The Greatest Rock Albums Of All Time

They just are. Don't argue with me.

Listed alphabetically by artist. Exact order of "greatness" varies by mood.

• Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
• Eagles - Hotel California (see also: all other Eagles albums)
• Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
• Foreigner - Foreigner
• Billy Joel - 52nd Street (see also: The Stranger, Piano Man)
• Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Toward Ecstasy (see also: Touch, Solace)
• Meat Loaf / Jim Steinman - Bat Out of Hell (see also: Dead Ringer,Bad For Good)
• Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns (see also: Court and Spark, Clouds)
• Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
• Alan Parsons Project - Pyramid (see also: I Robot, Freudiana, Eye in the Sky)
• Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (see also: Animals, The Wall)
• Queen - A Night at the Opera
• Rush - 2112
• Bob Seger - Stranger in Town
• Carly Simon - Spoiled Girl (see also: No Secrets, Hotcakes, all others)
• Smithereens - Especially For You
• Steely Dan - The Royal Scam (see also: all other Steely Dan albums)

Honorable Mention:

• Fiona Apple - Tidal, When the Pawn
• Pat Benatar - Precious Time, Crimes of Passion, Get Nervous
• Ben Folds Five - Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
• Dire Straits - Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms
• Heart - Heart, Little Queen
• Don Henley - Building the Perfect Beast, I Can't Stand Still
• Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Tumbleweed Connection
• Carole King - Tapestry, Her Greatest Hits
• Patti Rothberg - Between the 1 and the 9
• Tangerine Dream - Risky Business, Thief
• Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing
• Waterboys - Dream Harder
• Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
• The Who - Who Are You