Top 60 Greatest Music Albums by 
Jackwc (2013) 
I typically find the chore of organizing my music into categories based on which I believe is "best" to be positively horrifying. I was, however, able to somewhat gather myself together in order to assemble this list.
As a rule of thumb, I only include one album per band. ONLY ONE. This allows for more variety and flavour in my list. Also, I don't choose my albums based on the album's influence or history, just its quality.
I understand that opinions are subjective, so I am open to any comments about my choice of albums in this list, or just about how much you hate me and how I don't know what I'm talking about.
Thank you.
Chart updated: 04/16/2013 21:16 (Created: 02/26/2011 18:02). Chart size: 60 albums.
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1. (=) | Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness | The Smashing Pumpkins | |||||||||||||||||||
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"Mellon Collie" has been with me all my life, so there are so many memories concealed within its aural walls. Most of all I remember long car rides at night, slouching into the backseat on a bored sunset somewhere at the horizon of sleep. My father and my step-mother argue over overpasses and I close my eyes and turn up the volume and drift above it all like a heavy cloud. "My life Has Been Extraordinary; Blessed And cursed And won." |
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2. (=) | The Chemistry Of Common Life | Fucked Up | |||||||||||||||||||
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I recall having just left middle school when Fucked Up's debut LP "Hidden World" dropped. It was pretty under the radar, but menacingly loud and bitingly beautiful. I was just ready for it at the time - raw, unpolished, angry. It was my record. The band grew with me; I was a confused, lost and disillusioned teen when "Chemistry" dropped, an album that itself felt lost in the cosmos. Using it as my compass, I sought passage to a place beyond the stars, where I could nest in peace and in ignorance of the trivialities of the physical plane. "Iron antlers Fill the sky, Metal organs Fertilize, Sparks and ingots Come alive, The chemistry Of common life." |
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3. (=) | The Great Misdirect | Between The Buried And Me | |||||||||||||||||||
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Probably the greatest "metal" album ever recorded - assuming you do it justice to even classify it as merely that. It takes influences from folk music, honky tonk, jazz, progressive, alternative and death metal to construct a dystopian alien coming-of-age story set in the suburbs. Characterizing the benevolent punishments of parental guardians as the tyrannical rule of an alien overlord (the protagonists stereo being taken from him seen as a great forced drought of music in "Desert Of Song") it serves to both mock and celebrate the frivolity of youth. "Everything's A novelty; Everyone grows But me." |
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4. (=) | Square | Buck 65 | |||||||||||||||||||
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"I fought off sleep With both fists and sometimes fire - With no more than a blow gun I made from an exhausted pen, I shot the stars out of the sky." |
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5. (=) | Ys | Joanna Newsom | |||||||||||||||||||
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An album so intimate you can feel its heartbeat and its breath on your neck. I once took a walk through the woods at night on shrooms while blaring this into my ears at full volume, watching the stars contort amongst the leafy heavens, scattering their light like luminous seeds from which the day will grow. This album is ethereal. It is the gentle wind through your hair at night and the earth between your bare toes. "Scrape Your knee, It is Only skin; Makes The sound Of violins." |
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6. (=) | F♯A♯∞ | Godspeed You! Black Emperor | |||||||||||||||||||
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A tremendous wall of sound, numbing you, isolating you, and bringing you along for a ride through the wastelands of the human soul; the bleakest, loneliest trip you'll ever take. Each second is just so dense and anesthetizing that it makes it hard to mentally escape the album once it has begun. "The skyline was beautiful on fire All twisted metal stretching upwards Everything washed in a thin orange haze. I said, "Kiss me, you're beautiful - These are truly the last days." You grabbed my hand And we fell into it Like a daydream Or a fever." |
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7. (=) | Emergency & I | The Dismemberment Plan | |||||||||||||||||||
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I was in freshman year when I first listened to "Emergency & I", and the crisp yet chaotic production felt as though a mirror to my own quickly declining, abusive relationship. An album about the apocalyptic end of youth and with it innocence, and the numb cynicism that accompanies it; as someone who was very new to adulthood, this spoke to me in volumes. "Now I notice The streetlamp’s hum, The ghosts of graffiti They couldn’t quite erase, The blank-faced stares On the subway As the people go home." |
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8. (=) | Boxer | The National | |||||||||||||||||||
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When I was seventeen this album seemed to know everything about me, every petty nuance of my psyche elaborated upon with such prose. Their whimsical, rainy-afternoon indie rock pours down upon you and slowly wears you away and breaks you down, like so much rain on a jagged rockface, reducing you to weeping sediment, stroking the raw nerve imbedded in the rock. "Oh, we're so disarming, darling, Everything we did believe Is diving, diving, diving, Diving off the balcony. Tired and wired, We ruin too easy. Sleep in our clothes And wait for winter to leave." |
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9. (=) | My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | Kanye West | |||||||||||||||||||
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The first great hip hop tragedy. "MBDTF" begins by describing Kanye as a man of great bravado; arrogant and sure of himself, beheld to no one. But as the album progresses, the cracks in the surface begin to become more prevalent. The album begins to become more and more introspective and we are left in the end not with a great man, but a sadly pathetic man, desperately grasping at fallen pieces on the ground, trying to recognize his own lost humanity. When money and power become as much the tools to bring you to your knees as they are to raise you on your feet, "who will survive in America?" "I made mistakes, I bump my head, The courts sucked me dry, I spent that bread. She needs her daddy, Baby please, Can't let her grow up In that ghetto university" |
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10. (=) | In The Aeroplane Over The Sea | Neutral Milk Hotel | |||||||||||||||||||
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The only girl I ever loved Was born with roses In her eyes, But then they buried her alive One evening, 1945. |
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Mercurydylan89 04/09/2013 23:08
Mercurydylan89 04/09/2013 23:08I love the chart! I love the top ten! And the. Quotes are well chosen. The one from F#A# infinity is a beauty! I also applaud the quality over quantity approach.
And yes I do have ALOT of Dylan. I just bumped one off my top 100 today, so it's getting better.
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lethalnezzle 04/05/2013 09:34
lethalnezzle 04/05/2013 09:34i don't think i ever rated this chart before so yeah i did it now. i hate your top ten but the rest is great.
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CaptainFicus 03/19/2013 04:19
CaptainFicus 03/19/2013 04:19It is really hard for me to rate this list because i know about 5% or less of these albums, so i guess I'll rate it on the stuff i do know :)
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