Rank The Albums!

Saw this thread updated at work with time slowly passing, so I'll take up @musicjunkiegreg's topsters idea. RYM comes in clutch here.

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'93: Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
'94: Portishead - Dummy
'95: Autechre - Tri Repetae
'96: Bowery Electric - Beat
'97: Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
'98: Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
'99: Mr. Bungle - California

'00: D'Angelo - Voodoo
'01: Bjork - Vespertine
'02: Sigur Ros - ( )
'03: Broadcast - Haha Sound
'04: MF DOOM - Mm..Food
'05: Nujabes - Modal Soul
'06: J Dilla - Dontus
'07: Radiohead - In Rainbows
'08: DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues
'09: Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions

'10: Yellow Swans - Going Places
'11: Grouper - A I A: Alien Observer
'12: Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
'13: Julia Holter - Loud City Song
'14: Swans - To Be Kind
'15: Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
'16: Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
'17: Tyler, the Creator - Flower Boy
'18: Julia Holter - Aviary
'19: Lingua Ignota - CALIGULA

'20: Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?
'21: Squid - Bright Green Field
'22: Jenny Hval - Classic Objects
'23: Julie Byrne - The Greater Wings
'24: Kali Malone - All Life Long
 
43 years worth of AOTY
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1981: Black Flag - Damaged
1982: Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
1983: R.E.M. - Murmur
1984: Prince - Purple Rain
1985: The Replacements - Tim
1986: Dwight Yoakam - Guitars, Cadillacs, etc., etc.
1987: Sonic Youth - Sister
1988: Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
1989: Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique

1990: SonicYouth - Goo
1991: Nirvana - Nevermind
1992: Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
1993: Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
1994: Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
1995: Smashing Pumpkins- Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness
1996: Beck - Odelay
1997: Radiohead - Ok Computer
1998: Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
1999: The Roots - Things Fall Apart

2000: Yo La Tengo - Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
2001: The Strokes - Is This It
2002: Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2003: Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
2004: Madvillian - Madvilliany
2005: The National - Alligator
2006: Cat Power - The Greatest
2007: The National - Boxer
2008: Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
2009: Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion

2010: Robyn - Body Talk
2011: Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
2012: Chromatics - Kill For Love
2013: Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
2014: The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream
2015: Waxahatchee - Ivy Tripp
2016: Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
2017: The National - Sleep Well Beast
2018: Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer
2019: Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains

2020: Blake Mills - Mutable Set
2021: Steve Gunn - Other You
2022: Horsegirl - Versions Of Modern Performance
2023: Wednesday - Rat Saw Gog
2024: Rosali - Bite Down
 
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43 years worth of AOTY
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1981: Black Flag - Damaged
1982: Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
1983: R.E.M. - Murmur
1984: Prince - Purple Rain
1985: The Replacements - Tim
1986: Dwight Yoakam - Guitars, Cadillacs, etc., etc.
1987: Sonic Youth - Sister
1988: Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
1989: Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique

1990: SonicYouth - Goo
1991: Nirvana - Nevermind
1992: Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
1993: Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
1994: Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
1995: Smashing Pumpkins- Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness
1996: Beck - Odelay
1997: Radiohead - Ok Computer
1998: Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
1999: The Roots - Things Fall Apart

2000: Yo La Tengo - Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
2001: The Strokes - Is This It
2002: Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2003: Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
2004: Madvillian - Madvilliany
2005: The National - Alligator
2006: Cat Power - The Greatest
2007: The National - Boxer
2008: Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
2009: Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion

2010: Robyn - Body Talk
2011: Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
2012: Chromatics - Kill For Love
2013: Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
2014: The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream
2015: Waxahatchee - Ivy Tripp
2016: Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
2017: The National - Sleep Well Beast
2018: Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer
2019: Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains

2020: Blake Mills - Mutable Set
2021: Steve Gunn - Other You
2022: Horsegirl - Versions Of Modern Performance
2023: Wednesday - Rat Saw Gog
2024: Rosali - Bite Down
I think your collage is missing your 2020 Blake Mills album 🤔
 
My hot take is that if Mezmerize & Hypnotize counts as one long double album then that's my favorite by them. Barring that I guess it'd be Toxicity but they really have one of the most consistent discographies in music imo.

Yeah, we talk about 4 and 5 album runs with our legacy acts, but these guys never missed!

I kinda hope they never make another album just to make sure they don't tarnish a pretty much perfect discography.
 
I think this would be my Blur ranking, I've honestly never put much thought into how I'd rank their albums tbh 🤔
  1. 13
  2. The Magic Whip
  3. The Great Escape
  4. Modern Life is Rubbish
  5. Parklife
  6. Think Tank
  7. Blur
  8. Leisure
I should probably go back and listen to all of them and then re-do this list, because this seems... off.
Wow I disown 2020 Gap for this ranking.
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Let's fix that up a bit:
  1. Blur
  2. 13
  3. Parklife
  4. The Great Escape
  5. Think Tank
  6. The Magic Whip
  7. Modern Life is Rubbish
  8. The Ballad of Darren
  9. Leisure
 
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