Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by dgarr22 
This list constantly changes, the top 10 to 20 are pretty stable, but as a whole it is not.
(The quotes are picked for various reasons, weather it's how the singer says the line, the actual meaning, or how classic it might be, like the opener on Led Zeppelin IV. It could just be there for being the catchiest on the album or because I like singing it the most out of others on the album.)
Also, I hate the 1 per artist rule, or only an "X" number of albums from a decade, just because an artist makes 4 great albums, doesn't mean that the 4th best should be down graded. I feel that using that rule is to just appeal the audience with more diversity, but doesn't accomplish the goal of these lists. Maybe I will reach that point, but I could only see myself getting to the point to only allow 3 per artist, not just 1.
Also, recommendations are WELCOME, I am surprised with my rating, considering these are "basic" albums, and have a lot to listen to before I truely start considering this a 90ish/100.
- Chart updated: 02/03/2019 19:15
- (Created: 06/01/2015 04:47).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Indie Rock- Psychedelic Folk
"And your mom would drink until she was no longer speaking, and dad would dream of all the different ways to die, each on a little more than he could dare to try"
I listened to this album once or twice and got hooked, finding myself already knowing it word for word a week into my owning of the album.
Top Tracks: King Of Carrot Flowers Part 1, King Of Carrot Flowers Part 2 & 3, In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, Holland 1945, Untitled
Bottom Track: The Fool [First added to this chart: 06/01/2015]
"And your mom would drink until she was no longer speaking, and dad would dream of all the different ways to die, each on a little more than he could dare to try"
I listened to this album once or twice and got hooked, finding myself already knowing it word for word a week into my owning of the album.
Top Tracks: King Of Carrot Flowers Part 1, King Of Carrot Flowers Part 2 & 3, In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, Holland 1945, Untitled
Bottom Track: The Fool [First added to this chart: 06/01/2015]
Year of Release:
1998
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39,467
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Garage Rock- Indie Rock
"Oh dear, can't you see? It's them it's not me, we're not enemies, we just disagree"
Top Tracks: Is This It, Someday, Alone, Together, Last Night
Bottom Track: Take It Or Leave It [First added to this chart: 06/01/2015]
"Oh dear, can't you see? It's them it's not me, we're not enemies, we just disagree"
Top Tracks: Is This It, Someday, Alone, Together, Last Night
Bottom Track: Take It Or Leave It [First added to this chart: 06/01/2015]
Year of Release:
2001
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33,179
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Experimental Pop
"That blood in the dark will attract the sharks, Who are not violent, we've all got hungry bellies"
Top Tracks: Peacebone, For Reverened Green, Fireworks, Derek
Bottom Track: Winter Wonder Land [First added to this chart: 08/11/2015]
"That blood in the dark will attract the sharks, Who are not violent, we've all got hungry bellies"
Top Tracks: Peacebone, For Reverened Green, Fireworks, Derek
Bottom Track: Winter Wonder Land [First added to this chart: 08/11/2015]
Year of Release:
2007
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4,527
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Dance Punk- Electronica
"Don't you want me to wake up? Then give me just a bit of your time"
"Yeah you wanted the truth, and then you said you want proof, I guess your used to liars, saying what the want"
"Yeah you wanted it smart, but honestly I'm not smart, no honestly we're never smart, we fake it, fake it all the time, yeah you wanted the time, but maybe I can't do time, we both know that's an awful line, but that doesn't make it wrong."
"Cause your afraid of what you need, yeah your afraid of what you need, if you weren't, if you weren't, I don't know what we'd talk about."
Top Tracks: Dance Yrself Clean, All I Want, You Wanted A Hit, Home
Bottom Track: Somebody's Calling Me [First added to this chart: 07/20/2016]
"Don't you want me to wake up? Then give me just a bit of your time"
"Yeah you wanted the truth, and then you said you want proof, I guess your used to liars, saying what the want"
"Yeah you wanted it smart, but honestly I'm not smart, no honestly we're never smart, we fake it, fake it all the time, yeah you wanted the time, but maybe I can't do time, we both know that's an awful line, but that doesn't make it wrong."
"Cause your afraid of what you need, yeah your afraid of what you need, if you weren't, if you weren't, I don't know what we'd talk about."
Top Tracks: Dance Yrself Clean, All I Want, You Wanted A Hit, Home
Bottom Track: Somebody's Calling Me [First added to this chart: 07/20/2016]
Year of Release:
2010
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8,429
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Psychedelic Pop- Electronica
"Am I really all the things that are outside of me? Would I complete without the things I like around?
Top Tracks: In The Flowers, My Girls, Daily Routine, Taste, No More Runnin
Bottom Track: Also Frightened [First added to this chart: 06/01/2015]
"Am I really all the things that are outside of me? Would I complete without the things I like around?
Top Tracks: In The Flowers, My Girls, Daily Routine, Taste, No More Runnin
Bottom Track: Also Frightened [First added to this chart: 06/01/2015]
Year of Release:
2009
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10,886
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Indie Rock- Dream Pop
"I wish that I had known in that fist minute we met the unpayable debt that I owed you"
Top Tracks: Kettering, Sylvia, Two, Wake
Bottom Track: Thirteen [First added to this chart: 09/11/2015]
"I wish that I had known in that fist minute we met the unpayable debt that I owed you"
Top Tracks: Kettering, Sylvia, Two, Wake
Bottom Track: Thirteen [First added to this chart: 09/11/2015]
Year of Release:
2009
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6,275
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Art Rock- Comedy Rock- Experimental Rock
"Have you ever seen a whale, with a polka dot tail?"
This album sounds great, can be funny, can be serious, and is just a really fun listen. (The 2 guys- Ween- made this on an isolated island, alone, with A LOT of beer they said....)
Top Tracks: The Mollusk, Polka Dot Tail, Mutilated Lips, The Golden Eel, I'm Waving My Dick in The Wind, Buckingham Green
Bottom Track: Pink Eye (On My Leg) [First added to this chart: 06/01/2015]
"Have you ever seen a whale, with a polka dot tail?"
This album sounds great, can be funny, can be serious, and is just a really fun listen. (The 2 guys- Ween- made this on an isolated island, alone, with A LOT of beer they said....)
Top Tracks: The Mollusk, Polka Dot Tail, Mutilated Lips, The Golden Eel, I'm Waving My Dick in The Wind, Buckingham Green
Bottom Track: Pink Eye (On My Leg) [First added to this chart: 06/01/2015]
Year of Release:
1997
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3,554
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Indie Rock
"here's the man with the teeth like God's shoeshine, he sparkles, shimmers, shines, lets all have another Orange Julius"
Top Tracks: Teeth Like God's Shoeshine, Cowboy Dan, Trailer Trash, Polar Opposites, Bankrupt On Selling, Styrofoam Boots
Bottom Track: Truckers Atlas [First added to this chart: 06/01/2015]
"here's the man with the teeth like God's shoeshine, he sparkles, shimmers, shines, lets all have another Orange Julius"
Top Tracks: Teeth Like God's Shoeshine, Cowboy Dan, Trailer Trash, Polar Opposites, Bankrupt On Selling, Styrofoam Boots
Bottom Track: Truckers Atlas [First added to this chart: 06/01/2015]
Year of Release:
1997
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9,190
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Indie Rock- Art Rock
"picking apples for the kings, and queens of things I've never seen"
Top Tracks: I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, Radio Cure, Poor Places, Reservations
Bottom Track: Kamera [First added to this chart: 07/07/2015]
"picking apples for the kings, and queens of things I've never seen"
Top Tracks: I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, Radio Cure, Poor Places, Reservations
Bottom Track: Kamera [First added to this chart: 07/07/2015]
Year of Release:
2002
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20,566
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Soft Rock
For the quote of the album, I'll have to go with "But then if you're so smart tell me, Why are you still so afraid?"
But I could quote Vienna all day, GREAT LYRICS, awesome song.
Top Tracks: The Stranger, Scenes From An Italian Restaurant, Vienna, She's Always A Woman, Get It Right The First Time
Bottom Track: Every Body Has A Dream [First added to this chart: 06/01/2015]
For the quote of the album, I'll have to go with "But then if you're so smart tell me, Why are you still so afraid?"
But I could quote Vienna all day, GREAT LYRICS, awesome song.
Top Tracks: The Stranger, Scenes From An Italian Restaurant, Vienna, She's Always A Woman, Get It Right The First Time
Bottom Track: Every Body Has A Dream [First added to this chart: 06/01/2015]
Year of Release:
1977
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7,253
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 1 | 1% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 13 | 13% | |
| 1970s | 9 | 9% | |
| 1980s | 4 | 4% | |
| 1990s | 12 | 12% | |
| 2000s | 42 | 42% | |
| 2010s | 19 | 19% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Radiohead | 6 | 6% | |
| The Beatles | 5 | 5% | |
| Modest Mouse | 4 | 4% | |
| Coldplay | 3 | 3% | |
| Arcade Fire | 3 | 3% | |
| Gorillaz | 3 | 3% | |
| LCD Soundsystem | 3 | 3% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 51 from 99th to 48th Either/Or by Elliott Smith |
| Up 39 from 100th to 61st Electric Ladyland by The Jimi Hendrix Experience |
| Up 1 from 61st to 60th Turn On The Bright Lights by Interpol |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 4 from 45th to 49th Magical Mystery Tour by The Beatles |
| Down 4 from 59th to 63rd Modern Vampires Of The City by Vampire Weekend |
| Down 3 from 68th to 71st Contra by Vampire Weekend |
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91/100 (from 55 votes)
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100/100  | 03/27/2020 22:36 | RoundTheBend | | 92/100 |
90/100 | 07/31/2019 23:26 | Timooosterink | | 90/100 |
100/100 | 06/02/2019 06:52 | LordMark | | 94/100 |
90/100 | 06/02/2019 02:13 |  jdenny2018 | | 92/100 |
95/100 | 06/01/2019 15:45 |  Cargusbralem | | 93/100 |
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sageamagoo 06/04/2020 23:51
sageamagoo 06/04/2020 23:51
This chart looks much more personal than the last time I saw it! Seems we agree on the 00's classics, I like your taste in more experimental rock and alternative. To that end, have you heard any of these?
Soul Coughing - El Oso
Gotye - Like Drawing Blood
Spacehog - The Chinese Album
Or for a slower denser experience,
Jerkcurb - Air Con Eden
Just some suggestions for your next musical pilgrimage!
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100/100
From LordMark 06/02/2019 06:52
Awesome chart. We have 33 albums in common and 21 artists.
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95/100
From Cargusbralem 06/01/2019 15:46
Cargusbralem 06/01/2019 15:46
Great chart! Our top 10 is pretty similar
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85/100
From 
ForegroundNoise 06/01/2019 08:10
ForegroundNoise 06/01/2019 08:10
Hello!
I left a rating a while back but since it's chart of the day I thought I'd leave a comment.
Really appreciate the honesty in your bio, as well as the lovely attention to detail in your notes for each picks, something which I overlooked before and so have upped your rating.
I do feel the chart is a little too 2000s orientated (not the worst thing in the world!), certainly over ten times the amount of records from the 80s seems a little harsh. Here's a few underappreciated gems from that decade which I hope you enjoy:
Galaxie 500 - On Fire
Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me
... though feel free to check out my own (admittedly small) chart for more abstract stuff from other decades.
Overall I love your chart man, keep it up!
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85/100
From BSGesus 01/29/2019 05:23
Great list. A couple of your picks I just added to my playlist. Thanks!
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95/100
From 
Christovskee 05/08/2018 15:21
Christovskee 05/08/2018 15:21
Stumbled upon your chart by complete chance, and I'm glad I did! Seems like we have very similar taste, so thanks for the recommendations :D
EDIT: And by 'very'... I mean 'VERY'
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95/100
From 
DommeDamian 04/16/2018 12:17
DommeDamian 04/16/2018 12:17
So many goodies, it don't make no sense
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90/100
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bobbyb5 01/11/2018 16:43
bobbyb5 01/11/2018 16:43
Nice and adventurous. I like it.
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85/100
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NowhereMan 01/09/2018 18:05
NowhereMan 01/09/2018 18:05
Nice!
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100/100
From sageamagoo 10/25/2017 00:03
sageamagoo 10/25/2017 00:03
Fantastic list, love Ween and all the other great choices!
Give Spilt Milk by Jellyfish a listen, wonderful cult classic pop record that I think you'd love!
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