Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
by 
Kaiser 
I'm not very generous with my reviews and my tastes aren't too generalized here so I don't expect a high score. My only worry is to receive good advices and recommendations to expand my musical spectrum.
Work in progress... I will try to comment every pick.
- Chart updated: 06/11/2017 01:15
- (Created: 10/14/2013 16:44).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Progressive Rock
♥♥♥ Shine On You Crazy Diamond / ♥♥ Wish You Were Here / ♥ Have A Cigar
I don't know how sounds the music in the Paradise but, if it exists, it would be something similar to David Gilmour's guitar on this álbum. "Shine on you crazy diamond" is the best ever song to my ears so... that's easy. Stunning lyrics. [First added to this chart: 10/15/2013]
♥♥♥ Shine On You Crazy Diamond / ♥♥ Wish You Were Here / ♥ Have A Cigar
I don't know how sounds the music in the Paradise but, if it exists, it would be something similar to David Gilmour's guitar on this álbum. "Shine on you crazy diamond" is the best ever song to my ears so... that's easy. Stunning lyrics. [First added to this chart: 10/15/2013]
Year of Release:
1975
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43,698
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Progressive Rock
♥♥♥ Lady Fantasy / ♥♥ Nimrodel/The Procession/The White Rider / ♥ Earthrise [First added to this chart: 04/29/2014]
♥♥♥ Lady Fantasy / ♥♥ Nimrodel/The Procession/The White Rider / ♥ Earthrise [First added to this chart: 04/29/2014]
Year of Release:
1974
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2,431
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Progressive Rock / Psychedelic
♥♥♥ Time / ♥♥ Breathe / ♥ Us And Them
If Neil Armstrong had known of this álbum, he probably would have waited five more years to travel to the moon and can listen to it during the trip. This is an album that grabs you in its surround sound and does not let go until it ends. That's how the future sounds. [First added to this chart: 10/15/2013]
♥♥♥ Time / ♥♥ Breathe / ♥ Us And Them
If Neil Armstrong had known of this álbum, he probably would have waited five more years to travel to the moon and can listen to it during the trip. This is an album that grabs you in its surround sound and does not let go until it ends. That's how the future sounds. [First added to this chart: 10/15/2013]
Year of Release:
1973
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58,608
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Videogame soundtrack / Instrumental
♥♥♥ I Was Born For This / ♥♥ Apotheosis / ♥ Nascence
"Journey" is an unique experience through the life, from our birth to the death and beyond in a devastated sandy world by an ancient war for the natural sources. Is difficult to feel "Journey", the game, without his music in the same way that is hard to explain this score by itself so... go to play and live it! [First added to this chart: 11/30/2013]
♥♥♥ I Was Born For This / ♥♥ Apotheosis / ♥ Nascence
"Journey" is an unique experience through the life, from our birth to the death and beyond in a devastated sandy world by an ancient war for the natural sources. Is difficult to feel "Journey", the game, without his music in the same way that is hard to explain this score by itself so... go to play and live it! [First added to this chart: 11/30/2013]
Progressive Metal / Alternative Metal
♥♥♥ Second Life Syndrome / ♥♥ Volte-Face / ♥ I Turned You Down
We currently live in a society where we are more aware of others than ourselves, we just appreciate what we don't own. Are we really as we want? Or do we want to be who we are not? In this moment I would like to be Mariusz Duda. [First added to this chart: 01/05/2014]
♥♥♥ Second Life Syndrome / ♥♥ Volte-Face / ♥ I Turned You Down
We currently live in a society where we are more aware of others than ourselves, we just appreciate what we don't own. Are we really as we want? Or do we want to be who we are not? In this moment I would like to be Mariusz Duda. [First added to this chart: 01/05/2014]
Progressive Metal
♥♥♥ Metrópolis, Part. I: The Miracle & The Sleeper / ♥♥ Learning To Live / ♥ Wait For Sleep
Who says virtuosism and melodism should be faced? New Yorkers Dream Theater showed otherwise in this energic recording. An álbum that hundreds of subsequent metal bands have tried to rip off and none of them has succeeded. Every song is near to the same marvellous level. [First added to this chart: 10/15/2013]
♥♥♥ Metrópolis, Part. I: The Miracle & The Sleeper / ♥♥ Learning To Live / ♥ Wait For Sleep
Who says virtuosism and melodism should be faced? New Yorkers Dream Theater showed otherwise in this energic recording. An álbum that hundreds of subsequent metal bands have tried to rip off and none of them has succeeded. Every song is near to the same marvellous level. [First added to this chart: 10/15/2013]
Year of Release:
1992
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1,998
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Black Metal
♥♥♥ In The Shadow Of Our Pale Companion / ♥♥ The Hawthorne Passage / ♥ I Am The Wooden Doors
This is a long crossing throughout the cold, the ice, the survival. Nothing around but you must to arrive. The path is increasingly more and more tough but the reward deserves this effort. You're faced to the most epic but elegant black metal production so, why not try? A clear pick in the top 100. [First added to this chart: 10/22/2013]
♥♥♥ In The Shadow Of Our Pale Companion / ♥♥ The Hawthorne Passage / ♥ I Am The Wooden Doors
This is a long crossing throughout the cold, the ice, the survival. Nothing around but you must to arrive. The path is increasingly more and more tough but the reward deserves this effort. You're faced to the most epic but elegant black metal production so, why not try? A clear pick in the top 100. [First added to this chart: 10/22/2013]
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2002
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1,246
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Electronic / Ambient Techno
♥♥♥ The Box / ♥♥ Adnan's / ♥ Dwr Budr
Forget everything you've heard about electronic, this in not for dance, leap or shake your body compulsively, this is only to take place and thinking. An introspective walk into a parallel world. "In Sides" takes Kraftwerk standards and leads it to the next level in the genre. "The Box" is impossible to describe with words, best synthesizers piece ever made. [First added to this chart: 10/15/2013]
♥♥♥ The Box / ♥♥ Adnan's / ♥ Dwr Budr
Forget everything you've heard about electronic, this in not for dance, leap or shake your body compulsively, this is only to take place and thinking. An introspective walk into a parallel world. "In Sides" takes Kraftwerk standards and leads it to the next level in the genre. "The Box" is impossible to describe with words, best synthesizers piece ever made. [First added to this chart: 10/15/2013]
Year of Release:
1996
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432
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Post Rock / Ambient Pop
♥♥♥ Hjartad Hamast / ♥♥ Flugufrelsarinn / ♥ Starálfur
Hello, can you feel it? This is the womb and during the next nine months - or seventy two minutes - your livelihood will be at dark, in this small bag, the placenta, and you will get feed and oxigene through this duct, the umbilical cord.
Probably the most beautiful album ever made. You don't even have self-awareness, but it has been an ágætis byrjun! [First added to this chart: 10/15/2013]
♥♥♥ Hjartad Hamast / ♥♥ Flugufrelsarinn / ♥ Starálfur
Hello, can you feel it? This is the womb and during the next nine months - or seventy two minutes - your livelihood will be at dark, in this small bag, the placenta, and you will get feed and oxigene through this duct, the umbilical cord.
Probably the most beautiful album ever made. You don't even have self-awareness, but it has been an ágætis byrjun! [First added to this chart: 10/15/2013]
Year of Release:
1999
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14,786
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Progressive Metal / Death Metal
♥♥♥ Blackwater Park / ♥♥ The Drapery Falls / ♥ Bleak
After some solid works, Mikael Akerfeldt's boys reach the perfection in this rollercoaster of rythms among wrecking growls and smooth melodies that makes of "Blackwater Park" an intense walk over the mud from start to finish -including "Still Day Beneath The Sun" and "Patterns In The Ivy II, the two fantastic bonus tracks-. Nothing of this would have been possible without the collaboration of Steven Wilson as producer. [First added to this chart: 11/07/2013]
♥♥♥ Blackwater Park / ♥♥ The Drapery Falls / ♥ Bleak
After some solid works, Mikael Akerfeldt's boys reach the perfection in this rollercoaster of rythms among wrecking growls and smooth melodies that makes of "Blackwater Park" an intense walk over the mud from start to finish -including "Still Day Beneath The Sun" and "Patterns In The Ivy II, the two fantastic bonus tracks-. Nothing of this would have been possible without the collaboration of Steven Wilson as producer. [First added to this chart: 11/07/2013]
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2001
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2,283
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Total albums: 100. Page 1 of 10
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 3 | 3% | |
| 1970s | 23 | 23% | |
| 1980s | 11 | 11% | |
| 1990s | 28 | 28% | |
| 2000s | 24 | 24% | |
| 2010s | 11 | 11% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Opeth | 4 | 4% | |
| Pink Floyd | 4 | 4% | |
| Porcupine Tree | 3 | 3% | |
| Coldplay | 2 | 2% | |
| Black Sabbath | 2 | 2% | |
| Riverside (PL) | 2 | 2% | |
| David Bowie | 2 | 2% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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42 | 42% | |
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30 | 30% | |
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8 | 8% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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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 33 from 95th to 62ndNevermind by Nirvana |
| Up 12 from 93rd to 81stEl Patio by Triana |
| Up 12 from 59th to 47thTen by Pearl Jam |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 29 from 40th to 69th千と千尋の神隠し サウンドトラック [Sen To Chihiro No Kamikakushi Soundtrack] by 久石譲 [Joe Hisaishi] |
| Down 26 from 51st to 77thGhost Reveries by Opeth |
| Down 16 from 77th to 93rdLost In The Dream by The War On Drugs |
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| 03/20/2025 15:17 |  SomethingSpecial | 1,089 | 85/100 | |
| 09/13/2021 10:12 |  zwiebel | 189 | 86/100 | |
| 02/28/2021 17:40 |  Helios | 33 | 70/100 | |
| 06/27/2019 16:00 |  ExTeaSea | 243 | 89/100 | |
| 05/13/2019 03:13 | AlexandreFortin | 50 | 87/100 |
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From ExTeaSea 06/27/2019 16:02 | #238465
ExTeaSea 06/27/2019 16:02 | #238465
So much progressive rock! Love this chart! It's awesome how highly you rate Mirage by Camel because it's brilliant. Nice seeing a bunch of Riverside!
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Graeme2 11/19/2018 19:21 | #225229
Graeme2 11/19/2018 19:21 | #225229
Enjoyed looking through here. Good one. Plenty prog and metal and some classics. Also some recs, cheers.
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Boltzmann 10/23/2018 21:54 | #223141
Boltzmann 10/23/2018 21:54 | #223141
You seem to explore the outer corners of rock. Here and there an electronic album, which is funny, but they’re not my favorites. Maybe you would like some trip hop albums, if you’re into ‘90s electronic music.
Don’t know much about metal, but Jane’s Addiction is probably my favorite. It’s progressive metal to be precise.
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CharlieBarley 02/25/2018 22:36 | #209630
CharlieBarley 02/25/2018 22:36 | #209630
Good chart, Nice blend of genres. Nice and honest. I like it.
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desh79 02/25/2018 21:49 | #209626
desh79 02/25/2018 21:49 | #209626
The Mantle in the top 10? Very nice.
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From SamNassiri98 02/25/2018 14:34 | #209588
Interesting chart! Love seeing love for Pink Floyd! (maybe check out my charts?)
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From manurock 02/25/2018 14:30 | #209587
Enhorabuena por el chart of the day amigo. Eres el usuario de BEA más parecido a mi, sin duda. Me alegro de que te estén valorando mejor que antes. Un abrazo.
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ForegroundNoise 02/25/2018 11:09 | #209569
ForegroundNoise 02/25/2018 11:09 | #209569
Really interesting mix of choices, i get the feeling Deafheaven's Sunbather would be right up your street :)
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From Ulf 02/25/2018 10:30 | #209566
good with the pink floyd man
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TheHolyKiwi 07/07/2017 23:16 | #193906
TheHolyKiwi 07/07/2017 23:16 | #193906
You should expect higher ratings. Your chart is easily better than most of the shit I see on this website. It's sickening that charts aren't actually more like this.
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