| Year Rank |
Decade Rank | All Time Rank | Buy at Amazon | Sample | ||
| Murmur | 1983 | 1 | 12 | 65 | |
Listen |
| Reckoning | 1984 | 12 | 109 | 617 | |
Listen |
| Fables of the Reconstruction | 1985 | 16 | 186 | 991 | |
Listen |
| Lifes Rich Pageant | 1986 | 13 | 123 | 703 | |
Listen |
| Document | 1987 | 6 | 59 | 378 | |
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| Green | 1988 | 10 | 110 | 627 | |
Listen |
| Out of Time | 1991 | 10 | 41 | 252 | |
Listen |
| Automatic for the People | 1992 | 1 | 4 | 53 | |
Listen |
| Monster | 1994 | 33 | 239 | 1256 | |
Listen |
| New Adventures in Hi-Fi | 1996 | 13 | 173 | 917 | |
Listen |
| Up |
1998 | 22 | 246 | 1284 |
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| Accelerate |
2008 | 32 | 388 | 2320 |
| Listen |
| 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 | 29 | 211 | Listen | |
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So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry) |
1984 | 27 | 312 | 1760 | Listen | |
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Don't Go Back to Rockville |
1984 | 36 | 365 | 2006 | Listen | |
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Driver 8 |
1985 | 47 | 438 | 2394 | | |
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Fall on Me |
1986 | 15 | 186 | 1091 | Listen | |
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It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) |
1987 | 6 | 44 | 306 | | |
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The One I Love |
1987 | 17 | 107 | 623 | | |
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Orange Crush |
1988 | 32 | 265 | 1519 | Listen | |
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Losing My Religion |
1991 | 2 | 3 | 55 | Listen | |
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Drive |
1992 | 12 | 161 | 1242 | Listen | |
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Man on the Moon |
1992 | 10 | 116 | 978 | Listen | |
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Everybody Hurts |
1992 | 6 | 90 | 807 | Listen | |
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What's the Frequency, Kenneth? |
1994 | 25 | 155 | 1186 | Listen | |
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E-Bow the Letter |
1996 | 30 | 356 | 2384 | Listen | |
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Imitation of Life |
2001 | 19 | 191 | 1619 | Listen | |
| Some songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000: | ||||||
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Pretty Persuasion | 1984 |
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World Leader Pretend |
1988 | Listen | ||||
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Shiny Happy People |
1991 | Listen | ||||
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Daysleeper |
1998 | Listen | ||||
| Adult Alternative Pop/ Rock |
| Alternative Pop/ Rock |
| Alternative/ Indie Rock |
| American Underground |
| College Rock |
| Contemporary Pop/ Rock |
| Jangle Pop |