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  Xfm's Greatest American Albums Ever

  Red Hot Chili Peppers - 'Blood Sugar Sex Magick' The great breakthrough album for Kiedis and co, featuring the classic 'Under The Bridge'. They didn't give it away, give it away, give it away now - you had to buy it.

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  Xfm's Greatest American Albums Ever

  The White Stripes - 'White Blood Cells' Peerles indie blues from Jack White, featuring the Lego-wrangling 'Fell In Love With A Girl'.

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  Xfm's Greatest American Albums Ever

  Foo Fighters - 'The Colour And The Shape' Grohl's 1997 meisterwork, that gave the world 'Everlong', 'Monkey Wrench' and 'My Hero'. You're OUR hero, Dave.

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  Xfm's Greatest American Albums Ever

  Kings Of Leon - 'Youth and Young Manhood' The debut from the Followills, which depicts the tribulations of puberty. Possibly. Anyway, it has the cracking 'Molly's Chambers' and 'California Waiting' among others.

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  Xfm's Greatest American Albums Ever

  Ramones - 'Ramones' The numb-nuts rock debut that inspired a generation on young punks on both sides of the atlantic. Never has teen angst been so in-eloquently evoked.

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  Xfm's Greatest American Albums Ever

  Weezer - 'Weezer' AKA The Blue Album. Nerds get their revenge, thanks to Rivers Cuomo's power-riffing and witty lyrics. Includes a song about a jumper.

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  Xfm's Greatest American Albums Ever

  Rage Against The Machine - 'Rage Against The Machine' Behind the horrifying cover of a monk going up in flames sits this savage kick in the balls for American politics and small minds. Plus, loads of swearing! Ace.

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  Xfm's Greatest American Albums Ever

  Queens Of The Stone Age - 'Rated R' It's was touch and go whether 'Songs For The Deaf' would get in the list, but the 2000 album from Homme and co made it thanks to the insane riffage and ranting of 'Feel Good Hit Of The Summer'. "C-c-c-c-c-c-cocaineeeee!"

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  Xfm's Greatest American Albums Ever

  MGMT - 'Oracular Spectacular' A deft blend of strange, spacey-yet-sexy dance rock from this young American duo.

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  Xfm's Greatest American Albums Ever

  My Chemical Romance - 'The Black Parade' Gered Way sticks it to the man, jocks, stiffs and anyone else who isn't emo on this dark rock masterpiece.

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  Xfm's Greatest American Albums Ever

  Metallica - 'Metallica' The 1991 "Black Album" that consolidated the 'Tallica's position as masters of metal. Contains the world's least-convincing lullaby, 'Enter Sandman' and the almost-mellow 'Nothing Else Matters'.

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  Xfm's Greatest American Albums Ever

  R.E.M. - 'Out Of Time' Out Of Time is the album that made a small indie band from Athens, Georgia, one of the biggest in the world. Highlights are too numerous to mention, but 'Losing My Religion' blew open the mainstream with a tune of rare skill and intelligence.

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  Xfm's Greatest American Albums Ever

  Nirvana - Nevermind When the underground went overground with hi-jacked rock riffs, exceptional pop nous and an attitude that put an isolated city on the northwwest coast - that's Seattle, folks - well and truly on the map.

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  Xfm's Greatest American Albums Ever

  The Strokes - 'Is This It' We remember when it were all big shorts, rock-rap and thinly veiled bigotry around these parts. Along came five skinny youths from New York with razor-sharp, post-punk tunes and completely re-shaped our landscape. Nu-metal what?

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  Xfm's Greatest American Albums Ever

  Beck - 'Odelay' The musical magpie's tour-de-force. With legendary producers The Dust Brothers in tow, Beck re-purposed a sackful of samples, welded them to top tunes and produced one of the most charming and fascinating records of the 90s.

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  Xfm's Greatest American Albums Ever

  Pixies - 'Doolittle' Was this the record that inspired 'Nevermind'? Either way, Pixies' finest hour went on to inspire a million musicians with its wonky take on rock. Often imitated, but 'Doolittle''s 15 songs were rarely bettered.

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  Xfm's Greatest American Albums Ever

  Guns N'Roses - 'Appetite For Destruction' Forget hair metal, Guns N Roses were pure punk-rock spit'n'bile combined with an unparalleled ambition and some of the greatest songs the metal scene has ever seen. The band (or Axl W. Rose) may have struggled to match its utter brilliance since. Then again, so has everyone else.

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  Xfm's Greatest American Albums Ever

  Jeff Buckley - 'Grace' The voice that launched Coldplay. Being Tim Buckley's son was the least interesting thing about this incandescant singer-songwriter. 'Grace' will go down as one of the greatest debut albums of all time. And his version of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah'? The best cover in the world. No contest.

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  Xfm's Greatest American Albums Ever

  The Killers - 'Hot Fuss' Four guys from Las Vegas, a fascination with British pop and another debut album that blew a stadium-sized hole in our world. 'Mr Brightside' may have been the band's calling card, but 'Hot Fuss' had plenty of strength in depth as The Killers set about conquering the world.

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  Xfm's Greatest American Albums Ever

  Green Day - 'Dookie' Three punks from San Francisco hit the big time with a short, sharp blast of punk-rock, lovingly crafted with melodies that wooed the mainstream. From 'Burnout' to 'FOD' 'Dookie' was a real visceral treat.