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: 02/22/2023 15:15
- (Created: 10/24/2013 19:00).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Every single time when I come back to my chart and look for my top 10 I ask to myself, what does this all mean? Are these the most important albums to me? were they who shaped my youth? Do they make my life any better? And for each time I had no answer. Sincerely Lesser Matters seems like the album that means so much for what I am now that is the answer to all these questions. It's not about what is the Greatest album of all time, but what album can make me feel great any time, which album spills sunshine on my soul, which album is there for the best and worse moments.
Life of a book writter is hard, you have to throw out a lot of unused stuff and stories that could have been created, so many adventures disappeared, so many characters that are never going to have life, but then there is lesser matters, it is a world created by these forgotten stories, by this lonely writer, in each piece of land in this weird planet there are his feelings, memories, and little beautiful thing in life we just ignore, a place where nothing is rushed, everything take your time to fit itself in the equation. Lesser Matters, is one of those albums that for me it takes the right time to listen and get it, like I was doing nothing, feeling that my life was going like a boring wave, and that I was jut being taken with it, days were just days, nights were only nights, monotony was dictating my boring life, until I find this, this is the sugar I need, the taste of music, something funny, cute, happy and sweet ^_^ . Whenever I listen to music I try to relate at things at life, or sometimes just fantasy, to build one, As many researches have already pointed the human smell can remember more than images, so sometimes I feel like Lesser matters feels like a candy perfume that you use just to feel new, and re-live those old times even through they are just in your mind, but It feels more like a super 8 movie, with your friends, and as "Too soon" goes slowly covering you with a warm blanket the songs all evolve into series of movies, in the most remotes places as possible, and as "Lost and found" fades away this movie achieve its ends, although there is a great satisfaction to remember all of it and to feel cuddled by the happiness in your heart, It's sad to see you grew up, those good times will probably never get back. I try not to think in loveless when I hear other called shoegaze albums, and they all have failed even with other mbv albums, but this was the one who broke this curse, I didn't even think I was listening to shoegaze, it was so dreamy, the melodies were amazing my ears that I couldn't even hear the corrupting noise,making my ears dilate like eyes of a baby when it meets the sun for the first time, songs like "Why Won't you talk about it" can bring some straight in front noise that is kinda blinding, but it's incredible how they can insert that floating charming keyboard in it, it is sweetly heavy, Like skating on a thin ice river next to your house, that winter, those moments. If in any day of the world it could have a rain of snowflakes that could melt in my jacket and I was in my grandma's house over that green hill, and I could dance, this would be what I would dance to, specially "Strange Things Will Happen" which is our tip toes in the white snow, making those snowballs, and those angels shapes, all day, and there is a star in their eyes in a way that they feel complete, and that was what I was needing when I listened to lesser matters, i think this what makes me love it so much, it kinda completes me in some few ways. I was in the backseat of the car while listening to this, it was raining, and then this played, you know when the memories of the sentimental side of the mind hit you without you feeling but just accepting, a goddamn nostalgia, not to be growing up, but not to do what you could have done, so many things, and while this play, my age, my thoughts, what is and what is not conscientious are the thing that lesser matters to me, there is a new wave taking me away, even that for some few minutes [First added to this chart: 05/03/2015]
Life of a book writter is hard, you have to throw out a lot of unused stuff and stories that could have been created, so many adventures disappeared, so many characters that are never going to have life, but then there is lesser matters, it is a world created by these forgotten stories, by this lonely writer, in each piece of land in this weird planet there are his feelings, memories, and little beautiful thing in life we just ignore, a place where nothing is rushed, everything take your time to fit itself in the equation. Lesser Matters, is one of those albums that for me it takes the right time to listen and get it, like I was doing nothing, feeling that my life was going like a boring wave, and that I was jut being taken with it, days were just days, nights were only nights, monotony was dictating my boring life, until I find this, this is the sugar I need, the taste of music, something funny, cute, happy and sweet ^_^ . Whenever I listen to music I try to relate at things at life, or sometimes just fantasy, to build one, As many researches have already pointed the human smell can remember more than images, so sometimes I feel like Lesser matters feels like a candy perfume that you use just to feel new, and re-live those old times even through they are just in your mind, but It feels more like a super 8 movie, with your friends, and as "Too soon" goes slowly covering you with a warm blanket the songs all evolve into series of movies, in the most remotes places as possible, and as "Lost and found" fades away this movie achieve its ends, although there is a great satisfaction to remember all of it and to feel cuddled by the happiness in your heart, It's sad to see you grew up, those good times will probably never get back. I try not to think in loveless when I hear other called shoegaze albums, and they all have failed even with other mbv albums, but this was the one who broke this curse, I didn't even think I was listening to shoegaze, it was so dreamy, the melodies were amazing my ears that I couldn't even hear the corrupting noise,making my ears dilate like eyes of a baby when it meets the sun for the first time, songs like "Why Won't you talk about it" can bring some straight in front noise that is kinda blinding, but it's incredible how they can insert that floating charming keyboard in it, it is sweetly heavy, Like skating on a thin ice river next to your house, that winter, those moments. If in any day of the world it could have a rain of snowflakes that could melt in my jacket and I was in my grandma's house over that green hill, and I could dance, this would be what I would dance to, specially "Strange Things Will Happen" which is our tip toes in the white snow, making those snowballs, and those angels shapes, all day, and there is a star in their eyes in a way that they feel complete, and that was what I was needing when I listened to lesser matters, i think this what makes me love it so much, it kinda completes me in some few ways. I was in the backseat of the car while listening to this, it was raining, and then this played, you know when the memories of the sentimental side of the mind hit you without you feeling but just accepting, a goddamn nostalgia, not to be growing up, but not to do what you could have done, so many things, and while this play, my age, my thoughts, what is and what is not conscientious are the thing that lesser matters to me, there is a new wave taking me away, even that for some few minutes [First added to this chart: 05/03/2015]
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Ooooh This is what I like, do you remember those cloudy afternoons in which you spent with your best friends in that old park laying under a tree telling stories about how we all ended up there, and fullfiling all the future nostalgia that there is to come? Or how we used to kill some classes or even tests just to get some ice cream with that lovely girl, that was once your lover, but once you saw there is no other partner in the world better than her? Pulling our weight is probably one of the most innocent and juvenile records out there, it transpires teen spirit in all songs, this is like a little mixtape of a noisier version of galaxie 500 but with keyboards! It's undoubtedly small, even for the long time lovers as yours truly this albums still leaves you wanting more, but thank god they could bring in lesser matters just some months later to emaciate us. All the songs follow a simple pattern but johanson's twee-pop like vocal melody flourishes all the songs that get slowly covered with the noise avalanche, from the famous self-titled song until the monumental city limits, the radio dept unleashes a certain intensity of spring energy which affects all the songs with a mellow aesthetic, composing both a nostalgic outcome but also an emotional response to the fictional (or real, who knows?). That ridiculous hair which you let grow long, that time which you tried to write some poetry because you knew that long haired girl loved Fernando Pessoa, that afternoon which you spent doing nothing at all and it then became very important to yourself, all of this and other memorable youth happenings are dissolved into 5 little songs, don't let anyone stole what once was yours.
[First added to this chart: 05/11/2017]
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 5 | 5% | |
| 1970s | 15 | 15% | |
| 1980s | 7 | 7% | |
| 1990s | 15 | 15% | |
| 2000s | 23 | 23% | |
| 2010s | 34 | 34% | |
| 2020s | 1 | 1% |
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| Jim O'Rourke | 4 | 4% | |
| Pink Floyd | 2 | 2% | |
| Car Seat Headrest | 2 | 2% | |
| Beach House | 2 | 2% | |
| The Beatles | 2 | 2% | |
| Sonic Youth | 2 | 2% | |
| Mac DeMarco | 2 | 2% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 29 from 34th to 5th Figure 8 by Elliott Smith |
| Up 2 from 3rd to 1st Titanic Rising by Weyes Blood |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 1 from 1st to 2nd Eureka by Jim O'Rourke |
| Down 1 from 2nd to 3rd Souvlaki by Slowdive |
| Down 1 from 5th to 6th Loud City Song by Julia Holter |
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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 |
| 100/100 | 11/23/2021 12:29 |  Cytoma | | 90/100 |
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From SUPERJEFF6 01/15/2024 20:58
titanic rising #1 is based
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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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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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| 2. Prince | |
| 3. Pixies | |
| 4. The Cure | |
| 5. Talking Heads | |
| 6. U2 | |
| 7. Metallica | |
| 8. Kate Bush | |
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| 11. Sonic Youth | |
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