Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
by 
Ottokar 
"The long and winding road ..." would serve well as a motto for my chart.
You will find The Beatles as well as some punk rock.
To have the ultimate diversity in my chart I decided to have only one record per artist, and so my Top 100 consists of 100 different bands/artists.
Please feel free to comment on my chart.
- Chart updated: 04/24/2022 09:15
- (Created: 07/28/2014 11:44).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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[First added to this chart: 07/30/2014]
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1974
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6,348
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1966
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48,195
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[First added to this chart: 07/30/2014]
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1997
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61,481
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[First added to this chart: 07/30/2014]
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1983
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521
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1992
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732
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2008
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3,089
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[First added to this chart: 07/30/2014]
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1975
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11,591
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[First added to this chart: 07/30/2014]
I know most people prefer Dark Side Of The Moon - well, I don't
[First added to this chart: 07/30/2014]
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1975
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43,353
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Total albums: 100. Page 1 of 10
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 2 | 2% | |
| 1970s | 27 | 27% | |
| 1980s | 26 | 26% | |
| 1990s | 26 | 26% | |
| 2000s | 15 | 15% | |
| 2010s | 3 | 3% | |
| 2020s | 1 | 1% |
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| XTC | 1 | 1% | |
| The Folk Implosion | 1 | 1% | |
| Nirvana | 1 | 1% | |
| R.E.M. | 1 | 1% | |
| Tori Amos | 1 | 1% | |
| Al Di Meola / John McLaughlin / Paco De Lucía | 1 | 1% | |
| Manfred Mann's Earth Band | 1 | 1% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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61 | 61% | |
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21 | 21% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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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 71st to 72ndFever In, Fever Out by Luscious Jackson |
| Down 1 from 72nd to 73rdBirth, School, Work, Death by The Godfathers |
| Down 1 from 73rd to 74thKick by INXS |
| New entries |
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| Warm Chris by Aldous Harding |
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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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| 11/13/2025 21:53 |  MadhattanJack | 310 | 86/100 | |
| 03/12/2025 13:57 |  SomethingSpecial | 1,089 | 85/100 | |
| 01/20/2023 22:06 | KineticEchoes02 | 110 | 88/100 | |
| 01/20/2023 09:46 | Moondance | 476 | 85/100 | |
| 03/30/2022 22:33 | telegram | 35 | 84/100 |
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From MadhattanJack 11/13/2025 21:57 | #311650
MadhattanJack 11/13/2025 21:57 | #311650
I really liked the Embrooks album - one of the better 60s-psychedelic garage-band retro/throwback albums I've heard, right up there with Naz Nomad & the Nightmares' "Give Daddy the Knife Cindy", The Orange Alabaster Mushroom, Jacco Gardner's "Cabinet Of Curiosities," and of course Bananagun. (Not quite at Dukes of Stratosphear level, but that's asking a lot.) Anyway, great chart! Very nice!
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From KineticEchoes02 01/20/2023 22:06 | #293105
I like it - you've done well to go with 1 album per artist! Good diversity, with some lesser known albums in there importantly mixed with the ultimate classics.
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From Johnnyo 01/20/2023 16:51 | #293091
Good chart.
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From Moondance 01/20/2023 09:51 | #293079
Cool chart ~ perhaps too much UK based music, but nice to see a couple of albums from south of the equator.
On this day when David Crosby departed planet Earth, it was nice to see CSNY's 'Deja Vu' in the chart - even if at #100.
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From mianfei 10/16/2021 15:06 | #275093
I have mixed emotions about this chart. On the one hand, it has some rarely-seen artists (Japan, Godley and Creme, even Thomas Dolby and Manfred Mann could qualify as that), some uncommon but outstanding albums like ‘Miss America’, and as ‘Boltzmann’ said it is difficult to classify.
On the other hand, there is much familiar “alternative” music that I find underserving. Nirvana, Oasis, Green Day, the Sex Pistols, the Verve, Arcade Fire, and even ‘Peter Gabriel’ (IV) fit into this category.
Additionally, even with a one-album limit there are artists (Goldey and Creme, David Sylvian, Peter Gabriel) who clearly cheat that rule – something I have a bone with because if you limit the number of albums per artist this should logically apply equally to individual musicians.
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From pctrooper 11/09/2019 22:51 | #244607
Hell yeah, great chart! Love your number one choice.
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Boltzmann 10/02/2018 10:29 | #221954
Boltzmann 10/02/2018 10:29 | #221954
Not exactly the MOST diverse chart I’ve ever seen, but I cannot categorize your taste so easily (especially when I dive deeper in your chart and find a lot of trip hop albums), which is a good thing. And it doesn’t look like you copied Rolling Stone or Pitchfork; I see personality in this chart. The more modern picks are not REALLY modern, but that’s okay, that’s just not where your taste lies apparently.
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ForegroundNoise 10/02/2018 08:16 | #221949
ForegroundNoise 10/02/2018 08:16 | #221949
I don't know what it is but there's something alluring about this chart ... would love to see you elaborate on why you love these albums more!!
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From animals0809 10/24/2017 20:40 | #200027
the lamb at 1 makes this an automatic 100
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JulianR 09/17/2017 07:21 | #198117
JulianR 09/17/2017 07:21 | #198117
Pretty good! Although, you made the wrong choice choosing Hunky Dory over Low... :)
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