Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by Imaybeparanoid 
I'm sorry for all the english mistakes you're going to read.
Some honorable mentions:
High Violet - The National | Teen Dream - Beach House
Strangeways, Here We Come - The Smiths | Tago Mago - Can
Bringing It All Back Home - Bob Dylan | Hunky Dory - David Bowie
A Love Supreme - John Coltrane | Led Zeppelin III - Led Zeppelin
Bee Thousand - Guided By Voices | Liquid Swords - GZA
London Calling - The Clash | Ocean Rain - Echo & the Bunnymen
Carrie & Lowell - Sufjan Stevens | Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
Emergency & I - The Dismemberment Plan | Fragile - Yes
- Chart updated: 01/30/2017 21:15
- (Created: 09/12/2015 13:17).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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"Kid A sounds like a clouded brain trying to recall an alien abduction. It's the sound of a band, and its leader, losing faith in themselves, destroying themselves, and subsequently rebuilding a perfect entity."
Best tracks: Everything In Its Right Place; The National Anthem; How To Disappear Completely; Optimistic; Idioteque. [First added to this chart: 09/15/2015]
Best tracks: Everything In Its Right Place; The National Anthem; How To Disappear Completely; Optimistic; Idioteque. [First added to this chart: 09/15/2015]
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2000
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Very nice shoegazing record.
Best tracks: Seagull; In a Different Place; Paralysed; Vapour Trail. [First added to this chart: 09/15/2015]
Best tracks: Seagull; In a Different Place; Paralysed; Vapour Trail. [First added to this chart: 09/15/2015]
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1990
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4,864
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Best tracks: The Captain; That Golden Rule; Bubbles; God & Satan.
[First added to this chart: 09/15/2015]
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2009
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652
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Best tracks: Smells Like Teen Spirit; Come As You Are; Lithium; Something in the Way.
[First added to this chart: 09/15/2015]
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1991
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41,977
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Best tracks: Speed Trials; Ballad of Big Nothing; Between the Bars; Pictures of Me; Angeles; Say Yes.
[First added to this chart: 01/15/2016]
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1997
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11,570
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The greatest songwriter of all time at his peak.
Best tracks: Like a Rolling Stone; Ballad of a Thin Man; Highway 61 Revisited; Desolation Row. [First added to this chart: 09/15/2015]
Best tracks: Like a Rolling Stone; Ballad of a Thin Man; Highway 61 Revisited; Desolation Row. [First added to this chart: 09/15/2015]
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1965
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31,047
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Best tracks: Time Is Running Out; Stockholm Syndrome; Hysteria; Butterflies & Hurricanes.
[First added to this chart: 09/15/2015]
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2003
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As far as I'm concerned, the best album of the decade so far.
Best tracks: Endors Toi; Apocalypse Dreams; Feels Like We Only Go Backwards; Elephant. [First added to this chart: 10/16/2015]
Best tracks: Endors Toi; Apocalypse Dreams; Feels Like We Only Go Backwards; Elephant. [First added to this chart: 10/16/2015]
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2012
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16,820
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My favourite rock opera of all time: amazing music, beautiful story.
Best tracks: 1921; Christmas; Pinball Wizard; Sally Simpson; We're Not Gonna Take it. [First added to this chart: 09/15/2015]
Best tracks: 1921; Christmas; Pinball Wizard; Sally Simpson; We're Not Gonna Take it. [First added to this chart: 09/15/2015]
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1969
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Best tracks: No Other One; Why Bother?; The Good Life; El Scorcho; Pink Triangle.
[First added to this chart: 09/15/2015]
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1996
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Total albums: 100. Page 3 of 10
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 17 | 17% | |
| 1970s | 23 | 23% | |
| 1980s | 10 | 10% | |
| 1990s | 28 | 28% | |
| 2000s | 19 | 19% | |
| 2010s | 3 | 3% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Radiohead | 5 | 5% | |
| Muse | 3 | 3% | |
| Pink Floyd | 3 | 3% | |
| The Who | 3 | 3% | |
| Arcade Fire | 3 | 3% | |
| Led Zeppelin | 3 | 3% | |
| Weezer | 2 | 2% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
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| Up 1 from 3rd to 2nd The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd |
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| Down 1 from 2nd to 3rd Odessey And Oracle by The Zombies |
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50/100  | 08/25/2021 18:34 |  zwiebel | | 85/100 |
100/100 | 02/17/2021 05:47 |  pjohnsongolf | | 89/100 |
85/100 | 06/04/2020 16:58 | cronadigallina | | 86/100 |
95/100 | 04/26/2020 17:55 | HotZappsBoogaloo | | 81/100 |
85/100 | 03/10/2019 09:17 | Thad | | 79/100 |
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From jeffrey-hodgson 10/12/2018 02:00
Interesting list, don't like Radiohead and Arcade Fire but otherwise excellent. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea at number 1 is controversial but it is a great record. Rock on man
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DommeDamian 04/16/2018 11:50
DommeDamian 04/16/2018 11:50
13 artists and 9 albums in common yes!
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RasmV 01/03/2018 21:11
RasmV 01/03/2018 21:11
A third of the albums in your chart are in my chart aswell.
Will check the rest out at some point.
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From Granny-Smith 12/19/2017 17:51
Great chart
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From platus 08/31/2017 16:39
Really good chart
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phantom1305 08/28/2017 22:31
phantom1305 08/28/2017 22:31
Great chart! ^_^
You've got a great variety here. Lots of classics, mixed with ones I've never heard of. I'm going to listen to some of your recs. :)
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JulianR 08/09/2017 22:41
JulianR 08/09/2017 22:41
really solid picks all the way through. I agree about takk...
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From quadrophenia17 07/01/2017 13:43
Very nice!
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85/100
From JulianR 05/06/2017 06:45
JulianR 05/06/2017 06:45
You say The Bends isn't quite as good as Kid A and then rank it higher than Kid A...
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Bristoc 03/05/2017 23:16
Bristoc 03/05/2017 23:16
Very nice chart! i wish I could have the patience to write the notes for each album in my list too.
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