Overall Chart
Listed below are the overall rankings for the best albums in history as determined by their aggregate positions in over 59,000 different greatest album charts on BestEverAlbums.com! (Chart last updated: 5 hours ago).
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"Legendary. I guess you get it or you don't, but this is a landmark punk album." Reply
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1982
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875
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"I think people are spending too much time comparing it to their best album whatever that might be, instead of just listening. When you compare albums then you will miss out on loving it. Now for the album, I love it all, maybe one or two tracks near the end not as much but there's plenty to love ..." [+] Reply
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2010
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875
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"The music sounds tighter, less loose than previous records although it isn't quite as memorable. The songs do grow on you over a period of time and it's still growing on me. I still don't know whether it's as good as, Yellow house, or, Veckatamist, but it's certainly different. Sounding less rust..." [+] Reply
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2017
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874
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"As a Pixies devote I got in on the ground floor with this one purchasing the vinyl album the week it came out & it did not disappoint , it fact it blew me away how superb it was and remains so today in 2018 some 28 years on So where does 'Pod' sit in the Pixies / Breeders chronology ? 1989: 'Dool..." [+] Reply
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1990
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873
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"Baffles me why people put walk among us or legacy of brutality on their charts when clearly this is the superior album. Unfortunately not released till the 90s people had to rely on those release which had overdubs by the singer due to not wanting to pay royalties to his past band mates.I find it..." [+] Reply
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1997
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873
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"I am an honest man when I‘m not lying… Nothing plays better than the doomed but repentant sinner man feverishly begging to have his sins absolved. The sinner who firmly believes in hell but is dammed there anyways by his hunger & compulsions to fill that emptiness inside him with cards, whores, a..." [+] Reply
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1996
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871
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"Don't lose your mind like that, you may now think this is one of the best records ever, but you'll look back at this comment in one or two years and you'll be like "Oh God, why?" The more you listen to music, the more music has to be special to satisfy you. And this is actually nothing really spe..." [+] Reply
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1984
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871
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"85 to 95/100 (Continuing a trend of punk albums absolutely kicking my ass in 2021, this album goes ahead and kicks ((perhaps)) the very hardest. Post punk, dance punk, noisey rock, artsy heaviness, oh my! Oh and go listen to "Snow Day" if you wanna see what is so great about Shame.) This album fu..." [+] Reply
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2021
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871
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"Yep, he’s done it again - another masterful release. This time full of life-affirming positive mantras and a transcendent connection to a higher meaning." Reply
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2024
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"Barely in the top 500 of the 80s, 42nd in 1981 and not even top 2500+ all time?? This album is criminally underrated..." Reply
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1981
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Total albums: 10,000. Page 193 of 1,000
Overall Chart composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 2 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 34 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 302 | 3% | |
| 1960s | 710 | 7% | |
| 1970s | 1,426 | 14% | |
| 1980s | 1,414 | 14% | |
| 1990s | 1,601 | 16% | |
| 2000s | 1,721 | 17% | |
| 2010s | 1,967 | 20% | |
| 2020s | 823 | 8% |
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| Bob Dylan | 37 | 0% | |
| The Rolling Stones | 35 | 0% | |
| David Bowie | 32 | 0% | |
| The Beatles | 29 | 0% | |
| Miles Davis | 27 | 0% | |
| Neil Young | 26 | 0% | |
| Various Artists | 25 | 0% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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4,995 | 50% | |
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2,658 | 27% | |
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433 | 4% | |
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337 | 3% | |
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221 | 2% | |
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157 | 2% | |
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134 | 1% | |
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| 19. Taylor Swift | |
| 20. Dirty Projectors |
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