Editing Bryter Layter (section)

== Legacy ==
In 2000, ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]'' placed ''Bryter Layter'' at number 23 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=The 100 Greatest British Albums Ever! |magazine=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] |issue=165 |date=June 2000 |pages=59–93}}</ref> It ranked at number 14 in ''[[NME]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s list of the Greatest Albums of the '70s.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Glitter Ye Not! The Greatest Albums of the '70s |magazine=[[NME]] |date=18 September 1993 |pages=18–19}}</ref>

It was voted number 306 in the third edition of [[Colin Larkin]]'s ''[[All Time Top 1000 Albums]]'' (2000).<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|title=[[All Time Top 1000 Albums]]|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=2000|edition=3rd|isbn=0-7535-0493-6|page=127}}</ref>

In 2003, the album was ranked number 245 on ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine's list of [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]].<ref>{{cite magazine |title=The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |issue=937 |pages=83–178 |date=11 December 2003}}</ref>

The guitar Drake holds on the album cover is owned by [[Nick Laird-Clowes]] of [[The Dream Academy]], whose "[[Life in a Northern Town]]" was written as an elegy to Drake.<ref>{{Cite web |date=21 February 2024 |title=The Dream Academy's Nick Laird-Clowes talks to SDE |url=https://superdeluxeedition.com/interview/sde-talks-to-the-dream-academys-nick-laird-clowes/ |website=SuperDeluxeEdition |language=en-GB}}</ref>