Top 40 Greatest Music Albums by 
Laurence 
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- Chart updated: 11/06/2023 18:45
- (Created: 05/23/2014 14:39).
- Chart size: 40 albums.
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Top 40 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 1 | 3% | |
| 1960s | 9 | 23% | |
| 1970s | 9 | 23% | |
| 1980s | 1 | 3% | |
| 1990s | 8 | 20% | |
| 2000s | 7 | 18% | |
| 2010s | 5 | 13% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Sonny Sharrock | 1 | 3% | |
| J Dilla | 1 | 3% | |
| Main Source | 1 | 3% | |
| Harlem River Drive | 1 | 3% | |
| The Beatles | 1 | 3% | |
| Kanye West | 1 | 3% | |
| Nico Gomez And His Afro Percussion Inc. | 1 | 3% | |
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Top 40 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 87 from 91st to 4th What's Going On by Marvin Gaye |
| Up 75 from 95th to 20th Below The Heavens by Blu & Exile |
| Up 71 from 96th to 25th Dreams by Gabor Szabo |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 22 from 5th to 27th Untrue by Burial |
| Down 22 from 7th to 29th Madvillainy by Madvillain |
| Down 19 from 11th to 30th Marquee Moon by Television |
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
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 90/100  | 05/22/2021 23:57 |  seb7 | | 91/100 |
| 100/100 | 07/21/2020 17:14 | FelipeBoorkes | | 92/100 |
| 90/100 | 06/16/2020 18:24 |  LedZep | | 84/100 |
| 95/100 | 06/16/2020 17:33 | crimson | | 68/100 |
| 90/100 | 06/16/2020 17:18 |  desh79 | | 93/100 |
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seb7 05/22/2021 23:57
Nice. You have good chart
Laurence 07/22/2020 12:42
Thanks a lot for your comment Felipe, I'll check out those albums ASAP. :)
This is a serious collection of Rythm with capital R in almost any genre possible.
I would love to know what you think about these 3 albums: Fabulosos Calavera by Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Tango: Zero Hour by Astor Piazzolla and Artaud by Pescado Rabioso. Hope you like them and maybe one of those make this impressive chart.
¡Saludos desde México!
StefanR10 06/16/2020 16:20
Nice chart, i like your hip hop collection and has something new to discover. I find it interesting
excellent chart. I'm assuming that you are going for one album per artist.
ForegroundNoise 06/21/2019 08:54
More developed and diverse than when I left a comment last chart of the day, so have upped the rating to 100. Great to see Alice Coltrane in the top ten!!
joannajewsom 04/06/2018 22:18
Great mix of different styles. You should check out some Zappa if you haven't.
Interesting.. .
Laurence 04/06/2018 15:53
@arialblue as a student in the UK it'd be practically impossible to not love that album. I've had far too many good times while listening to it - pun intended.
@sidneyfranklin tbh I would agree that this chart is too heavily weighted to stuff from the last decade or too but it's based partly just on what I love rn, which is a lot of more recent releases, rather than necessarily the best of all time. (which maybe goes against the point of this website but oh well). also, if you have any reccs of older music, I'd love to hear them.
@antaiospiano i'm sure you won't regret that. he's probably the greatest producer of all time.
Boltzmann 04/06/2018 15:52
Strange but nice. Gotta check out that J Dilla, never heard of him.
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