Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by brent13 
This is my 100 favorite albums. The chart is being updated all the time as music grows on me and my tastes change. Since it is a list of favorite albums, many of my favorite artists will be heavily represented.
- Chart updated: 5 days ago
- (Created: 12/14/2014 07:22).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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I love 1970's Joni Mitchell albums. It took a while for 'Hejira' to work it's way up to the top of Joni albums let alone this chart. 'Coyote', 'Amelia', Hejira', 'Song For Sharon' and 'Refuge of the Roads' are not only some of Joni's best songs, they are many of my favorite songs ever recorded.
Released the year I was born, this album speaks to a life fully lived and contemplated like few albums before or since. Jaco Pastorius plays fretless bass hauntingly on several tracks tying the sound together like a warm blanket and cementing it even further into my favorite best ever album. [First added to this chart: 01/19/2015]
‘The Beautiful Ones’, ‘Computer Blue’, and ‘Baby I’m a Star’ are the most underrated tracks. [First added to this chart: 12/26/2014]
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
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1930s | 0 | 0% | |
1940s | 0 | 0% | |
1950s | 0 | 0% | |
1960s | 9 | 9% | |
1970s | 28 | 28% | |
1980s | 12 | 12% | |
1990s | 19 | 19% | |
2000s | 21 | 21% | |
2010s | 9 | 9% | |
2020s | 2 | 2% |
Artist | Albums | % | |
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Sufjan Stevens | 5 | 5% | |
Pavement | 5 | 5% | |
Bob Marley & The Wailers | 4 | 4% | |
Joni Mitchell | 4 | 4% | |
Frank Zappa | 4 | 4% | |
The Beatles | 4 | 4% | |
The Flaming Lips | 4 | 4% | |
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Splendid chart. Genesis reigns supreme. The Lamb is a formidable work. I also love screaming along to "It". One of the greatest songs of all time. They always knew how to end an album right (The Knife, Fountain of Salmacis, Los Endos, etc.).
Probably the chart I identify the strongest with, at least when it comes to the top 20. I've also been noticing Lamb on a lot of peoples lists lately, it's certainly an album that requires multiple listens to get and it gets better every time. I think Supper's Ready is still their best song, but Lamb is their best album overall. You got some crazy stuff out of left field too I wasn't expecting, so I better check some of it out! I've seen the Flaming Lips live yet I haven't cared much for their actual music.....I know, it's weird. I'm gonna keep trying though.

Interesting chart, with interesting choices, though I think its better to introduce more bands. Your descriptions show how much effort you put in your chart.

Very good chart, very good music.
My only criticism: I´d like to have more different artists and not too many albums of the same artists.
congratulations anyway.

Nice Sufjan inclusions!
Here’s to Joni Mitchell

Sure there might be a few albums here that aren't really my thing but I am really impressed with the effort you have gone into with your notes!! Some jazz and electronic albums sneaking in would up this to a perfect score from me!

Nice to see something by Joni Mitchell besides fuckin Blue. And Mars Audiac is indeed Stereolab best album.

Fantastic chart! Many of my all-time favorites, which means I need to check out some of the other stuff.
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