NME - New Musical Express - Writers all time top 100 (1974)

1	Beatles	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely hearts club band	1967
2	Bob Dylan	Blonde on blonde	1966
3	Beach boys	Pet sounds	1966
4	Beatles	Revolver	1966
5	Bob Dylan	Highway 61 revisited	1965
6	Jimi Hendrix	Electric ladyland	1968
7	Jimi Hendrix	Are you experienced?	1967
8	Beatles	Abbey road	1969
9	Rolling stones	Sticky fingers	1971
10	Band	Music from big pink	1968
11	Rolling stones	Let it bleed	1969
12	Derek and the Dominos	Layla and other assorted love songs	1970
13	Velvet underground	Velvet underground + Nico	1967
14	Chuck Berry	Chuck Berry's golden decade	1973
15	Beatles	Rubber soul	1965
16	Who	Tommy	1969
17	Simon and Garfunkel	Bridge over troubled water	1970
18	David Bowie	Hunky dory	1971
19	Rolling stones	Beggars banquet	1968
20	Cream	Disraeli gears	1967
21	Pink floyd	The piper at the gates of dawn	1967
22	Who	My generation	1965
23	Crosby, Stills & Nash	Crosby, Stills & Nash	1969
24	Rolling stones	The Rolling stones	1964
25	John Lennon	Imagine	1971
26	Carole King	Tapestry	1971
27	David Bowie	The rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust and the spiders from Mars	1972
28	Bob Dylan	The freewheelin' Bob Dylan	1963
29	MC 5	Back in the USA	1970
30	Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	Déjà vu	1970
31	Band	The Band	1969
32	Rod Stewart	Gasoline alley	1970
33	Beatles	A hard day's night	1964
34	Rod Stewart	Every picture tells a story	1971
35	Led zeppelin	Led zeppelin 4	1971
36	Doors	The Doors	1967
37	King Crimson	In the court of the Crimson king	1969
38	Rolling stones	Exile on Main street	1972
39	Beatles	The Beatles (= the white album)	1968
40	Soft machine	The Soft machine	1968
41	Frank Zappa	Hot rats	1969
42	Traffic	Traffic	1968
43	Captain Beefheart and the Magic band	Trout mask replica	1969
44	Family	Music in a dolls house	1968
45	Stevie Wonder	Talking book	1972
46	Smokey Robinson and the Miracles	Anthology	1973
47	Doors	Strange days	1967
48	Led zeppelin	Led zeppelin 2	1969
49	Otis Redding	Otis blue - Otis Redding sings soul	1966
50	Jethro tull	Stand up	1969
51	Impressions	Big 16	1965
52	Love	Forever changes	1967
53	Neil Young	Everybody knows this is nowhere	1969
54	James Taylor	Sweet baby James	1970
55	Byrds	Fifth dimension	1966
56	Paul McCartney and Wings	Band on the run	1973
57	David Bowie	The man who sold the world	1970
58	Mothers of invention	We're only in it for the money	1968
59	Rolling stones	Get yer ya-ya's out	1970
60	Jeff Beck	Beck-ola	1969
61	Iggy Pop & the Stooges	Raw power	1973
62	Beach boys	Smiley smile	1967
63	Van Morrison	Astral weeks	1968
64	Velvet underground	Loaded	1970
65	Aretha Franklin	Greatest hits	1971
66	Beatles	With the Beatles	1963
67	Joni Mitchell	Blue	1971
68	Mothers of invention	Freak out!	1966
69	Neil Young	After the goldrush	1970
70	Stephen Stills	Stephen Stills	1970
71	Johnny Winter	Johnny Winter and ...	1970
72	Joe Cocker	With a little help from my friends	1969
73	Yes	The Yes album	1971
74	Van Morrison	Moondance	1970
75	Todd Rundgren	A wizard, a true star	1973
76	John Lennon	John Lennon/Plastic Ono band	1970
77	Jefferson airplane	Crown of creation	1968
78	Doors	L.A. woman	1971
79	Sly and the family Stone	There's a riot goin' on	1971
80	Who	Who's next	1971
81	Country Joe and the Fish	Electric music for the mind and body	1967
82	Robert Johnson	King of the Delta blues singers	1961
83	Beach boys	The best of the Beach boys : volume 1	1966
84	Joni Mitchell	Songs to a seagull	1968
85	John Mayall	Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton	1966
86	Traffic	Mr. Fantasy	1967
87	Bob Dylan	Bringing it all back home	1965
88	Elvis Presley	Greatest hits : volume 2
89	Velvet underground	White light/white heat	1968
90	Moby grape	Moby grape	1967
91	Big Brother and the Holding company	Cheap thrills	1968
92	Pink floyd	Dark side of the moon	1973
93	Dr. John	Gris-gris	1968
94	Stevie Wonder	Music of my mind	1972
95	Roxy music	Stranded	1973
96	Beach boys	Surf's up	1971
97	Randy Newman	12 songs	1970
98	Spirit	Twelve dreams of dr. Sardonicus	1970
99	Steve Miller band	Sailor	1968
100	Rolling stones	Goats head soup	1973