Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
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What do you want, eh? A great introduction, a powerful axiom that strikes your mind like a hammer the anvil? Ah! Forget it!
- Chart updated: 07/06/2017 09:15
- (Created: 07/30/2015 20:04).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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The dark angel, sitting on the lonely black rock of a vast, windswept desert, with grains of sand whirling all around, is singing for the broken hearts and lonely ones.
[First added to this chart: 08/18/2015]
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1994
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17,927
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In the darkness, one may lose the sense of his being, one may disappear completely. But not here. I've never heard so much hope between the lines of despair like the ones that Yorke spells.
This album changed the way i perceived electronic music, from the music of parties to the music of complete experimentation. [First added to this chart: 08/18/2015]
This album changed the way i perceived electronic music, from the music of parties to the music of complete experimentation. [First added to this chart: 08/18/2015]
Year of Release:
2000
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41,338
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There's a lot of bands that sounds a whole lot better in a live setting that in the studio. The Allman Brothers Band is the best example of this. In the studio recordings, they sound cool, but here they're a force of nature. From the very first note of the slide guitar, you know that you've just been punched so hard in the stomach that you'll hardly recover any time soon. Duane Allman is for sure my all time favourite guitarist.
[First added to this chart: 08/18/2015]
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1971
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3,715
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You enter the saloon slowly, the air so still that you could cut it with a knife. Between the dust and the hats you can see dozens of eyes staring at you, a bottle of whiskey kept in the air by frozen hands. After a second, everything starts flowing again, the tension still pervading the room. But in a dark corner, five young men are playing the music of sin, of bravery, of hope, of death. That is, the music of humanity. The saxophonist is crying for a spanish woman that has stolen his heart without looking back at him, the violinist narrates some obscure deed they've done and that they now regret, while the guitarist, the bassist and the drummer are keeping up the dark beguiling sentiment of the music.
Nobody knows them, but they're changing the minds of all of the ones who listen carefully. When they finish, you shoot them cold dead, 'cause no one else should know the secret that they've taught you. [First added to this chart: 02/22/2017]
Nobody knows them, but they're changing the minds of all of the ones who listen carefully. When they finish, you shoot them cold dead, 'cause no one else should know the secret that they've taught you. [First added to this chart: 02/22/2017]
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A love supreme may seem the most spiritual john coltrane's album, but for me this is where he reaches his peak. My conception of this masterwork was completely altered after reading Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami: now, when i hear the title track, i cannot help but feel like if it was a sort of Romantic battle of the man against the forces of Nature, striving to understand the meaning of our existence.
[First added to this chart: 08/21/2015]
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1961
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2,852
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Kind of obvious i would say. But, you know, apart from music's quality, this album introduced me to jazz and since it is my favourite musical genre, i have to show some respect.
[First added to this chart: 08/18/2015]
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1959
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21,865
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So many memories attached to this album... Every listening gives me chills down my spine, it makes me feel like an angry and disturbed 16 years old kid again, doin' stupid things just to impress his friends.
[First added to this chart: 08/18/2015]
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2006
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15,878
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"Sajna tere bina"
Hearing the tabla and harmonium cooperating with a Jimi-Hendrix-style guitar providing the background for Khan's flourishing voice makes you understand that he and Michael Brook were in the right place at the right moment. They carve canyons inside your soul, just to fill them with love. [First added to this chart: 02/22/2017]
Hearing the tabla and harmonium cooperating with a Jimi-Hendrix-style guitar providing the background for Khan's flourishing voice makes you understand that he and Michael Brook were in the right place at the right moment. They carve canyons inside your soul, just to fill them with love. [First added to this chart: 02/22/2017]
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Those major 7th and minor 2nd takes you right in the middle of the arabic desert, of the brazilian jungle, on the shores of Cape Verde. The interesting fact is that you actually are in a studio in New Jersey. Isn't music marvellous?
[First added to this chart: 02/22/2017]
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1964
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619
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If you haven't understood what love is yet, this record will show it to you. The only time i can feel totally confident in humanity's fate is when i hear Gaye's voice.
[First added to this chart: 08/18/2015]
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1971
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 6 | 6% | |
| 1960s | 32 | 32% | |
| 1970s | 21 | 21% | |
| 1980s | 13 | 13% | |
| 1990s | 21 | 21% | |
| 2000s | 5 | 5% | |
| 2010s | 2 | 2% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Nirvana | 2 | 2% | |
| Nick Drake | 2 | 2% | |
| Radiohead | 2 | 2% | |
| David Bowie | 2 | 2% | |
| The Beatles | 2 | 2% | |
| John Coltrane | 2 | 2% | |
| Miles Davis | 2 | 2% | |
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59 | 59% | |
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23 | 23% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 1 from 97th to 96thHighway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan |
| Up 1 from 96th to 95thFriday Night In San Francisco by Al Di Meola / John McLaughlin / Paco De Lucía |
| Up 1 from 95th to 94thRemain In Light by Talking Heads |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 8 from 89th to 97thThe Velvet Underground & Nico by The Velvet Underground & Nico |
| New entries |
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| Satori by Flower Travellin' Band |
| Leavers |
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| Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen |
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| ! | 01/22/2020 15:10 |  salahshoori | 29 | 83/100 |
| ! | 05/17/2018 02:31 |  AwaitingAndrew | 23 | 83/100 |
| ! | 05/16/2018 21:43 |  Boltzmann | 246 | 79/100 |
| ! | 05/16/2018 17:13 | panapsal | 231 | 93/100 |
| ! | 05/16/2018 16:16 |  Oselju | 243 | 84/100 |
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From salahshoori 01/22/2020 15:10 | #247075
salahshoori 01/22/2020 15:10 | #247075
Great picks! Very interesting chart. I liked the way you introduced Nusrat.
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From Boltzmann 05/16/2018 21:52 | #214944
Boltzmann 05/16/2018 21:52 | #214944
The picks that aren’t completely obscure are VERY basic.
However, I convinced myself to check out Nusrat - it’s not everyday I encounter an album from Pakistan. They certainly are good vibes. And wow! Massive Attack remixed one of his songs before they made Blue Lines.
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From panapsal 05/16/2018 17:13 | #214929
great mix !!!!!
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From Oselju 05/16/2018 16:17 | #214917
Oselju 05/16/2018 16:17 | #214917
Nice chart !
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ForegroundNoise 05/16/2018 12:09 | #214897
ForegroundNoise 05/16/2018 12:09 | #214897
Nothing much more to say other than I simply adore this chart
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From Ulf 05/16/2018 08:05 | #214893
Very nice chart with good interesting comments although its quite different from mine i can see your view
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LedZep 01/02/2018 17:28 | #204430
LedZep 01/02/2018 17:28 | #204430
Superb chart with loads of great picks. Very diverse, 100% unique, and love your jazz inclusions.
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From voland 06/07/2017 14:52 | #192193
The most interesting chart in a long time for me. Wonderful!
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ShadowColossi 05/27/2016 22:05 | #167030
ShadowColossi 05/27/2016 22:05 | #167030
Fantastic chart!
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From hahol 03/14/2016 12:35 | #161901
Nice chart! Superb comments too! Mature taste for a young man with great attitude!
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