ELEPHANT by the White Stripes has been named the greatest album of the past two decades.
The 2003 chart-topper - which included the single Seven Nation Army - topped a reader poll to mark the 20th anniversary of music magazine Mojo.
Runner-up was Funeral, the debut by Arcade Fire, while veteran star Bob Dylan was in third spot with Time Out Of Mind.
Radiohead are the highest ranked UK act and have two entries in the top 20 - OK Computer at number four and In Rainbows at number 14. Of the eight UK albums in the list, half are past winners of the Mercury Prize - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not by Arctic Monkeys, Let England Shake by PJ Harvey, Different Class by Pulp and Dummy by Portishead.
Elephant, the fourth album by guitarist Jack White and his former wife Meg, was their biggest seller.
Phil Alexander, editor-in-chief of Mojo, said: "It delivered accessible and complex material in equal measure."
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