> This is a 2008 list, so very recent.http://wtmd.blogspot.com/2008/01/wtmds-897-greatest-albums-of-all-tim...
>
> I looked at the top 250 only for both bands and artists. Here is how
> they performed. I would say the biggest surprises are Dave Matthews
> Band, Police and Wilco. I wouldnt have expected many albums of theirs
> on the list.
>
> Beatles         8
> Bruce Springsteen       8
> Bob Dylan       7
> Led Zeppelin    6
> U2      6
> Neil Young      5
> Rolling Stones  5
> Elvis Costello and The Arractions       4
> Grateful Dead   4
> Police  4
> REM     4
> Band    3
> Dave Matthews Band      3
> Jimi Hendrix Experience         3
> Pink Floyd      3
> Radiohead       3
> Stevie Wonder   3
> Who     3
> Wilco   3
> Yes     3
>
> Here is the top 250
>
> Rank    Artist  Album
> 1       Beatles Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
> 2       Beatles The Beatles (White)
> 3       Pink Floyd      Dark Side Of The Moon
> 4       Beatles Abbey Road
> 5       Clash   London Calling
> 6       Bruce Springsteen       Born To Run
> 7       U2      The Joshua Tree
> 8       Bob Dylan       Blood on the Tracks
> 9       Who     Who's Next
> 10      Beatles Revolver
> 11      Led Zeppelin    Led Zeppelin IV
> 12      Radiohead       OK Computer
> 13      Paul Simon      Graceland
> 14      Rolling Stones  Exile On Main Street
> 15      Grateful Dead   American Beauty
> 16      Beatles Rubber Soul
> 17      Neil Young      Harvest
> 18      Bob Dylan       Highway 61 Revisited
> 19      Nirvana Nevermind
> 20      Counting Crows  August and Everything After
> 21      Miles Davis     Kind Of Blue
> 22      Fleetwood Mac   Rumors
> 23      Jimi Hendrix    Are You Experienced?
> 24      Rolling Stones  Let It Bleed
> 25      Rolling Stones  Sticky Fingers
> 26      Beach Boys      Pet Sounds
> 27      Led Zeppelin    Led Zeppelin II
> 28      Elvis Costello  My Aim Is True
> 29      Pink Floyd      The Wall
> 30      Bob Dylan       Blonde On Blonde
> 31      Derek & The Dominos Laya And Other Assorted Love Songs
> 32      Van Morrison    Moondance
> 33      Wilco   Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
> 34      Led Zeppelin    I
> 35      Pearl Jam       Ten
> 36      Joni Mitchell   Blue
> 37      Band    The Band
> 38      David Bowie     Ziggy Stardust
> 39      Jeff Buckley    Grace
> 40      Radiohead       The Bends
> 41      U2      Achtung Baby
> 42      Bob Marley      Legend
> 43      Pink Floyd      Wish You Were Here
> 44      Elton John      Goodbye Yellowbrick Road
> 45      Jimi Hendrix    Electric Ladyland
> 46      Carol King      Tapestry
> 47      Neil Young      After The Goldrush
> 48      Who     Tommy
> 49      CSNY    Deja Vu
> 50      Little Feat     Waiting For Columbus
> 51      Steely Dan      Aja
> 52      Allman Brothers Band    At Fillmore East
> 53      Dave Matthews Band      Under  Table And Dreaming
> 54      Stevie Wonder   Songs In The Key Of Life
> 55      Neil Young      Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
> 56      CNNY    Crosby, Stills & Nash
> 57      Pixies  Doolittle
> 58      R.E.M   Murmur
> 59      R.E.M   Automatic For The People
> 60      Sex Pistols     Nevermind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols
> 61      Who     Quadrophenia
> 62      Beastie Boys    Paul's Boutique
> 63      Smiths  The Queen Is Dead
> 64      Bob Dylan       Bring It All Back Home
> 65      Jimi Hendrix    Axis: Bold as Love
> 66      Jethro Tull     Aqualung
> 67      Lucinda Williams        Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
> 68      Doors   The Doors
> 69      Eagles  Hotel California
> 70      Guns N Roses    Appetite For Destruction
> 71      Grateful Dead   Workingman's Dead
> 72      Neutral Milk Hotel      In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
> 73      Simon & Garfunkel   Bridge Over Troubled Water
> 74      Michael Jackson Thriller
> 75      Oasis   (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
> 76      Dire Straits    Brothers In Arms
> 77      Tori Amos       Little Earthquakes
> 78      Marvin Gaye     What's Going On?
> 79      Van Morrison    Astral Weeks
> 80      Bruce Springsteen       The Wild, The Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
> 81      Replacements    Tim
> 82      Violent Femmes  Violent Femmes
> 83      Police  Synchronicity
> 84      REM     Life's Rich Pagaent
> 85      Bruce Springsteen       Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ
> 86      Tom Petty       Damn the Torpedoes
> 87      Tom Petty       Wildflowers
> 88      Talking Heads   Stop Making Sense
> 89      Radiohead       Kid A
> 90      Led Zeppelin    Houses of the Holy
> 91      Peter Gabriel   So
> 92      Velvet Underground      Velvet Underground & Nico
> 93      Cure    Disintegration
> 94      Talking Heads   Remain in Light
> 95      Beastie Boys    Licensed to Ill
> 96      Band    Music from the Big Pink
> 97      Stevie Wonder   Innervisions
> 98      Led Zeppelin    Physical Graffiti
> 99      Joni Mitchell   Court & Spark
> 100     Allman Brothers Band    Eat a Peach
> 101     Bob Dylan       The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
> 102     Bruce Springsteen       Darkness on the Edge of Town
> 103     Pavement        Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
> 104     David Bowie     Hunky Dory
> 105     Rolling Stones  Beggars Banquet
> 106     Weezer  The Blue Album
> 107     Green Day       Dookie
> 108     Elvis Costello  This Years Model
> 109     Alanis Morissette       Jagged Little Pill
> 110     Prince  Purple Rain
> 111     AC/DC   Back in Black
> 112     Johnny Cash     American Recordings
> 113     U2      The Unforgettable Fire
> 114     Police  Outlandos D'Amour
> 115     Joni Mitchell   Hejira
> 116     Beck    Odelay
> 117     Cat Stevens     Tea fo the Tillerman
> 118     Talking Heads   Talking Heads 77
> 119     Yes     Close to the Edge
> 120     Queen   A Night at the Opera
> 121     Coldplay        A Rush of Blood to the Head
> 122     A Tribe Called Quest    The Low End Theory
> 123     Red Hot Chili Peppers   Blood Sugar Sex Magic
> 124     Band    The Last Waltz
> 125     Billy Joel      The Stranger
> 126     Johnny Cash     At Folsom Prison
> 127     George Harrison All Things Must Pass
> 128     Moody Blues     Days of Future Passed
> 129     John Coltrane   A Love Supreme
> 130     Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
> 131     Jefferson Airplane      Surrealistic Pillow
> 132     Jackson Browne  Late for the Sky
> 133     Cars    The Cars
> 134     Public Enemy    It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
> 135     John Lennon     Imagine
> 136     My Bloody Valentine     Loveless
> 137     James Taylor    Sweet Baby James
> 138     Cream   Disraeli Gears
> 139     Dave Matthews Band      Before These Crowded Streets
> 140     Beatles Meet the Beatles
> 141     John Lennon     Plastic Ono Band
> 142     Ray Charles     Modern Songs in Country and Western Music
> 143     Weezer  Pinkerton
> 144     Incubus S.C.I.E.N.C.E
> 145     Bruce Springsteen       Born in the U.S.A
> 146     Sonic Youth     Daydream Nation
> 147     Ryan Adams      Gold
> 148     Bob Dylan       Desire
> 149     CSNY    4 Way Street
> 150     Replacements    Please to Meet Me
> 151     U2      War
> 152     Pogues  Rum Sodomy & the Lash
> 153     Pixies  Surfer Rosa
> 154     Ramones Ramones
> 155     White Stripes   Elephant
> 156     Wilco   Being There
> 157     Patti Smith     Horses
> 158     Dire Straits    Making Movies
> 159     Simon & Garfunkel   Sounds of Silence
> 160     Stevie Ray Vaughan      Texas Flood
> 161     Steely Dan      Can't Buy a Thrill
> 162     Beatles Let it Be
> 163     Bruce Springsteen       The River
> 164     Peter Frampton  Frampton Comes Alive
> 165     Traffic The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
> 166     New Order       Substance
> 167     Flaming Lips    Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
> 168     Nick Drake      Pink Moon
> 169     Led Zeppelin    III
> 170     Pretenders      Pretenders
> 171     Bob Marley      Exodus
> 172     Clash   The Clash
> 173     Todd Rundgren   Something / Anything
> 174     Arcade Fire     Funeral
> 175     They Might Be Giants    Flood
> 176     Yes     Fragile
> 177     Black Sabbath   Paranoid
> 178     R.E.M   Fables Of Reconstruction
> 179     Stone Roses     The Stone Roses
> 180     Various Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack
> 181     R.E.M   Out Of Time
> 182     Jackson Browne  The Pretender
> 183     King Crimson    The Court Of The Crimson King
> 184     Decemberists    The Crane Wife
> 185     Gillian Welch   Time (The Revelator)
> 186     Grateful Dead   Live Dead
> 187     Joe Jackson     Look Sharp!
> 188     Sugar   Copper Blue
> 189     Grateful Dead   Europe 72
> 190     Emmylou Harris  Wrecking Ball
> 191     Liz Phair       Exile In Guyville
> 192     Depeche Mode    Violator
> 193     Police  Regatta de Blanc
> 194     Van Morrison    Saint Dominic's Preview
> 195     XTC     Skylarking
> 196     Smashing Pumpkins       Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness
> 197     Rockpile        Seconds Of Pleasure
> 198     Bruce Springsteen       Nebraska
> 199     Bright Eyes     I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
> 200     Wilco   Sky Blue Sky
> 201     Van Morrison    Tupelo Honey
> 202     Neil Young      Harvest Moon
> 203     King Crimson    Discipline
> 204     Joe Jackson     I'm The Man
> 205     Smashing Pumpkins       Siamese Dreams
> 206     Bruce Springsteen       The Rising
> 207     10,000 Maniacs  In My Tribe
> 208     Little Feat     Dixie Chicken
> 209     White Stripes   White Blood Cells
> 210     Elliott Smith   Either/Or
> 211     Yes     Yes
> 212     Santana Abraxas
> 213     Damien Rice     O
> 214     Roxy Music      Avalon
> 215     Cure    Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
> 216     Doors   L.A Woman
> 217     Tom Waits       The Heart Of Saturday Night
> 218     Flaming Lips    The Soft Bulletin
> 219     Tracy Chapman   Tracy Chapman
> 220     David Gray      White Ladder
> 221     Supertramp      Breakfast In America
> 222     Jackson Browne  Running On Empty
> 223     Televison       Marquee Moon
> 224     Nirvana Unplugged In New York
> 225     Michael Jackson Off The Wall
> 226     Morphine        Cure For Pain
> 227     U2      Rattle And Hum
> 228     Warren Zevon    Excitable Boy
> 229     Frank Zappa     Apostrophe
> 230     Red Hot Chili Peppers   Californication
> 231     Elvis Costello  Armed Forces
> 232     Jack Johnson    In Between Dreams
> 233     Dave Matthews Band      Crash
> 234     Various Woodstock : Three Days Of Peace & Music
> 235     Rolling Stones  Some Girls
> 236     Pavement        Slanted & Enchanted
> 237     Death Cab For Cutie     Plans
> 238     Stevie Wonder   Talking Book
> 239     X       Los Angeles
> 240     Jayhawks        Tomorrow The Green Grass
> 241     XTC     English Settlement
> 242     Beatles Magical Mystery Tour
> 243     Bob Dylan       Nashville Skyline
> 244     Neil Young      Rust Never Sleeps
> 245     Cream   Wheels Of Fire
> 246     Santana Supernatural
> 247     Byrds   Sweetheart of the Rodeo
> 248     Tom Waits       Rain Dogs
> 249     Police  Zenyatta Mondatta
> 250     U2      Boy