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The album was listed at #17 in ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s most recent (September 2020) list of the [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]], making it the second highest-placing hip-hop album on the list (behind ''Music/ItTakesANationOfMillionsToHoldUsBack'' by Music/PublicEnemy at #15), as well as the highest-placing album from the 21st century. It’s also the album with the biggest jump between the last time they updated the list in 2012, where it was #353.

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The album was listed at #17 in ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s most recent (September 2020) list of the [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime2020 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]], making it the second highest-placing hip-hop album on the list (behind ''Music/ItTakesANationOfMillionsToHoldUsBack'' by Music/PublicEnemy at #15), as well as the highest-placing album from the 21st century. It’s also the album with the biggest jump between the last time they updated the list in 2012, where it was #353.
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The album was listed at #17 in ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s most recent (September 2020) list of the [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]], making it the second highest-placing hip-hop album on the list (behind ''Music/ItTakesANationOfMillionsToHoldUsBack'' by Music/PublicEnemy at #15), as well as the highest placing album from the 21st century. It’s also the album with the biggest jump between the last time they updated the list in 2012, where it was #353.

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The album was listed at #17 in ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s most recent (September 2020) list of the [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]], making it the second highest-placing hip-hop album on the list (behind ''Music/ItTakesANationOfMillionsToHoldUsBack'' by Music/PublicEnemy at #15), as well as the highest placing highest-placing album from the 21st century. It’s also the album with the biggest jump between the last time they updated the list in 2012, where it was #353.
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The album was listed at #17 in ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s most recent (September 2020) list of the [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]], making it the second highest-placing hip-hop album on the list (behind ''Music/ItTakesANationOfMillionsToHoldUsBack'' by Music/PublicEnemy at #15), as well as the highest placing album from the 21st century.

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The album was listed at #17 in ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s most recent (September 2020) list of the [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]], making it the second highest-placing hip-hop album on the list (behind ''Music/ItTakesANationOfMillionsToHoldUsBack'' by Music/PublicEnemy at #15), as well as the highest placing album from the 21st century. It’s also the album with the biggest jump between the last time they updated the list in 2012, where it was #353.
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The album was listed at #17 in ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s most recent (September 2020) list of the [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]].

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The album was listed at #17 in ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s most recent (September 2020) list of the [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]]. Time]], making it the second highest-placing hip-hop album on the list (behind ''Music/ItTakesANationOfMillionsToHoldUsBack'' by Music/PublicEnemy at #15), as well as the highest placing album from the 21st century.
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The album was listed at #353 in ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]].

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The album was listed at #353 #17 in ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s most recent (September 2020) list of the [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]].
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* BookEnds: The album begins and ends with instances of SpokenWordInMusic, similarly to Kanye's debut ''The College Dropout''. There are also two thematically important questions asked by other performers, "Can we get much higher?" and "Who will survive in America?".

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* BookEnds: The album begins and ends with instances of SpokenWordInMusic, similarly to Kanye's debut ''The College Dropout''. There are also two thematically important questions asked by other performers, "Can "[[Music/MikeOldfield Can we get much higher?" higher?]]" and "Who "[[Music/GilScottHeron Who will survive in America?".America?]]".
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->''"Let's have a toast for the douchebags\\
Let's have a toast for the assholes\\
Let's have a toast for the scumbags\\
Every one of them I know"''
-->--"Runaway"
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Upwards of 90 staff! For one album! [[AuteurLicense Few could get away with it,]] [[TropesAreNotBad fewer still could make it work.]]

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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Upwards of 90 staff! For one album! [[AuteurLicense Few could get away with it,]] [[TropesAreNotBad [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools fewer still could make it work.]]
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* AutoTune: This album uses it in a great example of TropesAreTools. "Runaway" uses Autotune to distort Kanye's voice heavily for the last three minutes or so to mimic a guitar solo (it's been compared to Music/KingCrimson's Robert Fripp). A number of critics have speculated that this is intended to be a metaphor for Kanye's difficulties in expressing himself verbally.

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* AutoTune: This album uses it in a great example of TropesAreTools.Administrivia/TropesAreTools. "Runaway" uses Autotune to distort Kanye's voice heavily for the last three minutes or so to mimic a guitar solo (it's been compared to Music/KingCrimson's Robert Fripp). A number of critics have speculated that this is intended to be a metaphor for Kanye's difficulties in expressing himself verbally.
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Critics applauded the album's musical ranges, production, and thematic material, and the album won three {{Grammy Award}}s for Best Rap Album, as well as Best Rap Song and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration ("All of the Lights"). However, there was mass controversy over the album not being nominated for Album of the Year alongside ''Watch the Throne'' (Kanye's collab album with Music/JayZ), which many felt was an AwardSnub. Kanye has stated that this was his own doing due to releasing the two albums in the same year.

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Critics applauded the album's musical ranges, production, and thematic material, and the album won three {{Grammy UsefulNotes/{{Grammy Award}}s for Best Rap Album, as well as Best Rap Song and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration ("All of the Lights"). However, there was mass controversy over the album not being nominated for Album of the Year alongside ''Watch the Throne'' (Kanye's collab album with Music/JayZ), which many felt was an AwardSnub. Kanye has stated that this was his own doing due to releasing the two albums in the same year.
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* TextlessAlbumCover: Aside from the "Parental Advisory" label (itself absent from the "clean" version), all of the cover variants lack text.
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--> ''They say I'm the abomination of Obama's nation''

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--> ''They say I'm the abomination of Obama's nation''nation... Well, that's a pretty bad way to start the conversation.''



--> ''I'm an asshole? You niggas got jokes''

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--> ''I'm an asshole? You niggas got jokes''jokes!''

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[[caption-width-right:350:''No one man should hold all that power!'']]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''No one man should hold have all that power!'']]


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* SpokenWordInMusic: The album ends with an extensive sample of a Gil Scott-Heron spoken-word poem.
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[[caption-width-right:350:The [[ContemptibleCover risqué]] standard cover art of ''My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy''.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:The [[ContemptibleCover risqué]] standard cover art of ''My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy''.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''No one man should hold all that power!'']]
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* BadassBoast[=/=]BlasphemousBoast: Cy Hi da Prynce claims in "So Apalled":
--> ''If God had an iPod, I'd be on his playlist''.

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* BadassBoast[=/=]BlasphemousBoast: Cy Hi [=CyHi=] da Prynce claims in "So Apalled":
Appalled":
--> ''If God had an iPod, I'd be on his playlist''.playlist.''



* BookEnds: The album begins and ends with instances of SpokenWordInMusic, similarly to Kanye's debut ''The College Dropout''. They are also two thematically important questions asked by other performers, "Can we get much higher?" and "Who will survive in America?".

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* BookEnds: The album begins and ends with instances of SpokenWordInMusic, similarly to Kanye's debut ''The College Dropout''. They There are also two thematically important questions asked by other performers, "Can we get much higher?" and "Who will survive in America?".



** "Gorgeous" provides a shout-out to a shout-out with the line "choke a South Park writer with a fishstick", referencing the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Fishsticks", in which West was spoofed.

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** "Gorgeous" provides a shout-out to a shout-out contains the lines "Pulled over with [[Series/ThirtyRock 30 rocks]], the line cop look like Creator/AlecBaldwin" and "choke a South Park ''South Park'' writer with a fishstick", which is a shout-out to a shout-out, referencing the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Fishsticks", in which West was spoofed.
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* RecordProducer: [[Music/ATribeCalledQuest Q-Tip]], RZA, DJ Premier, Madlib and Pete Rock helped with the recording sessions.

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* RecordProducer: [[Music/ATribeCalledQuest Q-Tip]], RZA, [[Music/WuTangClan RZA]], DJ Premier, Madlib and Pete Rock helped with the recording sessions.
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i checked and eminem is nowhere in this album


* SpecialGuest: The album features appearances by Raekwon, [[Music/WuTangClan RZA]], Pusha T, Rick Ross, Charlie Wilson, Big Sean, Cyhi the Prince, Swizz Beatz, Dwele, Music/NickiMinaj, T.I., Drake, Teyana Taylor, Common, Music/JayZ, Music/{{Eminem}}, Music/LilWayne, John Legend, [[Music/TheBlackEyedPeas Fergie]], Music/{{Rihanna}}, The-Dream, Ryan Leslie, Music/EltonJohn, Music/{{MIA}}, Justin Vernon, Music/{{Seal}}, Music/{{Beyonce}}, Kid Cudi, Mos Def, Music/{{Santigold}}, Music/AliciaKeys, [[Music/LaRoux Elly Jackson]], Creator/ChrisRock and Tony Williams. [[Music/ATribeCalledQuest Q-Tip]], RZA, DJ Premier, Madlib and Pete Rock helped with the recording sessions.

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* SpecialGuest: The album features appearances by Raekwon, [[Music/WuTangClan RZA]], Pusha T, Rick Ross, Charlie Wilson, Big Sean, Cyhi the Prince, Swizz Beatz, Dwele, Music/NickiMinaj, T.I., Drake, Teyana Taylor, Common, Music/JayZ, Music/{{Eminem}}, Music/JayZi check and e, Music/LilWayne, John Legend, [[Music/TheBlackEyedPeas Fergie]], Music/{{Rihanna}}, The-Dream, Ryan Leslie, Music/EltonJohn, Music/{{MIA}}, Justin Vernon, Music/{{Seal}}, Music/{{Beyonce}}, Kid Cudi, Mos Def, Music/{{Santigold}}, Music/AliciaKeys, [[Music/LaRoux Elly Jackson]], Creator/ChrisRock and Tony Williams. [[Music/ATribeCalledQuest Q-Tip]], RZA, DJ Premier, Madlib and Pete Rock helped with the recording sessions.
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Gave more infomation for the Body Horror trope.


* BodyHorror: One of the images in assocation with ''MBDTF'' is [[http://www.heavemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Kanye-West-My-Beautiful-Dark-Twisted-Fantasy.jpg a bear with five different mouths]]. As if that wasn't enough, [[http://archive.dailycal.org/photos/20101130/111373-Kanye-west-power1-03.jpg there's a human equivalent]].

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* BodyHorror: One of the images in assocation with ''MBDTF'' is [[http://www.heavemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Kanye-West-My-Beautiful-Dark-Twisted-Fantasy.jpg a bear with five different mouths]].mouths, in particular, the same "Dropout Bear" from Ye's first 3 studio albums]]. As if that wasn't enough, [[http://archive.dailycal.org/photos/20101130/111373-Kanye-west-power1-03.jpg there's a human Kanye equivalent]].
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'''''My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy''''' is HipHop messiah Music/KanyeWest's fifth album, released on 22 November 2010. The album was initially planned as a continuation of his College Trilogy (''The College Dropout'', ''Late Registration'', and ''Graduation'') to be named ''Good-Ass Job'', but the concept was eventually discarded.

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'''''My ''My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy''''' Fantasy'' is HipHop messiah Music/KanyeWest's fifth album, released on 22 November 2010. The album was initially planned as a continuation of his College Trilogy (''The College Dropout'', ''Late Registration'', and ''Graduation'') to be named ''Good-Ass Job'', but the concept was eventually discarded.

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* EpicInstrumentalOpener: "All of the Lights" is prefixed by a minute-long piano/cello [[RearrangeTheSong rearrangement]] of the song that is its own track made to transition into the main song.

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* EpicInstrumentalOpener: "All of the Lights" is prefixed by a minute-long piano/cello [[RearrangeTheSong rearrangement]] of the song that is its own track made to transition into the main song.


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* IndecipherableLyrics: Invoked with the outro of "Runaway", which has Kanye singing into a vocoder designed to make his words barely intelligible, which symbolically represents his troubles expressing himself verbally.


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* RearrangeTheSong: "All of the Lights (Interlude)" is a piano/cello rearrangement of "All of the Lights".
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* EpicInstrumentalOpener: "All of the Lights" is prefixed by a minute-long piano/cello [[RearrangeTheSong rearrangement]] of the song that is its own track made to transition into the main song.

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* FadingIntoTheNextSong: The final two tracks are SiameseTwinSongs; "Lost in the World" transitions perfectly into "Who Will Survive In America".



* SiameseTwinSongs: "Lost in the World" and "Who Will Survive In America", which are connected by the same beat.

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* SiameseTwinSongs: "Lost in the World" and "Who Will Survive In America", which are connected by the same beat.beat and share the same theme.
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The entry had nothing to do with the trope (being reviewed is not a shout-out)


** The music video to "Runaway" was reviewed in an episode of ''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows'', where Todd did a crossover with WebVideo/TheRapCritic.
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** "So Appalled" has samples from "You Are-I Am" by Manfred Mann.

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** "So Appalled" has samples from "You Are-I Am" by Manfred Mann.Music/ManfredMannsEarthBand.
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** "So Appalled" has samples from "You Are-I Am" by Music/ManfredMann.

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** "So Appalled" has samples from "You Are-I Am" by Music/ManfredMann.Manfred Mann.
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* BookEnds: The album begins and ends with instances of SpokenWordInMusic, similarly to Kanye's debut ''Music/TheCollegeDropout''. They are also two thematically important questions asked by other performers, "Can we get much higher?" and "Who will survive in America?".

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* BookEnds: The album begins and ends with instances of SpokenWordInMusic, similarly to Kanye's debut ''Music/TheCollegeDropout''.''The College Dropout''. They are also two thematically important questions asked by other performers, "Can we get much higher?" and "Who will survive in America?".



** "Devil in a New Dress" has a sample from "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" in the version of Music/SmokeyRobinson.

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** "Devil in a New Dress" has a sample from "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" in the version of Music/SmokeyRobinson.Smokey Robinson.



** "Lost in the World" has samples from "Soul Makossa" by Music/ManuDibango, "Think (About It)" by Lyn Collins, "Woods" by Music/BonIver and "Comment No. 1" by Music/GilScottHeron, who is sampled again during "Who Will Survive In America?"

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** "Lost in the World" has samples from "Soul Makossa" by Music/ManuDibango, Manu Dibango, "Think (About It)" by Lyn Collins, "Woods" by Music/BonIver and "Comment No. 1" by Music/GilScottHeron, who is sampled again during "Who Will Survive In America?"



* SpecialGuest: The album features appearances by Raekwon, [[Music/WuTangClan RZA]], Pusha T, Rick Ross, Charlie Wilson, Big Sean, Cyhi the Prince, Swizz Beatz, Dwele, Music/NickiMinaj, T.I., Drake, Teyana Taylor, Common, Music/JayZ, Music/{{Eminem}}, Music/LilWayne, Music/JohnLegend, [[Music/TheBlackEyedPeas Fergie]], Music/{{Rihanna}}, The-Dream, Ryan Leslie, Music/EltonJohn, Music/{{MIA}}, Justin Vernon, Music/{{Seal}}, Music/{{Beyonce}}, Kid Cudi, Music/MosDef, Music/{{Santigold}}, Music/AliciaKeys, Music/EllyJackson, Creator/ChrisRock and Tony Williams. [[Music/ATribeCalledQuest Q-Tip]], RZA, DJ Premier, Madlib and Pete Rock helped with the recording sessions.

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* SpecialGuest: The album features appearances by Raekwon, [[Music/WuTangClan RZA]], Pusha T, Rick Ross, Charlie Wilson, Big Sean, Cyhi the Prince, Swizz Beatz, Dwele, Music/NickiMinaj, T.I., Drake, Teyana Taylor, Common, Music/JayZ, Music/{{Eminem}}, Music/LilWayne, Music/JohnLegend, John Legend, [[Music/TheBlackEyedPeas Fergie]], Music/{{Rihanna}}, The-Dream, Ryan Leslie, Music/EltonJohn, Music/{{MIA}}, Justin Vernon, Music/{{Seal}}, Music/{{Beyonce}}, Kid Cudi, Music/MosDef, Mos Def, Music/{{Santigold}}, Music/AliciaKeys, Music/EllyJackson, [[Music/LaRoux Elly Jackson]], Creator/ChrisRock and Tony Williams. [[Music/ATribeCalledQuest Q-Tip]], RZA, DJ Premier, Madlib and Pete Rock helped with the recording sessions.
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** In the same song, he delivers one to SaturdayNightLive:

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** In the same song, he delivers one to SaturdayNightLive:Series/SaturdayNightLive:
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** The album begins with someone imitating a British storyteller, directly referencing the opening of Creator/RoaldDahl's ''Literature/RevoltingRhymes'' retelling of ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}''. Dahl's poem isn't directly referenced, but the line delivery is very similar.

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** The album begins with someone Music/NickiMinaj imitating a British storyteller, directly referencing the opening of Creator/RoaldDahl's ''Literature/RevoltingRhymes'' retelling of ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}''. Dahl's poem isn't directly referenced, but the line delivery is very similar.
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The album was listed at nr. #353 in Magazine/RollingStone's ''Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime''.

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The album was listed at nr. #353 in Magazine/RollingStone's ''Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime''.''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]].

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