Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
by O.T.

Far better than my original rating. Not sure what I was thinking.

Very good chart. Would benefit from some albums from the nineties onwards but I get that you have listened but can’t find any that would get into the top 100. This is your chart, not anyone else’s and I respect that. Keep rockin’

From EyeKanFly 02/03/2024 13:07

Wonderful writeup! I tend to be disappointed by charts that don't have anything recent, but your choices and explanation are so personal that it's hard to find fault. As long as you're giving the new stuff a shot, hopefully something might click! Love love love Black Orpheus at #2.

Hey O.T. You are 100% right to not have any album in the last 30 years rate higher than your best albums of the previous 30 years. That shows honesty and I applaud that wholeheartedly. If I could correct my earlier comment I would - but I can't; it is locked in - so this is my correction.

From O.T. 12/18/2023 20:30

I am overwhelmed by the comments, the thought, word, suggestions.
A question which lasted in my thoughts was from RioBravo: Why I charted Lô Borges higher than "Clube de esquina" which truly has the incredible songs - maybe it is the tension, the absoluteness. I still wonder.
Johnnyno and Moondance mentioned why I did not add anything from the last 30 years, I tried to answer this in my introduction. I discover great records I missed to recognise in their time every now and then, but I did not sleep in the last 30 years, I wrote about music for several magazines and newspapers. I remember well thinking: "Do I have to lower my expectations" from 1992 onwards and at one time I realised, that it was over, you won't find a book from the last 30 years in my top 100 books, not a painting maybe even from the last 75 years in my favourite 100 paintings and I could understand anyone saying: "No painting after 1650!" - But yes, I would maybe add titles younger than 30 years to my comic list. The thing is: epochs of art begin and they begin out of reasons (changes in society, confrontations of different cultures, technical developments, new concepts of being) and they end at some point. Surprisingly digitalisation does not seem to have so much of an effect (I thought video games would turn into something more profound). So since decades nothing really new happened. People listen to retro music and accept it as the "now" today. If you are younger than 50 you don't remember a world before Techno, House, Hiphop. - Well at the time they occurred, many thirtysomethings, twens and kids were just expecting something unheard of just around the corner, as popular music had been feeding them with new sensations for so long (since the 50s at least).
The Renaissance ended though it was a process of ongoing sensations, "Sturm and Drang" ended and turned into classicism, intellectual movie directors rarely discuss formal cinematic aspects anymore and of course they don't believe that such discussions are needed to change the world. Well, they did - until the 70s. And a bit like Britpop the believe of importance returned as a passionate faux retro gesture with "Dogma" because the people in the 90s felt the upcoming cultural emptiness.
If you are 40 or younger you are untouched of all this, music sounds different in your ears, you have not been spoiled the unbelievable luck of having witnessed something. I was nearly too late, so the laugh is not on my side, I often got stuck in mind games of having been born 10, 20, 30 years earlier.
I was not able to catch most of the music I have in my list in time, I am too young. But I can stand the notion of not living in the most exciting times.
In 2022 I listened to two albums by Jockstrap and The Orielles, that were more exciting, alive, moving and touching than anything that reached my ear in the last 30 years. I still listen, because giving up hope would be too hard and sad and I still love to discover.

It’s an excellent chart as far as it goes but nothing from the last 30 years!!!! There are so many great albums that you are missing out on.

Check out some of the great charts on this site for the missing decades for some inspiration. I don’t think that you will be disappointed

Interesting chart that oozes individuality. Lots of albums that look worthy of a listen that I've missed along my own music journey. Find it hard to get my head around the idea that in this chart there are no albums in the last 30 years of modern music that are better than any of the albums listed, all from the first 30 years of modern music. Good to see a representation of music across the planet, including one from Australia!

love Carlos Jobim and Lo Borges, great to see so much brazil artists, you shoul listen to more spanish artists, here are some of my recomendations
Bocanada - gustavo cerati
el nervio del volcan - caifanes
artaud - pescado rabioso
clics modernos - charly garcia

Great taste!

So much stuff I don't know which seems worth checking out. Very pleasant list.
Can't imagine why you'd rate Lô Borges' solo album higher than Clube da Esquina, though. Sure, "O Caçador" and "Aos Barões" are amazing, but there's just so much more brilliant, magical stuff in Clube da Esquina (one of them being Milton Nascimento's voice).

Well, here is some good albums. Big happiness!