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Spin's Top 125 Albums of the past 25 Years

eeriepadaveeeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 42,418
edited April 2010 in Other Music
Not too bad of a list

http://www.spin.com/spin25/125-best-alb ... t-25-years

1 U2 - Achtung Baby
2 Prince - Sign O' the Times
3 The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
4 Nirvana - Nevermind
5 Radiohead - OK Computer
6 Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
7 Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
8 PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
9 Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
10 Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
11 The Replacements - Tim
12 OutKast - Stankonia
13 Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
14 The Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
15 Husker Du - New Day Rising
16 The Pixies - Doolittle
17 De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
18 The Strokes - Is This It
19 Jay-Z - The Blueprint
20 My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
21 Oasis - (What's the Story?) Morning Glory
22 Eric B. & Rakim - Paid in Full
23 Daft Punk - Discovery
24 Metallica - Master of Puppets
25 Nas - Illmatic
26 Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand
27 Nirvana - In Utero
28 Radiohead - The Bends
29 Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
30 A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
31 Massive Attack - Blue Lines
32 Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
33 Bjork - Debut
34 Beck - Odelay
35 R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
36 The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
37 Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
38 Run-D.M.C. - Raising Hell
39 Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
40 Tricky - Maxinquaye
41 Pulp - Different Class
42 Green Day - Dookie
43 The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
44 The Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
45 The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
46 N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
47 Portishead - Dummy
48 Elliott Smith - Either/Or
49 D'Angelo - Voodoo
50 Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
51 Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
52 Kanye West - The College Dropout
53 The Cure - The Head on the Door
54 Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
55 Hole - Live Through This
56 Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
57 The White Stripes - Elephant
58 DJ Shadow - Endtroducing…
59 Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
60 Fugazi - 13 Songs
61 Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
62 U2 - The Joshua Tree
63 R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction
64 The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
65 Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
66 Arcade Fire - Funeral
67 Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
68 Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…
69 The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
70 Pearl Jam - Ten
71 Oasis - Definitely Maybe
72 Lucinda Williams - Lucinda Williams
73 The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy and the Lash
74 Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out
75 Bjork - Post
76 OutKast - Aquemini
77 Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
78 Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
79 The Breeders - Last Splash
80 The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
81 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
82 Dr. Dre - The Chronic
83 Steve Earle - Guitar Town
84 LL Cool J - Radio
85 Missy Elliott - Supa Dupa Fly
86 TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
87 The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
88 Jeff Buckley - Grace
89 Basement Jaxx - Remedy
90 Elliott Smith - XO
91 The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come
92 Jay-Z - The Black Album
93 The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
94 Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
95 Soundgarden - Superunknown
96 The Roots - Things Fall Apart
97 Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
98 Johnny Cash - American Recordings
99 PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
100 Kanye West - Late Registration
101 Blur - Parklife
102 Queen Latifah - All Hail the Queen
103 M.I.A. - Arular
104 The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
105 Massive Attack - Mezzanine
106 Fiona Apple - When the Pawn…
107 Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
108 Fugees - The Score
109 The Chills - Submarine Bells
110 Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
111 Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
112 Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
113 Danger Mouse - The Grey Album
114 Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
115 OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
116 Against Me! - New Wave
117 The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
118 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
119 Green Day - American Idiot
120 Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
121 Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
122 LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
123 The Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious
124 Prince Paul - A Prince Among Thieves
125 Moby - Play
8/28/98- Camden, NJ
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
4/28/16- Philly, PA
4/29/16- Philly, PA
5/1/16- NYC
5/2/16- NYC
9/2/18- Boston, MA
9/4/18- Boston, MA
9/14/22- Camden, NJ
9/7/24- Philly, PA
9/9/24- Philly, PA
Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
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  • CAVSTARR313CAVSTARR313 Posts: 8,756
    Not my list, but i own many of these.. Radiohead had two in the top 20 or so??.. What an honor.. and maybe the only part of the list i agree with
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  • gabersgabers Posts: 2,787
    Not a terrible list. Good to see an American rag give The Smiths some love, but no PJ in the top 50? Blasphemy!
  • mookeywrenchmookeywrench Posts: 5,953
    Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz, but not Yeah Yeah Yeah's - A Fever to Tell?

    Kind of strange given the rest of the list is posting a band's most critically successful album
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  • BenzorBenzor Posts: 886
    such a generic list
  • mookeywrenchmookeywrench Posts: 5,953
    Benzor wrote:
    such a generic list

    sounds like SPIN to me
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  • flywallyflyflywallyfly Posts: 1,453
    What? No New Kid's On the Block "Hangin Tough" ??!! This list is wack.
  • CAVSTARR313CAVSTARR313 Posts: 8,756
    flywallyfly wrote:
    What? No New Kid's On the Block "Hangin Tough" ??!! This list is wack.
    we ain't gonna give anybody any slack
    None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free.
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  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSunLikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    no list with U2 as number one is a good list.
  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,209
    Nice to see Fugazi on the list but was there any Rage Against The Machine on the list? My eyes aren't what they used to be. :D
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  • tvismyfriendtvismyfriend Posts: 2,118
    g under p wrote:
    Nice to see Fugazi on the list but was there any Rage Against The Machine on the list? My eyes aren't what they used to be. :D
    #51
  • savmansavman Posts: 230
    Cant say i agree with this.

    18 The Strokes - Is This It

    Good jaysus!
  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,430
    No Aenima or Lateralus. That list is worthless.
  • dpmaydpmay Posts: 643
    no dylan or springsteen or neil young? these dudes are agin' like wine!
  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,721
    im ok as pj is in the list with their best album ever....TEN
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  • Johnny AbruzzoJohnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 11,938
    savman wrote:
    Cant say i agree with this.

    18 The Strokes - Is This It

    Good jaysus!

    +1

    What am I missing with this album? It sounds like 4 or 5 good songs and a bunch of filler to me. In my book that doesn't qualify as a great album. Although, that English cover is pretty nice.
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  • MysteryTrainMysteryTrain Singapore Posts: 1,189
    This isn't right. There are only two R.E.M. albums on the list.
  • musicismylife78musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
    its an odd list. seems like spin tried too hard to be the anti-pitchfork on this one.
  • petrocspetrocs Posts: 4,342
    Theres a ton of rap on there...just sayin :shock:
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  • he.who.forgetshe.who.forgets Posts: 4,593
    petrocs wrote:
    Theres a ton of rap on there...just sayin :shock:
    and imo, outkast's superior album is ATLiens.
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  • JDBJDB Posts: 277
    KevDylan wrote:
    This isn't right. There are only two R.E.M. albums on the list.
    There really should be none.
  • savmansavman Posts: 230
    Johnny Abruzzo wrote:
    savman wrote:
    Cant say i agree with this.

    18 The Strokes - Is This It

    Good jaysus!

    +1

    What am I missing with this album? It sounds like 4 or 5 good songs and a bunch of filler to me. In my book that doesn't qualify as a great album. Although, that English cover is pretty nice.


    YES! agreed. If it was top 125 album covers of past 25 years i'd agree with them! Hard to go past naked women. 8-)
  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    DewieCox wrote:
    No Aenima or Lateralus. That list is worthless.

    I thought that too.

    Although I'll have to look again as I probably missed it...but I think that System Of A Down's Toxicity should really be on there.
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  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    petrocs wrote:
    Theres a ton of rap on there...just sayin :shock:

    Dr. Dre - The Chronic deserves a spot in there no doubt.

    I'd also nominate his album 2001....but I'm biased, I like Dre a lot.
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  • pjfaninindianapjfaninindiana Northeast Indiana Posts: 311
    Very cool to see Guided By Voices' Bee Thousand in there. And at 26!!!

    But, is The Cure's Disintegration really not on the list? Maybe i missed it, but if not, that's crazy!!!
  • Yellow LedbellyYellow Ledbelly Posts: 3,749
    gabers wrote:
    Not a terrible list. Good to see an American rag give The Smiths some love, but no PJ in the top 50? Blasphemy!
    And The Strokes at 18...give me a break. I was feeling ok about it until I saw that.
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  • dustinparduedustinpardue Las Vegas, NV Posts: 1,829
    dpmay wrote:
    no dylan or springsteen or neil young? these dudes are agin' like wine!

    if it were rolling stone, Dylan would be every album in the top ten. Bob Dylan could record audio of himself taking a shit and Rolling Stone would give that 5 stars.
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  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    dustinpardue wrote:
    dpmay wrote:
    no dylan or springsteen or neil young? these dudes are agin' like wine!

    if it were rolling stone, Dylan would be every album in the top ten. Bob Dylan could record audio of himself taking a shit and Rolling Stone would give that 5 stars.

    :thumbup:
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  • CAVSTARR313CAVSTARR313 Posts: 8,756
    dustinpardue wrote:
    dpmay wrote:
    no dylan or springsteen or neil young? these dudes are agin' like wine!

    if it were rolling stone, Dylan would be every album in the top ten. Bob Dylan could record audio of himself taking a shit and Rolling Stone would give that 5 stars.
    I would be forced to buy an album of Dylan taking a shit just to keep my collection correct.. and it would probubly be better than his Christmas album. I still love ya Bob!!
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