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!
CHART OF THE DAY- 8/9/18, 5/10/21, 3/1/22, 10/13/22, 5/1/23
- Chart updated: 03/18/2024 05:15
- (Created: 03/18/2014 17:15).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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I don't remember the first time I listened to many of the albums I like, but I remember, IN VIVID DETAIL, putting my burned copy of Master of Puppets from a good friend in my CD player for the first time and being blown away by the lightning quick guitar, pounding drums, and huge and terrifying vocals. It scared me to death... and I couldn't stop listening to it. A Masterpiece. Pun intended this time.
This album changed my life. I would not have continued to be as passionate about playing drums without this record. Master of Puppets opened so many doors for me musically, and changed my perception of what "heavy" music was and what it could be. I finally realized heavy metal could be as beautiful, constructed, and genuine, if not more, than any other genre.
Is there a better album opener than Battery? The acoustic intro tricked me into thinking this was not what I was expecting and was an astounding intro to the blazingly fast and viscous guitar bass and drums that were to follow for the next 54 or so minutes. Lars Ulrich's drumming was as ferocious and pummeling as Hetfield's guitar and vocals were, fuck what you think.
This is Metallica at their otherworldly apex. This is heavy music at its pinnacle. This is the record I hold all other metal records up to in standard to this day some 10 (wow) years later.
Master of Puppets is a classic. Metallica were firing on cylinders, a lot of them, all of them and they were a band set on world domination and they fucking got it. For better or for worse. A genius album and such a deserving choice for our Top 100 albums on this beautiful site.
Favorite tracks: Battery, Master of Puppets, Disposable Heroes
Drummer: Lars Ulrich [First added to this chart: 03/21/2014]
The first 5 Metallica albums changed my life, but as a musician no album more so than this one. I was into playing challenging shit, and at the time this album was a mountain of a challenge for me, a lot of which still is as I revisit it on drums from time to time. This is Metallica's proggiest effort and I love that. Despite that fact, it does not lose much aggression even though there is literally no low end in the mix. For some reason though, that gives this record a lot of character.. sorry bass players.
But yeah, you could certainly say Lars has been a huge influence on me.
Favorite tracks: Blackened, One, Dyers Eve
Drummer: Lars Ulrich [First added to this chart: 10/03/2015]
Easily Metallica's second best record. Certainly a huge step up in songwriting, production, and performance from the debut but in my opinion not as complete as the crown jewel, Master of Puppets. My history with this album goes back to the same time as when I got Master. A friend burned me both albums (still have them) on a couple blank discs and my music world changed forever. Every note of this album is burned into my memory. Heavy and intense but very fucking beautiful.
Favorite tracks: Ride the Lightning, Creeping Death, For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Drummer: Lars Ulrich [First added to this chart: 10/03/2015]
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
Decade | Albums | % | |
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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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Country | Albums | % | |
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58 | 58% | ||
28 | 28% | ||
6 | 6% | ||
3 | 3% | ||
2 | 2% | ||
1 | 1% | ||
1 | 1% | ||
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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 Kind by Swans |
Leavers |
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Temple Of The Dog by Temple Of The Dog |
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nice variety
5 stars just for time and effort given to your chart. Some absolute beautiful albums in your Top 100.?
Great chart both on diversity and quality.
Great chart and really diggin the notes accompanying the albums. Trying to do more of this myself but failing miserably
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.
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
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!
Love it!
Great taste and like your writing , keep going
You put a lot of effort on this chart and you have a lot of really good picks. Really good chart!
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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