| Year Rank |
Decade Rank | All Time Rank | Buy at Amazon | Sample | ||
| Murmur |
1983 | 1 | 10 | 57 |
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| Reckoning | 1984 | 10 | 93 | 560 | |
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| Fables of Reconstruction | 1985 | 20 | 234 | 1178 | |
Listen |
| Life's Rich Pageant | 1986 | 14 | 123 | 713 | |
Listen |
| Document | 1987 | 5 | 49 | 315 | |
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| Green |
1988 | 8 | 88 | 518 |
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| Out of Time | 1991 | 8 | 34 | 228 | |
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| Automatic for the People | 1992 | 1 | 4 | 42 | |
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| Monster |
1994 | 32 | 251 | 1270 |
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| New Adventures in Hi-Fi | 1996 | 11 | 154 | 833 | |
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| Up |
1998 | 22 | 227 | 1183 |
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| Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000: | ||||||
| Reveal |
2001 |
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| Year Rank |
Decade Rank | All Time Rank | Sample | |||
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Radio Free Europe | 1981 | 4 | 26 | 194 |
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So. Central Rain | 1984 | 31 | 333 | 1798 |
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Pretty Persuasion | 1984 | 47 | 511 | 2567 |
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Fall on Me | 1986 | 22 | 252 | 1422 |
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It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) |
1987 | 6 | 53 | 353 | | |
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The One I Love |
1987 | 15 | 82 | 524 | | |
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Orange Crush | 1988 | 20 | 186 | 1068 |
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World Leader Pretend | 1988 | 52 | 525 | 2624 |
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Losing My Religion | 1991 | 2 | 2 | 41 |
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Shiny Happy People | 1991 | 44 | 426 | 2528 |
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Drive | 1992 | 11 | 124 | 911 |
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Man on the Moon | 1992 | 4 | 71 | 595 |
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Everybody Hurts | 1992 | 13 | 133 | 994 |
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What's the Frequency, Kenneth | 1994 | 17 | 113 | 863 |
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E-Bow the Letter | 1996 | 39 | 464 | 2733 |
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Imitation of Life | 2001 | 25 | 137 | 1684 |
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| Some songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000: | ||||||
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Don't Go Back to Rockville | 1984 |
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Daysleeper | 1998 |
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| Alternative Pop/Rock |
| American Underground |
| College Rock |
| Jangle pop |