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Nevermind
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Nevermind

(1991)
Nevermind is the second studio album by the American rock band Nirvana, released on September 24, 1991. Produced by Butch Vig, Nevermind was the group's first release on DGC Records. It is their first album to feature drummer Dave...
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Yeezus
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Yeezus

(2013)
Yeezus is the sixth studio album by American hip hop artist Kanye West. It was released on June 18, 2013 by Def Jam Recordings. West gathered various artists and close collaborators for production on the album, including Mike Dean...
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Rage Against the Machine
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Rage Against the Machine

(1992)
Rage Against the Machine is the debut studio album by American rap metal band Rage Against the Machine. The album was released on November 3, 1992. It went to #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart, and #45 on the Billboard 200 cha...
9.6
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Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop
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Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop

(1996)
Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop is the third album by American rock band Stone Temple Pilots, released on March 26, 1996, on Atlantic Records. After a brief hiatus in 1995, STP regrouped to record Tiny Music, living...
6.8
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Vulnicura
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Vulnicura

(2015)
Vulnicura is the ninth studio album by Icelandic musician and singer Björk. It was produced by Björk, Arca and The Haxan Cloak, and released on 20 January 2015 by One Little Indian Records.
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MDNA
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MDNA

(2012)
MDNA is the twelfth studio album by American singer-songwriter Madonna. It was released on March 23, 2012, by Live Nation Entertainment and Interscope Records. It is also Madonna's first album not to be associated with Warner Bros...
5.3
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Mylo Xyloto
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Mylo Xyloto

(2011)
Mylo Xyloto is the fifth studio album by British alternative rock band Coldplay. It was first released on 19 October 2011 by EMI, and later worldwide on 24 October. The band collaborated closely with acclaimed producer Brian Eno f...
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A Saucerful of Secrets
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A Saucerful of Secrets

(1968)
A Saucerful of Secrets is the second studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd. It was recorded at EMI's Abbey Road Studios on various dates from August 1967 to April 1968 and was released on 29 June 1968, through EMI Colum...
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The Wall
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The Wall

The Wall is the eleventh studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd. It is the last studio album released with the classic lineup of guitarist David Gilmour, bassist/lyricist Roger Waters, keyboardist Richard Wri...
9.5
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In Utero
10

In Utero

(1993)
In Utero is the third and final studio album by the American rock band Nirvana, released on September 13, 1993, by DGC Records. Soon after recording was completed, rumors circulated in the press that DGC might not release the albu...
8.3
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Ten
11

Ten

(1991)
Ten is the debut studio album by the American rock band Pearl Jam, released on August 27, 1991 through Epic Records. Following the disbanding of bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard's previous group Mother Love Bone, the...
8.3
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Led Zeppelin
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Led Zeppelin

(1969)
Led Zeppelin is the eponymous debut studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was recorded in October 1968 at Olympic Studios in London and released on Atlantic Records on 12 January 1969 in the United States and 31 M...
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Graduation
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Graduation

(2007)
Graduation is the third studio album by American hip hop recording artist and record producer Kanye West. It was released on September 11, 2007, by Roc-A-Fella Records. Recording sessions for the album took place during 2005 to 20...
7.7
7.7
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Blackstar
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Blackstar

(2016)
Blackstar (stylised as ★) is the twenty-fifth and final studio album by English musician David Bowie. It was released through Bowie's ISO Records label on 8 January 2016, the date of Bowie's 69th birthday and two days before his d...
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Earthling
15

Earthling

(1997)
Earthling (stylised as EART HL I NG) is the twentieth studio album by David Bowie released in February 1997 via Virgin Records, later reissued on BMG Records. The album showcases an electronica-influenced sound partly inspired by...
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Black Tie White Noise
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Black Tie White Noise

(1993)
Black Tie White Noise is the eighteenth studio album by David Bowie. Released in 1993, it was his first solo release in the 1990s after spending time with his hard rock band Tin Machine, retiring his old hits on his Sound+Vision T...
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Aladdin Sane
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Aladdin Sane

(1973)
Aladdin Sane is the sixth album by David Bowie, released by RCA Records in 1973.
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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

(1972)
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (often shortened to Ziggy Stardust) is the fifth studio album by English musician David Bowie, which is loosely based on a story of a fictional rock star named Ziggy St...
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David Bowie
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David Bowie

(1967)
David Bowie is the debut studio album by English musician David Bowie, released on 1 June 1967, on Deram Records.
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Death Magnetic
20

Death Magnetic

(2008)
Death Magnetic is the ninth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released on September 12, 2008 through Warner Bros. Records. It was the band's first album to be produced by Rick Rubin, making this their first albu...
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Obscured by Clouds
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Obscured by Clouds

(1972)
Obscured by Clouds is the seventh studio album by English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, based on their soundtrack for the French film La Vallée, by Barbet Schroeder. Some copies of the album refer to the film by its English ti...
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The Dark Side of the Moon
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The Dark Side of the Moon

(1973)
The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released on 1 March 1973. Developed during live performances, an early version of the suite was premiered several months before...
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Please Please Me
23

Please Please Me

(1963)
Please Please Me is the debut studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Parlophone rush-released the album on 22 March 1963 in the United Kingdom to capitalise on the success of the singles "Please Please Me" and "Love Me...
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Yellow Submarine
24

Yellow Submarine

(1969)
Yellow Submarine is the tenth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 13 January 1969 in the United States and on 17 January 1969 in the United Kingdom. It was issued as the soundtrack to the animated film o...
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Purple
25

Purple

(1994)
Purple is the second studio album by American rock band Stone Temple Pilots, released June 7, 1994 on Atlantic Records. The album, building off the foundations laid by the band's debut album Core, was a huge success for the band,...
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Vitalogy
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Vitalogy

(1994)
Vitalogy is the third studio album by the American rock band Pearl Jam, released on November 22, 1994, through Epic Records. Pearl Jam wrote and recorded Vitalogy while touring behind its previous album Vs. (1993). The music on th...
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Kings & Queens of the Underground
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Kings & Queens of the Underground

(2014)
Kings & Queens of the Underground is the seventh studio album by English rock vocalist Billy Idol, released on 17 October 2014.
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Mellon Collie and the Infinate Sadness
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Mellon Collie and the Infinate Sadness

(1995)
3rd album by The Smashing Pumpkins
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Superunknown
29

Superunknown

(1994)
Soundgarden album
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Dirt
30

Dirt

(1992)
Alice in Chains album
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In Search of Sunrise 5: Los Angeles
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In Search of Sunrise 5: Los Angeles

(2006)
In Search of Sunrise 5: Los Angeles is the fifth compilation album in the In Search of Sunrise series mixed by Dutch trance producer and DJ Tiësto, released on April 25, 2006 in the Netherlands. It was mixed while Tiësto was on ho...
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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

(2010)
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is the fifth studio album by American hip hop recording artist Kanye West, released on November 22, 2010, through Roc-A-Fella Records. Following a period of legal and public image controversy, Wes...
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Rebel Heart
33

Rebel Heart

(2015)
Rebel Heart is the thirteenth studio album by American singer and songwriter Madonna. It was released on March 6, 2015, by Interscope Records. Following the completion of the MDNA era, Madonna worked on the album throughout 2014,...
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"Heroes"
34

"Heroes"

(1977)
"Heroes" is the twelfth studio album by David Bowie, released in 1977. The second installment of his Berlin Trilogy with Brian Eno (the other releases being Low and Lodger) "Heroes" developed further the sound of Low. Of the three...
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Low
35

Low

(1977)
Low is the eleventh studio album by British musician David Bowie, co-produced by Bowie and Tony Visconti. Low was the first of the "Berlin Trilogy", a series of collaborations with Brian Eno (though the album was mainly recorded i...
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Station to Station
36

Station to Station

(1976)
Station to Station is the tenth studio album by English musician David Bowie, released by RCA Records in 1976. The album was recorded after he completed shooting Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth, and the cover artwork feat...
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Young Americans
37

Young Americans

(1975)
Young Americans is the ninth studio album by English musician David Bowie, released in 1975. Bowie is quoted describing the album as "the squashed remains of ethnic music as it survives in the age of Muzak rock, written and sung b...
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Hunky Dory
38

Hunky Dory

(1971)
Hunky Dory is the fourth album by English singer-songwriter David Bowie, recorded in the summer of 1971 and released by RCA Records that December. It was his first release through RCA, which would be his label for the next decade...
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The Man Who Sold the World
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The Man Who Sold the World

(1970)
The Man Who Sold the World is the third studio album by English rock artist David Bowie. It was originally released in the United States by Mercury Records in November 1970, and in April 1971 in the United Kingdom. The album was B...
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Storytone
40

Storytone

(2014)
Storytone is the thirty-fifth studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, released on November 4, 2014 on Reprise Records. The album was released in two formats: a single disc, which features orchestral and big band arrangements...
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A Letter Home
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A Letter Home

(2014)
A Letter Home is the thirty-fourth studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young. It was released on April 19, 2014 on Record Store Day by Third Man Records. The entire album, which consists of covers of classic songs by artists Br...
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Psychedelic Pill
42

Psychedelic Pill

(2012)
Psychedelic Pill is the thirty-third studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young. It was released on October 30, 2012. This is the second release of a Neil Young collaboration with Crazy Horse in 2012, and their first original wo...
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Mirror Ball
43

Mirror Ball

(1995)
Mirror Ball is the twenty-second studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, and features members of Pearl Jam. It was released on June 27, 1995 through Reprise Records. The album has been certified gold by the RIAA in the Unite...
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Harvest Moon
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Harvest Moon

(1992)
Harvest Moon is the twentieth studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, released on October 27, 1992. Many of the musicians appearing on it also appeared on his 1972 album Harvest, and it is considered by many to be like a "se...
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Landing on Water
45

Landing on Water

(1986)
Landing on Water is the fifteenth studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young. The album was released on July 28, 1986, by Geffen Records. Several of the songs on the album were resurrected from Neil Young and Crazy Horse's faile...
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5.5
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Swordfishtrombones
46

Swordfishtrombones

(1983)
Swordfishtrombones is an album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits, released in September 1983. It was the first album that Waits produced himself. The cover art is a TinTone photograph by Michael A. Russ showing Waits with th...
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Heartattack and Vine
47

Heartattack and Vine

(1980)
Heartattack and Vine was Tom Waits' last album on the Asylum label, released in September 1980. Bruce Springsteen has performed "Jersey Girl" as part of his live shows since the early 1980s, including it in his live retrospective...
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9
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Shockwave Supernova
48

Shockwave Supernova

(2015)
Shockwave Supernova is the fifteenth studio album by guitarist Joe Satriani, released on July 24, 2015 through Sony Music Entertainment. It features bassist Bryan Beller and drummer Marco Minnemann of The Aristocrats, as well as p...
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The Battle of Los Angeles
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The Battle of Los Angeles

(1999)
The Battle of Los Angeles is the third studio album by American rap metal band Rage Against the Machine. It was released on November 2, 1999, over three years after their second studio album, Evil Empire. Between Evil Empire and L...
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5150
50

5150

(1986)
5150 (pronounced "fifty-one-fifty") is the seventh studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen, released in 1986 on Warner Bros. Records. It was the first of four albums to be recorded with new lead singer Sammy Hagar, who r...
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