Beastie Boys: Licensed To Ill (Def Jam)Д©. Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band: Live 1975/85 (Columbia)Д¦. The Robert Cray Band: Strong Persuader (Mercury)Д¤. The Costello Show (Featuring Elvis Costello): King of America (Columbia)ДЈ. John Fogerty: Centerfield (Warner Bros.)Дў. Aretha Franklin: WhoвЂ™s ZoominвЂ™ Who? (Arista)ДЎ0. R.E.M.: Fables of the Reconstruction (I.R.S.)Д©. Artists United Against Apartheid: Sun City (Manhattan)Д§. John Cougar Mellencamp: Scarecrow (Riva)ДҐ. The Pretenders: Learning to Crawl (Sire)ДЎ. The Replacements: Let It Be (Twin/Tone)Д§. Los Lobos: How Will the Wolf Survive? (Slash)Д¤. Prince and the Revolution: Purple Rain (Warner Bros.)ДЈ. Richard Thompson: Hand of Kindness (Hannibal)ДЎ. Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers: Jonathan Sings! (Sire)Д©. Lou Reed: Legendary Hearts (RCA Victor)ДЁ. Talking Heads: Speaking in Tongues (Sire)Д¤. Marshall Crenshaw: Marshall Crenshaw (Warner Bros.)ДЈ. The English Beat: Special Beat Service (I.R.S.)Д©. King Sunny AdГ© & His African Beats: Juju Music (Mango)Д§. Richard & Linda Thompson: Shoot Out the Lights (Hannibal)ДЈ. Elvis Costello: Imperial Bedroom (Columbia)Дў. Tom Verlaine: Dreamtime (Warner Bros.)ДЎ0. Rickie Lee Jones: Pirates (Warner Bros.)Д§. The Rolling Stones: Tattoo You (Rolling Stones)ДҐ. Elvis Costello and the Attractions: Trust (Columbia)Д¤. Gang Of Four: Entertainment! (Warner Bros.)ДЈ. Stevie Wonder: Hotter Than July (Tamla)ДЎ0. Elvis Costello & the Attractions: Get Happy!! (Columbia)ДЁ. Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band: Doc at the Radar Station (Virgin)Д§. Public Image Ltd.: Second Edition (Island)Д¦. Bruce Springsteen: The River (Columbia)ДҐ. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Damn the Torpedoes (Backstreet/MCA)Дў. Van Morrison: Into the Music (Warner Bros.)ДЁ. Elvis Costello: Armed Forces (Columbia)Д¦. Neil Young: Rust Never Sleeps (Reprise)ДҐ. Graham Parker: Squeezing Out Sparks (Arista)Дў. David Johansen: David Johansen (Blue Sky)ДЎ. Bruce Springsteen: Darkness at the Edge of Town (Columbia)ДЎ0. Talking Heads: More Songs About Buildings and Food (Sire)Д¦. Nick Lowe: Pure Pop for Now People (Columbia)Д¤. The Rolling Stones: Some Girls (Rolling Stones)ДЈ. Elvis Costello: This YearвЂ™s Model (Columbia)Дў. Randy Newman: Little Criminals (Warner Bros.)ДЎ. Talking Heads: Talking Heads: 77 (Sire)ДЁ. Elvis Costello: My Aim Is True (Columbia)Д§. Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks, HereвЂ™s the Sex Pistols (Warner Bros.)Дў. Blue Oyster Cult: Agents of Fortune (Columbia)ДЎ. Rod Stewart: A Night on the Town (Warner Bros.)ДЎ0. Kate & Anna McGarrigle: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Warner Bros.)Д©. Graham Parker & the Rumour: HowlinвЂ™ Wind (Mercury)ДҐ. Graham Parker & the Rumour: Heat Treatment (Mercury)ДЈ. Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Life (Tamla)Дў. The Band: Northern Lights-Southern Cross (Capitol)ДЎ. Bob Marley and the Wailers: Natty Dread (Island)Д©. Neil Young: TonightвЂ™s the Night (Reprise)ДЁ. Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks (Columbia)ДҐ. Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run (Columbia)Д¤. Bob Dylan and the Band: The Basement Tapes (Columbia)ДЈ. New York Dolls: In Too Much Too Soon (Mercury)ДЎ. Eric Clapton: 461 Ocean Boulevard (RSO)ДЎ0. Jackson Browne: Late for the Sky (Asylum)Д©. Bob Dylan and the Band: Before the Flood (Asylum)ДЁ. Rolling Stones: ItвЂ™s Only Rock вЂn Roll (Rolling Stones)Д¦. Stevie Wonder: FulfillingnessвЂ™ First Finale (Tamla)ДҐ. Joni Mitchell: Court and Spark (Asylum)Д¤. The Concert for Bangladesh: The Concert for Bangladesh (Apple)ДЎ. Grateful Dead: Grateful Dead (Warner Bros.)ДЁ. Joy of Cooking: Joy of Cooking (Capitol)Д§. Van Morrison: Tupelo Honey (Warner Bros.)Д¦. Rod Stewart: Every Picture Tells a Story (Mercury)Д¤. The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers (Rolling Stones)ДЈ. It returned in early 1975, though, with Joni MitchellвЂ™s Court and Spark being voted the top album of 1974.Дў. The prominence of legacy artists on the inaugural poll led Christgau to complain of a вЂњcreeping auteurismвЂќ by which вЂњfave raves of yore вЂ¦ are trotted out like so many Frank Tashlins to receive a great art award for their annual wheeze.вЂќ The poll has run every year since вЂ™71, except for a three-year hiatus after that first year. Cruise through this index of the VoiceвЂ™s top ten albums from 1971 through 2016, according to its annual Pazz & Jop criticsвЂ™ poll, started by Robert Christgau.

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