According to Acclaimed Music, "Kind of Blue" is the 49th most ranked record on critics' all-time lists. In 1994, the album was ranked number one in Colin Larkin's "Top 100 Jazz Albums". Larkin described it as "the greatest jazz album in the world". It has been ranked at or near the top of numerous "best album" lists in disparate genres. In 2002, "Kind of Blue" was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. In selecting the album as number 12 on its 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list, "Rolling Stone" magazine stated: "This painterly masterpiece is one of the most important, influential and popular albums in jazz". The rating descended to number 31 in "Rolling Stone's" revised list in 2020. On December 16, 2009, the United States House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the 50th anniversary of "Kind of Blue" and "reaffirming jazz as a national treasure". It is included in the 2005 book "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die", described by reviewer Seth Jacobson as "a genre-defining moment in twentieth-century music, period.". It was voted number 14 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums 3rd Edition (2000). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings lists the album as part of its suggested “core collection”, and also awards it a crown, indicating a recording of particular merit.