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2000: 3.75 (4 albums)

Figure 8 - Elliott Smith

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea - PJ Harvey

All That You Can't Leave Behind - U2

Lost Souls - Doves

1986: 3.71 (7)

Raising Hell - Run-D.M.C.

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry - Billy Bragg

Blood And Chocolate - Elvis Costello & The Attractions

Skylarking - XTC

Licensed To Ill - Beastie Boys

The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying - Megadeth

2010: 3.6 (5)

Teen Dream - Beach House

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West

Halcyon Digest - Deerhunter

High Violet - The National

Queen Of Denmark - John Grant

2002: 3.57 (7)

Power In Numbers - Jurassic 5

Come Away With Me - Norah Jones

The Coral - The Coral

American IV: The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash

A Little Deeper - Ms. Dynamite

The Last Broadcast - Doves

A Rush Of Blood To The Head - Coldplay

2014: 3.5 (2)

LP1 - FKA twigs

Lost In The Dream - The War On Drugs

2015: 3.5 (2)

Vulnicura - Björk

Music in Exile - Songhoy Blues

2016: 3.5 (2)

Blackstar - David Bowie

A Seat at the Table - Solange

1963: 3.4 (5)

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector - Various Artists

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan

James Brown Live At The Apollo - James Brown

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector - Various Artists

With The Beatles - Beatles

1983: 3.4 (5)

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) - Eurythmics

She's So Unusual - Cyndi Lauper

Synchronicity - The Police

Hearts And Bones - Paul Simon

Murmur - R.E.M.

1985: 3.33 (6)

Hunting High And Low - a-ha

Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits

Meat Is Murder - The Smiths

Picture Book - Simply Red

Rum Sodomy & The Lash - The Pogues

Fear and Whiskey - Mekons

2005: 3.33 (3)

Get Behind Me Satan - The White Stripes

Illinois - Sufjan Stevens

Guero - Beck

2008: 3.33 (3)

Only By The Night - Kings of Leon

The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow

Third - Portishead

2019: 3.33 (3)

Ghosteen - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

GREY Area - Little Simz

KIWANUKA - Michael Kiwanuka

1991: 3.29 (7)

Woodface - Crowded House

Metallica - Metallica

Ten - Pearl Jam

O.G. Original Gangster - Ice T

Screamadelica - Primal Scream

Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill

Achtung Baby - U2

1995: 3.27 (15)

Garbage - Garbage

Smokers Delight - Nightmares On Wax

Liquid Swords - GZA

Scream, Dracula, Scream - Rocket From The Crypt

Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - The Smashing Pumpkins

The Bends - Radiohead

A Northern Soul - The Verve

Alien Lanes - Guided By Voices

Maxinquaye - Tricky

Timeless - Goldie

Different Class - Pulp

Leftism - Leftfield

(What's The Story) Morning Glory - Oasis

Femi Kuti - Femi Kuti

1984: 3.25 (4)

Let It Be - The Replacements

Purple Rain - Prince

Born In The U.S.A. - Bruce Springsteen

Double Nickels On The Dime - Minutemen

2009: 3.25 (4)

Veckatimest - Grizzly Bear

Two Dancers - Wild Beasts

xx - The xx

It's Blitz! - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

1993: 3.22 (9)

Siamese Dream - The Smashing Pumpkins

In Utero - Nirvana

Giant Steps - The Boo Radleys

Debut - Björk

Fuzzy - Grant Lee Buffalo

The Infotainment Scan - The Fall

Wild Wood - Paul Weller

Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby - Girls Against Boys

Orbital 2 - Orbital

1964: 3.2 (5)

Getz/Gilberto - Stan Getz

A Girl Called Dusty - Dusty Springfield

Rock 'N Soul - Solomon Burke

Olympia 64 - Jacques Brel

A Hard Day's Night - Beatles

1994: 3.18 (17)

Parklife - Blur

Music For The Jilted Generation - The Prodigy

Ready To Die - The Notorious B.I.G.

Grace - Jeff Buckley

Protection - Massive Attack

Ill Communication - Beastie Boys

Yank Crime - Drive Like Jehu

Brutal Youth - Elvis Costello

Tical - Method Man

Live Through This - Hole

The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails

Dookie - Green Day

Illmatic - Nas

Smash - The Offspring

Superunknown - Soundgarden

Vauxhall And I - Morrissey

Dog Man Star - Suede

1976: 3.17 (6)

Hotel California - Eagles

Legalize It - Peter Tosh

2112 - Rush

Arrival - ABBA

Station To Station - David Bowie

Joan Armatrading - Joan Armatrading

1989: 3.17 (6)

Raw Like Sushi - Neneh Cherry

Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys

Doolittle - Pixies

Done By The Forces Of Nature - Jungle Brothers

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

Nick Of Time - Bonnie Raitt

1999: 3.14 (7)

Play - Moby

Darkdancer - Les Rythmes Digitales

Le Tigre - Le Tigre

Apple Venus Volume 1 - XTC

The Slim Shady LP - Eminem

Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Remedy - Basement Jaxx

1979: 3 (13)

Highway to Hell - AC/DC

Reggatta De Blanc - The Police

Entertainment - Gang Of Four

GI - Germs

Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Machine Gun Etiquette - The Damned

B-52's - The B-52's

Cut - The Slits

The Pleasure Principle - Gary Numan

The Specials - The Specials

Quiet Life - Japan

At Budokan - Cheap Trick

London Calling - The Clash

1975: 3 (9)

A Night At The Opera - Queen

Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen

There's No Place Like America Today - Curtis Mayfield

Young Americans - David Bowie

Tonight's The Night - Neil Young

Mothership Connection - Parliament

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns - Joni Mitchell

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

NEU! 75 - Neu!

1957: 3 (5)

Brilliant Corners - Thelonious Monk

Palo Congo - Sabu

Chirping Crickets - Buddy Holly & The Crickets

At Mister Kelly's - Sarah Vaughan

Here's Little Richard - Little Richard

1966: 3 (5)

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme - Simon & Garfunkel

Da Capo - Love

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears - The Mamas & The Papas

Fifth Dimension - The Byrds

Midnight Ride - Paul Revere & The Raiders

1990: 3 (5)

Mama Said Knock You Out - LL Cool J

Repeater - Fugazi

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm - A Tribe Called Quest

Nowhere - Ride

Violator - Depeche Mode

2001: 3 (4)

Amnesiac - Radiohead

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco

Bright Flight - Silver Jews

Time (The Revelator) - Gillian Welch

2012: 3 (3)

Django Django - Django Django

Blunderbuss - Jack White

good kid, m.A.A.d city - Kendrick Lamar

2017: 3 (3)

Melodrama - Lorde

Ctrl - SZA

Drunk - Thundercat

1958: 3 (2)

The Atomic Mr Basie - Count Basie & His Orchestra

Dance Mania - Tito Puente

2020: 3 (2)

Fetch The Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple

evermore - Taylor Swift

1962: 3 (1)

Jazz Samba - Stan Getz

1987: 2.89 (9)

The Joshua Tree - U2

You're Living All Over Me - Dinosaur Jr.

Calenture - The Triffids

Opus Dei - Laibach

The New Tango - Astor Piazzolla

Music for the Masses - Depeche Mode

Document - R.E.M.

Electric - The Cult

Bad - Michael Jackson

1996: 2.88 (8)

1977 - Ash

Odelay - Beck

Emperor Tomato Ketchup - Stereolab

Better Living Through Chemistry - Fatboy Slim

Second Toughest In The Infants - Underworld

Come Find Yourself - Fun Lovin' Criminals

Antichrist Superstar - Marilyn Manson

Tigermilk - Belle & Sebastian

1967: 2.83 (6)

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Beatles

Songs Of Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen

Electric Music For The Mind And Body - Country Joe & The Fish

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind) - Loretta Lynn

Disraeli Gears - Cream

Moby Grape - Moby Grape

1970: 2.82 (11)

Deja Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel

Ananda Shankar - Ananda Shankar

Paranoid - Black Sabbath

Sweet Baby James - James Taylor

Abraxas - Santana

Deep Purple In Rock - Deep Purple

Live At Leeds - The Who

Morrison Hotel - The Doors

Deja Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Cosmo's Factory - Creedence Clearwater Revival

1972: 2.82 (11)

Pink Moon - Nick Drake

Slayed? - Slade

Exile On Main Street - The Rolling Stones

Eagles - Eagles

Made In Japan - Deep Purple

Home Is Where The Music Is - Hugh Masekela

All Directions - The Temptations

Superfly - Curtis Mayfield

Close To The Edge - Yes

Let's Stay Together - Al Green

School's Out - Alice Cooper

1977: 2.82 (11)

Out Of The Blue - Electric Light Orchestra

Marquee Moon - Television

Lust For Life - Iggy Pop

Talking Heads 77 - Talking Heads

Hard Again - Muddy Waters

Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols - Sex Pistols

Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf

Exodus - Bob Marley & The Wailers

My Aim Is True - Elvis Costello

Zombie - Fela Kuti

1982: 2.82 (11)

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84) - Simple Minds

The Rise & Fall - Madness

Rip It Up - Orange Juice

Pornography - The Cure

Rio - Duran Duran

Pelican West - Haircut 100

The Lexicon Of Love - ABC

The Number Of The Beast - Iron Maiden

Junkyard - The Birthday Party

1999 - Prince

Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen

1965: 2.8 (5)

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul - Otis Redding

A Love Supreme - John Coltrane

My Generation - The Who

The Beach Boys Today! - The Beach Boys

Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan

2007: 2.8 (5)

Oracular Spectacular - MGMT

In Rainbows - Radiohead

Cross - Justice

Myths Of The Near Future - Klaxons

Sound of Silver - LCD Soundsystem

1974: 2.78 (9)

Queen II - Queen

The Grand Tour - George Jones

Sheet Music - 10cc

Crime Of The Century - Supertramp

Here Come The Warm Jets - Brian Eno

Good Old Boys - Randy Newman

Court And Spark - Joni Mitchell

Natty Dread - Bob Marley & The Wailers

Sheer Heart Attack - Queen

1998: 2.75 (4)

Mermaid Avenue - Billy Bragg

OK - Talvin Singh

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill

You've Come a Long Way Baby - Fatboy Slim

2006: 2.75 (4)

Savane - Ali Farka Touré

Black Holes and Revelations - Muse

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys

Back to Basics - Christina Aguilera

1997: 2.7 (10)

OK Computer - Radiohead

The Fat Of The Land - The Prodigy

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space - Spiritualized

Blur - Blur

Life Thru A Lens - Robbie Williams

Butterfly - Mariah Carey

Maverick A Strike - Finley Quaye

Urban Hymns - The Verve

Tellin’ Stories - The Charlatans

Vanishing Point - Primal Scream

1968: 2.69 (13)

Odessey And Oracle - The Zombies

Beggars Banquet - The Rolling Stones

Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix

Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes

Music From Big Pink - The Band

Cheap Thrills - Big Brother & The Holding Company

Traffic - Traffic

Blood, Sweat & Tears - Blood, Sweat & Tears

S.F. Sorrow - The Pretty Things

Odessey And Oracle - The Zombies

Vincebus Eruptum - Blue Cheer

Gris Gris - Dr. John

Astral Weeks - Van Morrison

1978: 2.67 (9)

The Cars - The Cars

Darkness on the Edge of Town - Bruce Springsteen

Stardust - Willie Nelson

Live And Dangerous - Thin Lizzy

More Songs About Buildings And Food - Talking Heads

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen - The Residents

Van Halen - Van Halen

C'est Chic - CHIC

Vento De Maio - Elis Regina

1973: 2.67 (6)

Honky Tonk Heroes - Waylon Jennings

Innervisions - Stevie Wonder

Band On The Run - Paul McCartney and Wings

Mott - Mott The Hoople

Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye

Raw Power - The Stooges

1971: 2.63 (16)

The Yes Album - Yes

Every Picture Tells A Story - Rod Stewart

Songs Of Love And Hate - Leonard Cohen

Surf's Up - The Beach Boys

Bryter Layter - Nick Drake

Blue - Joni Mitchell

Who's Next - The Who

Madman Across The Water - Elton John

Electric Warrior - T. Rex

Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones

White Light - Gene Clark

Imagine - John Lennon

Pearl - Janis Joplin

Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin

Aqualung - Jethro Tull

Coat Of Many Colors - Dolly Parton

2003: 2.63 (8)

Wonderful Rainbow - Lightning Bolt

Deloused in the Comatorium - The Mars Volta

Elephant - The White Stripes

Youth And Young Manhood - Kings of Leon

Fever To Tell - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Get Rich Or Die Tryin' - 50 Cent

Frank - Amy Winehouse

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below - OutKast

1969: 2.6 (10)

Crosby, Stills & Nash - Crosby, Stills & Nash

Abbey Road - Beatles

Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones

The Band - The Band

Bayou Country - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Hot Rats - Frank Zappa

Liege And Lief - Fairport Convention

Hot Buttered Soul - Isaac Hayes

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - Neil Young & Crazy Horse

2004: 2.57 (7)

Penance Soiree - The Icarus Line

Destroy Rock & Roll - Mylo

A Grand Don't Come For Free - The Streets

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned - Liars

Want Two - Rufus Wainwright

Funeral - Arcade Fire

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes - TV On The Radio

1988: 2.5 (8)

Bug - Dinosaur Jr.

Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman

Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth

Idlewild - Everything But The Girl

...And Justice For All - Metallica

Truth And Soul - Fishbone

Vivid - Living Colour

Surfer Rosa - Pixies

1981: 2.33 (3)

Kollaps - Einstürzende Neubauten

Talk Talk Talk - The Psychedelic Furs

Moving Pictures - Rush

1992: 2.29 (7)

Dirt - Alice In Chains

The Predator - Ice Cube

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of... - Arrested Development

Selected Ambient Works 85-92 - Aphex Twin

Bone Machine - Tom Waits

The Chronic - Dr. Dre

Lazer Guided Melodies - Spiritualized

1980: 2.25 (4)

British Steel - Judas Priest

Crocodiles - Echo And The Bunnymen

Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

Ace of Spades - Motörhead

1959: 2 (2)

The Gershwin Songbook - Ella Fitzgerald

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs - Marty Robbins

2021: 2 (1)

Chemtrails Over The Country Club - Lana Del Rey

1960: 1 (1)

A Date With The Everly Brothers - The Everly Brothers