NME - New Musical Express - Writers choice for the most heartbreak albums of all time (2000)

1	Big star	The third album/Sister lovers	1978
2	Joy division	Closer	1980
3	Spiritualized	Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space	1997
4	Nirvana	In utero	1993
5	Leonard Cohen	Songs of love and hate	1971
6	Billie Holiday	Lady in satin	1958
7	Frank Sinatra	In the wee small hours	1955
8	Nick Drake	Pink moon	1972
9	Sebadoh	Bubble and scrap	1993
10	Joy division	Unknown pleasures	1979
11	R.E.M.	Automatic for the people	1992
12	Jeff Buckley	Grace	1994
13	Bob Dylan	Blood on the tracks	1975
14	Neil Young	Tonight's the night	1975
15	Verve	A Northern soul	1995
16	Scott Walker	Scott 3	1969
17	Hüsker dü	Candy apple grey	1986
18	Mazzy star	So tonight that I might see	1993
19	PJ Harvey	Rid of me	1993
20	Smokey Robinson and the Miracles	The ultimate collection	1998
21	Gram Parsons	Grievous angel	1974
22	Slint	Spiderland	1991
23	Michael Head introducing the Strands	The magical world of the Strands	1998
24	Cure	Pornography	1982
25	Mogwai	Come on die young	1999
26	Manic street preachers	Gold against the soul	1993
27	Nirvana	Unplugged in New York	1994
28	Lou Reed	Berlin	1973
29	Portishead	Dummy	1994
30	Radiohead	The bends	1995