Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by calsper

The difficult task of turning something as subjective as the power of music into an objective measure seems both arbitrary and heuristic if one is to avoid leaving readers with an undifferentiated overview.

In this chart I try to take into consideration certain aspects that I regard as crucial in order to rank the top 100 albums in music history, in which I believe a multifaceted approach is needed.

I rank by taking into account components of the individual album related to:
- Memories: my personal testemonies, confessions and experiences related to the music album as a listener, musician and human being
- History: the significance of music history and the vast impact and ways that single recordings have echoed throughout time as seminal artistic testamonies
- State-dependent emotion: the creative impact that I experience in listening and the emotional states that emerge during the course of the album's runtime
- Production: the soundstage, instrumentation, transparency and mastering of certain albums inducted into this chart as musical detail and presence to me is a highly enriching aspect of experiencing music.

This is a wonderful website. I am honored to be part of it and to have the privilege of being inspired by the whole-hearted music lovers in it. ..Enjoy

Best Casper

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[First added to this chart: 03/10/2015]
Year of Release:
1979
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25,040
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[First added to this chart: 03/27/2015]
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1977
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21,724
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[First added to this chart: 03/25/2015]
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1970
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13,179
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[First added to this chart: 03/25/2015]
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1970
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13,603
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[First added to this chart: 03/25/2015]
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1971
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24,130
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[First added to this chart: 03/25/2015]
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1970
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19,567
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[First added to this chart: 03/25/2015]
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1971
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3,854
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Total albums: 27. Page 3 of 3

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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition

Decade Albums %


1930s 0 0%
1940s 0 0%
1950s 3 3%
1960s 17 17%
1970s 27 27%
1980s 14 14%
1990s 9 9%
2000s 11 11%
2010s 19 19%
2020s 0 0%
Artist Albums %


The Beatles 5 5%
Radiohead 4 4%
Steely Dan 3 3%
Kendrick Lamar 2 2%
Bon Iver 2 2%
Arcade Fire 2 2%
Bob Dylan 2 2%
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Country Albums %


United States 51 51%
United Kingdom 31 31%
Mixed Nationality 5 5%
Canada 5 5%
France 3 3%
Australia 1 1%
Ireland 1 1%
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Compilation? Albums %
No 99 99%
Yes 1 1%
Soundtrack? Albums %
No 99 99%
Yes 1 1%

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90/100 (from 66 votes)
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This chart is rated in the top 2% of all charts on BestEverAlbums.com. This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 90.5/100, a mean average of 90.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 91.2/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 9.0.

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From 11/07/2022 21:57
Some terrific comments that I enjoyed reading. The chart reads like a reshuffling of the best of the best BEA rated albums - which is fine....but the chart didn't excite me like the more adventurous charts do.
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From 04/28/2022 12:13
Nærmest endnu bedre end 4 år siden.
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From 01/03/2022 17:11
22 in common, contains many classics, as it should.
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From 09/02/2018 11:20
The most PC chart I have ever seen on this site, and that’s saying something. Do you even have a taste of your own?
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From 11/23/2017 11:09
11 albums og 18 kunstnere. Vi har virkeligt meget til fælles. Fed liste og endnu bedre beskrivelser, homie
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From 11/16/2017 19:57
Good chart like the notes plenty of heavy hitters
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From 11/16/2017 18:33
very nice chart
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From 08/02/2017 22:33
A lot of great albums and some albums I will have to check out! I liked reading your album reviews. Very good stuff!
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From 05/01/2017 12:18
It's got all the classics but that's just it, not a single choice I didn't see on basically every chart ever. This is good and bad at the same time. The second thing is that I don't like some of the choices, but descriptions compensate for that. Not that diverse, but still very charming. I'm confused.
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From 04/28/2017 07:52
Too many albums that everybody seems to like, for my taste. No wonder it resembles the Top 100 rearranged most. Only 2 2digits albums (in less than 100 charts). This is hard too understand for me. There is joy in loving albums that are obscure.
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