Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
by luigybetis

Top songs:
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pt. I-IX
Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Red House Painters - Have You Forgotten
Ween - The Argus
Oasis - Slide Away
Radiohead - Weird Fishes
Supertramp - Even In The Quietest Moments
Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
The Beatles - Mother Nature's Son
Sun Kil Moon - Last Tide
Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling into Place
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
Belle & Sebastian - Like Dylan in the Movies
Green Day - Basket Case
Elliott Smith - Angeles
Neil Young - My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)
Catfish & The Bottlemen - Tyrants
Porcupine Tree - Trains
Steven Wilson - Drive Home
Nine Inch Nails - Hurt
Death Cab For Cutie - A Lack Of Color
Greta Van Fleet - Black Smoke Rising
MGMT - Siberian Breaks
Smashing Pumpkins - Bleed
Genesis - Cinema Show
Chinese Football - No. 10 Jersey (Not For Anybody)
Chinese Football - Blind Men and An Elephant

You cannot put every single album you like in a 100 entry chart, but at least I'll list my favorite artists here:

- The Beatles
- Oasis
- Green Day
- Radiohead
- Pink Floyd
- Led Zeppelin
- Rush
- Ween
- Elliott Smith
- Neil Young
- David Bowie
- Sufjan Stevens
- Supertramp
- Mark Kozelek
- Genesis

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[First added to this chart: 02/22/2016]
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1982
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1981
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1980
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3,048
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[First added to this chart: 03/20/2016]
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1980
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition

Decade Albums %


1930s 0 0%
1940s 0 0%
1950s 0 0%
1960s 6 6%
1970s 23 23%
1980s 4 4%
1990s 24 24%
2000s 27 27%
2010s 13 13%
2020s 3 3%
Artist Albums %


Pink Floyd 5 5%
Rush 4 4%
Ween 4 4%
The Beatles 3 3%
Elliott Smith 3 3%
Radiohead 3 3%
Supertramp 3 3%
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Country Albums %


United Kingdom 45 45%
United States 38 38%
Canada 8 8%
Australia 2 2%
China 1 1%
Sweden 1 1%
France 1 1%
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Compilation? Albums %
No 98 98%
Yes 2 2%
Live? Albums %
No 98 98%
Yes 2 2%

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From 08/31/2021 22:37
Back in 2021 I rated this chart as 80/100 and included the following comment: Any chart that includes Gang Of Youth's 'Go Farther Into Darkness' gets my vote.
I have revisited the chart today (4 Jan 2023) and enjoyed the comments to your top 21 choices and look forward to comments on the rest - although I do understand how time consuming & demanding such a task can be - I am still doing mine. This chart is much more interesting & considered & unique (& positively challenging to some of my biases) than I first thought ~ so I have upped my rating to 90/100.
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From 09/12/2019 18:30
The 1975 in a chart of the day, the world really is becoming a better place
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From 03/22/2019 07:22
I'd never put Sufjan above Elliot but I respect it. Pink Floyd is amazing, you might really like Joni Mitchell.
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From 01/02/2019 02:02
We both have the same number one, Animals is perfection. Love that you have Ween in your top 10, I really should include them again on my chart, just never sure which album. As far as strange bands like Ween I also love Butthole Surfers, Primus and of course one of the original weirdos Mr Frank Zappa himself. You should give them a whirl if you haven't yet. Oh and I love your appreciation of prog. Yes is great, Genesis, Camel, Porcupine Tree and of course Floyd etc.. great list! Oh and all three of those Supertramp albums are wonderful!
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From 09/25/2018 02:34
Pink Floyd And Green Day in the top 10? Now that's something you don't see everyday.
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From 09/24/2018 22:08
Pretty one-sided taste you got
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From 09/24/2018 16:59
Good chart
LOVE your #1
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From 07/20/2018 18:55
Incredible chart! I was just getting into Ween when I checked out this chart 3 years ago, and since then I've fallen in love with Quebec. You have a bunch of cult favourites on this chart, which makes me wonder... have you ever heard Spilt Milk by Jellyfish? It's another one of those lost classics that should be unanimously praised but isn't. Highly recommended!
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From 04/20/2018 14:58
Aunque no coincida en todo me encanta tu chart, no solo porque te guste el prog rock, sino porque por ejemplo tienes a Crisis what crisis? muy arriba y no te refugias en los clásicos; te encantan artistas y bandas actuales como Coldplay o Porcupine Tree.
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From 04/17/2018 23:53
Great thing. Even the bands I don't like that much like Oasis have credible best album pick here (Definitely Maybe>everything Oasis). Also Animals as the best Pink Floyd (I think it's the best too, relatively, they're all great). Then you have Supertramp, the best song on Crimson's first is I Talk To The Wind (so correct!), then Iron Maiden, Alice In Chains, Pixies and some folk thrown in... Agree with you on almost every pick.
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Best Artists of 2002
1. Wilco
2. Interpol
3. Coldplay
4. The Flaming Lips
5. Queens Of The Stone Age
6. Broken Social Scene
7. Beck
8. Sigur Rós
9. Red Hot Chili Peppers
10. Boards Of Canada
11. Porcupine Tree
12. The Libertines
13. Eminem
14. Johnny Cash
15. The Streets
16. Damien Rice
17. Audioslave
18. Bruce Springsteen
19. The Mountain Goats
20. Tom Waits
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