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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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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One of the most lauded and imorptant albums of all time, 'peaking' at about #160 in the US chart. Now considered a benchmark of alternative rock, it is together with the album below immensely influential on all experimental music of the last 40 years. Listening to it now, it's no surprise that few people knew what to make of it in 1967. Favourite track: Heroin
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1967
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The Byrds were perhaps the only American group of the 1960s to approach the consistent excellence of the Beatles and this is the pinnacle of their oeuvre. It manages to combine all the disparate elements of their sound - folk, psychedelia, country, jazz, baroque pop - into a cohesive whole and is all the more remarkable for being produced while the band were going through a period of turmoil. Favourite track: Space Odyssey
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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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| Joy Division | 2 | 10% | |
| Radiohead | 2 | 10% | |
| Talk Talk | 2 | 10% | |
| The Beatles | 2 | 10% | |
| Robert Wyatt | 1 | 5% | |
| Young Marble Giants | 1 | 5% | |
| Spiritualized® | 1 | 5% | |
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CellarDoor 06/07/2011 16:51
Very good picks ! Love seeing YMG in a top 20 - and obvious JD.
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