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1960s

Rank Title Artist
1. The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground and Nico
2. Abbey Road The Beatles
3. In the Court of the Crimson King King Crimson
4. Revolver The Beatles
5. Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan
6. Pet Sounds The Beach Boys
7. A Love Supreme John Coltrane
8. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band The Beatles
9. The Doors The Doors
10. The Beatles The Beatles
11. Blonde on Blonde Bob Dylan
12. The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady Charles Mingus
13. Are You Experienced
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
14. Rubber Soul The Beatles
15. Bringing It All Back Home Bob Dylan
16. Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin
17. Led Zeppelin II Led Zeppelin
18. Electric Ladyland
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
19. Songs of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen
20. The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground
21. In a Silent Way Miles Davis
22. Forever Changes Love
23. Odessey and Oracle The Zombies
24. Magical Mystery Tour The Beatles
25. Five Leaves Left Nick Drake
26. White Light/White Heat The Velvet Underground
27. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young and Crazy Horse
28. The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society The Kinks
29. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn Pink Floyd
30. Hot Rats Frank Zappa
31. Let It Bleed The Rolling Stones
32. Beggars Banquet The Rolling Stones
33. Astral Weeks Van Morrison
34. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Bob Dylan
35. Giant Steps John Coltrane
36. My Favorite Things John Coltrane
37. Axis: Bold as Love
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
38. 9 Symphonien Herbert von Karajan / [[Berliner Philharmoniker
39. Out to Lunch Eric Dolphy
40.
Otis Blue
Otis Redding
41. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Ennio Morricone
42. Strange Days The Doors
43. Blues & Roots Charles Mingus
44. Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) The Kinks
45. Karma Pharoah Sanders
46. Safe as Milk
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
47.
Something Else by The Kinks
The Kinks
48. The Nocturnes Arthur Rubinstein
49. Once Upon a Time in the West Ennio Morricone
50. The Band The Band

1970s

Rank Title Artist
1. Low David Bowie
2. London Calling The Clash
3. Marquee Moon Television
4. There's a Riot Goin' On Sly and the Family Stone
5. Blood on the Tracks Bob Dylan
6. Trans-Europe Express Kraftwerk
7. Led Zeppelin IV Led Zeppelin
8. Entertainment! Gang of Four
9. Unknown Pleasures Joy Division
10. Another Green World Brian Eno
11. Exile on Main St. The Rolling Stones
12. Fun House The Stooges
13. Pink Moon Nick Drake
14. Loaded The Velvet Underground
15. Who's Next The Who
16. Singles Going Steady Buzzcocks
17. Maggot Brain Funkadelic
18. Bitches Brew Miles Davis
19. Ege Bamyasi Can
20. Electric Warrior T. Rex
21. Histoire de Melody Nelson Serge Gainsbourg
22. Pink Flag Wire
23. Ramones Ramones
24. Here Come the Warm Jets Brian Eno
25. Neu! Neu!
26. Innervisions Stevie Wonder
27. Led Zeppelin III Led Zeppelin
28. Let It Be The Beatles
29. Tago Mago Can
30. On the Corner Miles Davis
31.
Fear of Music
Talking Heads
32. The Wall Pink Floyd
33. Chairs Missing Wire
34. Saturday Night Fever Various Artists
35. Y The Pop Group
36. Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd
37. My Aim Is True Elvis Costello
38. Drums and Wires XTC
39. Suicide Suicide
40. The Modern Lovers The Modern Lovers
41. Rumours Fleetwood Mac
42. The Specials The Specials
43.
Off the Wall
Michael Jackson
44. The Clash The Clash
45. More Songs About Buildings and Food Talking Heads
46. Heart of the Congos The Congos
47. Call Me Al Green
48. Live-Evil Miles Davis
49.
What's Going On
Marvin Gaye
50. Starsailor Tim Buckley

1980s

Rank Title Artist # A Length
1. Daydream Nation Sonic Youth 5 _ 70:47
2. Remain in Light Talking Heads 4 _ 39:48
3. Paul's Boutique Beastie Boys 2 _ 53:11
4. Doolittle
Pixies
2 _ 40:03
5. Murmur R.E.M. 1 _ 44:01
6. The Queen Is Dead The Smiths 3 _ 36:47
7. Surfer Rosa
Pixies
1 _ 32:42
8. Rain Dogs Tom Waits 8 _ 53:46
9. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Public Enemy
2 _ 57:51
10. Closer Joy Division 2 _ 43:59
11. Swordfishtrombones Tom Waits 7 _ 40:31
12. Purple Rain Prince and The Revolution 6 _ 43:50
13. This Nation's Saving Grace The Fall 9 _ 65:45
14. Sister Sonic Youth 4 _ 41:27
15. Skylarking XTC 9 _ 46:50
16. On Fire Galaxie 500 2 _ 51:32
17. Double Nickels on the Dime Minutemen 3 _ 63:35
18. 3 Feet High and Rising De La Soul 1 _ 65:59
19. Second Edition
PiL
2 _ 60:31
20. Deceit This Heat 2 _ 36:42
21. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts Brian Eno and David Byrne / _ 39:40
22. Isn't Anything My Bloody Valentine 1 _ 37:48
23. Psychocandy The Jesus and Mary Chain 1 _ 38:55
24. Solid Gold Gang of Four 2 _ 38:43
25. Damaged Black Flag 1 _ 34:35
26. Get Happy!! Elvis Costello and The Attractions 4 _ 48:09
27.
Thriller
Michael Jackson 6 _ 42:19
28. Power, Corruption & Lies New Order 2 _ 57:14
29. Let It Be The Replacements 3 _ 32:56
30. The Joshua Tree U2 5 _ 50:11
31. EVOL Sonic Youth 3 _ 38:40
32. Zen Arcade Hüsker Dü 2 _ 70:23
33. Hex Enduction Hour The Fall 4 _ 60:01
34. Spirit of Eden Talk Talk 4 _ 40:52
35. Straight Outta Compton N.W.A 1 _ 60:27
36. Violent Femmes Violent Femmes 1 _ 43:21
37. Tim The Replacements 4 _ 36:29
38. Disintegration The Cure 8 _ 72:12
39. The Stone Roses The Stone Roses 1 _ 61:16
40. You're Living All Over Me Dinosaur Jr. 2 _ 41:17
41. Licensed to Ill Beastie Boys 1 _ 44:24
42. The Trinity Session Cowboy Junkies 2 _ 52:36
43. Raising Hell
Run–D.M.C.
3 _ 56:29
44. Computer World Kraftwerk 8 _ 34:35
45.
Sign "☮" the Times
Prince 9 _ 79:58
46. English Settlement XTC 5 _ 71:27
47. Naked City John Zorn 8 _ 53:30
48. Document R.E.M. 5 _ 39:34
49. Vs. Mission of Burma 1 _ 53:18
50. The Perfect Prescription Spacemen 3 2 _ 67:08

1990s

Rank Title Artist # A Length
1. OK Computer Radiohead 3 _ 53:21
2. Loveless My Bloody Valentine 2 _ 48:33
3. The Soft Bulletin The Flaming Lips 9 _ 58:26
4. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Neutral Milk Hotel 2 _ 39:51
5. Slanted and Enchanted Pavement 1 _ 38:41
6. Nevermind Nirvana 2 _ 42:38
7. Endtroducing..... DJ Shadow 1 _ 63:27
8. Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain Pavement 2 _ 42:16
9. I See a Darkness Bonnie "Prince" Billy 6 _ 37:53
10. Bee Thousand Guided by Voices 7 _ 36:38
11.
Laughing Stock
Talk Talk 5 _ 43:20
12. Spiderland Slint 2 _ 39:31
13.
In Utero
Nirvana 3 _ 41:23
14. If You're Feeling Sinister
Belle & Sebastian
2 _ 41:17
15. The Bends Radiohead 2 _ 48:33
16. Emergency & I The Dismemberment Plan 3 _ 45:07
17. Fear of a Black Planet
Public Enemy
3 _ 57:52
18. Siamese Dream The Smashing Pumpkins 2 _ 62:17
19. Odelay Beck 5 _ 51:28
20. Post Björk 3 _ 46:17
21. Homogenic Björk 4 _ 43:32
22. Perfect from Now On Built to Spill 3 _ 54:13
23.
The Three EPs
The Beta Band 1 _ 68:12
24. There's Nothing Wrong with Love Built to Spill 2 _ 46:48
25. I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One Yo La Tengo 8 _ 68:18
26.
Weezer
Weezer 1 _ 39:25
27. Alien Lanes Guided by Voices 8 _ 41:15
28.
Bossanova
Pixies
3 _ 39:45
29. The Lonesome Crowded West Modest Mouse 2 _ 73:50
30. Exile in Guyville Liz Phair 1 _ 55:51
31. Summerteeth Wilco 3 _ 52:50
32. Ready to Die The Notorious B.I.G. 1 _ 68:58
33. Illmatic Nas 1 _ 39:51
34. Check Your Head Beastie Boys 3 _ 53:44
35. Music Has the Right to Children Boards of Canada 1 _ 70:54
36. Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Wu-Tang Clan 1 _ 61:31
37. 69 Love Songs The Magnetic Fields 6 _ 172:03
38. Goat The Jesus Lizard 2 _ 30:28
39.
Dusk at Cubist Castle
Olivia Tremor Control
1 _ 73:56
40. Richard D. James Album Aphex Twin 4 _ 43:20
41. Painful Yo La Tengo 6 _ 48:36
42. Red Medicine Fugazi 4 _ 43:41
43. Automatic for the People R.E.M. 8 _ 48:25
44. Super æ Boredoms 5 _ 68:26
45. F♯ A♯ ∞ Godspeed You! Black Emperor 1 _ 63:27
46. Moon Safari Air 1 _ 43:33
47. 94 Diskont
Oval
3 _ 50:56
48. Dummy Portishead 1 _ 48:45
49. Bone Machine Tom Waits 10 _ 53:30
50. Aquemini
OutKast
3 _ 74:47

2000s

Rank Title Artist # A
1. Kid A Radiohead 4 _
2. Funeral Arcade Fire 1 _
3. Discovery Daft Punk 2 _
4. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco 4 _
5. The Blueprint Jay-Z 6 _
6. The Moon & Antarctica Modest Mouse 3 _
7. Is This It The Strokes 1 _
8. Ágætis byrjun Sigur Rós 2 _
9. Person Pitch Panda Bear 3 _
10. Since I Left You The Avalanches 1 _
11. Supreme Clientele Ghostface Killah 2 _
12. White Blood Cells The White Stripes 3 _
13. Stankonia
OutKast
4 _
14. Merriweather Post Pavilion Animal Collective 8 _
15. Silent Shout The Knife 3 _
16. Illinois Sufjan Stevens 5 _
17. Sound of Silver LCD Soundsystem 2 _
18. Late Registration Kanye West 2 _
19. Kill the Moonlight Spoon 4 _
20.
Turn on the Bright Lights
Interpol 1 _
21. In Rainbows Radiohead 7 _
22. Kala M.I.A. 2 _
23. You Forgot It in People Broken Social Scene 2 _
24. Fever to Tell Yeah Yeah Yeahs 1 _
25. Madvillainy Madvillain 1 _
26.
Endless Summer
Fennesz 3 _
27. Sung Tongs Animal Collective 5 _
28. The College Dropout Kanye West 1 _
29. For Emma, Forever Ago Bon Iver 1 _
30. Geogaddi Boards of Canada 2 _
31. Return to Cookie Mountain TV on the Radio 2 _
32. Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes 1 _
33. Rooty Basement Jaxx 2 _
34. Amnesiac Radiohead 5 _
35. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Spoon 6 _
36. Original Pirate Material The Streets 1 _
37. And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out Yo La Tengo 9 _
38. It's Never Been Like That Phoenix 3 _
39. Vision Creation Newsun Boredoms 6 _
40. Alligator The National 3 _
41. Untrue Burial 2 _
42. Veckatimest Grizzly Bear 3 _
43. Vocalcity
Luomo
1 _
44. Voodoo D'Angelo 2 _
45. The Argument Fugazi 6 _
46. Chutes Too Narrow The Shins 2 _
47. The Milk-Eyed Mender Joanna Newsom 1 _
48. Separation Sunday The Hold Steady 2 _
49. I Am a Bird Now
Antony & the Johnsons
2 _
50. Microcastle Deerhunter 3 _
51. Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend 1 _
52. Hell Hath No Fury Clipse 2 _
53. Internal Wrangler Clinic 1 _
54. Arular M.I.A. 1 _
55. Feels Animal Collective [ _]
56. Bitte Orca Dirty Projectors [ _]
57. Echoes The Rapture [ _]
58. From Here We Go Sublime The Field [ _]
59. Hearts of Oak Ted Leo and the Pharmacists [ _]
60. Guitar Romantic The Exploding Hearts [ _]
61. In Ghost Colours Cut Copy [ _]
62. Boy in da Corner Dizzee Rascal [ _]
63. Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? of Montreal [ _]
64. Boys and Girls in America The Hold Steady [ _]
65. Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven Godspeed You! Black Emperor [ _]
66. Donuts J Dilla [ _]
67. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots The Flaming Lips [ _]
68. Robyn Robyn [ _]
69. Drum's Not Dead Liars [ _]
70. Michigan Sufjan Stevens [ _]
71. Third Portishead [ _]
72. One Beat Sleater-Kinney [ _]
73.
The Glow, Pt. 2
The Microphones [ _]
74. Elephant The White Stripes [ _]
75. Fishscale Ghostface Killah [ _]
76. Last Exit Junior Boys [ _]
77. Miss E... So Addictive Missy Elliott [ _]
78. Nouns No Age [ _]
79. FutureSex/LoveSounds Justin Timberlake [ _]
80. Suburban Light The Clientele [ _]

2003

2004

Rank Title Artist
1. Funeral Arcade Fire
2. Sung Tongs Animal Collective
3. A Grand Don't Come for Free The Streets
4. Blueberry Boat The Fiery Furnaces
5.
SMiLE
Brian Wilson
6. Madvillainy Madvillain
7. Rejoicing in the Hands Devendra Banhart
8. Thunder, Lightning, Strike The Go! Team
9. The Pretty Toney Album Ghostface Killah
10. The Milk-Eyed Mender Joanna Newsom
11. Sonic Nurse Sonic Youth
12. Piracy Funds Terrorism M.I.A. and Diplo
13.
Ta Det Lugnt
Dungen
14. DJ-Kicks Erlend Øye
15. Anniemal
Annie

2005

Rank Title Artist
1. Illinois Sufjan Stevens
2. Late Registration Kanye West
3. Bang Bang Rock & Roll Art Brut
4. Arular M.I.A.
5. I Am a Bird Now
Antony and the Johnsons
6. The Runners Four Deerhoof
7. Feels Animal Collective
8. LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem
9. Purple Haze Cam'ron
10. Apologies to the Queen Mary Wolf Parade
11. We Are Monster
Isolee
12. Twin Cinema The New Pornographers
13. Run the Road Vol. 1 Various Artists
14. OK Cowboy Vitalic
15. We Got It 4 Cheap Volume 2 Clipse

2006

Rank Title Artist
1. Silent Shout The Knife
2. Return to Cookie Mountain TV on the Radio
3. Ys Joanna Newsom
4. Fishscale Ghostface Killah
5. Boys and Girls in America The Hold Steady
6. Drum's Not Dead Liars
7. Hell Hath No Fury Clipse
8. Pink Boris
9. Yellow House Grizzly Bear
10. The Drift Scott Walker
11. So This Is Goodbye Junior Boys
12. Everything All the Time Band of Horses
13. It's Never Been Like That Phoenix
14. Harmony in Ultraviolet Tim Hecker
15. Shut Up I Am Dreaming Sunset Rubdown

2007

Rank Title Artist
1. Person Pitch Panda Bear
2. Sound of Silver LCD Soundsystem
3. Kala M.I.A.
4. In Rainbows Radiohead
5. Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? of Montreal
6. Strawberry Jam Animal Collective
7. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Spoon
8. Mirrored Battles
9. From Here We Go Sublime The Field
10. Untrue Burial
11. Night Falls Over Kortedala Jens Lekman
12. Weirdo Rippers No Age
13. American Gangster Jay-Z
14. Cryptograms Deerhunter
15. Justice

2008

Rank Title Artist
1. Fleet Foxes / Sun Giant Fleet Foxes
2. Third Portishead
3. Nouns No Age
4. In Ghost Colours Cut Copy
5. Microcastle / Weird Era Cont. Deerhunter
6. Dear Science TV on the Radio
7. Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend
8. Saturdays = Youth M83
9. Hercules and Love Affair Hercules and Love Affair
10. Uproot
DJ /rupture
11. Tha Carter III Lil Wayne
12. Where You Go I Go Too Lindstrøm
13. New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) Erykah Badu
14. No Way Down Air France
15.
Crystal Castles
Crystal Castles

2009

Rank Title Artist
1. Merriweather Post Pavilion Animal Collective
2. Bitte Orca Dirty Projectors
3. xx The xx
4. Embryonic The Flaming Lips
5. Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II Raekwon
6. Veckatimest Grizzly Bear
7. Two Suns Bat for Lashes
8. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Phoenix
9. Fever Ray
Fever Ray
10. Album Girls
11. Tarot Sport Fuck Buttons
12. It's Blitz! Yeah Yeah Yeahs
13. Actor St. Vincent
14. Psychic Chasms Neon Indian
15. Post-Nothing Japandroids

2010

Rank Title Artist
1. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West
2. This Is Happening LCD Soundsystem
3. Halcyon Digest Deerhunter
4. Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty Big Boi
5. Teen Dream Beach House
6. Contra Vampire Weekend
7. Have One on Me Joanna Newsom
8.
Klavierwerke
James Blake
9. Before Today
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
10. The Monitor Titus Andronicus
11.
The Suburbs
Arcade Fire
12. The ArchAndroid Janelle Monáe
13. Everything In Between No Age
14. Cosmogramma Flying Lotus
15. Body Talk Robyn

2011

Rank Title Artist
1.
Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Bon Iver
2. Kaputt Destroyer
3. Hurry Up, We're Dreaming M83
4. Let England Shake PJ Harvey
5. Father, Son, Holy Ghost Girls
6. Replica Oneohtrix Point Never
7.
w h o k i l l
tUnE-yArDs
8. Take Care
Drake
9. Days Real Estate
10. House of Balloons The Weeknd
11. Strange Mercy St. Vincent
12. James Blake James Blake
13. Past Life Martyred Saints EMA
14. Black Up Shabazz Palaces
15. Helplessness Blues Fleet Foxes

2012

Rank Title Artist
1.
good kid, m.A.A.d city
Kendrick Lamar
2.
channel ORANGE
Frank Ocean
3. The Idler Wheel... Fiona Apple
4. Lonerism Tame Impala
5. The Seer Swans
6. Visions Grimes
7. Bloom Beach House
8. Kill for Love Chromatics
9. The Money Store Death Grips
10. Shields
Grizzly Bear
11. Celebration Rock Japandroids
12. 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! Godspeed You! Black Emperor
13. R.A.P. Music Killer Mike
14. Luxury Problems Andy Stott
15. Swing Lo Magellan Dirty Projectors

2013

Rank Title Artist #
1. Modern Vampires of the City Vampire Weekend 3
2. Yeezus Kanye West 6
3. Settle Disclosure 1
4.
m b v
My Bloody Valentine 3
5. Old
Danny Brown
3
6. Sunbather Deafheaven 2
7. Random Access Memories Daft Punk 4
8. Impersonator Majical Cloudz 1
9. Silence Yourself Savages 1
10. Reflektor Arcade Fire 4
11. Psychic Darkside 1
12. Acid Rap Chance the Rapper 0
13. Wakin on a Pretty Daze Kurt Vile 5
14. Shaking the Habitual The Knife 4
15. Night Time, My Time Sky Ferreira 1
16. Dream River Bill Callahan
17. Days Are Gone HAIM
18. The Electric Lady Janelle Monáe
19. Doris Earl Sweatshirt
20. Jai Paul Jai Paul
21. Cupid Deluxe Blood Orange
22. Cerulean Salt Waxahatchee
23. Double Cup DJ Rashad
24. R Plus Seven Oneohtrix Point Never
25. Nothing Was the Same
Drake
26. Overgrown James Blake
27. The Worse Things Get... Neko Case
28. Run the Jewels Run the Jewels
29. Excavation The Haxan Cloak
30. Monomania Deerhunter
31. Anxiety Autre Ne Veut
32. Amygdala DJ Koze
33. Truant / Rough Sleeper Burial
34. Engravings Forest Swords
35. Muchacho
Phosphorescent
36. The Bones of What You Believe
CHVRCHES
37. Immunity Jon Hopkins
38. Tomorrow's Harvest Boards of Canada
39.
LONG.LIVE.A$AP
A$AP Rocky
40. Light Up Gold Parquet Courts
41. Love's Crushing Diamond Mutual Benefit
42. Woman Rhye
43. Trouble Will Find Me The National
44. The 20/20 Experience Justin Timberlake
45. Slow Focus Fuck Buttons
46. Matangi M.I.A.
47. Nonfiction The Range
48. Major Arcana Speedy Ortiz
49. Loud City Song Julia Holter
50. My Name Is My Name Pusha T


2014

Rank Title Artist
1. Run the Jewels 2 Run the Jewels
2.
LP1
FKA twigs
3. Lost in the Dream The War on Drugs
4. Syro Aphex Twin
5. Ruins Grouper
6. To Be Kind Swans
7. Benji Sun Kil Moon
8. It's Album Time Todd Terje
9.
pom pom
Ariel Pink
10. Our Love Caribou
11. Too Bright Perfume Genius
12. Salad Days Mac DeMarco
13. They Want My Soul Spoon
14. Atlas Real Estate
15. Burn Your Fire for No Witness Angel Olsen