Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by Skinny Unknown

In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.

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Year of Release:
1973
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412
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[First added to this chart: 10/04/2020]
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1979
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135
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[First added to this chart: 10/03/2020]
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1995
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2,109
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2007
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5,159
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5. (1) Down4
Aja 
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[First added to this chart: 12/30/2021]
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1977
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9,429
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[First added to this chart: 10/03/2020]
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1956
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1,832
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2003
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875
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8. (7) Down1
Ammnesia 
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1989
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263
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[First added to this chart: 10/03/2020]
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1970
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2,321
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[First added to this chart: 10/04/2020]
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1995
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2,589
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Total albums: 100. Page 1 of 10

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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition

Decade Albums %


1930s 0 0%
1940s 0 0%
1950s 4 4%
1960s 5 5%
1970s 32 32%
1980s 16 16%
1990s 20 20%
2000s 12 12%
2010s 11 11%
2020s 0 0%
Country Albums %


United States 55 55%
United Kingdom 23 23%
Jamaica 7 7%
Germany 6 6%
Mixed Nationality 2 2%
Canada 2 2%
Netherlands 1 1%
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Compilation? Albums %
No 94 94%
Yes 6 6%
Live? Albums %
No 99 99%
Yes 1 1%

Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes

Biggest climbers
Climber Up 1 from 3rd to 2nd
Fruit Tree: The Complete Recorded Works
by Nick Drake
Biggest fallers
Faller Down 4 from 1st to 5th
Aja
by Steely Dan
Faller Down 1 from 2nd to 3rd
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
by Raekwon
Faller Down 1 from 5th to 6th
Pithecanthropus Erectus
by Charles Mingus
Leavers
Leaver Still Brazy
by YG

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From 12/14/2021 20:43
"When Im drinkin-a-plenty I usually go for Katy Lied".

Me too babes.
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From 06/29/2021 23:37
When Im drinkin-a-plenty I usually go for Katy Lied
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From 04/24/2021 11:58
Hell yeah! Cuban Linx, Infamous, Forever Changes and Erectus in that top 10! You've got a very original chart with various genres. Good stuff!
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From 04/24/2021 08:29
Really varied and interesting chart. I don't know everything on here by a long shot bit what I do know I really like.
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From 10/03/2020 13:23
All the leavers were great, and all the newcomers are even better. Nice work Skinnyman.
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From 10/03/2020 12:07
I was just innocently browsing the net on a Saturday afternoon with Marvin Gaye in the background, as I often do. Suddenly, and out of nowhere, I remembered that German album which Skinny was raving about, and which I've heard only once (Harald Grosskopf's Synthesist). Trying to remember the name of the artist/album, I've naturally decided to check Skinny's ole list. Now imagine young LedZep's surprise when, instead of finding the same old overall chart, he stumbled upon brand new updated 2.0 fat and sugar free version! Oh my!

I guess what I wanted to say with this unfunny story is that this list is fuckin' awesome, and I really appreciate the update. There's tons of stuff to discover and I'll surely be checking some of these soon.
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From 07/29/2020 05:42
A baffling all-encompassing list, although the choices are very precise, so I don't doubt your sincerity. The result is fascinating.
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From 06/07/2020 15:28
A superb chart, in my opinion. Loads of variety, loads of classics, plenty of lesser-known works. This is the kind of chart I aspire to!
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From 04/06/2020 22:02
Thanks to those people who take the time to look through and comment on this. Sincerely, it's super cool. As for this endeavour, it's weird - this is like four years old, and I find the concept of picking your favourite 100 albums, let alone putting them into a workable order, utterly absurd, and the practice of doing so completely arbitrary. So these aren't my favourite albums, in this order, but rather just a few things which I think offer a decent representaion of my taste, even four years on. The reason I don't update this is because I have no idea how to. There are many hundreds, if not thousands of albums which I could list here and still feel that this chart is completely honest. These albums are all fucking dope and I love them all. Stay safe and stay two metres apart, motherfuckers!
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