Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
by NeverHuman 
- Chart updated: 09/03/2019 16:45
- (Created: 12/24/2014 02:15).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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I know picking this record as my number one is a kind of frowned upon by the music elites for its popularity but this albums will always be my favorite and hold such a special places in my heart. Pink Floyd is the band that made want to listen underground and experimental music. Its the base of all my music taste to come. A lot of this showed me why I loved music so much, from great story telling, excellent song writing, and to beautiful well crafted songs. I very much doubt I would be listening to some of my other favorite artist if it wasn't for this band.
Fav Track: Great Gig In the Sky [First added to this chart: 12/23/2014]
Fav Track: Great Gig In the Sky [First added to this chart: 12/23/2014]
Year of Release:
1973
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60,722
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Epic. Thats really all you need to say. Maybe add sad, doomed, poetic, chaotic, beautiful, and daunting. What ever word you wish to describe it as dosen't really matter. To me and so many others this album, this band, this group of talented and introspective Montreal musicians have changed my mind and hearts like so few have. I remember growing up wanting to listen to a certain type of music but never being able to find the right one. Some came close but never just right. But then, oh boy, i heard this album. And it was like my inner self that had been longing for this heroic and depressing and gorgeous music had found what it had been looking for, for so long. Godspeed and the other 2 bands associated with it really have become like the sound track to my life.
Fav Track: Static [First added to this chart: 12/23/2014]
Fav Track: Static [First added to this chart: 12/23/2014]
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2000
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12,961
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From and early age I sort of already had a fascination with ambient noise and sound. I remember very fondly listening to rain at night with my window open, while my dog also listening to my dogs slow melodic breath by my bed side. Or going camping and listening to the the fire slowly burn as the darkness of the woods surrounded me. While most people don't consider Grouper as an ambient artist to me I feel as tho her music this album is taking that absent woodland sound and reconstructing them into this beautiful art Psych Pop.
Fav Track: Disengaged [First added to this chart: 10/10/2016]
Fav Track: Disengaged [First added to this chart: 10/10/2016]
Year of Release:
2008
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1,145
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R.I.P Genevieve.
Fav Track: I Want Wind To Blow [First added to this chart: 10/10/2016]
Fav Track: I Want Wind To Blow [First added to this chart: 10/10/2016]
Year of Release:
2001
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7,732
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Fav Track: Custom Concerns
[First added to this chart: 10/10/2016]
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1996
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1,673
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Fav Track: Wish You Were Here
[First added to this chart: 12/23/2014]
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1975
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45,140
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Fav Track: Nude/Videotape
[First added to this chart: 01/14/2015]
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2007
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44,173
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Fav Track: Let Down/Exit Music
[First added to this chart: 12/23/2014]
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1997
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64,346
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Carissa
[First added to this chart: 06/04/2015]
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2014
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Fav Track: I See A Darkness
Year of Release:
1999
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1,755
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 4 | 4% | |
| 1960s | 10 | 10% | |
| 1970s | 16 | 16% | |
| 1980s | 8 | 8% | |
| 1990s | 26 | 26% | |
| 2000s | 19 | 19% | |
| 2010s | 17 | 17% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Godspeed You! Black Emperor | 4 | 4% | |
| Bob Dylan | 4 | 4% | |
| Pink Floyd | 3 | 3% | |
| Modest Mouse | 3 | 3% | |
| Radiohead | 3 | 3% | |
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | 2 | 2% | |
| Fugazi | 2 | 2% | |
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13 | 13% | |
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9 | 9% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 3 from 12th to 9th Benji by Sun Kil Moon |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 2 from 9th to 11th Pure Comedy by Father John Misty |
| Down 2 from 10th to 12th A Crow Looked At Me by Mount Eerie |
| Down 2 from 11th to 13th In The Court Of The Crimson King (An Observation By King Crimson) by King Crimson |
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| I See A Darkness by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy |
| Leavers |
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| Horses by Patti Smith |
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| ! | 08/27/2020 06:11 |  sssvnnn | 2,864 | 83/100 |
| ! | 08/26/2020 20:16 |  Rhyner | 1,454 | 99/100 |
| ! | 08/26/2020 17:17 | viddywell72 | 1 | 90/100 |
| ! | 08/26/2020 10:57 | BraddlesHendo | 497 | 91/100 |
| ! | 06/22/2019 05:27 | jdizzle123456 | 207 | 89/100 |
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This chart is rated in the top 5% of all charts on BestEverAlbums.com. This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 88.7/100, a mean average of 88.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 89.6/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 9.1.
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From jdizzle123456 06/22/2019 05:29 | #238054
Hey this is fantastic chart. You obviously like sad indie rock/folk and post-rock. But who can blame you. If it moves you it f**kin moves you. That being said, I enjoy checking this chart out quite a bit. Was not expecting the Grouper and Monk; I love to see the delicious input from charts like these!
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gidgidi 06/21/2019 10:54 | #237986
gidgidi 06/21/2019 10:54 | #237986
Love the Pure Comedy inclusion
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ForegroundNoise 06/21/2019 08:58 | #237979
ForegroundNoise 06/21/2019 08:58 | #237979
I'm personally not the biggest fan of Pink Floyd but this chart is gorgeous. Keep it up with the notes and I'll up this to a perfect score!
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From jeffrey-hodgson 10/14/2018 23:17 | #222539
Like Floyd at no. 1 but otherwise not great.
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DommeDamian 06/17/2018 21:22 | #216944
DommeDamian 06/17/2018 21:22 | #216944
Surprised that Pure Comedy is in top 10. Another one that gets the album, check!
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From teamdean 10/31/2017 03:30 | #200329
I see modest mouse in the top ten and i already love the chart
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From SamNassiri98 10/31/2017 00:00 | #200322
Nice chart!:)
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From LordMark 10/30/2017 08:38 | #200291
Lift Your Skinny Fists, F#a# (infinity), AND Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada!!!
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Fischman 12/27/2016 19:18 | #181088
Fischman 12/27/2016 19:18 | #181088
Lots of great prog and jazz in there. Other than the standard Dylan/Young worship, this looks a lot like some of my charts.
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ObsoleteEntity 12/27/2016 14:58 | #181076
ObsoleteEntity 12/27/2016 14:58 | #181076
Floyd, Dylan, Young. Nice chart.
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