Top 20 Greatest Music Albums by RedBlackGreen 
Hi, I have been a big music fan for over 30 years with a record collection that numbers about 3,000 LPs. My favourite album list has changed a bit over the years. Ten years ago only the Beatles, Joy Division, Love and Kate Bush would have been in the Top 10.
Singles have been just as important as albums in the development of modern popular music so here is my top 20 (in no paricular order): The Beatles -'Paperback Writer/Rain'(1966); Stevie Wonder - 'Superstition'(1972); The Smiths - 'This Charming Man' (1983); Joy Division - 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' (1980); Spiritualized - 'I Think I'm in Love' (1998); Yeah Yeah Yeahs - 'Maps' (2004); The Clash - 'White Man in Hammersmith Palais'(1978); The Rolling Stones - 'Paint it Black'(1966); Chumawamba - 'Revolution EP'(1985); Keith LeBlanc - 'Malcolm X: No Sell Out'(1983); The Beatles - 'Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane'(1967); Massive Attack - 'Protection'(1994); The Sex Pistols - 'God Save the Queen'(1978); The Kinks - 'Waterloo Sunset'(1967); MGMT - 'Time to Pretend'(2008); The Specials - 'Ghost Town'(1981); The Byrds - 'Eight Miles high'(1966); Chic - 'Good Times'(1979); Primal Scream - 'Loaded'(1990); Radiohead - 'Bodysnatchers'(2008); New Order - 'Blue Monday'(1983.
- Chart updated: 04/14/2012 12:15
- (Created: 11/22/2010 22:10).
- Chart size: 20 albums.
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An encyclopaedia of modern music. Everything is here and done better than before or since. Yer Blues to Blackbird, Rocky Racoon to Revolution, this is a treasure chest from the Fab Four. And don't believe anyone who says there are only enough great tracks for a single album. Favourite track: all of them!
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1968
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By far the best debut album in rock music. Sounds as mysterious and unsettling today as it did 30 years ago and serves as a blueprint for much of British indie rock since (though nothing else quite matches it). Favourite track: New Dawn Fades
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1979
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The band of the decade deliver their magnum opus for the 21st century. All the songs are at least excellent and some - Bodysnatchers, Weird Fishes/Arpeggi, All I Need, Reckoner, Videotape - are as accomplished as anything they have ever recorded. Favourite track: Bodysnatchers
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2007
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The most brilliant heartbreak record ever released. Never even bought it when it came out but it wowed me several years later. Best album of 1997 (not Ok Computer!) and of its decade. Favourite song: I think I'm in Love
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1997
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Hard to believe that the Beatles made this just three years after 'Please please me'. This is the sound of the coolest, smartest, most innovative and influential band in history leaving their rivals for dead as they surge towards their peak. Favourite song: Tomorrow Never Knows
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1966
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Sublime songs with possibly the best use of strings and horns on record. This portrays an altogether more unsettling view of 60s California than some of its contemporaries yet still sounds somewhat like Burt Bacharach on acid. No other album has achieved its texture. Favourite track: You Set the Scene
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1967
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Immensely influential yet sold few copies on release and panned by the critics (the NME called it 'pretentious rubbish'). Now widely recognised as a masterpiece. No other record uses silence - the spaces between notes - as well as this one. Favourite track: Taphead.
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1991
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Highly regarded at the time, this has nevertheless grown in stature over the years. The mid-80s wasn't a great period for music but this is the stand out album of the decade. Favourite track: Hello Earth
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1985
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For some this is where Radiohead just got too weird but for me this is where they really discovered their mojo. The apotheosis of a 'grower': it doesn't make sense on first listen but over years it will weave itself into your soul. Favourite track: The National Anthem
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2000
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Perhaps the ultimate comedown album. Destroyed Young's career as a safe AOR superstar but reinvented him as a complex, troubled genius. Moody and magnificent. Favourite track: Tonight's the Night
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1975
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Top 20 Greatest Music Albums composition
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 5 | 25% | |
| 1970s | 4 | 20% | |
| 1980s | 4 | 20% | |
| 1990s | 3 | 15% | |
| 2000s | 4 | 20% | |
| 2010s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| The Beatles | 2 | 10% | |
| Joy Division | 2 | 10% | |
| Radiohead | 2 | 10% | |
| Talk Talk | 2 | 10% | |
| Neil Young | 1 | 5% | |
| My Bloody Valentine | 1 | 5% | |
| The Velvet Underground & Nico | 1 | 5% | |
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Very good picks ! Love seeing YMG in a top 20 - and obvious JD.
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