Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by 
Mdemauri 
These 100 albums are the ones I could listen to over and over again. I could add about 500 or so more to this list. My goal was one album per artist and I was also trying to represent each decade as equally as possible. I'm not quite there, but getting close.
- Chart updated: 06/26/2014 18:15
- (Created: 02/18/2014 02:59).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 2 | 2% | |
| 1960s | 9 | 9% | |
| 1970s | 32 | 32% | |
| 1980s | 17 | 17% | |
| 1990s | 23 | 23% | |
| 2000s | 16 | 16% | |
| 2010s | 1 | 1% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Marillion | 1 | 1% | |
| Beck | 1 | 1% | |
| The Flaming Lips | 1 | 1% | |
| Pink Floyd | 1 | 1% | |
| The White Stripes | 1 | 1% | |
| Wire | 1 | 1% | |
| David Bowie | 1 | 1% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 6 from 73rd to 67th Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division |
| Up 3 from 52nd to 49th In The Court Of The Crimson King (An Observation By King Crimson) by King Crimson |
| Up 3 from 8th to 5th The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 49 from 39th to 88th A Night At The Opera by Queen |
| Down 5 from 24th to 29th Appetite For Destruction by Guns N' Roses |
| Down 4 from 46th to 50th Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective |
| Leavers |
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 Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heavenby Godspeed You! Black Emperor |
| Selling England By The Pound by Genesis |
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90/100  | 12/03/2020 10:59 |  Goliath | | 86/100 |
100/100 | 11/18/2020 22:34 | Szyfman | | 85/100 |
95/100 | 01/25/2017 00:10 | Seab | | 93/100 |
90/100 | 08/11/2016 09:39 | TheSmiths82-87 | | 83/100 |
95/100 | 04/22/2015 01:59 |  makerofbuckets | | 87/100 |
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Come back and update this chart please! It rules :)
good chart
Nice list! Very well rounded
awesomness425 04/21/2015 17:18
The album was very clean and had a lot of critically acclaimed albums so i knew 95% of the albums here
Keep Rocking!
I was going to give you a bad rating because your top 20 is just a collection of well-known albums with little relationship between them but you do have some surprising artists and bands I like like PT or TJ so I guess your goal is to reorder the chart a little and include some comments, apart from that it's a good chart.
Congratulations! Beautiful chart and well balanced.
Oselju 04/21/2015 10:00
Classical but solid !
HoldenM 04/21/2015 08:41
Well, SOMEONE likes their classics.
Neat chart
i take back my first comment because first i only saw your top 20 which was only like top 200 albums on the overall chart but then i saw you added more unknown albums later on the chart which is great, so i guess i would rate your top 20 20/100 but the rest a 80/100 so im setteling on a 70/100
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| Best Artists of the 1960s | |
|---|---|
| 1. The Beatles | |
| 2. The Velvet Underground | |
| 3. Jimi Hendrix | |
| 4. Bob Dylan | |
| 5. The Beach Boys | |
| 6. The Jimi Hendrix Experience | |
| 7. The Velvet Underground & Nico | |
| 8. Led Zeppelin | |
| 9. The Doors | |
| 10. The Rolling Stones | |
| 11. John Coltrane | |
| 12. King Crimson | |
| 13. Frank Zappa | |
| 14. The Kinks | |
| 15. Love | |
| 16. Van Morrison | |
| 17. Neil Young | |
| 18. Charles Mingus | |
| 19. Miles Davis | |
| 20. The Zombies |