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1959: 4.2 (5 albums)

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs - Marty Robbins

The Genius Of Ray Charles - Ray Charles

The Gershwin Songbook - Ella Fitzgerald

Time Out - The Dave Brubeck Quartet

Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis

2010: 4 (8)

The ArchAndroid - Janelle Monáe

Queen Of Denmark - John Grant

Halcyon Digest - Deerhunter

The Suburbs - Arcade Fire

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West

Brothers - The Black Keys

Teen Dream - Beach House

High Violet - The National

2005: 4 (5)

Illinois - Sufjan Stevens

Coles Corner - Richard Hawley

I Am a Bird Now - Antony and the Johnsons

Arular - M.I.A.

Be - Common

2012: 4 (4)

Channel Orange - Frank Ocean

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

Blunderbuss - Jack White

Django Django - Django Django

1960: 4 (3)

At Newport 1960 - Muddy Waters

Elvis Is Back - Elvis Presley

Miriam Makeba - Miriam Makeba

1962: 4 (3)

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music - Ray Charles

Jazz Samba - Stan Getz

Green Onions - Booker T. & The MG's

2014: 4 (3)

1989 - Taylor Swift

Lost In The Dream - The War On Drugs

LP1 - FKA twigs

2015: 4 (3)

To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar

Music in Exile - Songhoy Blues

Vulnicura - Björk

2016: 4 (3)

Blackstar - David Bowie

A Seat at the Table - Solange

Konnichiwa - Skepta

2018: 4 (2)

Golden Hour - Kacey Musgraves

Microshift - Hookworms

1955: 4 (1)

In The Wee Small Hours - Frank Sinatra

2021: 4 (1)

Chemtrails Over The Country Club - Lana Del Rey

1969: 3.9 (31)

Cloud Nine - The Temptations

Oar - Alexander 'Skip' Spence

Songs From A Room - Leonard Cohen

Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones

Scott 4 - Scott Walker

Hot Rats - Frank Zappa

Stand! - Sly & The Family Stone

The Stooges - The Stooges

Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin

Liege And Lief - Fairport Convention

Odessa - Bee Gees

Live / Dead - Grateful Dead

From Elvis In Memphis - Elvis Presley

At San Quentin - Johnny Cash

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

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground

Bayou Country - Creedence Clearwater Revival

The Gilded Palace Of Sin - The Flying Burrito Brothers

Basket of Light - Pentangle

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Chicago Transit Authority - Chicago

Dusty In Memphis - Dusty Springfield

Happy Sad - Tim Buckley

Abbey Road - Beatles

In A Silent Way - Miles Davis

Green River - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Tommy - The Who

Elephant Mountain - The Youngbloods

The Band - The Band

Hot Buttered Soul - Isaac Hayes

1971: 3.88 (32)

Fragile - Yes

Songs Of Love And Hate - Leonard Cohen

Shaft - Isaac Hayes

Live! - Fela Kuti

Maggot Brain - Funkadelic

Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones

Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin

Madman Across The Water - Elton John

Tapestry - Carole King

Blue - Joni Mitchell

Electric Warrior - T. Rex

If I Could Only Remember My Name - David Crosby

American Pie - Don McLean

At Fillmore East - The Allman Brothers Band

Every Picture Tells A Story - Rod Stewart

Coat Of Many Colors - Dolly Parton

Pearl - Janis Joplin

What's Going On - Marvin Gaye

Nilsson Schmilsson - Harry Nilsson

Histoire De Melody Nelson - Serge Gainsbourg

Trafalgar - Bee Gees

White Light - Gene Clark

L.A. Woman - The Doors

Tago Mago - Can

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse - Faces

Pictures At An Exhibition - Emerson, Lake & Palmer

John Prine - John Prine

Teenage Head - Flamin' Groovies

Aqualung - Jethro Tull

Surf's Up - The Beach Boys

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

Who's Next - The Who

1967: 3.88 (26)

Axis: Bold As Love - Jimi Hendrix

Surrealistic Pillow - Jefferson Airplane

Call of the Valley - Shivkumar Sharma

Electric Prunes - The Electric Prunes

Headquarters - The Monkees

Younger Than Yesterday - The Byrds

The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground

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

The Who Sell Out - The Who

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Beatles

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim - Frank Sinatra

Forever Changes - Love

Groovin' - The Young Rascals

Something Else By The Kinks - The Kinks

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn - Pink Floyd

Chelsea Girl - Nico

Moby Grape - Moby Grape

The Doors - The Doors

Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix

Buffalo Springfield Again - Buffalo Springfield

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive - Merle Haggard

Safe As Milk - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

Songs Of Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen

Beach Samba - Astrud Gilberto

Disraeli Gears - Cream

Goodbye And Hello - Tim Buckley

1970: 3.88 (24)

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Deja Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Sweet Baby James - James Taylor

All Things Must Pass - George Harrison

Bitches Brew - Miles Davis

Paranoid - Black Sabbath

Led Zeppelin III - Led Zeppelin

The Madcap Laughs - Syd Barrett

Abraxas - Santana

Deep Purple In Rock - Deep Purple

Tea for the Tillerman - Cat Stevens

After The Gold Rush - Neil Young

John Barleycorn Must Die - Traffic

Live At Leeds - The Who

Gasoline Alley - Rod Stewart

Close To You - Carpenters

Third - Soft Machine

Moondance - Van Morrison

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs - Derek & The Dominos

Stephen Stills - Stephen Stills

Fun House - The Stooges

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon

Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel

American Beauty - Grateful Dead

1965: 3.88 (8)

Live At The Regal - B.B. King

The Beach Boys Today! - The Beach Boys

Here Are the Sonics - The Sonics

Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan

Bringing It All Back Home - Bob Dylan

A Love Supreme - John Coltrane

Bert Jansch - Bert Jansch

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul - Otis Redding

1968: 3.86 (21)

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession - Laura Nyro

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly

Music From Big Pink - The Band

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo - The Byrds

The Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks

The Notorious Byrd Brothers - The Byrds

Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix

At Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash

Truth - Jeff Beck

S.F. Sorrow - The Pretty Things

Astral Weeks - Van Morrison

Odessey And Oracle - The Zombies

Traffic - Traffic

Scott 2 - Scott Walker

Bookends - Simon & Garfunkel

Caetano Veloso - Caetano Veloso

Lady Soul - Aretha Franklin

Cheap Thrills - Big Brother & The Holding Company

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake - Small Faces

Vincebus Eruptum - Blue Cheer

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

1964: 3.86 (7)

A Hard Day's Night - Beatles

Rock 'N Soul - Solomon Burke

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg - Jerry Lee Lewis

A Girl Called Dusty - Dusty Springfield

Olympia 64 - Jacques Brel

Getz/Gilberto - Stan Getz

The Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones

2002: 3.8 (10)

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips

A Rush Of Blood To The Head - Coldplay

The Rising - Bruce Springsteen

Sunshine Hit Me - The Bees

Sea Change - Beck

Come Away With Me - Norah Jones

The Last Broadcast - Doves

A Little Deeper - Ms. Dynamite

Phrenology - The Roots

Stripped - Christina Aguilera

2017: 3.8 (5)

Take Me Apart - Kelela

american dream - LCD Soundsystem

Melodrama - Lorde

Modern Kosmology - Jane Weaver

Ctrl - SZA

1972: 3.78 (23)

Vol. 4 - Black Sabbath

Pink Moon - Nick Drake

Paul Simon - Paul Simon

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

Will The Circle Be Unbroken - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Exile On Main Street - The Rolling Stones

Clube Da Esquina - Milton Nascimento

Something/Anything? - Todd Rundgren

The World is a Ghetto - War

Superfly - Curtis Mayfield

Can't Buy A Thrill - Steely Dan

Home Is Where The Music Is - Hugh Masekela

Harvest - Neil Young

Sail Away - Randy Newman

School's Out - Alice Cooper

Transformer - Lou Reed

Slayed? - Slade

The Slider - T. Rex

All Directions - The Temptations

Greetings From L.A. - Tim Buckley

American Gothic - David Ackles

Manassas - Stephen Stills

Talking Book - Stevie Wonder

1997: 3.78 (23)

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

Supa Dupa Fly - Missy Elliott

Maverick A Strike - Finley Quaye

Time Out Of Mind - Bob Dylan

Butterfly - Mariah Carey

Homework - Daft Punk

The Fat Of The Land - The Prodigy

Urban Hymns - The Verve

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space - Spiritualized

New Forms - Roni Size

Tellin’ Stories - The Charlatans

Life Thru A Lens - Robbie Williams

Let's Get Killed - David Holmes

Vanishing Point - Primal Scream

Dig Me Out - Sleater-Kinney

OK Computer - Radiohead

In It For The Money - Supergrass

Shleep - Robert Wyatt

A Short Album About Love - The Divine Comedy

Blur - Blur

Either Or - Elliott Smith

Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club

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

1956: 3.75 (4)

Songs For Swingin' Lovers! - Frank Sinatra

The Wildest! - Louis Prima

Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley

Tragic Songs of Life - The Louvin Brothers

1973: 3.73 (26)

Countdown To Ecstasy - Steely Dan

Tres Hombres - ZZ Top

For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music

Catch A Fire - Bob Marley & The Wailers

Selling England By The Pound - Genesis

Raw Power - The Stooges

Aladdin Sane - David Bowie

The Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd

3 + 3 - The Isley Brothers

Larks' Tongues In Aspic - King Crimson

Bongo Rock - Incredible Bongo Band

A Wizard, A True Star - Todd Rundgren

Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield

Head Hunters - Herbie Hancock

Mott - Mott The Hoople

Band On The Run - Paul McCartney and Wings

Solid Air - John Martyn

Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper

Future Days - Can

New York Dolls - New York Dolls

Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye

Space Ritual - Hawkwind

Next - The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

Honky Tonk Heroes - Waylon Jennings

Berlin - Lou Reed

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John

1966: 3.73 (15)

Bluesbreakers - John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

Blonde On Blonde - Bob Dylan

Face to Face - The Kinks

Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys

Fifth Dimension - The Byrds

Sunshine Superman - Donovan

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

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

Freak Out! - The Mothers Of Invention

Fred Neil - Fred Neil

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme - Simon & Garfunkel

Midnight Ride - Paul Revere & The Raiders

Aftermath - The Rolling Stones

Wild Is The Wind - Nina Simone

Black Monk Time - The Monks

1985: 3.73 (11)

Psychocandy - The Jesus And Mary Chain

Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits

Hounds Of Love - Kate Bush

Hunting High And Low - a-ha

Low-Life - New Order

Songs From The Big Chair - Tears For Fears

This Nation’s Saving Grace - The Fall

Meat Is Murder - The Smiths

Steve McQueen - Prefab Sprout

Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega

Rum Sodomy & The Lash - The Pogues

1975: 3.68 (19)

A Night At The Opera - Queen

Go Girl Crazy - The Dictators

Young Americans - David Bowie

The Köln Concert - Keith Jarrett

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin

There's No Place Like America Today - Curtis Mayfield

Another Green World - Brian Eno

Marcus Garvey - Burning Spear

Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen

Red Headed Stranger - Willie Nelson

Mothership Connection - Parliament

Toys In The Attic - Aerosmith

Nighthawks At The Diner - Tom Waits

Pieces Of The Sky - Emmylou Harris

Born To Be With You - Dion

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns - Joni Mitchell

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

Horses - Patti Smith

2006: 3.67 (6)

Back To Black - Amy Winehouse

Fishscale - Ghostface Killah

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

Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor - Lupe Fiasco

Back to Basics - Christina Aguilera

Savane - Ali Farka Touré

2008: 3.67 (6)

Seventh Tree - Goldfrapp

The Renaissance - Q-Tip

Third - Portishead

Only By The Night - Kings of Leon

All Hope Is Gone - Slipknot

Dear Science - TV On The Radio

2013: 3.67 (3)

m b v - My Bloody Valentine

Yeezus - Kanye West

BEYONCÉ - Beyoncé

2019: 3.67 (3)

KIWANUKA - Michael Kiwanuka

GREY Area - Little Simz

Ghosteen - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

1993: 3.61 (18)

Orbital 2 - Orbital

New Wave - The Auteurs

Emergency On Planet Earth - Jamiroquai

In Utero - Nirvana

Whatever - Aimee Mann

Doggystyle - Snoop Dogg

The Infotainment Scan - The Fall

Suede - Suede

Strange Cargo III - William Orbit

Modern Life Is Rubbish - Blur

Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby - Girls Against Boys

Debut - Björk

Giant Steps - The Boo Radleys

Wild Wood - Paul Weller

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

Siamese Dream - The Smashing Pumpkins

Rid Of Me - PJ Harvey

Exile In Guyville - Liz Phair

2003: 3.6 (10)

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below - OutKast

Elephant - The White Stripes

Permission to Land - The Darkness

So Much For The City - The Thrills

Frank - Amy Winehouse

Hail To the Thief - Radiohead

Wonderful Rainbow - Lightning Bolt

Boy In Da Corner - Dizzee Rascal

Feast of Wire - Calexico

Get Rich Or Die Tryin' - 50 Cent

1974: 3.59 (22)

Court And Spark - Joni Mitchell

Queen II - Queen

461 Ocean Boulevard - Eric Clapton

Sheer Heart Attack - Queen

Fulfillingness' First Finale - Stevie Wonder

Natty Dread - Bob Marley & The Wailers

Bad Company - Bad Company

Country Life - Roxy Music

Pretzel Logic - Steely Dan

Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt

The Grand Tour - George Jones

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight - Richard Thompson

Crime Of The Century - Supertramp

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - Genesis

No Other - Gene Clark

Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons

It's Too Late to Stop Now - Van Morrison

Autobahn - Kraftwerk

Kimono My House - Sparks

Sheet Music - 10cc

On The Beach - Neil Young

Inspiration Information - Shuggie Otis

1977: 3.58 (24)

Low - David Bowie

Heavy Weather - Weather Report

Rattus Norvegicus - The Stranglers

Before And After Science - Brian Eno

Out Of The Blue - Electric Light Orchestra

The Idiot - Iggy Pop

Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel

Aja - Steely Dan

The Clash - The Clash

Suicide - Suicide

My Aim Is True - Elvis Costello

Pink Flag - Wire

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

The Stranger - Billy Joel

Exodus - Bob Marley & The Wailers

Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf

Marquee Moon - Television

One World - John Martyn

Pacific Ocean Blue - Dennis Wilson

Trans Europe Express - Kraftwerk

Heroes - David Bowie

Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

Hard Again - Muddy Waters

New Boots And Panties - Ian Dury

1996: 3.58 (24)

Tigermilk - Belle & Sebastian

The Score - Fugees

Casanova - The Divine Comedy

If You're Feeling Sinister - Belle & Sebastian

Tidal - Fiona Apple

Millions Now Living Will Never Die - Tortoise

Murder Ballads - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Roots - Sepultura

Beautiful Freak - Eels

First Band On The Moon - The Cardigans

Come Find Yourself - Fun Lovin' Criminals

Everything Must Go - Manic Street Preachers

1977 - Ash

Second Toughest In The Infants - Underworld

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite - Maxwell

Odelay - Beck

Walking Wounded - Everything But The Girl

Oedipus Schmoedipus - Barry Adamson

Being There - Wilco

Logical Progression - LTJ Bukem

Now I Got Worry - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

Fuzzy Logic - Super Furry Animals

Antichrist Superstar - Marilyn Manson

Dust - Screaming Trees

1994: 3.58 (19)

Ill Communication - Beastie Boys

MTV Unplugged In New York - Nirvana

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

Smash - The Offspring

The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers

Parklife - Blur

Definitely Maybe - Oasis

Brutal Youth - Elvis Costello

Crazysexycool - TLC

Dummy - Portishead

The Sun Rises In The East - Jeru The Damaja

Dookie - Green Day

Teenager Of The Year - Frank Black

Snivilisation - Orbital

Talking Timbuktu - Ali Farka Touré

Illmatic - Nas

Music For The Jilted Generation - The Prodigy

Haunted Dancehall - The Sabres Of Paradise

Tical - Method Man

2001: 3.58 (12)

Time (The Revelator) - Gillian Welch

Gorillaz - Gorillaz

Melody A.M. - Röyksopp

Survivor - Destiny's Child

Hot Shots II - The Beta Band

Amnesiac - Radiohead

The Blueprint - JAY Z

Is This It - The Strokes

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco

La Revancha Del Tango - Gotan Project

Your New Favourite Band - The Hives

Southern Rock Opera - Drive-By Truckers

1957: 3.57 (7)

Here's Little Richard - Little Richard

Birth Of The Cool - Miles Davis

Chirping Crickets - Buddy Holly & The Crickets

Brilliant Corners - Thelonious Monk

Kenya - Machito

The Sounds Of India - Ravi Shankar

This Is Fats Domino - Fats Domino

2007: 3.57 (7)

Cross - Justice

Sound of Silver - LCD Soundsystem

Neon Bible - Arcade Fire

Oracular Spectacular - MGMT

Myths Of The Near Future - Klaxons

In Rainbows - Radiohead

Kala - M.I.A.

2009: 3.57 (7)

Veckatimest - Grizzly Bear

Two Dancers - Wild Beasts

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle - Bill Callahan

Bitte Orca - Dirty Projectors

Fever Ray - Fever Ray

It's Blitz! - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

xx - The xx

1992: 3.54 (13)

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde - The Pharcyde

Dry - PJ Harvey

Copper Blue - Sugar

Selected Ambient Works 85-92 - Aphex Twin

Automatic For The People - R.E.M.

Dirt - Alice In Chains

It's A Shame About Ray - The Lemonheads

Connected - Stereo MC's

The Predator - Ice Cube

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

Bone Machine - Tom Waits

Ingenue - k.d. lang

Lazer Guided Melodies - Spiritualized

1976: 3.53 (17)

Hejira - Joni Mitchell

Frampton Comes Alive - Peter Frampton

The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers

2112 - Rush

Station To Station - David Bowie

Songs In The Key Of Life - Stevie Wonder

Music From The Penguin Cafe - Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Joan Armatrading - Joan Armatrading

Arrival - ABBA

Rocks - Aerosmith

Boston - Boston

Ramones - Ramones

Legalize It - Peter Tosh

Destroyer - KISS

Oxygène - Jean-Michel Jarre

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Hotel California - Eagles

1995: 3.53 (17)

Different Class - Pulp

Leftism - Leftfield

Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette

The Bends - Radiohead

Alien Lanes - Guided By Voices

(What's The Story) Morning Glory - Oasis

Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx - Raekwon

Femi Kuti - Femi Kuti

Maxinquaye - Tricky

A Northern Soul - The Verve

Timeless - Goldie

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - The Smashing Pumpkins

Me Against The World - 2Pac

Liquid Swords - GZA

Scream, Dracula, Scream - Rocket From The Crypt

Exit Planet Dust - The Chemical Brothers

1978: 3.52 (27)

This Year's Model - Elvis Costello & The Attractions

C'est Chic - CHIC

Darkness on the Edge of Town - Bruce Springsteen

Live And Dangerous - Thin Lizzy

Parallel Lines - Blondie

One Nation Under A Groove - Funkadelic

Another Music In A Different Kitchen - Buzzcocks

Dire Straits - Dire Straits

Third/Sister Lovers - Big Star

The Man Machine - Kraftwerk

All Mod Cons - The Jam

Shalimar - Rahul Dev Burman

Van Halen - Van Halen

The Scream - Siouxsie And The Banshees

Germfree Adolescents - X-Ray Spex

Here, My Dear - Marvin Gaye

Real Life - Magazine

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

The Cars - The Cars

The Only Ones - The Only Ones

Dub Housing - Pere Ubu

Vento De Maio - Elis Regina

Honky Tonk Masquerade - Joe Ely

Siembra - Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle - Throbbing Gristle

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts - The Adverts

Eternally Yours - The Saints

2000: 3.5 (24)

The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem

Parachutes - Coldplay

Figure 8 - Elliott Smith

Stankonia - OutKast

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

Kid A - Radiohead

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast - Badly Drawn Boy

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water - Limp Bizkit

Chore of Enchantment - Giant Sand

Red Dirt Girl - Emmylou Harris

Nixon - Lambchop

Like Water For Chocolate - Common

Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park

Since I Left You - The Avalanches

Mama's Gun - Erykah Badu

Welcome to the Afterfuture - Mike Ladd

Our Aim Is To Satisfy - Red Snapper

All That You Can't Leave Behind - U2

Virgin Suicides - Air

Punishing Kiss - Ute Lemper

Heartbreaker - Ryan Adams

Sincere - Mj Cole

Felt Mountain - Goldfrapp

Music - Madonna

1991: 3.5 (18)

Woodface - Crowded House

Bandwagonesque - Teenage Fanclub

Blue Lines - Massive Attack

Achtung Baby - U2

Peggy Suicide - Julian Cope

The Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest

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

Arise - Sepultura

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo - MC Solaar

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge - Mudhoney

The White Room - The KLF

Metallica - Metallica

Ten - Pearl Jam

Loveless - My Bloody Valentine

Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill

Foxbase Alpha - Saint Etienne

Step In The Arena - Gang Starr

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black - Public Enemy

1998: 3.5 (14)

This Is Hardcore - Pulp

Deserter's Songs - Mercury Rev

Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age

Moon Safari - Air

Apocalypse Dudes - Turbonegro

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert) - Bob Dylan

White Ladder - David Gray

Clandestino - Manu Chao

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams

Devil Without A Cause - Kid Rock

Ray Of Light - Madonna

System Of A Down - System Of A Down

OK - Talvin Singh

Mermaid Avenue - Billy Bragg

1963: 3.5 (4)

Live At The Harlem Square Club - Sam Cooke

With The Beatles - Beatles

James Brown Live At The Apollo - James Brown

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector - Various Artists

1958: 3.5 (2)

The Atomic Mr Basie - Count Basie & His Orchestra

Jack Takes the Floor - Ramblin' Jack Elliott

2011: 3.5 (2)

Let England Shake - PJ Harvey

21 - Adele

2020: 3.5 (2)

Untitled (Black Is) - SAULT

Fetch The Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple

1986: 3.45 (22)

Atomizer - Big Black

Slippery When Wet - Bon Jovi

Reign In Blood - Slayer

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

The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths

Raising Hell - Run-D.M.C.

Infected - The The

So - Peter Gabriel

Master Of Puppets - Metallica

Licensed To Ill - Beastie Boys

Skylarking - XTC

Guitar Town - Steve Earle

The Colour Of Spring - Talk Talk

Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry - Billy Bragg

Water From An Ancient Well - Abdullah Ibrahim

Blood And Chocolate - Elvis Costello & The Attractions

Planet Rock: The Album - Afrika Bambaataa

Graceland - Paul Simon

I Against I - Bad Brains

The Last Of The True Believers - Nanci Griffith

Rapture - Anita Baker

2004: 3.45 (20)

Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand

Want Two - Rufus Wainwright

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

The College Dropout - Kanye West

Rejoicing In The Hands - Devendra Banhart

Street Signs - Ozomatli

Penance Soiree - The Icarus Line

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes - TV On The Radio

American Idiot - Green Day

Funeral - Arcade Fire

A Grand Don't Come For Free - The Streets

Heroes to Zeros - The Beta Band

Destroy Rock & Roll - Mylo

Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters

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

Medúlla - Björk

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

Smile - Brian Wilson

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned - Liars

The Libertines - The Libertines

1987: 3.42 (19)

Music for the Masses - Depeche Mode

Darklands - The Jesus And Mary Chain

The Joshua Tree - U2

Shaka Zulu - Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Among The Living - Anthrax

Actually - Pet Shop Boys

Appetite For Destruction - Guns N' Roses

Sister - Sonic Youth

Floodland - Sisters Of Mercy

Locust Abortion Technician - Butthole Surfers

Trio - Dolly Parton

The New Tango - Astor Piazzolla

Warehouse: Songs And Stories - Hüsker Dü

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

Scum - Napalm Death

Bad - Michael Jackson

Hysteria - Def Leppard

You're Living All Over Me - Dinosaur Jr.

Electric - The Cult

1988: 3.42 (19)

If I Should Fall From Grace With God - The Pogues

Idlewild - Everything But The Girl

...And Justice For All - Metallica

Viva Hate - Morrissey

Nothing's Shocking - Jane's Addiction

Green - R.E.M.

Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room - Dwight Yoakam

16 Lovers Lane - The Go-Betweens

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

Tank Battles - Dagmar Krause

Surfer Rosa - Pixies

Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A.

Superfuzz Bigmuff - Mudhoney

Vivid - Living Colour

Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman

Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys

Bug - Dinosaur Jr.

I'm Your Man - Leonard Cohen

1979: 3.4 (25)

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

We Are Family - Sister Sledge

London Calling - The Clash

GI - Germs

Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Live At The Witch Trials - The Fall

Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division

Entertainment - Gang Of Four

Risque - CHIC

The Specials - The Specials

Quiet Life - Japan

Pretenders - Pretenders

The Wall - Pink Floyd

Armed Forces - Elvis Costello & The Attractions

Reggatta De Blanc - The Police

The Undertones - The Undertones

At Budokan - Cheap Trick

The Pleasure Principle - Gary Numan

Off The Wall - Michael Jackson

Cut - The Slits

Street Life - The Crusaders

Fear Of Music - Talking Heads

Broken English - Marianne Faithfull

Movies - Holger Czukay

Tusk - Fleetwood Mac

1980: 3.37 (19)

Remain In Light - Talking Heads

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels - Dexys Midnight Runners

Crocodiles - Echo And The Bunnymen

Songs The Lord Taught Us - The Cramps

Underwater Moonlight - The Soft Boys

Kings Of The Wild Frontier - Adam & The Ants

Back In Black - AC/DC

Kilimanjaro - The Teardrop Explodes

Hypnotised - The Undertones

Seventeen Seconds - The Cure

Group Sex - Circle Jerks

Heartattack And Vine - Tom Waits

Killing Joke - Killing Joke

Arc Of A Diver - Steve Winwood

More Specials - The Specials

British Steel - Judas Priest

Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

Closer - Joy Division

Ace of Spades - Motörhead

1984: 3.36 (14)

Double Nickels On The Dime - Minutemen

Purple Rain - Prince

1984 - Van Halen

Welcome To The Pleasuredome - Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Diamond Life - Sade

Let It Be - The Replacements

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

Cafe Bleu - The Style Council

Meat Puppets II - Meat Puppets

Rattlesnakes - Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

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

A Walk Across The Rooftops - The Blue Nile

Immigrés - Youssou N'Dour

Ocean Rain - Echo And The Bunnymen

1989: 3.35 (20)

Pump - Aerosmith

Rhythm Nation 1814 - Janet Jackson

The Real Thing - Faith No More

Disintegration - The Cure

The Sensual World - Kate Bush

Moss Side Story - Barry Adamson

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

The Healer - John Lee Hooker

Club Classics Vol. One - Soul II Soul

Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys

Technique - New Order

Let Love Rule - Lenny Kravitz

Raw Like Sushi - Neneh Cherry

3 Feet High and Rising - De La Soul

L'Eau Rouge - The Young Gods

Playing With Fire - Spacemen 3

What's That Noise? - Coldcut

Nick Of Time - Bonnie Raitt

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

All Hail the Queen - Queen Latifah

1999: 3.35 (20)

The Slim Shady LP - Eminem

I See A Darkness - Bonnie "Prince" Billy

Le Tigre - Le Tigre

Beyond Skin - Nitin Sawhney

The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips

The Man Who - Travis

Kenza - Khaled

...Baby One More Time - Britney Spears

Central Reservation - Beth Orton

S&M - Metallica

Post Orgasmic Chill - Skunk Anansie

Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Hms Fable - Shack

Ágætis Byrjun - Sigur Rós

Apple Venus Volume 1 - XTC

Make Yourself - Incubus

The Contino Sessions - Death In Vegas

Darkdancer - Les Rythmes Digitales

Remedy - Basement Jaxx

69 Love Songs - The Magnetic Fields

1990: 3.35 (17)

Shake Your Money Maker - The Black Crowes

Behaviour - Pet Shop Boys

Bossanova - Pixies

Violator - Depeche Mode

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches - Happy Mondays

The La's - The La's

Fear Of A Black Planet - Public Enemy

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 - George Michael

World Clique - Deee-Lite

Repeater - Fugazi

Heaven Or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins

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

Goo - Sonic Youth

Mama Said Knock You Out - LL Cool J

En-Tact - The Shamen

Ragged Glory - Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Sex Packets - Digital Underground

1983: 3.33 (15)

Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes

She's So Unusual - Cyndi Lauper

Murmur - R.E.M.

Eliminator - ZZ Top

Soul Mining - The The

Swordfishtrombones - Tom Waits

Hearts And Bones - Paul Simon

Synchronicity - The Police

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) - Eurythmics

Colour By Numbers - Culture Club

Duck Rock - Malcolm McLaren

Back to Mystery City - Hanoi Rocks

Pyromania - Def Leppard

Porcupine - Echo And The Bunnymen

Out of Step - Minor Threat

1981: 3.31 (13)

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live) - Motörhead

Mask - Bauhaus

Fire Of Love - The Gun Club

Moving Pictures - Rush

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret - Soft Cell

Beauty And The Beat - The Go-Go's

The Poet - Bobby Womack

Juju - Siouxsie And The Banshees

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts - Brian Eno

Dare! - The Human League

Kollaps - Einstürzende Neubauten

Talk Talk Talk - The Psychedelic Furs

Tom Tom Club - Tom Tom Club

1982: 3.11 (18)

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

Thriller - Michael Jackson

1999 - Prince

The Rise & Fall - Madness

The Dreaming - Kate Bush

The Nightfly - Donald Fagen

The Lexicon Of Love - ABC

The Message - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

Rio - Duran Duran

Black Metal - Venom

Pelican West - Haircut 100

Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen

Imperial Bedroom - Elvis Costello & The Attractions

The Number Of The Beast - Iron Maiden

Pornography - The Cure

Too Rye Ay - Dexys Midnight Runners

Rip It Up - Orange Juice

Sulk - The Associates