NME: The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Comments
497. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
May 21, 2013
Critic Score
83
39 reviews
By assembling a cast of their favourite musicians and delving into their adolescent memories, Daft Punk have created something as emotionally honest as any singer-songwriter confessional – and a lot more fun to dance to.
486. Björk - Homogenic
September 23, 1997
Critic Score
95
8 reviews
While her third solo album, 'Homogenic', is probably her most weird, it is also her best.
485. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city
October 22, 2012
Critic Score
90
28 reviews
It might lack the raw appeal of Kendrick’s 2011 mixtape ‘Section.80’, but it’s also a big-budget reminder that the 25-year-old hasn’t forgotten his roots.
483. Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Blood & Chocolate
September 15, 1986
Critic Score
87
3 reviews
480. Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
March 10, 1967
Critic Score
97
3 reviews
478. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
May 21, 2013
Critic Score
83
39 reviews
‘Trouble…’ is a collection of anthems, full of rich orchestral fanfares, bolstered by the cast and crew of New York’s finest.
477. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
March 18, 2008
Critic Score
71
18 reviews
As media characters, they may be difficult to love, but it’s easy to get seriously smitten with the music. New rave is over. The likes of frYars, Late Of The Pier and Crystal Castles are taking electro into darker, more interesting territory. No glowstick required.
472. The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
October 24, 1995
Critic Score
79
7 reviews
470. Kanye West - Graduation
September 11, 2007
Critic Score
75
18 reviews
‘Graduation’ isn’t a bad album – he’s got away with it. But sometimes you feel hip-hop’s saviour is taking the maxim “genius steals” rather too literally.
465. The National - High Violet
May 10, 2010
Critic Score
85
30 reviews
Darker and more introspectively brooding than ever, in places it’s the most immediate National effort since their overlooked eponymous debut.
464. Kings of Leon - Because of the Times
April 3, 2007
Critic Score
74
16 reviews
As it stands, ‘Because Of The Times’ cements Kings Of Leon as one of the great American bands of our times.
459. Jay-Z - The Black Album
November 14, 2003
Critic Score
78
10 reviews
How good is this album? Well, a lot better than the bloated ‘Blueprint 2’, for a start. ‘The Black Album’ is Jay-Z in the optimum form of 2001’s ‘The Blueprint’, just as he has been all year on his guest verses for Beyonce, Outkast, Pharrell and Panjabi MCs.
458. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
April 23, 2002
Critic Score
92
12 reviews
There's love, there's the war on terror, and for Wilco, both are a battlefield. 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot' sees the former country rockers streamlining their sound down to a painful bareness, and telling us how they hurt.
Related
