MAGNET’s A.D. Amorosi 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 the same incarnation. We’re posting these lists throughout the rest of the year.

A.D. Amorosi, contributing writer
1) David Bowie Blackstar (ISO/Columbia/Sony), 2016
2) The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs (Merge), 1999
3) Beyoncé Lemonade (Parkwood/Columbia), 2016
4) A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders (Jive), 1993
5) David Sylvian & Robert Fripp The First Day (Virgin), 1993
6) Daft Punk Random Access Memories (Columbia), 2013
7) Joni Mitchell Both Sides Now (Reprise), 2000
8) Jay-Z The Blueprint (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam), 2001
9) Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly (Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope), 2015
10) Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away (Bad Seed), 2013
11) Björk Post (Elektra), 1995
12) Leonard Cohen Popular Problems (Columbia), 2014
13) Queens Of The Stone Age Rated R (Interscope), 2000
14) Lauryn Hill The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill (Ruffhouse/Columbia), 1998
15) Blur Parklife (Food/EMI), 1994
16) TV On The Radio Return To Cookie Mountain (4AD/Interscope), 2006
17) The Cramps Flamejob (Medicine), 1994
18) LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening (DFA), 2010
19) Grinderman Grinderman (Anti-), 2007
20) Frank Ocean Channel Orange (Def Jam), 2012
21) The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (Warner Bros.), 2002
22) Morrissey You Are The Quarry (Attack), 2004
23) Bad Bunny Un Verano Sin Ti (Rimas), 2022
24) Sonic Youth The Eternal (Matador), 2009
25) Ryuichi Sakamoto Async (Milan), 2017
26) Tom Waits Bad As Me (Anti-), 2011
27) SZA SOS (Top Dawg/RCA), 2022
28) David Byrne American Utopia (Todo Mundo/Nonesuch), 2018
29) Iggy Pop Post Pop Depression (Loma Vista), 2019
30) Bob Dylan Tempest (Columbia), 2012