The Bends
In 2017, "Pitchfork" named "The Bends" the third-greatest Britpop album, writing that its "epic portrayal of drift and disenchantment secures its reluctant spot in Britpop's pantheon". In 2000, in a vote of more than 200,000 music fans and journalists, "The Bends" was named the second greatest album of all time, behind to "Revolver" by the Beatles. "The Bends" took second place behind "OK Computer" in 1998 and 2006 reader polls in "Q" for the best album of all time. It was also included in the 2005 book "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die". "Rolling Stone" placed it at number 110 on its original 2003 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, at 111 in its 2012 list, and at 276 in its 2020 list. In 2006, "British Hit Singles &amp; Albums" and "NME" organised a poll in which 40,000 people worldwide voted for the 100 best albums; "The Bends" placed at number 10. "Paste" named it the 11th greatest album of the 1990s. In 2020, the "Independent" named it the best album of 1995, writing: "Downbeat, melancholic, yet wonderfully melodic and uplifting ... "The Bends" stood apart from Britpop and everything else in the storied year of 1995."