"Each album on the list finds a sweet spot between artistic brilliance, stylistic innovation, and cultural relevance."
That's what the experts say, but what does the "average" listener think about Spin Magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Albums produced during their first 20 years (1985 - 2005) published in their July 2005 issue?
1) Radiohead - O Computer (1997)
2) Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988)
3) Nirvana - Nevermind (1991)
4) Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted (1992)
5) The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead (1986)
6) Pixies - Surfer Rosa (1988)
7) De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising (1989)
8) Prince - Sign O the Times (1987)
9) PJ Harvey - Rid of Me (1993)
10) N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton (1988)
11) U2 - Achtung Baby (1991)
12) Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique (1989)
13) Husker Du - New Day Rising (1985)
14) Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (1988)
15) Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville (1993)
16) Beck - Odelay (1996)
17) Nas - Illmatic (1994)
18) Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction (1987)
19) Hole - Live Through This (1994)
20) Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993)
21) Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet (1990)
22) My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991)
23) OutKast - Stankonia (2000)
24) Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out (1997)
25) Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (1994)
26) Bjork - Post (1995)
27) The Cure - The Head on the Door (1985)
28) Oasis - Definately Maybe (1994)
29) Fugazi - 13 Songs (1989)
30) The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die (1994)
31) Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me (1987)
32) The Replacements - Tim (1985)
33) Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted (1990)
34) Elliott Smith - Either/Or (1997)
35) Dr. Dre - The Chronic (1992)
36) Pixies - Doolittle (1989)
37) Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand (1994)
38) A Tribe Called Quest - The Low end Theory (1991)
39) Lucinda Williams - Lucinda Williams (1988)
40) Run-D.M.C. - Raising Hell (1986)
41) Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (1993)
42) Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking (1988)
43) Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded (1987)
44) Green Day - Dookie (1994)
45) Kanye West - College Dropout (2004)
46) The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace (1985)
47) Eric B. & Rakim - Paid in Full (1987)
48) Radiohead - Kid A (2000)
49) Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998)
50) New Order - Low-Life (1985)
51) Nirvana - In Utero (1993)
52) Beastie Boys - Licensd to Ill (1986)
53) Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles (1999)
54) The Breeders - Last Splash (1993)
55) The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole (1997)
56) PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love (1995)
57) The White Stripes - White Blood Cells (2001)
58) Metallica - Master of Puppets (1986)
59) Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West (1997)
60) De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead (1991)
61) Weezer - Pinkerton (1996)
62) Missy Elliott - Supa Dupa Fly (1997)
63) Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (1994)
64) Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
65) Basement Jaxx - Remedy (1999)
66) OutKast - Aquemini (1998)
67) Slayer - Reign in Blood (1986)
68) Tricky - Maxiquaye (1995)
69) DJ Shadow - Entroducing DJ Shadow (1996)
70) Jay-Z - The Blueprint (2001)
71) The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy (1985)
72) Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx (1995)
73) Pulp - Different Class (1995)
74) Portishead - Dummy (1994)
75) Le Tigre - Le Tigre (1999)
76) Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister (1997)
77) Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
78) The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses (1989)
79) Moby - Everything is Wrong (1995)
80) D'Angelo - Voodoo (2000)
81) Beck - Mellow Gold (1994)
82) Jeff Buckley - Grace (1994)
83) At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command (2000)
84) Soundgarden - Superunknown (1994)
85) R.E.M. - Automatic for the People (1992)
86) Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun (1985)
87) Blur - Parklife (1994)
88) Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1996)
89) Yeah Yeah Twins - Fever to Tell (2003)
90) Sonic Youth - Sister (1987)
91) XTC - Skylarking (1986)
92) Big Black - Atomizer (1986)
93) Pearl Jam - Ten (1991)
94) Slint - Spiderland (1991)
95) Elastica - Elastica (1995)
96) The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & the Lash (1985)
97) Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)
98) Cornershop - When I Was Born for the 7th Time (1997)
99) Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen (1993)
100) The Strokes - Is This It (2001)
3 comments:
I'm not the "average listener", but I own 63 of these albums and I'm a big fan of almost all of them.
OK Computer is my all-time favorite album. I was actually surprised to see it at number 1, but I'd have been angered if it wasn't. Amazing in every way.
how can they even put a list of 100 greatest albums and not have The Roots - Things Fall Apart album on it? I agree most of these albums are great classics but come'on, its The Roots...true legends.
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