Critical Reception
Grace has been highly rated in magazines such as Q, in which readers voted Grace the 75th greatest album of all time in 1998; the same vote was taken again in 2005 and Grace then ranked 13th. In 2003, the album was ranked number 303 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 2006, Mojo named Grace the #1 Modern Rock Classic of all Time. It was also rated as Australia's second favourite album on My Favourite Album, a television special aired by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on 3 December 2006. In 2003, Buckley's version of "Hallelujah" was ranked #259 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. VH1 also rated the album #73 on its "100 Greatest Albums of Rock & Roll" show/list.. David Bowie considers Grace to be the best album ever made, and has said it would be his only "Desert Island Record."
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