A weird list. Some of the albums are genuinely deserving to be here, but there are also such "forgotten classics" as Doolittle or Blue Lines.

http://www.fullspectrumottawa.com/exposure_50greatestalbums_001.html

1. Metallica - Master of Puppets
2. The Tragically Hip - Fully Completely
3. Air - Moon Safari
4. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
5. Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings
6. Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
7. Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
8. Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
9. Sinead O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
10. Ray Charles - Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
11. Nina Simone - Jazz As Played in an Exclusive Side Street Club
12. Charles Mingus - Blues and Roots
13. Little Richard - Here's Little Richard
14. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
15. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
16. Duke Ellington - Masterpieces by Ellington
17. Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
18. Count Basie - April in Paris
19. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
20. Deep Purple - Made in Japan
21. Bob Didley - Bo Didley
22. Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
23. Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
24. Billie Holiday - Lady in Satin
25. Jethro Tull - Aqualung
26. Janis Joplin - Pearl
27. Gordon Lightfoot - Summertime Dream
28. Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
29. Chuck Berry - Chuck Berry Is On Top
30. Megadeath - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
31. The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
32. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
33. The Chirping Crickets - The Chirping Crickets
34. LL Cool J - Radio
35. The Offspring - Smash
36. Pixies - Doolittle
37. The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
38. Portishead - Dummy
39. Massive Attack - Blue Lines
40. Propagandhi - Now To Clean Everything
41. Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
42. Queen - A Night at the Opera
43. Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
44. Rush - 2112
45. Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
46. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
47. AC/DC - Back in Black
48. Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
49. XTC - Skylarking
50. Junior Wells - Hoodoo Man Blues

Good to see Megadeth's "Peace Sells..." on the list, great album (their only good album imo)

I agree that the list is not what you to expect to come out from such a title, but their taste is great(although you can never agree completely)!

That list is SO all-over-the-place -- which is great!