Top 10: Albums of All Time
The ten albums we would hand anyone asking where to start: all ten graded S, rap in the lead, and the rock records nobody sensible argues with.
My Beautiful Dark Twisted FantasyMaximalism as a moral argument: every excess on the record is also its subject, and it never once buckles.Read the review
good kid, m.A.A.d cityA short film about a teenager, a van and one very bad night, and the best constructed rap album of its decade.
RevolverFourteen songs, no two alike, none of them longer than they need to be. The best thing they ever made.
The Dark Side of the MoonForty three minutes on money, time, madness and death that plays like one continuous piece and never sags.
The DocumentaryMore than half a million copies in its first week and the West Coast back in the national argument.
GraduationHe swapped the soul loops for stadium synths and won the argument about where rap was headed.
RumoursFive people falling apart in the same room, making the most listenable album of the decade about it.
PiñataGangster rap over dusty soul loops, and one of the great pairings of a rapper and a producer in any era.
NevermindPunk songs given a radio mix so loud and so clean that they ate the culture within six months.
21A breakup album written and sung so well that it stopped being a record and became furniture in millions of houses.
