Top 75 Greatest Music Albums
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Radioscope 
I know there's a lot of artists with more than one album, but I tend to love more than one album from the same artist, maybe a bit too much. Truth be told, I still have a long way to be as musically experienced as I would like to, so this is a work in progress. Not much will be surprising, but this is, after all, my favorites.
- Chart updated: 10/04/2020 10:45
- (Created: 11/29/2014 16:00).
- Chart size: 75 albums.
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"And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea"
Is it the horns? Is it the acoustic guitar? Is it Magnum's breaking voice? Or the surrealistic images the lyrics easily depict in my mind? Who knows, but this odd fantastic tale gets me every time I listen to it. Something about the eerie atmosphere is so special, so magical and so weird yet familiar, with its lofi-esque aesthetic giving it some type of special closeness and sincerity few things can. This album is for me the equivalent of Dali in music: the painting and the strokes give such realistic details yet the whole image is so surreal.
Favorite tracks: King of Carrot Flowers Pt 1, 2 & 3; In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. [First added to this chart: 11/29/2014]
Is it the horns? Is it the acoustic guitar? Is it Magnum's breaking voice? Or the surrealistic images the lyrics easily depict in my mind? Who knows, but this odd fantastic tale gets me every time I listen to it. Something about the eerie atmosphere is so special, so magical and so weird yet familiar, with its lofi-esque aesthetic giving it some type of special closeness and sincerity few things can. This album is for me the equivalent of Dali in music: the painting and the strokes give such realistic details yet the whole image is so surreal.
Favorite tracks: King of Carrot Flowers Pt 1, 2 & 3; In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. [First added to this chart: 11/29/2014]
Year of Release:
1998
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32,742
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"Karma police
I've given all I can it's not enough"
After a traumatic event, you find yourself with a new way of seeing life, convinced you are going to make a difference for good. However, just as you went up you go down as you see the world does not want to be helped, packed with toxic people. You feel so alienated you wish you could fly away from this world, a situation so unbereable you feel like death is the only way out, as life is happening around you but you feel like it has nothing to do with you. Anyways, you have done some bad things, you have hurt people around you, so why do you feel you have the right to save the World? At the same time, you have that society that tries to turn you into a robot, while the people above you makes things that take you further into this alienation as you are more and more dependent on work due to the lack of help it gives you. So yeah, not even the government makes you feel safe, so you grow this anxiety about how everyone judges you, how you must keep things secret but people will anyways find out. You are so willing to keep that privacy to yourself you stop wondering about the big picture, you just fear failure so much you opt for a predictable future and a conventional life. Funnily enough, even with this you are in a great danger of something horrible happening to you, as you will have to move and movement brings danger with it. But... hey, man, slow down. Look at life, it is beautiful and you are missing it. You are so obsessed with those little things in life and you are forgetting to appreciate the small things in life.
Just... so perfect.
Favorite Tracks: Paranoid Android, No Surprises, Subterranean Homesick Alien. [First added to this chart: 01/02/2015]
I've given all I can it's not enough"
After a traumatic event, you find yourself with a new way of seeing life, convinced you are going to make a difference for good. However, just as you went up you go down as you see the world does not want to be helped, packed with toxic people. You feel so alienated you wish you could fly away from this world, a situation so unbereable you feel like death is the only way out, as life is happening around you but you feel like it has nothing to do with you. Anyways, you have done some bad things, you have hurt people around you, so why do you feel you have the right to save the World? At the same time, you have that society that tries to turn you into a robot, while the people above you makes things that take you further into this alienation as you are more and more dependent on work due to the lack of help it gives you. So yeah, not even the government makes you feel safe, so you grow this anxiety about how everyone judges you, how you must keep things secret but people will anyways find out. You are so willing to keep that privacy to yourself you stop wondering about the big picture, you just fear failure so much you opt for a predictable future and a conventional life. Funnily enough, even with this you are in a great danger of something horrible happening to you, as you will have to move and movement brings danger with it. But... hey, man, slow down. Look at life, it is beautiful and you are missing it. You are so obsessed with those little things in life and you are forgetting to appreciate the small things in life.
Just... so perfect.
Favorite Tracks: Paranoid Android, No Surprises, Subterranean Homesick Alien. [First added to this chart: 01/02/2015]
Year of Release:
1997
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63,496
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[First added to this chart: 10/04/2020]
Year of Release:
1991
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12,131
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[First added to this chart: 10/04/2020]
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1995
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29,015
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Noise, noise, noise... I fell in love with Loveless one time I was walking around my city, very nervous about an exam I was having that afternoon that I could not stop thinking about. Well, that was until MBV punched me in the face and completely erased me from this planet, and made me a walking zombie with a wall of sound that avoided me from thinking.
No lyric quote for this one, and I don't want to know what they are saying. Their slaps in my brain is all I want from it.
Favorite tracks: To Here Knows When, Only Shallow, Loomer. [First added to this chart: 11/29/2014]
No lyric quote for this one, and I don't want to know what they are saying. Their slaps in my brain is all I want from it.
Favorite tracks: To Here Knows When, Only Shallow, Loomer. [First added to this chart: 11/29/2014]
Year of Release:
1991
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28,387
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"No hables de tu marido, mujer
Mujer de malos sentimientos"
(Don't speak about your husband, woman. Bad-feelings woman)
Nothing is better than waking up dancing after Chan Chan. Fantastic Caribbean vibes that remind me of a whole world of music yet unknown by me that will be gazed at whenever I have the chance.
Favorite tracks: Chan Chan, De Camino A La Vereda, ¿Y Tú Qué Has Hecho? [First added to this chart: 01/10/2016]
Mujer de malos sentimientos"
(Don't speak about your husband, woman. Bad-feelings woman)
Nothing is better than waking up dancing after Chan Chan. Fantastic Caribbean vibes that remind me of a whole world of music yet unknown by me that will be gazed at whenever I have the chance.
Favorite tracks: Chan Chan, De Camino A La Vereda, ¿Y Tú Qué Has Hecho? [First added to this chart: 01/10/2016]
Year of Release:
1997
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2,591
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[First added to this chart: 01/02/2015]
Year of Release:
1993
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17,530
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I think we all have that one album that played every other day in the car. Listening to this makes me travel to my car when I was 7 years old while my parents drove to the capital and I looked at the landscape. No other album does it better than this one.
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Year of Release:
1994
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16,360
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"Sentado esperando a que llames, rezando porque des una señal
Los días van cada vez más despacio, y solamente puedo esperar
Que vengas a explicar que todo ha terminado, que tengas que decir que no me quieres ver"
(Sitting waiting for you to call, praying for you to give a signal
The days go everytime slower, and I can only wait
For you to explain that everything is over, for you to say that you don't want to see me)
Highly unknown album in an international level possibly because it is not in English, this Indie record is a solid record that always reminds me of those times of teen love, as fragile as glass, and all the pain and jealousy that usually went hand-by-hand. It is solid enough to have redefined Spanish indie music since its release almost 20 years ago. I mean, the guy's weirdly ugly voice style is still being copied by many. It does not try being big, and it is not big, but it is as big as I have heard Spanish indie (which I am not a huge fan of, but hey).
Favorite tracks: Segundo Premio, La Playa, Parte De Lo Que Me Debes [First added to this chart: 01/02/2015]
Los días van cada vez más despacio, y solamente puedo esperar
Que vengas a explicar que todo ha terminado, que tengas que decir que no me quieres ver"
(Sitting waiting for you to call, praying for you to give a signal
The days go everytime slower, and I can only wait
For you to explain that everything is over, for you to say that you don't want to see me)
Highly unknown album in an international level possibly because it is not in English, this Indie record is a solid record that always reminds me of those times of teen love, as fragile as glass, and all the pain and jealousy that usually went hand-by-hand. It is solid enough to have redefined Spanish indie music since its release almost 20 years ago. I mean, the guy's weirdly ugly voice style is still being copied by many. It does not try being big, and it is not big, but it is as big as I have heard Spanish indie (which I am not a huge fan of, but hey).
Favorite tracks: Segundo Premio, La Playa, Parte De Lo Que Me Debes [First added to this chart: 01/02/2015]
Total albums: 13. Page 1 of 2
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Top 75 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 3 | 4% | |
| 1960s | 10 | 13% | |
| 1970s | 9 | 12% | |
| 1980s | 8 | 11% | |
| 1990s | 13 | 17% | |
| 2000s | 17 | 23% | |
| 2010s | 15 | 20% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Radiohead | 4 | 5% | |
| The Beatles | 4 | 5% | |
| Joy Division | 2 | 3% | |
| Rosalía | 2 | 3% | |
| Arcade Fire | 2 | 3% | |
| Kendrick Lamar | 2 | 3% | |
| Sufjan Stevens | 2 | 3% | |
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40 | 53% | |
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21 | 28% | |
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5 | 7% | |
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3 | 4% | |
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2 | 3% | |
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1 | 1% | |
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Top 75 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 27 from 40th to 13thSgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles |
| Up 14 from 31st to 17thGood Kid, M.A.A.D City by Kendrick Lamar |
| Up 13 from 22nd to 9thYankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco |
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| Down 5 from 17th to 22ndSpiderland by Slint |
| Down 5 from 18th to 23rdRevolver by The Beatles |
| Down 4 from 15th to 19thDvořák: Symphony No. 5 In E Minor, Op. 95 "From The New World" by George Szell & The Cleveland Orchestra |
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| ! | 04/17/2019 16:36 | yoizillmatic | 5 | 96/100 |
| ! | 12/19/2018 17:55 | Peppermint | 20 | 78/100 |
| ! | 11/20/2018 19:24 |  DommeDamian | 1,004 | 89/100 |
| ! | 09/26/2017 15:07 | TheSmiths82-87 | 1,831 | 83/100 |
| ! | 05/28/2017 16:44 |  LedZep | 1,105 | 84/100 |
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From yoizillmatic 04/17/2019 16:37 | #235128
Love this chart, I agree with a lot of your choices and overall I think we have pretty similar tastes.
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From Peppermint 12/19/2018 17:55 | #227450
Good choice of album list and great to see it spans over numerous decades too!
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From LedZep 05/28/2017 16:47 | #191595
LedZep 05/28/2017 16:47 | #191595
Probably will give a higher rating when I see all 100 albums, hoping for some earlier Biffy stuff!
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sageamagoo 03/07/2017 03:35 | #187062
sageamagoo 03/07/2017 03:35 | #187062
Excellent chart, the notes are really nice and I love your album choices! Hope to see it expand to 100 in the future.
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HiImViibes 06/15/2016 19:11 | #168840
HiImViibes 06/15/2016 19:11 | #168840
I like your notes, I totally know how you feel about Arcade Fire.
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Anti 05/28/2015 18:35 | #142579
Anti 05/28/2015 18:35 | #142579
You can surely convince a person to listen to an album!
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Ollie 05/16/2015 16:26 | #141606
Ollie 05/16/2015 16:26 | #141606
Great to see Trouble Will Find Me so high, massively underrated
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From Ollie 02/17/2015 15:48 | #135170
Ollie 02/17/2015 15:48 | #135170
Lovely picks
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From brent13 01/20/2015 01:34 | #131992
great start!!
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TheMusicDefener 11/29/2014 20:54 | #128252
TheMusicDefener 11/29/2014 20:54 | #128252
You'll fit in well here.
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