Updated 8/14/25
Best Albums of 2024
1. Charli XCX - Brat
2. Geordie Greep - The New Sound
3. Father John Misty - Mahashmashana
4. Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk
5. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood
6. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
7. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us
8. Fontaines D.C. - Romance
9. Kim Gordon - The Collective
10. Britney Howard - What Now
Best Albums of 2023
1. Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good!
2. JPEGMafia & Danny Brown - Scaring the Hoes
3. Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
4. Sufjan Stevens - Javelin
5. George Clanton - Ooh Rap I Ya
6. Gorillaz - Cracker Island
7. Fever Ray - Radical Romantics
8. Nourished by Time - Erotic Probiotic 2
9. Lana Del Rey - Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
10. Billy Woods & Kenny Segal - Maps
Best Albums of 2022
1. Alex G - God Save the Animals
2. Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
3. Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia
4. Nilufer Yanya - Painless
5. Yeule - Glitch Princess
6. Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
7. Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems
8. Animal Collective - Time Skiffs
9. Spoon - Lucifer on the Sofa
10. Weyes Blood - And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow
Best Albums of 2021
1. The Armed - Ultrapop
2. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
3. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
4. Xenia Rubinos - Una Rosa
5. Black Midi - Cavalcade
6. Low - Hey What
7. Tyler, the Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost
8. Jazmine Sullivan - Heaux Tales
9. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
10. Turnstile - Glow On
Best Albums of 2020
1. Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind
2. Perfume Genius - Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
3. Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Alfredo
4. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
5. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
6. Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
7. Grimes - Miss Anthropocene
8. The Microphones - Microphones in 2020
9. Charli XCX - How I'm Feeling Now
10. Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death
Best Albums of the 2010s
1. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
3. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
4. Grizzly Bear - Shields
5. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, m.A.A.d City
6. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
7. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
8. Tame Impala - Currents
9. Kanye West - Yeezus
10. Big Thief - U.F.O.F.
11. The National - High Violet
12. Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy
13. Spoon - They Want My Soul
14. Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
15. CHAI - Punk
16. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
17. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 3
18. Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell!
19. Panda Bear - Tomboy
20. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
21. The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
22. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
23. Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe
24. Low - Double Negative
25. King Krule - The Ooz
Best Albums of 2019
1. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
2. Big Thief - U.F.O.F.
3. CHAI - Punk
4. Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell!
5. Little Simz - Grey Area
6. FKA Twigs - Magdalene
7. (Sandy) Alex G - House of Sugar
8. Tyler, the Creator - Igor
9. Angel Olsen - All Mirrors
10. Thom Yorke - ANIMA
Best Albums of 2018
1. Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy
2. Low - Double Negative
3. U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited
4. Mitski - Be the Cowboy
5. Vince Staples - FM!
6. Of Montreal - White Is Relic/Irrealis Mood
7. Saba - Care for Me
8. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
9. Robyn - Honey
10. Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs
Best Albums of 2017
1. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
2. The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
3. King Krule - The Ooz
4. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
5. Lorde - Melodrama
6. Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up
7. St. Vincent - Masseduction
8. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
9. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
10. SZA - CTRL
Best Albums of 2016
1. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 3
2. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
3. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
4. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
5. David Bowie - Blackstar
6. Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
7. Solange - A Seat at the Table
8. Beyonce - Lemonade
9. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
10. Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate
Best Albums of 2015
1. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
2. Tame Impala - Currents
3. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
4. Grimes - Art Angels
5. Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
6. Vince Staples - Summertime '06
7. Jamie XX - In Colour
8. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Style
9. Chvrches - Every Open Eye
10. Modest Mouse - Strangers to Ourselves
Best Albums of 2014
1. Spoon - They Want My Soul
2. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
3. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
4. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
5. St. Vincent - Self-titled
6. Swans - To Be Kind
7. D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah
8. FKA Twigs - LP1
9. Caribou - Our Love
10. Mitski - Bury Me at Makeout Creek
Best Albums of 2013
1. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
2. Kanye West - Yeezus
3. Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe
4. The Flaming Lips - The Terror
5. The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
6. Sigur Rós - Kveikur
7. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
8. Run the Jewels - Self-titled
9. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
10. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
Best Albums of 2012
1. Grizzly Bear - Shields
2. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, m.A.A.d City
3. Beach House - Bloom
4. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
5. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
6. Tame Impala - Lonerism
7. Grimes - Visions
8. Swans - The Seer
9. Angel Olsen - Half Way Home
10. Twin Shadow - Confess
Best Albums of 2011
1. Panda Bear - Tomboy
2. The Antlers - Burst Apart
3. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
4. Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
5. Real Estate - Days
6. TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light
7. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
8. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
9. Kendrick Lamar - Section.80
10. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
Best Albums of 2010
1. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
3. The National - High Violet
4. Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
5. Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
6. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
7. Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
8. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
9. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
10. Beach House - Teen Dream
Best Albums of the 2000s
1. Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
2. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart
3. Dredg - El Cielo
4. Arcade Fire - Funeral
5. Cursive - The Ugly Organ
6. Dredg - Catch Without Arms
7. Brand New - Deja Entendu
8. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
9. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
10. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
11. Portishead - Third
12. Department of Eagles - The Whitey on the Moon UK LP
13. The Antlers - Hospice
14. Muse - Absolution
15. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
16. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
17. Sigur Rós - ( )
18. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
19. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
20. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
21. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
22. Gorillaz - Demon Days
23. David Thomas Broughton - The Complete Guide to Insufficiency
24. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
25. The National - Alligator
Best Albums of 2009
1. The Antlers - Hospice
2. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
3. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
4. Fever Ray - Self-titled
5. St. Vincent - Actor
6. Dredg - The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion
7. Brand New - Daisy
8. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
9. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
10. The xx - xx
Best Albums of 2008
1. Portishead - Third
2. Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
3. Fleet Foxes - Self-titled
4. Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
5. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
6. M83 - Saturdays = Youth
7. Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
8. Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
9. Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
10. Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
Best Albums of 2007
1. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
2. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
3. Radiohead - In Rainbows
4. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
5. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
6. The National - Boxer
7. Apparat - Walls
8. Burial - Untrue
9. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
10. Kanye West - Graduation
Best Albums of 2006
1. Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
2. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
3. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
4. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
5. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - So Divided
6. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
7. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
8. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
9. Califone - Roots & Crowns
10. Subtle - For Hero: For Fool
Best Albums of 2005
1. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart
2. Dredg - Catch Without Arms
3. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
4. Gorillaz - Demon Days
5. David Thomas Broughton - The Complete Guide to Insufficiency
6. The National - Alligator
7. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
8. Sigur Rós- Takk...
9. Kanye West - Late Registration
10. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
Best Albums of 2004
1. Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
3. Madvillain - Madvillainy
4. Kanye West - The College Dropout
5. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
6. TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
7. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
8. Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
9. Of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic
10. Subtle - A New White
Best Albums of 2003
1. Cursive - The Ugly Organ
2. Brand New - Deja Entendu
3. Department of Eagles - The Whitey on the Moon UK LP
4. Muse - Absolution
5. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
6. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
7. The Wrens - The Meadowlands
8. Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
9. Opeth - Damnation
10. Jay-Z - The Black Album
Best Albums of 2002
1. Dredg - El Cielo
2. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
3. Sigur Rós - ( )
4. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
5. Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way
6. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
7. Iron and Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle
8. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People
9. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
10. Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
Best Albums of 2001
1. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
2. Gorillaz - Self-titled
3. Radiohead - Amnesiac
4. The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2
5. System of a Down - Toxicity
6. Daft Punk - Discovery
7. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
8. Fennesz - Endless Summer
9. Björk - Vespertine
10. Opeth - Blackwater Park
Best Albums of 2000
1. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
2. Radiohead - Kid A
3. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
4. Deltron 3030 - Self-titled
5. OutKast - Stankonia
6. Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
7. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
8. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
9. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
10. Deftones - White Pony
Best Albums of the 90s
1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
3. Radiohead - OK Computer
4. Radiohead - The Bends
5. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
6. Fishmans - Long Season
7. Incubus - Make Yourself
8. Portishead - Dummy
9. Nas - Illmatic
10. Fishmans - Uchu Nippon Setagaya
11. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....
12. Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
13. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
14. Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On
15. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
16. OutKast - Aquemini
17. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness
18. Fiona Apple - When the Pawn...
19. Dredg - Leitmotif
20. Modest Mouse - This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
21. Björk - Homogenic
22. Slint - Spiderland
23. Ween - Pure Guava
24. Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
25. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Best Albums of 1999
1. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
2. Incubus - Make Yourself
3. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
4. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness
5. Fiona Apple - When the Pawn...
6. Dredg - Leitmotif
7. Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
8. The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
9. Wilco - Summerteeth
10. Blur - 13
Best Albums of 1998
1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
2. OutKast - Aquemini
3. Black Star - Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
4. Air - Moon Safari
5. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
6. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
7. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
8. Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
9. Cursive - The Storms of Early Summer: Semantics of Song
10. System of a Down - Self-titled
Best Albums of 1997
1. Radiohead - OK Computer
2. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
3. Fishmans - Uchu Nippon Setagaya
4. Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
5. Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On
6. Björk - Homogenic
7. Portishead - Self-titled
8. Stereolab - Dots and Loops
9. Elliott Smith - Either/Or
10. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯A♯∞
Best Albums of 1996
1. Fishmans - Long Season
2. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....
3. Modest Mouse - This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
4. OutKast - ATLiens
5. Beck - Odelay
6. Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island
7. Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
8. Weezer - Pinkerton
9. Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind
10. Ghostface Killah - Ironman
Best Albums of 1995
1. Radiohead - The Bends
2. Pulp - Different Class
3. Björk - Post
4. GZA - Liquid Swords
5. Big L - Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous
6. The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
7. Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways
8. Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
9. Wilco - A.M.
10. Red Hot Chili Peppers - One Hot Minute
4. The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
5. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II
7. Pulp - His 'n' Hers
8. Weezer - Self-titled
9. OutKast - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
6. Yo La Tengo - Painless
4. Sade - Love Deluxe
7. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
6. Pearl Jam - Ten
Best Albums of 1990
1. Depeche Mode - Violator
2. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
3. Fugazi - Repeater
4. Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
5. Sonic Youth - Goo
6. Pixies - Bossanova
7. Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo habitual
8. The Flaming Lips - In a Priest Driven Ambulance
9. Ween - God Ween Satan: The Oneness
10. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Best Albums of the 80s
1. Pixies - Doolittle
2. Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain
3. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
4. The Cure - Disintegration
5. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
6. Talking Heads - Remain in Light
7. Joy Division - Closer
8. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
9. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
10. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
11. This Heat - Deceit
12. Laurie Anderson - Big Science
13. Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
14. The Smiths - Self-titled
15. Prince - Sign o' the Times
16. R.E.M. - Murmur
17. Michael Jackson - Thriller
18. Prince - 1999
19. Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
20. The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
21. Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
22. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
23. The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
24. The Stone Roses - Self-titled
25. New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
Best Albums of 1989
1. Pixies - Doolittle
2. The Cure - Disintegration
3. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
4. The Stone Roses - Self-titled
5. N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
6. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
7. Laurie Anderson - Strange Angels
8. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother's Milk
9. Slint - Tweez
10. Nirvana - Bleach
Best Albums of 1988
1. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
2. My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
3. Tracy Chapman - Self-titled
4. Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
5. Eric B. & Rakim - Follow the Leader
6. Dinosaur Jr - Bug
7. Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
8. Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
9. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
10. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Best Albums of 1987
1. Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me
2. Prince - Sign o' the Times
3. Eric B. & Rakim - Paid in Full
4. Michael Jackson - Bad
5. Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
6. Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
7. U2 - The Joshua Tree
8. The Flaming Lips - Oh My Gawd!!!
9. Sonic Youth - Sister
10. Wire - The Ideal Copy
Best Albums of 1986
1. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
2. Paul Simon - Graceland
3. Peter Gabriel - So
4. Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
5. Sonic Youth - Evol
6. Arthur Russell - World of Echo
7. Run-DMC - Raising Hell
8. Janet Jackson - Control
9. Metallica - Master of Puppets
10. Slayer - Reign in Blood
Best Albums of 1985
1. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
2. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
3. The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
4. The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
5. New Order - Low-Life
6. Dinosaur Jr - Dinosaur
7. Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun
8. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
9. Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising
10. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Freaky Styley
Best Albums of 1984
1. Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain
2. The Smiths - Self-titled
3. Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.
4. Cocteau Twins - Treasure
5. Sade - Diamond Life
6. The Replacements - Let it Be
7. Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II
8. Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
9. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
10. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Self-titled
Best Albums of 1983
1. R.E.M. - Murmur
2. Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
3. New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
4. U2 - War
5. Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual
6. The Police - Synchronicity
7. Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
8. Violent Femmes - Self-titled
9. Madonna - Self-titled
10. Sonic Youth - Confusion Is Sex
Best Albums of 1982
1. Laurie Anderson - Big Science
2. Michael Jackson - Thriller
3. Prince - 1999
4. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
5. Kate Bush - The Dreaming
6. The Cure - Pornography
7. Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Imperial Bedroom
8. The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
9. ABC - The Lexicon of Love
10. Misfits - Walk Among Us
Best Albums of 1981
1. This Heat - Deceit
2. Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
3. King Crimson - Discipline
4. Rush - Moving Pictures
5. The Human League - Dare
6. Motorhead - No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith
7. Gang of Four - Solid Gold
8. Kraftwerk - Computer World
9. Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
10. Black Flag - Damaged
Best Albums of 1980
1. Talking Heads - Remain in Light
2. Joy Division - Closer
3. Bruce Springsteen - The River
4. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
5. The Clash - Sandinista!
6. Prince - Dirty Mind
7. Kate Bush - Never for Ever
8. Pretenders - Self-titled
9. Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
10. AC/DC - Back in Black
Best Albums of the 70s
1. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
2. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
3. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
4. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
5. Neil Young - On the Beach
6. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
7. Joni Mitchell - Blue
8. The Clash - London Calling
9. Television - Marquee Moon
10. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
11. Joni Mitchell - Hejira
12. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
13. Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
14. Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
15. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
16. Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
17. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
18. Brian Eno - Another Green World
19. Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
20. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
21. Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
22. Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
23. Talking Heads - Fear of Music
24. Pink Floyd - Animals
25. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Best Albums of 1979
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Best Albums of the 60s
1. The Beatles - Self-titled
2. The Velvet Underground & Nico - Self-titled
3. The Beatles - Abbey Road
4. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
5. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
6. The Beatles - Revolver
7. Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
8. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
9. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
10. Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
11. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
12. The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
13. The Beatles - Rubber Soul
14. The Velvet Underground - Self-titled
15. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
16. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
17. The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
18. The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
19. Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
20. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
21. Nina Simone - Wild Is the Wind
22. Led Zeppelin - Self-titled
23. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
24. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
25. The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
Best Albums Year by Year
1959. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
1960. John Coltrane - Giant Steps
1961. John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
1962. The Supremes - Meet the Supremes
1963. Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
1964. The Beatles - Hard Day's Night
1965. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
1966. The Beatles - Revolver
1967. The Velvet Underground & Nico - Self-titled
1968. The Beatles - Self-titled
1969. The Beatles - Abbey Road
1970. Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
1971. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
1972. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
1973. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
1974. Neil Young - On the Beach
1975. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
1976. Joni Mitchell - Hejira
1977. Television - Marquee Moon
1978. Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
1979. The Clash - London Calling
1980. Talking Heads - Remain in Light
1981. This Heat - Deceit
1982. Laurie Anderson - Big Science
1983. R.E.M. - Murmur
1984. Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain
1985. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
1986. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
1987. Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
1988. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
1989. Pixies - Doolittle
1990. Depeche Mode - Violator
1991. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
1992. Ween - Pure Guava
1993. Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
1994. Portishead - Dummy
1995. Radiohead - The Bends
1996. Fishmans - Long Season
1997. Radiohead - OK Computer
1998. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
1999. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
2000. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
2001. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
2002. Dredg - El Cielo
2003. Cursive - The Ugly Organ
2004. Arcade Fire - Funeral
2005. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart
2006. Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
2007. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
2008. Portishead - Third
2009. The Antlers - Hospice
2010. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2011. Panda Bear - Tomboy
2012. Grizzly Bear - Shields
2013. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
2014. Spoon - They Want My Soul
2015. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
2016. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 3
2017. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
2018. Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy
2019. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
2020. Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind
2021. The Armed - Ultrapop
2022. Alex G - God Save the Animals
2023. Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good!
2024. Charli XCX - Brat
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