Year-End Lists

Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2014

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1. Songs of Innocence
   U2
2. High Hopes
   Bruce Springsteen
3. Turn Blue
   The Black Keys
4. St. Vincent
   St. Vincent
5. Platinum
   Miranda Lambert
6. SUCKER
   Charli XCX
7. Ultraviolence
   Lana Del Rey
8. Run the Jewels 2
   Run the Jewels
9. Salad Days
   Mac DeMarco
10. 1989
    Taylor Swift
11. You’re Dead!
    Flying Lotus
12. Sonic Highways
    Foo Fighters
13. More Than Any Other Day
    Ought
14. Everything Will Be Alright In the End
    Weezer
15. Transgender Dysphoria Blues
    Against Me!
16. LP1
    FKA twigs
17. The Voyager
    Jenny Lewis
18. Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
    Sturgill Simpson
19. Standing In the Breach
    Jackson Browne
20. Are We There
    Sharon Van Etten
21. The Outsiders
    Eric Church
22. Recess
    Skrillex
23. Lost in the Dream
    The War on Drugs
24. Popular Problems
    Leonard Cohen
25. My Krazy Life
    YG
26. Hypnotic Eye
    Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
27. This Is All Yours
    alt-J
28. Sunbathing Animal
    Parquet Courts
29. They Want My Soul
    Spoon
30. Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes
    Thom Yorke
31. Black Portland
    Young Thug & Bloody Jay
32. Everyday Robots
    Damon Albarn
33. Midnight Sun
    The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger
34. Art Official Age
    Prince
35. Strut
    Lenny Kravitz
36. Alvvays
    Alvvays
37. Benjamin Booker
    Benjamin Booker
38. Small Town Heroes
    Hurray for the Riff Raff
39. Our Love
    Caribou
40. Lazaretto
    Jack White
41. Syro
    Aphex Twin
42. Too Bright
    Perfume Genius
43. Honest
    Future
44. El Pintor
    Interpol
45. The Future’s Void
    EMA
46. Sukierae
    Tweedy
47. Gary Clark Jr. Live
    Gary Clark Jr.
48. Ghost Stories
    Coldplay
49. Emmaar
    Tinariwen
50. Clearing the Path to Ascend
    YOB