core—

Incubus – Morning View—

Audioslave – Audioslave—

System of a Down – Toxicity—

Tool – Lateralus—

Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral—

The Offspring – Smash—

Blink-182 – Enema of the State—

Paramore – Riot!—

Evanescence – Fallen—

Heart – Dreamboat Annie—

Steely Dan – Aja—

Santana – Abraxas—

Electric Light Orchestra – Out of the Blue—

Supertramp – Breakfast in America—

Blue Öyster Cult – Agents of Fortune—

Kansas – Leftoverture—

Iron Maiden – The Number of the Beast—

King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King—

Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Brain Salad Surgery—

The Alan Parsons Project – Eye in the Sky—

T. Rex – Electric Warrior—

Roxy Music – Avalon—

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti—

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin—

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II—

Deftones – White Pony-1

Cheap Trick – At Budokan-2

Live – Throwing Copper-3

Oasis – (What's the Story) Morning Glory?-4

Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory-4