400.

 The Go-Go's - Beauty and the Beat

JUNE 8, 1981
NEW WAVE
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84
3 reviews

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399. Brian Wilson - SMiLE

SEPTEMBER 28, 2004

ROCK
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94
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398. The Raincoats - The Raincoats

NOVEMBER 3, 1979
POST-PUNK
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93
3 reviews

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397. Billie Eilish - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP,

WHERE DO WE GO?
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ELECTROPOP
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80
26 reviews
It’s an album full of dressed-down avant-pop with D.I.Y. immediacy and intimacy that can still
hold its own amid Top 40 maximalists like Ariana Grande and Halsey.
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396. Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything?

FEBRUARY 1, 1972
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97
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395. D'Angelo and The Vanguard - Black Messiah

DECEMBER 15, 2014

NEO-SOUL
CRITIC SCORE

92
30 reviews
Black Messiah shows how deep easy can go. D'Angelo and his band have built an avant-soul
dream palace to get lost in, for 56 minutes of heaven.
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394. Diana Ross - Diana

MAY 22, 1980
DISCO
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83
3 reviews

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393. Taylor Swift - 1989

OCTOBER 27, 2014

POP
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76
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Deeply weird, feverishly emotional, wildly enthusiastic, 1989 sounds exactly like Taylor Swift,
even when it sounds like nothing she's ever tried before.
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392. Ike & Tina Turner - Proud Mary: The Best of Ike &
Tina Turner

MARCH 18, 1991

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90
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391. Kelis - Kaleidoscope
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R&B
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74
5 reviews

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390. Pixies - Surfer Rosa

MARCH 21, 1988

ALTERNATIVE ROCK
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91
5 reviews

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389. Mariah Carey - The Emancipation of Mimi

APRIL 12, 2005

R&B
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61
9 reviews

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388. Aretha Franklin - Young, Gifted and Black

JANUARY 24, 1972
SOUL
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80
2 reviews

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387. Radiohead - In Rainbows

OCTOBER 10, 2007

ALTERNATIVE ROCK
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88
27 reviews
No wasted moments, no weak tracks:just primo Radiohead.
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386. J Dilla - Donuts

FEBRUARY 7, 2006
INSTRUMENTAL HIP HOP
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86
9 reviews

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385. Ramones - Rocket to Russia

NOVEMBER 4, 1977
PUNK ROCK
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100
3 reviews

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384. The Kinks - The Kinks Are The Village Green

Preservation Society

NOVEMBER 22, 1968

ROCK
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94
4 reviews

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383. Massive Attack - Mezzanine

APRIL 20, 1998
TRIP HOP
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87
8 reviews

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382. Tame Impala - Currents

JULY 17, 2015

PSYCHEDELIC POP
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 82
43 reviews
The guitar rides in the back, the keyboards up front. The beats have a synthesized snap even
when they're live drums, and even the dreamiest tracks pack a pop bounce.
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381. Lynyrd Skynyrd - (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd

'Skin-'nérd)

AUGUST 13, 1973

SOUTHERN ROCK
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100
1 review

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380. Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um

SEPTEMBER 14, 1959
JAZZ
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100
1 review

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379. Rush - Moving Pictures

FEBRUARY 12, 1981

PROGRESSIVE ROCK
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100
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378. Run-D.M.C. - Run-D.M.C.

MARCH 27, 1984

HIP HOP
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91
2 reviews

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377. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell

APRIL 29, 2003
INDIE ROCK
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77
14 reviews

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376. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

FEBRUARY 10, 1998

INDIE ROCK
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86
9 reviews
For those not completely sold on its folk charm, Aeroplane is thin-blooded, woolgathering stuff.
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375. Green Day - Dookie

FEBRUARY 1, 1994
PUNK ROCK
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93
8 reviews

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374. Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers

JANUARY 1, 1961
BLUES
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100
1 review

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373. Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul

SEPTEMBER 23, 1969
SOUL
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92
5 reviews

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372. Big Brother and The Holding Company - Cheap

Thrills

AUGUST 12, 1968

PSYCHEDELIC ROCK
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82
3 reviews

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371. The Temptations - Anthology

FEBRUARY 0, 1973
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90
1 review

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370. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter II

DECEMBER 6, 2005
GANGSTA RAP
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79
6 reviews

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369. Mobb Deep - The Infamous

APRIL 25, 1995

HIP HOP
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92
6 reviews

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368. George Harrison - All Things Must Pass

NOVEMBER 27, 1970
ROCK
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93
4 reviews

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367. Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

POP RAP
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77
28 reviews
For the first time in his career, Drake doesn't sound like he wants to be remembered as one of
the greats. This time, he just is.
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366. Aerosmith - Rocks

MAY 3, 1976
ROCK
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90
2 reviews
Aerosmith may have their hard-rock wings, but they won't truly fly until their inventiveness
catches up to their fast-maturing professionalism.
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365. Madvillain - Madvillainy

MARCH 23, 2004

HIP HOP
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88
10 reviews

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364. Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and

Food

JULY 21, 1978

POST-PUNK
CRITIC SCORE

90
5 reviews
The eclecticism of More Songs about Buildings and Food–its witty distillations of disco and
reggae rhythms, its reconciliation of "art" and punk rock–is masterful, The music represents a
triumph over diversity, while the words spell out defeat by disparities between mind and body,
head and heart.
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363. Parliament - Mothership Connection

DECEMBER 15, 1975

FUNK
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94
3 reviews

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362. Luther Vandross - Never Too Much

AUGUST 12, 1981

CRITIC SCORE

100
1 review

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361. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade

OCTOBER 23, 2006

POP PUNK
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74
15 reviews
The Black Parade, the New Jersey group’s third studio album, is the best mid-Seventies record
of 2006, a rabid, ingenious paraphrasing of echoes and kitsch from rock’s golden age of
bombast.
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360. Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove

SEPTEMBER 1, 1978
FUNK
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87
3 reviews

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359. Big Star - Radio City

FEBRUARY 1, 1974
POWER POP
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97
3 reviews

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358. Sonic Youth - Goo

JUNE 26, 1990

ALTERNATIVE ROCK
CRITIC SCORE

78
3 reviews
With Goo, they've squarely hit the mark. Rock & roll, or what's left of it, may never be the
same.
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357. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

SEPTEMBER 30, 1985
ROCK
CRITIC SCORE

100
2 reviews
With Rain Dogs, he dropped his bedraggled lounge-piano act and fused outsider influences --
socialist decadence by way of Kurt Weill, pre-rock integrity from old dirty blues, the elegiac
melancholy of New Orleans funeral brass -- into a singularly idiosyncratic American style
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356. Dr. John - Gris-Gris

JANUARY 22, 1968

PSYCHEDELIC ROCK
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90
2 reviews

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355. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

FEBRUARY 13, 1970

HEAVY METAL
CRITIC SCORE

97
3 reviews

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354. X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents

NOVEMBER 10, 1978

PUNK ROCK
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90
2 reviews
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353. The Cars - The Cars

JUNE 6, 1978
NEW WAVE
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90
2 reviews

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352. Eminem - The Slim Shady LP

FEBRUARY 23, 1999
HIP HOP
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75
6 reviews

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351. Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure

MARCH 23, 1973

GLAM ROCK
CRITIC SCORE

97
3 reviews