Alternative Rock · Albums
Top alternative rock albums
The top-rated alternative rock album on Riffiter is Loveless by My Bloody Valentine, rated 4.6/5 by 11 listeners.
3,296 alternative rock albums ranked by community ratings and listening on Riffiter. The community has rated 166 of 3,296 alternative rock albums, averaging 3.7/5, spanning 1972 to 2026.
02 Grace
Jeff Buckley · 1994
★ 4.7 · 6
03 Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth · 1988
★ 4.5 · 10
04 The Bends
Radiohead · 1995
★ 4.6 · 6
05 Disintegration
The Cure · 1989
★ 4.8 · 4
06 Heaven or Las Vegas
Cocteau Twins · 1990
★ 4.5 · 7
07 OK Computer
Radiohead · 1997
★ 4.5 · 6
08 Doolittle
Pixies · 1989
★ 4.5 · 6
09 In Rainbows
Radiohead · 2007
★ 4.5 · 5
10 …Like Clockwork
Queens of the Stone Age · 2013
★ 4.5 · 5
11 Songs for the Deaf
Queens of the Stone Age · 2002
★ 4.5 · 4
12 A Moon Shaped Pool
Radiohead · 2016
★ 4.5 · 4
13 Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers · 1999
★ 4.4 · 5
14 Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Smashing Pumpkins · 1995
★ 4.4 · 4
15 Kid A
Radiohead · 2000
★ 4.3 · 5
16 Greatest Hits
Foo Fighters · 2009
★ 4.2 · 6
17 Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Red Hot Chili Peppers · 1991
★ 4.3 · 4
18 The Black Parade
My Chemical Romance · 2006
★ 4.3 · 3
19 El Silencio
Caifanes · 1992
★ 4.3 · 2
20 Boxer
The National · 2007
★ 4.3 · 2
21 Sister
Sonic Youth · 1987
★ 4.3 · 2
22 Pornography
The Cure · 1982
★ 4.3 · 2
23 Let England Shake
PJ Harvey · 2011
★ 4.5 · 1
24 The Colour and the Shape
Foo Fighters · 1997
★ 4.5 · 1
25 Blur
Blur · 1997
★ 4.5 · 1
26 Sea Change
Beck · 2002
★ 4.5 · 1
27 Blunderbuss
Jack White · 2012
★ 4.5 · 1
28 This Is Why
Paramore · 2023
★ 4.5 · 1
29 Siamese Dream
The Smashing Pumpkins · 1993
★ 4.5 · 1
30 Universes
Birds of Tokyo · 2008
★ 4.5 · 1
31 Live at the Palace
Blind Melon · 2006
★ 4.5 · 1
32 Let Love In
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds · 1994
★ 4.5 · 1
33 Tarantula
Ride · 1996
★ 4.5 · 1
34 I Should Coco
Supergrass · 1995
★ 4.5 · 1
35 That's the Spirit
Bring Me the Horizon · 2015
★ 4.0 · 4
36 Black Holes and Revelations
Muse · 2006
★ 4.0 · 3
37 Demon Days
Gorillaz · 2005
★ 4.0 · 2
38 Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand · 2004
★ 4.0 · 2
39 Parklife
Blur · 1994
★ 4.0 · 2
40 Skeleton Tree
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds · 2016
★ 4.0 · 2
41 Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Phoenix · 2009
★ 4.0 · 2
42 Hot Rail
Calexico · 2000
★ 4.0 · 2
43 The Resistance
Muse · 2009
★ 3.9 · 4
44 Death of a Bachelor
Panic! at the Disco · 2016
★ 4.0 · 1
45 Live at Rome Olympic Stadium
Muse · 2013
★ 4.0 · 1
46 Kaleidoscope EP
Coldplay · 2017
★ 4.0 · 1
47 Tell Me I'm Pretty
Cage the Elephant · 2015
★ 4.0 · 1
48 In Your Honor
Foo Fighters · 2005
★ 4.0 · 1
49 Urban Hymns
The Verve · 1997
★ 4.0 · 1
50 High Violet
The National · 2010
★ 4.0 · 1
51 13
Blur · 1999
★ 4.0 · 1
52 Trouble Will Find Me
The National · 2013
★ 4.0 · 1
53 Push the Sky Away
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds · 2013
★ 4.0 · 1
54 Super Extra Gravity
The Cardigans · 2005
★ 4.0 · 1
55 Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell
The Flaming Lips · 2003
★ 4.0 · 1
56 Mexican Moon
Concrete Blonde · 1993
★ 4.0 · 1
57 Attics to Eden
Madina Lake · 2009
★ 4.0 · 1
58 Return to the Last Chance Saloon
The Bluetones · 1998
★ 4.0 · 1
59 Get Tragic
Blood Red Shoes · 2019
★ 4.0 · 1
60 Drawing Restraint 9
Björk · 2005
★ 4.0 · 1
61 Stereopathetic Soulmanure
Beck · 1994
★ 4.0 · 1
62 The Blind Leading the Naked
Violent Femmes · 1986
★ 4.0 · 1
63 Surfer Rosa
Pixies · 1988
★ 4.0 · 1
64 Origin of Symmetry
Muse · 2001
★ 3.8 · 3
65 Post Human: Survival Horror
Bring Me the Horizon · 2020
★ 3.8 · 3
66 Notes on a Conditional Form
The 1975 · 2020
★ 3.8 · 2
67 Five Score and Seven Years Ago
Relient K · 2007
★ 3.8 · 2
68 Raise the Dead
Phantom Planet · 2008
★ 3.8 · 2
69 First Two Pages of Frankenstein
The National · 2023
★ 3.7 · 3
70 Lazaretto
Jack White · 2014
★ 3.7 · 3
71 Unlimited Love
Red Hot Chili Peppers · 2022
★ 3.5 · 1
72 Amnesiac
Radiohead · 2001
★ 3.5 · 1
73 Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez
Gorillaz · 2020
★ 3.5 · 1
74 Dear Agony
Breaking Benjamin · 2009
★ 3.5 · 1
75 Don't Panic
All Time Low · 2012
★ 3.5 · 1
76 The Eternal
Sonic Youth · 2009
★ 3.5 · 1
77 Melophobia
Cage the Elephant · 2013
★ 3.5 · 1
78 Everyday Life
Coldplay · 2019
★ 3.5 · 1
79 An Awesome Wave
alt-J · 2012
★ 3.5 · 1
80 This Is All Yours
alt-J · 2014
★ 3.5 · 1
81 Skin
Melissa Etheridge · 2001
★ 3.5 · 1
82 A.M.
Wilco · 1995
★ 3.5 · 1
83 Apollo 18
They Might Be Giants · 1992
★ 3.5 · 1
84 Everybody Else Is Doing It, so Why Can't We?
The Cranberries · 1993
★ 3.5 · 1
85 A Head Full of Dreams
Coldplay · 2015
★ 3.5 · 2
86 Greatest Hits
Red Hot Chili Peppers · 2003
★ 3.5 · 2
87 Gorillaz
Gorillaz · 2001
★ 3.5 · 2
88 RIOT!
Paramore · 2007
★ 3.5 · 2
89 Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
My Chemical Romance · 2010
★ 3.5 · 2
90 Songs of a Lost World
The Cure · 2024
★ 3.5 · 2
91 Colors
Beck · 2017
★ 3.5 · 2
92 I Inside the Old Year Dying
PJ Harvey · 2023
★ 3.5 · 2
93 Utopia
Björk · 2017
★ 3.5 · 2
94 After Laughter
Paramore · 2017
★ 3.5 · 3
95 Paramore
Paramore · 2013
★ 3.5 · 4
96 Native
OneRepublic · 2013
★ 3.0 · 1
97 Concrete and Gold
Foo Fighters · 2017
★ 3.0 · 1
98 The Now Now
Gorillaz · 2018
★ 3.0 · 1
99 Morning Phase
Beck · 2014
★ 3.0 · 1
100 The King of Limbs
Radiohead · 2011
★ 3.0 · 1
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