14. Manic Street Preachers: 'Journal For Plague Lovers' (Columbia) - In the end it was a stylistic stroke that only a Manic Street Preacher could attempt to pull off; rediscovering the final written words left behind by your missing-but-presumed -dead band member and cultural mouthpiece Richie Edwards and strapping them to a blisteringly uncompromising guitar assault akin to your most notorious work, The Holy Bible. Unquestionably one of the most eyebrow-raising musical comebacks of the year; that James Dean Bradfield and co pulled it off in the face of a potential minefield of media ridicule is just one of the dazzling achievements of Journal… The Manics' finest work since Everything Must Go dripped with Edward’s naked lyrical honesty and Bradfield’s brutal riffs. (Alex Donohue)
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- Moderat, Memory Tapes and Vitalic?!! Great list for including those alone
- The Blueprint 3? That is one rubbish album. Shame that Jay Z hasn't made a good album for 8 years.
- Tune-Yards should have been on this list.
- Gotta be the best album list I've read so far!
- bunch of marginally talented hipster douches ruined this list.
YYY and Muse are the only ones worth buying.
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