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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