Top 40 Greatest Music Albums by GandalfORiley345

IN CREATION!!! (If there are some changes in the first choices, is because music is impossible to comparate, these albums are just the ones that surprised me in the most incredible way, they changed my life, all of this albums, ARE UNIQUE, the most incredible in the most beautiful thing in this hateful world, Music!

Top Compilations:
The Beatles-1
Pink Floyd-Relics

Top Live albums:
Pink Floyd-Delicate Sound of Thunder
Radiohead-I Might Be Wrong
David Bowie-Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture Soundtrack
(is considered a soundtrack and a live album too)

• Chart updated: 10/03/2014 05:15
• (Created: 07/19/2014 12:35).
• Chart size: 40 albums.

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London Calling 

 The Clash

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So, I looked up the Rolling Stone 500 greatest albums of all time, and I deserve a band at 8th place that I didn´t knew, it´s name was The Clash, they entered with an album named London Calling, so, after Beatles and Presley and Dylan, this group appears like nothing, it takes my attention and I download it. Today, I still glad for the user where I download this album, it just changed my life, my punk bands where Blink–182 and Green Day, but I deserve something beautiful, incredible, the most powerful way to say the to Rock and Punk ¨I LOVE YOU¨, London Calling is an Anti–War, Happiness, Rebel, Lier, Reality album, is just everything and more, every track is from another world, every world is taken from the best writings ever, every sound is complete. I know that the perfect album doesn´t exist, but I think London Calling is the nearest to be, in some ways, the nearly perfect album of history.

Best song: ALL
Worst song: ANYONE [First added to this chart: 07/19/2014]

Year of Release:

1979

Appears in:

2,808 charts

Rank Score:

33,020

Rank in 1979:

1

Rank in 1970s:

5

Overall Rank:

20

Average Rating:

 87 (3,137 votes)

Comments:

257

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The Dark Side Of The Moon 

 Pink Floyd

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The story of the space is written by too much scientists, but the story of The Dark Side of the Moon, was written by Pink Floyd, and not only that, Pink Floyd, for telling the story, write songs, not every song you can hear in the street, these are THE SONGS, from the start to the end, you will be teleported to another world, you will hear your Breathe like you have never did, you will see you Money flying and you will feel the Time running, and when you´re at the end, you will have a beautiful Brain Damage. that will makes feel an Eclipse inside of you, I think I have say to much, let Waters tell you the story, you´re not going to be dissapointed

Best song: Hard to choose, but Brain Damage/Eclipse (together) are in every way the best
Worst song: I´d choose On the Run, not just to be a super long hidden Track (or instrumental), it´s just that every song has it´s story, On the Run has, sadly, the wickest [First added to this chart: 07/19/2014]

Year of Release:

1973

Appears in:

4,106 charts

Rank Score:

64,596

Rank in 1973:

1

Rank in 1970s:

1

Overall Rank:

2

Average Rating:

 92 (5,300 votes)

Comments:

585

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The Stone Roses 

 The Stone Roses

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When I was tired to listen to great albums, but anything special, my father gave´s me a PenDrive with this album in, it was different, it was like an incredible alternative rock combination, with great melodies, guitar riffs, beautiful sings, it was too complete, too intelligent, too creative, the masterpiece of the 80s, when I finish it, I repeated, I was glorified, exceptional sentimental and rebel lyrics, Stone Roses has an album that will stile alive in my head, great music, great guitars, great everything, full of great moments, this album is now in the story of my life, it´s powerfully great [First added to this chart: 07/19/2014]

Year of Release:

1989

Appears in:

2,014 charts

Rank Score:

24,026

Rank in 1989:

3

Rank in 1980s:

5

Overall Rank:

34

Average Rating:

 86 (2,276 votes)

Comments:

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The Velvet Underground & Nico 

 The Velvet Underground & Nico

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If we have to talk about albums that changed my life, this one is one of the most
puntual named, VU make this album to change the life of the people that was completely in Beatles and Stones, they wanted to create a new world, AND THE DID IT!!! can you imagine the world without ALTERNATIVE ROCK??? without Radiohead, Sonic Youth or Pixies, well, it´s impossible, Lou Reed and their less named (but the same important) bananas changed the history of music, THEY REWRITE THE WORLD!!!

Best song: Heroin, Venus in Furs
Worst song: European song [First added to this chart: 07/19/2014]

Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

3,033 charts

Rank Score:

42,403

Rank in 1967:

2

Rank in 1960s:

4

Overall Rank:

10

Average Rating:

 89 (3,515 votes)

Comments:

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In The Aeroplane Over The Sea 

 Neutral Milk Hotel

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What Can I say about this album, it´s one of the bests i´ve ever heard, just an impresionant combination of indie folk and psychedelic rock have ever exist, From the King of Carrot Flowers, to the Two Headed Boy, the most interesting album ever made, the lyrics are impresionant, a mix of stranged souls that the unique reason to be alive is to bring the people that s dead to an aeroplane, the aeroplane over the sea, dark times with some politic lyrics, I´m 100% sure this is the best album of the 90s. [First added to this chart: 07/19/2014]

Year of Release:

1998

Appears in:

2,419 charts

Rank Score:

35,375

Rank in 1998:

1

Rank in 1990s:

3

Overall Rank:

17

Average Rating:

 87 (2,938 votes)

Comments:

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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 

 The Beatles

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I can´t write the things that this album made in my, but I´m sure of something, this is the album that opens me the doors of Beatles world, full of incredible songs, specially the first half, but the second one, has the best songs ever recorded, A Day in the Life, this song is surely the album that profesional critics love in so much ways, and me too, without this album, in my opinion, Beatles were nothing

Best song: A Day in the Life, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band/With a Little Help From my Friends
Worst song: Within You, Without You [First added to this chart: 07/19/2014]

Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

3,464 charts

Rank Score:

46,362

Rank in 1967:

1

Rank in 1960s:

3

Overall Rank:

8

Average Rating:

 90 (4,562 votes)

Comments:

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Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 

 Wilco

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Seconds, minutes, hours, Days!!! of listening to different albums just to listen to Yankee, how good is this album??, pufff you don´t know, is an incredible combination of technical masterpieces songs with sad, dark, strange, beautiful lyrics, from the opening the most creative combination of sounds ever listened to the simply close that makes you feel like you revived, 2 times, nothing like soft sounds, creative reasons to write, and obviously, great songs

Best song: I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
Worst song: Poor Places (still incredible song but I think is the wickest) [First added to this chart: 07/19/2014]

Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

1,666 charts

Rank Score:

18,239

Rank in 2002:

1

Rank in 2000s:

6

Overall Rank:

56

Average Rating:

 85 (1,946 votes)

Comments:

172

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The Joshua Tree 

 U2

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[First added to this chart: 07/19/2014]

Year of Release:

1987

Appears in:

1,853 charts

Rank Score:

19,114

Rank in 1987:

1

Rank in 1980s:

6

Overall Rank:

51

Average Rating:

 83 (2,440 votes)

Comments:

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Transformer 

 Lou Reed

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The living thing in this world that can´t appreciate this album should be taken out from the world, this guy invented something that was never in the mind of another person, just in his. Transformer has influenced the half of the albums that are known as GREATEST EVER, obviously, counting it´s self. What kind of music does this album created? Experimental, you´re making the idea of the masterpiece that I just heard to, no? If you can´t make ideas by yourself, listen to it, you mind is going to blow away.

Best song: Perfect Day (I think I´m sure of that)
Worst song: Wagon Wheel (Maybe, just maybe) [First added to this chart: 07/19/2014]

Year of Release:

1972

Appears in:

1,236 charts

Rank Score:

10,434

Rank in 1972:

6

Rank in 1970s:

35

Overall Rank:

138

Average Rating:

 83 (1,528 votes)

Comments:

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OK Computer 

 Radiohead

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The first time I listened to this album, was after downloading the epic Paranoid Android, and then, it's masterpiece, Climbing Up the Walls. To listen to this was like, when you like pop and suddenly you start listening Pixies, AMAZING! When it started, I couldn't predict anything in the first song, they were different to everything, the music was....uuuuunique. When it finished, "I Lost Myself", I was thinking at my mind, "Damn, this thing is going to be hard to beat"

Best song: Climbing Up the Walls
Worst song: You know that is easily predictable, Fitter Happier is more like an interlude before being a song [First added to this chart: 07/19/2014]

Year of Release:

1997

Appears in:

4,395 charts

Rank Score:

68,358

Rank in 1997:

1

Rank in 1990s:

1

Overall Rank:

1

Average Rating:

 92 (5,595 votes)

Comments:

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Top 40 Greatest Music Albums composition

Decade	Albums	%
1930s	0	0%
1940s	0	0%
1950s	0	0%
1960s	7	18%
1970s	9	23%
1980s	9	23%
1990s	6	15%
2000s	7	18%
2010s	2	5%
2020s	0	0%

Artist	Albums	%
Radiohead	4	10%
Pink Floyd	3	8%
The Beatles	2	5%
U2	2	5%
Nine Inch Nails	2	5%
Led Zeppelin	2	5%
Arcade Fire	2	5%
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Country	Albums	%
	21	53%
	13	33%
	2	5%
	2	5%
	1	3%
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From JulianR 06/17/2017 06:49

I like reading your reviews in broken english more than regular english because it makes me think more about what you really mean as opposed to what you're just saying. I didn't know I liked that until now

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From arthur237 06/20/2015 14:41

Brilliant. I found this chart from your comment on sigur ros. Whoever thinks viorar vel til loftarasa is fantastic has a great music taste. We have a lot of music in common!

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From Mother Nature's Son 01/18/2015 14:47

Solid taste, relatively classic-oriented. I've seen some of your comments on this site. You seem like a very passionate fellow, which is great of course. However, your English could be improved a bit, to say the least!

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From BraddlesHendo 10/23/2014 14:45

Cool stuff

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From pa 08/09/2014 20:03

lovin your top-ten!

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From NowhereMan 07/19/2014 13:16

Love it.

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