Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by Gerard1968

Hello, I have decide to apply my own parameters to this list:
I shall create an absolute top 40.
From 40 to 100 the list will only include one album by any single act.
The ethos being to show my opinion of the best albums of all time, but also to demonstrate a range of my tastes. I hope this will be more informative, rather than just an indication of my favourite half dozen acts. After all the point of thus site is to open up acts for others to investigate, if you like my top 40 then our tastes coinside; it follows that my 40 to 100 may include artists and bands you don't know, but will like.
What informs my choices can be consigned into two sets; the bands I grew up with, I was 16 in the mid eighties and left University in 1992, the second set is bands that if they had been there for my informative years I would have liked.
As an indie-kid from the eighties I do not agree with those who bemoan the decade. Every era's charts have banality at their core, the problem with the eighties is that it was defined by big hair, big shoulder pads, and an objectional fixation with materialism. Don't let that tarnish all that was good, some if the best, including my favourite, albums were conceived in the era.
I have not yet completed the notes/ordering, in addition a lot of the notes are drafts, and may not make much sence as they currently are. So the current list is a 'work in progress', and will be completed soon(ish)

• Chart updated: 05/15/2017 09:15
• (Created: 02/18/2016 16:21).
• Chart size: 100 albums.

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Spirit Of Eden 

 Talk Talk

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If you don't believe that an album could be a work of art, listen to Spirit of Eden. After a pure pop start to their career they produced a trio of progressively stranger albums, this was the middle one. Half the time it's almost impossible to know what instrument is being played, and what may appear a random procession of different sounds has structure and emotion. Who'd have thought that a continuous tempo beat on a single cymbal throughout one track wouldn't annoy, but the converse: it serves to draw you in. I find it very difficult to put it on and have my mind on anything else, it is intense in the most endearing way, and I only listen to it lying down. Even those that are suspicious of spiritualism, as I am, can find themselves in a semi hypnotic state by the end. As a fan of the lyric my only complaint could be that I have no idea of half the words, nevertheless the vocal compliments the composition and it wouldn't have the same effect sang any other way. So put aside legal high narcotics and meditate your way out of the mundane with an album that is impossible to emulate. [First added to this chart: 02/19/2016]

Year of Release:

1988

Appears in:

891 charts

Rank Score:

11,269

Rank in 1988:

3

Rank in 1980s:

17

Overall Rank:

135

Average Rating:

 84 (964 votes)

Comments:

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OK Computer 

 Radiohead

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I'm not keen on Electioneering, otherwise the perfect album. Its not that that particular song is weak, but I find it out of sync with the rest of the album. The Airbag EP has tracks recorded at the same period, some of which would have been more in tune with the album [First added to this chart: 02/18/2016]

Year of Release:

1997

Appears in:

4,334 charts

Rank Score:

76,947

Rank in 1997:

1

Rank in 1990s:

1

Overall Rank:

1

Average Rating:

 92 (5,496 votes)

Comments:

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Abbey Road 

 The Beatles

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How many bands wait until their thirteenth studio album to produce their best work! What a shame it was to be their last, so much more could have come, who'd have thought the Beatles would sell us short? Despite it's greatness, there are one or two short comings i.e. Maxwell's Silver Hammer & (maybe Octopus's Garden). If you listen to the third anthology album you will realise that Harrison already had a demo of All Things Must Pass, a far better track. This and other songs that later appeared on his debut solo album should have been on Abbey Road, perhaps Lennon & McCartney were a little selfish? And in the end the love you take, is equal to the love you make [First added to this chart: 02/18/2016]

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

3,625 charts

Rank Score:

65,322

Rank in 1969:

1

Rank in 1960s:

1

Overall Rank:

3

Average Rating:

 92 (4,508 votes)

Comments:

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Disintegration 

 The Cure

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This was the last album I bought on vinyl, before swapping to CD. It is one of very few albums where every song is worthy of being a single. If you don't know The Cure, start here [First added to this chart: 02/18/2016]

Year of Release:

1989

Appears in:

1,760 charts

Rank Score:

27,818

Rank in 1989:

2

Rank in 1980s:

4

Overall Rank:

32

Average Rating:

 86 (1,964 votes)

Comments:

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Closer 

 Joy Division

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No weak tracks, and with hindsight the most haunting and potent lyrics of all time. It's well worth searching the internet for the lyrics, just to read them in isolation [First added to this chart: 02/18/2016]

Year of Release:

1980

Appears in:

1,457 charts

Rank Score:

16,788

Rank in 1980:

2

Rank in 1980s:

10

Overall Rank:

80

Average Rating:

 85 (1,868 votes)

Comments:

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The Boy With The Arab Strap 

 Belle And Sebastian

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Querky pop at its very best. Understated and often overlooked. With subjects such as stroke victims, mental health, binge drinking and a spoilt bedding conclusion to a wet dream you'd expect an album of a darker nature. But Stuart Murdoch's intension is not to shock, just to document real life: as tunefully as is possible [First added to this chart: 02/18/2016]

Year of Release:

1998

Appears in:

326 charts

Rank Score:

1,975

Rank in 1998:

15

Rank in 1990s:

172

Overall Rank:

912

Average Rating:

 79 (417 votes)

Comments:

17

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Unknown Pleasures 

 Joy Division

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Proving that virtuosity, apart from Stephen Morris on drums, is no bar to producing a perfect album. Producer Martin Hannet added the imagination that lifted the album into the higher echelons [First added to this chart: 02/18/2016]

Year of Release:

1979

Appears in:

1,917 charts

Rank Score:

24,984

Rank in 1979:

3

Rank in 1970s:

9

Overall Rank:

38

Average Rating:

 87 (2,270 votes)

Comments:

188

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Screamadelica 

 Primal Scream

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An album that sums up the mood of the zeitgeist of its time. It has everything; rave, acoustic rock, pop, trippy 6 am chill. Don't view it as fortysomething nostalgia, this album is as fresh as ever, and hides its 25 odd years with aplomb. [First added to this chart: 02/18/2016]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

730 charts

Rank Score:

5,422

Rank in 1991:

11

Rank in 1990s:

65

Overall Rank:

334

Average Rating:

 79 (899 votes)

Comments:

62

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Kid A 

 Radiohead

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This album was poorly reviewed at the time, I never concurred with this and feel vindicated now. With the benefit of time the work is regarded in high esteem. The initional reaction was probably due to its experimentalism, but an experiment is only worth anything if it is performed correctly, Radiohead's results have relevance and open you to something new, but don't try and recreate the experiment, this is not science and there are some secret ingredients! [First added to this chart: 02/18/2016]

Year of Release:

2000

Appears in:

3,154 charts

Rank Score:

51,383

Rank in 2000:

1

Rank in 2000s:

1

Overall Rank:

5

Average Rating:

 89 (4,350 votes)

Comments:

551

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The Dark Side Of The Moon 

 Pink Floyd

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What more needs to be said? Personally I'm not keen on the track, Money, however that probably puts me in a minority! [First added to this chart: 02/18/2016]

Year of Release:

1973

Appears in:

4,041 charts

Rank Score:

71,264

Rank in 1973:

1

Rank in 1970s:

1

Overall Rank:

2

Average Rating:

 92 (5,200 votes)

Comments:

580

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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition

Decade	Albums	%
1930s	0	0%
1940s	0	0%
1950s	0	0%
1960s	6	6%
1970s	15	15%
1980s	22	22%
1990s	32	32%
2000s	16	16%
2010s	9	9%
2020s	0	0%

Artist	Albums	%
The Cure	4	4%
Belle And Sebastian	4	4%
The Smiths	3	3%
Radiohead	3	3%
The Beatles	2	2%
The Verve	2	2%
Joy Division	2	2%
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Country	Albums	%
	70	70%
	23	23%
	2	2%
	2	2%
	1	1%
	1	1%
	1	1%

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From Onater 01/10/2017 08:28

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From arthur237 03/08/2016 22:00

Fantastic, i am sure i will find many albums here I will like. I totally agree with your choice of alex turner, your comments about the white album and pink moon.

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