Acclaimed Music - This Year's Model
Elvis Costello
This Year's Model


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
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) 2
Fast 'n' Bulbous (USA) - The 500 Best Albums Since 1965 145
Greil Marcus (USA) - STRANDED: "Treasure Island" Albums (1979) No Order
IE (USA) - 50 Great Albums, a Rock Time Capsule (1999) No Order
Joe S. Harrington, Blastitude (USA) - The All-Time Top 100 Albums (2001) 72
Kitsap Sun (USA) - Top 200 Albums of the Last 40 Years (2005) 117
Paul Gambaccini - The World Critics Best Albums of All Time (1987) 60
Pitchfork (USA) - Top 100 Albums of the 1970s (2004) 52
Robert Dimery (General Editor) - 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die (2005) No Order
Rolling Stone (USA) - Steve Pond's 50 (+27) Essential Albums of the 70s (1990) 31
Rolling Stone (USA) - The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2003) 98
Rolling Stone (USA) - Top 100 Albums of the Last 20 Years (1987) 11
Spin (USA) - The 25 Greatest Albums of All Time (1989) 8
Stylus (USA) - Top 101-200 Albums of All time (2004) 151
Treble (USA) - The Best Albums of the 70s, by Year (2005) 1
Trouser (USA) - The Best Albums from 1970-79 (1980) No Order
Mojo (UK) - The 100 Greatest Albums Ever Made (1995) 69
NME (UK) - The 100 Greatest British Albums Ever (2006) 66
New Musical Express (UK) - All Times Top 100 Albums (1985) 40
New Musical Express (UK) - NME Rock Years, Albums of the Year 1963-99 (2000) No Order
Q (UK) - The 100 Greatest British Albums Ever (2000) 82
The Anarchist (UK) - The 33 Best Albums Ever (1997) 29
Adresseavisen (Norway) - The 100 (+23) Best Albums of All Time (1995) 92
Expressen (Sweden) - The 100 Best Records Ever (1999) 41
Pop (Sweden) - The World's 100 Best Albums + 300 Complements (1994) 101
Slitz (Sweden) - The 50 Best Albums of All Time (1990) 22
David Kleijwegt (Netherlands) - Top 100 Albums of All Time (1999) 85
OOR (Netherlands) - The Best Albums of the 20th Century (1987) 53
OOR (Netherlands) - The Best Albums of the 70s (1979) 17
VPRO (The Netherlands) - 299 Nominations of the Best Album of All Time (2006) No Order
Berlin Media (Germany) - The 100 Best Albums of All Time (1998) 44
Musik Express/Sounds (Germany) - The 100 Masterpieces (1993) 84
Rolling Stone (Germany) - The 500 Best Albums of All Time (2004) 139
Rolling Stone (Germany) - The Best Albums of 5 Decades (1997) 47
Rock & Folk (France) - The Best Albums from 1963 to 1999 (1999) No Order
Telerama (France) - 50 LPs in the History of Rock (2004) 30
Rock de Lux (Spain) - The 100 Best Albums of the 1970s (1988) 29
Rock de Lux (Spain) - The 200 Best Albums of All Time (2002) 114
Alternative Melbourne (Australia) - The Top 100 Rock/Pop Albums (1996) 90
BigO (Singapore) - The 100 Best Albums from 1975 to 1995 (1995) 13
List by Asian Critics - 100 Essential Albums (1998?) No Order
Popster (Italy) - The 100 Best Albums of the 70s (1979) No Order
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) 4 Stars
Rolling Stone Album Guide, Ratings 1-5 Stars (USA, 1992) 5 Stars
Rolling Stone Album Guide, Ratings 1-5 Stars (USA, 2004) 5 Stars
Spin's Book of Alternative Albums, Ratings 1-10 (USA, 1995) 10
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
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
Rolling Stone (USA) - Albums of the Year No Order
Village Voice (USA) - Albums of the Year 1
New Musical Express (UK) - Albums of the Year 3
Record Mirror (UK) - Albums of the Year 5
Sounds (UK) - Albums of the Year 8
OOR (Netherlands) - Albums of the Year 1


These critics also liked the following albums:

ArtistAlbumYear Buy at
Amazon		Song
Samples
David Bowie
 Station to Station
 1976
The Byrds
 The Notorious Byrd Brothers
 1968
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John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
 John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
 1970
Gram Parsons
 Grievous Angel
 1974
 Listen
Lou Reed
 Berlin
 1973
 Listen
The Modern Lovers
 The Modern Lovers
 1976
 Listen
Bruce Springsteen
 Darkness on the Edge of Town
 1978
 Listen
Steely Dan
 Pretzel Logic
 1974
Tom Waits
 Swordfishtrombones
 1983
 Listen
Neil Young
 Tonight's the Night
 1975
 Listen


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