Winners
Albums ranked by vote-count, no point-weighting.
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1 154 TV on the Radio · Dear Science
2 105 Vampire Weekend · Vampire Weekend
3 102 Portishead · Third
4 87 Fleet Foxes · Fleet Foxes
5 80 Erykah Badu · New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War
6 79 Santogold · Santogold
7 78 Lil Wayne · Tha Carter III
8 73 Bon Iver · For Emma, Forever Ago
9 61 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds · Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
10 57 Kanye West · 808s and Heartbreak
11 55 Deerhunter · Microcastle/Weird Era Continued
12 54 Hold Steady · Stay Positive
13 48 Randy Newman · Harps and Angels
14 45 No Age · Nouns
Raphael Saadiq · Way I See It
16 43 Girl Talk · Feed the Animals
My Morning Jacket · Evil Urges
18 42 Hercules and Love Affair · Hercules and Love Affair
19 41 MGMT · Oracular Spectacular
20 36 Bob Dylan · Bootleg Series, Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs - Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006
Coldplay · Viva La Vida, or Death and All His Friends
22 32 Los Campesinos! · Hold on Now, Youngster...
Q-Tip · Renaissance
24 30 Cut Copy · In Ghost Colours
25 29 R.E.M. · Accelerate
26 28 David Byrne and Brian Eno · Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Drive-By Truckers · Brighter Than Creation's Dark
Gaslight Anthem · '59 Sound
M83 · Saturdays=Youth
She and Him · Volume One
31 26 Hot Chip · Made in the Dark
Torche · Meanderthal
Walkmen · You and Me
34 25 Beck · Modern Guilt
Blitzen Trapper · Furr
Ne-Yo · Year of the Gentleman
Roots · Rising Down
38 24 Kings of Leon · Only by the Night
Metallica · Death Magnetic
40 23 Alejandro Escovedo · Real Animal
Death Cab for Cutie · Narrow Stairs
Frightened Rabbit · Midnight Organ Fight
43 22 Al Green · Lay It Down
Duffy · Rockferry
Lucinda Williams · Little Honey
Magnetic Fields · Distortion
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks · Real Emotional Trash
T.I. · Paper Trail
49 21 Gang Gang Dance · Saint Dymphna
Vivian Girls · Vivian Girls
51 20 Fucked Up · Chemistry of Common Life
Sigur Rós · Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
53 19 Young Jeezy · Recession
54 18 Black Keys · Attack and Release
Elbow · Seldom Seen Kid
Estelle · Shine
Jamey Johnson · That Lonesome Song
Taylor Swift · Fearless
59 17 Hayes Carll · Trouble in Mind
Raconteurs · Consolers of the Lonely
61 16 Lindstrøm · Where You Go I Go Too
62 15 Beach House · Devotion
Conor Oberst · Conor Oberst
Lykke Li · Youth Novels
65 14 Crystal Castles · Crystal Castles
Elvis Costello and the Imposters · Momofuku
Fennesz · Black Sea
Flying Lotus · Los Angeles
Fuck Buttons · Street Horrrsing
Jenny Lewis · Acid Tongue
Nas · Untitled
Of Montreal · Skeletal Lamping
Wolf Parade · At Mount Zoomer
74 13 Adele · 19
Eddy Current Suppression Ring · Primary Colours
Guns N' Roses · Chinese Democracy
James McMurtry · Just Us Kids
Knux · Remind Me in 3 Days...
Orchestra Baobab · Made in Dakar
Shelby Lynne · Just a Little Lovin'
Times New Viking · Rip It Off
82 12 Bonnie "Prince" Billy · Lie Down in the Light
Dr. Dog · Fate
Glasvegas · Glasvegas
Jay Reatard · Matador Singles '08
Raveonettes · Lust Lust Lust
Robyn · Robyn
Spiritualized · Songs in A and E
Toumani Diabate · Mande Variations
90 11 Arthur Russell · Love Is Overtaking Me
Breeders · Mountain Battles
Bug · London Zoo
Deerhoof · Offend Maggie
Flight of the Conchords · Flight of the Conchords
Gnarls Barkley · Odd Couple
Juana Molina · Un Dia
Kathleen Edwards · Asking for Flowers
Kills · Midnight Boom
Marnie Stern · This Is It . . .
Nachtmystium · Assassins: Black Meddle, Pt.1
Nada Surf · Lucky
Ponytail · Ice Cream Spiritual!
Steinski · What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006 Retrospective
Wale · Mixtape About Nothing
105 10 Charlie Haden Family and Friends · Rambling Boy
Crystal Stilts · Alight of Night
Dodos · Visiter
Grouper · Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
Gutter Twins · Saturnalia
Laura Marling · Alas I Cannot Swim
Mountain Goats · Heretic Pride
Mudcrutch · Mudcrutch
Paul Weller · 22 Dreams
Sword · Gods of the Earth
115 9 Black Milk · Tronic
DJ /rupture · Uproot
El Guincho · Alegranza
Franco and le TPOK Jazz · Francophonic
Harvey Milk · Life...The Best Game in Town
Jazmine Sullivan · Fearless (Jazmine Sullivan)
Neil Young · Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 1968
Opeth · Watershed
Radiohead · In Rainbows
Robert Forster · Evangelist
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals · Cardinology
Whigs · Mission Control
Why? · Alopecia
128 8 Black Mountain · In the Future
Calexico · Carried to Dust
Cat Power · Jukebox
Cool Kids · Bake Sale
Dutchess and the Duke · She's the Dutchess, He's the Duke
Goldfrapp · Seventh Tree
Jamie Liddell · Jim
Joe Jackson · Rain
Okkervil River · Stand Ins
Pretenders · Break Up the Concrete
Ra Ra Riot · Rhumb Line
Shearwater · Rook
Solange Knowles · Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams
The-Dream · Love/Hate
Ting Tings · We Started Nothing
143 7 AC/DC · Black Ice
Amanda Palmer · Who Killed Amanda Palmer
Atlas Sound · Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
Atmosphere · When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold
B.B. King · One Kind Favor
Baseball Project · Baseball Project, Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails
Be Your Own Pet · Get Awkward
Brian Wilson · That Lucky Old Sun
Duke Spirit · Neptune
Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit · Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit are the Very Best
High Places · High Places
Kaiser Chiefs · Off With Their Heads
Killers · Day and Age
Last Shadow Puppets · Age of the Understatement
Love Is All · A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night
Mates of State · Re-Arrange Us
Max Tundra · Parallax Error Beheads You
Rodney Crowell · Sex and Gasoline
Sam Amidon · All Is Well
Sam Phillips · Don't Do Anything
Seun Kuti · Seun Kuti + Fela's Egypt 80
Sic Alps · U.S. EZ
Sloan · Parallel Play
166 6 Air France · No Way Down
Black Crowes · Warpaint
Boris · Smile
Britney Spears · Circus
Calle 13 · Los De Atrás Vienen Conmigo
Darker My Love · 2
Enslaved · Vertebrae
Fall Out Boy · Folie a Deux
Fireman · Electric Arguments
Frida Hyvönen · Silence Is Wild
Gojira · Way of All Flesh
Hank Williams · Unreleased Recordings
Helio Sequence · Keep Your Eyes Ahead
Janelle Monae · Metropolis: the Chase Suite
Kasai Allstars · In the 7th Moon, the Chief Turned Into a Swimming Fish and Ate the Head of His Enemy by Magic
Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson · Rattlin' Bones
Los Campesinos! · We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
Made Out of Babies · Ruiner
Man Man · Rabbit Habits
Nine Inch Nails · Slip
NOMO · Ghost Rock
Panic at the Disco · Pretty. Odd.
Ratatat · LP3
Ray Davies · Working Man's Cafe
Rodriguez · Cold Fact
Sonny Rollins · Road Shows, Vol. 1
192 5 Abigail Washburn · Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet
Brightblack Morning Light · Motion to Rejoin
British Sea Power · Do You Like Rock Music?
Dengue Fever · Venus on Earth
Department of Eagles · In Ear Park
Disfear · Live the Storm
Dungen · 4
Earth · Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
Foreign Exchange · Leave It All Behind
Foxboro Hot Tubs · Stop Drop and Roll!!!
Genghis Tron · Board Up the House
James Blackshaw · Litany of Echoes
Kooks · Konk
Little Joy · Little Joy
Madonna · Hard Candy
Mae Shi · HLLLYH
Matmos · Supreme Balloon
Meshuggah · obZen
Neil Diamond · Home Before Dark
Neon Neon · Stainless Style
Night Marchers · See You in Magic
Parts and Labor · Receivers
Paul Westerberg · 49:00
Punch Brothers · Punch
Santogold and Diplo · Top Ranking: A Diplo Dub
Silver Jews · Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
Stereolab · Chemical Chords
Sun Kil Moon · April
Tallest Man on Earth · Shallow Grave
Thao Nguyen with the Get Down Stay Down · We Brave Bee Stings and All
Titus Andronicus · Airing of Grievances
Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis · Two Men with the Blues
(various) · Miles from India