Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by 
Antonio-Pedro 
"God gave us music so that we, first and foremost, will be guided upward by it. All qualities are united in music: it can lift us up, it can be capricious, it can cheer us up and delight us, nay, with its soft, melancholy tunes, it can even break the resistance of the toughest character. Its main purpose, however, is to lead our thoughts upward, so that it elevates us, even deeply moves us. ... Music also provides pleasant entertainment and saves everyone who is interested in it from boredom. All humans who despise it should be considered mindless, animal-like creatures. Ever be this most glorious gift of God my companion on my life's journey, and I can consider myself fortunate to have come to love it. Let us sing out in eternal praise to God who is offering us this beautiful enjoyment.
- Nietzsche in 1858
This chart needs some work to blossom away, still need to end some notes from my diary, men at work in progress.
Love you all, Antonio Momonio <3
- Chart updated: 08/28/2025 00:45
- (Created: 10/24/2013 19:00).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Once the Beatles married the 1967's pink floyd. But when they got married a ray of light coming from a kaleidoscope hit them, and transported them to the future, in the future they turned into hipsters and vomited music. That vomit shapeshifted to a huge monster with four heads. They all fought until death. Their fallen pieces on the ground magically rebuild themselves into an album... and that album is lonerism. "Lonerism" is a found and coveted gem by many, for its psychedelic sound of the 10s. If you injected some rainbow colored morphine into a pacient next to deathbed this would be the passage to heaven, or hell. Evrything is boring nowadays, there are problems with the world, sometimes personal problems, we are being replaced by machines, things do not sound human at all, we lost the art of making someone smile, I have the feeling that lonerism is the hysteria of the new century and the decadence of this hysteria. It's just another sunday, nothing is supposed to go new or innovative, hence the album cover, people laying in a park to get sunshine like it's a drug, comfortable with their security (they are behind safety grilles). What makes this record so special is their way to paint the present, even the days going all gray, the stress of working in capitalism, the pressure of youth. Man... it feels like space again! They decide to not follow the simple indie route and leaned through a psychedelic way, through a more joyful sound, trough a more nostalgic sound, the picture in the cover is the synthesis of the record, dealing with the borders of colors, the album is a fusion of pop and neo-psychdelia, that treats its instruments like real wands to make magic. It's like eating eating an egg full of LSD powers inside, You can still feel the sweetness inside, but you know that the best is not the yolk, but what you can do when you eat it. "Be Above It" is a big bang on the album, it is born far away, a voice keeps repeating until it takes shape in a human voice, the drums kick the heart from the song, it keeps pulling you to go ahead, a bang bang bang that then multiplies into a million dimensions, The synths are the cuts between one moment and another, you keep running behind it. The movement of music tampers with the more sensitive hair of your body. "Apocalypse Dreams" is my favorite song, I pour all the that psychedelic oil in my ears and all my ears' cells digest the song slowly. The song is all built over the bridge that has its destiny in the outro, a neverending two notes progression that would make even the old progressive-psychdelic musicians proud by now. Kevin Parker is really a genius, it amazes me how he could bring this out of his mind-chest of adventures, everything here feels painted and alive, he made the album that redefined the term Neo-Psychedelia, that now is more focused in synths and in harmonies (see... I hate these "John Lennon" comments over Parker but is almost impossible not to say he is heavily inspired by the beatles). "Feels Like we only go Backwards", The main single, is the high point of what I call, "Pop song complication syndrome", yeah it doesn't exists... But they just got, something simple and turned it into a heavy layered song, one more time dealing with these earlier themes, for once love appears, not as form of wishing ("mind Mischief"), but as something marketed and manufactured to be like that. Sometimes I think I'm going too far with this "New generation crisis" thing, it's just my vision people... don't blame me XD. Lonerism is the perfect point in Tame's pH table, not too heavy in synths as their new albums, and not many guitars as in "Innerspeaker", the perfect "7".
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Year of Release:
2012
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The soundtrack for a cat that wakes up before everyone in a sunday morning and decides to enjoy each second of that day being as lazy as possible. Shawcross was a pleasant recent discovery in the immense jangle pop cloud, Don't know if it is an EP or an album, it is too short (containing 18 minutes), but it feels way more longer and funnier than many records playing in this short space of time. Shawcross is pretty young in its essence, in a way that it could have been made in a garage yesterday by some kids that listened to the smiths for the first time in their entire life and decided to record their songs with the drummer's uncle guitar pedal, and this lack of more specialized production and creation tools, leaves the record with a softer and more intimate sensation. The guitar here is the leading feature of this mini-record, it produces, along with the following instrumentation and the lead singer that is probably higher than a mountain in some of the songs here shown, a really laid-back experience to the listener, a totally inoffensive music, that surely will not challenge the more requesting listeners, but can be listened anywhere and anytime, so the musical flexibility and replay-value here presented is one of the major factors for my enjoyment. It's the kind of music that whenever appears on youtube you can see people in the comments, "Wtf I'm so high right now, yo this is like the perfect mayonaise to my ears" (Every neo-psychedelia album ever).
Besides having many similarities with some Captured tracks' artists, that have become part of the nu-jangle pop hysteria, Good Morning can maintain certain distance from that heavily DeMarco-influenced sound that surrounds the mainstream spot of this genre, and the main reason for this is firstly, the inclusion of two guitars (That was better than I expected, just listen to how they dance in the beginning and in the end of "Once You Know") that are bound to divide your attention while in the two sides of your ears, and secondly, how the mixing provides the bass and the drum a special spot, what means that the record isn't a work of just one man's mind, there is a whole group of youngsters that got together and decided to play together in the pure meaning of the word. Besides all of what I've mentioned there is not much of what to tell here about Shawcross, it's a record full with youth energy and desires (those silly lyrics makes me smile and that's great), and it's pretty catchy, like a chewing gum stuck under the school desk, but even with the fast oriented songs, the summer and lazy atmosphere remains intact, what is to be admired for its management (or the lack of itself) being conducted by some guys that just want to have some fun, and doesn't care for the direction that the record takes, hell they just want to have some fun and play some songs, wasn't rock n' roll supposed to be about this?
Edit: as I finished writing about this record, Shawcross had already played 3 times haha. [First added to this chart: 12/24/2016]
Besides having many similarities with some Captured tracks' artists, that have become part of the nu-jangle pop hysteria, Good Morning can maintain certain distance from that heavily DeMarco-influenced sound that surrounds the mainstream spot of this genre, and the main reason for this is firstly, the inclusion of two guitars (That was better than I expected, just listen to how they dance in the beginning and in the end of "Once You Know") that are bound to divide your attention while in the two sides of your ears, and secondly, how the mixing provides the bass and the drum a special spot, what means that the record isn't a work of just one man's mind, there is a whole group of youngsters that got together and decided to play together in the pure meaning of the word. Besides all of what I've mentioned there is not much of what to tell here about Shawcross, it's a record full with youth energy and desires (those silly lyrics makes me smile and that's great), and it's pretty catchy, like a chewing gum stuck under the school desk, but even with the fast oriented songs, the summer and lazy atmosphere remains intact, what is to be admired for its management (or the lack of itself) being conducted by some guys that just want to have some fun, and doesn't care for the direction that the record takes, hell they just want to have some fun and play some songs, wasn't rock n' roll supposed to be about this?
Edit: as I finished writing about this record, Shawcross had already played 3 times haha. [First added to this chart: 12/24/2016]
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 4 | 4% | |
| 1970s | 14 | 14% | |
| 1980s | 7 | 7% | |
| 1990s | 15 | 15% | |
| 2000s | 22 | 22% | |
| 2010s | 36 | 36% | |
| 2020s | 2 | 2% |
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| Jim O'Rourke | 4 | 4% | |
| Mac DeMarco | 2 | 2% | |
| Kendrick Lamar | 2 | 2% | |
| Radiohead | 2 | 2% | |
| New Order | 2 | 2% | |
| Car Seat Headrest | 2 | 2% | |
| The Radio Dept. | 2 | 2% | |
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26 | 26% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 35 from 45th to 10th Music Has The Right To Children by Boards Of Canada |
| Up 32 from 46th to 14th Lonerism by Tame Impala |
| Up 22 from 37th to 15th Bloom by Beach House |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 11 from 10th to 21st Mount Eerie by The Microphones |
| Down 10 from 12th to 22nd Loveless by My Bloody Valentine |
| Down 10 from 13th to 23rd Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens |
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 Grey Areaby Little Simz |
| Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You by Big Thief |
| Night Time, My Time by Sky Ferreira |
| Leavers |
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 American Idiotby Green Day |
| Os Mutantes by Os Mutantes |
| Trans Europa Express by Kraftwerk |
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 100/100  | 01/15/2025 16:23 | Exist-en-ciel | | 99/100 |
| 95/100 | 01/15/2024 12:25 | Untitled | | 84/100 |
| 100/100 | 07/27/2022 23:02 | Soencer | | 100/100 |
| 90/100 | 11/24/2021 00:27 |  DriftingOrpheus | | 91/100 |
| 90/100 | 11/23/2021 19:43 |  rockbluesfolkjaz | | 87/100 |
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From SUPERJEFF6 01/15/2024 20:58
titanic rising #1 is based
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100/100
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DommeDamian 02/24/2023 21:45
DommeDamian 02/24/2023 21:45
Maybe I should give Titanic Rising a new spin.
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90/100
From rockbluesfolkjaz 11/23/2021 19:42
rockbluesfolkjaz 11/23/2021 19:42
Very nice. I like the added info under each choice as well. Explanations and information referring to the choice and the reason picked helps the reader a lot. I've done a few, buy not all. Very sad that that the number one album, "Eureka," can't be found in most places, or anywhere else to purchase or listen, except on youtube.
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seb7 10/22/2021 23:16
seb7 10/22/2021 23:16
I just listened to Eureka. Mind-blowing
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90/100
From Johnnyo 12/24/2020 15:06
Great chart and the effort that has gone into the accompanying notes really makes in come alive.
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From Luigii 10/21/2020 16:39
Just want to mention that the greatest list for me is done for now.
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100/100
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Joeingram 09/14/2020 18:13
Joeingram 09/14/2020 18:13
One of the best charts! I love Eureka and Long Season very much.
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100/100
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Keatownrodriguez 09/14/2020 14:52
Keatownrodriguez 09/14/2020 14:52
From the albums that I do know and your descriptions on the ones I don't this chart is sick! I'll be listening to a lot of new albums thanks to this chart
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100/100
From BraddlesHendo 09/14/2020 12:57
A+ 5 stars just for incredibly well written commentary on your fave albums. Lots of time to compile this
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100/100
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benpaco 01/22/2020 18:25
benpaco 01/22/2020 18:25
Finally time to mine this for recs
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