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Year: 2000

For "Kid A," Radiohead added drum machines, synthesizers, and an ondes martenot, an instrument invented in the 1920s that has an oscillating sound not unlike a theremin. Ahead of the album's release, Radiohead made it available for online streaming. Even so, it went platinum in its first week, debuted at the top of U.S. charts, and was awarded a Grammy for best alternative album.

#4. 'Revolver' by The Beatles

- Best Ever Albums score: 76,868
Smashing Pumpkins' success exploded with the release of "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness," 28 songs that stretched from punk to folk. It produced the hits "Bullet With Butterfly Wings,""Tonight, Tonight,""Thirty-Three," and "1979," which would become the band's biggest U.S. hit.

Year: 1979

Manchester, England's Joy Division introduced itself with "Unknown Pleasures." Standouts on the dark punk album are "She Lost Control" and "Interzone." The band's singer Ian Curtis took his life in the year after the album's release.

#31. 'The Stone Roses' by The Stone Roses

- Best Ever Albums score: 33,803
Year: 1972

"Harvest" was the first hit album for Canada's Neil Young, with help from Nashville session musicians, the London Symphony Orchestra, James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, and his former bandmates David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash. It features the huge hit "Heart of Gold," along with "Old Man" and "The Needle and the Damage Done." Young later wrote: "'Heart of Gold' put me in the middle of the road. Travelling there soon became a bore, so I headed for the ditch. A rougher ride, but I saw more interesting people there."

#86. 'Close to the Edge' by Yes

- Best Ever Albums score: 16,251
Ian Curtis left the world with an influential album that defined the dark and moody, yet still danceable territory that would characterize post-punk. None of Joy Division’s best-known singles are here, but the soundscapes of Closer create a world that’s equally forbidding and enticing. 58: KISS – Alive! Pink Floyd recorded "Wish You Were Here" at London's Abbey Road Studios. The release followed its hugely successful "Dark Side of the Moon.""Wish You Were Here" headed straight to the top of the charts in England and in America.The cover artwork on "Revolver" was drawn by Beatles' friend Klaus Voorman, who would later play bass for the band Manfred Mann. It won a Grammy for best album cover. Uncredited singers doing vocals on "Yellow Submarine" included Marianne Faithfull, Donovan, guitarist Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, and George Harrison's then-wife Pattie Boyd. The album was released before the Beatles stopped touring, but they never performed any of its songs live. New York-based Interpol made its debut with "Turn On the Bright Lights," marked by complex lyrics and textured sounds that are dissonant and mysterious. Its standout single is the driving anthem "PDA," with its fluid guitar lines. One thing we’ll say without hesitation: Every one of these albums is worth a listen, whether you’re discovering it for the first time or reconnecting with a longtime favorite. 100: Blink-182 – Enema of the State

Year: 1968

The double album "Electric Ladyland" was the last studio album recorded by The Jimi Hendrix Experience. It was made in London and New York amid Hendrix's tours. It had the hit "All Along the Watchtower," in which Hendrix improvised, using a cigarette lighter as a guitar slide.

#65. 'Forever Changes' by Love

- Best Ever Albums score: 20,757
Year: 1975

Pink Floyd recorded "Wish You Were Here" at London's Abbey Road Studios. The release followed its hugely successful "Dark Side of the Moon.""Wish You Were Here" headed straight to the top of the charts in England and in America.

#7. 'In Rainbows' by Radiohead

- Best Ever Albums score: 66,317
The wonder of the Replacements was that they could play a glorious shamble of a live show, then go home and write an anthem for the ages. By now Paul Westerberg’s songs were evincing self-doubt, sympathy, and dogged hope (all three on “I Will Dare”), and they could still come up with a hilarious aside or two. 44: Van Halen – Van Halen One of the wonders of the 90s indie scene was that an album this good could appear out of nowhere. Liz Phair’s songs were disarmingly frank, with pop hooks all over the place, but she was always a step ahead of the listener – for starters, nobody’s ever figured out if she was entirely serious about modeling the album after the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street. Either way, it remains one of the best albums of the 90s. 47: Allman Brothers Band – At Fillmore East The Zombies recorded "Odessey and Oracle" at Abbey Road Studios after the Beatles finished recording "Sgt. Pepper." Guitarist and vocalist Chris White said the band members only had a thousand pounds among them to make the album. Its single "Time of the Season," with its recognizable opening bass notes and breathy vocals, remains hugely popular.

9: Guns N’ Roses – Appetite for Destruction

Take Arctic Monkeys away from the nightclub scene, and what do you get? An even better and more thoughtful band, one that can embrace electronica and textured pop without losing the raw edge. AM marked a personal turn in Alex Turner’s writing; it also gave a long-deserved payoff to the band’s mentor, street poet John Cooper Clarke, who gets a song covered. 65: Betty Davis – They Say I’m Different Historically, the Go-Go’s debut ranks as the first No.1 album ever performed, and largely written, by an all-female band. It’s also a blast of pure fun, showing Charlotte Caffey, Jane Wiedlin, and Kathy Valentine as first-class songwriters who’d absorbed everything great about California pop. “We Got the Beat” and “Our Lips Are Sealed” never get old. 62: The Strokes – Is This It?



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