Spin Magazine ranked Sign O' The Times as the #3 Best album in the past 30 years.

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http://www.spin.com/2015/05/the-300-best-albums-of-the-past-30-years-1985-2014/5/

3. Prince, Sign o’ the Times
(Paisley Park / Warner Bros., 1987)

By 1987, Prince had already established himself as the Greatest of All Time, and if he wasn’t the kind of artist who exhales creativity, it might seem like he’s showing off his crown on the stunning Sign o’ the Times. Instead, it’s the Purple One being his royal self, and it just so happens that the album also reasserts why he’s peerless. Difficult not to comment on the f—ked-up state of the world, but Prince had predicted the apocalypse five years earlier in “1999.”

So after acknowledging the obvious in the album opener and title track, he moves on to his areas of specialization: making love and making music with the exact same degree of zeal and intricacy and focus and weirdness. The standouts on this album include the lyrically next level (the sublime “If I Was Your Girlfriend,” on which he toys with gender and relationship dynamics) and the musically indelible (it’s hard to imagine the strutting “U Got the Look” or frenzied “Housequake” not shutting down literally any party). But the biggest marvel of all? For most of the album, this is the work of a one-man band. Dare you to find another king this bad. — REBECCA HAITHCOAT

I love Kanye to death but how does he get two albums on this list? Are his albums really more timeless than anything Prince, Bjork or Sonic Youth has done?

I was a huge Nirvana fan in High School I own books, videos, hell if they made condoms I would've bought them. But now I am an adult and musically speaking Nirvana is very basic no way in hell should Nevermind be at the top of any musical publication's list! In Utero is way better than Nevermind. If they put Nirvana at the top for the cultural musical shift it caused (Grunge) than Purple Rain should be number 1 or 2 because the MPLSound was just as seismic as grunge was.

spin is biased towards alt rock