Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by apeiron

One album per artist except when more are really needed...

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[First added to this chart: 03/15/2015]
Year of Release:
1971
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3,873
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[First added to this chart: 03/15/2015]
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1967
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45,998
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[First added to this chart: 03/15/2015]
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1977
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21,719
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[First added to this chart: 03/15/2015]
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1968
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17,738
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[First added to this chart: 03/15/2015]
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1966
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45,081
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[First added to this chart: 03/15/2015]
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1980
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16,757
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[First added to this chart: 03/15/2015]
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1966
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56,944
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[First added to this chart: 03/15/2015]
Year of Release:
1971
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19,711
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[First added to this chart: 03/15/2015]
Year of Release:
1965
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31,057
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[First added to this chart: 03/15/2015]
Year of Release:
1965
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17,084
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition

Decade Albums %


1930s 0 0%
1940s 0 0%
1950s 1 1%
1960s 20 20%
1970s 26 26%
1980s 32 32%
1990s 14 14%
2000s 6 6%
2010s 1 1%
2020s 0 0%
Country Albums %


United States 47 47%
United Kingdom 33 33%
Australia 3 3%
Mixed Nationality 3 3%
Germany 3 3%
Canada 2 2%
Brazil 2 2%
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Compilation? Albums %
No 93 93%
Yes 7 7%
Live? Albums %
No 99 99%
Yes 1 1%

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88/100 (from 45 votes)
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This chart is rated in the top 7% of all charts on BestEverAlbums.com. This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 88.3/100, a mean average of 87.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 88.9/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 8.9.

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85/100
From 09/29/2023 11:38
Really cool chart lots of famous albums and some lesser known as well as some stuff I have never heard..... thanks
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90/100
From 02/15/2023 00:36
Cool chart - nice spread across national boundaries, genres & decades.
Really like that you have put Tim Buckley & Jeff Buckley next to each other at #22 & #23.
We only have 3 albums in common, including Jeff Buckley's 'Grace' & Tim Buckley's 'Hello & Goodbye.
Like that you have 3 Australian albums in your chart too.
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From 01/02/2022 04:19
Beautiful list. I feel like your chart represents where my tastes are heading.
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75/100
From 02/02/2021 12:32
A reasonably good chart, with a lot of diversity and quite a number of surprising choices. The Band of Holy Joy, the Dodos and the Triffids in their different ways are all artists I rarely recall seeing in these pages. I have wanted to check out the Dodos for some time but have been busy doing other things for years now. Even some more familiar choices like Spiritualized/Spacemen 3, Arto Lindsay, Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham, The Waterboys, Einstürzende Neubauten, and Jackson C. Frank are almost refreshing merely because they are not all over these pages.

There are some familiar choices which I do not enjoy seeing in the White Stripes and Coldplay, but this is another blemish.

Some albums I might recommend to you:

— Laura Nyro – any of ‘Eli and the Thirteenth Confession’, ‘New York Tendaberry’ or ‘Christmas and the Beads of Sweat’
— Band of Susans – any of ‘Love Agenda’, ‘The Words and the Flesh’ or ‘Veil’
— The Tahitian Choir – either volume
— The Moon Seven Times – ‘The Moon Seven Times’ (listening to it as I write this and highly impressed
— Lamb – ‘Lamb’
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90/100
From 09/27/2020 06:44
Great chart!!
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85/100
From 09/26/2020 10:54
"except when more are really needed" love it. Some artists cannot be limited to one. Very nice chart
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90/100
From 07/14/2020 00:03
Great job! Adventure is wonderful and is often unjustly left out of these best ever lists. Glad to see it in the top 10.
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From 07/01/2020 16:07
Fantastic chart. I found out about Scott Johnson today, and found this excellent chart via him.
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From 04/23/2019 03:38
<3 a neon rome
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From 08/07/2018 03:51
superb selections !!!
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