"69 Love Songs" was voted second place in "The Village Voice"s annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll for 1999, behind Moby's "Play". The poll's creator Robert Christgau ranked it as the best album of the year on his "Dean's List". In 2012, it was ranked at number 465 in "Rolling Stone"s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The following year, "NME" placed it at number 213 on their own list of all-time greatest albums. The album was also included in the book "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die".