"Isn't Anything" was included in "The Guardian"s list of "1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die" and listed at number 22 on Pitchfork's "Top 100 Albums of the 1980s." "Loveless" was named the best album of the 1990s by Pitchfork in 1999 and in 2003, the album was listed as number 219 on "Rolling Stone"s list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time." In 2008, both albums were featured on "The Irish Times" "Top 40 Irish Albums of All Time" list, where "Isn't Anything" ranked at number 27 and "Loveless" at number 1. In 2013, "Loveless" placed third in the "Irish Independent"s "Top 30 Irish Albums of All Time" list.