All Time Top 1000 Albums is a book by Colin Larkin, creator and editor of the Encyclopedia of Popular Music.

The list presented is the result of over 200,000 votes cast by the public in record shops, universities, schools and the French music trade show MIDEM – and ranked in order.

Each album's entry is accompanied by an annotation with a 100-word review, details of its creation, and notes about the band or artist who recorded it.

Larkin set about polling several thousand people via a printed voting form, left in record shops and sent to schools and universities.

[3] In September 2000, BBC News reported the "head-to-head" battle between the Beatles and Radiohead, the two bands who took the top four positions on the list.