Spin's 125 Best Albums of the Past 25 Years

Do you think that Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list is too much vintage-oriented? Would you like an albums chart more related to recent music? Here it is. To celebrate its first 25 years, Spin just ranked the 125 "most influential releases since the magazine's beginning in 1985". And, to my great surprise, they crowned my favourite album ever, U2's Achtung Baby, as #1. You can find the whole chart here, while you can listen to most of its albums, below, in Spotify playlists. I made two of them: the first one features full albums, while the second one is slimmer, with only some songs each album (two songs for 101-125 positioned albums, three for 76-100, four for 51-75, five for 26-50, six for 1-25). Enjoy!

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The Playlists 
(103 albums of 125, 82.4%)
(UPDATED 31/10/2010: CHANGES IN BOLD!)

125. Moby – Play
124. Prince Paul - A Prince Among Thieves
123. The Hives – Veni, Vidi, Vicious
122. LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
121. Queens Of The Stone Age – Rated R
120. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
119. Green Day – American Idiot
118. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It's Blitz!
117. The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
116. Against Me! – New Wave
115. OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
114. Animal Collective – Merryweather Post Pavilion
113. Danger Mouse - The Grey Album
112. Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights
111. Teenage Fanclub – Bandwagonesque
110. Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
109. The Chills – Submarine Bells
108. Fugees - The Score
107. Coldplay – A Rush of Blood To The Head
106. Fiona Apple – When the Pawn Hits...
105. Massive Attack – Mezzanine
104. The Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs
103. M.I.A. - Arular
102. Queen Latifah - All Hail the Queen
101. Blur – Parklife
100. Kanye West – Late Registration
99. PJ Harvey – Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
98. Johnny Cash – American Recordings
97. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
96. The Roots - Things Fall Apart
95. Soundgarden – Superunknown
94. Jane's Addiction – Ritual de lo Habitual
93. The Chemical Brothers – Dig Your Own Hole
92. Jay-Z - The Black Album
91. The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come
90. Elliott Smith – XO
89. Basement Jaxx – Remedy
88. Jeff Buckley – Grace
87. The White Stripes – White Blood Cells
86. TV on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain
85. Missy Elliott - Supa Dupa Fly
84. LL Cool J – Radio
83. Steve Earle – Guitar Town
82. Dr.Dre - The Chronic
81. Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
80. The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
79. The Breeders – Last Splash
78. Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
77. Boogie Down Productions – Criminal Minded
76. OutKast – Aquemini
75. Bjork - Post
74. Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out
73. The Pogues – Rum, Sodomy & the Lash
72. Lucinda Williams - Lucinda Williams
71. Oasis – Definitely Maybe
70. Pearl Jam – Ten
69. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
68. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Lynx...
67. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
66. Arcade Fire - Funeral
65. Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP
64. The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
63. R.E.M. – Fables of the Reconstruction
62. U2 - The Joshua Tree 
61. The Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream 
60. Fugazi - 13 Songs
59. Belle and Sebastian – If You're Feeling Sinister
58. DJ Shadow – Endtroducing...
57. The White Stripes – Elephant
56. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
55. Hole - Live Through This
54. Dinosaur Jr. – You're Living All Over Me (not available anymore!)
53. The Cure - The Head on the Door
52. Kanye West – The College Dropout
51. Rage Against The Machine – The Battle of Los Angeles
50. Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
49. D'Angelo – Voodoo
48. Elliott Smith – Either/Or
47. Portishead – Dummy
46. N.W.A. – Straight Outta Compton
45. Pixies – Surfer Rosa
44. Beastie Boys – Licensed To Ill
43. The Notorious B.I.G. – Ready To Die
42. Green Day – Dookie
41. Pulp – Different Class
40. Tricky – Maxinquaye
39. Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
38. RUN-DMC – Raising Hell
37. Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
36. Jesus And Mary Chain – Psychocandy
35. R.E.M. – Automatic For the People 
34. Beck – Odelay
33. Björk – Debut
32. Wu-Tang Clan – Enter the Wu-Tang Clan (36 Chambers)
31. Massive Attack – Blue Lines
30. A Tribe Called Quest – The Low End Theory
29. Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (full album not available anymore)
28. Radiohead – The Bends
27. Nirvana – In Utero
26. Guided by Voices – Bee Thousand
25. Nas – Illmatic 
24. Metallica - Master of Puppets
23. Daft Punk – Discovery
22. Eric B. & Rakim – Paid In Full
21. Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
20. My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
19. Jay-Z – The Blueprint
18. The Strokes – Is This It
17. De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
16. Pixies – Doolittle 
15. Husker Du - New Day Rising
14. Beastie Boys – Paul's Boutique
13. Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation 
12. OutKast – Stankonia
11. The Replacements – Tim
10. Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral
9. Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
8. PJ Harvey – Rid Of Me
7. Guns N' Roses – Appetite For Destruction
6. Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
5. Radiohead – Ok Computer
4. Nirvana - Nevermind
3. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
2. Prince - Sign O' the Times
1. U2 - Achtung Baby

The Big One (full albums, 1536 tracks, about 4 days)
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The Little One (few songs per album, 414 tracks, about 1 day)
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