Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by Mdemauri

These 100 albums are the ones I could listen to over and over again. I could add about 500 or so more to this list. My goal was one album per artist and I was also trying to represent each decade as equally as possible. I'm not quite there, but getting close.

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[First added to this chart: 06/05/2014]
Year of Release:
1966
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56,944
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[First added to this chart: 06/05/2014]
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1979
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36,238
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1991
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41,986
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[First added to this chart: 06/05/2014]
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1972
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22,605
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[First added to this chart: 06/05/2014]
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1973
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71,161
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[First added to this chart: 06/05/2014]
Year of Release:
1967
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45,998
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[First added to this chart: 06/05/2014]
Year of Release:
1966
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45,081
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[First added to this chart: 06/05/2014]
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1987
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19,874
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[First added to this chart: 06/05/2014]
Year of Release:
1992
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20,427
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[First added to this chart: 06/05/2014]
Year of Release:
1971
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19,711
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition

Decade Albums %


1930s 0 0%
1940s 0 0%
1950s 2 2%
1960s 9 9%
1970s 32 32%
1980s 17 17%
1990s 23 23%
2000s 16 16%
2010s 1 1%
2020s 0 0%
Artist Albums %


R.E.M. 1 1%
Badfinger 1 1%
Ramones 1 1%
Talk Talk 1 1%
The Decemberists 1 1%
The Shins 1 1%
John Lennon 1 1%
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Country Albums %


United States 55 55%
United Kingdom 34 34%
Canada 4 4%
Mixed Nationality 4 4%
Ireland 1 1%
Iceland 1 1%
Jamaica 1 1%
Compilation? Albums %
No 98 98%
Yes 2 2%
Soundtrack? Albums %
No 99 99%
Yes 1 1%

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83/100 (from 44 votes)
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From 04/21/2015 19:05
good chart
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From 04/21/2015 17:21
Nice list! Very well rounded
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90/100
From 04/21/2015 17:18
The album was very clean and had a lot of critically acclaimed albums so i knew 95% of the albums here
Keep Rocking!
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80/100
From 04/21/2015 15:40
I was going to give you a bad rating because your top 20 is just a collection of well-known albums with little relationship between them but you do have some surprising artists and bands I like like PT or TJ so I guess your goal is to reorder the chart a little and include some comments, apart from that it's a good chart.
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70/100
From 04/21/2015 12:24
Congratulations! Beautiful chart and well balanced.
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From 04/21/2015 10:00
Classical but solid !
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From 04/21/2015 08:41
Well, SOMEONE likes their classics.
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From 09/29/2014 17:10
Neat chart
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From 08/05/2014 21:12
i take back my first comment because first i only saw your top 20 which was only like top 200 albums on the overall chart but then i saw you added more unknown albums later on the chart which is great, so i guess i would rate your top 20 20/100 but the rest a 80/100 so im setteling on a 70/100
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From 08/03/2014 12:35
I like the concept of your chart (only one album per artist). And I agree with most of the choices. So - great chart!
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Best Albums of the 1980s
1. The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths
2. Doolittle by Pixies
3. Remain In Light by Talking Heads
4. Disintegration by The Cure
5. The Stone Roses by The Stone Roses
6. The Joshua Tree by U2
7. Hounds Of Love by Kate Bush
8. Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth
9. Thriller by Michael Jackson
10. Closer by Joy Division
11. Purple Rain by Prince And The Revolution
12. Surfer Rosa by Pixies
13. Master Of Puppets by Metallica
14. Rain Dogs by Tom Waits
15. Appetite For Destruction by Guns N' Roses
16. Graceland by Paul Simon
17. Spirit Of Eden by Talk Talk
18. Back In Black by AC/DC
19. Murmur by R.E.M.
20. Moving Pictures by Rush
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