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1956: 5 (1 albums)

Songs For Swingin' Lovers! - Frank Sinatra

1959: 5 (1)

Time Out - The Dave Brubeck Quartet

1975: 4.33 (3)

Tonight's The Night - Neil Young

Mothership Connection - Parliament

Marcus Garvey - Burning Spear

1971: 4.3 (10)

At Fillmore East - The Allman Brothers Band

Hunky Dory - David Bowie

Pearl - Janis Joplin

The Yes Album - Yes

Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones

What's Going On - Marvin Gaye

Electric Warrior - T. Rex

There's A Riot Goin' On - Sly & The Family Stone

Maggot Brain - Funkadelic

Every Picture Tells A Story - Rod Stewart

1969: 4.2 (15)

At San Quentin - Johnny Cash

Elephant Mountain - The Youngbloods

Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

Chicago Transit Authority - Chicago

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - Neil Young & Crazy Horse

In A Silent Way - Miles Davis

Kick Out The Jams (Live) - MC5

Abbey Road - Beatles

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) - The Kinks

Hot Buttered Soul - Isaac Hayes

From Elvis In Memphis - Elvis Presley

Tommy - The Who

Bayou Country - Creedence Clearwater Revival

1972: 4.2 (5)

Superfly - Curtis Mayfield

Sail Away - Randy Newman

Let's Stay Together - Al Green

Close To The Edge - Yes

Pink Moon - Nick Drake

1970: 4.17 (6)

After The Gold Rush - Neil Young

The Madcap Laughs - Syd Barrett

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Deep Purple In Rock - Deep Purple

Morrison Hotel - The Doors

Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel

1979: 4.14 (7)

Highway to Hell - AC/DC

The Pleasure Principle - Gary Numan

Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young & Crazy Horse

London Calling - The Clash

Reggatta De Blanc - The Police

We Are Family - Sister Sledge

Pretenders - Pretenders

1967: 4 (4)

The Doors - The Doors

Axis: Bold As Love - Jimi Hendrix

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

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Beatles

1962: 4 (2)

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music - Ray Charles

Green Onions - Booker T. & The MG's

1963: 4 (2)

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector - Various Artists

James Brown Live At The Apollo - James Brown

1976: 4 (2)

Ramones - Ramones

Joan Armatrading - Joan Armatrading

1958: 4 (1)

Lady In Satin - Billie Holiday

1960: 4 (1)

At Newport 1960 - Muddy Waters

1961: 4 (1)

Sunday At The Village Vanguard - Bill Evans Trio

1981: 4 (1)

Beauty And The Beat - The Go-Go's

2016: 4 (1)

You Want It Darker - Leonard Cohen

2019: 4 (1)

KIWANUKA - Michael Kiwanuka

1973: 3.88 (8)

Raw Power - The Stooges

Band On The Run - Paul McCartney and Wings

Space Ritual - Hawkwind

Head Hunters - Herbie Hancock

Innervisions - Stevie Wonder

Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye

Berlin - Lou Reed

A Wizard, A True Star - Todd Rundgren

1977: 3.83 (6)

Aja - Steely Dan

New Boots And Panties - Ian Dury

Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf

Before And After Science - Brian Eno

Exodus - Bob Marley & The Wailers

The Clash - The Clash

1968: 3.67 (6)

Scott 2 - Scott Walker

Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix

At Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash

The White Album - Beatles

Lady Soul - Aretha Franklin

Traffic - Traffic

1957: 3.67 (3)

Chirping Crickets - Buddy Holly & The Crickets

At Mister Kelly's - Sarah Vaughan

Kenya - Machito

1964: 3.67 (3)

Rock 'N Soul - Solomon Burke

Olympia 64 - Jacques Brel

Getz/Gilberto - Stan Getz

1965: 3.67 (3)

Live At The Regal - B.B. King

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul - Otis Redding

Bert Jansch - Bert Jansch

1974: 3.5 (6)

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight - Richard Thompson

Bad Company - Bad Company

The Grand Tour - George Jones

Pretzel Logic - Steely Dan

Phaedra - Tangerine Dream

Inspiration Information - Shuggie Otis

1978: 3.44 (9)

C'est Chic - CHIC

All Mod Cons - The Jam

Here, My Dear - Marvin Gaye

Shalimar - Rahul Dev Burman

The Modern Dance - Pere Ubu

Dire Straits - Dire Straits

One Nation Under A Groove - Funkadelic

Third/Sister Lovers - Big Star

Germfree Adolescents - X-Ray Spex

1998: 3.4 (5)

Devil Without A Cause - Kid Rock

Ray Of Light - Madonna

Moon Safari - Air

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams

1966: 3.33 (3)

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme - Simon & Garfunkel

Da Capo - Love

Fred Neil - Fred Neil

1980: 3.25 (4)

Remain In Light - Talking Heads

Arc Of A Diver - Steve Winwood

Kilimanjaro - The Teardrop Explodes

Peter Gabriel 3 - Peter Gabriel

1987: 3.25 (4)

The New Tango - Astor Piazzolla

Calenture - The Triffids

Faith - George Michael

Appetite For Destruction - Guns N' Roses

2003: 3.25 (4)

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below - OutKast

Youth And Young Manhood - Kings of Leon

Feast of Wire - Calexico

Frank - Amy Winehouse

1982: 3 (5)

The Message - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

Thriller - Michael Jackson

Black Metal - Venom

Sulk - The Associates

Pelican West - Haircut 100

1984: 3 (5)

Welcome To The Pleasuredome - Frankie Goes To Hollywood

A Walk Across The Rooftops - The Blue Nile

Double Nickels On The Dime - Minutemen

Ocean Rain - Echo And The Bunnymen

Immigrés - Youssou N'Dour

1995: 3 (5)

Me Against The World - 2Pac

Garbage - Garbage

Different Class - Pulp

Femi Kuti - Femi Kuti

A Northern Soul - The Verve

2002: 3 (4)

Highly Evolved - The Vines

The Last Broadcast - Doves

American IV: The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash

Phrenology - The Roots

2012: 3 (2)

Channel Orange - Frank Ocean

Blunderbuss - Jack White

1983: 3 (1)

Porcupine - Echo And The Bunnymen

2001: 3 (1)

Amnesiac - Radiohead

2010: 3 (1)

The ArchAndroid - Janelle Monáe

2011: 3 (1)

21 - Adele

2014: 3 (1)

Lost In The Dream - The War On Drugs

2020: 3 (1)

Fetch The Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple

1989: 2.86 (7)

Raw Like Sushi - Neneh Cherry

Disintegration - The Cure

The Healer - John Lee Hooker

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

90 - 808 State

3 Feet High and Rising - De La Soul

Like A Prayer - Madonna

1991: 2.75 (4)

Metallica - Metallica

Nevermind - Nirvana

The White Room - The KLF

Spiderland - Slint

1986: 2.71 (7)

Graceland - Paul Simon

E.V.O.L. - Sonic Youth

Master Of Puppets - Metallica

Infected - The The

Raising Hell - Run-D.M.C.

Licensed To Ill - Beastie Boys

Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses

1999: 2.67 (6)

S&M - Metallica

São Paulo Confessions - Suba

The Contino Sessions - Death In Vegas

Kenza - Khaled

Play - Moby

Post Orgasmic Chill - Skunk Anansie

1988: 2.67 (3)

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

Green - R.E.M.

Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys

1985: 2.6 (5)

Steve McQueen - Prefab Sprout

This Nation’s Saving Grace - The Fall

Meat Is Murder - The Smiths

Picture Book - Simply Red

Fear and Whiskey - Mekons

1994: 2.6 (5)

Smash - The Offspring

Grace - Jeff Buckley

MTV Unplugged In New York - Nirvana

Live Through This - Hole

Ill Communication - Beastie Boys

2004: 2.5 (6)

Want Two - Rufus Wainwright

American Idiot - Green Day

Aha Shake Heartbreak - Kings of Leon

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

The Libertines - The Libertines

The College Dropout - Kanye West

1990: 2.5 (4)

Behaviour - Pet Shop Boys

Fear Of A Black Planet - Public Enemy

Shake Your Money Maker - The Black Crowes

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted - Ice Cube

1996: 2.5 (4)

Being There - Wilco

Murder Ballads - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Roots - Sepultura

Endtroducing..... - DJ Shadow

2005: 2.5 (2)

I Am a Bird Now - Antony and the Johnsons

Get Behind Me Satan - The White Stripes

2008: 2.5 (2)

Dear Science - TV On The Radio

All Hope Is Gone - Slipknot

2015: 2.5 (2)

Music in Exile - Songhoy Blues

Vulnicura - Björk

1993: 2.4 (5)

Debut - Björk

Whatever - Aimee Mann

Exile In Guyville - Liz Phair

Orbital 2 - Orbital

Siamese Dream - The Smashing Pumpkins

1997: 2.33 (3)

The Boatman's Call - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Tellin’ Stories - The Charlatans

Maverick A Strike - Finley Quaye

2007: 2.25 (4)

Neon Bible - Arcade Fire

Kala - M.I.A.

Cross - Justice

Oracular Spectacular - MGMT

2000: 2.13 (8)

Red Dirt Girl - Emmylou Harris

Music - Madonna

Punishing Kiss - Ute Lemper

Parachutes - Coldplay

Heartbreaker - Ryan Adams

Chore of Enchantment - Giant Sand

The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem

Virgin Suicides - Air

1992: 2 (3)

Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine

Slanted And Enchanted - Pavement

Selected Ambient Works 85-92 - Aphex Twin

2017: 2 (2)

Melodrama - Lorde

american dream - LCD Soundsystem