Acclaimed Music - The Pretender
Jackson Browne
The Pretender


All Music Guide Info and Review

Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc.
Bill Shapiro (USA) - The Top 100 Rock Compact Discs (1991) No Order
Dave Marsh & Kevin Stein (USA) - The 40 Best of Album Chartmakers by Year (1981) 7
Greil Marcus (USA) - STRANDED: Contributors and Their Albums (1979) No Order
Pause & Play (USA) - Albums Inducted into a Time Capsule, One Album per Week No Order
Rolling Stone (USA) - Steve Pond's 50 (+27) Essential Albums of the 70s (1990) 45
Rolling Stone (USA) - The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2003) 391
Stereophile (USA) - 40 Years of Stereophile: The 40 (+94) Essential Albums (2002) No Order
Hot Press (Ireland) - The 100 Best Albums of All Time (1989) 60
Stuart Maconie's Critical List on BBC Radio 2 (UK) - One Album Added Each Week No Order
The Times (UK) - The 100 Best Albums of All Time (1993) 91
Panorama (Norway) - The 30 Best Albums of the Year 1970-98 (1999) 20
Schlager (Sweden) - The 30 Best Albums of All Time (1984) 18
Ratings
All Music Guide (USA) - Album Ratings 1-5 Stars 3.5 Stars
MusicHound (USA) - Album Ratings 0-5 Bones (1998-99) 4 Bones
Robert Christgau (USA) - Consumer Guide Album Grade B
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) 3.5 Stars
Martin C. Strong (UK) - The Great Rock Discography 7th Edition, Ratings 1-10 6
Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (UK) - Album Ratings 1-5 Stars (2002) 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 3
New Musical Express (UK) - Albums of the Year 8
OOR (Netherlands) - Albums of the Year 5


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 1993
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 1976
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