Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
by UnliveableWilts 
- Chart updated: 01/15/2026 05:45
- (Created: 01/12/2014 22:33).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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"I'd Show Them The Stars
And The Meaning Of Life
They'd Shut Me Away
But I'd Be Alright"
Favourite Songs: Paranoid Android | Subterranean Homesick Alien | Exit Music (For A Film) | Let Down | Climbing Up The Walls | No Surprises
Least Favourite Songs: [First added to this chart: 01/18/2014]
And The Meaning Of Life
They'd Shut Me Away
But I'd Be Alright"
Favourite Songs: Paranoid Android | Subterranean Homesick Alien | Exit Music (For A Film) | Let Down | Climbing Up The Walls | No Surprises
Least Favourite Songs: [First added to this chart: 01/18/2014]
Year of Release:
1997
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58,998
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"I Love You"
Favourite Songs: Roygbiv
Least Favourite Songs: [First added to this chart: 01/02/2015]
Favourite Songs: Roygbiv
Least Favourite Songs: [First added to this chart: 01/02/2015]
Year of Release:
1998
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4,878
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"I Will See You In The Next Life"
Favourite Songs: Kid A | The National Anthem | How To Disappear Completely | Idioteque | Motion Picture Soundtrack
Least Favourite Songs: [First added to this chart: 01/18/2014]
Favourite Songs: Kid A | The National Anthem | How To Disappear Completely | Idioteque | Motion Picture Soundtrack
Least Favourite Songs: [First added to this chart: 01/18/2014]
Year of Release:
2000
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38,481
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"So Look See The Sights, The Endless Summer Nights"
Favourite Songs: Pink Moon | Place To Be | Road | Which Will | From The Morning
Least Favourite Songs: [First added to this chart: 01/20/2014]
Favourite Songs: Pink Moon | Place To Be | Road | Which Will | From The Morning
Least Favourite Songs: [First added to this chart: 01/20/2014]
Year of Release:
1972
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16,526
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"All You Touch And All You See Is All Your Life Will Ever Be"
Favourite Songs: Time | The Great Gig in the Sky
Least Favourite Songs: [First added to this chart: 01/18/2014]
Favourite Songs: Time | The Great Gig in the Sky
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Year of Release:
1973
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55,612
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"The Walls On Which The Prophets Wrote Are Cracking At The Seems"
Favourite Songs: 21st Century Schizoid Man (Including Mirrors) | I Talk to the Wind | Epitaph (Including March For No Reason and Tomorrow and Tomorrow)
Least Favourite Songs: [First added to this chart: 01/27/2014]
Favourite Songs: 21st Century Schizoid Man (Including Mirrors) | I Talk to the Wind | Epitaph (Including March For No Reason and Tomorrow and Tomorrow)
Least Favourite Songs: [First added to this chart: 01/27/2014]
Year of Release:
1969
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26,254
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"Tjú"
Favourite Songs: Svefn-g-englar | Starálfur | Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása | Olsen Olsen | Ágætis byrjun
Least Favourite Songs: [First added to this chart: 01/18/2014]
Favourite Songs: Svefn-g-englar | Starálfur | Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása | Olsen Olsen | Ágætis byrjun
Least Favourite Songs: [First added to this chart: 01/18/2014]
Year of Release:
1999
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13,985
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"Our Stepmom We Did Everything To Hate Her"
Favourite Songs: Concerning The UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois | John Wayne Gacy, Jr. | Casimir Pulaski Day
Least Favourite Songs: The Seer's Tower [First added to this chart: 01/18/2014]
Favourite Songs: Concerning The UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois | John Wayne Gacy, Jr. | Casimir Pulaski Day
Least Favourite Songs: The Seer's Tower [First added to this chart: 01/18/2014]
Year of Release:
2005
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19,058
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"Last Wish: I Wish I Had Two More Wishes
And I Wish They Fixed The Door To The Matrix There's Mad Glitches
Spit So Many Verses Sometimes My Jaw Twitches
One Thing This Party Could Use Is More Umm Hm... Booze"
Favourite Songs: Accordion | Meat Grinder | Curls | Fancy Clown (feat. Viktor Vaughn) | Great Day | Rhinestone Cowboy
Least Favourite Songs: [First added to this chart: 06/01/2014]
And I Wish They Fixed The Door To The Matrix There's Mad Glitches
Spit So Many Verses Sometimes My Jaw Twitches
One Thing This Party Could Use Is More Umm Hm... Booze"
Favourite Songs: Accordion | Meat Grinder | Curls | Fancy Clown (feat. Viktor Vaughn) | Great Day | Rhinestone Cowboy
Least Favourite Songs: [First added to this chart: 06/01/2014]
Year of Release:
2004
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13,021
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"All Of Which Are American Dreams"
Favourite Songs: Killing In The Name | Bullet In The Head | Know Your Enemy
Least Favourite Songs: [First added to this chart: 01/18/2014]
Favourite Songs: Killing In The Name | Bullet In The Head | Know Your Enemy
Least Favourite Songs: [First added to this chart: 01/18/2014]
Year of Release:
1992
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11,163
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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 | 8 | 8% | |
| 1970s | 17 | 17% | |
| 1980s | 4 | 4% | |
| 1990s | 30 | 30% | |
| 2000s | 26 | 26% | |
| 2010s | 14 | 14% | |
| 2020s | 1 | 1% |
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| Radiohead | 5 | 5% | |
| Pink Floyd | 4 | 4% | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins | 2 | 2% | |
| Joanna Newsom | 2 | 2% | |
| The Smiths | 2 | 2% | |
| The Beatles | 2 | 2% | |
| Sufjan Stevens | 2 | 2% | |
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51 | 51% | |
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32 | 32% | |
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6 | 6% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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1 | 1% | |
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BestEverAlbums 09/20/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5441): By UnliveableWilts
BestEverAlbums 09/20/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5441): By UnliveableWilts“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by UnliveableWilts () 1. by by (1998) 3. by by (1972) 5. by (1973) 6. by (1969) 7. by (1999) 8. (2005) 9. by (1992) 11. by (2010) 12. (1996) 13. by (1993) 14. by (1966) 15. by (1996) 16. by (1977) 18. by (1984) 19. by (2011) 20. (1970) 23. by…”
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craola 06/17/2014 18:40 | #114629
craola 06/17/2014 18:40 | #114629
Your top ten is better than mine. I'm a little jealous of that. You've got great taste, UW.
Special props for throwing Tycho in there. If you haven't checked it out, he's also a phenomenal visual artist.
Looks like I've got a couple albums I still need to listen to as well, so I'm going to get on that now. I hope the weather in your whereabouts is better than it is here.
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Martinborras 11/24/2014 21:25 | #127902
Martinborras 11/24/2014 21:25 | #127902
Great update! This is really an incredible chart, an amazing top ten, an excellent variety of music, sometimes showing some folk, sometimes some progressive rock, really good. Also it is full of classics but original at the same time, with some modern albums too. Great position for Meddle, an underrated album in here for me. Just Great!
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manurock 10/27/2014 18:17 | #125545
When I saw Kid A top the "chart of the day" I came willing to slash you on my rating and maybe on my comment but your chart seems to be consistent with your music taste and love for Radiohead: Muse, Pink Floyd, Arcade Fire and some other albums from the alt. rock genre, plus you have In the Court... very high ranked, so I respect it.
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GandalfORiley345 06/18/2014 02:32 | #114653
GandalfORiley345 06/18/2014 02:32 | #114653
I don´t ignore Kid A because is an instrumental, but in my case, I prefer to listen the incredibly things that lyrics can say, and there are many instrumentals that I prefer than some songs, It´s just that, for me, is the wickest
PD: I like your choices, RATM, Dark Side and Smiths are incredibly albums by excellence, great chart
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HoldenM TOP 100 COMMENTER 04/21/2014 10:14 | #109652
HoldenM TOP 100 COMMENTER 04/21/2014 10:14 | #109652
This is going to be an awesome chart, once you have more functionality.
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