Top 37 Greatest Music Albums
by albummaster

Some minor changes & some guilty pleasures. Still needs some more tweaking...

Chart updated: 12/11/2025 15:15
(Created: 11/23/2010 17:19).
Chart size: 40 albums.

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The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground & Nico

[First added to this chart: 11/25/2010]

Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

3,054 charts

Rank Score:

39,878

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[First added to this chart: 11/25/2010]

Year of Release:

1966

Appears in:

2,858 charts

Rank Score:

39,138

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Average Rating:

88 (3,277 votes)

Comments:

360

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In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

Neutral Milk Hotel

[First added to this chart: 12/04/2010]

Year of Release:

1998

Appears in:

2,433 charts

Rank Score:

32,923

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Average Rating:

87 (2,956 votes)

Comments:

431

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Tracy Chapman

[First added to this chart: 11/25/2010]

Year of Release:

1988

Appears in:

565 charts

Rank Score:

3,962

Rank in 1988:

Rank in 1980s:

Overall Rank:

429

Average Rating:

77 (640 votes)

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Funeral

Arcade Fire

[First added to this chart: 12/04/2010]

Year of Release:

2004

Appears in:

2,890 charts

Rank Score:

34,127

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Nirvana

[First added to this chart: 11/25/2010]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

3,224 charts

Rank Score:

37,737

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[First added to this chart: 12/09/2010]

Year of Release:

1968

Appears in:

806 charts

Rank Score:

5,875

Rank in 1968:

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Overall Rank:

282

Average Rating:

82 (873 votes)

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Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

[First added to this chart: 04/20/2011]

Year of Release:

1975

Appears in:

3,010 charts

Rank Score:

44,712

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Average Rating:

91 (4,057 votes)

Comments:

314

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Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

[First added to this chart: 12/04/2010]

Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

523 charts

Rank Score:

3,556

Rank in 1967:

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Overall Rank:

485

Average Rating:

80 (631 votes)

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Lágrimas Negras

Bebo & Cigala

[First added to this chart: 11/25/2010]

Year of Release:

2003

Appears in:

22 charts

Rank Score:

129

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Top 37 Greatest Music Albums composition

Decade	Albums	%

1930s	0	0%
1940s	0	0%
1950s	0	0%
1960s	12	30%
1970s	5	13%
1980s	9	23%
1990s	8	20%
2000s	6	15%
2010s	0	0%
2020s	0	0%

Artist	Albums	%

Love	1	3%
Vicente Amigo	1	3%
The Beach Boys	1	3%
Charles Mingus	1	3%
Paul Simon	1	3%
Miles Davis	1	3%
Neutral Milk Hotel	1	3%
Show all

Country	Albums	%

	14	35%
	10	25%
	4	10%
	2	5%
	2	5%
	2	5%
	1	3%
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Live?	Albums	%
No	38	95%
Yes	2	5%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	38	95%
Yes	2	5%

Top 37 Greatest Music Albums chart changes

Biggest fallers
Down 1 from 39th to 40th Babylon By Bus by Bob Marley & The Wailers

New entries
Cositas Buenas by Paco De Lucía

Leavers
企業災害 by C O R P O R A T E 災害

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100/100 !	06/14/2023 05:22	lanadeleswift	6	98/100
90/100 !	01/22/2023 20:12	ExTeaSea	244	89/100
85/100 !	01/23/2022 16:13	IlMala	178	95/100
90/100 !	12/17/2020 18:34	seb7	115	91/100

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ExTeaSea 01/22/2023 20:15 | #293186

Cool/interesting chart! Would be great to see a full 100.

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90/100

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seb7 12/17/2020 18:35 | #262826

Nice chart Mr. Albummaster. You put Bookends where it deserves to be.

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80/100

From papersparrow 04/16/2020 14:43 | #250025

I like the diversity between eras and genres.

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Boltzmann 12/20/2019 23:11 | #245851

I guess criticizing the albummaster on being too status quo and forcibly varied (and no, that's not a contradiction) would be stating the obvious. I'll say this: picks like The Orb and Enya make up a lot (and sure, INXS gives the perfect amount of cringe that's needed in a chart). That's the stuff I like to see; stuff you don't expect. That's my two cents.

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doubleA 10/08/2019 12:39 | #243521

Nice to see that this site's owner has a great sense of classics while putting his own little twist in it with other very personal picks. As the previous comment said, "short and sweet"!

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95/100

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IgnacioJoaquin 03/14/2019 03:42 | #233487

Fantastic chart. Short and sweet.

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Paule 03/08/2019 22:36 | #233238

Very interesting chart ;)

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From Shattypants 12/26/2018 19:11 | #227953

Not bad

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JulianR 02/14/2018 23:34 | #208217

At least the person in charge of this whole shebang has pretty good music taste. I've always wondered who they are. Do they get paid for this? Are they the same person that owns the site, or are they an employee (or group of employees)?

I also wonder how much their music taste has been affected by their own site. Maybe some of these albums were recommended through this site. That would be kinda cool

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Jbalbinolr 11/19/2017 01:49 | #201632

Great one.

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