Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by 
AAL2014 
Thanks for checking out my chart! BEA is a godsend of a website for me and has been for close to a decade now. I’ve spent countless hours of my free time here organizing my thoughts and checking out music that’s new to me. Very much in the same way listening to albums is respite for me, ranking them and arranging my thoughts is just the same.
Here you'll find some of that taking shape. My Top 100 will always be a work in progress, as I imagine anyone's would. But here's a couple things you'll find with my chart in particular:
---- My favorite (or thereabouts) lyric from each non-instrumental album.
----Being a drummer for going on 15 years, here you'll find the drummer(s) who played on each of my top 100 records to give a some due credit or to shoutout a hero.
—— As of 7/9/22, I am no longer enforcing 1 entry per artist in the top 25. I want the albums I love the most to be represented the way that accurately depicts what they’ve meant in my life.
Hope you enjoy. Let me know of any thoughts or if you have any recommendations for me in the comments. I’d love to hear them!
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- Chart updated: 03/18/2024 05:15
- (Created: 03/18/2014 17:15).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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What can one say at this point about such an omnipresent, iconoclastic piece of work? Well, let me make the attempt.
Every good word uttered about The Dark Side of the Moon is earned. Immersive and expansive only begin to scratch the surface of what this record is and what it has to offer. As an album experience, it is unmatched in its completeness and its heady intensity. From the ominous tolling of Time to the batshit vocal performance that leaves me breathless on Great Gig in the Sky to the one-two outro punch of Brain Damage/Eclipse closing the album with a preposterous amount of grandiosity, there’s nothing quite like Dark Side of the Moon.
With headphones, Dark Side is like staring into the void for 40 minutes, coming out on the other side with something that resembles a lesson. And the lesson I continue to take from it is life, while cacophonous and just straight looney at times, is all we have and it’s precious.
Don’t discredit it just because of its popularity. 10/10 is not enough for this album.
Favorite Tracks: Time, The Great Gig in the Sky, Brain Damage/Eclipse
Drummer: Nick Mason [First added to this chart: 12/02/2014]
Every good word uttered about The Dark Side of the Moon is earned. Immersive and expansive only begin to scratch the surface of what this record is and what it has to offer. As an album experience, it is unmatched in its completeness and its heady intensity. From the ominous tolling of Time to the batshit vocal performance that leaves me breathless on Great Gig in the Sky to the one-two outro punch of Brain Damage/Eclipse closing the album with a preposterous amount of grandiosity, there’s nothing quite like Dark Side of the Moon.
With headphones, Dark Side is like staring into the void for 40 minutes, coming out on the other side with something that resembles a lesson. And the lesson I continue to take from it is life, while cacophonous and just straight looney at times, is all we have and it’s precious.
Don’t discredit it just because of its popularity. 10/10 is not enough for this album.
Favorite Tracks: Time, The Great Gig in the Sky, Brain Damage/Eclipse
Drummer: Nick Mason [First added to this chart: 12/02/2014]
Year of Release:
1973
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"Come on courage, let's be heard, turn feelings into words. American equality has always been sour, an attitude I would like to devour. My name is peace, this is my hour. Can I get just a little bit of power?"
If you have to ask why this album is so high up on my chart, you'll never know. This is one of those albums that has been like a friend to me over the years, thanks in large part to sharing it with so many friends of my own.
Is it too long? Yeah.. (all RHCP records are too damn long). Cut it down even just by 3 songs and we're talking a sock-off masterpiece. With that said, however, I still love just about everything this album has to offer.
BSSM has been important to me in so many different regards and has different moods to match moods of my own. Funky, powerful, and excitable one song, forlorn and heartfelt the next. One thing is for sure, it's a landmark in funk rock and in my listening. I'd say they made the funk gods proud with this one.
There is also not a note out of place from Chad Smith. An EXCELLENT drum album.
Favorite tracks: The Power of Equality, Suck My Kiss, Sir Psycho Sexy
Drummer: Chad Smith [First added to this chart: 12/04/2014]
If you have to ask why this album is so high up on my chart, you'll never know. This is one of those albums that has been like a friend to me over the years, thanks in large part to sharing it with so many friends of my own.
Is it too long? Yeah.. (all RHCP records are too damn long). Cut it down even just by 3 songs and we're talking a sock-off masterpiece. With that said, however, I still love just about everything this album has to offer.
BSSM has been important to me in so many different regards and has different moods to match moods of my own. Funky, powerful, and excitable one song, forlorn and heartfelt the next. One thing is for sure, it's a landmark in funk rock and in my listening. I'd say they made the funk gods proud with this one.
There is also not a note out of place from Chad Smith. An EXCELLENT drum album.
Favorite tracks: The Power of Equality, Suck My Kiss, Sir Psycho Sexy
Drummer: Chad Smith [First added to this chart: 12/04/2014]
Year of Release:
1991
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“The epic of Gilgamesh, a pretty little black A-line dress, I give to you. The spinal cord of JFK wrapped in Marilyn Monroe’s negligee, I give to you.”
I discovered Nick Cave during the COVID-19 lockdown of all possible times. Cave’s cathartic songwriting and haunted vocals spoke to me because well, they’re excellent, yes, but also because his music just fit the upside-down world we found ourselves in at the time with such eerie perfection.
I listened through his entire Bad Seeds discography in a short period of time and it all lead to this, a live album.. to no one. A performance captured to document, as the record’s liner notes describe, the “unprecedented times” we inhabited. And it’s so fitting as, again, that’s what Cave’s music feels like. A night terror/dreamwork of a play unfolding for your ears that finds its cast taking a perpetual bow to nobody in a chilly, cobwebbed theater.
Many of Nick’s best songs are part of this performance and even then I feel like a couple of them are the definitive versions. Namely, The Mercy Seat. Those unfamiliar may not have guessed that the original was the brutally awesome, frenetic, near-noise rock Tender Prey version. Here, Cave’s performance builds and builds and builds and the piano is the perfect instrumental conduit for the fears and fatalities packed into the song and its lyrics.
Elsewhere on the album, Into My Arms is phenomenal as expected, same with Are You The One I’ve Been Waiting For, The Ship Song, Galleon Ship, and one of the greatest sets of lyrics I’ve ever heard, Palaces of Montezuma.
Simply put, if you like.. well.. songs. You *must* listen to this record.
Favorite tracks: The Mercy Seat, Palaces of Montezuma, Into My Arms [First added to this chart: 11/07/2021]
I discovered Nick Cave during the COVID-19 lockdown of all possible times. Cave’s cathartic songwriting and haunted vocals spoke to me because well, they’re excellent, yes, but also because his music just fit the upside-down world we found ourselves in at the time with such eerie perfection.
I listened through his entire Bad Seeds discography in a short period of time and it all lead to this, a live album.. to no one. A performance captured to document, as the record’s liner notes describe, the “unprecedented times” we inhabited. And it’s so fitting as, again, that’s what Cave’s music feels like. A night terror/dreamwork of a play unfolding for your ears that finds its cast taking a perpetual bow to nobody in a chilly, cobwebbed theater.
Many of Nick’s best songs are part of this performance and even then I feel like a couple of them are the definitive versions. Namely, The Mercy Seat. Those unfamiliar may not have guessed that the original was the brutally awesome, frenetic, near-noise rock Tender Prey version. Here, Cave’s performance builds and builds and builds and the piano is the perfect instrumental conduit for the fears and fatalities packed into the song and its lyrics.
Elsewhere on the album, Into My Arms is phenomenal as expected, same with Are You The One I’ve Been Waiting For, The Ship Song, Galleon Ship, and one of the greatest sets of lyrics I’ve ever heard, Palaces of Montezuma.
Simply put, if you like.. well.. songs. You *must* listen to this record.
Favorite tracks: The Mercy Seat, Palaces of Montezuma, Into My Arms [First added to this chart: 11/07/2021]
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"The fawn-eyed girl with sun browned legs danced on the edge of his dreams. And her voice rings in his ears like the music of the spheres."
This was the album that made me fall in love with Rush, and it was the first full Rush album I had ever heard. That alone is reason enough for me to feel Signals could be 20 spots higher on the list, but I digress.
It’s not just Subdivisions for me, although that track is phenomenal. The Analog Kid, with one of Alex Lifeson’s greatest solos, and the Digital Man, a career highlight as far as Geddy Lee’s bass tracks go, strike me each listen with their thought provoking lyrics and chemistry-soaked instrumentation. The Weapon features some of Neil Peart's most well composed and challenging drumming on record. Losing It offers some of his most moving and engaging lyrics to date.
Signals is, in a way, the Rush fan’s Rush album. While it isn’t a concept record in the way of a Tommy or The Wall, there is the theme of a life cycle running through the course of the album. The analog kid grows up to be a digital man and is eventually confronted with the worst clause in our binding contracts with the human condition, old age. With age comes perspective, both of bitterness and understanding.
It’s also pretty poignant commentary on where the band acknowledged themselves to be at the time of this record. Technology was taking over music, slowly but surely theirs as well. Rush went from a blues rock band playing their high school dances to arena packing synth/laser/pyro spectacle now with keyboards, electronic drums, and MTV at their disposal.
I think this album is entirely underrated, on this site or otherwise.... So much so that at one point it took me nearly 3 years to realize it wasn't on my fucking chart...
Favorite Tracks: The Analog Kid, The Weapon, Losing It
Drummer: Neil Peart [First added to this chart: 11/15/2016]
This was the album that made me fall in love with Rush, and it was the first full Rush album I had ever heard. That alone is reason enough for me to feel Signals could be 20 spots higher on the list, but I digress.
It’s not just Subdivisions for me, although that track is phenomenal. The Analog Kid, with one of Alex Lifeson’s greatest solos, and the Digital Man, a career highlight as far as Geddy Lee’s bass tracks go, strike me each listen with their thought provoking lyrics and chemistry-soaked instrumentation. The Weapon features some of Neil Peart's most well composed and challenging drumming on record. Losing It offers some of his most moving and engaging lyrics to date.
Signals is, in a way, the Rush fan’s Rush album. While it isn’t a concept record in the way of a Tommy or The Wall, there is the theme of a life cycle running through the course of the album. The analog kid grows up to be a digital man and is eventually confronted with the worst clause in our binding contracts with the human condition, old age. With age comes perspective, both of bitterness and understanding.
It’s also pretty poignant commentary on where the band acknowledged themselves to be at the time of this record. Technology was taking over music, slowly but surely theirs as well. Rush went from a blues rock band playing their high school dances to arena packing synth/laser/pyro spectacle now with keyboards, electronic drums, and MTV at their disposal.
I think this album is entirely underrated, on this site or otherwise.... So much so that at one point it took me nearly 3 years to realize it wasn't on my fucking chart...
Favorite Tracks: The Analog Kid, The Weapon, Losing It
Drummer: Neil Peart [First added to this chart: 11/15/2016]
Year of Release:
1982
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“POW! Now it’s all over. [..] seeing pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars, and green clovers.”
36 Chambers was an album I loved from the very first moments of my very first listen. Bring Da Ruckus smashed into me like an audible freight train as I sat back wide-eyed and aghast at the attitude blaring out of Ghostface Killah’s excellent first verse of the album and into my earbuds. It was a music memory and first listen I will never forget. I found everything about 36 Chambers, from its overall structure to its dark as fuck atmosphere, to of course the sheer astounding number of crafty bars to be nothing short of iconic. Since then, those feelings have only been amplified.
The Wu-Tang debut is a 1/1 and a phenomenal one at that. There’s nothing I’ve come across that gives me quite what this one does.
Favorite Tracks: Bring Da Ruckus, 7th Chamber, Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthin’ To Fuck With [First added to this chart: 06/24/2020]
36 Chambers was an album I loved from the very first moments of my very first listen. Bring Da Ruckus smashed into me like an audible freight train as I sat back wide-eyed and aghast at the attitude blaring out of Ghostface Killah’s excellent first verse of the album and into my earbuds. It was a music memory and first listen I will never forget. I found everything about 36 Chambers, from its overall structure to its dark as fuck atmosphere, to of course the sheer astounding number of crafty bars to be nothing short of iconic. Since then, those feelings have only been amplified.
The Wu-Tang debut is a 1/1 and a phenomenal one at that. There’s nothing I’ve come across that gives me quite what this one does.
Favorite Tracks: Bring Da Ruckus, 7th Chamber, Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthin’ To Fuck With [First added to this chart: 06/24/2020]
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1993
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“If I told you that flower bloomed in a dark room would you trust it?”
I have but 2 faults with Good Kid, one of which isn't even its fault.
1.) The hook of 'Real' for me is unbearable. Like, enough in fact to mention it here. The album would be even better without it. It took a long time for me to appreciate Kendrick's ridiculous (in a good way) bars on this track because of the ridiculous (in a bad way) chorus.
2.) I listened to TPAB first which honestly spoiled this album even slightly for me. However.....
GKMC is going to go down in history. To me the lyrics are relatable and some of the best rap lyrics ever. I can not say I will ever fully relate to the message as I am not black, not from Compton, and not Kendrick Lamar, but for young men of and around my age when I first discovered this record (21) I think there is some incredibly poignant lyrical content there. The music behind it does not slouch either. That's my favorite aspect of Kendrick's music and what sets him apart from his contemporaries.
Favorite tracks: The Art of Peer Pressure, Good Kid, Sing About Me (I'm Dying of Thirst) [First added to this chart: 06/21/2016]
I have but 2 faults with Good Kid, one of which isn't even its fault.
1.) The hook of 'Real' for me is unbearable. Like, enough in fact to mention it here. The album would be even better without it. It took a long time for me to appreciate Kendrick's ridiculous (in a good way) bars on this track because of the ridiculous (in a bad way) chorus.
2.) I listened to TPAB first which honestly spoiled this album even slightly for me. However.....
GKMC is going to go down in history. To me the lyrics are relatable and some of the best rap lyrics ever. I can not say I will ever fully relate to the message as I am not black, not from Compton, and not Kendrick Lamar, but for young men of and around my age when I first discovered this record (21) I think there is some incredibly poignant lyrical content there. The music behind it does not slouch either. That's my favorite aspect of Kendrick's music and what sets him apart from his contemporaries.
Favorite tracks: The Art of Peer Pressure, Good Kid, Sing About Me (I'm Dying of Thirst) [First added to this chart: 06/21/2016]
Year of Release:
2012
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"I was amazed by the colors and shapes that you drew, a paper part for two. I am the only son of a bastard I know that knows the bastard too."
To be honest, it took me a while to let this band truly sink in. It isn't that I didn't find anything good about them as they had interesting songs that were well written, and they were good players. Their ideas of sonic layering and making sure every instrument served a melodic purpose were somewhat groundbreaking to me. I didn't like Andy Hull's voice at first, but as time went on, I saw it as gorgeous. Calling it Emotive would be a bland understatement. Andy has made his way comfortably to the couch of my favorite songwriters.. It's one of those long L shaped couches, can hold 15 or so people if you wanted..
This album holds special meaning that nearly every other record on this list won't. When my best friend and I met, this record (among a few other personal staples)was playing in her car almost non-stop. She and I, along with our other friends, listened to it all summer (2014), times, people, and memories I will never forget.
There were 3 or so Manchester records that became the soundtrack to nights I could hardly remember a thing but at the same time remember absolutely every single detail, but this is the crown jewel.
I think anyone can like an album like this. Thoughtful lyrics, words that sting with old-soul youthfulness.
This album's array of songs boasts hints of religion, friendships, mental health, and the maybe not so glorious granularity life consists of in one's early 20's. I’ve Got Friends is an all time ear-worm, I Can Feel a Hot One is an indescribably cathartic meditation, and The River is a gorgeous, spiritual awakening of a closer (the hidden Jimmy, He Whispers is chillingly good too). There are a couple of songs in the middle of the record that keep METN from cracking the top 25, but there are intangibles none of them will have on this one.
As of December 2019, you can add this to the records on this list I've seen live in their entirety. A great concert with a phenomenally good and ferociously hungry Foxing opening up, Andy and company brought this now decade old indie classic to life through the power of their surprisingly fucking heavy and heady live crunch, glimpses of Motorhead danced in my head. It was good to see an honest and wholesome celebration of a record that probably (and apparently) changed a lot of other people's lives too.
Favorite tracks: I Can Feel A Hot One, I've Got Friends, The River (with the hidden track)
Drummer: Jeremiah Edmond [First added to this chart: 10/03/2015]
To be honest, it took me a while to let this band truly sink in. It isn't that I didn't find anything good about them as they had interesting songs that were well written, and they were good players. Their ideas of sonic layering and making sure every instrument served a melodic purpose were somewhat groundbreaking to me. I didn't like Andy Hull's voice at first, but as time went on, I saw it as gorgeous. Calling it Emotive would be a bland understatement. Andy has made his way comfortably to the couch of my favorite songwriters.. It's one of those long L shaped couches, can hold 15 or so people if you wanted..
This album holds special meaning that nearly every other record on this list won't. When my best friend and I met, this record (among a few other personal staples)was playing in her car almost non-stop. She and I, along with our other friends, listened to it all summer (2014), times, people, and memories I will never forget.
There were 3 or so Manchester records that became the soundtrack to nights I could hardly remember a thing but at the same time remember absolutely every single detail, but this is the crown jewel.
I think anyone can like an album like this. Thoughtful lyrics, words that sting with old-soul youthfulness.
This album's array of songs boasts hints of religion, friendships, mental health, and the maybe not so glorious granularity life consists of in one's early 20's. I’ve Got Friends is an all time ear-worm, I Can Feel a Hot One is an indescribably cathartic meditation, and The River is a gorgeous, spiritual awakening of a closer (the hidden Jimmy, He Whispers is chillingly good too). There are a couple of songs in the middle of the record that keep METN from cracking the top 25, but there are intangibles none of them will have on this one.
As of December 2019, you can add this to the records on this list I've seen live in their entirety. A great concert with a phenomenally good and ferociously hungry Foxing opening up, Andy and company brought this now decade old indie classic to life through the power of their surprisingly fucking heavy and heady live crunch, glimpses of Motorhead danced in my head. It was good to see an honest and wholesome celebration of a record that probably (and apparently) changed a lot of other people's lives too.
Favorite tracks: I Can Feel A Hot One, I've Got Friends, The River (with the hidden track)
Drummer: Jeremiah Edmond [First added to this chart: 10/03/2015]
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“Sundown, dazzling day. Gold through my eyes. But my eyes turned within only see Starless and Bible Black.”
One of the heaviest prog rock albums of all time. King Crimson is such an anomaly to popular music. Actually more so that each album is an anomaly to the previous one. This album shows that. A wonderful lineup making incredible music that paved the way for so many other artists and genres to grow. There is a special type of darkness to this album.
The title track leads us off in a near uneasy fashion but it is one of my favorite songs ever. Starless, the closer, one of the band’s and the genre’s finest and most high reaching moments.
Favorite tracks: Red, One More Red Nightmare, Starless
Drummer: Bill Bruford. [First added to this chart: 06/16/2016]
One of the heaviest prog rock albums of all time. King Crimson is such an anomaly to popular music. Actually more so that each album is an anomaly to the previous one. This album shows that. A wonderful lineup making incredible music that paved the way for so many other artists and genres to grow. There is a special type of darkness to this album.
The title track leads us off in a near uneasy fashion but it is one of my favorite songs ever. Starless, the closer, one of the band’s and the genre’s finest and most high reaching moments.
Favorite tracks: Red, One More Red Nightmare, Starless
Drummer: Bill Bruford. [First added to this chart: 06/16/2016]
Year of Release:
1974
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"I feel the sense of possibilities. I feel the wrench of hard realities."
Chalk another one up for albums I've seen played live in it's entirety. And what a performance it was. First time seeing Rush and they play this record? Blame it on one of two things: plain ol' luck, or only being 16 at the time of them celebrating the album’s 30th anniversary.
For the album itself, I think most Rush fans can agree that it’s a masterpiece and along with Permanent Waves a phenomenal bridge from crazy prog and technical shit to the more synth oriented arrangements of the mid to late 80's.
Of course this is not just a great album, but a must have for any drummer. Some of the Professor's finest work on this one (who hasn't fucking air drummed to the Tom Sawyer solo?). As well as some of the group's finest writing and crafting. It's hard to beat the production on this one too as it is so sharp and gives all the sounds their own meticulous space. Moving Pictures is a MUST on headphones.
Favorite tracks: The Camera Eye, Limelight, YYZ
Drummer: Neil Peart [First added to this chart: 10/03/2015]
Chalk another one up for albums I've seen played live in it's entirety. And what a performance it was. First time seeing Rush and they play this record? Blame it on one of two things: plain ol' luck, or only being 16 at the time of them celebrating the album’s 30th anniversary.
For the album itself, I think most Rush fans can agree that it’s a masterpiece and along with Permanent Waves a phenomenal bridge from crazy prog and technical shit to the more synth oriented arrangements of the mid to late 80's.
Of course this is not just a great album, but a must have for any drummer. Some of the Professor's finest work on this one (who hasn't fucking air drummed to the Tom Sawyer solo?). As well as some of the group's finest writing and crafting. It's hard to beat the production on this one too as it is so sharp and gives all the sounds their own meticulous space. Moving Pictures is a MUST on headphones.
Favorite tracks: The Camera Eye, Limelight, YYZ
Drummer: Neil Peart [First added to this chart: 10/03/2015]
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1981
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"This is not a test. This is not a game to be lost or won, let justice be done."
Symbolic is legitimately one of the best records top to bottom of any kind, any era, any genre. This album flys by even as I study the meticulous mastery set out by Chuck and company on each second of these tracks. To me, this is the shimmering apex of what can be made when the accessible and the extreme come crashing together.
Favorite Tracks: Symbolic, Zero Tolerance, 1,000 Eyes
Drummer: The absolutely mighty Gene Hoglan [First added to this chart: 03/21/2018]
Symbolic is legitimately one of the best records top to bottom of any kind, any era, any genre. This album flys by even as I study the meticulous mastery set out by Chuck and company on each second of these tracks. To me, this is the shimmering apex of what can be made when the accessible and the extreme come crashing together.
Favorite Tracks: Symbolic, Zero Tolerance, 1,000 Eyes
Drummer: The absolutely mighty Gene Hoglan [First added to this chart: 03/21/2018]
Year of Release:
1995
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 1 | 1% | |
| 1960s | 10 | 10% | |
| 1970s | 34 | 34% | |
| 1980s | 13 | 13% | |
| 1990s | 21 | 21% | |
| 2000s | 13 | 13% | |
| 2010s | 6 | 6% | |
| 2020s | 2 | 2% |
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| Rush | 4 | 4% | |
| Tool | 3 | 3% | |
| Genesis | 3 | 3% | |
| Stevie Wonder | 3 | 3% | |
| David Bowie | 3 | 3% | |
| The Beatles | 3 | 3% | |
| Metallica | 3 | 3% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 7 from 97th to 90th Nevermind by Nirvana |
| Up 7 from 88th to 81st Electric Ladyland by The Jimi Hendrix Experience |
| Up 3 from 83rd to 80th Hounds Of Love by Kate Bush |
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| Down 5 from 86th to 91st White Pony by Deftones |
| Down 3 from 80th to 83rd Mingus Ah Um by Charles Mingus |
| Down 3 from 81st to 84th The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem |
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 To Be Kindby Swans |
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 Temple Of The Dogby Temple Of The Dog |
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 90/100  | 03/06/2024 20:43 | Moondance | | 84/100 |
| 90/100 | 05/02/2023 03:05 |  ffudnebbuh | | 91/100 |
| 100/100 | 03/04/2023 19:28 | bobnickmad | | 88/100 |
| 90/100 | 01/30/2023 16:43 |  Goliath | | 86/100 |
| 100/100 | 10/13/2022 20:00 | BLO | | 91/100 |
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This chart is rated in the top 2% of all charts on BestEverAlbums.com. This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 90.3/100, a mean average of 90.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 90.8/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 7.4.
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90/100
From ffudnebbuh 05/02/2023 03:05
ffudnebbuh 05/02/2023 03:05
nice variety
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95/100
From BraddlesHendo 05/01/2023 12:32
5 stars just for time and effort given to your chart. Some absolute beautiful albums in your Top 100.?
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100/100
From bobnickmad 03/04/2023 19:28
Great chart both on diversity and quality.
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90/100
From Johnnyo 10/13/2022 16:55
Great chart and really diggin the notes accompanying the albums. Trying to do more of this myself but failing miserably
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90/100
From Moondance 10/13/2022 09:12
Fascinating chart. Enjoyed the intro & album commentary ~ and appreciate the effort required to put the chart together. The chart is far too US-centric for my tastes - but I respect your choices, however they fall. Interestingly, you have Born To Run at #2 & I have it at #3; and the line you quote from the album is also my favourite line ~ so we have that and another 9 albums in common.
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100/100
From leniad 07/10/2022 01:29
i have to give your chart a 100, excellent albums you choose, steview wonder along with prince and bowie are for me top 3 solo artists ever, if you count jazz then is bowie, miles davis, stevie and prince
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100/100
From KineticEchoes02 07/06/2022 07:43
Hey man, I've come back to your chart - somehow on a first glance I gave it a 95, but it easily deserves a 100. This is the best chart I have read. Love your work - many similar tastes to mine, and the descriptions and stories within are awesome. From a bass player to a drummer - rock on dude!
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100/100
From leniad 03/01/2022 12:05
Love it!
Great taste and like your writing , keep going
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100/100
From 
Larcx13 11/22/2020 01:30
Larcx13 11/22/2020 01:30
You put a lot of effort on this chart and you have a lot of really good picks. Really good chart!
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From AAL2014 11/02/2020 13:10
AAL2014 11/02/2020 13:10
11/2/2020
The chart is yet again in transition mode (as always, but now moreso than in a while). Been taking in a lot of music new to me, a lot of music that I'm loving and resonating with. The chart will slowly but surely show that and the specific examples of what I'm talking about.
Just wanted to reach out to everybody who has given me high scores recently, it's always cool to see that every once in a while. However, there's more additions to include, more rearranging to be done, and much better descriptions. I've been feeling very motivated recently.
And look at that.. only 435 chart versions in....
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