Top 41 Greatest Music Albums by grohly

Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man - El Grohlerino

Slimmed down list to include only my absolute favourites.

• Chart updated: 06/01/2023 21:15
• (Created: 06/16/2015 16:14).
• Chart size: 41 albums.

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The Dark Side Of The Moon 

 Pink Floyd

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A perfect cosmic odyssey. There's not much I can say about this without being derivative so I'll tell a short story. I was in Boston with my Dad when we decided to check out a laser show to Dark Side at the planetarium. After a long time of not listening to the album in its entirety, my Dad enthusiastically told me of his experience of listening to it again. He told me that each song was better than the last. After settling on Time as his favourite, Great Gig would start and that would be his favourite. This just goes to show that Dark Side really is astonishing in its ability to create wonderment time and time again. I was a touch skeptical at first but the laser show really captured the character of each song and sitting in a huge dark room with many other Floyd fans reminded me of the beauty of the shared musical experience. [First added to this chart: 08/17/2015]

Year of Release:

1973

Appears in:

4,043 charts

Rank Score:

71,190

Rank in 1973:

1

Rank in 1970s:

1

Overall Rank:

2

Average Rating:

 92 (5,203 votes)

Comments:

581

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Let It Bleed 

 The Rolling Stones

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Gimme Shelter and You Can't Always Get What You Want are my favourite opening and closing tracks of all time, so that's the main ingredients for a masterpiece right there. Add it the underrated Live With Me, Let I Bleed, Monkey Man and You Got The Silver, mix well and bake. Let it rest before piping on the many flavourings of Midnight Rambler and sprinkle the sublime rendition of Love In Vain on top. That's the recipe for the Let It Bleed cake. Country Honk is the after dinner coffee. [First added to this chart: 01/06/2016]

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

1,721 charts

Rank Score:

18,818

Rank in 1969:

4

Rank in 1960s:

14

Overall Rank:

62

Average Rating:

 85 (2,044 votes)

Comments:

138

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Untitled (Led Zeppelin IV) 

 Led Zeppelin

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At times as soft as the wings of the bands symbolic angel. At other times as heavy as the footfalls of a giant stomping through the Midlands. As cliched as this probably sounds, Stairway To Heaven was the first song to show me how much scope a song could really reach for. It starts off tender and transforms into something incredibly powerful and uplifting. It is the angel and the giant. On any other album, Stairway would threaten to eclipse the other songs but not on IV. In fact, one could argue that Stairway isn't even the most influential song on IV. That honour would go to When The Levee Breaks, with Bonzo's drumming being sampled by a long list of artists. IV laid the groundwork for songwriting in hard rock and heavy metal, even more so than the rawer early Zeppelin records and the slightly bloated later ones. [First added to this chart: 08/17/2015]

Year of Release:

1971

Appears in:

3,070 charts

Rank Score:

44,305

Rank in 1971:

1

Rank in 1970s:

4

Overall Rank:

12

Average Rating:

 90 (3,901 votes)

Comments:

300

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Exile On Main St. 

 The Rolling Stones

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Firing the fucking feed on the French rivera. This is a compilation of everything I love about music. Rock and roll, blues, country, soul, psychedelia and more rock. The perfect pick-me-up after a hard days grind. Songs to inspire kings and queens, labourers and wanderers. Mick brings the aristocratic attitude and Keef brings the workingman's spice. The two reach their songwriting zenith after a string of three brilliant albums. On Exile, the Glimmer Twins complement each other so well that they're almost one being. Hell, the entire band and motley crew of musicians who created this album are so together, they talk telepathically with their instruments. Anywho, enough rambling. I will say something about some cherrypicked songs.

Sweet Virginia is the perfect post night out sing-along song. If everyone knows the chorus, it's a brilliant song for a group of drunks to belt out. Tumbling Dice needs no introduction. It IS blues rock. The live version from Ladies & Gentlemen in Texas is as cool as the Stones ever were and Keef telling off Mick Taylor for noodling is amusing. In Let It Loose, Jagger commits (imo) his finest vocal performance, cut with raw emotion and heartbreaking vulnerability. The ladies who provide gospel backing vocals on the song elevate it to the heavens. Shine A Light is just poetry, especially the first verse. All Down the Line is the most ferocious song the Stones have produced and one of my absolute favourites. It's fast, uncomplicated and drenched in sweat.

Exile didn’t so much as teach me how to listen to a song but rather how to enjoy it. Sometimes music is just made to rock, and that’s a good thing. You don't need to read too much into something to appreciate it. There really is no substitute for a thoroughbred rock n roll song with the late great Bobby Keys blasting his sax in your ears. Yet further proof that cocaine (and brown sugar if you’re Keef) is a helluva drug! [First added to this chart: 08/17/2015]

Year of Release:

1972

Appears in:

1,909 charts

Rank Score:

22,607

Rank in 1972:

2

Rank in 1970s:

12

Overall Rank:

44

Average Rating:

 85 (2,295 votes)

Comments:

209

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The Midnight Organ Fight 

 Frightened Rabbit

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After the traditional trio that tops this chart, we get personal. Frightened Rabbit built their church with this album. Well, a church by day but a horror show by night. The play almost like a hard rock hymn because there is always an undertone of searching for the soul. But as the title suggests, this is also an album about sex and Scott Hutchinson delivers some deeply disturbing imagery of cold sex and lust, once you start digging into the lyrics. There's the tale of shagging strangers without love that is portrayed as both heavenly and hellish. There are so many moments in the first half of this album where the band build to explosive crescendos where you can feel every ounce of emotion being poured into the music. The album is then capped by a string of four dreamlike songs, the calm after the storm or the thoughtfulness after a fuck. [First added to this chart: 08/17/2015]

Year of Release:

2008

Appears in:

125 charts

Rank Score:

975

Rank in 2008:

21

Rank in 2000s:

284

Overall Rank:

1,744

Average Rating:

 77 (143 votes)

Comments:

9

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In Rainbows 

 Radiohead

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One summer, I saw an orchestra perform a selection of Radiohead songs at an English festival. They played Weird Fishes/Arpeggi with the music video in the background and it was incredibly awesome. When I got back from the festival I played In Rainbows again because I hadn't properly listened to it before. After a proper listen all the way through it instantly became one of my all time favourite albums. All Radiohead's tracks from other albums are obviously well constructed but not so many of them emotionally connect with me all that much (Airbag, Let Down, Fake Plastic Trees are notable exceptions). In Rainbows was the first time that every single song struck a chord, literally and figuratively, leaving me in awe of a legendary band. [First added to this chart: 10/26/2015]

Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

2,833 charts

Rank Score:

51,133

Rank in 2007:

1

Rank in 2000s:

2

Overall Rank:

6

Average Rating:

 90 (3,835 votes)

Comments:

386

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Sticky Fingers 

 The Rolling Stones

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If Exile is beer and cigarettes, Sticky Fingers is bourbon, apple pie and whipped cream. Less strung out and European that Exile but just as soulful and a tad more bluesy. A huge slice of southern American rock done the English way. Fuck, I love the Stones. On Sticky Fingers they gave me my favourite song of all time in Wild Horses. The best combination of Keef's guitar riff and Jagger's lyrics. The best portrayal of longing for where you want to be. There are also some real underrated gems on this album too. The string orchestra that comes in at the end of Sway gives gravitas to an already great blues song. Similarly, the horns on Bitch add thunder to an insanely catchy rock and roll number. Then there's Dead Flowers, a sweet song with not so sweet lyrics that exudes the Stones passion for country music. The whole album foreshadows the hard rock music that the seventies would be known for and not many albums in the genre would come close to capturing its spirit. I mean how many rock songs are as iconic as Brown Sugar? Considering that 1971 is considered one of the greatest years for music, Sticky Fingers is one of the best of the best. [First added to this chart: 08/17/2015]

Year of Release:

1971

Appears in:

1,590 charts

Rank Score:

19,283

Rank in 1971:

5

Rank in 1970s:

19

Overall Rank:

57

Average Rating:

 86 (1,864 votes)

Comments:

134

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Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not 

 Arctic Monkeys

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This album never fails to bring me back to my Yorkshire roots. A deceptively simple album about going out on the town, something mostly every teenager in the UK could identify with at the peak of nightclubbing in the mid-noughties. What really brings this album to life is Alex Turner's poetry (yes poetry) that makes a night out in Sheffield seem both immediately familiar and surreal. He bares his feelings about the pressure to go and talk to girls and clashing with bouncers in such a way that many young men can relate to. But he never pities himself, instead using his insecurities to give himself and the listener a launchpad to be obnoxious and smug. The Monkeys bring us into their gang to laugh at all the Topshop queens and lairy vampires of the early hours highstreet. But then again, the songs are so full of life and bounce that even the aforementioned queens and vamps can have a good old dance to them. For me, the Monkeys never captured that uncorrupted aggression again and while I really do love their output since, I'll always revisit Mardy Bum and Still Take You Home and A Certain Romance and every other song because they're so goddamn beautiful and universal. [First added to this chart: 08/17/2015]

Year of Release:

2006

Appears in:

1,578 charts

Rank Score:

18,437

Rank in 2006:

1

Rank in 2000s:

7

Overall Rank:

66

Average Rating:

 83 (2,312 votes)

Comments:

198

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The Stone Roses 

 The Stone Roses

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There's a bar in my hometown called The Stones Roses. I was told that The Stone Roses owned it by that could be urban legend. Anyway, it was a big part of my drinking scene when I was a wee lad. It's mucky, boyish, rude and rammed to the rafters with beer swilling party animals. It's also cool and quite essentially British. That's The Stone Roses to me. They may be from the wrong side of the Pennies but they are effortlessly Northern, just like the Monkeys, Oasis and The Smiths. Their debut album holds some of the most well constructed songs I have ever heard. How can something like Waterfall be so dreamy yet so recognisable as the anthem for Northern tribes? The Stones Roses might trick you into believing you're free from the filth and the scum but really, you're right there with them. [First added to this chart: 01/29/2016]

Year of Release:

1989

Appears in:

1,973 charts

Rank Score:

25,869

Rank in 1989:

3

Rank in 1980s:

5

Overall Rank:

34

Average Rating:

 86 (2,226 votes)

Comments:

202

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The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars 

 David Bowie

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Impossible not to have the red-haired spaceman kicking around somewhere high on this godforsaken list. Ziggy was and always will be my favourite incarnation of Bowie, for all the vivid and fervent imagery he manages to conjure up in this dissipated noggin of mine. And all the while he's just having a ball with cats from Japan and Spiders from Mars. The lyrics in this are some of my favourites from any album and Ziggy brings each and every word to life. David was such an emotive singer and the suicide finale displays this in a fitting fall of the curtain. [First added to this chart: 01/06/2016]

Year of Release:

1972

Appears in:

2,934 charts

Rank Score:

50,119

Rank in 1972:

1

Rank in 1970s:

3

Overall Rank:

9

Average Rating:

 90 (3,446 votes)

Comments:

299

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Top 41 Greatest Music Albums composition

Decade	Albums	%
1930s	0	0%
1940s	0	0%
1950s	0	0%
1960s	2	5%
1970s	12	29%
1980s	2	5%
1990s	6	15%
2000s	5	12%
2010s	14	34%
2020s	0	0%

Artist	Albums	%
Led Zeppelin	4	10%
Kanye West	3	7%
The Rolling Stones	3	7%
Pink Floyd	2	5%
Frightened Rabbit	2	5%
The Smashing Pumpkins	2	5%
Fleetwood Mac	2	5%
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Country	Albums	%
	19	46%
	18	44%
	2	5%
	1	2%
	1	2%

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From NowhereMan 01/02/2018 18:45

I was in that Stone Roses bar recently that you talk about. A cracking dive. Love the enthusiasm for the Stones, too few out and out Stones maniacs on this site.

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From LedZep 04/09/2017 10:42

Came back, saw Biffy, saw Lebowski quote and decided to close one eye and ignore Kanye albums. Don't like his music, but that's just, like, my opinion, man

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From zrommeke 01/06/2017 08:07

Very good chart, but a bit more variation would make it even better.

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From platus 01/05/2017 18:15

flamboyant chart. I like it.

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From jackharrison21 01/05/2017 16:35

Wonderful chart, 8 albums in common and some really interesting reading in the comments

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From LedZep 09/05/2016 10:54

I'm really not a great Kanye fan, but the rest is fantastic

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From Davy 08/22/2016 16:49

pretty neat

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From buzzdainer 07/12/2016 14:46

I share your feelings about Tusk, as you know. And your putting two albums by the Stones in your top ten reminds me that I've got to find space for them in my top 100. I love this chart, and I enjoy the pithy notes you've attached to some of your entries. Would love to see more of those!

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From WildHorses 05/06/2016 22:53

Some great albums here. Hope to see the rest soon!

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From martinjaa 01/25/2016 15:38

It's great! Exile on Main Street is an incredible album

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