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1959: 4 (1 albums)

The Gershwin Songbook - Ella Fitzgerald

1961: 4 (1)

Sunday At The Village Vanguard - Bill Evans Trio

1962: 4 (1)

Jazz Samba - Stan Getz

2014: 4 (1)

Lost In The Dream - The War On Drugs

1965: 3.71 (7)

Bringing It All Back Home - Bob Dylan

Here Are the Sonics - The Sonics

The Beach Boys Today! - The Beach Boys

Live At The Regal - B.B. King

Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul - Otis Redding

A Love Supreme - John Coltrane

1998: 3.67 (3)

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill

You've Come a Long Way Baby - Fatboy Slim

Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age

1985: 3.63 (8)

Psychocandy - The Jesus And Mary Chain

Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits

Hounds Of Love - Kate Bush

Low-Life - New Order

Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega

This Nation’s Saving Grace - The Fall

Songs From The Big Chair - Tears For Fears

Picture Book - Simply Red

2005: 3.5 (6)

Get Behind Me Satan - The White Stripes

Illinois - Sufjan Stevens

I Am a Bird Now - Antony and the Johnsons

Guero - Beck

Be - Common

Coles Corner - Richard Hawley

2011: 3.5 (2)

21 - Adele

D - White Denim

2017: 3.5 (2)

Melodrama - Lorde

american dream - LCD Soundsystem

1975: 3.42 (12)

Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen

Blood On The Tracks - Bob Dylan

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns - Joni Mitchell

Tonight's The Night - Neil Young

There's No Place Like America Today - Curtis Mayfield

Another Green World - Brian Eno

Mothership Connection - Parliament

Red Headed Stranger - Willie Nelson

The Köln Concert - Keith Jarrett

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

NEU! 75 - Neu!

Young Americans - David Bowie

1969: 3.4 (20)

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Hot Rats - Frank Zappa

Stand! - Sly & The Family Stone

Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones

Happy Trails - Quicksilver Messenger Service

The Band - The Band

Hot Buttered Soul - Isaac Hayes

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

Abbey Road - Beatles

Scott 4 - Scott Walker

At San Quentin - Johnny Cash

Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin

Tommy - The Who

Liege And Lief - Fairport Convention

Crosby, Stills & Nash - Crosby, Stills & Nash

In The Court Of The Crimson King - King Crimson

Unhalfbricking - Fairport Convention

Chicago Transit Authority - Chicago

Cloud Nine - The Temptations

1971: 3.4 (20)

The Yes Album - Yes

Live! - Fela Kuti

Trafalgar - Bee Gees

Nilsson Schmilsson - Harry Nilsson

Maggot Brain - Funkadelic

Who's Next - The Who

Vol. 4 - Black Sabbath

If I Could Only Remember My Name - David Crosby

What's Going On - Marvin Gaye

Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones

Imagine - John Lennon

Fragile - Yes

Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin

Aqualung - Jethro Tull

Hunky Dory - David Bowie

John Prine - John Prine

L.A. Woman - The Doors

Tapestry - Carole King

Tarkus - Emerson, Lake & Palmer

At Fillmore East - The Allman Brothers Band

2001: 3.38 (8)

The Blueprint - JAY Z

Gold - Ryan Adams

Survivor - Destiny's Child

Vespertine - Björk

Bright Flight - Silver Jews

Hot Shots II - The Beta Band

Gorillaz - Gorillaz

Is This It - The Strokes

1966: 3.33 (9)

Sunshine Superman - Donovan

Wild Is The Wind - Nina Simone

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

Bluesbreakers - John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

Revolver - Beatles

Aftermath - The Rolling Stones

Blonde On Blonde - Bob Dylan

Face to Face - The Kinks

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme - Simon & Garfunkel

2002: 3.33 (9)

Sea Change - Beck

The Rising - Bruce Springsteen

A Little Deeper - Ms. Dynamite

Power In Numbers - Jurassic 5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head - Coldplay

Under Construction - Missy Elliott

American IV: The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips

The Coral - The Coral

2013: 3.33 (3)

Yeezus - Kanye West

BEYONCÉ - Beyoncé

The Bones Of What You Believe - CHVRCHES

1994: 3.28 (18)

Parklife - Blur

Superunknown - Soundgarden

MTV Unplugged In New York - Nirvana

Protection - Massive Attack

Dummy - Portishead

Smash - The Offspring

Live Through This - Hole

Grace - Jeff Buckley

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain - Pavement

Crazysexycool - TLC

Music For The Jilted Generation - The Prodigy

Brutal Youth - Elvis Costello

Dookie - Green Day

Talking Timbuktu - Ali Farka Touré

Illmatic - Nas

Dog Man Star - Suede

Teenager Of The Year - Frank Black

Definitely Maybe - Oasis

1973: 3.25 (16)

Larks' Tongues In Aspic - King Crimson

The Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd

Catch A Fire - Bob Marley & The Wailers

Head Hunters - Herbie Hancock

Future Days - Can

Paris 1919 - John Cale

Aladdin Sane - David Bowie

Solid Air - John Martyn

Faust IV - Faust

Band On The Run - Paul McCartney and Wings

Innervisions - Stevie Wonder

Honky Tonk Heroes - Waylon Jennings

Tres Hombres - ZZ Top

Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper

A Wizard, A True Star - Todd Rundgren

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John

1968: 3.23 (13)

Odessey And Oracle - The Zombies

Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix

Bookends - Simon & Garfunkel

Cheap Thrills - Big Brother & The Holding Company

Beggars Banquet - The Rolling Stones

The United States Of America - The United States Of America

Scott 2 - Scott Walker

The Notorious Byrd Brothers - The Byrds

Astral Weeks - Van Morrison

White Light / White Heat - The Velvet Underground

Truth - Jeff Beck

We're Only In It For The Money - The Mothers Of Invention

Blood, Sweat & Tears - Blood, Sweat & Tears

1972: 3.2 (15)

The World is a Ghetto - War

Can't Buy A Thrill - Steely Dan

Clube Da Esquina - Milton Nascimento

All Directions - The Temptations

Machine Head - Deep Purple

Harvest - Neil Young

Pink Moon - Nick Drake

Greetings From L.A. - Tim Buckley

Slayed? - Slade

Made In Japan - Deep Purple

Let's Stay Together - Al Green

Sail Away - Randy Newman

Talking Book - Stevie Wonder

The Slider - T. Rex

Home Is Where The Music Is - Hugh Masekela

1976: 3.17 (12)

Arrival - ABBA

The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers

Legalize It - Peter Tosh

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Africa Brasil - Jorge Ben Jor

Station To Station - David Bowie

Ramones - Ramones

Joan Armatrading - Joan Armatrading

Rocks - Aerosmith

Destroyer - KISS

Songs In The Key Of Life - Stevie Wonder

2112 - Rush

1983: 3.17 (6)

Murmur - R.E.M.

She's So Unusual - Cyndi Lauper

Synchronicity - The Police

Soul Mining - The The

Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes

Swordfishtrombones - Tom Waits

1984: 3.17 (6)

Purple Rain - Prince

Ocean Rain - Echo And The Bunnymen

Meat Puppets II - Meat Puppets

1984 - Van Halen

Welcome To The Pleasuredome - Frankie Goes To Hollywood

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

1970: 3.13 (15)

Tea for the Tillerman - Cat Stevens

Deja Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Cosmo's Factory - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Paranoid - Black Sabbath

Morrison Hotel - The Doors

Led Zeppelin III - Led Zeppelin

American Beauty - Grateful Dead

Fun House - The Stooges

John Barleycorn Must Die - Traffic

Abraxas - Santana

After The Gold Rush - Neil Young

Bryter Layter - Nick Drake

Bitches Brew - Miles Davis

The Madcap Laughs - Syd Barrett

Gasoline Alley - Rod Stewart

1967: 3.08 (13)

Forever Changes - Love

Headquarters - The Monkees

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim - Frank Sinatra

Call of the Valley - Shivkumar Sharma

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Beatles

Surrealistic Pillow - Jefferson Airplane

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive - Merle Haggard

Disraeli Gears - Cream

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

Triangle - The Beau Brummels

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn - Pink Floyd

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

Songs Of Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen

1997: 3.08 (13)

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space - Spiritualized

Urban Hymns - The Verve

New Forms - Roni Size

Life Thru A Lens - Robbie Williams

Supa Dupa Fly - Missy Elliott

In It For The Money - Supergrass

OK Computer - Radiohead

The Fat Of The Land - The Prodigy

Time Out Of Mind - Bob Dylan

Dig Your Own Hole - The Chemical Brothers

Blur - Blur

Dig Me Out - Sleater-Kinney

Vanishing Point - Primal Scream

2004: 3.08 (13)

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Penance Soiree - The Icarus Line

Who Killed...... The Zutons? - The Zutons

Hot Fuss - The Killers

Fly Or Die - N.E.R.D

Want Two - Rufus Wainwright

Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand

Heroes to Zeros - The Beta Band

Aha Shake Heartbreak - Kings of Leon

Funeral - Arcade Fire

The College Dropout - Kanye West

The Libertines - The Libertines

Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters

1979: 3 (16)

Fear Of Music - Talking Heads

The Specials - The Specials

Pretenders - Pretenders

Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young & Crazy Horse

The Undertones - The Undertones

Entertainment - Gang Of Four

Risque - CHIC

Reggatta De Blanc - The Police

The Wall - Pink Floyd

Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division

London Calling - The Clash

The Pleasure Principle - Gary Numan

Tusk - Fleetwood Mac

Movies - Holger Czukay

Machine Gun Etiquette - The Damned

Metal Box - Public Image Ltd.

1977: 3 (13)

Aja - Steely Dan

Exodus - Bob Marley & The Wailers

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

Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

Out Of The Blue - Electric Light Orchestra

My Aim Is True - Elvis Costello

Pink Flag - Wire

Zombie - Fela Kuti

Marquee Moon - Television

One World - John Martyn

Trans Europe Express - Kraftwerk

Before And After Science - Brian Eno

The Stranger - Billy Joel

2000: 3 (13)

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast - Badly Drawn Boy

Heartbreaker - Ryan Adams

Tanto Tempo - Bebel Gilberto

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

Music - Madonna

Figure 8 - Elliott Smith

Our Aim Is To Satisfy - Red Snapper

Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park

Stankonia - OutKast

Parachutes - Coldplay

Like Water For Chocolate - Common

Felt Mountain - Goldfrapp

All That You Can't Leave Behind - U2

1990: 3 (10)

Nowhere - Ride

Goo - Sonic Youth

Fear Of A Black Planet - Public Enemy

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got - Sinead O'Connor

Bossanova - Pixies

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

The La's - The La's

Mama Said Knock You Out - LL Cool J

Behaviour - Pet Shop Boys

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted - Ice Cube

2003: 3 (8)

Permission to Land - The Darkness

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below - OutKast

Want One - Rufus Wainwright

Boy In Da Corner - Dizzee Rascal

Youth And Young Manhood - Kings of Leon

Frank - Amy Winehouse

Fever To Tell - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Hail To the Thief - Radiohead

2006: 3 (5)

Fishscale - Ghostface Killah

Black Holes and Revelations - Muse

Back To Black - Amy Winehouse

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

Savane - Ali Farka Touré

1957: 3 (4)

At Mister Kelly's - Sarah Vaughan

This Is Fats Domino - Fats Domino

Chirping Crickets - Buddy Holly & The Crickets

Here's Little Richard - Little Richard

1964: 3 (4)

Rock 'N Soul - Solomon Burke

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg - Jerry Lee Lewis

A Hard Day's Night - Beatles

A Girl Called Dusty - Dusty Springfield

2009: 3 (3)

Veckatimest - Grizzly Bear

Two Dancers - Wild Beasts

Bitte Orca - Dirty Projectors

1956: 3 (2)

Tragic Songs of Life - The Louvin Brothers

The Wildest! - Louis Prima

2012: 3 (2)

Blunderbuss - Jack White

Django Django - Django Django

2020: 3 (2)

Untitled (Black Is) - SAULT

Fetch The Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple

1955: 3 (1)

In The Wee Small Hours - Frank Sinatra

1958: 3 (1)

Lady In Satin - Billie Holiday

1960: 3 (1)

At Newport 1960 - Muddy Waters

2008: 3 (1)

The Renaissance - Q-Tip

2018: 3 (1)

Golden Hour - Kacey Musgraves

2019: 3 (1)

KIWANUKA - Michael Kiwanuka

2021: 3 (1)

Chemtrails Over The Country Club - Lana Del Rey

1987: 2.92 (13)

Music for the Masses - Depeche Mode

Floodland - Sisters Of Mercy

Faith - George Michael

Strangeways, Here We Come - The Smiths

You're Living All Over Me - Dinosaur Jr.

Calenture - The Triffids

Opus Dei - Laibach

Shaka Zulu - Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Appetite For Destruction - Guns N' Roses

The Joshua Tree - U2

Among The Living - Anthrax

Sister - Sonic Youth

Bad - Michael Jackson

1989: 2.92 (12)

All Hail the Queen - Queen Latifah

Club Classics Vol. One - Soul II Soul

Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys

Nick Of Time - Bonnie Raitt

3 Feet High and Rising - De La Soul

What's That Noise? - Coldcut

The Healer - John Lee Hooker

Disintegration - The Cure

Technique - New Order

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

Fromohio - fIREHOSE

Djam Leelii - Baaba Maal

1995: 2.91 (11)

Liquid Swords - GZA

Leftism - Leftfield

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - The Smashing Pumpkins

I Should Coco - Supergrass

Brown Sugar - D'Angelo

The Bends - Radiohead

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx - Raekwon

Garbage - Garbage

Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters

(What's The Story) Morning Glory - Oasis

Exit Planet Dust - The Chemical Brothers

1993: 2.9 (10)

Orbital 2 - Orbital

Doggystyle - Snoop Dogg

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) - Wu-Tang Clan

Bubble And Scrape - Sebadoh

Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby - Girls Against Boys

Fuzzy - Grant Lee Buffalo

Gentlemen - The Afghan Whigs

New Wave - The Auteurs

Siamese Dream - The Smashing Pumpkins

Suede - Suede

1978: 2.89 (19)

C'est Chic - CHIC

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo - Devo

Stardust - Willie Nelson

Public Image: First Issue - Public Image Ltd.

The Only Ones - The Only Ones

Van Halen - Van Halen

Real Life - Magazine

Dire Straits - Dire Straits

Germfree Adolescents - X-Ray Spex

Shalimar - Rahul Dev Burman

Live And Dangerous - Thin Lizzy

The Man Machine - Kraftwerk

Honky Tonk Masquerade - Joe Ely

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen - The Residents

The Cars - The Cars

Third/Sister Lovers - Big Star

Another Music In A Different Kitchen - Buzzcocks

Vento De Maio - Elis Regina

Ambient 1/Music For Airports - Brian Eno

1992: 2.86 (14)

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69) - Ministry

Henry's Dream - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

The Predator - Ice Cube

Little Earthquakes - Tori Amos

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

Devotional Songs - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

The Chronic - Dr. Dre

Automatic For The People - R.E.M.

It's A Shame About Ray - The Lemonheads

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde - The Pharcyde

Dirt - Alice In Chains

Your Arsenal - Morrissey

Lam Toro - Baaba Maal

Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine

1974: 2.83 (12)

Pretzel Logic - Steely Dan

Court And Spark - Joni Mitchell

Fulfillingness' First Finale - Stevie Wonder

461 Ocean Boulevard - Eric Clapton

Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt

Autobahn - Kraftwerk

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - Genesis

Natty Dread - Bob Marley & The Wailers

Bad Company - Bad Company

Sheer Heart Attack - Queen

Queen II - Queen

Country Life - Roxy Music

1986: 2.78 (9)

Licensed To Ill - Beastie Boys

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

E.V.O.L. - Sonic Youth

Water From An Ancient Well - Abdullah Ibrahim

Slippery When Wet - Bon Jovi

Raising Hell - Run-D.M.C.

Master Of Puppets - Metallica

Graceland - Paul Simon

Skylarking - XTC

1963: 2.75 (4)

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector - Various Artists

James Brown Live At The Apollo - James Brown

With The Beatles - Beatles

1991: 2.7 (10)

Blue Lines - Massive Attack

The Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest

Rising Above Bedlam - Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

The White Room - The KLF

Spiderland - Slint

Nevermind - Nirvana

Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge - Mudhoney

Arise - Sepultura

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black - Public Enemy

1988: 2.67 (12)

The Trinity Session - Cowboy Junkies

Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth

Viva Hate - Morrissey

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back - Public Enemy

Nothing's Shocking - Jane's Addiction

Green - R.E.M.

If I Should Fall From Grace With God - The Pogues

Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A.

...And Justice For All - Metallica

Shadowland - k.d. lang

Surfer Rosa - Pixies

Truth And Soul - Fishbone

1999: 2.67 (12)

...Baby One More Time - Britney Spears

Slipknot - Slipknot

Le Tigre - Le Tigre

Ágætis Byrjun - Sigur Rós

The Slim Shady LP - Eminem

The Man Who - Travis

Play - Moby

Central Reservation - Beth Orton

Post Orgasmic Chill - Skunk Anansie

Kenza - Khaled

69 Love Songs - The Magnetic Fields

Make Yourself - Incubus

1982: 2.67 (9)

Junkyard - The Birthday Party

Too Rye Ay - Dexys Midnight Runners

1999 - Prince

The Message - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen

The Number Of The Beast - Iron Maiden

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

The Rise & Fall - Madness

The Dreaming - Kate Bush

1996: 2.58 (12)

Dust - Screaming Trees

Endtroducing..... - DJ Shadow

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite - Maxwell

Better Living Through Chemistry - Fatboy Slim

If You're Feeling Sinister - Belle & Sebastian

Antichrist Superstar - Marilyn Manson

1977 - Ash

First Band On The Moon - The Cardigans

Roots - Sepultura

Second Toughest In The Infants - Underworld

Walking Wounded - Everything But The Girl

Millions Now Living Will Never Die - Tortoise

1980: 2.55 (11)

Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

Kilimanjaro - The Teardrop Explodes

Seventeen Seconds - The Cure

Arc Of A Diver - Steve Winwood

British Steel - Judas Priest

Hypnotised - The Undertones

Kings Of The Wild Frontier - Adam & The Ants

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables - Dead Kennedys

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels - Dexys Midnight Runners

Crocodiles - Echo And The Bunnymen

Group Sex - Circle Jerks

1981: 2.4 (5)

The Poet - Bobby Womack

Architecture And Morality - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

Moving Pictures - Rush

Kollaps - Einstürzende Neubauten

Damaged - Black Flag