Acclaimed Music - Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode
Music for the Masses

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)

Treble (USA) - The Best Albums of the 80s, by Year (2006)

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)

Rolling Stone (Germany) - The 500 Best Albums of All Time (2004)

194

Rock & Folk (France) - The Best Albums from 1963 to 1999 (1999)

No Order

Blow Up (Italy) - 600 Essential Albums (2005)

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Screenagers (Poland) - Top 100 Albums of the 80s (2006)

Ratings

All Music Guide (USA) - Album Ratings 1-5 Stars

4.5 Stars

MusicHound (USA) - Album Ratings 0-5 Bones (1998-99)

3 Bones

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)

Martin C. Strong (UK) - The Great Rock Discography 7th Edition, Ratings 1-10

Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (UK) - Album Ratings 1-5 Stars (2002)

3 Stars

End of Year Lists

Record Mirror (UK) - Albums of the Year

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These critics also liked the following albums:

Artist	Album	Year	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
808 State	90	1989		Listen
Syd Barrett	The Madcap Laughs	1970		Listen
Black Dog Productions	Bytes	1993		Listen
Boards of Canada	Music Has the Right to Children	1998		Listen
John Cale	Music for a New Society	1982		Listen
The Cure	Pornography	1982		Listen
The Incredible String Band	The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter	1968
Leftfield	Leftism	1995		Listen
Low	Secret Name	1999		Listen
Them	(The Angry Young) Them/Here Comes the Night	1965