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Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc.
Blender (USA) - 500 CDs You Must Own Before You Die (2003) No Order
Magnet (USA) - 10th Anniversary Issue, Top 60 Albums 1993-2003 9
Music Underwater (USA) - Top 100 Albums 1990-2003 (2004) 9
Nude as the News (USA) - The 100 Most Compelling Albums of the 90s (1999) 4
Paste (USA) - The 90 Best Albums of the 1990s (2012) 12
Pitchfork (USA) - Top 100 Favorite Records of the 1990s (1999) 10
Pitchfork (USA) - Top 100 Favorite Records of the 1990s (2003) 8
Popblerd/bLISTerd (USA) - Top 100 Albums of the 1990s (2012) 100
Robert Dimery - 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die (Updated 2018) No Order
Rolling Stone (USA) - The 100 Greatest Albums of the 90s (2010) 10
Rolling Stone (USA) - The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2012) 212
Rolling Stone (USA) - The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2020) 434
Slant (USA) - The 100 Best Albums of the 1990s (2011) 52
Spin (USA) - The 125 Best Albums of the Past 25 Years (2010) 29
Spin (USA) - The 300 Best Albums of the Past 30 Years (2015) 44
Spin (USA) - Top 100 (+5) Albums of the Last 20 Years (2005) 63
Spin (USA) - Top 90 Albums of the 90s (1999) 62
Tom Moon (USA) - 1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die (2008) Main entry
Treble (USA) - Top 100 Albums of the 90s (10 per Year) (2008) 2
Mojo (UK) - The 100 Greatest Albums of Our Lifetime 1993-2006 (2006) 56
NME (UK) - Nominations For the Best Albums of the 1990s (2012) No Order
NME (UK) - The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2013) 408
No Ripcord (UK) - Top Albums 1990-1999 (2013) 24
Q (UK) - 100 Greatest Albums of the 1990s (2015) 24
The Guardian (UK) - 100 Albums that Don't Appear in All Other Top 100 Album Lists (1999) 94
The Guardian (UK) - Guardian Writers' Favourite Albums Ever (2013) 17
Entertainment Weekly (USA) - The 100 Best Albums from 1983 to 2008 (2008) 60
Platekompaniet (Norway) - Top 100 Albums of All Time (2001) 58
OOR Moordlijst (Netherlands) - The 100 Best Albums of 1991-1995 (1995) 76
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Laut (Germany) - Meilensteine (Milestones) No Order
Musikexpress (Germany) - The 50 Best Albums of the 1990s (2010) 25
Musikexpress (Germany) - The 50 Best Albums of the 90s (2005) 31
Rolling Stone (Germany) - The 500 Best Albums of All Time (2004) 128
Sounds (Germany) - The 50 Best Albums of the 1990s (2009) 14
Visions (Germany) - The Best Albums 1991-96 (1996) No Order
Visions (Germany) - The Most Important Albums of the 90s (1999) 78
Zündfunk (Germany) - The Best Albums of the 90s (2000) 36
Hervé Bourhis (France) - 555 Records (2007) No Order
Technikart (France) - 50 Albums from the Last 10 Years (1997) No Order
Juan Vitoria (Spain) - 350 Masterpieces of Contemporary Music to Discover (2005) No Order
Rock de Lux (Spain) - The 300 (+200) Best Albums from 1984-2014 (2014) 104
Craig Mathieson & Toby Creswell (Australia) - The 100 Best Albums of All Time (2013) 79
Juice (Australia) - The 100 (+34) Greatest Albums of the 90s (1999) 27
Juice (Australia) - The 50 Best Albums of All Time (1997) 34
Ondarock (Italy) - Rock Milestones (albums added every month) No Order
Babylon (Greece) - The 50 Best Albums of the 1990s (1999) 47
Porcys (Poland) - The 100 Best Albums of the 1990s (2013) 7
Screenagers (Poland) - Top 100 Albums of the 90s (2005) 15
Ratings
All Music Guide (USA) - Album Ratings 1-5 Stars 5 Stars
MusicHound (USA) - Album Ratings 0-5 Bones (1998-99) 4.5 Bones
Robert Christgau (USA) - Consumer Guide Album Grade A
Rolling Stone Album Guide, Ratings 1-5 Stars (USA, 2004) 5 Stars
Spin's Book of Alternative Albums, Ratings 1-10 (USA, 1995) 9
Martin C. Strong (UK) - The Great Rock Discography 7th Edition, Ratings 1-10 7
Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (UK) - Album Ratings 1-5 Stars (2002) 4 Stars
Music Story (France) - Album Ratings 1-5 Stars 5 Stars
Piero Scaruffi, Italy (www.scaruffi.com), Album Ratings (Scale 1 to 10) 7
End of Year Lists
Spin (USA) - Albums of the Year 13
Village Voice (USA) - Albums of the Year 2
Melody Maker (UK) - Albums of the Year 3
NME (UK) - Albums of the Year 17
Select (UK) - Albums of the Year 44
Eye Weekly Canadian Critics Poll - Albums of the Year 7
HUMO (Belgium) - Albums of the Year 2
OOR (Netherlands) - Albums of the Year 3
Musikexpress/Sounds (Germany) - Albums of the Year 40
Spex (Germany) - Albums of the Year 8
Les Inrockuptibles (France) - Albums of the Year 18
Rocksound (France) - Albums of the Year 21
Rock de Lux (Spain) - Albums of the Year 8