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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Truly one of a kind, I can't think of any kind of art similar to this, and I think it's quite beautiful. It's bittersweet, and sad, it takes you through a lot, and the end explores your inner fragility with such sadness it's fantastic. Rationally challenging, an emotional odyssey.
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This album collects the most important singles from new order, which is a guaranteed trip into eris and beyond the echoes in your mind, and if this don't rock your socks like snakes on the neon dancefloor then you should see a doctor as soon as possible. [First added to this chart: 05/03/2017]
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This album collects the most important singles from new order, which is a guaranteed trip into eris and beyond the echoes in your mind, and if this don't rock your socks like snakes on the neon dancefloor then you should see a doctor as soon as possible. [First added to this chart: 05/03/2017]
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1987
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I love this album and it loves me.
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1987
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Detaching from your spaceship and floating out of space with a broken tape that disintegrates its core with the time, as you see yourself slowly fading into the universe, becoming a part of the enormous black that envolves you and I. Alzheimer slowly hitting you with the age, becoming only a warm shadow of yourself, and gently losing the substance inside your mind, alll the smiles and kisses, and tears, and empties and fulls. The disintegration loops is probably one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard, if not the most pretty sound that has circulated around my ears during my lifetime, it's more about a tragedy, a greek melancholic tragedy which begins to distillate its liquid with time, revealing all the expenditure that eternity has over an apparent material infinite. The sadness of hearing this tape deteriorating is bigger than I would expect, it's not about a single 6 second loop, but more about a piece of art contain certain eccentric magic slowly dissapearing, like a memory, a whole bunch of memories saying goodbye to us, passing in the front of our eyes. For quite a long time, mainly this year (2017) I have often doubted myself in relation if I could still appreciate music by feeling, by the pure escapism and/or introspection atmosphere the album brought to my ears, and for weeks and months, I got worried about my inner state, my inner spectrum, could I still feel and touch all the palpable states of music? Could music not be delivering all the emotional rainbow and desert it should? what made me so stressed I could't look further than some quick gasp at notes? Listening to DlP 1.1 at the center of my room, with my eyes closed brought back some good memories of when I used to connect in such a personal way with music it made me want to cry of joy, I like to attribute this achievement mainly because the repetition of these brass loops, left me alone focusing on the slowly decaying state of the song, and whist alone, I found my mind in touch with myself, flirting and drowning in one spiritual state of bliss, and pure melancholia, a melancholia that hugs you with a warm blanket and puts you to sleep like an angel. I actually decided to roll the whole album for a long shot listen tonight and relistening to everything while dawn moved its last clouds and revealed my starry night breathing life and every single aspect that surrounded my own existence slowly hitting me from the inside of my own ears and transforming every little molecule of memory that exists inside of me into a poll of bittersweet tears, and as the live versions came down in the end, reminding us of all what happened when the album was meant to come out to breath in, it made share numerous tears with eyes closed, there is so much beautitude out there, And besides the 9/11 backstory which basinski has revealed to us, I wouldn't guess and even thought about it, it surely has certain melancholia of loss, the degradation of screaming from the inside to not be forgotten slowly being vanished for time, oh time, what have we become. but what remains is the sound of something human, something bright, charming and once had a human soul behind it, slowly fading into emptiness. Who would guess that I would've been writting about my profound sadness in a 6 second loop lasting for an entire hour incinerate itself? The universe is a giant pit of beauty. Good night Universe.
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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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% | |
| The Beatles | 2 | 2% | |
| The Caretaker | 2 | 2% | |
| The Microphones | 2 | 2% | |
| Mac DeMarco | 2 | 2% | |
| Kendrick Lamar | 2 | 2% | |
| Radiohead | 2 | 2% | |
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26 | 26% | |
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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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| Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You by Big Thief |
| Night Time, My Time by Sky Ferreira |
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| American Idiot by Green Day |
| Os Mutantes by Os Mutantes |
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| ! | 01/15/2025 16:23 | Exist-en-ciel | 143 | 98/100 |
| ! | 01/15/2024 12:25 | Untitled | 15 | 84/100 |
| ! | 07/27/2022 23:02 | Soencer | 47 | 100/100 |
| ! | 11/24/2021 00:27 |  DriftingOrpheus | 78 | 91/100 |
| ! | 11/23/2021 19:43 |  rockbluesfolkjaz | 74 | 87/100 |
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DommeDamian 10/02/2025 10:23 | #311164
DommeDamian 10/02/2025 10:23 | #311164
This chart lives in my heart.
I hope you also will listen to my new dream pop album:
DommeDamian - Highdrate
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From SUPERJEFF6 01/15/2024 20:58 | #301210
titanic rising #1 is based
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From DommeDamian 02/24/2023 21:45 | #294414
DommeDamian 02/24/2023 21:45 | #294414
Maybe I should give Titanic Rising a new spin.
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From rockbluesfolkjaz 11/23/2021 19:42 | #276605
rockbluesfolkjaz 11/23/2021 19:42 | #276605
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 | #275278
seb7 10/22/2021 23:16 | #275278
I just listened to Eureka. Mind-blowing
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From Johnnyo 12/24/2020 15:06 | #263153
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 | #259540
Just want to mention that the greatest list for me is done for now.
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Joeingram 09/14/2020 18:13 | #258227
Joeingram 09/14/2020 18:13 | #258227
One of the best charts! I love Eureka and Long Season very much.
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Keatownrodriguez 09/14/2020 14:52 | #258220
Keatownrodriguez 09/14/2020 14:52 | #258220
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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From BraddlesHendo 09/14/2020 12:57 | #258214
A+ 5 stars just for incredibly well written commentary on your fave albums. Lots of time to compile this
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