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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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% |
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| Various Artists | 4 | 4% | |
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | 3 | 3% | |
| The Beatles | 2 | 2% | |
| ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead | 2 | 2% | |
| Mew | 2 | 2% | |
| Radiohead | 2 | 2% | |
| Foo Fighters | 2 | 2% | |
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44 | 44% | |
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24 | 24% | |
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20 | 20% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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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 |
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| 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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70/100  | 11/30/2020 01:45 | Bloaf38 | | 85/100 |
95/100 | 11/03/2020 02:56 | Steppenwolf666 | | 89/100 |
100/100 | 08/30/2020 02:37 |  Rhyner | | 99/100 |
90/100 | 08/29/2020 12:00 |  DommeDamian | | 90/100 |
85/100 | 06/07/2020 12:35 |  StefanR10 | | 88/100 |
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I appreciate seeing Tool and Simon & Garfunkel listed back to back in your top 10
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.
StefanR10 06/07/2020 12:36
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
Love all the Aussie stuff
Juiceman96 01/05/2016 18:15
Interesting picks
greatson 02/26/2014 21:11
Sorry boy,
I´m not convinced of that chart.
A lot picks arerare but poor.
sssvnnn 11/05/2013 23:12
Very personal list.
Lot`s of indie rock that I don`t know.
Mew is OK, but for me no more than just OK.
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
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.
junodog4 09/02/2013 21:48
Cool chart... I'm curious - how much Beatles, Beach Boys and Bowie would be hear otherwise? Any other exclusions due to their 'classic' status?
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