Other than as an excuse for people to argue, I thought that list was totally lame. The age bias in the respondent sample is obvious.
By the way, I own a majority of the albums listed, wouldn't mind owning the rest, and I'm one million years old.
The problem isn't the music itself (which is all pretty good, at least for those who like the styles and periods they represent). It's that *one* list for a poorly-defined concept (what the hell is a "top album"?), chosen by a demographically skewed panel, from a *stacked deck* of 2,200 preselected choices across 22 genres and 80 years, is doomed to near meaninglessness.
One hopes that the Zagat people had their tongues planted firmly in cheek while composing the press release about the cosmic significance of their "achievement."