Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
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apeiron 
One album per artist except when more are really needed...
- Chart updated: 06/28/2024 00:15
- (Created: 03/15/2015 23:45).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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[First added to this chart: 03/15/2015]
Year of Release:
1971
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3,595
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[First added to this chart: 03/15/2015]
Year of Release:
1967
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39,878
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[First added to this chart: 03/15/2015]
Year of Release:
1977
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20,143
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[First added to this chart: 03/15/2015]
Year of Release:
1968
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16,342
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[First added to this chart: 03/15/2015]
Year of Release:
1966
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39,138
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[First added to this chart: 03/15/2015]
Year of Release:
1980
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15,222
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[First added to this chart: 03/15/2015]
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1966
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49,624
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[First added to this chart: 03/15/2015]
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1971
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18,937
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[First added to this chart: 03/15/2015]
Year of Release:
1965
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27,338
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[First added to this chart: 03/15/2015]
Year of Release:
1965
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15,716
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Total albums: 100. Page 1 of 10
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 1 | 1% | |
| 1960s | 19 | 19% | |
| 1970s | 26 | 26% | |
| 1980s | 33 | 33% | |
| 1990s | 15 | 15% | |
| 2000s | 5 | 5% | |
| 2010s | 1 | 1% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Television | 2 | 2% | |
| The Beatles | 2 | 2% | |
| The Velvet Underground | 2 | 2% | |
| The Velvet Underground & Nico | 1 | 1% | |
| Steve Reich | 1 | 1% | |
| Syd Barrett | 1 | 1% | |
| Patti Smith | 1 | 1% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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47 | 47% | |
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33 | 33% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
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| ! | 01/15/2025 18:04 | Exist-en-ciel | 144 | 98/100 |
| ! | 09/29/2023 11:33 |  Tamthebam | 645 | 85/100 |
| ! | 09/29/2023 09:04 | Moondance | 476 | 85/100 |
| ! | 02/02/2021 12:28 | mianfei | 168 | 62/100 |
| ! | 09/27/2020 06:44 | zrommeke | 81 | 83/100 |
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From Tamthebam 09/29/2023 11:38 | #299302
Tamthebam 09/29/2023 11:38 | #299302
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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From Moondance 02/15/2023 00:36 | #294027
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 jdizzle123456 01/02/2022 04:19 | #278361
Beautiful list. I feel like your chart represents where my tastes are heading.
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From mianfei 02/02/2021 12:32 | #265577
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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From zrommeke 09/27/2020 06:44 | #258771
Great chart!!
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From Johnnyo 09/26/2020 10:54 | #258723
"except when more are really needed" love it. Some artists cannot be limited to one. Very nice chart
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From RioBravo 07/14/2020 00:03 | #255537
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 jdizzle123456 07/01/2020 16:07 | #254901
Fantastic chart. I found out about Scott Johnson today, and found this excellent chart via him.
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craola 04/23/2019 03:38 | #235409
craola 04/23/2019 03:38 | #235409
<3 a neon rome
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From panapsal 08/07/2018 03:51 | #219336
superb selections !!!
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