Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by 
Applerill 
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- Chart updated: 04/08/2024 15:15
- (Created: 03/07/2016 10:53).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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If the Afghan Whigs express a much more justifiable guilt and despair, Amy and Ben here have made a masterpiece about the fear and trauma that comes from what we didn’t understand growing up, especially if you grew up in an evangelical family right after 9/11. Actually, I feel like they make a perfect Lennon/McCartney duo, not just for how Amy’s ethereal voice meets the harsh solid riffs, but also because Amy’s atheism and Ben’s Christianity constantly play against each other and make the most amazingly believable kind of doubt and fear.
[First added to this chart: 03/07/2016]
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2003
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1971
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3,220
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Carlton is much more of a folkie songwriter in her more “mature” work these days, but the vibrant production here brought me into a world of femininity that was one of my very first solaces as a trans woman.
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There’s something so special about cool jazz to me, the way even the smallest gestures in the recording can have such a special sex appeal. I love New Age music for cuddling in bed after a bubble bath, but for some reason there’s so much more nuance in things like this box set, which is why I’ve played it much more than any new age the past couple years.
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For so much of high school, doom metal was one of my absolute favorite genres, as I BOUGHT all the MP3s of artists like Saint Vitus and Crippled Lucifer and Khanate and Candlemass that I can find. I didn’t do any drugs, but for some reason I felt like the best thing I could buy music for was to be pummeled (as Skinny told me not soon after, “[Charli] rates music like other people rate power tools”.
Strangely enough, though, this didn’t click for a little bit. Much like Sound of Perseverance, it felt like a maze I didn’t understand. But then I realized I just had to bop my head, and it all came together perfectly. It probably sounds silly that I had so much trouble with a record that is probably bone-headed to a virtue, but I think, looking at its 2000 release, it’s an album whose appeal came from rejecting society, not just in the lyrics and album cover, but in its unapologetically analog sound. This is an album about not giving a fuck, and I think by the time I got to college this album taught me to not give one either. [First added to this chart: 03/07/2016]
Strangely enough, though, this didn’t click for a little bit. Much like Sound of Perseverance, it felt like a maze I didn’t understand. But then I realized I just had to bop my head, and it all came together perfectly. It probably sounds silly that I had so much trouble with a record that is probably bone-headed to a virtue, but I think, looking at its 2000 release, it’s an album whose appeal came from rejecting society, not just in the lyrics and album cover, but in its unapologetically analog sound. This is an album about not giving a fuck, and I think by the time I got to college this album taught me to not give one either. [First added to this chart: 03/07/2016]
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2000
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“Once Again” might be the most important opener of the 2000s, not only because of how it reappropriates a staid Boston riff into some sort of Proustian Madeline that you don’t know is Linkin Park or Skrillex (while ALSO pairing it with some of the sexiest lines I’ve ever heard about big-booty girls like myself); but also the way it so seamlessly transitions to that mashup of Ying-Yang Twins and “Bittersweet Symphony”. You can definitely make the argument that this is a sort of crass cultural appropriation that uses the art of Black men as a punchline, but I can’t help but simultaneously see it as one of the greatest works of art about pop music ever made.
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As I talked about with Soulja Boy, my bodymind adores minimalist repetition, and while that element of Reich’s work has given me promise for over a decade, it wasn’t until hearing these recordings that the intensity of the composition and performance played to my autism. I have a lot of panic attacks, probably because my autism gives me an enlarged amygdala, and while I’ve definitely scared some other neurodiverse friends by putting this on, for some reason there’s something so cathartic about the cycles of paranoia I hear in these repetitions.
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Maybe it’s because I’m really immature for a 27 year old, but so many of the feelings I thought were “adolescent” five or so years ago I now realize never went away. I think I’m definitely a lot more confident with who I am than I was at 17, but I still am constantly melodramatic to my friends when I feel lonely and scared, and the “straight world” of adulthood still terrifies me. In any case, this album is so absurdly adolescent that it describes these feelings like few works of art I’ve ever witnessed.
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2004
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 1 | 1% | |
| 1960s | 3 | 3% | |
| 1970s | 13 | 13% | |
| 1980s | 8 | 8% | |
| 1990s | 17 | 17% | |
| 2000s | 33 | 33% | |
| 2010s | 20 | 20% | |
| 2020s | 5 | 5% |
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| Various Artists | 4 | 4% | |
| Lene Grenager & Sofia Jernberg | 1 | 1% | |
| Jethro Tull | 1 | 1% | |
| DJ Uncle Al | 1 | 1% | |
| Carles Santos | 1 | 1% | |
| Modest Mouse | 1 | 1% | |
| عمر سليمان [Omar Souleyman] | 1 | 1% | |
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13 | 13% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
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| Down 1 from 13th to 14th Be Not Nobody by Vanessa Carlton |
| Down 1 from 14th to 15th The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961 by Bill Evans |
| Down 1 from 15th to 16th Country Rap Mix by DJ George Costanza |
| Leavers |
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 Rush Collectionby Sheet Music Boss |
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| 85/100 | 08/04/2023 17:11 |  hoyquarlow | | 88/100 |
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From 0129114 06/23/2023 14:10
holy cringe this is absolute fucking trash lmao
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IgnacioJoaquin 11/08/2022 02:56
IgnacioJoaquin 11/08/2022 02:56
one of the best and most important charts on this site tbh
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90/100
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seb7 06/29/2022 06:58
seb7 06/29/2022 06:58
Its truly an interesting chart. do I consider some of your picks straight-up not that good? i guess so. In any case, keep on listening and loving music and being you!
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Goliath 11/09/2021 10:58
Goliath 11/09/2021 10:58
I have mixed feelings about charts like this. Yes they are very useful for flagging up overlooked albums that may be worth looking at, albums that are not widely known. These charts usually get a high score from other users for being different and interesting. But should they appear on a Greatest Albums list and count towards the greatest overall chart? The prime (but obviously not only) objective of this site is to identify the greatest albums ever recorded (I believe) and boring as it may seem 'Greatest Charts' without any conventional choices should be regarded with caution. I love charts such as this, but they should be titled something like 'Greatest albums you should listen to because I think they're great'. But I'm very aware that many users only look at the Top 100 Greatest charts, so the only way to get noticed is to create them as 'Top 100 Greatest' charts. A quandary.
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indieshins 11/09/2021 03:08
indieshins 11/09/2021 03:08
What a weird and eccentric chart. I mean that as the highest compliment, I think more charts should strive for this rather than regurgitating canon picks. I like that you've got some really corny pop in there right up alongside artsy stuff - you're right, life should have both! Great work, I'll be checking some of these albums out!
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100/100
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DommeDamian 11/08/2021 20:07
DommeDamian 11/08/2021 20:07
goddamn the effort.
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From RioBravo 07/02/2021 00:27
Morton Feldman just barely edging out Avril Lavigne in the top 10 is the best postmodern provocation I've ever seen around here.
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100/100
From 
KitchenSink 01/07/2021 23:52
KitchenSink 01/07/2021 23:52
loads of great music (and some uh less great music imho) but more than that just consistently the most perplexing chat on BEA. at a certain point I just have to respect the audacity of it all. 2 hours of fart sounds? punk af
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100/100
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RoundTheBend 12/23/2020 06:11
RoundTheBend 12/23/2020 06:11
Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others is also probs my favorite Smiths track.
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100/100
From DommeDamian 09/05/2020 21:17
DommeDamian 09/05/2020 21:17
I'd love to read your words and thoughts of these albums. But man, I hope you know how inspirational it is for you to dare showing off your controversial picks (like Soulja Boy being the highest ranked rapper) - big respect your way!
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