Top 20 Greatest Music Albums
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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.

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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 [First added to this chart: 05/10/2011]
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1997
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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. [First added to this chart: 05/10/2011]
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1991
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An album that is legendary of the length of time it took to make and the cost (almost bankrupting Creation Records), but it belongs here purely for its sonic brilliance. Favourite track: Soon. [First added to this chart: 06/06/2011]
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1991
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Top 20 Greatest Music Albums composition

Decade Albums %


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%
Artist Albums %


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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Country Albums %


United Kingdom 12 60%
United States 4 20%
Mixed Nationality 2 10%
Germany 1 5%
Canada 1 5%

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Very good picks ! Love seeing YMG in a top 20 - and obvious JD.
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Best Albums of 1954
1. Chet Baker Sings by Chet Baker
2. Clifford Brown And Max Roach by Clifford Brown & Max Roach
3. Songs For Young Lovers by Frank Sinatra
4. Canções Praieiras by Dorival Caymmi
5. Mambo! by Yma Sumac
6. Swing Easy! by Frank Sinatra
7. Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy by Louis Armstrong
8. A Night At Birdland Vol. 1 by Art Blakey
9. Jazz Goes To College by The Dave Brubeck Quartet
10. Haitian Dances by Frantz Casseus
11. N°3 by Georges Brassens
12. Thelonious Monk Trio by Thelonious Monk Trio
13. Jacques Brel Et Ses Chansons by Jacques Brel
14. Blue Haze by Miles Davis
15. Charlie Parker by Charlie Parker
16. Honky-Tonkin' by Hank Williams
17. Interprète Ses Dernières Compositions, 2ème Série by Georges Brassens
18. Rock With Bill Haley And The Comets by Bill Haley And His Comets
19. Thelonious Monk / Sonny Rollins by Thelonious Monk / Sonny Rollins
20. A Star Is Born by Judy Garland
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