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OK Computer

Radiohead

"I think making such a big deal about OK Computer only takes away from the great music they made after. This is a great album but unlike a lot of 90s bands Radiohead didn't try to ride this any further. From here on out they became a genre all their own." Reply

ProfessorSquid | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +45 votes (46 helpful | 1 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

1997

Appears in:

4,472 charts

Rank Score:

59,490

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Average Rating:

92 (5,685 votes)

Comments:

865

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

"I once stated that I thought that this is the only album that really has a claim to the title 'greatest album ever.' I am not really sure that I would phrase that statement with such tenacity and chutzpah now, but I do feel that my point remains viable: There are no other albums out there that ar..." [+] Reply

- kryptos006 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +11 votes (12 helpful | 1 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

1973

Appears in:

4,172 charts

Rank Score:

56,449

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"But the main thing for me is this...it's rock & roll. It doesn't matter how many big fancy sentences you can wrap around the medley on side 2 of Abbey Road...what matters is does it move you or not? It's cool either way, but no one wants to hear someone turn it into an incomprehensible scientific..." [+] Reply

Romanelli | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +9 votes (9 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

3,775 charts

Rank Score:

54,053

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"As great as this album is, it would have been even greater if they had included "Paperback Writer" and "Rain" (and taken off "Dr. Robert" and "Got to get you into my life")...which were released as "single" only in May, 1966...terrible decision. I hated when they released "single only" records." Reply

ffudnebbuh | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +8 votes (11 helpful | 3 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

1966

Appears in:

3,628 charts

Rank Score:

46,599

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"The first time I heard this album was a bootleged copy off cassete when I was 14, laying on a hillside at night beside the girl who I thought at the time was the most beautiful and sexy in the world. You may like to add your own imagery to the setting, but it left a permanant mark on my psychie t..." [+] Reply

- marcel4tmh | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +15 votes (16 helpful | 1 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

1975

Appears in:

3,036 charts

Rank Score:

41,967

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Average Rating:

91 (4,099 votes)

Comments:

316

The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars

David Bowie

"This album has never gotten old for me. Everything fits together well. Suffragette City and Ziggy Stardust just rip. Lady Stardust is a hidden gem." Reply

- edubs | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +11 votes (11 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

1972

Appears in:

3,041 charts

Rank Score:

40,797

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"This is easily Radiohead's most perfect album they made. Perfect length and amazing songs. Reckoner is one of the greatest songs ever made." Reply

- nipplefart | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +17 votes (18 helpful | 1 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

2,989 charts

Rank Score:

40,512

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Average Rating:

89 (3,987 votes)

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399

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

The Beatles

"A true 'album,' Sgt. Pepper's is the ultimate psychedelic experience. The mood shifts from song to song are perfect, from the aching She's Leaving Home into the freak-circus Mr. Kite to the droning Within You Without You to the quaint, music hall of When I'm Sixty-Four into the psychedelia of Lov..." [+] Reply

Caesar01 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +9 votes (10 helpful | 1 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

3,521 charts

Rank Score:

40,507

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Average Rating:

90 (4,635 votes)

Comments:

494

Kid A

Radiohead

"This is better than Funeral - which has taken the 2000's No. 1 just because of recent Reflektor hype - save Kid A anyone please! Why? Because every single song (yes, I'm looking at you too, Treefingers) is its own unique, daring, thrilling masterpiece. This was an album that actually challenged i..." [+] Reply

- Gunit | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +12 votes (16 helpful | 4 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

2000

Appears in:

3,238 charts

Rank Score:

38,867

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Average Rating:

89 (4,503 votes)

Comments:

564

10.

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground & Nico

"'The Velvet Underground And Nico' is arguably one of the two most groundbreaking and influential pieces of music ever to have been produced in the entire history of rock music. It is no exaggeration to say that alternative rock music was born the moment the Velvet Underground entered a recording ...""'The Velvet Underground And Nico' is arguably one of the two most groundbreaking and influential pieces of music ever to have been produced in the entire history of rock music. It is no exaggeration to say that alternative rock music was born the moment the Velvet Underground entered a recording studio. Most notably, their influence can be heard in the progressive and new-wave movements of the 1970s through to the post-punk and shoe-gazing movements of the 1980s and 1990s and beyond. The Velvet Underground's approach to their art was not as a commercial enterprise in order to satisfy the aspirations of record company executives and the public relations industry, but was deliberately intended to disturb and unsettle. Their music self-consiously explored the inner depths and recesses of the human pysche. Unlike their mainly pop contemporaries, the Velvet Underground were classically trained musicians who engaged in elongated suites and complex jams. The cultural tradition that the band aligned themselves with was not the jaded faction of the hippy movement, but the progressive movement that was to follow in its wake. The band were as far removed from hippy culture as it was possible to be, but paradoxically were also embedded within it to the extent that, like Frank Zappa, they were able to successfully garner a platform from which they critiqued and challenged the all-pervasive current that dominated it. So although the album was recorded during the time of the hippy movement, their 'darker' programme represented its antithesis. In this sense, they originated the 'pessimistic' strand of psychedelic music (as opposed to San Francisco's optimistic strand). Above all else, they originated a spirit of making music (independent, nihilistic, subversive) that ten years later will be labelled 'punk'. 'The Velvet Underground And Nico' recorded in the spring of 1966, includes an impressive number of masterpieces (mostly penned by Lou Reed and John Cale, and sung by Nico): the cold, spectral, autumnal odes of 'Femme Fatale', 'All Tomorrow's Parties', 'Black Angel's Death Song' and 'Heroin' are particularly stunning. The latter piece symbolizes the dark underbelly of hippydom like no other piece of music has ever done. Its sheer magnificence is unsurpassed. When I first heard this on the radio, I knew from that moment on my life would never be the same again. 'European Son' pounds to a dissonant tribal beat and a cross-fertilization of musical textures add to the incredible mix. A rich decadent spleen imbued with Indian raga, permeates 'Venus In Furs' which is immersed in a dark, almost oppressive atmosphere of decadence and oppulence. German expressionism and French existentialism is evident throughout the entire recording, as is the exhaltation of an epic libido: Each song is exumed with a sexual and fetishistic undercurrent for which no precedent exists in the entire history of music. " [+] Reply

- hairymarx1 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +7 votes (13 helpful | 6 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

3,069 charts

Rank Score:

37,461

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Average Rating:

89 (3,588 votes)

Comments:

357

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Overall Chart composition

Decade	Albums	%

1930s	2	0%
1940s	35	0%
1950s	301	3%
1960s	709	7%
1970s	1,414	14%
1980s	1,397	14%
1990s	1,596	16%
2000s	1,734	17%
2010s	1,985	20%
2020s	827	8%

Artist	Albums	%

Neil Young	42	0%
Bob Dylan	37	0%
The Rolling Stones	36	0%
Miles Davis	33	0%
David Bowie	32	0%
The Beatles	29	0%
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	25	0%
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Country	Albums	%

	5,027	50%
	2,655	27%
	426	4%
	335	3%
	219	2%
	155	2%
	137	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	9,735	97%
Yes	265	3%

Live?	Albums	%
No	9,738	97%
Yes	262	3%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	9,884	99%
Yes	116	1%

Overall Chart chart changes

Biggest climbers Biggest climbers in top 100 since last month
Up 5 from 96th to 91st ★ [Blackstar] by David Bowie
Up 4 from 73rd to 69th Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens
Up 2 from 80th to 78th A Moon Shaped Pool by Radiohead
Up 2 from 65th to 63rd Thriller by Michael Jackson
Up 2 from 46th to 44th Marquee Moon by Television

Biggest fallers Biggest fallers in top 100 since last month
Down 2 from 47th to 49th Exile On Main St. by The Rolling Stones
Down 2 from 63rd to 65th Sticky Fingers by The Rolling Stones
Down 2 from 79th to 81st Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen
Down 2 from 92nd to 94th Master Of Puppets by Metallica
Down 2 from 93rd to 95th Blond by Frank Ocean