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The Black Album


Metacritic Reviews
All Music Guide Info and Review

Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc.
BetterPropaganda (USA) - Top 100 Albums of the 2000s (2009) 44
Complex (USA) - Top 100 Albums of the 2000s (2009) 17
Glide (USA) - Top 50 Albums of the 2000s (2009) 5
HipHopDX (USA) - Top 11 Albums of the 2000s (2009) No Order
Kitsap Sun (USA) - Top 101 Albums of the 2000s (2010) 48
Michigan Daily (USA) - Top 50 Albums of the New Millennium (2004) 11
OneThirtyBPM (USA) - Top 100 Albums of the 2000s (2010) 69
Pitchfork (USA) - The 100 Best Albums of 2000-2004 (2005) 35
Pitchfork (USA) - Top 200 Albums of the 2000s (2009) 90
Popdose (USA) - Top 100 Albums of the 2000s (2009) 25
Rolling Stone (USA) - Top 100 Albums of the 2000s (2009) 14
Slant (USA) - Top 250 Albums of the 2000s (2010) 7
Spin (USA) - The 125 Best Albums of the Past 25 Years (2010) 92
Stylus (USA) - The 50 Best Albums of 2000-2004 (2005) 42
Guardian (UK) - 1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die (2007) No Order
Hip-Hop Connection (UK) - The 100 Greatest Rap Albums 1995-2005 24
Q (UK) - Top 100 Albums of the 2000s (2009) 47
Rock's Back Pages (UK) - Top 176 Albums of the 2000s (2009) 117.5
State (Ireland) - Top 50 Albums of the 2000s (2009) 21
The Guardian (UK) - Top 50 Albums of the 2000s (2009) 8
The Sun (UK) - Top 40 Albums of the 2000s (2009) 10
Virgin Media (UK) - Top 20 Albums of the 2000s (2009) No Order
Ratings
All Music Guide (USA) - Album Ratings 1-5 Stars 4.5 Stars
Robert Christgau (USA) - Consumer Guide Album Grade ***
Rolling Stone Album Guide, Ratings 1-5 Stars (USA, 2004) 4.5 Stars
Martin C. Strong (UK) - The Great Rock Discography 7th Edition, Ratings 1-10 7
Metacritic (Metascore 0-100, Weighted Average of Reviews from USA and UK) 84
Piero Scaruffi, Italy (www.scaruffi.com), Album Ratings (Scale 1 to 10) 5
End of Year Lists
Baltimore City Paper (USA) - Albums of the Year 1
LostAtSea (USA) - Albums of the Year 22
Neumu (USA) - Albums of the Year 14
Pitchfork (USA) - Albums of the Year 17
PopMatters (USA) - Albums of the Year 36
Rolling Stone (USA) - Albums of the Year No Order
Spin (USA) - Albums of the Year 6
Top40 (USA) - Albums of the Year 30
Village Voice (USA) - Albums of the Year 13
Dotmusic (UK) - Albums of the Year 5
New Musical Express (UK) - Albums of the Year 34
Planet Sound (UK) - Albums of the Year 37
Aftenposten (Norway) - Albums of the Year 23
Aftonbladet (Sweden) - Albums of the Year 8
Dagbladet (Norway) - Albums of the Year 27
Dagsavisen (Norway) - Albums of the Year 12
Sonic (Sweden) - Albums of the Year 24
OOR (Netherlands) - Albums of the Year 27
Laut (Germany) - Albums of the Year 45
Monitor (Croatia) - Albums of the Year 7


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