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1971: 5 (13 albums)

Songs Of Love And Hate - Leonard Cohen

Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones

Shaft - Isaac Hayes

Madman Across The Water - Elton John

Tapestry - Carole King

Bryter Layter - Nick Drake

Blue - Joni Mitchell

L.A. Woman - The Doors

Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin

Surf's Up - The Beach Boys

White Light - Gene Clark

Pearl - Janis Joplin

Hunky Dory - David Bowie

1973: 5 (11)

Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye

Solid Air - John Martyn

The Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd) - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Tres Hombres - ZZ Top

Head Hunters - Herbie Hancock

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John

Countdown To Ecstasy - Steely Dan

Aladdin Sane - David Bowie

3 + 3 - The Isley Brothers

Raw Power - The Stooges

1977: 5 (10)

Hard Again - Muddy Waters

Heroes - David Bowie

Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf

Zombie - Fela Kuti

Heavy Weather - Weather Report

Marquee Moon - Television

Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

Aja - Steely Dan

Pink Flag - Wire

Out Of The Blue - Electric Light Orchestra

1980: 5 (9)

Heartattack And Vine - Tom Waits

British Steel - Judas Priest

More Specials - The Specials

Peter Gabriel 3 - Peter Gabriel

Back In Black - AC/DC

Closer - Joy Division

Signing Off - UB40

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables - Dead Kennedys

Sound Affects - The Jam

1992: 5 (9)

Automatic For The People - R.E.M.

Selected Ambient Works 85-92 - Aphex Twin

Vulgar Display Of Power - Pantera

Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine

Lam Toro - Baaba Maal

Dirty - Sonic Youth

Dry - PJ Harvey

Devotional Songs - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

The Predator - Ice Cube

1970: 5 (7)

Paranoid - Black Sabbath

American Beauty - Grateful Dead

Live At Leeds - The Who

Moondance - Van Morrison

Abraxas - Santana

Bitches Brew - Miles Davis

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

1975: 5 (6)

That's The Way Of The World - Earth, Wind & Fire

There's No Place Like America Today - Curtis Mayfield

Young Americans - David Bowie

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

Mothership Connection - Parliament

The Köln Concert - Keith Jarrett

1983: 5 (6)

Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes

Duck Rock - Malcolm McLaren

Murmur - R.E.M.

Swordfishtrombones - Tom Waits

Out of Step - Minor Threat

Hearts And Bones - Paul Simon

1965: 5 (5)

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail - Buck Owens

My Generation - The Who

Mr. Tambourine Man - The Byrds

Bringing It All Back Home - Bob Dylan

Live At The Regal - B.B. King

1966: 5 (5)

Revolver - Beatles

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme - Simon & Garfunkel

Face to Face - The Kinks

Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys

Aftermath - The Rolling Stones

1964: 5 (4)

A Girl Called Dusty - Dusty Springfield

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg - Jerry Lee Lewis

The Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones

Getz/Gilberto - Stan Getz

1990: 5 (4)

Sex Packets - Digital Underground

Fear Of A Black Planet - Public Enemy

Repeater - Fugazi

Goo - Sonic Youth

1993: 5 (4)

In Utero - Nirvana

Orbital 2 - Orbital

Exile In Guyville - Liz Phair

Rid Of Me - PJ Harvey

1963: 5 (3)

With The Beatles - Beatles

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus

Live At The Harlem Square Club - Sam Cooke

1959: 5 (2)

The Gershwin Songbook - Ella Fitzgerald

The Genius Of Ray Charles - Ray Charles

1962: 5 (2)

Green Onions - Booker T. & The MG's

Jazz Samba - Stan Getz

1956: 5 (1)

The Wildest! - Louis Prima

1960: 5 (1)

Miriam Makeba - Miriam Makeba

2005: 5 (1)

Guero - Beck

2006: 5 (1)

Savane - Ali Farka Touré

2008: 5 (1)

Seventh Tree - Goldfrapp

2010: 5 (1)

Teen Dream - Beach House

2014: 5 (1)

Lost In The Dream - The War On Drugs

2015: 5 (1)

Music in Exile - Songhoy Blues

2017: 5 (1)

american dream - LCD Soundsystem

2019: 5 (1)

KIWANUKA - Michael Kiwanuka

2020: 5 (1)

Fetch The Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple

1968: 4.92 (12)

Bookends - Simon & Garfunkel

Music From Big Pink - The Band

Caetano Veloso - Caetano Veloso

At Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash

The White Album - Beatles

Cheap Thrills - Big Brother & The Holding Company

Vincebus Eruptum - Blue Cheer

Astral Weeks - Van Morrison

Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix

Gris Gris - Dr. John

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo - The Byrds

Traffic - Traffic

1979: 4.9 (10)

We Are Family - Sister Sledge

Quiet Life - Japan

Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division

Off The Wall - Michael Jackson

Highway to Hell - AC/DC

The Specials - The Specials

The Pleasure Principle - Gary Numan

Reggatta De Blanc - The Police

Fear Of Music - Talking Heads

London Calling - The Clash

1995: 4.9 (10)

(What's The Story) Morning Glory - Oasis

Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette

Femi Kuti - Femi Kuti

Timeless - Goldie

Me Against The World - 2Pac

I Should Coco - Supergrass

Maxinquaye - Tricky

Exit Planet Dust - The Chemical Brothers

Different Class - Pulp

Brown Sugar - D'Angelo

1978: 4.89 (9)

More Songs About Buildings And Food - Talking Heads

This Year's Model - Elvis Costello & The Attractions

One Nation Under A Groove - Funkadelic

C'est Chic - CHIC

Van Halen - Van Halen

Parallel Lines - Blondie

Ambient 1/Music For Airports - Brian Eno

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

Stardust - Willie Nelson

1991: 4.86 (7)

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge - Mudhoney

Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill

Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Nevermind - Nirvana

Metallica - Metallica

Loveless - My Bloody Valentine

O.G. Original Gangster - Ice T

1972: 4.83 (6)

All Directions - The Temptations

Paul Simon - Paul Simon

The World is a Ghetto - War

Eagles - Eagles

Sail Away - Randy Newman

The Slider - T. Rex

1994: 4.82 (11)

MTV Unplugged In New York - Nirvana

Dookie - Green Day

Definitely Maybe - Oasis

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

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain - Pavement

Crazysexycool - TLC

Dummy - Portishead

The Sun Rises In The East - Jeru The Damaja

Superunknown - Soundgarden

Ill Communication - Beastie Boys

Grace - Jeff Buckley

1976: 4.78 (9)

Legalize It - Peter Tosh

Africa Brasil - Jorge Ben Jor

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Ramones - Ramones

Hotel California - Eagles

Rocks - Aerosmith

Destroyer - KISS

Oxygène - Jean-Michel Jarre

The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers

1989: 4.75 (8)

Club Classics Vol. One - Soul II Soul

Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

Disintegration - The Cure

Djam Leelii - Baaba Maal

All Hail the Queen - Queen Latifah

Technique - New Order

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman - John Zorn

1996: 4.75 (4)

Beautiful Freak - Eels

If You're Feeling Sinister - Belle & Sebastian

Endtroducing..... - DJ Shadow

Odelay - Beck

1999: 4.75 (4)

Hms Fable - Shack

Play - Moby

São Paulo Confessions - Suba

Remedy - Basement Jaxx

1969: 4.73 (15)

In The Court Of The Crimson King - King Crimson

Unhalfbricking - Fairport Convention

Happy Trails - Quicksilver Messenger Service

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground

Dusty In Memphis - Dusty Springfield

Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake

Tommy - The Who

Live / Dead - Grateful Dead

The Band - The Band

Cloud Nine - The Temptations

In A Silent Way - Miles Davis

The Stooges - The Stooges

The Gilded Palace Of Sin - The Flying Burrito Brothers

Abbey Road - Beatles

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

1981: 4.71 (7)

Beauty And The Beat - The Go-Go's

Wild Gift - X

Moving Pictures - Rush

Juju - Siouxsie And The Banshees

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret - Soft Cell

Damaged - Black Flag

Penthouse And Pavement - Heaven 17

1988: 4.71 (7)

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

Green - R.E.M.

Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A.

Superfuzz Bigmuff - Mudhoney

Truth And Soul - Fishbone

I'm Your Man - Leonard Cohen

...And Justice For All - Metallica

1987: 4.67 (9)

Sign 'O' The Times - Prince

Bad - Michael Jackson

Shaka Zulu - Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Document - R.E.M.

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby - Terence Trent D'Arby

The Joshua Tree - U2

Hysteria - Def Leppard

Among The Living - Anthrax

Faith - George Michael

2000: 4.67 (3)

Like Water For Chocolate - Common

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

Mama's Gun - Erykah Badu

2002: 4.67 (3)

Come Away With Me - Norah Jones

Under Construction - Missy Elliott

Phrenology - The Roots

2004: 4.67 (3)

Aha Shake Heartbreak - Kings of Leon

American Idiot - Green Day

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

1957: 4.6 (5)

At Mister Kelly's - Sarah Vaughan

Kenya - Machito

This Is Fats Domino - Fats Domino

Here's Little Richard - Little Richard

Palo Congo - Sabu

1974: 4.57 (7)

461 Ocean Boulevard - Eric Clapton

Queen II - Queen

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight - Richard Thompson

Inspiration Information - Shuggie Otis

It's Too Late to Stop Now - Van Morrison

Good Old Boys - Randy Newman

Bad Company - Bad Company

1984: 4.57 (7)

Run-D.M.C. - Run-D.M.C.

Diamond Life - Sade

Purple Rain - Prince

1984 - Van Halen

Let It Be - The Replacements

Immigrés - Youssou N'Dour

Welcome To The Pleasuredome - Frankie Goes To Hollywood

1967: 4.56 (9)

Surrealistic Pillow - Jefferson Airplane

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Beatles

Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix

Disraeli Gears - Cream

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You - Aretha Franklin

The Who Sell Out - The Who

The Doors - The Doors

Buffalo Springfield Again - Buffalo Springfield

Groovin' - The Young Rascals

1982: 4.5 (8)

The Number Of The Beast - Iron Maiden

Rip It Up - Orange Juice

1999 - Prince

The Lexicon Of Love - ABC

The Nightfly - Donald Fagen

Thriller - Michael Jackson

Rio - Duran Duran

Pelican West - Haircut 100

1997: 4.5 (6)

Either Or - Elliott Smith

Butterfly - Mariah Carey

Urban Hymns - The Verve

The Fat Of The Land - The Prodigy

Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club

Supa Dupa Fly - Missy Elliott

1998: 4.5 (4)

System Of A Down - System Of A Down

White Ladder - David Gray

You've Come a Long Way Baby - Fatboy Slim

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams

1958: 4.5 (2)

The Atomic Mr Basie - Count Basie & His Orchestra

Jack Takes the Floor - Ramblin' Jack Elliott

2007: 4.5 (2)

Oracular Spectacular - MGMT

Sound of Silver - LCD Soundsystem

2016: 4.5 (2)

You Want It Darker - Leonard Cohen

Blackstar - David Bowie

1986: 4.36 (11)

Reign In Blood - Slayer

Water From An Ancient Well - Abdullah Ibrahim

Licensed To Ill - Beastie Boys

Skylarking - XTC

So - Peter Gabriel

The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths

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

Raising Hell - Run-D.M.C.

Rapture - Anita Baker

Blood And Chocolate - Elvis Costello & The Attractions

Planet Rock: The Album - Afrika Bambaataa

1985: 4.33 (3)

Rum Sodomy & The Lash - The Pogues

Steve McQueen - Prefab Sprout

Cupid & Psyche 85 - Scritti Politti

2001: 4.33 (3)

White Blood Cells - The White Stripes

The Blueprint - JAY Z

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco

2003: 4.33 (3)

So Much For The City - The Thrills

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below - OutKast

Boy In Da Corner - Dizzee Rascal

2012: 4 (1)

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