10. 500: 500. Arctic Monkeys, ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’ (2006) Domino. The album that has inspired the rise of new artists such as Florence & The Machine and Haim. 75. Minimal and melodic, the songs of ‘Trans-Europe Express’ tackle topics from stardom (‘Hall Of Mirrors’) and on the title track, “Iggy Pop and David Bowie”. Revolver – The Beatles 3. 9. Blur, ‘Parklife’ (1994) Food. Joined May 16, 2019 Messages 12,798 Location Baile Átha Cliath, Éire. 1 of 2 Go to page. The list and writer's choices voting several times for the same act, were criticized by several papers including The Guardian.. 80. Just over a year after its release the band was over – the closing suite of merged songs dominating side two was a fittingly staggering swansong for this most peerless of bands. Oasis, ‘(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?’ (1995) Creation. 91. Radiohead, ‘OK Computer’ (1997) Parlophone. [5], He also pointed out the differences between the list and the Top 100 British Albums Ever, released by NME in 2006. NME ’s Top 500 Albums Of All Time 01. David Bowie, Low (1977) RCA. So I bought ‘Surfer Rosa’ because of that. The Band, ‘The Band’ (1969) Capitol. 45. My own contribution to it involved spending a weekend trying to compile my top 50 albums and singles of all time (from which lists, as you might expect, they compiled the final '500 Greatest' chart.) The Sex Pistols, ‘Never Mind The Bollocks’ (1977) Virgin. "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" is a recurring music ranking of the finest albums in history as compiled by the American magazine Rolling Stone.It is based on weighted votes from selected musicians, critics, and industry figures. Speaking of the Boss, Nebraska (148) isn’t quite as good as Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange (147), but slightly better than Elliott Smith’s Either/Or (149) and The Streets Original Pirate Material (150). In 1983, ‘Murmur’ placed REM at the vanguard of American indie, a position they only relinquished when they finally called it a day in 2011. Create your own list of music and share it with the world. RZA’s dirt-encrusted production took hip-hop back to its grimy New York basics after LA’s sun-blasted melodiousness had turned the genre into pop, and the Babel of lyrical styles from the then masked emcees returned some mystique to a music that was lacking those essential qualities. ‘Funeral’ captured a broad, mature and considered philosophical spirit rarely found in popular music. The Beatles – Revolver 3. Paste: The 30 Best Pop Albums of the 2010s 17. Uproxx: All the Best Albums of the 2010s 15. On another it’s full of Cocker’s idiosyncratic takes on song-writers fancying people and taking lots of lovely drugs. The Clash managed to transcend all kinds of music.”. Released two months after singer Ian Curtis’ suicide, it’s almost impossible to untangle ‘Closer’ from the events that surrounded it. 100: 100. All of the band's albums have topped the UK Albums Chart. The Beatles (White Album) – The Beatles 10. Carole King, ‘Tapestry’ (1971) Ode. An album that, rather than heavy-hearted, was irrepressible in its youthful spirit. Lou Reed, ‘Transformer’ (1972) RCA. 6. The Strokes, Is This It (2001) Rough Trade. Probably wont make it. Everything was bigger, brighter and more resigned to the grave. Love, ‘Forever Changes’ (1967) Elektra. Noisier than punk, funk only in the most technical sense and with Chuck’s righteous sloganeering spliced between Flavor’s manic cackles and declamations, it redefined the possibilities for rap, rock, soul and beyond. 62. Oasis’ debut album came from a background of grit and graft, lager-splashed hedonism and domestic battles far more troubling than any French festival guitar-smashing that would estrange the Gallagher brothers later in life. 15, Arcade Fire’s Funeral (13) slotting higher than My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless (18), and Outkast’s Stankonia only good enough to slip in at 500. The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time: See the Top 100 in full. The sleeve said it all: space-age technology turned on its side. Trying to listen to all of the top 500 albums according to NME. Nirvana, ‘In Utero’ (1993) DGC. NME - Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - The Guardian - The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths - The Beatles - David Bowie - Bob Dylan - Bruce Springsteen - Elvis Costello - PJ Harvey - Radiohead - Beck - Blur (band) - Nirvana (band) - R.E.M. [1] The list presented was compiled based on votes from current and past NME journalists. Probably wont make it. Thus began the most fruitful musical period in The Stones’ long history. On this follow-up their creativity peaked, full of powerful blasts of paranoid, drug-fuelled mayhem. If that’s true, ‘Blue’ is the equivalent of flesh inked with the names of ex-lovers, minus the stomach-churning regret. Trying to listen to all of the top 500 albums according to NME. Jagger puts himself in Beelzebub’s shoes on the simply staggering album opener ‘Sympathy For The Devil’, blazing a trail through history while Richards comes on like the soundtrack to the apocalypse. Pitchfork: 200 Best Albums of the 2010s 19. The most striking aspect of Public Enemy’s second LP is how it still sounds like the future. Freddie Cowan, The Vaccines: “When I was growing up I used to like skate videos and there was this one where they used ‘Where Is My Mind?’ and it just got me. ›› NME Writers All time top 100 Singles - 1976 ›› NME Readers All time top 100 singles - 1976 Eschewing the trends of commercial rap in the early 90s, Nas and DJ Premier combined minimalist production with funk, soul and jazz samples to create an album against which any future rap release would be judged. The list presented was compiled based on votes from current and past NME journalists. Jun 8, 2020 #1 So following on from @dropsonde i found this NME issue from when they used to have a physical magazine and didn’t rate … The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses 8. Signing to a major label didn’t cost Sonic Youth their soul, ‘Goo’ and ‘Dirty’ are both loftily-ranked in the alt.rock pantheon -but their last album before signing to Geffen is still their most revered. The Libertines, ‘The Libertines’ (2004) Rough Trade. 90. Lauryn Hill, ‘The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill’ (1998) Ruffhouse/Columbia. NME 500 Greatest Albums. There was a time when Radiohead just wrote brilliant tunes. Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: 2012 edition ~ Release group series Is This It – The Strokes 5. 32. Kanye West, ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ (2010) Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam. Dave Maclean, Django Django: “I remember going into Our Price with my mum and asking the guy for some Public Enemy; I was used to ’60s music in my folks’ LP collection, and that was mind-expanding enough, but this felt like my music, speaking for my generation, and it blew my tiny, Scottish head.”. 52. NME: The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. 56. Miles Davis, ‘Kind Of Blue’ (1959) Columbia. Probably wont make it. 64. 70. 14. Author: chaz156. It is one of those select few albums which seem to transcend its influences, working them into something singular and new. Amy Winehouse, ‘Back To Black’ (2006) Island. ADVERTISEMENT. Suede, ‘Suede’ (1993) Nude. The Beatles and Oasis, however, did make the top ten with different albums. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’, Oasis, ‘(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?’, The Sex Pistols, ‘Never Mind The Bollocks’, Wu-Tang Clan, ‘Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)’, David Bowie, ‘The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars’, Kanye West, ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’, Arctic Monkeys, ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’, Public Enemy, ‘It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back’, The Velvet Underground & Nico, The Velvet Underground & Nico. If the preceding ‘Modern Life Is Rubbish’ had seen Blur declare war on grunge and meathead American rock, ‘Parklife’ saw them perfect the sound that would put Britain back in the middle of the mid-‘90s cultural map. Super Furry Animals, ‘Radiator’ (1997) Creation. I felt like we were a really cool band playing really cool songs, like we were awesome…”. In every sense, ‘Pet Sounds’ was a bar-raising record, something which was more complex and sophisticated than anything the Beach Boys – or any of their peers – had previously attempted, an album which represented rock music moving on from adolescent whimsies and into a rich new maturity. Just as the blues musicians derived their rhythms from the rattle of the railroad, so Kraftwerk looked to trains as the carrier for this paean to Mitteleuropean modernity. 31. No sales figures can convey the gut-punch excitement of ‘I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor’. © 2021 NME is a member of the media division of BandLab Technologies. The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time The Top Ten 1. Ben Kaye of Consequence of Sound wrote that "if Laura Snapes had her wish, the top four would all be The National albums". The Stone Roses were a band for all seasons, pulling influences from dance music and psychedelia, indie and rock and fusing them into one effortless whole. 81. As the Purple One himself might put it, it’s close 2 genius. Trying to listen to all of the top 500 albums according to NME. It’s the one unbroken link that takes you from Richard Hell to The Ramones to Joy Division to The Jesus & Mary Chain to OMD to Pulp to The Strokes to whatever’s happening a week next Tuesday. Ultimate Music Guides. The Stone Roses – … Slant Magazine: The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s 3. On one level it’s a brilliant pop record, full of songs custom-built for the indie disco. The Smiths Hatful of Hollow (1984) chaz156 @May 22, 2019. 66. Hole, ‘Live Through This’ (1994) City Slang. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NME's_The_500_Greatest_Albums_of_All_Time Stereogum: The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s 67. The 50 best albums of 2020. 51. NME flipped this story into NME • 12h. Dazzling. 50. NME Top 500 Albums of All Time - Published October 2013. The seven-minute ‘Champagne Supernova’ hinted at the cocaine sprawls of ‘Be Here Now’, but nonetheless trapped the early-Oasis lightning in a Bolly bottle. Bowie created Ziggy to be the perfect rock star, a cocaine-skinny humanoid alien, charisma down to his bones and suitably adored by the fan armies depicted in the timeless ‘Ziggy Stardust’ song. Oasis, ‘Definitely Maybe’ (1994) Creation. 500 Greatest Albums List (2003) Rolling Stone’s original list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time was originally published in 2003 (with a slight update in 2012). In the run-up to the release of Blur’s second album Damon Albarn declared “If punk was about getting rid of hippies then I’m getting rid of grunge.” He may not have succeeded but ‘Modern Life’ did signal an exhilarating new chapter for British music in a period where America dominated. "[6], "The Smiths' 'The Queen Is Dead' tops NME's list of 500 greatest albums of all time", "NME Staff Pick Their Top 10 Greatest Albums Of All Time", "What's the difference between best and favourite albums? Oh well. The Streets ‘A Grand Don’t Come For Free’ (2004) Locked On/679. Sgt. NME 500 Greatest Albums . Tweet << Page 500 - 401 400 - 301 300 - 201 200 - 101 100 - 1 >> 200: 200. Their debut made them brat-rap anti-heroes, but this follow-up was a rare record – iconoclastic without an ounce of calculation, startlingly innovative because its makers were just pleasing themselves. Is This It – The Strokes 5. A list by chaz156. 65. A record that followed the surprise gloomy shades of 1968’s ‘Beggars Banquet’ with even stormier hues, ‘Let it Bleed’ was to be the Swinging Sixties’ sinister swan song – an album that, beneath its bristling bass lines, bluesy licks of guitar and clatter of drums, lamented the crumbling of a counterculture uprising. It’s better than anything the Beatles ever did (though Revolver came close). Blur, ‘Modern Life Is Rubbish’ (1993) Food. The Beatles, ‘Rubber Soul’ (1965) Parlophone. The Beatles, ‘Abbey Road’ (1969) Apple. The Beach Boys, ‘Pet Sounds’ (1966) Capitol. Different Class – Pulp 7. [3], The number one album was The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths. Fleetwood Mac, ‘Rumours’ (1977) Warner Bros. My Bloody Valentine, ‘Loveless’ (1991) Creation. Marvin Gaye, ‘What’s Going On’ (1971) Tamla. 22. NME 500 Greatest Albums. NME 500 Greatest Albums. NME thinks so British music magazine New Musical Express has come up with its best ever albums. But she knew that to fully convey the horror of that bloody string that ties history together required a level of strength and depth as a writer that would take years to accomplish. Joni Mitchell, ‘Blue’ (1971) Reprise. The Rolling Stones, ‘Let It Bleed’ (1969) Decca. It’s been mastered very high in the mix, so it leaps out of the speakers at you.”. 18. 88. Talk Talk, ‘Spirit Of Eden’ (1988) Parlophone. The Beatles, Revolver (1966). 87. ‘Ziggy Stardust…’ demands to be engaged with from start to finish. The Smiths, ‘The Smiths’ (1984) Rough Trade. The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time: 500-401 1 Outkast, ‘Stankonia’. Bob Dylan, ‘Highway 61 Revisited’ (1965) Columbia. This NME listing was criticized by the media. The global group-hug of ‘Everybody Hurts’ offset the gorgeous skinny-dipping piano snapshot ‘Nightswimming’ and somber funeral paean ‘Sweetness Follows’. NME 500 Greatest Albums . He made the mundane seem epic. We’ve collated our writers’ ‘best of’ lists and crunched the numbers to arrive at NME's 50 best albums of 2020 Bruce Springsteen, ‘Born To Run’ (1975) CBS. Stephen Street: “The Clash proved you didn’t have to be just a one-trick pony – you could do a little bit of rockabilly, some reggae, or something straightforward, punky and rocky. The merits of Radiohead’s pay-what-you-thinkit’s-worth release plan are still being debated now, but what’s not is the quality of the music, unquestionably Radiohead’s finest, most coherent record since ‘OK Computer’ – in fact, many fans now hold it in higher esteem. Their new sound spurred on their breakthrough, inspiring women across the world. ›› NME Writers Tracks Of The Decade (2000-2009) ›› NME Writers Top 100 Albums Of The Deacde (2000-2009) ›› NME Writers Top 50 albums of 60’s, 70's & 80's. 53. David Bowie – Hunky Dory 4. Different Class – Pulp 7. It’s because ‘Rumours’ travels the entire breadth of human emotion and at the heart of the record lies all the elements of an addictive rock’n’roll soap opera that never ceases to fascinate its fans. Create your own list of music and share it with the world. 39. And it's not even Achtung Baby! ‘The Model’. Solidifying his status as the greatest songwriter of the 20th century™, it kicked off with the monumental ‘Like A Rolling Stone’ and ended with him harking back to his acoustic roots with the epic ‘Desolation Row’. Hunky Dory – David Bowie 4. 49. 54. ‘Debut’ achieved the remarkable feat of turning an idiosyncratic vocalist from a feted cult band into a significant global pop star, without losing one iota of the experimental mindset and creative cool that made her so special. 46. [5] He wrote: The Smiths’ The Queen Is Dead is the greatest album of all time. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM, Sound Of Silver (2007)Capitol. 25. Some choices are mysterious ( The Strokes at #4 for instance) and downright puzzling (#21 Kanye West and #109 Darkness at the Edge of Town - Bruce Springsteen)! OutKast Stankonia (2000) 499: 499. ‘Metropolis’. [1], This NME listing was criticized by the media. 7. Young was in his mid 20s, but wrote and sang like a man who’d already seen too much. The Beatles – Revolver 03. Girls Album (2009) 495: 495. Depending on who you believe, either a monument to the pretension of a pop band overreaching itself, or a beguiling if flawed experiment that reveals itself in a thousand lush layers. 73. The Queen Is Dead – The Smiths 2. Sgt. 5. 92. Oh well. 72. The Beatles, ‘Sgt. Is This It – The Strokes 5. 27. Oh well. The Clash, ‘London Calling’ (1979) CBS/Epic/Legacy. Meanwhile, the band Queen is nowhere on the list at all, whereas Queens of the Stone Age shows up thrice (they also show up Thrice, who don’t appear). REM, ‘Automatic For The People’ (1992) Warner Bros. It’s the fastest-selling debut album by a British band ever (it shifted over 360,000 copies in its first week) and it’s now gone quadruple-platinum in the UK alone. Neil Young ‘Harvest’ (1972) Reprise. Bjork, ‘Debut’ (1993) One Little Indian. Kraftwerk, ‘The Man Machine’ (1978) EMI/Kling Klang/Capitol. Pulp – Different Class 7. Often overlooked due to the pedigree of the likes of ‘The Queen Is Dead’, The Smiths’ debut is still among the greats. The UK's Top 100 biggest artist albums of the week is compiled by the Official Charts Company, based on sales of CDs, downloads, vinyl and weighted audio streams. ‘Tapestry’ is the mother of the reflective records; so comforting, beautifully woven and wise, it would be easy but foolish to forget to thank it for its guidance. NME: The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time : October 2013 1. The Smiths, ‘Hatful Of Hollow’ 100. "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" is a 2013 special issue of British magazine NME, available digitally or in newsstands on October 23. A list by ben007. News October 25, 2013 1:14 PM By Michael Nelson. Massive Attack, ‘Blue Lines’ (1991) Virgin. Kate Bush ‘Hounds Of Love’ (1985) EMI. A more joyous, winsome listen than the downbeat ‘Let It Bleed’ from the get-go, ‘Brown Sugar’ collided Jagger’s libidinous swagger with the controversial story of a slave trade worker to a din of honky tonk pianos. 67. [3] Snapes included a fifth National's album at number 7 in her top ten greatest albums of all time. Hot Fuss charted in the year-end UK Albums Chart each year from 2004-2009 and ranks among the top 20 longest-charting albums on the UK Albums Chart. 2013 NME – The 500 greatest albums of all time 1. 85. 20. Next Last. Public Enemy, ‘It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back’ (1988) Def Jam. The Libertines’ graceful romanticism has never shone brighter. Sitting midway between The Beatles’ fresh-faced beginnings and their druggier experimental indulgences, ‘Rubber Soul’ subtly shed the group’s old, squeaky clean skin on an exciting stepping stone to wilder innovations. What distinguishes it as the greatest ever made? Author: chaz156. Doolittle – Pixies 9. It’s also much more than that. For their visceral third album, the Manics went back to their Wire, Gang Of Four and Joy Division albums for songs which touched on anorexia, the Holocaust and imperialism, unleashing their most brutal scream from the depths of social and psychological depravity. More oddities: The highest ranked Michael Jackson album (Thriller) hits at 131, while LCD Soundsystem broke the top 50 with Sound of Silver (49). I went back and gave him the money because I was like, ‘This is awesome’”. Trying to listen to all of the top 500 albums according to NME. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ (1967) Parlophone. Different Class – Pulp 7. Where the Velvet Underground revolutionized the ’60s with their gutteral blues-meets-avant-garde jams, Television performed their own silent coup in ’70s New York by stripping that all away. ‘The Beatles’ proved that the group were just as brilliant while unravelling as they were when everything was fab. Hayden Thorpe, Wild Beasts “He’s a hero to me because he’s such an antihero. [2] The list and writer's choices voting several times for the same act, were criticized by several papers including The Guardian. Few artists ever capture a moment like this, hooked around the story of a stoner losing a wedge down the back of the TV. Rapturous rock n’ roll. Site also contains reviews, ratings & more. 24. NME 500 Greatest Albums. Explore the NME Top 500 Albums (2013) list by Ghostboy on Discogs. But it’s on a harrowing tale of heroin abuse, the acoustic ‘The Needle And The Damage Done’, that we hear the real Young –raw and unflinchingly honest. The NME's Top 500 Albums of All Time It makes an interesting read does the Top 500 Albums of All Time from the New Musical Express . Progress - 380/500 Sponsored links. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) by The Beatles / 2. Read more on nme.com. The Stone Roses, ‘The Stone Roses’ (1989)Silvertone. NME ' s "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" magazine cover "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" is a 2013 special issue of British magazine NME, available digitally or in newsstands on October 23. Pixies, ‘Surfer Rosa’ (1988) 4AD. The Rolling Stones, ‘Beggars Banquet’ (1968) Decca. 61. ‘Horses’ roared with hunger. Revolver (1966) by The Beatles / 4. Van Morrison, ‘Astral Weeks’ (1968) Warner Bros. Dusty Springfield, ‘Dusty In Memphis’ (1969) Atlantic. 98. Dylan’s sixth LP saw him trading stripped-back protest balladry and Woody Guthrie worship for full-band ballsiness. It’s so uninhibited it’s almost grotesque. Joe Mac Well-Known Member. Nirvana, ‘Nevermind’ (1991) Geffen. Manic Street Preachers, ‘The Holy Bible’ (1994) Epic. Music Quiz / Artists in the NME's top 500 albums (2013) Random Music Quiz Can you name the artists in the NME's top 500 (2013) by the_masked_man Plays Quiz not verified by Sporcle . The Strokes – Is This It 5. Lou Reed Berlin (1973) 497: 497. Author: ben007. ‘Radio Free Europe’ was their fuzzed up rallying cry and ‘Perfect Circle’ a sign of bounteous alt.balladry to come as ‘Murmur’ slowly became a cultural bellow. Bob Dylan, ‘Blonde On Blonde’ (1966) Columbia. Progress - 380/500 [Page 5] The rest of their albums are not brilliantly produced and even ‘The Queen Is Dead’ doesn’t have the depth of ‘Hatful of Hollow’.”. 43. Jonny Sharp, a contributor to NME ' s own 500 greatest albums list, described the 2012 Rolling Stone list as a "soulless, canon-centric [list] of the same tired old titles," noting: "looking at their 500, when the only album in their top 10 less than 40 years old is London Calling, I think I prefer the NME's less critically-correct approach." Progress - 381/500 I fast-forward that bit, “Monday and Tuesday, Wednesday…”. 89. Eight flawless tracks make up Springsteen’s triumphant third album. Its centerpiece ‘Basket Case’ remains one of the greatest singles in modern rock – not bad for a band named after a slang term for a day spent smoking weed. Author: chaz156. 40. [1] The list presented was compiled based on votes from current and past NME journalists. Snapes included a fifth National's album at number 7 in her top ten greatest albums of all time. Extremely personal but invitingly intimate, it opens a window on Mitchell’s loves and losses with a poetic eloquence. Nicky Wire: “That was the album when The Smiths really nailed it for me. I was getting into punk and the owner of the store was like, ‘You’re trying to get into punk and you don’t know The Clash?’ So he bought the record for me. Bob Dylan’s infamous acolytes really came into their own in 1969 when they cemented their invention of country-rock, predated lo-fi by three decades, and introduced a rustic, ironically reactionary take on Southern mores that would later fire many an imagination. But I remember thinking it was great.”. Belly Star (1993) 498: 498. Daft Punk Random Access Memories (2013) 496: 496. 2013 NME – The 500 greatest albums of all time 1. The cult success of this sole album released by Tim Buckley’s son during his short life is intrinsically linked to his mysterious premature death. The Libertines’ debut sounds lapel-grabbingly urgent rather than lo-fi and unfinished. 93. So ahead of its time it took another four years for ‘The Model’ to reach the UK number one spot. ‘Different Class’ is the sound of Pulp smuggling some deeply subversive truths into our record players. The Smiths, ‘Hatful Of Hollow’ (1984) Rough Trade. 15. Author: chaz156. Joy Division, ‘Closer’ (1980) Factory. Blondie’s third LP ‘Parallel Lines’ is one of the finest pop albums ever made: five of its 12 tracks are deathless classics. Radiohead’s ‘OK Computer’ crystallized in song a specific mood, in this case the fragile pre-millennial atmosphere of late 90s Britain with lyrics about yuppie culture, political malaise, paranoia and emotional isolation. The Velvet Underground & Nico has been worn smooth by the years. Now credited with inventing post-rock, its hushed-tones cognoscenti-led reputation seems to grow every single year. The world's defining voice in music and pop culture since 1952. 63. Then, he went one better. Progress - 380/500 Sponsored links. [Page 5] Outkast, ‘Stankonia’ (2000) LaFace Records. It is a state-of-the-nation address which seems impervious to the passage of years. There was a time when Radiohead listeners didn’t need to train their ear in order to appreciate their work. REM, ‘Murmur’ (1983) IRS. Hot on the heels of two of the greatest albums ever made, this sprawling double-LP confirmed Dylan’s status as his generation’s superlative songsmith. ”He’s the PlayStation generation’s William Blake!” they shouted after Mike’s Skinner’s zeitgeist capturing 2002 debut ‘Original Pirate Material’. Explore the NME Top 500 Albums (2013) list by Ghostboy on Discogs. The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground 6. Capturing Kanye as his ego went supernova, the whole album is layered thick with bold megalomaniac statements, but ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ is not just West’s most accomplished and well rounded album to date but also the perfect balance between his pop brilliance and boundary pushing tendencies. The band never got higher than the summer of 1991, which they spent holed up in a studio with a mountain of drugs and heads full of music that would combine acid house and rave culture with good ol’ fashioned gospel, blues and the sort of guitar licks that would put a smile across Keith Richards’ craggy face. 42.