In 1974, the staff of "NME" ranked "Surf's Up" number 96 in their list of the "Top 100 Albums" of all time. When the magazine surveyed its writers again in 1993, the album's position rose to number 46. In 2000, the record was voted number 230 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's "All Time Top 1000 Albums". In 2004, "Surf's Up" was ranked number 61 on "Pitchfork"s list of "The Top 100 Albums of the 1970s". Contributor Dominique Leone wrote: