| Year Rank |
Decade Rank | All Time Rank | Buy at Amazon | Sample | ||
| Murmur |
1983 | 1 | 10 | 58 |
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| Reckoning | 1984 | 11 | 96 | 587 | |
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| Fables of Reconstruction | 1985 | 20 | 219 | 1109 | |
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| Life's Rich Pageant | 1986 | 15 | 129 | 731 | |
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| Document | 1987 | 5 | 46 | 302 | |
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| Green |
1988 | 8 | 86 | 509 |
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| Out of Time | 1991 | 8 | 33 | 218 | |
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| Automatic for the People | 1992 | 1 | 4 | 44 | |
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| Monster |
1994 | 35 | 262 | 1322 |
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| New Adventures in Hi-Fi | 1996 | 11 | 157 | 807 | |
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| Up |
1998 | 22 | 211 | 1080 |
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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 | 34 | 246 |
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So. Central Rain | 1984 | 25 | 266 | 1510 |
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Pretty Persuasion | 1984 | 46 | 515 | 2723 |
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Fall on Me | 1986 | 21 | 263 | 1492 |
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It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) |
1987 | 6 | 51 | 341 | | |
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The One I Love |
1987 | 16 | 90 | 566 | | |
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Orange Crush | 1988 | 24 | 198 | 1131 |
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World Leader Pretend | 1988 | 52 | 514 | 2719 |
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Losing My Religion | 1991 | 2 | 2 | 44 |
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Shiny Happy People | 1991 | 45 | 456 | 2677 |
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Drive | 1992 | 12 | 126 | 936 |
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Man on the Moon | 1992 | 5 | 73 | 628 |
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Everybody Hurts | 1992 | 10 | 116 | 884 |
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What's the Frequency, Kenneth | 1994 | 18 | 119 | 908 |
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E-Bow the Letter | 1996 | 30 | 375 | 2260 |
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Imitation of Life | 2001 | 25 | 154 | 1656 |
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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 |