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I have a couple of issues with this list (I haven't listened to all of the albums on the list, so I'll only critique the albums which I won):
1) Kanye West "The College Dropout" - Yes, this is a great album, but "Late Registration", his second disc, is even better. So for TCD to make it to #4 and LR not to make the list at all is a crime.
2) Green Day "American Idiot" - While this album does has some nice songs, I don't think it deserves a placement this high of a placement on the best album on the last 25 years. Radiohead (who I'll get to later), Coldplay (ditto), Feist, Smashing Pumpkins, Alanis Morissette, Bon Jovi, U2, White Stripes all have albums better than "American Idiot".
3) Amy Winehouse "Back to Basics" & Radiohead "In Rainbows" - Just because these two albums were two of the most talked about albums of the past year (Amy Winehouse because of her biographical hit "Rehab" and the troubles that followed her and Radiohead because of the fact that you could download the album for your own price) doesn't mean that they deserve this high of a placement. Come back in 5 to 10 years, and it won't make sense to the editors at EW as to why these were so high on the list.
4) Spoon "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga" - I don't have a problem with its placement, but I do have a problem that it is ranked about Radiohead's classic "OK Computer" and U2's "The Joshua Tree". While I love GGGGG, OKC and TJT are superior albums.
5) Bruce Springsteen "Born In the U.S.A." & Jeff Buckley "Grace" - How these two albums, Springsteen at 75 and Buckley at 82, are ranked so low is shocking to me. These are two great albums, and their are a handfuls of albums that are above these two classics that shouldn't be.
6) Albums that didn't make the list - I'm shocked that some albums didn't make the list, including:
Oasis "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?"
OutKast "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below"
Smashing Pumpkins "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness"
Bon Jovi "Slippery When Wet"
U2 "All That You Can't Leave Behind"
Coldplay "Parachutes"
How these albums didn't make the list is beyond me and I'm not really sure how the EW editors came to the conclusion to leave off some, if not all, of these albums.
With that being said, here's my list of my 10 favorite CD's of the past 25 years:
Honorable Mentions:
13) M.I.A. "Kala"
12) Kanye West "The College Droupout"
11) Coldplay "Parachutes"
10) John Mayer "Room for Squares"
09) OutKast "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below"
08) U2 "Achtung Baby"
07) The White Stripes "Elephant"
06) Alanis Morissette "Jagged Little Pill"
05) Kanye West "Late Registration"
04) Oasis "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?"
03) U2 "The Joshua Tree"
02) Radiohead "OK Computer"
01) Coldplay "A Rush of Blood to the Head"
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