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1960: 5 (1 albums)

Joan Baez - Joan Baez

2016: 5 (1)

Blackstar - David Bowie

1963: 4.75 (4)

Back At The Chicken Shack - Jimmy Smith

With The Beatles - Beatles

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector - Various Artists

Live At The Harlem Square Club - Sam Cooke

1965: 4.67 (3)

A Love Supreme - John Coltrane

Rubber Soul - Beatles

My Generation - The Who

2006: 4.67 (3)

Ys - Joanna Newsom

Back to Basics - Christina Aguilera

Back To Black - Amy Winehouse

1970: 4.62 (13)

Morrison Hotel - The Doors

Moondance - Van Morrison

Deep Purple In Rock - Deep Purple

Cosmo's Factory - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Deja Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Close To You - Carpenters

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus - Spirit

Bitches Brew - Miles Davis

After The Gold Rush - Neil Young

Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel

Paranoid - Black Sabbath

John Barleycorn Must Die - Traffic

1966: 4.6 (5)

Wild Is The Wind - Nina Simone

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme - Simon & Garfunkel

Black Monk Time - The Monks

Midnight Ride - Paul Revere & The Raiders

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators - The 13th Floor Elevators

1969: 4.57 (14)

In A Silent Way - Miles Davis

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Dusty In Memphis - Dusty Springfield

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground

Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones

Stand! - Sly & The Family Stone

Unhalfbricking - Fairport Convention

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

Green River - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Hot Buttered Soul - Isaac Hayes

Abbey Road - Beatles

Basket of Light - Pentangle

Songs From A Room - Leonard Cohen

The Gilded Palace Of Sin - The Flying Burrito Brothers

1971: 4.56 (16)

Aqualung - Jethro Tull

The Yes Album - Yes

Shaft - Isaac Hayes

Imagine - John Lennon

Surf's Up - The Beach Boys

Madman Across The Water - Elton John

Fragile - Yes

Who's Next - The Who

L.A. Woman - The Doors

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

Coat Of Many Colors - Dolly Parton

American Pie - Don McLean

Hunky Dory - David Bowie

At Fillmore East - The Allman Brothers Band

Trafalgar - Bee Gees

If I Could Only Remember My Name - David Crosby

1959: 4.5 (2)

The Gershwin Songbook - Ella Fitzgerald

Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis

1964: 4.5 (2)

Getz/Gilberto - Stan Getz

A Girl Called Dusty - Dusty Springfield

1976: 4.44 (9)

Joan Armatrading - Joan Armatrading

2112 - Rush

Ramones - Ramones

The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers

Songs In The Key Of Life - Stevie Wonder

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Oxygène - Jean-Michel Jarre

Hotel California - Eagles

Boston - Boston

1977: 4.33 (18)

Zombie - Fela Kuti

Heroes - David Bowie

Aja - Steely Dan

Hard Again - Muddy Waters

Lust For Life - Iggy Pop

Heavy Weather - Weather Report

The Clash - The Clash

Pacific Ocean Blue - Dennis Wilson

Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

New Boots And Panties - Ian Dury

The Idiot - Iggy Pop

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

Trans Europe Express - Kraftwerk

Out Of The Blue - Electric Light Orchestra

Exodus - Bob Marley & The Wailers

Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf

Talking Heads 77 - Talking Heads

Marquee Moon - Television

1984: 4.33 (6)

Private Dancer - Tina Turner

Double Nickels On The Dime - Minutemen

Let It Be - The Replacements

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

A Walk Across The Rooftops - The Blue Nile

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

1956: 4.33 (3)

Ellington at Newport - Duke Ellington

Songs For Swingin' Lovers! - Frank Sinatra

The Wildest! - Louis Prima

1962: 4.33 (3)

Green Onions - Booker T. & The MG's

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music - Ray Charles

Jazz Samba - Stan Getz

1968: 4.29 (14)

Traffic - Traffic

Astral Weeks - Van Morrison

Music From Big Pink - The Band

Blood, Sweat & Tears - Blood, Sweat & Tears

Scott 2 - Scott Walker

At Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash

Lady Soul - Aretha Franklin

Vincebus Eruptum - Blue Cheer

White Light / White Heat - The Velvet Underground

Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix

Caetano Veloso - Caetano Veloso

Cheap Thrills - Big Brother & The Holding Company

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession - Laura Nyro

Gris Gris - Dr. John

1988: 4.29 (7)

Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman

Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A.

Superfuzz Bigmuff - Mudhoney

Surfer Rosa - Pixies

Green - R.E.M.

The Trinity Session - Cowboy Junkies

Idlewild - Everything But The Girl

1972: 4.25 (8)

Pink Moon - Nick Drake

The World is a Ghetto - War

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - David Bowie

Transformer - Lou Reed

Let's Stay Together - Al Green

Clube Da Esquina - Milton Nascimento

Manassas - Stephen Stills

Slayed? - Slade

1982: 4.2 (5)

Rio - Duran Duran

Pornography - The Cure

The Dreaming - Kate Bush

The Nightfly - Donald Fagen

Too Rye Ay - Dexys Midnight Runners

1973: 4.18 (11)

The Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd

Selling England By The Pound - Genesis

Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper

Head Hunters - Herbie Hancock

3 + 3 - The Isley Brothers

Band On The Run - Paul McCartney and Wings

Berlin - Lou Reed

Raw Power - The Stooges

Paris 1919 - John Cale

For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music

Tres Hombres - ZZ Top

1991: 4.18 (11)

Nevermind - Nirvana

Metallica - Metallica

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo - MC Solaar

Arise - Sepultura

The White Room - The KLF

Blue Lines - Massive Attack

The Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest

Achtung Baby - U2

Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Screamadelica - Primal Scream

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge - Mudhoney

1985: 4.17 (6)

Meat Is Murder - The Smiths

Hounds Of Love - Kate Bush

Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega

Picture Book - Simply Red

Steve McQueen - Prefab Sprout

Hunting High And Low - a-ha

1957: 4.14 (7)

Chirping Crickets - Buddy Holly & The Crickets

Birth Of The Cool - Miles Davis

Here's Little Richard - Little Richard

Brilliant Corners - Thelonious Monk

Palo Congo - Sabu

This Is Fats Domino - Fats Domino

Kenya - Machito

1967: 4 (10)

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

The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground

Electric Prunes - The Electric Prunes

Disraeli Gears - Cream

Headquarters - The Monkees

Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix

Something Else By The Kinks - The Kinks

Buffalo Springfield Again - Buffalo Springfield

Moby Grape - Moby Grape

Chelsea Girl - Nico

1975: 4 (10)

A Night At The Opera - Queen

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns - Joni Mitchell

Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin

Young Americans - David Bowie

Mothership Connection - Parliament

There's No Place Like America Today - Curtis Mayfield

Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen

Blood On The Tracks - Bob Dylan

Horses - Patti Smith

Nighthawks At The Diner - Tom Waits

1978: 4 (9)

Another Music In A Different Kitchen - Buzzcocks

Stardust - Willie Nelson

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts - The Adverts

One Nation Under A Groove - Funkadelic

The Cars - The Cars

Third/Sister Lovers - Big Star

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen - The Residents

Siembra - Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

Vento De Maio - Elis Regina

1983: 4 (6)

Colour By Numbers - Culture Club

Duck Rock - Malcolm McLaren

Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes

Soul Mining - The The

She's So Unusual - Cyndi Lauper

Murmur - R.E.M.

2005: 4 (6)

Illinois - Sufjan Stevens

Coles Corner - Richard Hawley

Get Behind Me Satan - The White Stripes

I Am a Bird Now - Antony and the Johnsons

Be - Common

Guero - Beck

2010: 4 (3)

Brothers - The Black Keys

The Suburbs - Arcade Fire

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West

1955: 4 (1)

In The Wee Small Hours - Frank Sinatra

1961: 4 (1)

Sunday At The Village Vanguard - Bill Evans Trio

2007: 4 (1)

Oracular Spectacular - MGMT

2011: 4 (1)

21 - Adele

2019: 4 (1)

GREY Area - Little Simz

1986: 3.93 (14)

I Against I - Bad Brains

Planet Rock: The Album - Afrika Bambaataa

Graceland - Paul Simon

The Last Of The True Believers - Nanci Griffith

The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths

Master Of Puppets - Metallica

Slippery When Wet - Bon Jovi

Skylarking - XTC

Infected - The The

Guitar Town - Steve Earle

So - Peter Gabriel

Raising Hell - Run-D.M.C.

Reign In Blood - Slayer

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry - Billy Bragg

1990: 3.89 (9)

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches - Happy Mondays

Ritual De Lo Habitual - Jane's Addiction

Heaven Or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins

Violator - Depeche Mode

Bossanova - Pixies

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

Behaviour - Pet Shop Boys

Rust In Peace - Megadeth

Goo - Sonic Youth

1974: 3.86 (14)

Bad Company - Bad Company

Court And Spark - Joni Mitchell

Here Come The Warm Jets - Brian Eno

Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt

461 Ocean Boulevard - Eric Clapton

Fulfillingness' First Finale - Stevie Wonder

Natty Dread - Bob Marley & The Wailers

Pretzel Logic - Steely Dan

No Other - Gene Clark

Sheet Music - 10cc

Good Old Boys - Randy Newman

It's Too Late to Stop Now - Van Morrison

Winter In America - Gil Scott-Heron

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - Genesis

1979: 3.8 (10)

Tusk - Fleetwood Mac

Quiet Life - Japan

The Pleasure Principle - Gary Numan

Broken English - Marianne Faithfull

The Specials - The Specials

London Calling - The Clash

Entertainment - Gang Of Four

Cut - The Slits

We Are Family - Sister Sledge

Fear Of Music - Talking Heads

1987: 3.69 (13)

Shaka Zulu - Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Bad - Michael Jackson

The Joshua Tree - U2

Document - R.E.M.

Strangeways, Here We Come - The Smiths

Warehouse: Songs And Stories - Hüsker Dü

Darklands - The Jesus And Mary Chain

Locust Abortion Technician - Butthole Surfers

Floodland - Sisters Of Mercy

Sign 'O' The Times - Prince

Hysteria - Def Leppard

Actually - Pet Shop Boys

Trio - Dolly Parton

1980: 3.67 (12)

Seventeen Seconds - The Cure

Back In Black - AC/DC

Crocodiles - Echo And The Bunnymen

British Steel - Judas Priest

Killing Joke - Killing Joke

Signing Off - UB40

Kilimanjaro - The Teardrop Explodes

Group Sex - Circle Jerks

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels - Dexys Midnight Runners

Remain In Light - Talking Heads

Songs The Lord Taught Us - The Cramps

Sound Affects - The Jam

2000: 3.67 (9)

Our Aim Is To Satisfy - Red Snapper

Stankonia - OutKast

Kid A - Radiohead

Parachutes - Coldplay

All That You Can't Leave Behind - U2

The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem

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

Virgin Suicides - Air

Chore of Enchantment - Giant Sand

1998: 3.67 (3)

Celebrity Skin - Hole

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill

White Ladder - David Gray

2012: 3.67 (3)

Django Django - Django Django

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

Blunderbuss - Jack White

1981: 3.64 (11)

Juju - Siouxsie And The Banshees

Mask - Bauhaus

Moving Pictures - Rush

Wild Gift - X

Kollaps - Einstürzende Neubauten

Dare! - The Human League

Talk Talk Talk - The Psychedelic Furs

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live) - Motörhead

Fire Of Love - The Gun Club

Penthouse And Pavement - Heaven 17

Architecture And Morality - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

1989: 3.56 (9)

Pump - Aerosmith

L'Eau Rouge - The Young Gods

Moss Side Story - Barry Adamson

Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys

90 - 808 State

Doolittle - Pixies

Playing With Fire - Spacemen 3

Disintegration - The Cure

Djam Leelii - Baaba Maal

1995: 3.5 (10)

Elastica - Elastica

Different Class - Pulp

Femi Kuti - Femi Kuti

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx - Raekwon

Leftism - Leftfield

(What's The Story) Morning Glory - Oasis

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - The Smashing Pumpkins

Garbage - Garbage

Maxinquaye - Tricky

Timeless - Goldie

2015: 3.5 (2)

25 - Adele

Music in Exile - Songhoy Blues

2017: 3.5 (2)

Melodrama - Lorde

american dream - LCD Soundsystem

2018: 3.5 (2)

Golden Hour - Kacey Musgraves

Chris - Christine and the Queens

1997: 3.4 (15)

Urban Hymns - The Verve

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space - Spiritualized

Either Or - Elliott Smith

Life Thru A Lens - Robbie Williams

In It For The Money - Supergrass

Dig Me Out - Sleater-Kinney

Tellin’ Stories - The Charlatans

Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club

New Forms - Roni Size

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

OK Computer - Radiohead

Butterfly - Mariah Carey

A Short Album About Love - The Divine Comedy

Blur - Blur

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down - The Dandy Warhols

1996: 3.33 (9)

Being There - Wilco

Now I Got Worry - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

Logical Progression - LTJ Bukem

Oedipus Schmoedipus - Barry Adamson

Everything Must Go - Manic Street Preachers

Tidal - Fiona Apple

Murder Ballads - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Emperor Tomato Ketchup - Stereolab

If You're Feeling Sinister - Belle & Sebastian

2002: 3.33 (6)

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips

The Rising - Bruce Springsteen

Sunshine Hit Me - The Bees

Justified - Justin Timberlake

Sea Change - Beck

A Little Deeper - Ms. Dynamite

1958: 3.33 (3)

The Atomic Mr Basie - Count Basie & His Orchestra

Lady In Satin - Billie Holiday

Jack Takes the Floor - Ramblin' Jack Elliott

2008: 3.33 (3)

Dear Science - TV On The Radio

All Hope Is Gone - Slipknot

The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow

1999: 3.3 (10)

Ágætis Byrjun - Sigur Rós

Apple Venus Volume 1 - XTC

Kenza - Khaled

Beyond Skin - Nitin Sawhney

...Baby One More Time - Britney Spears

Central Reservation - Beth Orton

Play - Moby

Remedy - Basement Jaxx

Le Tigre - Le Tigre

69 Love Songs - The Magnetic Fields

1994: 3.27 (11)

Dummy - Portishead

The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers

Illmatic - Nas

Ill Communication - Beastie Boys

G. Love And Special Sauce - G. Love & Special Sauce

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

Parklife - Blur

Protection - Massive Attack

Smash - The Offspring

MTV Unplugged In New York - Nirvana

Teenager Of The Year - Frank Black

2003: 3.14 (7)

Boy In Da Corner - Dizzee Rascal

Feast of Wire - Calexico

So Much For The City - The Thrills

Hail To the Thief - Radiohead

Elephant - The White Stripes

Fever To Tell - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below - OutKast

1992: 3.13 (8)

Automatic For The People - R.E.M.

Dry - PJ Harvey

The Predator - Ice Cube

Slanted And Enchanted - Pavement

Selected Ambient Works 85-92 - Aphex Twin

Devotional Songs - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

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

Little Earthquakes - Tori Amos

1993: 3.13 (8)

In Utero - Nirvana

New Wave - The Auteurs

Strange Cargo III - William Orbit

Gentlemen - The Afghan Whigs

Modern Life Is Rubbish - Blur

Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby - Girls Against Boys

Wild Wood - Paul Weller

The Infotainment Scan - The Fall

2004: 3.07 (15)

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

American Idiot - Green Day

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine - Cee Lo Green

A Grand Don't Come For Free - The Streets

You Are The Quarry - Morrissey

Smile - Brian Wilson

The College Dropout - Kanye West

Hot Fuss - The Killers

Funeral - Arcade Fire

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned - Liars

Heroes to Zeros - The Beta Band

Penance Soiree - The Icarus Line

Want Two - Rufus Wainwright

Destroy Rock & Roll - Mylo

Fly Or Die - N.E.R.D

2001: 3 (6)

Hot Shots II - The Beta Band

White Blood Cells - The White Stripes

Gold - Ryan Adams

Is This It - The Strokes

Rings Around The World - Super Furry Animals

The Blueprint - JAY Z

2013: 3 (2)

The Bones Of What You Believe - CHVRCHES

m b v - My Bloody Valentine

2014: 3 (2)

Lost In The Dream - The War On Drugs

LP1 - FKA twigs

2009: 3 (1)

Bitte Orca - Dirty Projectors

2021: 3 (1)

Heaux Tales - Jazmine Sullivan