Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
by Manigoldo90 
This isn't a list of the best albums ever. This is just a list of my favourite albums. I didn't include jazz albums.
I especially love music that is different from anything else I've ever listened to. To me music is art, and art is self-exprexssion. And, since everyone is different from each other, I think that "normal" music has too rigid rules and it doesn't allow an artist to totally express himself. In music you should be allowed to do whatever you want to do, there are no limits and no rules, and I think every piece should be really different from each other. And if you find it ridiculous or difficult to listen, it's just a problem of custom: quoting Captain Beefheart, "people love melodic music because they've always listened to it that way". Once you're into music which is "different", you just can't do without it and you can't stop listening.
If you have any suggestions, please let me now :)
- Chart updated: 02/05/2016 15:45
- (Created: 01/22/2015 14:14).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Of childhood, snowflakes, death and rebirth. Maybe the most poetic and evocative thing you'll ever listen to.
[First added to this chart: 12/23/2015]
Is there any deepest record by any other artist? If there is, I've not listened to it yet. Rock Bottom digs in the abysses of Robert Wyatt's soul, showing it naked and pure in all its emotions. You can really hear his love for his wife, his anger and anything else he was feeling while recording this. Just perfect.
[First added to this chart: 01/22/2015]
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1974
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3,924
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I first listened to this album because I liked its cover and someone had recommended it to me. Well, I was just listening, but something inside of me seemed to be moving. I don't know what it was, but I know it was one of the most intense things I had never felt. And when in Celebration the music suddendly stopped... well, it was like time itself had stopped. Nothing upsets me as Tragedy does, and there is no other artist that seems to be connected with me as Julia Holter is.
[First added to this chart: 01/24/2015]
You think New Zeland is a too far-off place to produce good music? You're wrong. Roy Montgomery is just one of the several geniuses to come out of this small country, and he's become one of my favourite artists ever since I discovered him. His guitar sounds just like I think my soul would sound if it had chords. And Now The Rain is like a rainy afternoon: you can't go out, there isn't a lot of things you can do; you just watch the rain and it's wonderful.
[First added to this chart: 01/30/2015]
There aren't many things I can say that haven't already been said about this album. The Velvet Underground was the first to think of music as it really is: noise, firstly. And beside being without doubt one of the most innovative and influent albums ever, their debut is just beautiful. A sick and dark beautiness.
[First added to this chart: 01/22/2015]
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1967
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39,152
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This is the music that will be playd at my funeral. Joy Division put into music everything that concerns human fear, depression, confusion. They create a kind of desert glacial field where you're the only alive thing. And everyone, sometimes, have to feel alone to be really happy.
[First added to this chart: 09/03/2015]
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1980
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14,723
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This is for me the ultimate hip hop album. In Dalek's speeches there is everything that the genre has developed since its birth: violence, politic, anger, racism. And the industrial beats are possibly the best I've ever heard.
[First added to this chart: 01/27/2015]
Nothing to say. Just this is the most sincere album ever recorded by anyone, the purest show of sadness and depression that ever was put on a shelf. Tired Eyes and Albuquerque make me cry everytime I put them on.
[First added to this chart: 02/06/2015]
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1975
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3,120
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I love Bruce Springsteen. Don't insult him in front of me or I could beat you up. I love The Wild, I love Born to Run, I love The River... but Nebraska is just his deepest album and the one that gives me most shiver. He confirms to be not only a rocker but also one of the greatest songwriters ever.
[First added to this chart: 02/18/2015]
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1982
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Emotions, emotions and emotions again. Mercury Rev's psych-noise is one of the most intense things I've ever experienced. And their melodic talent is even better.
[First added to this chart: 01/23/2015]
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1991
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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 | 18 | 18% | |
| 1970s | 23 | 23% | |
| 1980s | 19 | 19% | |
| 1990s | 25 | 25% | |
| 2000s | 11 | 11% | |
| 2010s | 4 | 4% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Joy Division | 2 | 2% | |
| Tim Buckley | 2 | 2% | |
| Bruce Springsteen | 2 | 2% | |
| Bob Dylan | 2 | 2% | |
| My Bloody Valentine | 1 | 1% | |
| Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band | 1 | 1% | |
| Yatha Sidhra | 1 | 1% | |
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31 | 31% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
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| Up 2 from 3rd to 1stHymn To The Immortal Wind by Mono |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 2 from 1st to 3rdTragedy by Julia Holter |
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From Johnnyo 09/03/2025 18:44 | #310806
Really interesting, personal and unique Chart. I like it a lot
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From DommeDamian 07/16/2019 16:32 | #239716
DommeDamian 07/16/2019 16:32 | #239716
This chart is eccentric. More descriptions, you write fantastically!
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NickGordons 09/04/2018 17:14 | #220583
Wow excellent chart, thank you man)
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Noice
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Amirkhosro 02/07/2016 09:36 | #158927
Dope. A whole lot of dope.
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ObsoleteEntity 11/28/2015 18:37 | #153612
ObsoleteEntity 11/28/2015 18:37 | #153612
You are a music lover. It is a well thought out chart, leaving me with some new music to hear. Thanks for that.
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From platus 11/28/2015 16:01 | #153608
Really an excellent chart
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Davy 11/28/2015 15:08 | #153606
Davy 11/28/2015 15:08 | #153606
Only 1 album in common but I can't rate it less. Your chart is great!
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From Kalos 10/20/2015 11:09 | #151766
Kalos 10/20/2015 11:09 | #151766
grazie del voto, la tua chart è semplicemente fantastica e comprende un sacco di album che ho in "lista d'attesa", la sto addirittura includendo tra le mie preferite ed è la prima volta che lo faccio!
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Antonio-Pedro 09/30/2015 17:16 | #150745
Antonio-Pedro 09/30/2015 17:16 | #150745
Lovely-creamé Chart, It is interesting the connection music has on you, and how emotional the notes are with even the little details, like Carrie & Lowell's shiver, or how Holter makes your inner self moves, amazing work.
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