Rolling stone - Best of
1977-2004 (critics)
1977 | 1978 | 1979 | |||||||
1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 |
1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 |
2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |
1977 | |||
1 | Elvis Costello | My aim is true | 1977 |
2 | Eagles | Hotel California | 1976 |
3 | Fleetwood mac | Rumours | 1977 |
4 | Sex pistols | Never mind the bollocks, here's the Sex pistols | 1977 |
5 | James Taylor | JT | 1977 |
6 | Muddy Waters | Hard again | 1977 |
1978 | |||
1 | Jackson Browne | Running on empty | 1977 |
2 | Elvis Costello | This year's model | 1978 |
3 | Kinks | Misfits | 1978 |
4 | Ramones | Road to ruin | 1978 |
5 | Rolling stones | Some girls | 1978 |
6 | Bruce Springsteen | Darkness on the edge of town | 1978 |
1979 | |||
1 | Neil Young | Rust never sleeps | 1979 |
1980 | |||
1 | Captain Beefheart and the Magic band | Doc at the radar station | 1980 |
2 | Clash | London calling | 1979 |
3 | Mink DeVille | Le chat bleu | 1980 |
4 | Bruce Springsteen | The river | 1980 |
5 | Talking heads | Remain in light | 1980 |
1981 | |||
1 | # | Strength through oi! | 1981 |
2 | David Byrne | Songs from The catherine wheel | 1981 |
3 | Clash | Sandinista! | 1980 |
4 | J. Geils band | Freeze frame | 1981 |
5 | Rickie Lee Jones | Pirates | 1981 |
6 | Neville brothers | Fiyo on the bayou | 1981 |
7 | Police | Ghost in the machine | 1981 |
8 | Rolling stones | Tattoo you | 1981 |
9 | Squeeze | East side story | 1981 |
10 | Tom Verlaine | Dreamtime | 1981 |
11 | X | Wild gift | 1981 |
1982 | |||
1 | Elvis Costello and the Attractions | Imperial bedroom | 1982 |
2 | Marshall Crenshaw | Marshall Crenshaw | 1982 |
3 | Prince | 1999 | 1982 |
4 | Lou Reed | The blue mask | 1982 |
5 | Bruce Springsteen | Nebraska | 1982 |
6 | Richard & Linda Thompson | Shoot out the lights | 1982 |
1983 | |||
1 | Michael Jackson | Thriller | 1982 |
2 | Police | Synchronicity | 1983 |
3 | R.E.M. | Murmur | 1983 |
4 | U2 | War | 1983 |
5 | X | More fun in the new world | 1983 |
1984 | |||
1 | Los Lobos | How will the wolf survive? | 1984 |
2 | Pretenders | Learning to crawl | 1984 |
3 | Prince | Purple rain | 1984 |
4 | Bruce Springsteen | Born in the USA | 1984 |
5 | Tina Turner | Private dancer | 1984 |
1985 | |||
1 | Talking heads | Little creatures | 1985 |
2 | John Cougar Mellencamp | Scarecrow | 1985 |
3 | Bob Dylan | Biograph | 1985 |
4 | Replacements | Tim | 1985 |
5 | R.E.M. | Fables of the reconstruction/Reconstruction of the fables | 1985 |
1986 | |||
1 | Robert Cray band | Strong persuader | 1986 |
2 | Peter Gabriel | So | 1986 |
3 | R.E.M. | Life's rich pageant | 1986 |
4 | Run DMC | Raising hell | 1986 |
5 | Paul Simon | Graceland | 1986 |
6 | Bruce Springsteen | Live 1975/1985 | 1986 |
7 | Talking heads | True stories | 1986 |
1987 | |||
1 | John Hiatt | Bring the family | 1987 |
2 | Los Lobos | By the light of the moon | 1987 |
3 | Prince | Sign o the times | 1987 |
4 | R.E.M. | Document | 1987 |
5 | Replacements | Pleased to meet you | 1987 |
6 | Robbie Robertson | Robbie Robertson | 1987 |
7 | Bruce Springsteen | Tunnel of love | 1987 |
8 | That petrol emotion | Babble | 1987 |
9 | U2 | The Joshua tree | 1987 |
10 | Tom Waits | Franks wild years | 1987 |
1988 | |||
1 | Midnight oil | Diesel and dust | 1987 |
2 | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | 1988 |
4 | Public enemy | It takes a nation of millions to hold us back | 1988 |
3 | Sonic youth | Daydream nation | 1988 |
5 | Traveling Wilburys | Traveling Wilburys, volume 1 | 1988 |
6 | John Hiatt | Slow turning | 1988 |
7 | Graham Parker | The Mona Lisa's daughter | 1988 |
9 | Cowboy junkies | The Trinity sessions | 1988 |
8 | Prince | The black album | 1988 |
10 | Was (not Was) | What up, Dog? | 1988 |
11 | Prince | Lovesexy | 1988 |
12 | Waterboys | Fisherman's blues | 1988 |
13 | Keith Richards | Talk is cheap | 1988 |
1989 | |||
1 | Neil Young | Freedom | 1989 |
2 | Lou Reed | New York | 1989 |
3 | Neville brothers | Yellow moon | 1989 |
4 | Elvis Costello | Spike | 1989 |
5 | De la soul | 3 feet high and rising | 1989 |
5 | Bob Mould | Workbook | 1989 |
6 | Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers | Full moon fever | 1989 |
7 | Neneh Cherry | Raw like sushi | 1989 |
8 | Fine young cannibals | The raw & the cooked | 1989 |
9 | Pixies | Doolittle | 1989 |
10 | Soul II Soul | Club classics, vol. 1 | 1989 |
1990 | |||
1 | Sinéad O'Connor | I do not want what I haven't got | 1990 |
2 | Neil Young | Ragged glory | 1990 |
3 | Replacements | All shook down | 1990 |
4 | Living colour | Time's up | 1990 |
5 | Rosanne Cash | Interiors | 1990 |
1991 | |||
1 | R.E.M. | Out of time | 1991 |
2 | U2 | Achtung baby | 1991 |
3 | Nirvana | Nevermind | 1991 |
4 | Guns n' roses | Use your illusion 1 | 1991 |
5 | American music club | Everclear | 1991 |
1992 | |||
1 | R.E.M. | Automatic for the people | 1992 |
2 | Arrested development | 3 years, 5 months and 2 days in the life of ... | 1992 |
3 | Los Lobos | Kiko | 1992 |
4 | Sonic youth | Dirty | 1992 |
5 | PJ Harvey | Dry | 1992 |
1993 | |||
1 | Nirvana | In utero | 1993 |
2 | U2 | Zooropa | 1993 |
3 | Liz Phair | Exile in Guyville | 1993 |
4 | Pearl jam | Pearl jam vs. Pearl jam | 1993 |
5 | Dr. Dre | The chronic | 1992 |
6 | PJ Harvey | 4 track demos | 1993 |
7 | Urge overkill | Saturation | 1993 |
1994 | |||
1 | Hole | Live through this | 1994 |
2 | R.E.M. | Monster | 1994 |
3 | Soundgarden | Superunknown | 1994 |
4 | Nine inch nails | The downward spiral | 1994 |
5 | Neil Young | Sleeps with angels | 1994 |
1995 | |||
1 | PJ Harvey | To bring you my love | 1995 |
2 | Foo fighters | Foo fighters | 1995 |
3 | Tricky | Maxinquaye | 1995 |
4 | Elastica | Elastica | 1995 |
5 | Smashing pumpkins | Mellon Collie and the infinite sadness | 1995 |
6 | Neil Young | Mirror ball | 1995 |
7 | Björk | Post | 1995 |
8 | Oasis | (What's the story) Morning glory? | 1995 |
10 | P.M. Dawn | Jesus wept | 1995 |
10 | Son Volt | Trace | 1995 |
1996 | |||
1 | Beck | Odelay | 1996 |
2 | Tricky | Pre-millennium tension | 1996 |
3 | Dirty three | Horse stories | 1996 |
4 | R.E.M. | New adventures in hi-fi | 1996 |
5 | Johnny Cash | Unchained | 1996 |
6 | Wilco | Being there | 1996 |
7 | Screaming trees | Dust | 1996 |
8 | Sebadoh | Harmacy | 1996 |
9 | Nirvana | From the muddy banks of the Whiskah | 1996 |
10 | Fugees | The score | 1996 |
1997 | |||
1 | Bob Dylan | Time out of mind | 1997 |
2 | Radiohead | OK computer | 1997 |
3 | Pavement | Brighten the corners | 1997 |
4 | Cornershop | When I was born for the seventh time | 1997 |
5 | Sleater-Kinney | Dig me out | 1997 |
6 | Missy Elliott | Supa dupa fly | 1997 |
7 | Verve | Urban hymns | 1997 |
8 | Björk | Homogenic | 1997 |
9 | Chemical brothers | Dig your own hole | 1997 |
10 | Beth Orton & Bull | Trailer park | 1996 |
1998 | |||
1 | Lauryn Hill | The miseducation of Lauryn Hill | 1998 |
2 | Beastie boys | Hello nasty | 1998 |
3 | Lucinda Williams | Car wheels on a gravel road | 1998 |
4 | Beck | Mutations | 1998 |
5 | Jay-Z | Hard knock life (vol. 2) | 1998 |
1999 | |||
1 | Rage against the machine | The battle of Los Angeles | 1999 |
2 | Beck | Midnite vultures | 1999 |
3 | Eminem | The slim shady lp | 1999 |
4 | Nine inch nails | The fragile | 1999 |
5 | Moby | Play | 1999 |
6 | Prince Paul | A Prince among thieves | 1999 |
7 | Randy Newman | Bad love | 1999 |
8 | Mary J. Blige | Mary | 1999 |
9 | Magnetic fields | 69 love songs | 1999 |
10 | Fiona Apple | When the pawn hits the conflicts he thinks … | 1999 |
2000 | |||
1 | Eminem | The Marshall Mathers lp | 2000 |
2 | U2 | All that you can't leave behind | 2000 |
3 | Madonna | Music | 2000 |
4 | D'Angelo | Voodoo | 2000 |
5 | Radiohead | Kid A | 2000 |
6 | Outkast | Stankonia | 2000 |
7 | PJ Harvey | Stories from the city, stories from the sea | 2000 |
8 | Paul Simon | You're the one | 2000 |
9 | Wu-Tang clan | The W | 2000 |
10 | Lou Reed | Ecstacy | 2000 |
2001 | |||
1 | Bob Dylan | "Love and theft" | 2001 |
2 | Alicia Keys | Songs in A minor | 2001 |
3 | Mick Jagger | Goddess in the doorway | 2001 |
4 | Björk | Vespertine | 2001 |
5 | Jay-Z | The blueprint | 2001 |
6 | Garbage | Beautiful Garbage | 2001 |
7 | Manu Chao | Proxima estacion: esperanza | 2001 |
8 | Strokes | Is this it | 2001 |
9 | #s | O brother, where art thou? (soundtrack) | 2000 |
10 | Radiohead | Amnesiac | 2001 |
2002 | |||
1 | Beck | Sea change | 2002 |
2 | Wilco | Yankee hotel Foxtrot | 2002 |
3 | Coldplay | A rush of blood to the head | 2002 |
4 | Bright eyes | Lifted of the story is in the soil keep your ear to ground | 2002 |
5 | Missy Elliott | Under construction | 2002 |
6 | Streets | Original pirate material | 2002 |
7 | Eminem | The Eminem show | 2002 |
8 | Queens of the Stone age | Songs for the deaf | 2002 |
9 | Spoon | Kill the moonlight | 2002 |
10 | Bruce Springsteen | The rising | 2002 |
2003 | |||
1 | Outkast | Speakerboxxx/the love below | 2003 |
2 | Radiohead | Hail to the thief | 2003 |
3 | White stripes | Elephant | 2003 |
4 | Strokes | Room on fire | 2003 |
5 | Rufus Wainwright | Want one | 2003 |
6 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Fever to tell | 2003 |
7 | Fountains of Wayne | Welcome interstate managers | 2003 |
8 | Postal service | Give up | 2003 |
9 | Café Tacuba | Quatro caminos | 2003 |
10 | Kings of Leon | Youth & young manhood | 2003 |
2004 | |||
1 | Kanye West | The college dropout | 2004 |
2 | Loretta Lynn | Van Lear rose | 2004 |
3 | Franz Ferdinand | Franz Ferdinand | 2004 |
4 | Brian Wilson | Smile | 2004 |
5 | Arcade fire | Funeral | 2004 |
6 | Wilco | A ghost is born | 2004 |
7 | U2 | How to dismantle an atomic bomb | 2004 |
8 | Rilo kiley | More adventurous | 2004 |
9 | Green day | American idiot | 2004 |
10 | Modest mouse | Good news for people who love bad news | 2004 |
#s | O brother, where art thou? (soundtrack) | 2000 |
# | Strength through oi! | 1981 |
American music club | Everclear | 1991 |
Fiona Apple | When the pawn hits the conflicts he thinks … | 1999 |
Arcade fire | Funeral | 2004 |
Arrested development | 3 years, 5 months and 2 days in the life of ... | 1992 |
Beastie boys | Hello nasty | 1998 |
Beck | Midnite vultures | 1999 |
Beck | Mutations | 1998 |
Beck | Odelay | 1996 |
Beck | Sea change | 2002 |
Björk | Homogenic | 1997 |
Björk | Post | 1995 |
Björk | Vespertine | 2001 |
Mary J. Blige | Mary | 1999 |
Bright eyes | Lifted of the story is in the soil keep your ear to ground | 2002 |
Jackson Browne | Running on empty | 1977 |
David Byrne | Songs from The catherine wheel | 1981 |
Café Tacuba | Quatro caminos | 2003 |
Captain Beefheart and the Magic band | Doc at the radar station | 1980 |
Johnny Cash | Unchained | 1996 |
Rosanne Cash | Interiors | 1990 |
Manu Chao | Proxima estacion: esperanza | 2001 |
Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | 1988 |
Chemical brothers | Dig your own hole | 1997 |
Neneh Cherry | Raw like sushi | 1989 |
Clash | London calling | 1979 |
Clash | Sandinista! | 1980 |
Coldplay | A rush of blood to the head | 2002 |
Cornershop | When I was born for the seventh time | 1997 |
Elvis Costello and the Attractions | Imperial bedroom | 1982 |
Elvis Costello | My aim is true | 1977 |
Elvis Costello | Spike | 1989 |
Elvis Costello | This year's model | 1978 |
Cowboy junkies | The Trinity sessions | 1988 |
Robert Cray band | Strong persuader | 1986 |
Marshall Crenshaw | Marshall Crenshaw | 1982 |
P.M. Dawn | Jesus wept | 1995 |
D'Angelo | Voodoo | 2000 |
De la soul | 3 feet high and rising | 1989 |
Dirty three | Horse stories | 1996 |
Dr. Dre | The chronic | 1992 |
Bob Dylan | "Love and theft" | 2001 |
Bob Dylan | Biograph | 1985 |
Bob Dylan | Time out of mind | 1997 |
Eagles | Hotel California | 1976 |
Elastica | Elastica | 1995 |
Missy Elliott | Supa dupa fly | 1997 |
Missy Elliott | Under construction | 2002 |
Eminem | The Eminem show | 2002 |
Eminem | The Marshall Mathers lp | 2000 |
Eminem | The slim shady lp | 1999 |
Fine young cannibals | The raw & the cooked | 1989 |
Fleetwood mac | Rumours | 1977 |
Foo fighters | Foo fighters | 1995 |
Fountains of Wayne | Welcome interstate managers | 2003 |
Franz Ferdinand | Franz Ferdinand | 2004 |
Fugees | The score | 1996 |
Peter Gabriel | So | 1986 |
Garbage | Beautiful Garbage | 2001 |
J. Geils band | Freeze frame | 1981 |
Green day | American idiot | 2004 |
Guns n' roses | Use your illusion 1 | 1991 |
PJ Harvey | 4 track demos | 1993 |
PJ Harvey | Dry | 1992 |
PJ Harvey | Stories from the city, stories from the sea | 2000 |
PJ Harvey | To bring you my love | 1995 |
John Hiatt | Bring the family | 1987 |
John Hiatt | Slow turning | 1988 |
Lauryn Hill | The miseducation of Lauryn Hill | 1998 |
Hole | Live through this | 1994 |
Michael Jackson | Thriller | 1982 |
Mick Jagger | Goddess in the doorway | 2001 |
Jay-Z | Hard knock life (vol. 2) | 1998 |
Jay-Z | The blueprint | 2001 |
Rickie Lee Jones | Pirates | 1981 |
Alicia Keys | Songs in A minor | 2001 |
Kings of Leon | Youth & young manhood | 2003 |
Kinks | Misfits | 1978 |
Living colour | Time's up | 1990 |
Los Lobos | By the light of the moon | 1987 |
Los Lobos | How will the wolf survive? | 1984 |
Los Lobos | Kiko | 1992 |
Loretta Lynn | Van Lear rose | 2004 |
Madonna | Music | 2000 |
Magnetic fields | 69 love songs | 1999 |
John Cougar Mellencamp | Scarecrow | 1985 |
Midnight oil | Diesel and dust | 1987 |
Mink DeVille | Le chat bleu | 1980 |
Moby | Play | 1999 |
Modest mouse | Good news for people who love bad news | 2004 |
Bob Mould | Workbook | 1989 |
Neville brothers | Fiyo on the bayou | 1981 |
Neville brothers | Yellow moon | 1989 |
Randy Newman | Bad love | 1999 |
Nine inch nails | The downward spiral | 1994 |
Nine inch nails | The fragile | 1999 |
Nirvana | From the muddy banks of the Whiskah | 1996 |
Nirvana | In utero | 1993 |
Nirvana | Nevermind | 1991 |
Oasis | (What's the story) Morning glory? | 1995 |
Sinéad O'Connor | I do not want what I haven't got | 1990 |
Beth Orton & Bull | Trailer park | 1996 |
Outkast | Speakerboxxx/the love below | 2003 |
Outkast | Stankonia | 2000 |
Graham Parker | The Mona Lisa's daughter | 1988 |
Pavement | Brighten the corners | 1997 |
Pearl jam | Pearl jam vs. Pearl jam | 1993 |
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers | Full moon fever | 1989 |
Liz Phair | Exile in Guyville | 1993 |
Pixies | Doolittle | 1989 |
Police | Ghost in the machine | 1981 |
Police | Synchronicity | 1983 |
Postal service | Give up | 2003 |
Pretenders | Learning to crawl | 1984 |
Prince | 1999 | 1982 |
Prince | Lovesexy | 1988 |
Prince | Purple rain | 1984 |
Prince | Sign o the times | 1987 |
Prince | The black album | 1988 |
Prince Paul | A Prince among thieves | 1999 |
Public enemy | It takes a nation of millions to hold us back | 1988 |
Queens of the Stone age | Songs for the deaf | 2002 |
R.E.M. | Automatic for the people | 1992 |
R.E.M. | Document | 1987 |
R.E.M. | Fables of the reconstruction/Reconstruction of the fables | 1985 |
R.E.M. | Life's rich pageant | 1986 |
R.E.M. | Monster | 1994 |
R.E.M. | Murmur | 1983 |
R.E.M. | New adventures in hi-fi | 1996 |
R.E.M. | Out of time | 1991 |
Radiohead | Amnesiac | 2001 |
Radiohead | Hail to the thief | 2003 |
Radiohead | Kid A | 2000 |
Radiohead | OK computer | 1997 |
Rage against the machine | The battle of Los Angeles | 1999 |
Ramones | Road to ruin | 1978 |
Lou Reed | Ecstacy | 2000 |
Lou Reed | New York | 1989 |
Lou Reed | The blue mask | 1982 |
Replacements | All shook down | 1990 |
Replacements | Pleased to meet you | 1987 |
Replacements | Tim | 1985 |
Keith Richards | Talk is cheap | 1988 |
Rilo kiley | More adventurous | 2004 |
Robbie Robertson | Robbie Robertson | 1987 |
Rolling stones | Some girls | 1978 |
Rolling stones | Tattoo you | 1981 |
Run DMC | Raising hell | 1986 |
Screaming trees | Dust | 1996 |
Sebadoh | Harmacy | 1996 |
Sex pistols | Never mind the bollocks, here's the Sex pistols | 1977 |
Paul Simon | Graceland | 1986 |
Paul Simon | You're the one | 2000 |
Sleater-Kinney | Dig me out | 1997 |
Smashing pumpkins | Mellon Collie and the infinite sadness | 1995 |
Son Volt | Trace | 1995 |
Sonic youth | Daydream nation | 1988 |
Sonic youth | Dirty | 1992 |
Soul II Soul | Club classics, vol. 1 | 1989 |
Soundgarden | Superunknown | 1994 |
Spoon | Kill the moonlight | 2002 |
Bruce Springsteen | Born in the USA | 1984 |
Bruce Springsteen | Darkness on the edge of town | 1978 |
Bruce Springsteen | Live 1975/1985 | 1986 |
Bruce Springsteen | Nebraska | 1982 |
Bruce Springsteen | The rising | 2002 |
Bruce Springsteen | The river | 1980 |
Bruce Springsteen | Tunnel of love | 1987 |
Squeeze | East side story | 1981 |
Streets | Original pirate material | 2002 |
Strokes | Is this it | 2001 |
Strokes | Room on fire | 2003 |
Talking heads | Little creatures | 1985 |
Talking heads | Remain in light | 1980 |
Talking heads | True stories | 1986 |
James Taylor | JT | 1977 |
That petrol emotion | Babble | 1987 |
Richard & Linda Thompson | Shoot out the lights | 1982 |
Traveling Wilburys | Traveling Wilburys, volume 1 | 1988 |
Tricky | Maxinquaye | 1995 |
Tricky | Pre-millennium tension | 1996 |
Tina Turner | Private dancer | 1984 |
U2 | Achtung baby | 1991 |
U2 | All that you can't leave behind | 2000 |
U2 | How to dismantle an atomic bomb | 2004 |
U2 | The Joshua tree | 1987 |
U2 | War | 1983 |
U2 | Zooropa | 1993 |
Urge overkill | Saturation | 1993 |
Tom Verlaine | Dreamtime | 1981 |
Verve | Urban hymns | 1997 |
Rufus Wainwright | Want one | 2003 |
Tom Waits | Franks wild years | 1987 |
Was (not Was) | What up, Dog? | 1988 |
Waterboys | Fisherman's blues | 1988 |
Muddy Waters | Hard again | 1977 |
Kanye West | The college dropout | 2004 |
White stripes | Elephant | 2003 |
Wilco | A ghost is born | 2004 |
Wilco | Being there | 1996 |
Wilco | Yankee hotel Foxtrot | 2002 |
Lucinda Williams | Car wheels on a gravel road | 1998 |
Brian Wilson | Smile | 2004 |
Wu-Tang clan | The W | 2000 |
X | More fun in the new world | 1983 |
X | Wild gift | 1981 |
Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Fever to tell | 2003 |
Neil Young | Freedom | 1989 |
Neil Young | Mirror ball | 1995 |
Neil Young | Ragged glory | 1990 |
Neil Young | Rust never sleeps | 1979 |
Neil Young | Sleeps with angels | 1994 |