Top 60 Greatest Music Albums by viktorretoft

This is probably more of a personal favorites list, but anyway you put it, it's always pretty hard to be objective on music, but this fine collection of albums are the best I have listened to by far. I am only 16 years old, and grew up in the 2000's, some that's why I have alot of newer stuff, because that stuff is exactly what there touches my generation, and ofcourse I love those records too.

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This album changed my life, it has been awe inspiring in it's existential themes, it touches themes that no other musician would even dare to poke to. Overall the album have this gloomy mood. You feel Ian's soul through the music. The music is cold, but yet in some way it surrounds you, and stays inside you.
Though it captures all these things it has this eccentric hypnotic nerve of punk, it takes you to another time, it takes you to a small club in Macclesfield, and it makes you stay there till the final track runs out.
First time I listened to this LP, I thought it was some really boring and mechanic music with a dead guy singing, but after watching the film Control, I thought: why not listen to it one more time, just ONE. I did and from there on it stayed close to my heart and has had countless plays on my stereo and I-pod. For a beautiful summerday or a sad winternight.
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1979
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22,699
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1986
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35,198
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1965
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28,268
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[First added to this chart: 04/07/2011]
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2009
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9,605
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[First added to this chart: 04/07/2011]
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1997
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67,102
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[First added to this chart: 04/07/2011]
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2010
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19,803
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[First added to this chart: 04/07/2011]
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2007
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11,414
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8. (=)
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[First added to this chart: 06/18/2011]
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2000
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44,629
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[First added to this chart: 04/07/2011]
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1966
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40,582
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[First added to this chart: 08/09/2011]
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2010
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Top 60 Greatest Music Albums composition

Decade Albums %


1930s 0 0%
1940s 0 0%
1950s 1 2%
1960s 10 17%
1970s 10 17%
1980s 7 12%
1990s 9 15%
2000s 16 27%
2010s 7 12%
2020s 0 0%
Artist Albums %


Bob Dylan 3 5%
Pink Floyd 3 5%
Elliott Smith 2 3%
Joy Division 2 3%
The Smiths 2 3%
Animal Collective 2 3%
Radiohead 2 3%
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Country Albums %


United States 35 58%
United Kingdom 16 27%
Canada 5 8%
Mixed Nationality 2 3%
Australia 1 2%
Germany 1 2%
Live? Albums %
No 58 97%
Yes 2 3%
Soundtrack? Albums %
No 59 98%
Yes 1 2%

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85/100 (from 29 votes)
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From 09/04/2012 23:52
Nice to see someone so young admiring things so old and diverse.
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From 09/04/2012 16:17
Every chart should have comments for each entry. It makes the chart more informative. Solid chart.
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From 02/03/2012 22:35
Really strong chart! And I'm not just saying that because our Top 10s are similar ;).
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From 02/03/2012 18:19
I particulary like your top 10
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From 02/03/2012 15:34
Great chart!
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From 02/03/2012 11:03
I agree!
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From 02/03/2012 09:46
I dig ya list...cool top 10, though diff from mine i own nearly all lp's listed in ya chart :)
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From 01/12/2012 03:40
Nice choices man! I like the write up's about the albums that you include.
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From 01/10/2012 20:12
a couple i personally hate but uderstand the value,outherwise this chart is godlike.
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From 12/20/2011 06:58
Wow, you must have listened to a staggering amount of music in your 16 years to come up with a chart with this diversity. There's older albums here that I've never got round to listening to in 37 years (Bowie's Low for example.)
I do like Joy Division but I have the Heart & Soul boxset so it's difficult to seperate into individual albums mentally. I've always preferred New Order, I grew up with my brother playing Substance a lot and it always stuck with me.
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