Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
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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.
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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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27,296
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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]
Year of Release:
1967
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21,568
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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]
Year of Release:
1969
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3,771
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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 ... [First added to this chart: 06/20/2013]
Favorite Tracks: God Is Love, Mercy Mercy Me, What's Happening Brother, Inner City Blues. title track ... [First added to this chart: 06/20/2013]
Year of Release:
1971
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18,991
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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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15,727
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A motherlode of terrific sounding songs with Dylan's thought provoking lyrics, story-telling and imagery. To me this feels like chapters 2 and 3 of Highway 61 Revisited.
Favorite Tracks: Visions of Johanna, Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat, Stuck Inside of ..., 4th Time Around ... [First added to this chart: 06/20/2013]
Favorite Tracks: Visions of Johanna, Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat, Stuck Inside of ..., 4th Time Around ... [First added to this chart: 06/20/2013]
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1966
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24,990
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Screen door slams - Mary's dress waves ... Thunder Road starts the album off so brilliantly and the rest of the album builds from there. Born To Run is an anthem.
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1975
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15,357
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I have loved the songs on this album since grade school. Music that is now part of my DNA. "I Wish" is so stinkin' perfect. "Sir Duke" with the great horns is a masterpiece. "Pastime Paradise" has been lifted so many times it is now iconic.
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1976
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Music needed an enema after the 80s. Nirvana came and reminded everyone that rock music was about passion, angst, feedback, and amplifiers
... not a bunch of pansies whining about every damn time they stubbed their toe.
Favorite Tracks: Drain You, On A Plain, Territorial Pissings, Lithium, In Bloom [First added to this chart: 06/20/2013]
... not a bunch of pansies whining about every damn time they stubbed their toe.
Favorite Tracks: Drain You, On A Plain, Territorial Pissings, Lithium, In Bloom [First added to this chart: 06/20/2013]
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1991
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I had friends who certainly were more into the Pixies back when "Doolittle" came out than I was at the time. A couple of the tracks I really enjoyed but the album struck more of a chord with me years later when I would go back and listen to it first through last cut. This album has a great attitude to it. Lots of creativity and quite a variety of songs here. In general though - it simply rocks.
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1989
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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% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Bob Dylan | 5 | 5% | |
| The Beatles | 5 | 5% | |
| Tame Impala | 3 | 3% | |
| Pink Floyd | 3 | 3% | |
| The Who | 3 | 3% | |
| Led Zeppelin | 3 | 3% | |
| The National | 3 | 3% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 11 from 95th to 84thTo Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar |
| Up 5 from 8th to 3rdThe Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd |
| Up 3 from 29th to 26thKind Of Blue by Miles Davis |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 6 from 24th to 30thInnerspeaker by Tame Impala |
| Down 5 from 90th to 95thGood Kid, M.A.A.D City by Kendrick Lamar |
| Down 1 from 3rd to 4thQuadrophenia by The Who |
| New entries |
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| 102% by The New Mastersounds |
| Leavers |
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| Play Deep Funk by The Sound Stylistics |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
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| ! | 03/20/2025 15:32 |  SomethingSpecial | 1,104 | 85/100 |
| ! | 05/27/2020 03:11 | Purplepash | 1,693 | 88/100 |
| ! | 05/04/2020 13:38 |  911Turbo | 16 | 100/100 |
| ! | 05/04/2020 12:52 | Rivera | 49 | 98/100 |
| ! | 05/04/2020 11:23 | stangetzaway | 173 | 89/100 |
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This chart is rated in the top 2% of all charts on BestEverAlbums.com. This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 89.9/100, a mean average of 90.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 90.4/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 7.7.
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From 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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From Rivera 05/04/2020 12:53 | #250898
Outstanding chart! Four sure I'm going to have to check out those "The National" albums now.
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From musicologist97 10/06/2018 02:48 | #222089
Overall, an excellent chart.
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ForegroundNoise 10/05/2018 08:57 | #222063
ForegroundNoise 10/05/2018 08:57 | #222063
Love the notes!
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From 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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From Ulf 02/03/2018 15:43 | #207074
Nice one my dude
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From quadrophenia17 05/08/2017 00:42 | #190471
Wow! We have so much in common!
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corenfro 05/07/2017 21:00 | #190457
corenfro 05/07/2017 21:00 | #190457
Terrific chart. Props for the love of Marvin.
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From Ben4 05/07/2017 20:10 | #190447
Great chart! I especially love that Quadrophenia is ranked so high, that album is amazing.
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buzzdainer 05/13/2016 14:37 | #165877
buzzdainer 05/13/2016 14:37 | #165877
Excellent list! Love the high rankings for Blonde on Blonde and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.
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