150.

 Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska

SEPTEMBER 30, 1982

ROCK
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91
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149. John Prine - John Prine

JANUARY 1, 1971
COUNTRY
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100
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148. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange

JULY 17, 2012

ALTERNATIVE R&B
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91
38 reviews
When Ocean reins himself in, tucking his words and melodies into tighter verse-chorus
structures, the songs have startling force.
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147. Jeff Buckley - Grace

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SINGER-SONGWRITER
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92
8 reviews

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146. Blondie - Parallel Lines

SEPTEMBER 1, 1978
NEW WAVE
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93
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145. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP

MAY 23, 2000

HIP HOP
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81
9 reviews
The Marshall Mathers LP is a car-crash record: loud, wild, dangerous, out of control,
grotesque, unsettling. It's also impossible to pull your ears away from.
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144. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti

FEBRUARY 24, 1975
HARD ROCK
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92
5 reviews

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143. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground

MARCH 1, 1969
POP ROCK
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95
4 reviews

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142. Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.

JUNE 4, 1984
ROCK
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96
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141. Pixies - Doolittle

APRIL 18, 1989

ALTERNATIVE ROCK
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100
5 reviews
The album's breathtaking mix of noisy, almost surflike guitars, sweet pop melodies and primal-
scream-therapy vocals inspired a generation of would-be rock stars
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140. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Catch a Fire

APRIL 13, 1973

REGGAE
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95
2 reviews
With stalwart bassist Aston "Family Man" Barrett and drummer Carlton Barrett pumping out
incendiary "riddims" behind the Wailers' smoky harmonies, Catch a Fire is a blazing debut.
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139. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

SEPTEMBER 18, 1970

HEAVY METAL
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97
7 reviews

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138. Madonna - The Immaculate Collection

NOVEMBER 9, 1990
DANCE POP
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90
4 reviews
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137. Adele - 21

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

SOUL
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77
22 reviews

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136. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

JULY 1, 1971
FUNK ROCK
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94
5 reviews

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135. U2 - The Joshua Tree

MARCH 9, 1987
ROCK
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97
6 reviews

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134. Fugees - The Score

FEBRUARY 13, 1996
HIP HOP
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84
5 reviews

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133. Joni Mitchell - Hejira

NOVEMBER 1, 1976
SINGER-SONGWRITER
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73
3 reviews

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132. Hank Williams - 40 Greatest Hits

JANUARY 1, 1978
COUNTRY
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90
2 reviews

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131. Portishead - Dummy

OCTOBER 17, 1994

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92
8 reviews
Assertive rhythms and quirky production ... save Portishead from languishing in any coy retro
groove. Instead they manage yet another — very smart — rebirth of cool.
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130. Prince - 1999

OCTOBER 27, 1982

FUNK
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93
7 reviews
Just as Prince must face the contradiction of creating music that gracefully dissolves racial and
stylistic boundaries yet fits comfortably into no one's playlist, he must also decide whether he
can "dance my life away" when everybody has a bomb. All you need is love?
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129. Pink Floyd - The Wall

NOVEMBER 30, 1979

ART ROCK
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73
5 reviews
The Wall was the last croak of vintage Floyd.
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128. Queen - A Night At The Opera

NOVEMBER 21, 1975

HARD ROCK
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87
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127. Ray Charles - Modern Sounds in Country and

Western Music

APRIL 1, 1962
SOUL
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100
2 reviews

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126. Mary J. Blige - My Life

NOVEMBER 29, 1994

R&B
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75
3 reviews

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125. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

JULY 25, 1989

HIP HOP
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95
6 reviews

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124. U2 - Achtung Baby

NOVEMBER 18, 1991
ALTERNATIVE ROCK
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99
7 reviews

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123. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II

OCTOBER 22, 1969

HARD ROCK
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96
6 reviews

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122. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

MARCH 8, 1994
INDUSTRIAL ROCK
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84
6 reviews

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121. Elvis Costello & The Attractions - This Year's Model

MARCH 17, 1978

NEW WAVE
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99
6 reviews

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120. Van Morrison - Moondance

FEBRUARY 28, 1970

SINGER-SONGWRITER
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95
3 reviews

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119. Sly & The Family Stone - Stand!

MAY 3, 1969
FUNK
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95
4 reviews

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118. Eagles - Hotel California

DECEMBER 8, 1976
POP ROCK
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93
3 reviews

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117. Kanye West - Late Registration

AUGUST 30, 2005

HIP HOP
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83
20 reviews
He steps up his lyrical game, shows off his epic production skills, reaches higher, pushes
harder and claims the whole world of music as hip-hop turf.
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116. The Cure - Disintegration

MAY 2, 1989
GOTHIC ROCK
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87
3 reviews

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

OCTOBER 22, 2012

HIP HOP
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90
31 reviews
Lamar is an unlikely star: a storyteller, not a braggart or punch-line rapper, setting spiritual
yearnings and moral dilemmas against a backdrop of gang violence and police brutality.
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114. The Strokes - Is This It

AUGUST 27, 2001

INDIE ROCK
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88
12 reviews
The Strokes' debut album is pure New York rock & roll: all gray-pavement aggression wrapped
in black-leather cool.
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113. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead

JUNE 16, 1986
JANGLE POP
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100
4 reviews

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112. Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

OCTOBER 5, 1973
POP ROCK
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94
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111. Janet Jackson - Control

FEBRUARY 2, 1986
R&B
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90
4 reviews

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110. Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark

JANUARY 1, 1974
FOLK
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100
5 reviews
An album that not only represents the culmination of Mitchell's folk-rock period but also signals
the many musical experiments in her future.
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109. Lou Reed - Transformer

NOVEMBER 8, 1972
GLAM ROCK
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83
5 reviews
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108. Fiona Apple - When the Pawn

NOVEMBER 9, 1999
SINGER-SONGWRITER
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79
8 reviews
Apple has the talent, not to mention the fame and fortune, to seclude herself from the big bad
world ahead of her. But Fiona II makes you hope that she'll find a way to use her talent as a
connection to the world instead. Because she's an artist who deserves a shot at growing up.
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107. Television - Marquee Moon

FEBRUARY 8, 1977
ART PUNK
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100
3 reviews

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106. Hole - Live Through This

APRIL 12, 1994

ALTERNATIVE ROCK
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86
6 reviews

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105. The Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East

JULY 1, 1971
BLUES ROCK
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100
2 reviews

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104. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

APRIL 23, 1971

BLUES ROCK
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100
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103. De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising

MARCH 3, 1989
HIP HOP
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90
4 reviews

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102. The Clash - The Clash

APRIL 8, 1977
PUNK
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100
4 reviews
Saucier and more cinematic than activist-rock competition from the MC5 to Rage Against the
Machine, the album lays down a guide to exile and cunning. The tunes still detonate as the
group still insists justice must prevail, no matter how the world just ended.
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101. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

JANUARY 12, 1969

HARD ROCK
CRITIC SCORE

90
6 reviews