Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
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- Chart updated: 08/30/2020 00:15
- (Created: 07/10/2009 04:08).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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What can I say about The Beatles that hasn't been said a thousand times already? They are the biggest legends in modern music, and for good reason. While I'm not a huge fan of their pre-1965 output, the run from Help! onwards is pure genius, and it all culminates in this record. Abbey Road is their masterpiece, if you ask me, and I almost wish they had never released Let it be so they had gone out with a bang.
Favourite track: Come together [First added to this chart: 11/16/2010]
Favourite track: Come together [First added to this chart: 11/16/2010]
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1969
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55,706
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Influential as hell, this is one of the essential progressive rock albums. Packed with skillful playing, ambitious experimentation without neglecting its melodies and huge dramatic depth, In the court of the Crimson King starts and finishes off with two of the best songs of the 60s.
Favourite track: 21st century schizoid man [First added to this chart: 09/25/2013]
Favourite track: 21st century schizoid man [First added to this chart: 09/25/2013]
Year of Release:
1969
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27,518
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I can't add much to the universal praise that Sgt. Pepper has received over the years. It's an album that influenced both progressive and psychedelic rock, and it also helped to shape the studio album as more than a collection of singles. But those are not the reasons why I love it. I love it for its songs, for the way it has stood the test of time. It still sounds dynamic and inventive. Furthermore, it has my favourite Beatles' song ever, and that's got to count for something.
Favourite track: A day in the life [First added to this chart: 11/16/2010]
Favourite track: A day in the life [First added to this chart: 11/16/2010]
Year of Release:
1967
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41,952
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The groundbreaking Banana Album sounds weird, experimental and visionary almost fifty years after its release. In this legendary record, The Velvet Underground (helped by Nico's instantly recognizable voice) drops one masterpiece after another, and if it weren't for The black angel death's song, which I find just okay, and European son, which I don't like at all, it would probably make it into my top 10.
Favourite track: Sunday morning [First added to this chart: 11/16/2010]
Favourite track: Sunday morning [First added to this chart: 11/16/2010]
Year of Release:
1967
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38,526
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The Doors' debut is the quintaessential psychedelic rock album. Trippy instrumentation and the shadow of drugs, sex and alcohol lingering over every track in the most straightforward way, but also some pretty obscure and twisted lyricism, courtesy of the late Jim Morrison. He definitely doesn't give a fuck.
Favourite track: Light my fire [First added to this chart: 11/16/2010]
Favourite track: Light my fire [First added to this chart: 11/16/2010]
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1967
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26,238
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Yep. The Beatles. Again. Whatever.
Favourite track: Eleanor Rigby [First added to this chart: 08/31/2013]
Favourite track: Eleanor Rigby [First added to this chart: 08/31/2013]
Year of Release:
1966
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48,192
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The first half of this album is amazing, it truly is. Maybe the last four songs are a little weak, but I'm so deeply in love with Sam Cooke's voice that I'm more than willing to forgive that.
Favourite track: Good times [First added to this chart: 07/19/2018]
Favourite track: Good times [First added to this chart: 07/19/2018]
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1964
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992
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Let it bleed opens with one masterpiece and closes with another. There is a little bit of that filler problem that I mentioned earlier, but it's not as evident as it is in their other albums. But yeah, I admit that if it weren't for those two songs, this record would probably be out of my top 100.
Favourite track: Gimme shelter [First added to this chart: 09/11/2013]
Favourite track: Gimme shelter [First added to this chart: 09/11/2013]
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1969
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16,837
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 1 | 1% | |
| 1960s | 8 | 8% | |
| 1970s | 19 | 19% | |
| 1980s | 9 | 9% | |
| 1990s | 16 | 16% | |
| 2000s | 19 | 19% | |
| 2010s | 28 | 28% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| David Bowie | 3 | 3% | |
| The Beatles | 3 | 3% | |
| Radiohead | 2 | 2% | |
| Lorde | 2 | 2% | |
| The Rolling Stones | 2 | 2% | |
| Kanye West | 2 | 2% | |
| Eminem | 2 | 2% | |
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53 | 53% | |
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29 | 29% | |
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5 | 5% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
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| Up 44 from 76th to 32ndDirty Computer by Janelle Monáe |
| Up 41 from 70th to 29thArt Angels by Grimes |
| Up 35 from 57th to 22ndHounds Of Love by Kate Bush |
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| Down 53 from 24th to 77thIf You're Feeling Sinister by Belle And Sebastian |
| Down 39 from 16th to 55thSound Of Silver by LCD Soundsystem |
| Down 38 from 55th to 93rdPearl by Janis Joplin |
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| 03/20/2025 22:27 |  SomethingSpecial | 1,089 | 85/100 | |
| 10/24/2021 16:26 |  Goliath | 351 | 86/100 | |
| 06/28/2021 11:41 |  Cytoma | 170 | 90/100 | |
| 06/27/2021 03:08 | Moondance | 476 | 85/100 | |
| 04/21/2019 03:25 |  Rhyner | 1,452 | 99/100 |
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From Moondance 06/27/2021 03:08 | #271082
Cool chart. Nice to see Lorde get 2 albums in the top 100.
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Glitterboiii 07/20/2019 23:38 | #240066
Glitterboiii 07/20/2019 23:38 | #240066
35 in common! Great chart!
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From vancevisuals 04/20/2019 19:24 | #235291
13 in common
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DommeDamian 04/20/2019 14:27 | #235284
DommeDamian 04/20/2019 14:27 | #235284
You got some good albums, you got some good descriptions = everything is on point
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ForegroundNoise 04/20/2019 13:56 | #235283
ForegroundNoise 04/20/2019 13:56 | #235283
Your notes are something to be truly proud of even if the picks are a little *ahem* safe. Great mix of classics young and old - would be nice to see some jazz sneak in :)
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From Rivera 04/20/2019 13:38 | #235282
Brilliant chart with excellent selections. For sure I'm going to have to check out your Spanish artists.
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From PeterSmith 10/26/2018 21:48 | #223361
Hola, I really like your chart. It is a really good mix of decades and genres. I recognised and have many of the albums and on many occasions have similar favourite tracks you mention and equally also don't love some you call out.
I especially love your comments throughout and I actually read them all because they were so interesting and personal.
Unfortunately I am struggling with your number 1 - it's just not landing with me (yet?).
There are a number I have on my list for later listening and I'll come back later to check some of your other picks that I don't know.
Given some of your choices I was maybe a little surprised that Bon Iver never made it - but hey there is only room for 100. But if you haven't heard them give them a listen especially For Emma Forever Ago. You might also like Sigur Ros - very ethereal and electronic.
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From cobbo95 01/09/2017 00:40 | #182062
I really enjoyed reading you chart picks and the descriptions. Nice to see some similarities too with St. Vincent, War on Drugs and Oasis amongst others :)
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From hahol 01/08/2017 22:34 | #182056
Eclectic chart. Joni at the top is just awesome. Great comments too.
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From platus 01/08/2017 19:33 | #182046
Very good chart!
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