Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
by liveinacar 
I didn't want to have a chart dominated by a handful of artists, so I restricted it to only one entry per band.
Proved very difficult, and I am sure I have left some out in error or left some too far down the list! Still, not a bad first attempt!!
Now I can increase to 50 albums , I have relaxed this rule slightly!
- Chart updated: 09/09/2017 08:15
- (Created: 05/04/2015 15:37).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Year of Release:
1977
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10,260
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Year of Release:
1980
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Rank Score:
718
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Year of Release:
1979
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Rank Score:
848
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Year of Release:
1980
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1,711
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Total albums: 100. Page 1 of 10
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1970s | 36 | 36% | |
| 1980s | 45 | 45% | |
| 1990s | 7 | 7% | |
| 2000s | 6 | 6% | |
| 2010s | 6 | 6% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| U.K. Subs | 13 | 13% | |
| XTC | 6 | 6% | |
| The Dickies | 4 | 4% | |
| The Damned | 4 | 4% | |
| Wire | 3 | 3% | |
| Chelsea | 3 | 3% | |
| Pixies | 3 | 3% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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Up 7 from 82nd to 75th |
Up 2 from 67th to 65th |
Up 2 from 66th to 64th |
| Biggest fallers |
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Down 6 from 70th to 76th |
Down 3 from 63rd to 66th |
Down 2 from 65th to 67th |
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
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| ! | 03/20/2025 17:23 |  SomethingSpecial | 1,088 | 86/100 |
| ! | 09/20/2021 09:00 |  Purplepash | 1,858 | 88/100 |
| ! | 07/05/2020 13:16 | mianfei | 177 | 62/100 |
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Jimmy Dread TOP 100 COMMENTER 06/29/2015 21:27 | #144814
Jimmy Dread TOP 100 COMMENTER 06/29/2015 21:27 | #144814
Welcome to BEA chap. Never knew there was a punk scene near the Bracknell Forest!! (I'm just over the border to you in Surrey). If you like your punk I'd highly recommend checking out the Punk 45 series of compilations on Soul Jazz (the first two - Kill The Hippies! Kill Yourself! and There Is No Such Thing As Society), and for your inner Andy Partridge have a listen to Please Describe Yourself by Dogs Die In Hot Cars... might be right up your street.
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Liedzeit 04/18/2017 12:15 | #189464
Liedzeit 04/18/2017 12:15 | #189464
Ah, you relaxed the only one artist rule quite a bit. But it refreshing to see some punk. And reminds me that I forgot Penetration in my own chart.
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OKC1 06/29/2015 22:07 | #144820
OKC1 06/29/2015 22:07 | #144820
Seeing Black Sea up so high makes me happy.
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mianfei 07/05/2020 13:23 | #255044
Although I am not nearly so much a fan of punk and postpunk that you obviously are – amply proved by the fact that your chart has zero artists in common with my own – this chart is quite interesting with many bands I recall from the 1990s ‘Rock: The Rough Guide’ but seldom seen here like the Crass (from whom I found the chart), New Model Army, The Exploited, Anti-Nowhere League, D.O.A. and X-Ray Spex.
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LedZep TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/26/2017 22:16 | #191472
LedZep TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/26/2017 22:16 | #191472
The rating is based purely on Sex Pistols at 3, I'm not an expert in punk but like the genre
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