Top 25 Greatest Music Albums
by julianfox94 
- Chart updated: 08/18/2025 11:45
- (Created: 12/16/2010 13:12).
- Chart size: 25 albums.
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Top 25 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 4 | 16% | |
| 1970s | 5 | 20% | |
| 1980s | 2 | 8% | |
| 1990s | 12 | 48% | |
| 2000s | 2 | 8% | |
| 2010s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Black Sabbath | 2 | 8% | |
| Unwound | 2 | 8% | |
| Elliott Smith | 1 | 4% | |
| The Stooges | 1 | 4% | |
| Mercury Rev | 1 | 4% | |
| Swans | 1 | 4% | |
| Talk Talk | 1 | 4% | |
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Top 25 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 13 from 18th to 5th Paranoid by Black Sabbath |
| Up 4 from 11th to 7th Leaves Turn Inside You by Unwound |
| Up 1 from 12th to 11th Are You Experienced by The Jimi Hendrix Experience |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 5 from 8th to 13th Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band |
| Down 3 from 5th to 8th Fake Train by Unwound |
| Down 3 from 15th to 18th Yerself Is Steam by Mercury Rev |
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
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 85/100  | 07/28/2025 11:42 |  SomethingSpecial | | 85/100 |
| 90/100 | 03/26/2022 20:08 | bobnickmad | | 88/100 |
| 90/100 | 03/07/2021 05:04 |  Purplepash | | 88/100 |
| 80/100 | 09/14/2020 10:04 | TheSmiths82-87 | | 83/100 |
| 90/100 | 09/14/2020 07:26 |  ssteve | | 92/100 |
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You are cooler than me.
7after6 05/16/2015 15:59
Very similar to my interests.
All good except for Trout Mask Replica being no 1
Arthurknight 10/21/2014 08:47
mingusss
Well, you`re my man!
Good start!!!
sssvnnn 03/12/2014 22:26
hi julianfox94,
12 bands in common, thats nearly 50% of your chart: Seems our tast is pretty similar - so why such a poor rating for my chart?
sssvnnn 02/10/2014 12:04
Only very cool picks.
But it`s getting harder if you expand it to 100.
antiloopje 01/20/2014 08:48
I'd love to see this chart expand
Mercury 11/03/2013 16:07
Excellent choices. A few of these albums are fringe picks for my top 100. (Like Somgs of Leonard Cohen, Spiderland, Remain In Light) anyway, I recently added Mingus. Unbelievable musician.
I saw you have Trout Mask Replica at number 1... Nice. Have you heard Beefheart's debut "Safe As Milk"? Or "Swordfishtrombone" and "Rain Dogs" by Tom Waits? And my last suggestion is the band US Maple. Their debut and their sound is soo soooo influenced by Beefheart.
And my last last suggestion is getting into Howlin Wolf, and definitely definitely the great Tommy Johnson! Tommy Johnson was an old old delta blues singer who had an amazing voice, haunting as hell.
Mercury 09/18/2013 03:11
Your choices are cool. Dislike your number 1, but at the same time I like it...
Anyway, what you have here is nice. I'd like more choices for recs.
You've closed me to check out Fahey and "Rock Bottom" finally.
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