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200 Best Albums of the Last 25 Years (Pitchfork)

Can you name the 200 best albums from 1996 to 2021 as voted by Pitchfork readers?
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Rank
Artist
Album
1
Radiohead
Kid A
2
Radiohead
OK Computer
3
Kanye West
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
4
Radiohead
In Rainbows
5
Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp a Butterfly
6
Frank Ocean
Blonde
7
Arcade Fire
Funeral
8
The Strokes
Is This It
9
Kendrick Lamar
good kid, m.A.A.d city
10
Wilco
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
11
Neutral Milk Hotel
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
12
Sufjan Stevens
Illinois
13
Kanye West
Yeezus
14
Frank Ocean
Channel Orange
15
LCD Soundsystem
Sound of Silver
16
Madvillain
Madvillainy
17
Lana Del Rey
Norman F***ing Rockwell!
18
Sufjan Stevens
Carrie & Lowell
19
Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion
20
Lorde
Melodrama
21
Vampire Weekend
Modern Vampires of the City
22
Interpol
Turn On the Bright Lights
23
Arcade Fire
The Suburbs
24
Fiona Apple
Fetch the Bolt Cutters
25
Tame Impala
Currents
26
Björk
Homogenic
27
Bon Iver
For Emma, Forever Ago
28
David Bowie
Blackstar
29
Daft Punk
Discovery
30
Phoebe Bridgers
Punisher
31
Beach House
Teen Dream
32
The Avalanches
Since I Left You
33
Bon Iver
Bon Iver
34
The National
Boxer
35
The Flaming Lips
The Soft Bulletin
36
Beyoncé
Lemonade
37
LCD Soundsystem
This is Happening
38
OutKast
Aquemini
39
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
40
Elliott Smith
Either/Or
41
Björk
Vespertine
42
Kendrick Lamar
DAMN.
43
Beach House
Bloom
44
Joanna Newsom
Ys
45
OutKast
Stankonia
46
Amy Winehouse
Back to Black
47
Burial
Untrue
48
Kanye West
Late Registration
49
Fiona Apple
The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
50
Lauryn Hill
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Rank
Artist
Album
51
Kanye West
The College Dropout
52
Tyler, The Creator
IGOR
53
Belle and Sebastian
If You're Feeling Sinister
54
The War on Drugs
Lost in the Dream
55
Sigur Rós
Ágætis byrjun
56
Carly Rae Jepsen
E•MO•TION
57
The National
High Violet
58
Deerhunter
Halcyon Digest
59
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
60
Tame Impala
Lonerism
61
Modest Mouse
The Lonesome Crowded West
62
Kacey Musgraves
Golden Hour
63
Modest Mouse
The Moon & Antarctica
64
DJ Shadow
Endtroducing...
65
Daft Punk
Random Access Memories
66
Bon Iver
22, A Million
67
Boards of Canada
Music Has the Right to Children
68
Taylor Swift
folklore
69
Weyes Blood
Titanic Rising
70
Massive Attack
Mezzanine
71
Solange
A Seat at the Table
72
Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend
73
SZA
CTRL
74
Weezer
Pinkerton
75
Fleet Foxes
Helplessness Blues
76
Kanye West
The Life of Pablo
77
FKA twigs
MAGDALENE
78
The xx
xx
79
Arctic Monkeys
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
80
Destroyer
Kaputt
81
Radiohead
A Moon Shaped Pool
82
J Dilla
Donuts
83
The White Stripes
Elephant
84
Joanna Newsom
Have One on Me
85
Grimes
Art Angels
86
D'Angelo
Voodoo
87
SOPHIE
OIL OF EVERY PEARL's UN-INSIDES
88
Broken Social Scene
You Forgot It In People
89
Panda Bear
Person Pitch
90
Father John Misty
I Love You, Honeybear
91
Portishead
Third
92
Jamie xx
In Colour
93
Robyn
Body Talk
94
Death Grips
The Money Store
95
Radiohead
Amnesiac
96
The Microphones
The Glow, Pt. 2
97
Queens of the Stone Age
Songs for the Deaf
98
Tyler, The Creator
Flower Boy
99
Fiona Apple
When the Pawn...
100
The Knife
Silent Shout
Rank
Artist
Album
101
Beyoncé
Beyoncé
102
Yo La Tengo
I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
103
The White Stripes
White Blood Cells
104
Jay-Z
The Blueprint
105
Taylor Swift
1989
106
Charli xcx
Pop 2
107
Gorillaz
Demon Days
108
The Magnetic Fields
69 Love Songs
109
Beck
Odelay
110
Run the Jewels
Run the Jewels 2
111
PJ Harvey
Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
112
Car Seat Headrest
Twin Fantasy
113
Lorde
Pure Heroine
114
The Flaming Lips
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
115
M.I.A.
Kala
116
D'Angelo & The Vanguard
Black Messiah
117
Gorillaz
Plastic Beach
118
Silver Jews
American Water
119
Taylor Swift
Red
120
The War on Drugs
A Deeper Understanding
121
Lana Del Rey
Born to Die
122
Grizzly Bear
Veckatimest
123
PJ Harvey
Let England Shake
124
The Postal Service
Give Up
125
Danny Brown
Atrocity Exhibition
126
Deafheaven
Sunbather
127
Kanye West
Graduation
128
Grimes
Visions
129
my bloody valentine
m b v
130
Kanye West
808s & Heartbreak
131
Animal Collective
Strawberry Jam
132
M83
Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
133
Mitski
Be the Cowboy
134
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Fever to Tell
135
The National
Trouble Will Find Me
136
Courtney Barnett
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
137
Rihanna
ANTI
138
Arctic Monkeys
AM
139
Bloc Party
Silent Alarm
140
Bright Eyes
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
141
Car Seat Headrest
Teens of Denial
142
Built to Spill
Perfect from Now On
143
The Strokes
Room on Fire
144
St. Vincent
Strange Mercy
145
Wilco
Summerteeth
146
Eminem
The Marshall Mathers LP
147
Phoenix
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
148
Mitski
Puberty 2
149
Wolf Parade
Apologies to the Queen Mary
150
A Tribe Called Quest
We got it from Here...Thank You 4 Your service
Rank
Artist
Album
151
FKA twigs
LP1
152
Built to Spill
Keep It Like a Secret
153
Lana Del Rey
Ultraviolence
154
Sufjan Stevens
The Age of Adz
155
Vampire Weekend
Contra
156
Angel Olsen
My Woman
157
Death Cab for Cutie
Transatlanticism
158
Beck
Sea Change
159
Swans
To Be Kind
160
Arcade Fire
Neon Bible
161
Drake
Take Care
162
Titus Andronicus
The Monitor
163
Big Thief
U.F.O.F.
164
The Dismemberment Plan
Emergency & I
165
Yo La Tengo
And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
166
Animal Collective
Feels
167
Madonna
Ray of Light
168
Aphex Twin
Richard D. James Album
169
Elliott Smith
XO
170
Sleater-Kinney
The Woods
171
Jessie Ware
What's Your Pleasure?
172
Waxahatchee
Saint Cloud
173
Deftones
White Pony
174
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Skeleton Tree
175
Beach House
Depression Cherry
176
Radiohead
Hail to the Thief
177
Spoon
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
178
Lady Gaga
The Fame Monster
179
The National
Alligator
180
OutKast
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
181
Japandroids
Celebration Rock
182
Slowdive
Slowdive
183
Haim
Women in Music Pt. III
184
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Push the Sky Away
185
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
F♯ A♯ ∞
186
Bob Dylan
Time Out of Mind
187
Earl Sweatshirt
Some Rap Songs
188
Janelle Monáe
The ArchAndroid
189
TV on the Radio
Return to Cookie Mountain
190
MF DOOM
MM...FOOD
191
Purple Mountains
Purple Mountains
192
Deerhunter
Microcastle / Weird Era Cont.
193
Air
Moon Safari
194
Arcade Fire
Reflektor
195
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
I See a Darkness
196
Blur
13
197
James Blake
James Blake
198
Flying Lotus
Cosmogramma
199
Dirty Projectors
Bitte Orca
200
Erykah Badu
Mama's Gun
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5 Comments
Jeremy
+2
Level 79
Aug 14, 2025
Awesome work on the typeins so happy to actually be able to use abbreviations on a quiz like this
GnomesRreal
+4
Level 81
Aug 14, 2025
Note to self, pitchfork readers and mentally ill
outdoorcats
+3
Level 53
Aug 14, 2025
Typing "F# A# ∞" doesn't even work, I guess because you need to copy the specific sharp signs. Maybe accept "F sharp A sharp infinity"?
oisin1998
+1
Level 57
Aug 15, 2025
Fixed!
Jackhharrison
+1
Level 47
Mar 24, 2026
Great quiz but this Pitchfork list is trash
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