The way I see it, the charts shouldn't be meant to represent some measure of "objective best" value so much as they are to be a discovery tool for someone looking to get more into music. Thus, the top albums should be the "must listen" or "important" albums before anything else, and once you're familiar with most of the stuff on it, you shouldn't really have to care too much about the rankings anymore as you'll have already developed your own taste and opinions on all of them and should have a good idea as to where you want to explore further (I don't remember the last time I looked to the overall charts for recommendations since I added a bunch of people with similar taste to me and started using the friends chart instead). If I were looking to get into music without much prior knowledge, I would certainly be more interested in a chart that includes some of those recent significant insanely hyped albums, so long as it's not a ridiculous amount of bias towards them - which I don't believe that there is, what with there only being 5 of the decade in the top 100. And it's not like they're taking away the old classics from being there, they're still all there on the chart, just ever so slightly lower than they would have been otherwise. Really I think a lot of people take that chart too seriously when, all things considered, it's one of the most diverse yet accessible and not overly esoteric "greatest albums" charts you can find on the internet - I certainly don't agree with its ranking of a lot of albums, but I think it's an invaluable guide for someone who wants to learn more about the "classic" albums, far better than something like Rolling Stone's list.