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 |
| #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 |