I was pleasantly surprised that Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. It was a rare winner that I actually bought, the others being:

1968: The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band;
1971: Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water;
1976: Paul Simon’s Still Crazy After All These Years;
1978: Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours;
1980: Billy Joel’s 52nd Street;
1982: John and Yoko’s Double Fantasy;
1987: Paul Simon’s Graceland;
1988: U2's The Joshua Tree;
1998: Bob Dylan’s Time Out of Mind;
2000: Santana’s Supernatural;
2006: U2's How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb

And that’s it, 11 albums since I started listening to music nearly 50 years ago when I was very young. Obviously since my taste is primarily for rock music, I do not have any of the pop or jazz winners, and perhaps I should listen to some of them. But there are many albums which I consider worthy of being Album-of-the-Year, and here is a baker's dozen which you might consider listening to:

1969: The Moody Blues’ To Our Children’s Children’s Children;
1971: The Kinks’ Muswell Hillbillies;
1972: David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust;
1973: Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon;
1973: Wings' Band on the Run;
1974: The Strawbs’ Hero and Heroine;
1975: Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run;
1979: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers’s Damn the Torpedoes;
1984: Chris de Burgh’s Man on the Line;
1995: The Smashing Pumpkins’ Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness;
2003: Richard Thompson’s The Old Kit Bag;
2006: Willie Nile’s Streets of New York;
2007: The Decemberists; The Crane Wife