100 Great Artists and Albums That BEA Forgot (Below Top 1000) by 
jhuik 
Basic rule: artist's top rated album must finish out of the top 1000 on the site... Here's the fuller description: I love BEA and in general BEA users have a pretty good handle on what's really worth preserving, and albummaster's algorithms really rock. I love how Doolittle, Slint, the Pogues, Prince Billy and a lot of other great but unusual artists make the top 1000 (Deerhunter, Iron and Wine, Pavement, on and on). Here are 100 albums that are really (often surprisingly) uderrated by the BEA Collective. Rules: No more than 1 album by any artist as there are so many that fit the bill. Artists must not score a single album in the top 1000 when the album gets added to this or any other chart of mine. And must be at least 3 years old. I deprecate my own preferences to some degree and used a sort-of-algorithm to find some I don't even really know about. I try to lean toward unfairly-forgotten but there are some 'established artists' who I think have somehow ended up dissed by history, too. There is also a forum thread where users have suggested additions (http://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13385). A couple of interesting trends I notice is the site's obvious slant away from women artists and the whole jazz > the blues thing (which I disagree with, period). Let me know your favourite unfairly-forgotten album and artist in the comments.
A separate chart of mine, '100 Great Albums By Established Artists' has a bit of overlap as the title suggests is less 'underground-cred' focused. See http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=26933
- Chart updated: 10/10/2015 13:45
- (Created: 09/07/2015 17:01).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Great lyrics, unique sound, lots of love, but inexplicably can't even crack the top 1200.
[First added to this chart: 09/07/2015]
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2002
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1,168
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Great original hiphop band and a highly acclaimed album in its time.
[First added to this chart: 09/07/2015]
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1999
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1,807
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Peter Garrett is a hero in his homeland. Maybe I should move to Australia.
[First added to this chart: 09/07/2015]
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1987
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1,823
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Rolling Stone Magazine favourite. BEA users... different story.
[First added to this chart: 09/07/2015]
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1982
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1,094
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Well, this guy. He's influenced EVERYONE... and not even 50 BEA users.
[First added to this chart: 09/07/2015]
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1983
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797
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I expected the Vaccines to crack the top 1000 at least.
[First added to this chart: 09/07/2015]
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2011
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1,041
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Honestly, this is just a shame. Not even top 2000 for this legend? Let me tell you my opinion on the whole jazz-is-much-more-sophisticated than-the-blues thing. Not his most original but certainly his most accessible.
[First added to this chart: 09/13/2015]
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1977
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322
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Loved by those who know him as one of the best lyricists out there.
[First added to this chart: 09/13/2015]
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2007
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1,197
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[First added to this chart: 09/07/2015]
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1990
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1,841
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Topped many best-of-the-year lists in 1987. Truly great songs. Not even top 2000.
[First added to this chart: 09/07/2015]
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1987
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345
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100 Great Artists and Albums That BEA Forgot (Below Top 1000) composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 2 | 2% | |
| 1970s | 11 | 11% | |
| 1980s | 24 | 24% | |
| 1990s | 25 | 25% | |
| 2000s | 34 | 34% | |
| 2010s | 4 | 4% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| dc Talk | 1 | 1% | |
| Los Lobos | 1 | 1% | |
| Imperial Teen | 1 | 1% | |
| Ray LaMontagne | 1 | 1% | |
| Kurt Vile | 1 | 1% | |
| Laurie Anderson | 1 | 1% | |
| The Sundays | 1 | 1% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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54 | 54% | |
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21 | 21% | |
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14 | 14% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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1 | 1% | |
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100 Great Artists and Albums That BEA Forgot (Below Top 1000) chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 1 from 100th to 99th The Music by The Music |
| Up 1 from 99th to 98th Only Revolutions by Biffy Clyro |
| Up 1 from 98th to 97th Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters by The Twilight Sad |
| Leavers |
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 Just Another Diamond Dayby Vashti Bunyan |
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 80/100 | 09/12/2015 12:33 |  Radioscope | | 91/100 |
| 95/100 | 09/08/2015 13:32 |  meccalecca | | 91/100 |
| 100/100 | 09/07/2015 23:30 |  meruizh | | 83/100 |
| 100/100 | 09/07/2015 20:15 |  Pegasus | | 95/100 |
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From YikYak 06/25/2018 12:54
This is a fantastic chart! I would love it if you add some more descriptions, when you get the chance of course
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From Grimaticus 04/26/2016 08:37
Thanks for putting this together
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exileonthehell 11/05/2015 04:25
exileonthehell 11/05/2015 04:25
Great job, some picks ar very good. But some albums are now in the top 1000, or are descending/ascending every week.
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From jhuik 09/18/2015 23:41
jhuik 09/18/2015 23:41
@meccalecca Thanks very much for the comment and rating. 1000 is a cutoff point, selected at random I suppose, but with some interesting effects. Agree that these are not all forgotten. Still, it's an interesting exercise. There could be an interesting chart of 'out of the top 2000 only,' etc.
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95/100
From meccalecca 09/17/2015 22:46
meccalecca 09/17/2015 22:46
Good chart. No complains from me. There's some stuff I don't care for and see why it was "forgotten" (the vines, everclear, edward sharpe) but there's stuff I love immensely that I agree deserves far more respect than it gets (andrew bird, go-betweens, bobb trimble).
My only criticism may be that the parameters are too broad. Being outside of the top 1000 isn't really that forgotten considering how many charts some of the records do appear on.
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80/100
From Radioscope 09/12/2015 12:35
Radioscope 09/12/2015 12:35
Nice chart, interesting picks. I am especially surprised to not see Stars of the Lid and Mountain Goats in this list, I thought they were more acclaimed here. Most of the rest is not known to me, so I will take a look.
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