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Those are just a few of the biggest big-name examples. In compiling our top 250 albums of the quarter-century, we wanted to show as much of the scope of this story as possible.

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This largely has to do with timing and where the critical consensus is at a given moment. And an album that’s seen as a B+/A- is still disappointing if it follows a bunch of A/A+ albums.