Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All

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500. Arcade Fire - Funeral

SEPTEMBER 14, 2004

INDIE ROCK
CRITIC SCORE

93
19 reviews
The band could have gone for a less direct title, but even then it would have been crystal
clear: Funeral captures the agony and even ecstasy of surviving death all around you.
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499. Rufus & Chaka Khan - Ask Rufus

JANUARY 19, 1977

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80
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498. Suicide - Suicide
DECEMBER 28, 1977
NO WAVE
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90
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497. Various Artists - The Indestructible Beat of Soweto

JANUARY 1, 1985
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100
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496. Shakira - Dónde Están los Ladrones?

SEPTEMBER 29, 1998

POP ROCK
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83
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495. Boyz II Men - II

AUGUST 30, 1994

R&B
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 90
3 reviews

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494. The Ronettes - Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes

Featuring Veronica

NOVEMBER 1, 1964
ROCK & ROLL
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60
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493. Marvin Gaye - Here, My Dear

DECEMBER 15, 1978
SOUL
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84
4 reviews

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492. Bonnie Raitt - Nick of Time

MARCH 21, 1989

BLUES ROCK
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87
3 reviews

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491. Harry Styles - Fine Line

DECEMBER 13, 2019

POP ROCK
CRITIC SCORE

72
23 reviews
It’s a streamlined, party-ready, primary-colors take on the enduring concept of the rock & roll
starman. It’s also as much as fun as anyone short of Bruno Mars is having with a band these
days.
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490. Linda Ronstadt - Heart Like a Wheel

NOVEMBER 13, 1974
COUNTRY ROCK
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88
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489. Phil Spector - Back to Mono (1958-1969)

NOVEMBER 12, 1991

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100
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488. The Stooges - The Stooges

AUGUST 5, 1969
GARAGE ROCK
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85
4 reviews

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487. Black Flag - Damaged

DECEMBER 5, 1981
HARDCORE PUNK
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94
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486. John Mayer - Continuum

SEPTEMBER 12, 2006

POP ROCK
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78
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485. Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want to See the

Bright Lights Tonight
APRIL 1, 1974
FOLK ROCK
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100
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484. Lady Gaga - Born This Way

MAY 23, 2011

POP
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69
24 reviews
Gaga loves overheated cosmic statements for the same reason she loves dance pop and
metal guitars – because she hears them as echoes of her twisted rock & roll heart. That's the
achievement of Born This Way: The more excessive Gaga gets, the more honest she sounds.
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483. Muddy Waters - The Anthology

AUGUST 28, 2001

BLUES
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100
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482. The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde

NOVEMBER 24, 1992
HIP HOP
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89
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481. Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister

NOVEMBER 18, 1996

INDIE POP
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90
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480. Miranda Lambert - The Weight of These Wings

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

COUNTRY
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83
11 reviews
The Nashville star's most ambitious LP, a range-y two-disc set ditching country's mainstream
playbook for the sort of Great Album rock acts used to spit out regularly back in the day.
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479. Selena - Amor Prohíbido

MARCH 13, 1994
LATIN POP
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88
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478. The Kinks - Something Else by The Kinks

SEPTEMBER 15, 1967

POP ROCK
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97
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477. Howlin' Wolf - Moanin' in the Moonlight

JANUARY 1, 1959
BLUES
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100
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476. Sparks - Kimono My House

MAY 1, 1974
GLAM ROCK
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90
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475. Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow

SEPTEMBER 24, 1996

POP ROCK
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88
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474. Big Star - #1 Record

APRIL 1, 1972
POWER POP
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 90
4 reviews

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473. Daddy Yankee - Barrio Fino

JULY 13, 2004

REGGAETON
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80
2 reviews

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472. SZA - Ctrl
JUNE 9, 2017
ALTERNATIVE R&B
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82
20 reviews

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471. Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow

APRIL 1, 1967
PSYCHEDELIC ROCK
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90
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470. Juvenile - 400 Degreez

NOVEMBER 3, 1998
HIP HOP
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81
3 reviews

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469. Manu Chao - Clandestino

OCTOBER 6, 1998
LATIN ALTERNATIVE
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80
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468. The Rolling Stones - Some Girls

JUNE 9, 1978
ROCK
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98
4 reviews

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467. Maxwell - BLACKsummers'night

JULY 7, 2009
SOUL
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80
11 reviews
The result is an R&B album about love, not just sex, for grown-ups who know the difference.
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466. The Beach Boys - The Beach Boys Today!

MARCH 8, 1965
POP ROCK
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90
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465. King Sunny Adé - The Best of the Classic Years

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464. The Isley Brothers - 3 + 3

AUGUST 7, 1973
FUNK
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96
2 reviews

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463. Laura Nyro - Eli and the Thirteenth Confession

MARCH 3, 1968
POP SOUL
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100
1 review

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462. The Flying Burrito Brothers - The Gilded Palace of

Sin

FEBRUARY 1, 1969
COUNTRY
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93
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461. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

JULY 8, 2007
INDIE FOLK
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84
20 reviews
For Emma, Forever Ago never turns into a pity party, because Vernon has a light touch, with
zero interest in narrative or confessional lyrics.
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460. Lorde - Melodrama

JUNE 16, 2017

ART POP
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91
41 reviews
She has said the album's conceit is a house party and its unfolding dramas; indeed, Pure
Heroine's cool snark is now a hotter passion, in its millennial-skeptical way.
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459. Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon: The End of Day

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

HIP HOP
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70
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458. Jason Isbell - Southeastern

JUNE 11, 2013

SINGER-SONGWRITER
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85
12 reviews

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457. Sinéad O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't
Got

MARCH 1, 1990
ALTERNATIVE ROCK
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90
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456. Al Green - Greatest Hits

APRIL 1, 1975
SOUL
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99
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455. Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley / Go Bo Diddley

CRITIC SCORE

100
1 review

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454. Can - Ege Bamyasi

NOVEMBER 1, 1972
KRAUTROCK
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100
4 reviews

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453. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine

OCTOBER 20, 1989

INDUSTRIAL ROCK
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91
4 reviews

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452. Diana Ross & The Supremes - Anthology

DECEMBER 18, 2001

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451. Roberta Flack - First Take

JUNE 20, 1969

SOUL
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100
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