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All Music Guide Info and Review

Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc.
Robert Dimery (General Editor) - 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die (2005) No Order
Slant (USA) - Top 25 Electronic Albums (2005) 20
Treble (USA) - The Best Albums of the 80s, by Year (2006) 7
Mojo (UK) - The Mojo Collection, 3rd and/or 4th Edition (2003/2007) No Order
Paul Morley (UK) - Words and Music, 5 x 100 Greatest Albums of All Time (2003) No Order
Panorama (Norway) - The 30 Best Albums of the Year 1970-98 (1999) 17
Rolling Stone (Germany) - The 500 Best Albums of All Time (2004) 194
FNAC (France) - The 1000 Best Albums of All Time (2008) 87
Hervé Bourhis (France) - 555 Records (2007) No Order
Rock & Folk (France) - The Best Albums from 1963 to 1999 (1999) No Order
Rock&Folk (France) - The 250 Best Albums from 1966-1991 (1991) No Order
Blow Up (Italy) - 600 Essential Albums (2005) No Order
Screenagers (Poland) - Top 100 Albums of the 80s (2006) 71
Ratings
All Music Guide (USA) - Album Ratings 1-5 Stars 4.5 Stars
MusicHound (USA) - Album Ratings 0-5 Bones (1998-99) 3 Bones
Robert Christgau (USA) - Consumer Guide Album Grade B+
Rolling Stone Album Guide, Ratings 1-5 Stars (USA, 1992) 2.5 Stars
Rolling Stone Album Guide, Ratings 1-5 Stars (USA, 2004) 4.5 Stars
Spin's Book of Alternative Albums, Ratings 1-10 (USA, 1995) 7
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) 3 Stars
Le Guide du CD (France) - Ratings from 1 to 4 Stars & "GOLD" (1995-1997) 4 Stars
Piero Scaruffi, Italy (www.scaruffi.com), Album Ratings (Scale 1 to 10) 4
End of Year Lists
Record Mirror (UK) - Albums of the Year 7
Musik Express/Sounds (Germany) - Albums of the Year No Order


These critics also liked the following albums:

ArtistAlbumYear Buy at
Amazon		Song
Samples
Syd Barrett
 The Madcap Laughs
 1970
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Boards of Canada
 Music Has the Right to Children
 1998
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Daft Punk
 Homework
 1997
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Fatboy Slim
 You've Come a Long Way, Baby
 1998
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Heartbreakers
 L.A.M.F.
 1977
Leftfield
 Leftism
 1995
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Motörhead
 Overkill
 1979
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The Roots
 Things Fall Apart
 1999
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Todd Rundgren
 A Wizard, a True Star
 1973
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Them
 The Angry Young Them/Them (featuring Here Comes the Night)
 1965


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