Listmania (Comparing with Rolling Stone editors)

Back in 2003, the editors at Rolling Stone magazine put together a list of the top 500 albums of all-time.
Their top 10 included the following:

1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles
2. Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys
3. Revolver, The Beatles
4. Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan
5. Rubber Soul, The Beatles
6. What's Going On, Marvin Gaye
7. Exile on Main Street, The Rolling Stones
8. London Calling, The Clash
9. Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan
10. The Beatles ("The White Album"), The Beatles

It got me thinking of what I might put in my top ten list, if I could only pick 10 discs to go with me to a desert island. So here you go.

1. Kind of Blue -Miles Davis
2. Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan
3. Exile on Main Street - Rolling Stones
4. "The White Album" - The Beatles
5. Solo Monk - Thelonious Monk
6. Bach Cello Concertos -Edgar Meyer on double bass
7. The Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music
8. The Ramones - The Ramones
9. Decade - Neil Young
10.The Velvet Underground & Nico -Velvet Underground

Then again, they would be useless on a desert island anyway. But oh well.
Here are Time Magazine's top 100
And here are some of the best selling albums of all-time. Contrast these with the critics' darlings. But my favorite list comes from Blender, who look at the top 500 songs since you were born (roughly 1980, they assume).
This is a pretty sly nod to the new breed of multicultural-versed music critic who believe (rightfully) that its a bit snobby, or narrow-minded at least, to keep holding up the classic white-guy rock canon as the best albums ever.
For the most recent generations, it can sometimes seem as if nothing existed before hip hop culture.