Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
by patip1 
- Chart updated: 01/09/2017 23:45
- (Created: 04/05/2014 21:02).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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I've been a Beatles fan since I was 8 and had all their albums since I was 15 - I'm not going to change my mind - they are for me the greatest and 'Abbey Road' is a peak that will endure. The Band goes out with a classic array of well-constructed songs delivered while at the apex of their playing powers.
[First added to this chart: 04/06/2014]
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1969
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53,842
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An exercise of symphonic-like proportions.
[First added to this chart: 04/06/2014]
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1975
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41,753
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Fragile and delicate. Maybe the truest form of tragic artistic statement unaffected by commercialism.
[First added to this chart: 04/06/2014]
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1972
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16,579
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Perhaps the last of the truly great ones of my era?
[First added to this chart: 04/06/2014]
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1995
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27,378
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Bewitching, child-like yet sensual.
[First added to this chart: 04/06/2014]
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1995
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6,340
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Get on board this train!
[First added to this chart: 04/18/2014]
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1976
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11,430
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A true artist and incomparable performer. This compilation includes three classic songs: 'Black is the colour'...'Wild is the Wind' & 'Strange Fruit'. What a voice!
[First added to this chart: 05/01/2015]
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2003
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3
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The Jamaican genius at his most searching.
[First added to this chart: 04/22/2014]
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1980
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1,295
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The name says it all - " Holland and Holland and Lamont Dozier too are here to make it all ok with you"
[First added to this chart: 09/16/2014]
I like Taylor and think she is talented beyond the gigantic machinery that propels her music to the masses.
[First added to this chart: 04/06/2014]
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2012
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1,227
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Total albums: 100. Page 1 of 10
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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 | 7 | 7% | |
| 1970s | 23 | 23% | |
| 1980s | 32 | 32% | |
| 1990s | 16 | 16% | |
| 2000s | 12 | 12% | |
| 2010s | 9 | 9% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| The Beatles | 5 | 5% | |
| Radiohead | 3 | 3% | |
| Prince | 2 | 2% | |
| Joy Division | 2 | 2% | |
| U2 | 2 | 2% | |
| Bob Dylan | 2 | 2% | |
| Pink Floyd | 2 | 2% | |
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| ! | 01/11/2023 00:41 | Moondance | 476 | 85/100 |
| ! | 08/10/2017 16:42 | iannicolson | 307 | 90/100 |
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BestEverAlbums 09/21/2015 08:00 in Chart of the day (#1434): By patip1
BestEverAlbums 09/21/2015 08:00 in Chart of the day (#1434): By patip1“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by patip1 () 1. Abbey Road by The Beatles (1969) 2. Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd (1975) 3. Uprising by Bob Marley And The Wailers (1980) 4. The Bends by Radiohead (1995) 5. Post by Björk (1995) 6. Gold by Nina Simone (2003) 7. Greatest Hits…”
View forum post →From BestEverAlbums 11/08/2014 09:00 in Chart of the day (#1117): By patip1
BestEverAlbums 11/08/2014 09:00 in Chart of the day (#1117): By patip1“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by patip1 () 1. Abbey Road by The Beatles (1969) 2. Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd (1975) 3. Uprising by Bob Marley And The Wailers (1980) 4. The Bends by Radiohead (1995) 5. Post by Björk (1995) 6. Nina Simone And Piano by Nina Simone (1969)…”
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mrmcrook 06/09/2023 00:27 | #297507
Good range of genres. Good whack of NZ bands represented.
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Moondance 01/11/2023 00:42 | #292710
Cool chart - loving the NZ/Aussie selections (of course)!
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bobbyb5 01/31/2017 21:24 | #184672
bobbyb5 01/31/2017 21:24 | #184672
A suggestion: maybe replace Supremes Greatest Hits with the far superior Anthology. Greatest Hits cuts off in 1966. It misses all their great 67 thru 70 hits. A LOT of them.
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Rhett 10/25/2016 15:00 | #177412
Very interesting and worth digging into. Some really great albums on this chart. Also a terrible Coldplay album on this chart.
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xdxrovied 03/13/2016 16:23 | #161850
taylor swift...................................
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