Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
by 
Decurso 
This is an entirely subjective list of my all time favourite albums.These are the albums I can listen to again and again and would want with me if I were stranded on a desert island.
- Chart updated: 04/28/2019 18:15
- (Created: 05/07/2014 11:25).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Year of Release:
2001
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Year of Release:
2005
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 3 | 3% | |
| 1960s | 30 | 30% | |
| 1970s | 32 | 32% | |
| 1980s | 13 | 13% | |
| 1990s | 9 | 9% | |
| 2000s | 7 | 7% | |
| 2010s | 6 | 6% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| The Beatles | 5 | 5% | |
| The Rolling Stones | 5 | 5% | |
| Metallica | 4 | 4% | |
| Led Zeppelin | 4 | 4% | |
| The Kinks | 4 | 4% | |
| Slayer | 3 | 3% | |
| The Doors | 3 | 3% | |
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49 | 49% | |
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33 | 33% | |
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6 | 6% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 1 from 98th to 99thWheels Of Fire by Cream |
| Down 1 from 99th to 100thThe Golden Age Of Grotesque by Marilyn Manson |
| New entries |
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| Welcome To The Suck by Ugly Girls |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
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| ! | 03/20/2025 14:45 |  SomethingSpecial | 1,104 | 85/100 |
| ! | 07/31/2020 18:09 | RioBravo | 201 | 84/100 |
| ! | 10/10/2019 19:12 | pctrooper | 332 | 88/100 |
| ! | 09/25/2019 12:56 | Fade2Black | 10 | 85/100 |
| ! | 07/01/2019 02:31 | mianfei | 168 | 62/100 |
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This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 84.5/100, a mean average of 83.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.3/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 8.3.
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From pctrooper 10/10/2019 19:12 | #243631
Very solid top 3.
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From mianfei 07/01/2019 02:45 | #238706
This is a very good chart even with almost nothing in common with my own. There is unexpected variety – what I always look for in charts – and some quite interesting selections.
A few albums on your list remind me a little of Joe S. Harrington’s Top 100 Albums from 2001 to 2003, although your chart and Harrington’s posses merely thirteen common artists and nine common albums (‘Are You Experienced’, ‘Never Mind the Bollocks’, ‘Ramones’, ‘The Velvet Underground and Nico’, ‘Ace of Spades’, ‘The Clash’, ‘Machine Head’, ‘Killer’ and ‘Get Your Wings’). This is because both your chart and Harrington’s – which revolutionised my personal thinking about music criticism even if not in the ways Harrington intended – have a focus upon 1970s hard rock and metal that is at least relatively rare here. Although not a fan of those genres, I do without any grudge admit their critical importance to the basics of modern Western culture.
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rockinsteve 12/25/2018 07:00 | #227844
rockinsteve 12/25/2018 07:00 | #227844
Very eclectic list, nicely done! I like that you included Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson. They're two of my favorite blues artists, Muddy is my FAVORITE musician all-time, in any genre.
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Dankel 03/10/2018 13:09 | #210544
Dankel 03/10/2018 13:09 | #210544
Great chart - one of the most interesting generalised top 100s I've seen, lots of albums I really relate to.
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NowhereMan 01/02/2018 18:39 | #204437
NowhereMan 01/02/2018 18:39 | #204437
Could not have agreed more about Physical Graffiti and Exile.
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From RandolphCarterJr 07/14/2017 04:35 | #194243
Great chart! I can appreciate your taste
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From vancevisuals 07/14/2017 00:37 | #194228
overall good chart
you're #3 is my #1
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grohly 09/21/2016 20:09 | #175534
grohly 09/21/2016 20:09 | #175534
Love what you have wrote about Exile. Totally agree.
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CharlieBarley 09/21/2016 18:58 | #175532
CharlieBarley 09/21/2016 18:58 | #175532
Good list man. Great to see so many by The Kinks and refreshing to see the Rocky Horror soundtrack. That's one that wouldn't have occurred to me straight away but I do have good memories of hearing it at a student party.
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From platus 09/21/2016 17:01 | #175522
Hmmm! Smells good.
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