Top 50 Greatest Music Albums by cubious 
I updated the chart to apply a "one album per artist" rule. It's a bit weird that albums like The Queen Is Dead and The Bends are now not in the top 50, but there were too many artists previously excluded.
- Chart updated: 02/09/2011 21:14
- (Created: 02/09/2011 01:34).
- Chart size: 50 albums.
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Captures the Smiths at their most exciting. This is what their debut should have been like but wasn't.
[First added to this chart: 02/08/2011]
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1984
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6,800
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The key ingredients that make up the Clash - attitude, music and politics - come together perfectly on this record. Flawless.
[First added to this chart: 02/08/2011]
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1979
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36,174
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An underrated work of genius. Lyrically, it's the best hip-hop album ever on either side of the Atlantic.
[First added to this chart: 02/08/2011]
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1995
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2,093
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I do like late 70s Bowie as he gradually disappears up his own arse, but you also can't beat a bit of spot-on songwriting.
[First added to this chart: 02/08/2011]
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1972
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49,988
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No band has ever looked and sounded cooler.
[First added to this chart: 02/08/2011]
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1989
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25,800
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Had Smile been completed on schedule, music history would be completely different. OK Computer would trail in the distance.
[First added to this chart: 02/08/2011]
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2004
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2,298
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She's always brilliant, but this is her only real masterpiece.
[First added to this chart: 02/08/2011]
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2001
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9,660
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Has the ingredients that could have made for a disastrous ego-trip, but somehow it stays just on the right side of fantastic.
[First added to this chart: 02/08/2011]
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1971
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19,680
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In the 80s, they were the best band in America and this is the best of a fantastic run of albums.
[First added to this chart: 02/08/2011]
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1986
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3,497
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If I don't put this in the top ten, will the police come round?
[First added to this chart: 02/08/2011]
Year of Release:
1997
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76,423
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Top 50 Greatest Music Albums composition
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 6 | 12% | |
| 1970s | 10 | 20% | |
| 1980s | 8 | 16% | |
| 1990s | 17 | 34% | |
| 2000s | 7 | 14% | |
| 2010s | 2 | 4% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Björk | 1 | 2% | |
| Sparks | 1 | 2% | |
| Woody Guthrie | 1 | 2% | |
| Manu Chao | 1 | 2% | |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs | 1 | 2% | |
| Marvin Gaye | 1 | 2% | |
| The Beach Boys | 1 | 2% | |
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23 | 46% | |
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16 | 32% | |
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3 | 6% | |
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2 | 4% | |
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86/100 (from 7 votes)
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85/100  | 03/02/2017 21:27 | Seab | | 93/100 |
85/100 | 05/10/2011 17:00 |  Mandro | | 78/100 |
80/100 | 05/07/2011 12:16 |  Applerill | | 75/100 |
100/100 | 05/07/2011 11:21 | chris lancaster | | 81/100 |
85/100 | 02/28/2011 22:45 | Knetter | | 78/100 |
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From chris lancaster 05/07/2011 11:23
This chart is off the hook! Thank you so much for giving some exposure to criminally overlooked albums by Cornershop, Gorky's and so many more..
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From Knetter 02/28/2011 22:45
Don't know half, but what I know I like. Appreciate the comments, so do add a few.
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cartoken 02/08/2011 21:13
great chart ! i love Hatful Of Hollow, even i wouldn't have added it in a best aver album chart (it's a compilation)
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