Top 50 Greatest Music Albums by mattybennettpop

• Chart updated: 12/17/2015 12:45
• (Created: 03/04/2013 13:36).
• Chart size: 50 albums.

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Odessey And Oracle 

 The Zombies

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They knew they were breaking up anyway so they went for broke on every song. It breaks your heart, after you fall in love. Sublime pop music with no pretensions and no compromise. Colin Blunstone's voice is the lost treasure of 60's pop. Not one song on here comes close to being a dud. [First added to this chart: 03/08/2013]

Year of Release:

1968

Appears in:

1,256 charts

Rank Score:

15,308

Rank in 1968:

4

Rank in 1960s:

21

Overall Rank:

87

Average Rating:

 85 (1,312 votes)

Comments:

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Revolver 

 The Beatles

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The ultimate psychedelic guitar pop album. This is really where it all began. Quite possibly the most influential rock album of all time. The greatest band at their peak. "Tomorrow never knows" is 30 years ahead of its time. [First added to this chart: 03/08/2013]

Year of Release:

1966

Appears in:

3,479 charts

Rank Score:

56,991

Rank in 1966:

1

Rank in 1960s:

2

Overall Rank:

4

Average Rating:

 91 (4,474 votes)

Comments:

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The Beatles (The White Album) 

 The Beatles

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Their most experimental work and their most exciting. Contains some wrong turns but it is the most comprehensive adventure in genre hopping songwriting ever. [First added to this chart: 03/08/2013]

Year of Release:

1968

Appears in:

2,867 charts

Rank Score:

43,269

Rank in 1968:

1

Rank in 1960s:

6

Overall Rank:

13

Average Rating:

 89 (3,732 votes)

Comments:

337

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The Velvet Underground & Nico 

 The Velvet Underground & Nico

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So subversive, so influential. "Venus in Furs" is utterly alien to any song before it. "Heroin" is a drug song where the music attempts to convey the rush of the drug coming on. The song sequencing is perfect, it flows through day and night like a stream to a river to the sea. [First added to this chart: 03/08/2013]

Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

2,978 charts

Rank Score:

46,029

Rank in 1967:

2

Rank in 1960s:

4

Overall Rank:

10

Average Rating:

 89 (3,454 votes)

Comments:

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Innervisions 

 Stevie Wonder

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A genius at his peak. Playing every instrument, this is his personal statement of how he experiences the world. The melodies are a sweet confluence of gospel and pop, the rythyms are funky and his singing is to die for. [First added to this chart: 03/08/2013]

Year of Release:

1973

Appears in:

1,146 charts

Rank Score:

12,947

Rank in 1973:

2

Rank in 1970s:

31

Overall Rank:

109

Average Rating:

 86 (1,279 votes)

Comments:

75

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Highway 61 Revisited 

 Bob Dylan

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Like dropping in on the craziest funniest jam session ever. The music sounds like they are making it up as they go but the lyrics are what makes this album great. Philosophical and street wise, absurd but poignant, sobering yet side splittingly drunk. The truth pours from this man like a dying father to a son. [First added to this chart: 03/08/2013]

Year of Release:

1965

Appears in:

2,310 charts

Rank Score:

31,075

Rank in 1965:

1

Rank in 1960s:

8

Overall Rank:

26

Average Rating:

 89 (2,737 votes)

Comments:

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Pet Sounds 

 The Beach Boys

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Changed the way albums were produced from a couple of hits and filler (which the Beachboys had done as much as anyone) to thematic works of art. Points off for being played mostly by session musos, although for a calculated epic production (a la Citizen Kane) it has surprising depth and warmth. [First added to this chart: 03/08/2013]

Year of Release:

1966

Appears in:

2,778 charts

Rank Score:

45,045

Rank in 1966:

2

Rank in 1960s:

5

Overall Rank:

11

Average Rating:

 88 (3,193 votes)

Comments:

354

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There's A Riot Goin' On 

 Sly & The Family Stone

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A dark, drugged yet hilarious funk masterpiece. No one bridged 'white' and 'black' music like Sly. From smokey jazz interludes to country yodelling there is audaciousness everywhere. Throughout, the funk pulse and Sly's outrageous singing build on James Brown's legacy and take it to another level. Few albums capture complete free-spirited, drug addled fun quite like this one. [First added to this chart: 03/08/2013]

Year of Release:

1971

Appears in:

593 charts

Rank Score:

4,319

Rank in 1971:

18

Rank in 1970s:

98

Overall Rank:

415

Average Rating:

 81 (674 votes)

Comments:

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Kid A 

 Radiohead

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Yes "Ok Computer" still blows people away today and contains their best song "Paranoid Android" but this is the album that blew "Ok Computer" away. Radiohead invented a new type of music containing many influences but sounding like no other band ever had. Can only really be listened to from start to finish such is its cohesiveness leaving you in a blissful spell. [First added to this chart: 03/08/2013]

Year of Release:

2000

Appears in:

3,155 charts

Rank Score:

51,393

Rank in 2000:

1

Rank in 2000s:

1

Overall Rank:

5

Average Rating:

 89 (4,353 votes)

Comments:

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The Band 

 The Band

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Although "Music from the Big Pink' was more influential this is their best album. Their playing is so intuitive and emotional and so wonderfully organic it sounds like their in the room wih you. The songs are timeless artifects delving into American history in both subject matter and sound. [First added to this chart: 03/08/2013]

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

794 charts

Rank Score:

6,932

Rank in 1969:

13

Rank in 1960s:

41

Overall Rank:

252

Average Rating:

 81 (951 votes)

Comments:

46

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Top 50 Greatest Music Albums composition

Decade	Albums	%
1930s	0	0%
1940s	0	0%
1950s	0	0%
1960s	20	40%
1970s	13	26%
1980s	5	10%
1990s	8	16%
2000s	4	8%
2010s	0	0%
2020s	0	0%

Artist	Albums	%
The Beatles	3	6%
The Kinks	2	4%
Radiohead	2	4%
The Rolling Stones	2	4%
Stevie Wonder	2	4%
R.E.M.	2	4%
Bob Dylan	1	2%
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Country	Albums	%
	22	44%
	19	38%
	4	8%
	2	4%
	1	2%
	1	2%
	1	2%

Top 50 Greatest Music Albums chart changes

Biggest climbers
Up 2 from 45th to 43rd Beggars Banquet by The Rolling Stones
Up 2 from 35th to 33rd Buffalo Springfield Again by Buffalo Springfield
Up 2 from 33rd to 31st OK Computer by Radiohead

Biggest fallers
Down 7 from 38th to 45th Brian Wilson Presents Smile by Brian Wilson
Down 4 from 30th to 34th Fleet Foxes by Fleet Foxes
Down 2 from 44th to 46th Achtung Baby by U2

New entries
Songs In The Key Of Life by Stevie Wonder

Leavers
Diesel And Dust by Midnight Oil

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75/100	11/11/2015 08:28	greatson	888	80/100
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From greatson 11/11/2015 08:28

Good Music!
I d prefer some more personal picks or surprises.. I hope you go on to 100.

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From kryptos006 07/05/2015 18:55

My man, solid list! It was interesting to see the few from the 00's peeking out from above all the masterpieces of the ages. Have always been a huge Zombies fan. I got my lil' brother into them a few years back and--for about a year--he walked around touting them as his favourite band. Anyway, good list.

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From sssvnnn 11/23/2014 22:21

Very classical chart.
Hard to argue with most of these.

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From ewhittenburg 11/03/2014 19:15

Hard to argue with most of these

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