Top 10 Greatest Music Albums
by Michael S. Hansen 
Yes, I know, it's all mainstream! How boring... but I think credit should go where credit is due! So I apologise to Radiohead, The Stone Roses, that german Pink Floyd clone Klauz-something, Marvin Gaye and all the other's that didn't make this list... not that they should care :-)
As for Help as no. 1 - it's just packed with the most fantastic 2:30 minute songs ever written, let me refresh your memory:
"Help!" - abso-bloody-lutely rockin' - the whole world knows what's coming when they strike that first chord!
"The Night Before" - great hit...
"You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" - John doing Bob Dylan, and he's better at it than mr. Zimmerman!
"I Need You" - No, You need to get this album!
"Another Girl" - They just keep 'em coming!
"You're Going to Lose That Girl" - Not amazing lyrics, hehe, but the tunes are fantastic...
"Ticket to Ride" - Ringo at his best...
"Act Naturally" - Every rose has it's thorns :-)
"It's Only Love" - Well, that's how I feel about "Help!"
"You Like Me Too Much" - It's a great, happy album free of suicide wishes and self-destruction!
"Tell Me What You See" - Even the greatest album has a filler!
"I've Just Seen a Face" - Or two!
"Yesterday" - Yes, here we find the world's most recorded song - right here on "Help!"
"Dizzy Miss Lizzy" - Rock'n'Roll, baby!
- Chart updated: 04/06/2010 12:49
- (Created: 07/02/2007 13:34).
- Chart size: 10 albums.
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Top 10 Greatest Music Albums composition
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 6 | 60% | |
| 1970s | 3 | 30% | |
| 1980s | 1 | 10% | |
| 1990s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2000s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2010s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| The Beatles | 3 | 30% | |
| Led Zeppelin | 2 | 20% | |
| Dire Straits | 1 | 10% | |
| Simon & Garfunkel | 1 | 10% | |
| Bob Dylan | 1 | 10% | |
| Jimi Hendrix | 1 | 10% | |
| Pink Floyd | 1 | 10% |
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davidhuret 05/30/2008 20:22 | #696
I just wanted to rectify a few things regarding the Beatles that AfterHours mentioned (you know,the usual rubbish about their not inventing anything,just a commercial phenomenon,blah blah...).
Well,I'm almost sorry to report they didn't invent or pioneer anything except:
backwards sounds in music,ADT (that's artificial double-tracking),the use of the recording studio as an instrument (I can expend on that at will),lyrics printed on the record sleeve,the concept-album,songs that segue straight into the next without pause,the notorious and now cliché "hidden track",indian sitar in pop/folk song (huge door being open in the process),...time is running out and my mind is still full of Beatles'inventions and/or discoveries (such as the then-new format acoustic folk guitar/string quartet or the use of the bass guitar as a melodic instrument).Plus all their visual innovations and-true- marketing strategies...
Apart from that of course,they didn't bring anything new:)
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tonagamu TOP 100 COMMENTER 04/30/2009 14:20 | #3825
It's like you just nick-picked a bunch of albums from one decade and decided to say screw 80s 90s and 2000s. I mean yeah I know MY chart is MOSTLY 90s and 2000s but STILL at least I considered other decades, even if it only was a little.
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AfterHours 07/07/2007 02:43 | #454
AfterHours 07/07/2007 02:43 | #454
To Michael S Hansen:
"where as your chart maybe ignores the people who "invented" the genre"
Again, what are you talking about? My chart covers exactly who HAS invented the various genres of rock/jazz. Aside from Blonde On Blonde (and arguably Electric Ladyland) your chart contains none of the most musically influential albums on rock history, so I don't see the basis of your comments. If you're thinking "the Beatles", don't bother. While they were widely followed and couldn't be ignored as a commercial, marketing phenomenon, they contributed very little towards innovation as musical phenomena. Furthermore, you also insinuate that the albums on my chart are by and large released after the 1980's when infact the only album released after 1981 on there has been Twin Infinitives. 18/20 of them are from the 70's or earlier, so again your comments don't make any sense.
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Gitfumfell 09/28/2008 23:10 | #1352
This list is realy not interesting,boring and...Isn't good
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Defago 09/22/2012 04:57 | #50915
Defago 09/22/2012 04:57 | #50915
Sorry! You just don't call Klaus Schulze a Pink Floyd clone, put Help! as first place and put The Wall and not Wish You Were Here. I dig the bands in the chart, but I think you got the weakest albums from each.
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