Best Progressive Pop Albums of All Time

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RankAlbumArtist		Year	★ Overall		Critics	Users
2	Abbey Road - The Beatles	1969	92.1	86	100	91.6	90.7	93	92	91.2
28	Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys	1966	89.5	84	100	87.1	85.7	92.6	88	89.4
30	The Smile Sessions - The Beach Boys	2011	89.5	85	96	88	89.4	93	85	90
70	Hounds of Love - Kate Bush	1985	88.3	83	96	89.3	85.8	90	85	89.2
77	Illinois - Sufjan Stevens	2005	88.1	82.8	92	90.6	87.7	91.4	86	86
140	Imaginal Disk - Magdalena Bay	2024	86.9	82	89	90.3	88.8	96.8	83	78.4
275	The Whole Story - Kate Bush	1986	85.6	82.4	83	86.6	89.2	87.2	81	90
312	Titanic Rising - Weyes Blood	2019	85.3	80.2	87	88.7	87.4	91.8	82	80.2
316	When the Pawn... - Fiona Apple	1999	85.3	82.2	77	90.8	90.3	91.6	82	83.2
407	The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips	1999	84.7	77.4	92	84.7	81.3	89.4	83	85.2
418	Fetch the Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple	2020	84.6	76	93	86.2	86.5	92.4	81	77.4
458	The Dreaming - Kate Bush	1982	84.5	81.2	81	87.6	86	87.6	81	86.8
511	Ram - Paul McCartney & Linda McCartney	1971	84.2	81	80	86.8	86.4	89	82	84
541	You Will Never Know Why - Sweet Trip	2009	84	81.2	80	86.4	85.2	91.6	81	82.6
555	Band on the Run - Paul McCartney & Wings	1973	83.9	78.2	85	84.3	85.5	88.6	82	84
616	Secos & Molhados - Secos & Molhados	1973	83.7	76.2	90	84.3	87	91.6	79	78
667	Sunflower - The Beach Boys	1970	83.5	77.2	97	83.3	82.2	87	78	80
679	Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips	2002	83.5	77	85	84.6	82.1	90.4	83	82.2
694	Sing to God - Cardiacs	1996	83.4	76.2	88	80.9	85	93.6	76	84.2
729	Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John	1973	83.3	76.6	86	83	83.6	88.2	81	84.4
740	Something/Anything? - Todd Rundgren	1972	83.2	75.6	100	79.9	77.5	86.6	79	84
795	In the Land of Grey and Pink - Caravan	1971	83	78	85	80.7	81.2	91	81	84
808	Lô Borges - Lô Borges	1972	83	76.4	90	82.8	81.9	93.6	74	82
845	Songs from the Big Chair - Tears for Fears	1985	82.8	78.8	82	84.3	83.2	88.8	79	83.8
876	Anima Latina - Lucio Battisti	1974	82.8	76.6	80	83.4	87.1	90.6	77	84.6
912	Mutantes - Mutantes	1969	82.7	74.6	90	80.7	81.1	91.2	81	80
920	Halfway to a Threeway - Jim O'Rourke	1999	82.6	80.2	80	84.4	86.8	89.2	77	80.8
925	Days of Future Passed - The Moody Blues	1967	82.6	76.4	83	83.2	85.2	85	80	85.4
933	Frengers - Mew	2003	82.6	74.6	83	82.7	86.1	90.4	77	84.2
983	Spilt Milk - Jellyfish	1993	82.4	74.2	90	79.5	83.2	91.4	75	83.6
1015	Kimono My House - Sparks	1974	82.3	76	95	80.1	77.7	86.4	79	82
1016	Vulnicura - Björk	2015	82.3	75.2	85	86.3	85.5	87	78	79.2
1039	Countdown to Ecstasy - Steely Dan	1973	82.3	76.6	91	80.5	78.5	87.2	80	82
1131	Tin Drum - Japan	1981	82	74.2	90	77.9	84.4	87.8	78	82
1160	A Wizard, a True Star - Todd Rundgren	1973	82	76.6	90	82.3	78.1	85.4	77	84.4
1163	Destroyer's Rubies - Destroyer	2006	82	75	85	82.2	84.2	88.8	78	80.6
1253	The Kick Inside - Kate Bush	1978	81.7	76.8	81	82.8	83.4	86.2	80	82
1257	Eye in the Sky - The Alan Parsons Project	1982	81.7	73.2	93	81.9	84.1	86	76	78
1269	Get To Heaven - Everything Everything	2015	81.7	73.8	81	82.7	83.9	92	77	81.6
1272	The Age of Adz - Sufjan Stevens	2010	81.7	77.8	77	84.7	83.6	87.6	80	81.2
1281	Strawberry Jam - Animal Collective	2007	81.7	76.6	80	83.7	83.3	86.6	81	80.6
1289	SMiLE - Brian Wilson	2004	81.7	76	92	80.6	77	86.6	79	80.4
1299	Person Pitch - Panda Bear	2007	81.6	75.4	85	80.8	80.1	88.8	81	80.4
1306	Breakfast in America - Supertramp	1979	81.6	77.8	75	84	85.4	87.2	82	80
1320	The Sensual World - Kate Bush	1989	81.6	76	86	86	82.5	84.8	78	78
1333	Crime of the Century - Supertramp	1974	81.6	76.6	73	80.8	84.6	88.6	82	85.4
1338	The Turn of a Friendly Card - The Alan Parsons Project	1980	81.6	75	90	83.5	84.4	84	76	78
1347	I Robot - The Alan Parsons Project	1977	81.5	74.4	90	81.3	82.5	85.6	79	78
1395	Strange Mercy - St. Vincent	2011	81.5	73.4	86	83.2	82.1	87.6	78	80
1401	Only God Was Above Us - Vampire Weekend	2024	81.4	74.8	86	82.1	79.4	91	81	75.8
1465	Paris 1919 - John Cale	1973	81.3	76.2	83	80.4	80.1	88.2	79	82
1495	Brilliant Trees - David Sylvian	1984	81.2	74.6	81	79	83.1	88.8	78	84
1580	Year of the Cat - Al Stewart	1976	81	75	90	80.8	81.9	81.6	78	80
1626	The Turning Wheel - SPELLLING	2021	81	74.2	81	83.3	83.4	91.8	79	74
1629	Gone to Earth - David Sylvian	1986	81	75	78	81.4	85.7	88.8	74	83.8
1685	A New World Record - Electric Light Orchestra	1976	80.8	76.8	73	83.5	84.6	84	80	84
1687	A Trick of the Tail - Genesis	1976	80.8	76.2	78	81.4	83.3	86	79	82
1714	The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle - Bruce Springsteen	1973	80.8	75	88	80.9	78.7	83	80	80
1756	Eldorado - Electric Light Orchestra	1974	80.7	73.8	88	79.5	78.5	85.2	78	82
1769	Fall Be Kind - Animal Collective	2009	80.7	76	82	81.5	81.3	86.4	77	80.6
1794	And the Glass Handed Kites - Mew	2005	80.7	73.6	75	80.6	90	87.2	77	81.2
1796	Pacific Ocean Blue - Dennis Wilson	1977	80.7	72.4	85	78.3	79.9	89	78	82
1802	Under the Pink - Tori Amos	1994	80.6	73.8	80	83.3	83	86.8	77	80.6
1841	A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window - Cardiacs	1988	80.6	76	70	81.2	83.3	93.8	76	83.6
1897	Actor - St. Vincent	2009	80.4	73.6	79	82.5	83	86	79	80
1938	Never for Ever - Kate Bush	1980	80.3	78	72	84.5	84.1	84.8	79	80
2002	Spirit Phone - Lemon Demon	2016	80.2	73.8	80	81.4	83.2	93.2	74	76
2041	Propaganda - Sparks	1974	80.2	75.8	80	80.1	83.4	84.8	77	80
2087	Boys for Pele - Tori Amos	1996	80.1	75.2	70	85.7	87.7	86.2	75	80.6
2099	Blue Screen Life - Pinback	2001	80	77.2	68	81.4	84.1	92.4	77	80.2
2108	Surf's Up - The Beach Boys	1971	80	76.8	77	82.7	81.8	84.8	79	78
2164	Extraordinary Machine - Fiona Apple	2005	79.9	72.8	81	81.2	82.5	88	78	76
2220	Aerial - Kate Bush	2005	79.8	73.8	83	80.6	78.4	87	78	78
2280	Aviary - Julia Holter	2018	79.7	75	79	80.6	82.6	86	78	76.8
2292	Synchronicity - The Police	1983	79.7	72.6	90	77.4	73.9	85	79	80
2312	The Seeds of Love - Tears for Fears	1989	79.7	71.8	87	78.9	78.6	88.4	75	78
2419	The Colour of Spring - Talk Talk	1986	79.5	77.4	68	80.9	80.4	89.6	80	80
2431	From the Pyre - The Last Dinner Party	2025	79.5	71.4	84	79.4	79.2	93.2	75	74
2461	I Love You Jennifer B - Jockstrap	2022	79.4	73.8	85	80.5	80	89.4	77	70
2574	Oranges & Lemons - XTC	1989	79.2	73.6	80	79.8	80.8	85	77	78
2615	Prelude to Ecstasy - The Last Dinner Party	2024	79.1	70.2	86	79.1	80.4	91.8	76	70
2702	Beyond the Fleeting Gales - Crying	2016	78.9	74.2	78	81.1	80.2	91	72	76
2826	Sound-Dust - Stereolab	2001	78.7	76.2	72	81	81.6	86.2	78	76
2872	An Awesome Wave - alt-J	2012	78.6	68.2	78	79.3	80.9	90	78	76
2954	Night and Day - Joe Jackson	1982	78.5	73.2	83	77.3	77.7	82	76	80
3027	Out of the Blue - Electric Light Orchestra	1977	78.3	75.6	63	81.8	83.8	86	78	80
3092	i/o - Peter Gabriel	2023	78.2	71.8	83	73	77	92.6	76	74
3099	Madman Across the Water - Elton John	1971	78.2	73	75	76.6	76.9	85.8	78	82
3106	Chicago Transit Authority - Chicago Transit Authority	1969	78.2	74.8	70	78.1	75.6	84.6	80	84
3167	the first glass beach album - glass beach	2019	78	70.8	71	79.2	79.7	94.4	77	74
3193	破爛酒店 [Hotel La Rut] - Joanna Wang	2024	78	71.6	80	79.1	75.6	92.4	75	72
3233	I'm All Ears - Let's Eat Grandma	2018	77.9	69.6	82	78.2	80.1	86.2	75	74
3282	50 Words for Snow - Kate Bush	2011	77.8	70.2	86	78.7	73	85.4	75	76
3313	Even In The Quietest Moments... - Supertramp	1977	77.7	74.6	65	79.9	81.6	83.6	79	80
3319	Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum - Tally Hall	2005	77.7	66	80	68	79.9	92	77	80.8
3322	The Visitors - ABBA	1981	77.7	73	80	77	79	82.6	74	78
3364	Turnstiles - Billy Joel	1976	77.6	72	80	79.5	78.4	81.2	76	76
3413	Medúlla - Björk	2004	77.5	71.6	80	80.5	77.2	84	75	74
3414	A Day at the Races - Queen	1976	77.5	71.6	70	75.8	80.9	87	77	80
3488	Marry Me - St. Vincent	2007	77.3	70.2	76	78.5	76.9	86.4	77	76

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