Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by Kaiser

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Work in progress... I will try to comment every pick.

• Chart updated: 06/11/2017 01:15
• (Created: 10/14/2013 16:44).
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Wish You Were Here 

 Pink Floyd

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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]

Year of Release:

1975

Appears in:

2,913 charts

Rank Score:

50,762

Rank in 1975:

1

Rank in 1970s:

2

Overall Rank:

8

Average Rating:

 91 (3,946 votes)

Comments:

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Mirage 

 Camel

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Progressive Rock
♥♥♥ Lady Fantasy / ♥♥ Nimrodel/The Procession/The White Rider / ♥ Earthrise [First added to this chart: 04/29/2014]

Year of Release:

1974

Appears in:

330 charts

Rank Score:

2,573

Rank in 1974:

12

Rank in 1970s:

161

Overall Rank:

703

Average Rating:

 81 (386 votes)

Comments:

22

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The Dark Side Of The Moon 

 Pink Floyd

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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]

Year of Release:

1973

Appears in:

4,043 charts

Rank Score:

71,160

Rank in 1973:

1

Rank in 1970s:

1

Overall Rank:

2

Average Rating:

 92 (5,203 votes)

Comments:

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Journey 
Soundtrack

 Austin Wintory

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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]

Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

11 charts

Rank Score:

77

Rank in 2012:

325

Rank in 2010s:

3,142

Overall Rank:

14,549

Average Rating:

 75 (15 votes)

Comments:

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Second Life Syndrome 

 Riverside (PL)

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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]

Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

73 charts

Rank Score:

558

Rank in 2005:

57

Rank in 2000s:

468

Overall Rank:

2,775

Average Rating:

 80 (84 votes)

Comments:

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Images And Words 

 Dream Theater

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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]

Year of Release:

1992

Appears in:

302 charts

Rank Score:

2,210

Rank in 1992:

11

Rank in 1990s:

147

Overall Rank:

814

Average Rating:

 78 (462 votes)

Comments:

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The Mantle 

 Agalloch

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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]

Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

191 charts

Rank Score:

1,483

Rank in 2002:

20

Rank in 2000s:

188

Overall Rank:

1,196

Average Rating:

 78 (235 votes)

Comments:

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In Sides 

 Orbital

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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]

Year of Release:

1996

Appears in:

105 charts

Rank Score:

421

Rank in 1996:

71

Rank in 1990s:

604

Overall Rank:

3,478

Average Rating:

 78 (127 votes)

Comments:

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Ágætis Byrjun 

 Sigur Rós

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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]

Year of Release:

1999

Appears in:

1,364 charts

Rank Score:

17,236

Rank in 1999:

1

Rank in 1990s:

13

Overall Rank:

71

Average Rating:

 86 (1,671 votes)

Comments:

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Blackwater Park 

 Opeth

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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]

Year of Release:

2001

Appears in:

305 charts

Rank Score:

2,175

Rank in 2001:

13

Rank in 2000s:

131

Overall Rank:

824

Average Rating:

 79 (419 votes)

Comments:

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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	%
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	%
	42	42%
	31	31%
	8	8%
	4	4%
	3	3%
	3	3%
	2	2%
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes

Biggest climbers
Up 33 from 95th to 62nd Nevermind by Nirvana
Up 12 from 93rd to 81st El Patio by Triana
Up 12 from 59th to 47th Ten by Pearl Jam

Biggest fallers
Down 29 from 40th to 69th Spirited Away by 譲 久石 [Joe Hisaishi]
Down 26 from 51st to 77th Ghost Reveries by Opeth
Down 16 from 77th to 93rd Lost In The Dream by The War On Drugs

New entries
Closer by Joy Division
If You're Feeling Sinister by Belle And Sebastian
Grace by Jeff Buckley
F♯ A♯ ∞ (LP Version) by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Moon Safari by Air
Dummy by Portishead
Fleet Foxes by Fleet Foxes
Oceanic by Isis
Love, Fear And The Time Machine by Riverside (PL)
All Is Violent, All Is Bright by God Is An Astronaut
Scheherazade And Other Stories by Renaissance
Meliora by Ghost (SE)
The Doors by The Doors
xx by The xx
Boxer by The National
Spiderland by Slint
Screamadelica by Primal Scream
Dirt by Alice In Chains
Ones & Zeros: Volume 1 by 3RDegree
Buena Vista Social Club by Buena Vista Social Club
I Could Live In Hope by Low
Hosianna Mantra by Popol Vuh (DE)

Leavers
Ashes Against The Grain by Agalloch
2112 by Rush
Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory by Dream Theater
Orbital (1993) by Orbital
Awake by Dream Theater
Takk... by Sigur Rós
Pale Communion by Opeth
Oceanborn by Nightwish
Équinoxe by Jean Michel Jarre
Mezzanine by Massive Attack
High Violet by The National
Permanent Waves by Rush
Parachutes by Coldplay
The Serpent & The Sphere by Agalloch
Evanescence by Evanescence
Gran Turismo by The Cardigans
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips
Untrue by Burial
The Blue Notebooks by Max Richter
Origin Of Symmetry by Muse
The Joshua Tree by U2
Show No Mercy by Slayer

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From ExTeaSea 06/27/2019 16:02

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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90/100

From Graeme2 11/19/2018 19:21

Enjoyed looking through here. Good one. Plenty prog and metal and some classics. Also some recs, cheers.

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85/100

From Boltzmann 10/23/2018 21:54

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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90/100

From CharlieBarley 02/25/2018 22:36

Good chart, Nice blend of genres. Nice and honest. I like it.

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85/100

From desh79 02/25/2018 21:49

The Mantle in the top 10? Very nice.

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80/100

From SamNassiri98 02/25/2018 14:34

Interesting chart! Love seeing love for Pink Floyd! (maybe check out my charts?)

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From manurock 02/25/2018 14:30

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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From ForegroundNoise 02/25/2018 11:09

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

good with the pink floyd man

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From TheHolyKiwi 07/07/2017 23:16

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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