Albums ranked by vote-count, no point-weighting.
| # | votes | album |
|---|
| 1 |
154 |
Animal Collective · Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| 2 |
139 |
Phoenix · Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix |
| 3 |
114 |
Yeah Yeah Yeahs · It's Blitz! |
| 4 |
108 |
Dirty Projectors · Bitte Orca |
| 5 |
106 |
Grizzly Bear · Veckatimest
Neko Case · Middle Cyclone |
| 7 |
93 |
The xx · The xx |
| 8 |
85 |
Raekwon · Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...Part II |
| 9 |
65 |
The Flaming Lips · Embryonic |
| 10 |
63 |
Girls · Album |
| 11 |
62 |
St. Vincent · Actor |
| 12 |
59 |
Mos Def · The Ecstatic |
| 13 |
53 |
Fever Ray · Fever Ray |
| 14 |
49 |
Maxwell · BLACKsummers'night |
| 15 |
48 |
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart · The Pains of Being Pure at Heart |
| 16 |
44 |
Mastodon · Crack the Skye
Wilco · Wilco (The Album) |
| 18 |
42 |
The Avett Brothers · I and Love and You
Sonic Youth · The Eternal |
| 20 |
40 |
Bat for Lashes · Two Suns |
| 21 |
39 |
Baroness · The Blue Record |
| 22 |
37 |
Lily Allen · It's Not Me, It's You
The-Dream · Love vs. Money |
| 24 |
34 |
Converge · Axe to Fall |
| 25 |
33 |
The Decemberists · The Hazards of Love |
| 26 |
32 |
Camera Obscura · My Maudlin Career |
| 27 |
31 |
Jay-Z · The Blueprint 3
Miranda Lambert · Revolution |
| 29 |
30 |
Antony and the Johnsons · The Crying Light |
| 30 |
29 |
The Dead Weather · Horehound
Passion Pit · Manners |
| 32 |
28 |
K'Naan · Troubadour |
| 33 |
27 |
Brad Paisley · American Saturday Night
Fuck Buttons · Tarot Sport
Japandroids · Post-Nothing |
| 36 |
26 |
Bob Dylan · Together Through Life
Green Day · 21st Century Breakdown
Lady Gaga · The Fame/The Fame Monster
Micachu and the Shapes · Jewellery
U2 · No Line on the Horizon |
| 41 |
25 |
Sunn O))) · Monoliths and Dimensions
Yo La Tengo · Popular Songs |
| 43 |
24 |
Rosanne Cash · The List |
| 44 |
23 |
Atlas Sound · Logos
Levon Helm · Electric Dirt |
| 46 |
22 |
Allen Toussaint · The Bright Mississippi
Dinosaur Jr. · The Farm
Doom · Born Like This |
| 49 |
21 |
The Antlers · Hospice |
| 50 |
20 |
Dâm-Funk · Toeachizown
Leonard Cohen · Live in London
Metric · Fantasies
Them Crooked Vultures · Them Crooked Vultures |
| 54 |
19 |
Amadou & Mariam · Welcome to Mali
Bill Callahan · Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
Bruce Springsteen · Working on a Dream
tUnE-yArDs · BiRd-BrAiNs |
| 58 |
18 |
The Horrors · Primary Colours
Kylesa · Static Tensions
Monsters of Folk · Monsters of Folk
Pearl Jam · Backspacer
Pissed Jeans · King of Jeans
Tinariwen · Imidiwan: Companions
The Very Best · Warm Heart of Africa |
| 65 |
17 |
Built to Spill · There Is No Enemy
Florence and the Machine · Lungs
Future of the Left · Travels With Myself and Another
Ida Maria · Fortress Round My Heart
Mountain Goats · The Life of the World to Come
Oumou Sangaré · Seya
Real Estate · Real Estate |
| 72 |
16 |
Art Brut · Art Brut vs. Satan
Black Crowes · Before the Frost...Until the Freeze
DJ Quik and Kurupt · Blaqkout
Jarvis Cocker · Further Complications
Jay Reatard · Watch Me Fall
Paramore · Brand New Eyes
Sunset Rubdown · Dragonslayer
Vijay Iyer Trio · Historicity |
| 80 |
15 |
Buddy & Julie Miller · Written in Chalk
Neon Indian · Psychic Chasms |
| 82 |
14 |
Big Star · Keep an Eye on the Sky
Dan Deacon · Bromst
Kurt Vile and the Violators · Childish Prodigy
Loudon Wainwright III · High Wide and Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project
Raveonettes · In and Out of Control
Regina Spektor · Far |
| 88 |
13 |
Andrew Bird · Noble Beast
DJ Sprinkles · Midtown 120 Blues
Drake · So Far Gone
Fiery Furnaces · I'm Going Away
P.O.S. · Never Better
PJ Harvey and John Parish · A Woman a Man Walked By
Tegan and Sara · Sainthood |
| 95 |
12 |
A Sunny Day in Glasgow · Ashes Grammar
Akron/Family · Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free
Bibio · Ambivalence Avenue
The Big Pink · A Brief History of Love
Brother Ali · Us
Clientele · Bonfires on the Heath
Glasvegas · Glasvegas
Health · Get Color
Julian Casablancas · Phrazes for the Young
Kid Cudi · Man on the Moon: The End of Day
Mayer Hawthorne & the County · A Strange Arrangement
The Thermals · Now We Can See |
| 107 |
11 |
AC Newman · Get Guilty
Black Moth Super Rainbow · Eating Us
Broadcast and the Focus Group · Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
Eels · Hombre Lobo
Jim O'Rourke · The Visitor
The Low Anthem · Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
M. Ward · Hold Time
Miike Snow · Miike Snow
Mulatu Astatke and the Heliocentrics · Inspiration Information, Vol. 3
Nellie McKay · Normal As Blueberry Pie: A Tribute to Doris Day
New York Dolls · 'Cause I Sez So
Nirvana · Live at Reading
Reigning Sound · Love and Curses
Rihanna · Rated R
Screaming Females · Power Move
Wussy · Wussy |
| 123 |
10 |
Black Eyed Peas · The E.N.D.
Blakroc · Blakroc
Elvis Costello · Secret, Profane & Sugarcane
The Juan MacLean · The Future WIll Come
The Lonely Island · Incredibad
The Swell Season · Strict Joy
Vic Chesnutt · At the Cut
Wye Oak · The Knot
Various Artists · 5: Five Years of Hyperdub
Various Artists · Dark Was the Night |
| 133 |
9 |
Clean · Mister Pop
Cobalt · Gin
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society · Infernal Machines
Electrik Red · How to Be a Lady, Volume 1
Franco & Le Tout Puissant OK Jazz · Francophonic, Vol. 2
Gossip · Music for Men
jj · jj n° 2
La Roux · La Roux
Lucero · 1372 Overton Park
Matt and Kim · Grand
Muse · The Resistance
Omar-S · Fabric 45: Detroit
Silversun Pickups · Swoon
Slayer · World Painted Blood
Thao Nguyen With the Get Down Stay Down · Know Better Learn Faster
Tim Hecker · An Imaginary Country
Wild Beasts · Two Dancers |
| 150 |
8 |
Alice in Chains · Black Gives Way to Blue
BLK JKS · After Robots
Dan Auerbach · Keep It Hid
Dave Rawlings Machine · A Friend of a Friend
David Bazan · Curse Your Branches
David Sylvian · Manafon
Death · ...For the Whole World to See
Deer Tick · Born on Flag Day
Emeralds · What Happened
Heartless Bastards · The Mountain
Junior Boys · Begone Dull Care
Major Lazer · Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do
Mission of Burma · The Sound the Speed the Light
Richard Hawley · Truelove's Gutter
Rokia Traoré · Tchamantché
Tanya Morgan · Brooklynati
Taylor Swift · Fearless
Tinted Windows · Tinted Windows
Visqueen · A Message to Garcia
Why? · Eskimo Snow
YACHT · See Mystery Lights |
| 171 |
7 |
A.A. Bondy · When the Devil's Loose
The Arctic Monkeys · Humbug
Blues Control · Local Flavor
Califone · All of My Friends Are Funeral Singers
Cheap Trick · The Latest
Chuck Prophet · ¡Let Freedom Ring!
Discovery · LP
Eat Skull · Wild and Inside
Eminem · Relapse
Ghostface Killah · Ghostdini: The Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City
Handsome Furs · Face Control
Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara · Tell No Lies
Justin Townes Earle · Midnight at the Movies
King Midas Sound · Waiting for You...
Kris Kristofferson · Closer to the Bone
Lee Fields & the Expressions · My World
Lil Wayne · No Ceilings
Meshell Ndegeocello · Devil's Halo
Morrissey · Years of Refusal
Noisettes · Wild Young Hearts
Rick Ross · Deeper Than Rap
Robert Glasper · Double Booked
Shackleton · 3 EPs
Thee Oh Sees · Help
Woods · Songs of Shame |
| 196 |
6 |
A Place to Bury Strangers · Exploding Head
Alasdair Roberts · Spoils
Annie · Don't Stop
Bird and the Bee · Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future
Black Meteoric Star · Black Meteoric Star
Bonnie "Prince" Billy · Beware
Buraka Som Sistema · Black Diamond
Béla Fleck · Throw Down Your Heart
Clipse · Til the Casket Drops
Cymbals Eat Guitars · Why There Are Mountains
Dethklok · Dethalbum II
Dizzee Rascal · Tongue 'N' Cheek
Double Dagger · More
Field · Yesterday and Today
Franz Ferdinand · Tonight
Group Bombino · Guitars From Agadez, Vol 2
Ian Hunter · Man Overboard
Joe Henry · Blood From Stars
Kurt Vile and the Violators · God Is Saying This to You?
Manic Street Preachers · Journal for Plague Lovers
Matias Aguayo · Ay Ay Ay
Megafaun · Gather, Form, & Fly
Mew · No More Stories Are Told Today I'm Sorry They Washed Away No More Stories the World Is Grey I'm Tired Let's Wash Away
Moritz Von Oswald Trio · Vertical Ascent
Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens · What Have You Done, My Brother?
Nite Jewel · Good Evening
Norah Jones · The Fall
Pastels & Tenniscoats · Two Sunsets
Patterson Hood · Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs)
Pet Shop Boys · Yes
Porcupine Tree · The Incident
Steve Earle · Townes
Super Furry Animals · Dark Days/Light Years
Telekinesis · Telekinesis!
Todd Snider · The Excitement Plan
Veils · Sun Gangs
Wavves · Wavves
White Denim · Fits
Wolfmother · Cosmic Egg
Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band · Between My Head and the Sky
Zu · Carboniferous |
| 237 |
5 |
The Beatles · The Beatles in Mono
Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears · Tell 'Em What Your Name Is!
Black Lips · 200 Million Thousand
Bon Iver · Blood Bank EP
Booker T. · Potato Hole
Bottle Rockets · Lean Forward
Brendan Benson · My Old, Familiar Friend
Cold Cave · Love Comes Close
Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse · Dark Night of the Soul
Doves · Kingdom of Rust
Dutchess & the Duke · Sunset/Sunrise
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros · Up From Below
Fanfarlo · Reservoir
Gucci Mane · The Burrprint: 3D
Harlem Shakes · Technicolor Health
Henry Threadgill's Zooid · This Brings Us to, Volume 1
Islands · Vapours
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit · Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Kelly Clarkson · All I Ever Wanted
Khaled · Liberté
Magnolia Electric Company · Josephine
Marissa Nadler · Little Hells
Memory Tapes · Seek Magic
MONO · Hymn to the Immortal Wind
Mount Eerie · Wind's Poem
Napalm Death · Time Waits for No Slave
Nels Cline · Coward
Nosaj Thing · Drift
Oneida · Rated O
Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey · Here and Now
Phish · Joy
Röyksopp · Junior
Shakira · She Wolf
Shrinebuilder · Shrinebuilder
Six Organs of Admittance · Luminous Night
Slaid Cleaves · Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away ...
Soundtrack of Our Lives · Communion
Steve Lehman Octet · Travail, Transformation, and Flow
Tom Waits · Glitter and Doom Live
UGK · UGK 4 Life
Vieux Farka Touré · Fondo
Wale · Attention Deficit
Washed Out · Life of Leisure
Willie Nelson and Asleep at the Wheel · Willie and the Wheel
YOB · The Great Cessation
Various Artists · Fire in My Bones: Raw + Rare + Otherworldly African-American Gospel [1944-2007]
Various Artists · Legends of Benin |