Top 10 Albums of All Time

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

OK Computer – Radiohead

Radiohead were the first band to fully capture the unprecedented contradiction and loneliness of living in this globalized digital age. The lyrics of OK Computer are almost unbearably melancholy in tone, but the fact that they’re set to some of the most gorgeous music every created makes the whole album strangely inspirational. Even if these times are as bleak as Thom Yorke seems to believe they are, at least we still have music to get us through it.

The Beatles - Rubber Soul

LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

U2 - Achtung Baby

Exile on Main St. – The Rolling Stones

The first ten years of the Stones’ career as a band was all peak and no valleys, and Exile on Main St., coming at the tail end of their most interesting period, captures them at the zenith of their considerable powers. They’re also at their most decadent here, and all their anger and bitterness comes through in a way that no other rock band of the era would have dared to try. The album is helped by the legendary story of its making, but it would be perfect even if it existed in a vacuum.

Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die

London Calling – The Clash

Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper