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2. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
by The Beatles
With Revolver, the Beatles made the Great Leap Forward, reaching a previously unheard-of level of sophistication and fearless experimentation. Sgt. ... More
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3. The Beatles [White Album] (1968)
by The Beatles
Each song on the sprawling double album The Beatles is an entity to itself, as the band touches on anything and everything it can. This makes for a ... More
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5. The Best of Simon & Garfunkel (1999)
by Simon & Garfunkel
The Best of Simon & Garfunkel supersedes Greatest Hits as the best compilation of the duo, with more tracks (20 compared to Greatest Hits' 14). Among ... More
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7. Tapestry [Bonus Tracks] (1971)
by Carole King
Carole King brought the fledgling singer/songwriter phenomenon to the masses with Tapestry, one of the most successful albums in pop music history. A ... More
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8. Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits (1974)
by Jim Croce
Though Jim Croce produced a handful of hit singles before his death, one can nonetheless argue that Croce was and is a rather underrated songwriter. ... More
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9. All Things Must Pass [30th Anniversary Edition] (1970)
by George Harrison
All Things Must Pass has long been one of the more vexing classic albums to make it to CD. It appeared previously in two distinctly different (yet ... More
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10. Definitive All-Time Greatest Hits (2004)
by John Denver
Placing the word definitive on a best-of collection is usually a panicked label attempt to fill last-minute Christmas stockings, but in the case of ... More
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11. Moondance (1970)
by Van Morrison
The yang to Astral Weeks' yin, the brilliant Moondance is every bit as much a classic as its predecessor; Van Morrison's first commercially ... More
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12. Greatest Hits (1975)
by Seals & Crofts
This album has all Seals & Crofts hits, including "Summer Breeze," "Hummingbird, " "We May Never Pass This Way (Again), " "Diamond Girl, " and "When ... More
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13. Revolver (1966)
by The Beatles
All the rules fell by the wayside with Revolver, as the Beatles began exploring new sonic territory, lyrical subjects, and styles of composition. It ... More
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14. Spirit in the Room [Bonus Tracks] (2012)
by Tom Jones
Although it isn't the revelation or surprising, extraordinary achievement that his 2010 record Praise & Blame was, Spirit in the Room is another ... More
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15. The Best Of Bread (1973)
by Bread
As The Best of Bread unfolds, its 12 tracks begin to tell a tale of two different types of bands. The first half dozen songs, all of which were ... More
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16. The Definitive Collection (2002)
by Stevie Wonder
When you're putting together a 21-song collection of a major artist who's had more than 40 Top 40 hits, inevitably there's going to be a lot of good ... More
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17. Greatest Hits [Bonus Tracks] (1973)
by John Denver
Released in 1973, Greatest Hits only sums up a handful of years of hitmaking for John Denver, but what years those were. Between 1971 and 1973, ... More
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18. Every Great Motown Hit of Marvin Gaye (1983)
by Marvin Gaye
The title is a bit of a misnomer, as you could count up on the fingers of both hands all the early hits that aren't on this 15-track collection. ... More
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19. Ultimate Manilow [Arista] (2002)
by Barry Manilow
Unlike some other MOR pop stars, Barry Manilow never enjoyed the sort of swinging-hipster revival that made him a hot name to drop, ironically or ... More
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20. The Ultimate Bee Gees (2009)
by Bee Gees
Functioning as something of a replacement for the 2001 collection Their Greatest Hits: The Record, The Ultimate Bee Gees covers much of the same ... More
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21. Let It Be (1970)
by The Beatles
The only Beatles album to occasion negative, even hostile reviews, there are few other rock records as controversial as Let It Be. First off, several ... More
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22. Abbey Road (1969)
by The Beatles
The last Beatles album to be recorded (although Let It Be was the last to be released), Abbey Road was a fitting swan song for the group, echoing ... More
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23. Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of the Beach Boys (2003)
by The Beach Boys
After gaining control of the Beach Boys' entire catalog (including all the band's post-1969 material), Capitol released two-fers covering their out ... More
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25. The Complete Hit Singles (2004)
by Three Dog Night
Three Dog Night ran off a string of 21 Top 40 hits between 1968 and 1975, including three number ones: "Joy to the World," "Mama Told Me (Not to Come ... More
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