The album won Best British Album at the 1990 Brit Awards. It was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1990. In their lists of the greatest albums of 1989, "LA Times" ranked it 2nd, "Musik Express" ranked it 3rd, "Rolling Stone" ranked it 9th, "The Village Voice" ranked it 13th, and "NME" ranked it 41st. "Q" also included it in their unordered list of the 50 best albums of 1989. In 1989, German publication "Tempo" ranked the album at number 69 in their list of "The 100 Best Albums of the 80's." In 1995, "Q" included "The Raw & the Cooked" in its publication "In Our Lifetime: Q's 100 Best Albums 1986–94", a list compiled to celebrate its 100th issue. Giannis Petridis included it in the 2003 list, "2004 of the Best Albums of the Century." In a 2013 online poll, "The Raw & the Cooked" was voted the 30th best album of 1988 based on the opinions of 48,000 respondents.