The former leading Swedish music magazine POP was sadly defunct in 1999. The 100 best albums in the world from 1994 is one of the most
ambitious critics lists ever made.
The 100 best albums in the world
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1. Sly and The Family Stone Complements: Curtis Mayfield Public Enemy Schoolly D 2. John Lennon Complements: John Lennon John Lennon & Yoko Ono Nirvana 3. The Clash Complements: Mott the Hoople John Lennon Lee Perry 4. The Wailers Complements: The Impressions The Wailers Bob Marley and the Wailers 5. The Rolling Stones Complements: Dr. John Meters Gram Parsons 6. Elvis Presley Complements: Elvis Presley Sam Cooke Charlie Rich 7. Aretha Franklin Complements: Ray Charles Aretha Franklin Gladys Knight & The Pips 8. Primal Scream Complements: Keith Hudson Happy Mondays The Orb 9. Creedence Clearwater Revival Complements: Little Richard Creedence Clearwater Revival John Fogerty 10. The Ronettes Complements: Raindrops Martha & The Vandellas Bruce Springsteen 11. Bob Dylan Complements: Bob Dylan Bob Dylan The Byrds 12. Bob Dylan Complements: Bob Dylan Bob Dylan Bob Dylan 13. The Beach Boys Complements: The Beatles Van Dyke Parks Spring 14. Marvin Gaye Complements: Stevie Wonder Marvin Gaye Marvin Gaye 15. Public Enemy Complements: Modulations The Clash Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy 16. The Beatles Complements: The Beatles The Bee Gees The Hollies 17. The Stooges Complements: The Stooges Iggy Pop Iggy Pop 18. Dusty Springfield Complements: Dusty Springfield Laura Nyro & LaBelle David Bowie 19. Van Morrison Complements: Them Nina Simone Van Morrison 20. Bruce Springsteen Complements: Phil Spector Creedence Clearwater Revival Bruce Springsteen 21. The Band Complements: The Band Little Feat Bob Dylan & The Band 22. Sly and The Family Stone Complements: Prince Prince Arrested Development 23. Al Green Complements: O.V. Wright Al Green Gregory Isaacs 24. Bob Dylan Complements: Bob Dylan Elvis Costello Bruce Springsteen 25. The Velvet Underground Complements: The Velvet Underground Spacemen 3 Lou Reed 26. The Beatles Complements: The Small Faces Todd Rundgren Wings 27. Howlin' Wolf Complements: The Rolling Stones Captain Beefheart Tom Waits 28. Eric B & Rakim Complements: EPMD Slick Rick L L Cool J 29. Ann Peebles Complements: Margie Joseph Ann Peebles Millie Jackson 30. The Rolling Stones Complements: The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones The Flaming Groovies 31. Burning Spear Complements: U-Roy Mighty Diamonds Bunny Wailer 32. MC5 Complements: Little Richard MC5 The Heartbreakers 33. Bruce Springsteen Complements: Randy Newman Tom Waits Bruce Springsteen 34. Scott Walker Complements: The Walker Brothers Scott Walker Scott Walker 35. The Jesus and Mary Chain Complements: The Beach Boys The Jesus and Mary Chain The Boo Radleys 36. The Isley Brothers Complements: The Isley Brothers The Isley Brothers The Jackson 5 37. Kraftwerk Complements: Kraftwerk Depeche Mode LFO 38. The Kinks Complements: The Kinks The Kinks Blur 39. Curtis Mayfield Complements: Marvin Gaye Curtis Mayfield Leroy Hutson 40. Smokey Robinson and The Miracles Complements: The Temptations Smokey Robinson and The Miracles Smokey Robinson and The Miracles 41. Dion Complements: The Righteous Brothers Dion Mink De Ville 42. The Byrds Complements: The Byrds Crosby, Stills & Nash Big Star 43. Chic Complements: Trammps Sister Sledge Michael Jackson 44. Tim Hardin Complements: Tim Hardin Leonard Cohen Rod Stewart 45. The O'Jays Complements: Archie Bell & The Drells The Spinners The O'Jays 46. The Smiths Complements: Orange Juice The Smiths Morrissey 47. David Bowie Complements: David Bowie Lou Reed Suede 48. Laura Nyro Complements: Bruce Springsteen Mink De Ville Victoria Williams 49. Prince Complements: Jimi Hendrix Parliament Prince 50. Neil Young Complements: Neil Young Neil Young Dinosaur Jr. 51. James Brown Complements: James Brown Funkadelic Ice Cube 52. Aretha Franklin Complements: Otis Redding Aretha Franklin Aretha Franklin 53. Augustus Pablo Complements: Lee Perry Augustus Pablo Prince Far I 54. Dexy's Midnight Runners Complements: Jimmy Ruffin Van Morrison Dexy's Midnight Runners 55. Stevie Wonder Complements: Donny Hathaway Stevie Wonder Stevie Wonder 56. The Clash Complements: Mikey Dread The Clash Sly & Robbie 57. The Staple Singers Complements: Solomon Burke Mavis Staples The Staple Singers 58. N.W.A. Complements: Ice Cube Dr. Dre Warren G 59. The Stone Roses Complements: Love The Electric Prunes Oasis 60. Television Complements: Suicide Television Richard Lloyd 61. The Impressions Complements: The Artistics Jerry Butler The Heptones 62. New Order Complements: Joy Division New Order Electronic 63. David Bowie Complements: David Bowie Brian Eno Einsturzende Neubauten 64. De La Soul Complements: Toots & The Maytals The Jungle Brothers A Tribe Called Quest 65. Elvis Costello Complements: Elvis Costello The Specials Lloyd Cole & The Commotions 66. Ray Charles Complements: T-Bone Walker Van Morrison Allen Toussaint 67. Simon and Garfunkel Complements: Simon and Garfunkel The Millennium Paul Simon 68. Patti Smith Complements: Patti Smith Pixies P J Harvey 69. Massive Attack Complements: Burning Spear Public Image Ltd. Massive Attack 70. The Jimi Hendrix Experience Complements: The Jimi Hendrix Experience The Isley Brothers Little Beaver 71. Joni Mitchell Complements: Joni Mitchell Kate and Anna McGarrigle Rickie Lee Jones 72. Ramones Complements: The Beach Boys Ramones The Undertones 73. Pet Shop Boys Complements: ABC Pet Shop Boys Pet Shop Boys 74. Richard & Linda Thompson Complements: John & Beverly Martyn Richard & Linda Thompson Everything But the Girl 75. Dionne Warwick Complements: Mary Wells Dionne Warwick Sade 76. Carole King Complements: Jackie DeShannon Carole King K. D. Lang 77. R.E.M. Complements: Gene Clark The Byrds Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers 78. John Phillips Complements: The Lovin' Spoonful The Mamas and the Papas Fred Neil 79. Inner City Complements: Kraftwerk Joe Smooth Mr Fingers 80. Led Zeppelin Complements: Led Zeppelin Guns 'n' Roses Red Hot Chili Peppers 81. Willie Nelson Complements: Jerry Lee Lewis Townes Van Zandt Willie Nelson 82. New York Dolls Complements: The Shangri-Las Johnny Thunders Sylvain Sylvain & The Teardrops 83. The Four Tops Complements: The Four Tops The Supremes The Chairman of the Board 84. Tim Buckley Complements: The Doors Tim Buckley Tim Buckley 85. My Bloody Valentine Complements: Sonic Youth My Bloody Valentine The Boo Radleys 86. The Who Complements: The Small Faces Rod Stewart The Jam 87. Bobby Bland Complements: Bobby Bland Etta James James Carr 88. Rhythim is Rhythim/Derrick May/ Mayday Complements: Parliament The Human League Reese Project 89. T. Rex Complements: T. Rex David Bowie Mott The Hoople 90. Sex Pistols Complements: The Beatles New York Dolls The KLF 91. Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes Complements: Hall & Oates McFadden & Whitehead Ten City 92. Björk Complements: Kate Bush Sinéad O'Connor Underworld 93. Nick Drake Complements: Nick Drake Robert Wyatt Paul Weller 94. Johnny Burnette Complements: Elvis Presley The Cramps The Cramps 95. Blondie Complements: Raspberries Blondie Saint Etienne 96. The Everly Brothers Complements: The Everly Brothers The Beatles Simon and Garfunkel 97. Horace Andy Complements: The Wailers Big Youth The Heptones 98. The Sonics Complements: The Sonics The Standells Roky Ericson & The Aliens 99. The Modern Lovers Complements: The Velvet Underground Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers Beastie Boys 100. Fleetwood Mac Complements: The Beach Boys Steely Dan Fleetwood Mac |
There's a Riot Goin' On There's No Place Like America Today Fear of a Black Planet Welcome to America Plastic Ono Band Imagine Double Fantasy Nevermind London Calling The Hoople Rock 'n' Roll Roast Fish Collie Weed & Corn Bread Soul Revolution Keep on Pushing Soul Rebels Natty Dread Exile on Main St Gris-Gris Meters GP From Elvis in Memphis Elvis Is Back The Wonderful World of Sam Cooke The Many New Sides of Charlie Rich Spirit in the Dark Rock and Roll Young, Gifted and Black Imagination Screamadelica Flesh of My Skin, Blood of My Blood Pills 'n' Thrills 'n' Bellyaches The Orb's Adventures Beyond the ultraworld Willy and the Poorboys Here's Little Richard Green River John Fogerty Presenting The Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica Raindrops Watchout! The River Highway 61 Revisited Another Side od Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home Mr Tambourine Man Blonde on Blonde Nashville Skyline New Morning Street Legal Pet Sounds Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Song Cycle Spring What's Going On Music of My Mind Let's Get It On Here, My Dear It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back It's Rough Out There The Clash Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury Rubber Soul Revolver The Bee Gees Butterfly The Stooges Fun House Lust For Life New Values Dusty in Memphis A Brand New Me (It's) Gonna Take a Miracle Young Americans Astral Weeks The Angry Young Them Nuff Said Into the Music Born to Run A Christmas Gift For You Cosmo's Factory Darkness on the Edge of Town The Band Music From Big Pink Sailin' Shoes The Basement Tapes Stand! 1999 Purple Rain 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life of… I'm Still in Love With You A Nickel and a Nail and Ace of Spades Call Me The Lonely Lover Blood on the Tracks John Wesley Harding Blood and Chocolate Tunnel of Love The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground and Nico Playing With Fire New York The Beatles Ogden's Nut Gone Flake Something/Anything Band on the Run Moanin' in the Moonlight The Rolling Stones Safe as Milk Swordfishtrombones Paid in Full Strictly Business The Great Adventures of Slick Rick Mama Said Knock You Out I Can't Stand The Rain Makes a New Impression Straight From the Heart Caught Up Beggars Banquet Let it Bleed Sticky Fingers Teenage Head Rocking Time Version Galore Right Time Rock 'n' Groove Back in the USA Little Richard, Vol 2 Kick Out the Jams L.A.M.F. Born in the U.S.A. 12 Songs On Heartattack and Vine Nebraska Scott 4 Take it Easy Scott Scott 3 Psychocandy Today! Darklands Giant Steps 3+3 Soul on the Rocks The Brothers Isley Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 The Man Machine Trans-Europe Express Violator Frequencies Something Else by the Kinks Face to Face The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society Parklife Superfly Trouble Man Back to the World The Man Going to a Go-Go The Temptations Sing Smokey Away We a Go-Go Make it Happen Born to Be With You You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' Dion Mink De Ville Younger Than Yesterday Notorious Byrd Brothers Crosby, Stills & Nash Radio City Risque Legendary Zing Album Featuring The Fabulous Trammps We Are Family Off the Wall 1 2 Songs of Leonard Cohen Every Picture Tells a Story Back Stabbers There's Gonna Be a Showdown The Spinners Ship Ahoy The Queen is Dead You Can't Hide Your Love Forever Strangeways, Here We Come Vauxhall and I The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars Hunky Dory Berlin Suede Eli and the Thirteenth Confession The Wild, The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle Le Chat Bleu Happy Come Home Sign 'o' the Times Axis: Bold As Love Mothership Connection Parade Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere After the Goldrush Tonight's the Night Where You Been The Payback It's a Mother Funkadelic Death Certificate Lady Soul Otis Blue I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You Aretha Now East of the River Nile Blackboard Jungle Dub King Tubby Meets the Rockers Uptown Cry Tuff Dub Encounter, Chapter 1 Don't Stand Me Down Jimmy Ruffin Sings Top Ten St. Dominic's Preview Searching For the Young Soul Rebels Talking Book Extensions of a Man Innervisions Songs in the Key of the Life Sandinista! World War III Combat Rock Rhythm Killers Be Altitude: Respect Yourself Rock 'n' Soul Only For the Lonely Be What You Are Straight Outta Compton The Predator The Chronic Regulate: The G-Funk Era The Stone Roses Forever Changes Underground Definitely Maybe Marquee Moon Suicide Adventure Alchemy People Get Ready I'm Gonna Miss You Ice Man Cometh Party Time Low-Life Closer Technique Electronic Low Heroes Music For Airports Funf Auf Der Nach Oben Offenen Richterskala 3 Feet High and Rising Funky Kingston Done By the Forces of Nature People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm My Aim is True This Year's Model The Specials Rattlesnakes The Genius Sings the Blues T-Bone Blues Moondance Southern Nights Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme Bookends Begin There Goes Rhymin' Simon Horses Easter Surfer Rosa Dry Blue Lines Dry & Heavy Metal Box Protection Are You Experienced Electric Ladyland Brother, Brother, Brother Party Down Blue Court and Spark Dancer With Bruised Knees Rickie Lee Jones Ramones Summer Days (and Summer Nights!!) Rocket to Russia The Undertones Behaviour The Lexicon of Love Please Pet Shop Boys, Actually Shoot Out the Lights The Road to Ruin I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight Idlewild The Sensitive Sound of Dionne Warwick The One Who Really Loves You Make Way For Dionne Warwick Love Is Stronger Than Pride Tapestry Laurel Canyon Writer Ingénue Automatic For the People No Other Sweetheart of the Rodeo Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers John Phillips Daydream If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears Everybody's Talkin' Paradise Computer World Promised Land Introduction Physical Graffiti III Appetite For Destructiun Blood Sugar Sex Magik Red Headed Stranger There Must Be More to Love Than This The Late Great Townes Van Zandt Phases and Stages New York Dolls The Leader of the Pack So Alone Sylvain Sylvain & The Teardrops Second Album Reach Out The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland Give Me Just a Little More Time Happy Sad The Doors Starsailor Greetings From L A Loveless Daydream Nation Isn't Anything Giant Steps My Generation The Small Faces Every Picture Tells a Story All Mod Cons Two Steps From the Blues Ain't Nothing You Can Do Tell Mama You've Got My Mind Messed Up Innovator (Soundtrack For the Tenth Planet) Mothership Connection Dare! Faith, Hope & Clarity Electric Warrior The Slider Aladdin Sane Mott Never Mind the Bollocks - Here's the Sex Pistols Please Please Me Too Much Too Soon The White Room Wake Up Everybody Abandoned Luncheontte McFadden & Whitehead Foundation Debut The Sensual World I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got Dubnobasswithmyheadman Five Leaves Left Bryter Layter Rock Bottom Wild Wood Johnny Burnette and the Rock 'n' Roll Trio Elvis Presley Songs the Lord Taught Us Psychedelic Jungle Parallel Lines Raspberries Blondie So Tough Songs Our Daddy Taught Us The Everly Brothers With The Beatles The Sounds of Silence Skylarking Burnin' Screaming Target Night Food Here Are The Sonics Sonics Boom Dirty Water The Evil One The Modern Lovers Loaded Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers Check Your Head Rumours Surf's Up Can't Buy a Thrill Fleetwood Mac |
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