Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by JMGL95

MASSIVE UPDATE ALERT! (PLACEMENTS: COMPLETE - 100%, LYRICS: COMPLETE - 100% but under revision)

I've just entirely remade this chart because I've been relistening to all of the albums here and many other favourites and rerating them. This chart somehow seemed not really up to date with my tastes, as it was more similar to what I liked three or four years ago. Hope your ratings are still valid for this new chart or, if they aren't, feel free to drop/raise the rating at ease :P

I also added the rating of the album (and plan to add some lyrics). About my rating system: the first albums here are my perfect 10s. They are the ones that set the max note, so to say, in opposition to what would be considered a 0. Then, the rest of the albums are rated in comparison to those perfect 10s and placed somewhere in between them and the 0. I have taken into consideration my individual track average rating, the consistency/flow and lenght, my personal liking to the musical style and lyrics, the influence and relevance of the album, the innovation and uniqueness, the fun I had listening, etc.

Tbh, I'm not a big album listener. I usually tend to listen to playlists of the songs I consider memorable, so the albums are a gate for me to listen to more memorable songs to add to playlists. For that reason, I haven't listened to any of these albums more than four or five times (although I have heard to the top ones probable much more times as they're almost perfect for me). Because of that and because I don't have actually any idea about music theory or production, I won't be making any commentary. I couldn't really say something besides "I think the guitars sound nice" or "the lyric themes here are really cool", so I'll abstain from doing it, as it isn't really interesting.

EXTRA! Top 101-200: https://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=47083

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"When I look at you
Oh, I don't know what's real
Once in a while
And you make me laugh"

My rating: 8.33
Favourite songs: Sometimes, When You Sleep, Only Shallow
[First added to this chart: 05/29/2014]
Year of Release:
1991
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33,961
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"And just when you mean to tell her that you have no love to give her
Then he gets you on her wavelength
And she lets the river answer that you've always been her lover"

My rating: 8.33
Favourite songs: So Long, Marianne; The Stranger Song, Suzanne
[First added to this chart: 05/29/2014]
Year of Release:
1967
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10,269
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"We are fools to make war
On our brothers in arms"

My rating: 8.33
Favourite songs: Brothers In Arms, Money for Nothing, Your Latest Trick
[First added to this chart: 05/29/2014]
Year of Release:
1985
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7,867
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"If I ventured in the slipstream
Between the viaducts of your dream
Where immobile steel rims crack
And the ditch in the back roads stop
Could you find me?"

My rating: 8.31
Favourite songs: Madame George, Sweet Thing, Astral Weeks
[First added to this chart: 07/02/2018]
Year of Release:
1968
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17,899
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My rating: 8.30
Favourite songs: Starálfur, Olsen Olsen, Flugufrelsarinn
[First added to this chart: 05/29/2014]
Year of Release:
1999
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17,325
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(fav lyricis tbd, recent re-discovery)

My rating: 8.30
Favourite songs: Can't You Hear Me Knocking, Wild Horses, Brown Sugar
[First added to this chart: 05/14/2020]
Year of Release:
1971
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19,352
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"Doesn't have a point of view
Knows not where he's going to
Isn't he a bit like you and me?"

My rating: 8.29
Favourite songs: Nowhere Man, In My Life, Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
[First added to this chart: 05/29/2014]
Year of Release:
1965
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30,764
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Buy album United States
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"And for everyone who thinks that life is just a game
Do you like the part you're playing?"

My rating: 8.29
Favourite songs: Alone Again Or, A House Is Not a Motel, Maybe The People Would Be The Times or Between Clark and Hilldale
[First added to this chart: 07/02/2018]
Year of Release:
1967
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17,268
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"I need someone to show me the things in life that I can't find
I can't see the things that make true happiness, I must be blind"

My rating: 8.28
Favourite songs: Paranoid, Iron Man, War Pigs
[First added to this chart: 05/29/2014]
Year of Release:
1970
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19,504
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100. (=)
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"Over thinking, over analyzing, separates the body from the mind
Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must"

My rating: 8.25
Favourite Songs: Parabola, Lateralus, Schism
[First added to this chart: 12/16/2016]
Year of Release:
2001
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8,824
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Total albums: 100. Page 10 of 10

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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition

Decade Albums %


1930s 0 0%
1940s 0 0%
1950s 0 0%
1960s 13 13%
1970s 14 14%
1980s 9 9%
1990s 22 22%
2000s 22 22%
2010s 18 18%
2020s 2 2%
Artist Albums %


Radiohead 6 6%
Arctic Monkeys 4 4%
Pink Floyd 4 4%
The Beatles 4 4%
Kendrick Lamar 3 3%
The National 3 3%
Arcade Fire 3 3%
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Country Albums %


United Kingdom 43 43%
United States 36 36%
Japan 6 6%
Spain 4 4%
Canada 4 4%
Mixed Nationality 3 3%
Iceland 1 1%
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Live? Albums %
No 99 99%
Yes 1 1%
Soundtrack? Albums %
No 99 99%
Yes 1 1%

Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes

Biggest climbers
Climber Up 69 from 95th to 26th
Merveilles
by Malice Mizer
Biggest fallers
Faller Down 1 from 26th to 27th
Ten
by Pearl Jam
Faller Down 1 from 27th to 28th
Please Mr. Lostman
by The Pillows
Faller Down 1 from 28th to 29th
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
by Kanye West

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89/100 (from 71 votes)
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From 10/25/2020 23:10
good chart
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From 05/23/2020 15:34
Cool chart, 17 artists in common! I'll have to check out Nacho Vegas because that name alone is awesome haha. I think it's cool that you have two Pillows albums on here because they are fun and unheard of. Also nice to see that Chameleons album because it's excellent.
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From 02/15/2019 15:59
Soooo... we pretty much have the same top ten :)
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From 02/15/2019 14:05
Very interesting and unique chart. Well done!
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From 02/15/2019 10:24
Absolutely love how you come across in your chart's bio, and appreciate the delicacy with which you've picked your favourite albums. Given the way you write about Carrie & Lowell, please please write more!! Don't be put off by music snobs toting about theory etc., you clearly have a talent when it comes to conveying your love of music.

I've noticed that the chart is a little more weighted to the last three decades, so here's a few older underground records that you might be missing out on:

Nico - Chelsea Girl (1967)
Brigitte Fontaine - Comme A La Radio (1969)
Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians (1978)
Roy Harper - Stormcock (1971)
Comus - First Utterance (1971)
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From 05/26/2018 01:46
Good chart
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From 05/20/2017 01:07
Like Magical Mystery Tour getting some notice
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From 05/19/2017 23:13
That Porcupine Tree album creeping in at 27... Fantastic choice, and the chart is exactly what you said it would be, classics along with personal choices. Great
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From 05/19/2017 18:06
Good chart
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From 06/05/2016 19:55
Really good chart! I appreciate the lesser known titles ranked alongside more obvious classics such as Funeral and London Calling.
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Best Albums of the 2010s
1. To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar
2. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West
3. Good Kid, M.A.A.D City by Kendrick Lamar
4. The Suburbs by Arcade Fire
5. Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens
6. A Moon Shaped Pool by Radiohead
7. Lonerism by Tame Impala
8. Blond by Frank Ocean
9. ★ (Blackstar) by David Bowie
10. Modern Vampires Of The City by Vampire Weekend
11. High Violet by The National
12. Teen Dream by Beach House
13. Currents by Tame Impala
14. Channel Orange by Frank Ocean
15. Lost In The Dream by The War On Drugs
16. Helplessness Blues by Fleet Foxes
17. Bon Iver, Bon Iver by Bon Iver
18. AM by Arctic Monkeys
19. This Is Happening by LCD Soundsystem
20. Random Access Memories by Daft Punk
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