Acclaimed Music - Mermaid Avenue
Billy Bragg & Wilco
Mermaid Avenue


All Music Guide Info and Review

Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc.
Blender (USA) - 500 CDs You Must Own Before You Die (2003) No Order
Jimmy Guterman (USA) - The Best Rock and Roll Records (online version) No Order
Kitsap Sun (USA) - Top 200 Albums of the Last 40 Years (2005) 75
Nude as the News (USA) - The 100 Most Compelling Albums of the 90s (1999) 37
Robert Dimery (General Editor) - 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die (2005) No Order
Rolling Stone (USA) - The Essential Recordings of the 90s (1999) No Order
Ratings
All Music Guide (USA) - Album Ratings 1-5 Stars 4 Stars
MusicHound (USA) - Album Ratings 0-5 Bones (1998-99) 4 Bones
Robert Christgau (USA) - Consumer Guide Album Grade A
Rolling Stone Album Guide, Ratings 1-5 Stars (USA, 2004) 4.5 Stars
Martin C. Strong (UK) - The Great Rock Discography 7th Edition, Ratings 1-10 8
Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (UK) - Album Ratings 1-5 Stars (2002) 4 Stars
Piero Scaruffi, Italy (www.scaruffi.com), Album Ratings (Scale 1 to 10) 6
End of Year Lists
Addicted to Noise (USA) - Albums of the Year 3
Eye Weekly Canadian Critics Poll - Albums of the Year 7
People.com (USA) - Albums of the Year No Order
Spin (USA) - Albums of the Year 8
Village Voice (USA) - Albums of the Year 4
Wall of Sound (USA) - Albums of the Year 13
Q (UK) - Albums of the Year No Order
Uncut (UK) - Albums of the Year 18
Aftonbladet (Sweden) - Albums of the Year 24
Musik Express/Sounds (Germany) - Albums of the Year 38
Rolling Stone (Germany) - Albums of the Year 10
Iguana (Spain) - Albums of the Year 39
Rock de Lux (Spain) - Albums of the Year 15
OAZA (Yugoslavia) - Albums of the Year 20


These critics also liked the following albums:

ArtistAlbumYear Buy at
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Samples
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 Help!
 1965
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 Love and Theft
 2001
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Hole
 Celebrity Skin
 1998
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The Mekons
 The Mekons' Rock'n'roll
 1989
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Moby
 Play
 1999
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OutKast
 Stankonia
 2000
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Rage Against the Machine
 Evil Empire
 1996
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Sleater-Kinney
 Dig Me Out
 1997
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U2
 All That You Can't Leave Behind
 2000
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Lucinda Williams
 Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
 1998
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