Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by 
Arthurknight 
This chart has evolved a lot over the near decade its existed. I think in the past I used to try a lot harder at curating what was more a "recommendations" list, where I'd show off my esoteric finds and scatter in my favourite underrated greats . Other times I told myself the function of a good list was to be in contention with the Overall chart on this site; to be anti conventional music journalism and resist milquetoast taste. Nowadays I'm less ideological about it. To me, this chart is my music-hobbyist refuge where I delight in organising my own personal world of sounds. In short, it may well be the 100 greatest albums of all time (I certainly think so), but that's secondary to it being an outlet for creative expression. I've curated a display that says more about me than the music, to be glanced over by the few fellow BEA users who peruse it and friends at a bar who don't know what they're getting into when they ask me what I listen to.
~~ One Album per Artist. ~~
Notes:
Should you consider it a great injustice that there is very little emphasis on more recent music here, feel free to check out my 21st century decade charts. I'm also very active in making end of year charts which is really where all my heart and soul is poured into with BEA these days.
No Jazz, Hip-Hop, or Electronic albums feature in this chart simply because if they did 100 albums would barely suffice. I find it particularly difficult to compare these genres with other forms of popular music broadly or with each-other (I've similarly exempted classical recordings I especially enjoy for the same reason, but am too lazy to make a classical chart, for now...). In the past I have included these genres, but I've come to dislike it because the limits of 100 albums begins to feel too claustrophobic. Instead, I have made each their own respective custom chart, which you can find here:
Greatest 100 Jazz Albums: https://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=32925
Greatest 100 Hip-Hop Albums: https://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=32704
Greatest 100 Electronic/IDM Albums: https://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=42751
- Chart updated: 07/16/2023 09:15
- (Created: 07/26/2014 08:45).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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"Searching for my black dope
Hallelalalaluwah."
10/10
Effectively, one need only listen to 'Aumgn' to understand why this album is so indisputably brilliant. I mean think about it, over half of this album was recorded without the band's knowing. The album is just a phenomenal jam session. That I find amazing.
I recently managed to get a copy of this album on a hazy blue vinyl from my housemate who was clearing their small but very good collection. It's become the prized gem of my collection – I sit back and listen to this album on hot Australian nights and can sort of feel it reverberate through the humid air, comfortable.
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Hallelalalaluwah."
10/10
Effectively, one need only listen to 'Aumgn' to understand why this album is so indisputably brilliant. I mean think about it, over half of this album was recorded without the band's knowing. The album is just a phenomenal jam session. That I find amazing.
I recently managed to get a copy of this album on a hazy blue vinyl from my housemate who was clearing their small but very good collection. It's become the prized gem of my collection – I sit back and listen to this album on hot Australian nights and can sort of feel it reverberate through the humid air, comfortable.
_ [First added to this chart: 10/23/2014]
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1971
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10,161
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“Under the cool, under the cool and under having a ball
What you gonna say to the real me, to the real me?”
10/10
It would be hard to pick a favourite Bowie album, if not for Low. I listened to this album a lot during a weird school language trip to Germany, alongside many other albums I'd either associated with the country or were in fact german. I was with a sort of ramshackle bunch that I didn't feel comfortably a part of, and I mostly spent the trip alone. If I was with others I was constantly worried about being peripheral, worrying about what the others thought of me or spoke about me in my absence. So I found solace in being able to wander down cobbled roads alone with an earphone in, it was something I could sort of focus on. I listened to Low above all because the trip was speckled with good times and bad times; this album embodied the heights of the trip, and – to be blatantly punny – the lows. I remember listening to Low as I - having given the group the slip and wandered out past the inner city wall - walked alone in wet post-downpour Nuremberg park. Afterwards I switched over to Heroes and ran blissfully back through the city centre like a complete idiot. Everyone stared but for a moment I couldn't care less.
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What you gonna say to the real me, to the real me?”
10/10
It would be hard to pick a favourite Bowie album, if not for Low. I listened to this album a lot during a weird school language trip to Germany, alongside many other albums I'd either associated with the country or were in fact german. I was with a sort of ramshackle bunch that I didn't feel comfortably a part of, and I mostly spent the trip alone. If I was with others I was constantly worried about being peripheral, worrying about what the others thought of me or spoke about me in my absence. So I found solace in being able to wander down cobbled roads alone with an earphone in, it was something I could sort of focus on. I listened to Low above all because the trip was speckled with good times and bad times; this album embodied the heights of the trip, and – to be blatantly punny – the lows. I remember listening to Low as I - having given the group the slip and wandered out past the inner city wall - walked alone in wet post-downpour Nuremberg park. Afterwards I switched over to Heroes and ran blissfully back through the city centre like a complete idiot. Everyone stared but for a moment I couldn't care less.
_ [First added to this chart: 10/23/2014]
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1977
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19,339
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"Trumpets, violins, I hear them in the distance
And my skin emits a ray, but I think it's sad, it's much too bad
That our friends can't be with us today."
10/10
Such a moving poetic voice. I had the privilege of seeing Patti perform horses in Melbourne in what was a sort of near out-of-body transcendental concert. I now listen to the 2005 live recording of horses in repeatedly more desperate attempts of re-living that experience. But, just as Patti ponders on our lives and our loved ones, such moments are too singular and ephemeral to clutch back at and actually grab. Still, I keep trying.
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And my skin emits a ray, but I think it's sad, it's much too bad
That our friends can't be with us today."
10/10
Such a moving poetic voice. I had the privilege of seeing Patti perform horses in Melbourne in what was a sort of near out-of-body transcendental concert. I now listen to the 2005 live recording of horses in repeatedly more desperate attempts of re-living that experience. But, just as Patti ponders on our lives and our loved ones, such moments are too singular and ephemeral to clutch back at and actually grab. Still, I keep trying.
_ [First added to this chart: 10/23/2014]
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1975
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8,638
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"Your madness fits in nicely with my own
Your lunacy fits neatly with my own, my very own
We're not alone."
10/10
Alright, I'll use this listing to make reference to the real god of music criticism - and no, it is not the melon, Robert Christgau or Greil Marcus, fight me - Piero Scaruffi. If you haven't already, please do lose yourself in Piero Scaruffi's Knowledge Base. All the thanks to my own introduction to him goes to the similarly great Ms Mojo Risin (Imogen), whose own chart on this website you should also trawl for recommendations. Scaruffi's Best Albums list is a remarkable way to both decentralise oneself from the normative hegemonies of "Greatest Albums", itself a fraught category built off the heralding of mostly white men, and to decolonise from the music of US/UK and the music of the english language. Scaruffi is not the be-all-and-end-all by no means, his lists are still relatively euro-centric and male dominated - but his choices are just such a musically radical take on what constitutes greatness in music that it opens one up to these possibilities.
Instead of me pondering on Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom, and rather than pulling a Hairymarx1 and just plagiarising every word the man ever wrote, I instead implore you to read Scaruffi's own review, which has been conveniently translated from the Italian by Imogen (the aforementioned one). To quote:
"Rock Bottom is a "eulogy to chaos" and is dedicated to the cosmos. The anti-epic pessimism, made of profound sadness and fatuous joy, reaches here its most perfect enunciation. Madness and melancholy merge into a single feeling of solitude in the crowd, of impotence in the universe."
-Piero Scaruffi
Check him out (Also if you haven't, give this album a listen with open ears and maybe when you definitely don't have a migraine): https://www.scaruffi.com/vol3/wyatt.html#roc
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Your lunacy fits neatly with my own, my very own
We're not alone."
10/10
Alright, I'll use this listing to make reference to the real god of music criticism - and no, it is not the melon, Robert Christgau or Greil Marcus, fight me - Piero Scaruffi. If you haven't already, please do lose yourself in Piero Scaruffi's Knowledge Base. All the thanks to my own introduction to him goes to the similarly great Ms Mojo Risin (Imogen), whose own chart on this website you should also trawl for recommendations. Scaruffi's Best Albums list is a remarkable way to both decentralise oneself from the normative hegemonies of "Greatest Albums", itself a fraught category built off the heralding of mostly white men, and to decolonise from the music of US/UK and the music of the english language. Scaruffi is not the be-all-and-end-all by no means, his lists are still relatively euro-centric and male dominated - but his choices are just such a musically radical take on what constitutes greatness in music that it opens one up to these possibilities.
Instead of me pondering on Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom, and rather than pulling a Hairymarx1 and just plagiarising every word the man ever wrote, I instead implore you to read Scaruffi's own review, which has been conveniently translated from the Italian by Imogen (the aforementioned one). To quote:
"Rock Bottom is a "eulogy to chaos" and is dedicated to the cosmos. The anti-epic pessimism, made of profound sadness and fatuous joy, reaches here its most perfect enunciation. Madness and melancholy merge into a single feeling of solitude in the crowd, of impotence in the universe."
-Piero Scaruffi
Check him out (Also if you haven't, give this album a listen with open ears and maybe when you definitely don't have a migraine): https://www.scaruffi.com/vol3/wyatt.html#roc
_ [First added to this chart: 10/23/2014]
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1974
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4,164
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"All the clouds turn to words
All the words float in sequence
No one knows what they mean
Everyone just ignores them."
10/10
I should note that the lyrics above - from the opening track, sky saw - run simultaneous to meaningless babel. This, for me, really explicates Eno's focus in this album. Another Green World is more about atmosphere and the creation of a feeling. Eno was influenced a great deal at the time by phonetic poetry, especially that of Hugo Ball, whose poem "I Zimbra" ended up being the opening track on Talking Heads' Fear of Music - with the instrumental laid out by Eno and David Byrne. Another Green World is also the album in which Eno famously made use of his and Peter Schmidt's card deck "Oblique Strategies," which was a series of injunctions and commands to generate "lateral thinking." It may appear that this system of composition isn't reconcilable with "music about feelings," but the cards, at least as I see It, are less of a system for composition than they are a system for creative stimulation.
Another Green World's breadth of sound plays into Eno's expansive body of work. Eno situates himself in this record between the glam rock pop of roxy music, his prog influences, and his forays into ambient music, which all congeal in this project that moves me to euphoria and mourning almost together at once. This is what makes this album all the more transportive, it creates an atmosphere that is otherworldly, and evokes a series of feelings that are not normally felt so soon after one another.
I should probably also make clear that I think Eno may well be my favourite contributor to music in recent history. Few can hold a torch to Eno's achievements and influence, even if he is largely the man behind the mixing board and not the mic. This album proves that even when he is behind the mic, he is phenomenal. He has consistently demonstrated this across albums that I also adore; Taking Tiger Mountain, Before and After Science, and Here Come the Warm Jets (which sat in this place for some time).
_ [First added to this chart: 10/23/2014]
All the words float in sequence
No one knows what they mean
Everyone just ignores them."
10/10
I should note that the lyrics above - from the opening track, sky saw - run simultaneous to meaningless babel. This, for me, really explicates Eno's focus in this album. Another Green World is more about atmosphere and the creation of a feeling. Eno was influenced a great deal at the time by phonetic poetry, especially that of Hugo Ball, whose poem "I Zimbra" ended up being the opening track on Talking Heads' Fear of Music - with the instrumental laid out by Eno and David Byrne. Another Green World is also the album in which Eno famously made use of his and Peter Schmidt's card deck "Oblique Strategies," which was a series of injunctions and commands to generate "lateral thinking." It may appear that this system of composition isn't reconcilable with "music about feelings," but the cards, at least as I see It, are less of a system for composition than they are a system for creative stimulation.
Another Green World's breadth of sound plays into Eno's expansive body of work. Eno situates himself in this record between the glam rock pop of roxy music, his prog influences, and his forays into ambient music, which all congeal in this project that moves me to euphoria and mourning almost together at once. This is what makes this album all the more transportive, it creates an atmosphere that is otherworldly, and evokes a series of feelings that are not normally felt so soon after one another.
I should probably also make clear that I think Eno may well be my favourite contributor to music in recent history. Few can hold a torch to Eno's achievements and influence, even if he is largely the man behind the mixing board and not the mic. This album proves that even when he is behind the mic, he is phenomenal. He has consistently demonstrated this across albums that I also adore; Taking Tiger Mountain, Before and After Science, and Here Come the Warm Jets (which sat in this place for some time).
_ [First added to this chart: 10/23/2014]
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1975
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9,166
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"I can't see with you in front of the mirror staring, staring
I can't hear myself think with all that music blaring, blaring."
10/10
When one says "the best band you've never heard" I want to shout Sparks at them until they give up whatever claim to some of artist like – I dunno – The Mars Volta or something
Morrissey put Kimono My House in his favourite 13 albums, but I don't know whether that should improve its standing or hurt it.
When I finally found Kimono My House on vinyl in Greville Records I was ecstatic, and then I found two more copies behind it, all were secondhand, all had somehow arrived to the shop together. There's a joke there about the shop being too big for more than 1 Sparks album.
Sparks are maybe the most fun you can have listening to music, and while its hard to pick a favourite – as they boast having released over 500 songs, there are many to choose from, almost all of them worth considering as best – Kimono My House is the first I listened to, and so it must stay here. My window into a world, and Sparks really are big enough, weird enough, to constitute a world.
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I can't hear myself think with all that music blaring, blaring."
10/10
When one says "the best band you've never heard" I want to shout Sparks at them until they give up whatever claim to some of artist like – I dunno – The Mars Volta or something
Morrissey put Kimono My House in his favourite 13 albums, but I don't know whether that should improve its standing or hurt it.
When I finally found Kimono My House on vinyl in Greville Records I was ecstatic, and then I found two more copies behind it, all were secondhand, all had somehow arrived to the shop together. There's a joke there about the shop being too big for more than 1 Sparks album.
Sparks are maybe the most fun you can have listening to music, and while its hard to pick a favourite – as they boast having released over 500 songs, there are many to choose from, almost all of them worth considering as best – Kimono My House is the first I listened to, and so it must stay here. My window into a world, and Sparks really are big enough, weird enough, to constitute a world.
_ [First added to this chart: 06/05/2015]
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1974
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1,890
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"Acordei de um sonho estranho
Um gosto de vidro e corte."
"I woke up from a strange dream
With a taste of glass and cut."
10/10
The indisputable pinnacle of MPB, Clube Da Esquina is the conflagration of on one hand (literally), two relatively independent artists, Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges, and – perhaps more meaningfully – the various genretic developments taking place in Brazil. What I mean is this album is very much a confluence of the Bossa Nova and Samba influences of Nascimento, and the rock, psychedelic, and MPB influences of Borges (I want to say funk too but it feels wrong). At the time of release, neither artist was necessarily that known, although Nascimento was at least established. Clube Da Esquina was the eponymous product of the group the two formed after Nascimento moved to Belo Horizonte. Off the success of this album, a sequel would later be made in 1978: Clube da Esquina 2. This album is a g o n i s i n g l y difficult to obtain, but for any diehards, you might want to have a go at it. Alternatively the Lô Borges self-titled is also incredible, as is fellow collaborator of the pair Chico Buarque's Construção.
It's hard to really say much about how I *feel* about this album, it's just something I really enjoy putting on and listening to on relaxing afternoons. Clube Da Esquina is an instantly transportive listen, and Nascimento's voice is angelic. Not to mention, as someone who grew up being taught to play many a bossa nova standard on guitar, hearing the form blasted open and reimagined is a freeing experience every time.
_ [First added to this chart: 04/27/2015]
Um gosto de vidro e corte."
"I woke up from a strange dream
With a taste of glass and cut."
10/10
The indisputable pinnacle of MPB, Clube Da Esquina is the conflagration of on one hand (literally), two relatively independent artists, Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges, and – perhaps more meaningfully – the various genretic developments taking place in Brazil. What I mean is this album is very much a confluence of the Bossa Nova and Samba influences of Nascimento, and the rock, psychedelic, and MPB influences of Borges (I want to say funk too but it feels wrong). At the time of release, neither artist was necessarily that known, although Nascimento was at least established. Clube Da Esquina was the eponymous product of the group the two formed after Nascimento moved to Belo Horizonte. Off the success of this album, a sequel would later be made in 1978: Clube da Esquina 2. This album is a g o n i s i n g l y difficult to obtain, but for any diehards, you might want to have a go at it. Alternatively the Lô Borges self-titled is also incredible, as is fellow collaborator of the pair Chico Buarque's Construção.
It's hard to really say much about how I *feel* about this album, it's just something I really enjoy putting on and listening to on relaxing afternoons. Clube Da Esquina is an instantly transportive listen, and Nascimento's voice is angelic. Not to mention, as someone who grew up being taught to play many a bossa nova standard on guitar, hearing the form blasted open and reimagined is a freeing experience every time.
_ [First added to this chart: 04/27/2015]
Year of Release:
1972
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3,572
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-Instrumental
10/10
Hosianna Mantra is undeniably an album about spirituality, Florian Fricke had recently before starting recording converted to both Christianity and Hinduism, and this duality finds itself greatly informing Hosianna Mantra. The title itself suggests this: "hosianna" is a Judeo-Christian plea or call out to god, and "mantra" has Hindu roots in vedic hymn and meditative chanting. In this way, this album can be seen as sort of music epiphany, a revelation of Fricke's sense of total spirituality, drawn from a coalescence of western and eastern religion, practice, and musical culture. Vuh execute this bringing together of sound beautifully.
The album has long been the go-to alone on long train rides album. I listened to it on trains across Britain, France, and Germany and starred out the window at the lush green - and in some cases snowy white - fields. Listening to the album always brings me back to the European train carriage so vividly.
_ [First added to this chart: 06/16/2015]
10/10
Hosianna Mantra is undeniably an album about spirituality, Florian Fricke had recently before starting recording converted to both Christianity and Hinduism, and this duality finds itself greatly informing Hosianna Mantra. The title itself suggests this: "hosianna" is a Judeo-Christian plea or call out to god, and "mantra" has Hindu roots in vedic hymn and meditative chanting. In this way, this album can be seen as sort of music epiphany, a revelation of Fricke's sense of total spirituality, drawn from a coalescence of western and eastern religion, practice, and musical culture. Vuh execute this bringing together of sound beautifully.
The album has long been the go-to alone on long train rides album. I listened to it on trains across Britain, France, and Germany and starred out the window at the lush green - and in some cases snowy white - fields. Listening to the album always brings me back to the European train carriage so vividly.
_ [First added to this chart: 06/16/2015]
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1972
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1,623
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"I myself am the pedestal
For this ugly hump at which you stare."
10/10
_ [First added to this chart: 03/08/2015]
For this ugly hump at which you stare."
10/10
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1971
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"This ain't no party, this ain't no disco,
This ain't no fooling around.
No time for dancing, or lovey dovey,
I ain't got time for that now."
10/10
I understand I'm on the losing side here, this isn't exactly the correct choice in any pseudo-objective sense. I don't know, I just appreciate how feverish this record is compared to "tighter" albums like Remain in Light (I get that calling a Talking Heads record "tight" is ironically unsuitable on many levels). I guess all I have to defend myself here are some good points and bad points, and at the end of the day, anything to make that shitty suit pun is worth it, even committing to a favourite.
_ [First added to this chart: 02/09/2016]
This ain't no fooling around.
No time for dancing, or lovey dovey,
I ain't got time for that now."
10/10
I understand I'm on the losing side here, this isn't exactly the correct choice in any pseudo-objective sense. I don't know, I just appreciate how feverish this record is compared to "tighter" albums like Remain in Light (I get that calling a Talking Heads record "tight" is ironically unsuitable on many levels). I guess all I have to defend myself here are some good points and bad points, and at the end of the day, anything to make that shitty suit pun is worth it, even committing to a favourite.
_ [First added to this chart: 02/09/2016]
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1979
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7,302
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
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| 1980s | 20 | 20% | |
| 1990s | 29 | 29% | |
| 2000s | 8 | 8% | |
| 2010s | 1 | 1% | |
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| Bob Dylan | 1 | 1% | |
| Cocteau Twins | 1 | 1% | |
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| Leonard Cohen | 1 | 1% | |
| Belle And Sebastian | 1 | 1% | |
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From Rm12398 11/10/2022 16:03
Love the Murmur- R.E.M. placement here! Have always felt that was my favourite record of theirs, so it's nice to see my opinion validated with your chart. “La Máquina De Hacer Pájaros” is fantastic to see here as well. Massively underrated on this site in my opinion. Love the multicultural feel of the list as well. Have recently been trying to get into more international music so your chart may be a great help to do that.
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80/100
From 
cartoken 11/10/2022 09:53
cartoken 11/10/2022 09:53
Thanks for the comment and the rating.
Great tastes as well, very heavy on classical rock but still very sold chart
Kudos for including Youth of America 👌
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100/100
From Johnnyo 11/09/2022 08:36
Fabulous chart. One of the best on the site
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85/100
From Moondance 11/09/2022 02:54
Was really hoping to see a few more exceptional Australian albums in the chart. Otherwise, cool chart and appreciate the effort in putting together your comments.
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100/100
From flamingyesdept 10/05/2022 08:04
flamingyesdept 10/05/2022 08:04
Still my favourite chart! SMiLE Sessions really is the greatest thing in popular music ♥
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100/100
From rubysmith 07/21/2022 11:17
Nice.
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100/100
From 
peate754 12/21/2021 00:48
peate754 12/21/2021 00:48
Wow Great job and very good list
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95/100
From 
seb7 12/07/2020 19:34
seb7 12/07/2020 19:34
one of the best lists on the site. Creative, methodical, and just overall cool
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95/100
From 
EyeKanFly 09/11/2020 16:18
EyeKanFly 09/11/2020 16:18
I'll definitely use this for recs!
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100/100
From 
DommeDamian 09/11/2020 08:48
DommeDamian 09/11/2020 08:48
Brrrrrrravo!
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