Hmmmmm. US music magazine Spin has named Radiohead's 'OK Computer' as the best album of the past twenty years. They beat off Public Enemy's 'It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back' and Nirvana's 'Nevermind' to top the poll, published to celebrate the publication's 20th birthday. The 1997 album was chosen because it "uncannily predicted our global culture of communal distress".
Other albums in the magazine's top ten, other than Public Enemy and Nirvana who appeared at numbers two and three respectively, include Pavement's 'Slanted And Enchanted' at 4, The Smiths' 'The Queen Is Dead' at 5, Pixies' 'Surfer Rosa' at 6, De La Soul's 'Feet High And Rising' at 7, Prince's 'Sign O' The Times' at 8, PJ Harvey's 'Rid Of Me' at 9 and NWA's 'Straight Outta Compton' at 10.
Although Spin is predominantly a rock magazine, more than a quarter of the top 100 albums selected by its editorial team were hip hop releases. But Editor-in-chief Sia Michel explained that her team had not been confined by genres when selected the list - they chose albums because of their "basic brilliance, innovation and overall relevance".