Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
by edubs 
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- Chart updated: 05/13/2019 19:15
- (Created: 06/20/2013 07:18).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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"Once Upon A Time" - a brilliant way to start off an album that was a true game-changer.
The lyrics are phenomenal. Music is great too.
Favorite Tracks: title track, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Like A Rolling Stone, Ballad Of A Thin Man, Tombstone Blues, Desolation Row.
"They're selling postcards of the hanging" ... [First added to this chart: 06/20/2013]
The lyrics are phenomenal. Music is great too.
Favorite Tracks: title track, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Like A Rolling Stone, Ballad Of A Thin Man, Tombstone Blues, Desolation Row.
"They're selling postcards of the hanging" ... [First added to this chart: 06/20/2013]
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1965
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25,105
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Favorite Tracks: Tomorrow Never Knows, She Said, She Said, And Your Bird Can Sing, Taxman, Here, There and Everywhere.
I pretend that Yellow Submarine isn't on the Album.
Such a variety of songs - all wonderfully done. This album marks the Beatles transition from being a bit too much of a poppy/boy band to being great artists. Rubber Soul showed the first signs of the progression - this was "making it". [First added to this chart: 06/20/2013]
I pretend that Yellow Submarine isn't on the Album.
Such a variety of songs - all wonderfully done. This album marks the Beatles transition from being a bit too much of a poppy/boy band to being great artists. Rubber Soul showed the first signs of the progression - this was "making it". [First added to this chart: 06/20/2013]
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1966
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46,085
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I have been listening to this album for 30 plus years and it never gets old.
An absolute gem. So accessible and melodic yet so far out and experimental.
Everything fits together so perfectly.
Favorite songs: Everything except Money fits seamless together and is mind-blowing. Money is simply mind-blowing. [First added to this chart: 06/20/2013]
An absolute gem. So accessible and melodic yet so far out and experimental.
Everything fits together so perfectly.
Favorite songs: Everything except Money fits seamless together and is mind-blowing. Money is simply mind-blowing. [First added to this chart: 06/20/2013]
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1973
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55,795
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Keith Moon and John Entwistle achieve rock god status on this album. The percussion work is obscene. The bass playing extraordinary. Great concept album. Perfectly executed.
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1973
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6,834
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This album is absurdly good. This is 100X as good as the greatest hits / best of albums of the majority of bands on the planet.
Favorite Tracks: Title Track, Purple Haze, Fire, Hey Joe, The Wind Cries Mary, Manic Depression, Foxy Lady ... [First added to this chart: 06/20/2013]
Favorite Tracks: Title Track, Purple Haze, Fire, Hey Joe, The Wind Cries Mary, Manic Depression, Foxy Lady ... [First added to this chart: 06/20/2013]
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1967
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20,379
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An influential album. Funky. Socially profound.
Favorite Tracks: Stand!, Everyday People, Somebody's Watching You, You Can Make It If You Try ... [First added to this chart: 06/20/2013]
Favorite Tracks: Stand!, Everyday People, Somebody's Watching You, You Can Make It If You Try ... [First added to this chart: 06/20/2013]
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1969
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3,699
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This album has such a wonderful feel/vibe to it. So heart felt. Moving. The bass work on the album is interesting, distinctive and serves as a quality backbone for the sound.
Favorite Tracks: God Is Love, Mercy Mercy Me, What's Happening Brother, Inner City Blues. title track ...
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Favorite Tracks: God Is Love, Mercy Mercy Me, What's Happening Brother, Inner City Blues. title track ...
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Year of Release:
1971
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18,262
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This album starts out kicking plenty of ass ... then you get to Hang On To Yourself, Ziggy Stardust and Suffragette City and the ass-kicking takes on epic proportions. This is criminally good song-writing and the definitive glam rock album.
Favorite Tracks: Lady Stardust, the three mentioned above, Starman, Five Years, Soul Love ...sheesh - the whole damn thing is great. [First added to this chart: 06/20/2013]
Favorite Tracks: Lady Stardust, the three mentioned above, Starman, Five Years, Soul Love ...sheesh - the whole damn thing is great. [First added to this chart: 06/20/2013]
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1972
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Another definitive rock album. Hard to imagine rock music as a genre without this album as a cornerstone. The teen angst, the power chords, Keith stinkin' Moon, the f'n Who ...
Favorite Tracks: All of them except "My Wife" are classic rock all-time greats. [First added to this chart: 06/20/2013]
Favorite Tracks: All of them except "My Wife" are classic rock all-time greats. [First added to this chart: 06/20/2013]
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1971
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Painting with sound. Great musicianship. Coltrane somehow tapped into an alternate universe and brought us this masterpiece to enjoy on this earth.
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1965
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 6 | 6% | |
| 1960s | 19 | 19% | |
| 1970s | 30 | 30% | |
| 1980s | 13 | 13% | |
| 1990s | 11 | 11% | |
| 2000s | 11 | 11% | |
| 2010s | 10 | 10% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Bob Dylan | 5 | 5% | |
| The Beatles | 5 | 5% | |
| The National | 3 | 3% | |
| Tame Impala | 3 | 3% | |
| Pink Floyd | 3 | 3% | |
| The Who | 3 | 3% | |
| Led Zeppelin | 3 | 3% | |
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| ! | 05/04/2020 13:38 |  911Turbo | 16 | 100/100 |
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BestEverAlbums 05/04/2020 08:00 in Chart of the day (#3116): By edubs
BestEverAlbums 05/04/2020 08:00 in Chart of the day (#3116): By edubs“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by edubs () 1. Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan (1965) 2. Revolver by The Beatles (1966) 3. The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd (1973) 4. Quadrophenia by The Who (1973) 5. Are You Experienced by The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1967) 6. Stand!…”
View forum post →From BestEverAlbums 07/15/2019 08:00 in Chart of the day (#2822): By edubs
BestEverAlbums 07/15/2019 08:00 in Chart of the day (#2822): By edubs“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by edubs () 1. Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan (1965) 2. Revolver by The Beatles (1966) 3. The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd (1973) 4. Quadrophenia by The Who (1973) 5. Are You Experienced by The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1967) 6. Stand!…”
View forum post →From BestEverAlbums 10/05/2018 08:00 in Chart of the day (#2539): By edubs
BestEverAlbums 10/05/2018 08:00 in Chart of the day (#2539): By edubs“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by edubs () 1. Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan (1965) 2. Revolver by The Beatles (1966) 3. Quadrophenia by The Who (1973) 4. Are You Experienced by The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1967) 5. Stand! by Sly & The Family Stone (1969) 6. What's Going…”
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CharlieBarley 02/04/2018 05:54 | #207129
CharlieBarley 02/04/2018 05:54 | #207129
An easy 100. Great picks, eclectic taste and fun stimulating notes. I have 26 in common, I have The Who in my Top 101-300 charts, my other 2 charts. I will have to check out yer other charts. Well done my man!!
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C_Krug2009 04/03/2014 00:06 | #108346
C_Krug2009 04/03/2014 00:06 | #108346
I definitely respect your picks because the majority of them are the classics and I assume you grew up with them. However, nice to see you can grow with change and appreciate music through the years.
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911Turbo 05/04/2020 13:43 | #250901
911Turbo 05/04/2020 13:43 | #250901
i really like your chart.
i took a real close look at it when i seen quadrophenia and high violet rated high in the list. these are 2 of my favourites. so i decided to read your personal comments- love them and wish there were more. i have never been a funk guy but im leaving your list with the intention of listening to sly and the family stone- these guys pop up regularily. im going to check them out. also im surprised that i didnt see more stones, your description of some girls was dead on- so i know your very familiar with their music. no big deal.
thanks for posting such a fantastic list.
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Mercury TOP 100 COMMENTER 07/29/2013 03:08 | #82650
Mercury TOP 100 COMMENTER 07/29/2013 03:08 | #82650
Thanks for the note! I like your chart as well. The top 3 are as classic as it gets - perhaps the perfect representation of for me the 3 Headed Monster of absolutely revolutionary artists on that decade.
And I love that Sly is in your top 10! Bravo!
Keep it up!
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Astralweeks2512 11/22/2015 19:48 | #153310
Nice mix of classic albums and newer entries. I had downloaded the title track but will have to give the rest of the Neutral Milk Hotel album a better listen. I liked the inclusion of the Pete Townshend solo album.
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