Blender’s 100 Greatest American Albums

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In October 2008, Blender Magazine created a list of the 100 Greatest American Albums. Albums are in rank order, with the #1 album being the top left corner, #2 to its immediate right, etc. Hover your mouse over an album to get the name of the album and the recording act. You can also click on an album to link to its DMDB page. Enjoy!

Blender’s 100 Greatest American Albums

Madonna: The Immaculate Collection (1990)

Beastie Boys: Licensed to Ill (1986)

Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited (1965)

Stevie Wonder: Innervisions (1973)

Guns N’ Roses: Appetite for Destruction (1987)

Ramones: Ramones (1976)

Blondie: Parallel Lines (1978)

Chuck Berry: The Great Twenty-Eight (1965)

Nirvana: Nevermind (1991)

Joni Mitchell: Blue (1971)

Public Enemy: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988)

Metallica: Metallica (aka 'The Black Album') (1991)

Michael Jackson: Off the Wall (1979)

Beach Boys: Pet Sounds (1966)

Marvin Gaye: Let’s Get It On (1973)

Ray Charles: Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (1962)

Velvet Underground & Nico: Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)

Prince & the Revolution: Purple Rain (1984)

Neil Young: Rust Never Sleeps (1979)

James Brown: Sex Machine (1970)

Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde (1966)

Robert Johnson: King of the Delta Blues Singers (1936-37)

R.E.M.: Murmur (1983)

Parliament: Mothership Connection (1976)

The Notorious B.I.G.: Life after Death (1997)

Van Halen: Van Halen (1978)

Al Green: Call Me (1973)

Aerosmith: Rocks (1976)

Beck: Odelay (1996)

Little Richard: Grooviest 17 Original Hits! (1955-59)

Louis Armstrong: The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings (1928)

Curtis Mayfield: Superfly (1972)

Hank Williams: 40 Greatest Hits (1953)

Steely Dan: Katy Lied (1975)

The B-52s: The B-52s (1979)

Chic: Risque (1979)

Beastie Boys: Paul’s Boutique (1989)

Aretha Franklin: I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (1967)

Elvis Presley: The Sun Sessions (1955)

Hole: Live Through This (1994)

The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Electric Ladyland (1968)

Patti Smith: Horses (1975)

Sly and the Family Stone: There's a Riot Goin' On (1971)

Dr. Dre: The Chronic (1992)

Pearl Jam: Vs. (1993)

Run-D.M.C.: Raising Hell (1986)

Various Artists, produced by Phil Spector: Back to Mono (1958-69)

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue (1959)

Eminem: The Slim Shady LP (1999)

Kiss: Destroyer (1976)

Joni Mitchell: Court and Spark (1974)

Randy Newman: 12 Songs (1970)

A Tribe Called Quest: The Low End Theory (1991)

Frank Sinatra: In the Wee Small Hours (1955)

Bob Dylan & The Band: The Basement Tapes (1967)

Rage Against the Machine: Evil Empire (1996)

Mary J. Blige: My Life (1994)

Grateful Dead: American Beauty (1970)

Wu-Tang Clan: Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993)

Paul Simon: Graceland (1986)

The Coasters: 50 Coastin’ Classics (1954-68)

Bruce Springsteen: Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978)

Johnny Cash: At Folsom Prison (1968)

Gram Parsons: Grievous Angel (1974)

Billie Holiday: Lady in Satin (1958)

The Modern Lovers: The Modern Lovers (1973)

Pavement: Slanted and Enchanted (1992)

TLC: Crazy Sexy Cool (1994)

Lynyrd Skynyrd: Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd (1969)

Prince: Sign ‘O’ the Times (1987)

LL Cool J: Radio (1985)

Carpenters: Singles – 1969-1981 (1969-81)

Pixies: Surfer Rosa (1988)

Aretha Franklin: Lady Soul (1968)

Lauryn Hill: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998)

Muddy Waters: At Newport (1960)

Jane’s Addiction: Nothing’s Shocking (1988)

Elvis Presley: From Elvis in Memphis (1969)

Woody Guthrie: Dust Bowl Ballads (1940)

Nine Inch Nails: The Downward Spiral (1994)

Various Artists: Nuggets – Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era (1965-68)

De La Soul: 3 Feet High and Rising (1989)

The Minutemen: Double Nickels on the Dime (1984)

Buddy Holly: Greatest Hits (1955-59)

Willie Nelson: Red-Headed Stranger (1975)

Neil Young: After the Gold Rush (1970)

R.E.M.: Automatic for the People (1992)

DJ Shadow: Endtroducing… (1996)

Talking Heads: Remain in Light (1980)

Weezer: Weezer (1994)

Eagles: Hotel California (1976)

Lucinda Williams: Lucinda Williams (1988)

Tori Amos: Under the Pink (1994)

Nirvana: In Utero (1993)

Nilson: Nilson Schmilsson (1972)

Kid Rock: Devil Without a Cause (1998)

The Doors: The Doors (1967)

The Replacements: Let It Be (1984)

Stevie Wonder: Fulfillingness’ First Finale (1974)

Otis Redding: Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul (1965)

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Last updated March 27, 2011.