Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
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Disintegration 
United Kingdom The Cure
Buy album United States
Favorite tracks:
1. Pictures Of You
2. The Same Deep Water As You
3. Lullaby
4. Last Dance
5. Plainsong [First added to this chart: 03/02/2015]
Year of Release:
1989
Appears in:
1,857 charts
Rank Score:
18,836
Rank in 1989:
2
Rank in 1980s:
4
Overall Rank:
27
Average Rating:
Top rated album (86/100 - 2078 votes)  86 (2,078 votes)
Comments:
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Wish You Were Here 
United Kingdom Pink Floyd
Buy album United States
Favorite tracks:
1. Wish You Were Here
2. Have A Cigar
3. Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts I-V
4. Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts VI-IX
5. Welcome To The Machine [First added to this chart: 03/02/2015]
Year of Release:
1975
Appears in:
3,022 charts
Rank Score:
35,155
Rank in 1975:
1
Rank in 1970s:
2
Overall Rank:
5
Average Rating:
Top rated album (91/100 - 4086 votes)  91 (4,086 votes)
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Funeral 
Canada Arcade Fire
Buy album United States
Favorite tracks:
1. Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
2. Neighborhood #2 (Laïka)
3. Wake Up
4. Rebellion (Lies)
5. Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) [First added to this chart: 03/02/2015]
Year of Release:
2004
Appears in:
2,932 charts
Rank Score:
24,488
Rank in 2004:
1
Rank in 2000s:
3
Overall Rank:
16
Average Rating:
Top rated album (88/100 - 3687 votes)  88 (3,687 votes)
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Ágætis Byrjun 
Iceland Sigur Rós
Buy album United States
Favorite tracks:
1. Svefn-G-Englar
2. Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása
3. Olsen Olsen
4. Starálfur
5. Flugufrelsarinn [First added to this chart: 03/02/2015]
Year of Release:
1999
Appears in:
1,423 charts
Rank Score:
10,013
Rank in 1999:
1
Rank in 1990s:
14
Overall Rank:
78
Average Rating:
Top rated album (86/100 - 1727 votes)  86 (1,727 votes)
Comments:
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Violator 
United Kingdom Depeche Mode
Buy album United States
Favorite tracks:
1. Enjoy The Silence
2. Policy Of Truth
3. World In My Eyes
4. Personal Jesus
5. Halo [First added to this chart: 03/02/2015]
Year of Release:
1990
Appears in:
1,210 charts
Rank Score:
8,080
Rank in 1990:
1
Rank in 1990s:
20
Overall Rank:
101
Average Rating:
 83 (1,408 votes)
Comments:
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The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars 
United Kingdom David Bowie
Buy album United States
Favorite tracks:
1. Starman
2. Five Years
3. Rock & Roll Suicide
4. Ziggy Stardust
5. Lady Stardust [First added to this chart: 03/02/2015]
Year of Release:
1972
Appears in:
3,027 charts
Rank Score:
33,227
Rank in 1972:
1
Rank in 1970s:
3
Overall Rank:
7
Average Rating:
Top rated album (90/100 - 3578 votes)  90 (3,578 votes)
Comments:
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Illinois 
United States Sufjan Stevens
Buy album United States
Favorite tracks:
1. Casimir Pulaski Day
2. Chicago
3. Come On! Feel The Illinoise! ...
4. John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
5. Concerning The UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois [First added to this chart: 03/02/2015]
Year of Release:
2005
Appears in:
1,700 charts
Rank Score:
14,235
Rank in 2005:
1
Rank in 2000s:
5
Overall Rank:
41
Average Rating:
Top rated album (86/100 - 1926 votes)  86 (1,926 votes)
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Bon Iver, Bon Iver 
United States Bon Iver
Buy album United States
Favorite tracks:
1. Holocene
2. Perth
3. Calgary
4. Beth/Rest
5. Minnesota, WI [First added to this chart: 03/02/2015]
Year of Release:
2011
Appears in:
970 charts
Rank Score:
4,879
Rank in 2011:
2
Rank in 2010s:
19
Overall Rank:
190
Average Rating:
 80 (1,360 votes)
Comments:
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OK Computer 
United Kingdom Radiohead
Buy album United States
Favorite tracks:
1. Karma Police
2. Paranoid Android
3. Let Down
4. No Surprises
5. Lucky [First added to this chart: 03/02/2015]
Year of Release:
1997
Appears in:
4,457 charts
Rank Score:
50,551
Rank in 1997:
1
Rank in 1990s:
1
Overall Rank:
1
Average Rating:
Top rated album (92/100 - 5674 votes)  92 (5,674 votes)
Comments:
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Rain Dogs 
United States Tom Waits
Buy album United States
[First added to this chart: 06/02/2020]
Year of Release:
1985
Appears in:
1,149 charts
Rank Score:
7,134
Rank in 1985:
2
Rank in 1980s:
13
Overall Rank:
115
Average Rating:
 84 (1,355 votes)
Comments:
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Simply awesome chart! Great variety of choices, across every decade. Love it!
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Best Albums of the 2000s
1. In Rainbows by Radiohead
2. Kid A by Radiohead
3. Funeral by Arcade Fire
4. Is This It by The Strokes
5. Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
6. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco
7. Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not by Arctic Monkeys
8. Madvillainy by Madvillain
9. Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
10. Turn On The Bright Lights by Interpol
11. A Rush Of Blood To The Head by Coldplay
12. Sound Of Silver by LCD Soundsystem
13. For Emma, Forever Ago by Bon Iver
14. Discovery by Daft Punk
15. Elephant by The White Stripes
16. Songs For The Deaf by Queens Of The Stone Age
17. American Idiot by Green Day
18. Lateralus by Tool
19. Vespertine by Björk
20. Demon Days by Gorillaz