Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
by marshallsbrother 
Edit: I have decided to update this list and now include some of the classic albums I overlooked when I first posted. These are my favourite albums, and are more about an enjoyable listening experience for me, rather than any real critical evaluation. There are brilliant albums that I would rate very highly missing from this chart, but are maybe a more difficult listening experience for me than what I have on here. I hope you enjoy. (7th June, 2020)
- Chart updated: 06/07/2020 04:15
- (Created: 07/02/2013 13:48).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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2002
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858
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2005
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453
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1997
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63,636
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1996
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650
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1973
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60,110
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1976
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1,418
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1996
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6,758
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1970
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Total albums: 100. Page 1 of 10
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 2 | 2% | |
| 1970s | 11 | 11% | |
| 1980s | 3 | 3% | |
| 1990s | 39 | 39% | |
| 2000s | 32 | 32% | |
| 2010s | 11 | 11% | |
| 2020s | 2 | 2% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Various Artists | 4 | 4% | |
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | 3 | 3% | |
| Ash | 2 | 2% | |
| Powderfinger | 2 | 2% | |
| Jebediah | 2 | 2% | |
| Tom Waits | 2 | 2% | |
| David Bowie | 2 | 2% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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43 | 43% | |
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24 | 24% | |
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20 | 20% | |
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5 | 5% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
|---|
| Up 74 from 93rd to 19th Frengers by Mew |
| Up 58 from 81st to 23rd Free All Angels by Ash |
| Up 40 from 85th to 45th Unit by Regurgitator |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 88 from 6th to 94th Love Kraft by Super Furry Animals |
| Down 82 from 4th to 86th Worlds Apart by ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead |
| Down 67 from 29th to 96th Lazy Highways by The Fauves |
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| ! | 03/20/2025 15:22 |  SomethingSpecial | 1,104 | 85/100 |
| ! | 11/30/2020 01:45 | Bloaf38 | 16 | 85/100 |
| ! | 11/03/2020 02:56 | Steppenwolf666 | 88 | 89/100 |
| ! | 08/30/2020 02:37 |  Rhyner | 1,457 | 99/100 |
| ! | 08/29/2020 12:00 |  DommeDamian | 1,004 | 89/100 |
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From Scrabbler 10/27/2024 10:38 | #305784
I buy and sell music, was just about to list Sidewinder Tangerine on eBay then I came across your profile and thought.. hmm there must be something more to this. Gave it a good listen and I can see there's a lot of work gone into this album. Might shelf this one and think about it.
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From Bloaf38 11/30/2020 01:48 | #261665
I appreciate seeing Tool and Simon & Garfunkel listed back to back in your top 10
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From areminder 08/30/2020 04:46 | #257576
Gotta love the early aughts showing up. The one, two, three, of White Blood Cells, Is This It, Rated R. I'm here for that.
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StefanR10 06/07/2020 12:36 | #252995
StefanR10 06/07/2020 12:36 | #252995
Nice chart some out of the top 1000 but i knew most of the band so a superb chart for indie rock and some classics. 85 Points
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From tjrcooper0 04/06/2016 00:23 | #163389
Love all the Aussie stuff
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Juiceman96 01/05/2016 18:15 | #155871
Juiceman96 01/05/2016 18:15 | #155871
Interesting picks
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greatson 02/26/2014 21:11 | #104607
greatson 02/26/2014 21:11 | #104607
Sorry boy,
I´m not convinced of that chart.
A lot picks arerare but poor.
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sssvnnn 11/05/2013 23:12 | #90894
sssvnnn 11/05/2013 23:12 | #90894
Very personal list.
Lot`s of indie rock that I don`t know.
Mew is OK, but for me no more than just OK.
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From vinnid127 10/15/2013 22:54 | #88487
Dude this is great! so many new bands ive never heard of before mixed in with some old classics, i've definitely got to get onto Mew now! kudos
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From marshallsbrother 09/03/2013 06:47 | #85092
Beatles, Beach Boys & Bowie would probably account for maybe 10 spots (I'm not totally sure). I've been spending a lot of time since I joined chasing up some older albums (pre-1996ish). I went to high school in the late nineties and the music of that time tends to influence most of my tastes (for good or ill), so I have a lot of music to expose myself to. I consider a lot of the pop/rock music of the 50s & 60s as "classic", so artists like Elvis Presley, Little Richard, The Kinks, The Easybeats and the like have probably been unfairly overlooked, but as they weren't really part of my "musical awakening" I've left them out. I'm seriously considering completely re-evaluating my main chart to include more of the "classics", in light of the phenomenal albums I've been listening to lately, and shifting my "musical awakening" albums to a custom chart. I just didn't want to change anything too soon because my wish list has grown exponentially, and I don't want to miss anything.
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