Year-End Lists

Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2013

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1. Modern Vampires of the City
   Vampire Weekend
2. Yeezus
   Kanye West
3. Random Access Memories
   Daft Punk
4. New
   Paul McCartney
5. Reflektor
   Arcade Fire
6. …Like Clockwork
   Queens of the Stone Age
7. Pure Heroine
   Lorde
8. Trouble Will Find Me
   The National
9. AM
   Arctic Monkeys
10. Wrote A Song For Everyone
    John Fogerty
11. Light Up Gold
    Parquet Courts
12. Jake Bugg
    Jake Bugg
13. Settle
    Disclosure
14. Nothing Was the Same
    Drake
15. Amok
    Atoms for Peace
16. The Next Day
    David Bowie
17. Old
    Danny Brown
18. Like a Rose
    Ashley Monroe
19. Hesitation Marks
    Nine Inch Nails
20. Once I Was an Eagle
    Laura Marling
21. Night Time, My Time
    Sky Ferreira
22. Bankrupt!
    Phoenix
23. mbv
    My Bloody Valentine
24. The Marshall Mathers LP 2
    Eminem
25. The Diving Board
    Elton John
26. Acid Rap
    Chance The Rapper
27. Bangerz
    Miley Cyrus
28. Same Trailer Different Park
    Kacey Musgraves
29. Nomad
    Bombino
30. Heartthrob
    Tegan and Sara
31. Days Are Gone
    Haim
32. The Bones Of What You Believe
    Chvrches
33. My Name Is My Name
    Pusha T
34. The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
    Neko Case
35. Fade Away
    Best Coast
36. Cerulean Salt
    Waxahatchee
37. Blowout
    The So So Glos
38. Wakin on a Pretty Daze
    Kurt Vile
39. Fuse
    Keith Urban
40. Lightning Bolt
    Pearl Jam
41. Born Sinner
    J. Cole
42. Doris
    Earl Sweatshirt
43. Silence Yourself
    Savages
44. Pushin’ Against a Stone
    Valerie June
45. TRUE
    Avicii
46. Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action
    Franz Ferdinand
47. Matangi
    M.I.A.
48. Slow Focus
    Fuck Buttons
49. The Terror
    The Flaming Lips
50. Song Reader
    Beck