On the other hand, "Spin" felt that the rapping is excellent, but plagued more so by unremarkable music and lackluster tracks. Among other publications, "Rolling Stone" and "Melody Maker" named "The Marshall Mathers LP" the best album of 2000. In 2000, the album won in the Best Album category at the MTV Europe Music Awards. It also won in the Best Rap Album category at the 43rd Grammy Awards in 2001. "The Marshall Mathers LP" was nominated for Album of the Year, but lost to jazz-rock duo Steely Dan's "Two Against Nature". Since its initial release, "The Marshall Mathers LP" has been highly acclaimed in retrospective critic reviews. It has been regarded by critics as Eminem's best album and has been ranked in multiple lists of the greatest albums of all time. According to Acclaimed Music, it is the 180th most acclaimed album in history. In "The Rolling Stone Album Guide" (2004), Christian Hoard said it "delved much deeper into personal pain [than "The Slim Shady LP"], and the result was a minor masterpiece that merged iller-than-ill flows with a brilliant sense of the macabre." According to Sputnikmusic's Nick Butler, "The Marshall Mathers LP" stands as a culturally significant record in American popular music, but also "remains a truly special album, unique in rap's canon, owing its spirit to rock and its heritage to rap, in a way I've rarely heard". Insanul Ahmed of "Complex" wrote, "At a time when the "Billboard" charts were dominated by squeaky-clean pop acts like NSYNC and Backstreet Boys, Eminem offered a rebuttal to the hypocritical American mainstream that criticizes rap music while celebrating—and, worse, commercializing—sex, violence, and bigotry in other arenas. This album turned Eminem into a global icon. There was a huge amount of hype and controversy around it [...] But none of that takes away from its musical achievement. This album definitively proved that the Detroit rapper was a gifted lyricist, a brilliant songwriter, and a visionary artist." Mike Elizondo, a former collaborator on Eminem's albums, said, “I felt like Marshall was part of this wave with Quentin Tarantino, "Pulp Fiction" (1994) and "Reservoir Dogs" (1992) [...] This next level of art with incredible graphic imagery that Marshall had the ability to paint.