Acclaimed Music - Paradise and Lunch
Ry Cooder
Paradise and Lunch


All Music Guide Info and Review

Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc.
Jimmy Guterman (USA) - The Best Rock and Roll Records (online version) No Order
Paul Gambaccini - The World Critics Best Albums of All Time (1977) 109
Rolling Stone (USA) - Steve Pond's 50 (+27) Essential Albums of the 70s (1990) 51
Elvis Costello - 500 Albums You Need (2000) No Order
Paul Morley (UK) - Words and Music, 5 x 100 Greatest Albums of All Time (2003) No Order
The Times (UK) - The 100 Best Albums of All Time (1993) 87
Karl Bruckmaier (Switzerland) - 101 Most Important Albums of Rock History (1998) No Order
Rolling Stone (Germany) - The 500 Best Albums of All Time (2004) 175
Mauro Ronconi (Italy) - The 200 Best Albums of the 20th Century (1998) No Order
Mucchio Selvaggio (Italy) - 100 Best Albums by Decade (2002) 21-50
Velvet (Italy) - The 20 Best Albums of the 70s (1990) No Order
Ratings
All Music Guide (USA) - Album Ratings 1-5 Stars 4.5 Stars
MusicHound (USA) - Album Ratings 0-5 Bones (1998-99) 4.5 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) 3 Stars
Martin C. Strong (UK) - The Great Rock Discography 7th Edition, Ratings 1-10 7
Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (UK) - Album Ratings 1-5 Stars (2002) 4 Stars
José Ramón Pardo (Spain) - The 1000 Best Pop-Rock Albums, Ratings 1-5 (1997) 4 Stars
Piero Scaruffi, Italy (www.scaruffi.com), Album Ratings (Scale 1 to 10) 7
End of Year Lists
Village Voice (USA) - Albums of the Year 15
New Musical Express (UK) - Albums of the Year 35
Sounds (UK) - Albums of the Year No Order
OOR (Netherlands) - Albums of the Year 22


These critics also liked the following albums:

ArtistAlbumYear Buy at
Amazon		Song
Samples
Tim Buckley
 Happy Sad
 1969
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John Cale
 Music for a New Society
 1982
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
 Déjà Vu
 1970
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Bob Dylan and The Band
 The Basement Tapes
 1975
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Rickie Lee Jones
 Rickie Lee Jones
 1979
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Gram Parsons
 G.P.
 1973
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Paul Simon
 There Goes Rhymin' Simon
 1973
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Townes Van Zandt
 Our Mother the Mountain
 1969
Scott Walker
 Tilt
 1995
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Lucinda Williams
 Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
 1998
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