MTV's 22 greatest CDs (best albums in the past 2 decades) includes the following artists, which are approximately in order:

-Garbage
-Live
-Bruce Springsteen
-Janet Jackson
-Foo Fighters
-The Beastie Boys
-No Doubt
-TLC
-Radiohead
-Dr. Dre
-Linkin Park
-Eminem
-Nine Inch Nails
-Rage Against The Machine
-Lauryn Hill
7) Pearl Jam's Ten
6) Red Hot Chili Peppers' BloodSugarSexMagic
5) U2's The Joshua Tree
4) Metallica's Black Album
3) Guns N Roses' Appetite For Destruction
2) Nirvana's Nevermind
1) Alanis Morrisette's Jagged Little Pill

I wasn't particularly surprised by anything (OK, maybe Garbage making the list) until #1.

Maybe I don't understand because I'm not a woman, but I don't get how Jagged Little Pill was bigger than Nevermind or The Joshua Tree.