AMF Albums Aggregated, Current Edition!

[Holden]

If you can believe it, I have managed to add in all of the polls from the very first in 2005 through today, and aggregated them into one list! Personally, I like this list quite a bit-it keeps the general structure of the AM list while also adding in the little forum favorites! Below I've included the Top 100 albums of all-time and the spreadsheet with every album’s ranking.

AMF Top 100 Albums of All-Time!
1 | Radiohead | OK Computer (1997)
2 | The Velvet Underground & Nico | The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
3 | The Beach | Boys Pet Sounds (1966)
4 | The Beatles | Revolver (1966)
5 | The Beatles | Abbey Road (1969)
6 | David Bowie | The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
7 | The Clash | London Calling (1979)
8 | The Beatles | The Beatles [White Album] (1968)
9 | The Beatles | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
10 | Bob Dylan | Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
11 | Arcade Fire | Funeral (2004)
12 | Nirvana | Nevermind (1991)
13 | Bob Dylan | Blonde on Blonde (1966)
14 | The Smiths | The Queen Is Dead (1986)
15 | Pixies | Doolittle (1989)
16 | Radiohead | Kid A (2000)
17 | Pink Floyd | The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
18 | Bruce Springsteen | Born to Run (1975)
19 | R.E.M. | Automatic for the People (1992)
20 | Prince and The Revolution | Purple Rain (1984)
21 | Sufjan Stevens | Illinois (2005)
22 | Stevie Wonder | Innervisions (1973)
23 | Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
24 | Marvin Gaye | What's Going On (1971)
25 | The Beatles | Rubber Soul (1965)
26 | The Who | Who's Next (1971)
27 | Talking Heads | Remain in Light (1980)
28 | The Rolling Stones | Exile on Main St. (1972)
29 | Bob Dylan | Blood on the Tracks (1975)
30 | Love | Forever Changes (1967)
31 | The Jimi Hendrix Experience | Are You Experienced? (1967)
32 | Radiohead | The Bends (1995)
33 | The Strokes | Is This It (2001)
34 | Radiohead | In Rainbows (2007)
35 | Portishead | Dummy (1994)
36 | LCD Soundsystem | Sound of Silver (2007)
37 | Michael Jackson | Thriller (1982)
38 | Miles Davis | Kind of Blue (1959)
39 | The Rolling Stones | Sticky Fingers (1971)
40 | Kanye West | My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)
41 | My Bloody Valentine | Loveless (1991)
42 | The Rolling Stones | Let It Bleed (1969)
43 | Television | Marquee Moon (1977)
44 | U2 | The Joshua Tree (1987)
45 | Neil Young | After the Gold Rush (1970)
46 | The Rolling Stones | Beggars Banquet (1968)
47 | The Zombies | Odessey and Oracle (1968)
48 | The Stone Roses | The Stone Roses (1989)
49 | David Bowie | Low (1977)
50 | U2 | Achtung Baby (1991)
51 | Jeff Buckley | Grace (1994)
52 | Van Morrison | Astral Weeks (1968)
53 | Stevie Wonde | Songs in the Key of Life (1976)
54 | Wilco | Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
55 | David Bowie | Hunky Dory (1971)
56 | Bob Dylan | Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
57 | Tom Waits | Rain Dogs (1985)
58 | Joy Division | Closer (1980)
59 | The Doors | The Doors (1967)
60 | R.E.M. | Murmur (1983)
61 | Fleetwood Mac | Rumours (1977)
62 | The Flaming Lips | The Soft Bulletin (1999)
63 | Prince | Sign 'O' the Times (1987)
64 | The Jimi Hendrix Experience | Electric Ladyland (1968)
65 | Fleet Foxes | Fleet Foxes (2008)
66 | The White Stripes | Elephant (2003)
67 | Pink Floyd | Wish You Were Here (1975)
68 | Neutral Milk Hotel | In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)
69 | Oasis | (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995)
70 | Beck | Odelay (1996)
71 | Joni Micthell | Blue (1971)
72 | Public Enemy | It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988)
73 | The Kinks | The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968)
74 | Paul Simon | Graceland (1986)
75 | Nirvana | In Utero (1993)
76 | Elvis Costello | This Year's Model (1978)
77 | Sonic Youth | Daydream Nation (1988)
78 | Björk | Homogenic (1997)
79 | Simon & Garfunkel | Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970)
80 | Van Morrison | Moondance (1970)
81 | Pulp | Different Class (1995)
82 | Animal Collective | Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)
83 | Belle and Sebastian | If You're Feeling Sinister (1996)
84 | Lou Reed | Transformer (1972)
85 | Arcade Fire | The Suburbs (2010)
86 | Pearl Jam | Ten (1991)
87 | The White Stripes | White Blood Cells (2001)
88 | PJ Harvey | To Bring You My Love (1995)
89 | TV on the Radio | Dear Science (2008)
90 | Björk | Post (1995)
91 | John Coltrane | A Love Supreme (1965)
92 | Frank Ocean | Channel Orange (2012)
93 | Leonard Cohen | Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
94 | The Smashing Pumpkins | Siamese Dream (1993)
95 | Tom Waits | Swordfishtrombones (1983)
96 | John Lennon | John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970)
97 | Sigur Rós | Ágætis Byrjun (1999)
98 | Kendrick Lamar | good kid, m.A.A.d city (2012)
99 | Pixies | Surfer Rosa (1988)
100 | Portishead | Third (2008)

Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

[Henry]

Thanks for doing this.

Please note that there is only one "n" at the end of Rundgren

[Madzong]

The only surprise here for me was TV On The Radio. They are one of my most favourite bands ever but I don't see them mentioned that much on the forum anymore. I guess they've just slipped under the radar in recent times...

[Rob]

Interesting list. After the inevitably predictable first 200 or so things start to feel pretty random. What did you include, Holden? Everything that allowed us to rank or rate albums in one way or another?

[Holden]

Interesting list. After the inevitably predictable first 200 or so things start to feel pretty random. What did you include, Holden? Everything that allowed us to rank or rate albums in one way or another?

Every all time list, EOY lists, the yearly decade lists including individual year lists as separate entities, and the EOD lists and the one 2010-2014 list

[Holden]

Newer albums additionally get a boost in points starting with albums from 2006 as they couldn’t have been on every possible list

[Holden]

Interesting list. After the inevitably predictable first 200 or so things start to feel pretty random. What did you include, Holden? Everything that allowed us to rank or rate albums in one way or another?

Every all time list, EOY lists, the yearly decade lists including individual year lists as separate entities, and the EOD lists and the one 2010-2014 list

And I would say that after around 200 or so it probably does get rather random, as point differences become smaller and smaller, and the system is rather mean to albums only on one EOY lists. However, I would say any album from before around 2005 in the 200-300 range is, in general, more liked by the forum than an album from the same range that is in the 500-600 range, and that generalizations like that can be applied throughout, though specific orders may not be the most precise.

[Holden]

Hello, everybody! I hope you all enjoyed this post, and I would love to improve the rankings, and I think I figured out just the way to do it-by including the number of participants in each poll in the weighting formula. If anyone would like to help with this task, I've posted a spreadsheet below with an available column for entering the number of participants in each poll. Feel no pressure to help out, this is far from a necessary task, but if anyone isn't doing anything and would like to help make AMF Aggregated a little bit better, feel free!
Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

[Honorio]

Hi Holden, I recently noticed (thanks to andyd1010) that the links for the polls about 1900-1949 songs, 1950s albums and song and 1960s albums and songs that we made back in 2010 were not correct. I don't know if you want to include it in the general aggregation but anyway the correct links are:
The overview
1900-1949
1950s albums
1950s songs
1960s albums
1960s songs

[Holden]

Hi Holden, I recently noticed (thanks to andyd1010) that the links for the polls about 1900-1949 songs, 1950s albums and song and 1960s albums and songs that we made back in 2010 were not correct. I don't know if you want to include it in the general aggregation but anyway the correct links are:
The overview
1900-1949
1950s albums
1950s songs
1960s albums
1960s songs

Thanks for this! But I actually included all of these, and instead dug through the Old Forums to find them!

[Honorio]

Thank you, Holden!

[Holden]

Alright, I have updated the list and spreadsheet with every poll that is complete from 2019 and 2020, (1980s polls, EOY 2019, 1970 and 1971 poll)