Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by Steppenwolf666 
A few well known masterpieces and lots of less known but equally good lp's, which should be known by a much wider audience. These range from experimental, to innovative, to unique, to exceptional prog/psych/folk rock. Unfortunately 100 is no where near enough to enter all my favourite albums.
- Chart updated: 02/19/2024 17:45
- (Created: 11/01/2014 22:24).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 30 | 30% | |
| 1970s | 67 | 67% | |
| 1980s | 2 | 2% | |
| 1990s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2000s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2010s | 1 | 1% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Ten Years After | 5 | 5% | |
| Hawkwind | 5 | 5% | |
| The Rolling Stones | 4 | 4% | |
| Renaissance | 3 | 3% | |
| Golden Earring | 3 | 3% | |
| The Kinks | 2 | 2% | |
| Forest (UK) | 2 | 2% | |
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64 | 64% | |
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11 | 11% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 42 from 100th to 58th Be Good To Yourself At Least Once A Day by Man |
| Up 40 from 75th to 35th Stonedhenge by Ten Years After |
| Up 39 from 40th to 1st Puzzle by Mandrake Memorial |
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| Down 11 from 39th to 50th Schizofrenia by Taste Of Blues |
| Down 9 from 28th to 37th The Belfast Gigs by Horslips |
| Down 9 from 29th to 38th Agnetha Fältskog by Agnetha Fältskog |
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Good chart.
A very (very) unique chart and I can fully appreciate you predominant love of UK 60's/70's prog/folk/rock. Our tastes are influenced by when & where we were at a certain span of time (I get it - i'm predominantly locked into late 60's/70's songwriters).
I have picked up a few interesting albums from your chart that I will add to my relevant year charts - & for that I am grateful.
Having said all that, I prefer charts that are a bit more diverse in spanning the entire 60 years of amazing creativity in music ~ and that also include at least one (maybe more) albums from south of the equator (just a personal bugbear of mine:))
Really nice to see Renaissance and Hawkwind feature so much here. A lot I haven't heard in here as well. Great list!
so much to discover...
Arthurknight 11/10/2022 07:06
Third really is deserving of so much love, thank you for Golden Earring (completely new listen!)
I presume you are referring to the pre dominance of albums by UK artists. I can't really explain the reason for this, but I grew up in the late 60's/early 70's when UK artists seemed to make most of the good music. An unparalleled high in music history in my opinion!
seb7 06/20/2021 18:22
Steppenwolf, you are the coolest person on this site.
BARDAMU 04/14/2021 19:30
What a fucking excellent chart. Plenty to dig into on here.
seb7 03/08/2021 20:40
I really don't agree with your #1 placement. Disraeli Gears is even more inconsistent than Layla. Otherwise its an interesting list. Nice Ten Years After.
antaiospiano, Golden Earring are very underrated in my opinion. They made some very good albums from the late 60's to the mid 70's, especially "Eight miles high, Moontan, and To the hilt". Group 1850, and Cargo were also excellent. As for the Doors, I like the first two albums and L.A. woman very much, but not enough to make this chart. I think the late 60's/early 70's demonic thing was a backlash to the peace & love of the 60's, there were many other artists which also chose that route, but none as successful as Black Sabbath.
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