Acclaimed Music - Court and Spark
Joni Mitchell
Court and Spark


All Music Guide Info and Review

Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc.
Allan Kozinn, AVGuide (USA) - The 100 Greatest Pop Albums of the Century (2000) No Order
Barnes & Noble.com (USA) - The Best Music of the 20th Century (1999) No Order
Bill Shapiro (USA) - The Top 100 Rock Compact Discs (1991) No Order
Blender (USA) - 500 CDs You Must Own Before You Die (2003) No Order
Blender (USA) - The 100 Greatest American Albums of All time (2002) 51
Chartattack (Canada) - The 100 Best Canadian Albums of All Time (1996) 44
Chartattack (Canada) - The 50 Best Canadian Albums of All Time (2000) 23
Chuck Eddy (USA) - The Accidental Evolution of Rock'n'Roll (1997) No Order
Dave Marsh & Kevin Stein (USA) - The 40 Best of Album Chartmakers by Year (1981) 16
Entertainment Weekly (USA) - The 100 Greatest CDs of All Time (1993) 51
Gear (USA) - The 100 Greatest Albums of the Century (1999) 59
Kitsap Sun (USA) - Top 200 Albums of the Last 40 Years (2005) 169
Paul Gambaccini - The World Critics Best Albums of All Time (1987) 37
Pause & Play (USA) - Albums Inducted into a Time Capsule, One Album per Week No Order
Radio WXPN (USA) - The 100 Most Progressive Albums (1996) 18
Robert Dimery (General Editor) - 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die (2005) No Order
Rolling Stone (USA) - The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2003) 111
Stereophile (USA) - 40 Years of Stereophile: The 40 (+94) Essential Albums (2002) No Order
The Recording Academy Grammy Hall of Fame Albums and Songs (USA) Winner
The Sun (Canada) - The Best Albums from 1971 to 2000 (2001) No Order
Various writers - Albums: 50 Years of Great Recordings (2005) No Order
Continuum Books - 33 1/3: A Series of Books about Critically Acclaimed Albums No Order
Elvis Costello - 500 Albums You Need (2000) No Order
Guardian (UK) - 100 Albums that Don't Appear in All Other Top 100 Album Lists (1999) 23
New Musical Express (UK) - All Times Top 100 Albums (1985) 84
Stuart Maconie's Critical List on BBC Radio 2 (UK) - One Album Added Each Week No Order
Time Out (UK) - The 100 Best Albums of All Time (1989) 51
Zig Zag (UK) - Gillett & Frith's 100 Essential Rock Albums (1975) No Order
Helsingin Sanomat (Finland) - 50th Anniversary of Rock (2004) No Order
Pop (Sweden) - The World's 100 Best Albums + 300 Complements (1994) 101
Berlin Media (Germany) - The 100 Best Albums of All Time (1998) 76
Musik Express/Sounds (Germany) - The 100 Masterpieces (1993) 63
Rolling Stone (Germany) - The Best Albums of 5 Decades (1997) 62
Rock de Lux (Spain) - The 100 Best Albums of the 1970s (1988) 31
Ratings
All Music Guide (USA) - Album Ratings 1-5 Stars 5 Stars
MusicHound (USA) - Album Ratings 0-5 Bones (1998-99) 5 Bones
Robert Christgau (USA) - Consumer Guide Album Grade A
Rolling Stone Album Guide, Ratings 0-5 Stars (USA, 1979 and/or 1983) 5 Stars
Rolling Stone Album Guide, Ratings 1-5 Stars (USA, 1992) 5 Stars
Slant (USA) - The 50 Most Essential Pop Albums (2004) 5 Stars
Martin C. Strong (UK) - The Great Rock Discography 7th Edition, Ratings 1-10 9
Paul Roland (UK) - CD Guide to Pop & Rock, Album Ratings 1-5 Stars (2001) 5 Stars
Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (UK) - Album Ratings 1-5 Stars (2002) 5 Stars
Piero Scaruffi, Italy (www.scaruffi.com), Album Ratings (Scale 1 to 10) 7
End of Year Lists
Grammy Awards (USA) - Album of the Year Nominee
Village Voice (USA) - Albums of the Year 1
New Musical Express (UK) - Albums of the Year 18
Sounds (UK) - Albums of the Year No Order
OOR (Netherlands) - Albums of the Year 12


These critics also liked the following albums:

ArtistAlbumYear Buy at
Amazon		Song
Samples
The Beach Boys
 Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
 1965
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Ray Charles
 Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
 1962
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Grateful Dead
 American Beauty
 1970
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Lauryn Hill
 The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
 1998
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Cyndi Lauper
 She's so Unusual
 1983
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Lionel Richie
 Can't Slow Down
 1983
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The Rolling Stones
 Some Girls
 1978
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Simon and Garfunkel
 Bookends
 1968
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Steely Dan
 Countdown to Ecstasy
 1973
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The White Stripes
 Elephant
 2003
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