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Metacritic Reviews
All Music Guide Info and Review

Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc.
Amazon.com (USA) - The Best of the Decade in Music... So Far (2006) No Order
Blender (USA) - 500 CDs You Must Own Before You Die (2003) No Order
Cokemachineglow.com (Canada) - The 60 Best Albums of 2000-2004 (2005) No Order
GQ (USA) - The 40 Best Albums of the 21st Century (2003) No Order
Kitsap Sun (USA) - Top 200 Albums of the Last 40 Years (2005) 92
Magnet (USA) - 10th Anniversary Issue, Top 60 Albums 1993-2003 19
Michigan Daily (USA) - Top 50 Albums of the New Millennium (2004) 5
Music Underwater (USA) - Top 100 Albums 1990-2003 (2004) 74
Pitchfork (USA) - The 100 Best Albums of 2000-2004 (2005) 16
Robert Dimery (General Editor) - 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die (2005) No Order
Rolling Stone (USA) - The 50 Coolest Records of All Time (2002) 49
Rolling Stone (USA) - The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2003) 367
Spin (USA) - Top 100 (+5) Albums of the Last 20 Years (2005) 100
Stylus (USA) - The 50 Best Albums of 2000-2004 (2005) 4
Stylus (USA) - Top 101-200 Albums of All time (2004) 188
Various writers - Albums: 50 Years of Great Recordings (2005) No Order
Channel 4 (UK) - 125 Nominations for the 100 Greatest Albums (2005) No Order
GQ (UK) - The 100 Coolest Albums in the World Right Now! (2005) 34
Mojo (UK) - The 100 Greatest Albums of Our Lifetime 1993-2006 (2006) 33
Mojo (UK) - The Mojo Collection, Third Edition (2003) No Order
New Musical Express (UK) - Top 100 Albums of All Time (2003) 7
Q (UK) - Top 20 Albums from 1980-2004 (2004) 17
The Observer (UK) - 50 Albums That Changed Music 1956-2006 (2006) 48
Uncut (UK) - The 100 Greatest Debut Albums (2006) 72
Helsingin Sanomat (Finland) - 50th Anniversary of Rock (2004) No Order
Nyt (Finland) - Top 10 Albums of 1995-2005 (2005) 7
VPRO (The Netherlands) - 299 Nominations of the Best Album of All Time (2006) No Order
Rolling Stone (Germany) - The 100 Best Albums Since Autumn 1994 (2003) 14
Rolling Stone (Germany) - The 500 Best Albums of All Time (2004) 168
Screenagers (Poland) - The 50 Best Albums from 2000-2004 (2004) 8
Teraz Rock (Poland) - Top 50 Albums of the New Millennium (2005) 4
Pure Pop (Mexico) - The 10 (+50) Most Important Albums of All Time (2004) 2
Pure Pop (Mexico) - The 25 Best Albums Since Kurt Cobain Left Us (2003) 3
Pure Pop (Mexico) - The Top 25 Albums of Each Year 2000-2002 (2003) 1
Ratings
All Music Guide (USA) - Album Ratings 1-5 Stars 4.5 Stars
Robert Christgau (USA) - Consumer Guide Album Grade A-
Rolling Stone Album Guide, Ratings 1-5 Stars (USA, 2004) 5 Stars
Martin C. Strong (UK) - The Great Rock Discography 7th Edition, Ratings 1-10 9
Metacritic (Metascore 0-100, Weighted Average of Reviews from USA and UK) 89
Piero Scaruffi, Italy (www.scaruffi.com), Album Ratings (Scale 1 to 10) 6.5
End of Year Lists
Addicted to Noise (USA) - Albums of the Year 2
Amazon.com (USA) - Albums of the Year 17
Audiogalaxy (USA) - Albums of the Year 5
Barnes & Noble.com (USA) - Albums of the Year 67
Blender (USA) - Albums of the Year 17
College Music Journal (USA) - Albums of the Year No Order
Eonline (USA) - Albums of the Year No Order
Eye Weekly Canadian Critics Poll - Albums of the Year 1
Gallery of Sound (USA) - Albums of the Year 16
Ink Blot (USA) - Albums of the Year 8
Launch (USA) - Albums of the Year No Order
LiveDaily/Citysearch (USA) - Albums of the Year 4
Los Angeles New Times (USA) - Albums of the Year 2
LostAtSea (USA) - Albums of the Year 4
Magnet (USA) - Albums of the Year No Order
Pitchfork (USA) - Albums of the Year 15
Rolling Stone (USA) - Albums of the Year 8
Spin (USA) - Albums of the Year 18
Time (USA) - Albums of the Year 1
Unpop (USA) - Albums of the Year 3
VH1 (USA) - Albums of the Year No Order
Village Voice (USA) - Albums of the Year 2
Washington City Paper (USA) - Albums of the Year 33
woxy.com (USA) - Albums of the Year 3
Drowned in Sound (UK) - Albums of the Year 1
Face (UK) - Albums of the Year 2
Mojo (UK) - Albums of the Year 3
New Musical Express (UK) - Albums of the Year 1
Playlouder (UK) - Albums of the Year 1
Q (UK) - Albums of the Year No Order
Record Collector (UK) - Albums of the Year No Order
Rock's Back Pages - Albums of the Year 2
Uncut (UK) - Albums of the Year 37
Aftenposten (Norway) - Albums of the Year 3
Aftonbladet (Sweden) - Albums of the Year 7
Expressen (Sweden) - Albums of the Year 1
Natt & Dag (Norway) - Albums of the Year 15
Nöjesguiden (Sweden) - Albums of the Year 1
Panorama (Norway) - Albums of the Year 2
Rumba (Finland) - Albums of the Year 1
Sonic (Sweden) - Albums of the Year 11
Zailor (Norway) - Albums of the Year 2
OOR (Netherlands) - Albums of the Year 1
Eins Live (Germany) - Albums of the Year 9
Intro (Germany) - Albums of the Year 1
Musik Express/Sounds (Germany) - Albums of the Year 2
Rolling Stone (Germany) - Albums of the Year 2
Spex (Germany) - Albums of the Year 1
Visions (Germany) - Albums of the Year 2
Zundfunk (Germany) - Albums of the Year 4
Le Monde (France) - Albums of the Year No Order
Les Inrockuptibles (France) - Albums of the Year 8
Magic (France) - Albums of the Year 4
Popnews (France) - Albums of the Year 3
Rocksound (France) - Albums of the Year 36
Iguana (Spain) - Albums of the Year 1
Mondo Sonoro (Spain) - Albums of the Year 4
Rock de Lux (Spain) - Albums of the Year 3
BigO (Singapore) - Albums of the Year 37
Rumore (Italy) - Albums of the Year 9


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