MAGNET’s Jerry Dannemiller Picks His 30 Favorite LPs Of The Past 30 Years
To celebrate our 30th anniversary and all the great music that made the past three decades special, MAGNET contributors past and present chose their 30 favorite albums released between 1993 and 2022. The only rules were that each record has to be a full-length and that no artist could be represented more than once in […]
To celebrate our 30th anniversary and all the great music that made the past three decades special, MAGNET contributors past and present chose their 30 favorite albums released between 1993 and 2022. The only rules were that each record has to be a full-length and that no artist could be represented more than once in the same incarnation. We’re posting these lists throughout the rest of the year.
1) Bill CallahanApocalypse (Drag City), 2011 2) Run The JewelsRun The Jewels 2 (Mass Appeal), 2014 3) Antony And The JohnsonsI Am A Bird Now (Secretly Canadian), 2005 4) Lucinda WilliamsCar Wheels On A Gravel Road (Mercury), 1998 5) OutKastAquemini (LaFace), 1998 6) NasIllmatic (Columbia), 1994 7) Guided By VoicesBee Thousand (Scat), 1994 8) TinariwenAman Iman: Water Is Life (World Village), 2007 9) SpiritualizedLadies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (Dedicated/Arista), 1997 10) DungenTa Det Lugnt (Kemado), 2005 11) V-3Photograph Burns (Onion/American), 1996 12) Gillian WelchTime (The Revelator) (Acony), 2001 13) Kendrick LamarDamn (Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope), 2017 14) Silver JewsTanglewood Numbers (Drag City), 2005 15) LowI Could Live In Hope (Vernon Yard), 1994 16) PortisheadDummy (Go! Beat/London), 1994 17) The ShinsOh, Inverted World (Sub Pop), 2001 18) Animal CollectiveStrawberry Jam (Domino), 2007 19) Frank OceanChannel Orange (Def Jam), 2012 20) RosaliBones (No Medium), 2021 21) StereolabEmperor Tomato Ketchup (Elektra), 1996 22) CalifoneRoomsound (Perishable), 2001 23) M.I.A.Kala (XL/Interscope), 2007 24) The RootsThings Fall Apart (MCA), 1999 25) Royal TruxCats And Dogs (Drag City), 1993 26) Bettie ServeertPalomine (Matador), 1993 27) Kamasi WashingtonHeaven And Earth (Young Turks), 2018 28) Nicolai DungerSoul Rush (Lakeshore), 2002 29) Washed OutWithin And Without (Sub Pop), 2011 30) Reigning SoundTime Bomb High School (In The Red), 2002