Best Classical Albums of All Time

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RankAlbumArtist		Year	★ Overall		Critics	Users
7	The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - David Bowie	1972	91.6	85.2	100	91.1	90.3	93.4	90	91
10	Revolver - The Beatles	1966	91	84.6	100	89.2	88.7	93.2	91	90.2
21	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles	1967	89.9	82.4	99	88.1	88	92.6	90	89
28	Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys	1966	89.5	84	100	87.1	85.7	92.6	88	89.4
30	The Smile Sessions - The Beach Boys	2011	89.5	85	96	88	89.4	93	85	90
39	Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! - Godspeed You Black Emperor!	2000	89.2	85.4	87	93.2	90	92.8	86	90
48	Pink Moon - Nick Drake	1972	88.9	83.8	96	88.5	86.1	92.6	86	89.4
57	F♯ A♯ ∞ - Godspeed You Black Emperor!	1997	88.7	83.4	95	89.6	86.6	92.4	84	89.8
69	LONG SEASON - Fishmans	1996	88.4	84.4	92	90	88.1	94	85	85
70	Hounds of Love - Kate Bush	1985	88.3	83	96	89.3	85.8	90	85	89.2
86	Music for 18 Musicians - Steve Reich and Musicians	1978	87.9	82.2	100	86.8	84.6	93.8	81	86.8
87	Clube da Esquina - Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges	1972	87.9	83.2	88	89.8	91.3	95.2	82	85.6
98	Hunky Dory - David Bowie	1971	87.7	79.6	99	85.2	84.5	91.6	87	87
100	Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada E.P. - Godspeed You Black Emperor!	1999	87.7	83.8	87	90.5	88	91	84	89.4
103	Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake	1969	87.6	81	98	86.8	84.6	91.8	85	86
162	The Köln Concert - Keith Jarrett	1975	86.6	80.8	93	85	87.2	91.4	81	88
186	Gal Costa - Gal Costa	1969	86.4	78.4	100	86.2	89.2	93	78	80
193	Ants From Up There - Black Country, New Road	2022	86.3	80.8	88	90.2	88	94.2	85	78.2
195	Forever Changes - Love	1967	86.3	79	100	82	79.4	92.6	85	86.4
215	Odessey and Oracle - The Zombies	1968	86.2	81	93	83.4	82.7	91.2	85	86.8
217	Ys - Joanna Newsom	2006	86.1	81.2	87	89	88.2	90.4	81	86
246	Almendra - Almendra	1969	85.9	78	100	84.4	87.9	90.8	80	80
249	Quadrophenia - The Who	1973	85.9	77.8	93	84.6	85.2	89.2	83	88.2
250	Journey in Satchidananda - Alice Coltrane Featuring Pharoah Sanders	1971	85.8	82	90	86.4	83.4	94	81	84
275	The Whole Story - Kate Bush	1986	85.6	82.4	83	86.6	89.2	87.2	81	90
291	The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks	1968	85.5	79.8	93	81.8	80.7	92.8	84	86.6
297	Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles	1967	85.5	81.4	88	86	83.9	89.8	86	83.2
303	Arthur Verocai - Arthur Verocai	1972	85.4	78.6	90	85.9	89.3	96.2	78	80
305	Bryter Layter - Nick Drake	1971	85.4	79.6	90	86.1	85.1	92	83	82
312	Titanic Rising - Weyes Blood	2019	85.3	80.2	87	88.7	87.4	91.8	82	80.2
328	XO - Elliott Smith	1998	85.2	80.4	84	87.3	86.3	90.2	82	86
335	Portal of I - Ne Obliviscaris	2012	85.1	76.6	92	86.2	88.5	93.2	77	82.4
342	Il était une forêt... - Gris	2007	85.1	80	90	89	90.3	92.8	71	82.6
348	Glassworks - Philip Glass	1982	85.1	78.4	93	84.1	86.4	89.6	82	82
354	LUX - ROSALÍA	2025	85	74	93	85.5	87	96.2	80	79.6
370	E2-E4 - Manuel Göttsching	1984	84.9	77.2	96	82.6	83.4	94.2	79	82
400	Scheherazade and Other Stories - Renaissance	1975	84.7	78.8	90	85.2	85.8	86.4	80	87
406	Foxtrot - Genesis	1972	84.7	79.6	87	84.2	84.8	87.8	82	87.6
411	Disco Elysium - Sea Power	2019	84.7	83.4	70	89	92.1	93.2	75	90
435	Program Music I - Daisuke Kashiwa	2007	84.6	73.2	100	80.5	80	89.8	80	88.4
444	And Their Refinement of the Decline - Stars of the Lid	2007	84.5	78.6	87	84.3	86.2	93.4	77	85.2
448	Divers - Joanna Newsom	2015	84.5	78.4	88	86	88.6	88.8	80	81.8
458	The Dreaming - Kate Bush	1982	84.5	81.2	81	87.6	86	87.6	81	86.8
463	"Bath" - maudlin of the Well	2001	84.5	76	100	82.8	80.6	89.6	74	88.2
471	Endless Summer - The Beach Boys	1974	84.4	81.4	100	80.8	81.8	83	80	84
474	The Blue Notebooks - Max Richter	2004	84.4	73.4	89	82.1	92	92.8	79	82.6
477	The Ape of Naples - Coil	2005	84.4	79.2	90	83.4	81.5	93.6	79	84
493	The Wall - Pink Floyd	1979	84.3	76.6	76	85.1	87.6	92.2	87	85.4
495	Sketches of Spain - Miles Davis	1960	84.3	76.8	96	82.6	81.1	89.6	82	81.8
511	Ram - Paul McCartney & Linda McCartney	1971	84.2	81	80	86.8	86.4	89	82	84
520	A Night at the Opera - Queen	1975	84.1	75.4	87	80.2	85	90.6	83	87.8
529	Skylarking - XTC	1986	84.1	77.6	95	82.4	82.2	89.4	80	82
546	Promises - Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra	2021	84	79	88	85.7	85.9	92.6	79	77.6
560	The Gallery - Dark Tranquillity	1995	83.9	74.4	95	83.3	82.3	90.6	76	86
590	The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis	1974	83.8	79.2	83	83.4	83.1	88.4	82	87.6
621	Remedy Lane - Pain of Salvation	2002	83.7	74.8	90	81.1	86.6	90.4	77	86
656	Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory - Dream Theater	1999	83.6	73.8	80	83.4	89.8	92.6	78	87.4
667	Sunflower - The Beach Boys	1970	83.5	77.2	97	83.3	82.2	87	78	80
669	Selected Ambient Works Volume II - Aphex Twin	1994	83.5	79.2	82	86.1	84.3	92	79	82
676	La question - Françoise Hardy	1971	83.5	75.6	93	82.9	85.9	92	77	78
702	undun - The Roots	2011	83.4	76.4	82	88	86.1	89.4	80	81.8
737	Ambient 1: Music For Airports - Brian Eno	1979	83.2	76.2	90	82.7	81.7	90	80	82
741	Begin - The Millennium	1968	83.2	76.8	90	81.1	82.8	90.8	79	82
743	Operation: Mindcrime - Queensrÿche	1988	83.2	75.6	83	81.5	82.6	92.2	79	88.6
753	Hosianna Mantra - Popol Vuh	1972	83.2	76.6	88	80.8	81.8	90.6	80	84.4
762	Scott 4 - Scott Engel	1969	83.1	78	90	81.5	80.5	89	79	83.8
798	Universal Consciousness - Alice Coltrane	1971	83	76.6	90	82.3	85.4	89.6	77	80
799	666 - Aphrodite's Child	1972	83	74.8	95	80	80.3	89.2	77	84.6
800	Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) - The Kinks	1969	83	79.6	80	83.1	80.7	89.6	82	85.8
818	Choirs of the Eye - Kayo Dot	2003	82.9	76.6	80	84.6	84.9	92.6	73	88.8
822	CALIGULA - Lingua Ignota	2019	82.9	76.4	85	85.6	85.8	93.2	78	76.4
830	Something Else by The Kinks - The Kinks	1967	82.9	76.8	98	78.3	73.8	90.6	81	81.8
872	Virgins - Tim Hecker	2013	82.8	78.4	83	85.2	83.7	89.8	77	82.2
875	Come to My Garden - Minnie Riperton	1970	82.8	77	90	85.1	83.8	90.4	75	78
876	Anima Latina - Lucio Battisti	1974	82.8	76.6	80	83.4	87.1	90.6	77	84.6
880	Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull	1972	82.7	80.2	68	84.6	85.4	88.8	83	89.2
883	Have You in My Wilderness - Julia Holter	2015	82.7	76.6	88	85.1	84.1	86.6	80	78.8
887	Within the Realm of a Dying Sun - Dead Can Dance	1987	82.7	77.6	80	82.4	82.1	91.4	80	85.6
891	Desertshore - Nico	1970	82.7	77.6	90	82.4	81.8	88.2	77	82
912	Mutantes - Mutantes	1969	82.7	74.6	90	80.7	81.1	91.2	81	80
914	SINNER GET READY - Lingua Ignota	2021	82.6	77.4	86	86	85.5	91	77	75.6
925	Days of Future Passed - The Moody Blues	1967	82.6	76.4	83	83.2	85.2	85	80	85.4
944	Histoire de Melody Nelson - Serge Gainsbourg	1971	82.5	74.4	89	79.2	78.5	93.6	81	82
959	Michigan - Sufjan Stevens	2003	82.5	77	87	84.2	82.5	86.8	80	79.8
983	Spilt Milk - Jellyfish	1993	82.4	74.2	90	79.5	83.2	91.4	75	83.6
999	California - Mr. Bungle	1999	82.4	78.4	69	85.3	85.8	91.6	79	87.4
1001	The Disintegration Loops II - William Basinski	2003	82.4	74	90	81.7	82.4	90.2	78	80.2
1004	I Love You, Honeybear - Father John Misty	2015	82.3	73.2	87	83.7	84.3	89.4	80	78.8
1014	Music for the Masses - Depeche Mode	1987	82.3	76.8	82	81.9	82.7	91.8	79	82
1063	Rossz Csillag Alatt Született - Venetian Snares	2005	82.2	74.6	91	80.2	77.9	94.4	75	82.4
1076	Dead Magic - Anna von Hausswolff	2018	82.2	77.4	78	85	86.8	91.2	76	80.8
1095	Judee Sill - Judee Sill	1971	82.1	76.6	84	81.5	83.6	89.2	78	82
1109	Berlin - Lou Reed	1973	82.1	76.2	83	84.2	81.8	87.4	80	82
1125	ICONOCLASTS - Anna von Hausswolff	2025	82.1	75.2	87	82.3	81.3	92.4	76	80.2
1140	Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis	1998	82	76.4	84	81.9	81.7	90.8	76	83.4
1159	'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! - God's Pee	2012	82	75.8	83	86.5	81.5	87.4	80	79.6
1161	Spleen and Ideal - Dead Can Dance	1985	82	76.4	90	80.1	80.7	89.6	77	80
1225	Bad Timing - Jim O'Rourke	1997	81.8	77.6	80	82.8	84.3	89.8	78	80.2
1232	2112 - Rush	1976	81.8	75.4	75	81.4	84.2	90.8	80	85.8
1253	The Kick Inside - Kate Bush	1978	81.7	76.8	81	82.8	83.4	86.2	80	82

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