Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by Imaybeparanoid 
I'm sorry for all the english mistakes you're going to read.
Some honorable mentions:
High Violet - The National | Teen Dream - Beach House
Strangeways, Here We Come - The Smiths | Tago Mago - Can
Bringing It All Back Home - Bob Dylan | Hunky Dory - David Bowie
A Love Supreme - John Coltrane | Led Zeppelin III - Led Zeppelin
Bee Thousand - Guided By Voices | Liquid Swords - GZA
London Calling - The Clash | Ocean Rain - Echo & the Bunnymen
Carrie & Lowell - Sufjan Stevens | Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
Emergency & I - The Dismemberment Plan | Fragile - Yes
- Chart updated: 01/30/2017 21:15
- (Created: 09/12/2015 13:17).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 17 | 17% | |
| 1970s | 23 | 23% | |
| 1980s | 10 | 10% | |
| 1990s | 28 | 28% | |
| 2000s | 19 | 19% | |
| 2010s | 3 | 3% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Radiohead | 5 | 5% | |
| Arcade Fire | 3 | 3% | |
| Led Zeppelin | 3 | 3% | |
| Muse | 3 | 3% | |
| Pink Floyd | 3 | 3% | |
| The Who | 3 | 3% | |
| Neil Young | 2 | 2% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 1 from 3rd to 2nd The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 1 from 2nd to 3rd Odessey And Oracle by The Zombies |
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85/100  | 03/20/2025 14:12 | SomethingSpecial | | 85/100 |
85/100 | 09/06/2024 15:16 | Larcx13 | | 86/100 |
50/100 | 08/25/2021 18:34 |  zwiebel | | 86/100 |
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Interesting list, don't like Radiohead and Arcade Fire but otherwise excellent. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea at number 1 is controversial but it is a great record. Rock on man
DommeDamian 04/16/2018 11:50
13 artists and 9 albums in common yes!
RasmV 01/03/2018 21:11
A third of the albums in your chart are in my chart aswell.
Will check the rest out at some point.
Great chart
Really good chart
phantom1305 08/28/2017 22:31
Great chart! ^_^
You've got a great variety here. Lots of classics, mixed with ones I've never heard of. I'm going to listen to some of your recs. :)
JulianR 08/09/2017 22:41
really solid picks all the way through. I agree about takk...
Very nice!
JulianR 05/06/2017 06:45
You say The Bends isn't quite as good as Kid A and then rank it higher than Kid A...
Bristoc 03/05/2017 23:16
Very nice chart! i wish I could have the patience to write the notes for each album in my list too.
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| Best Ever Artists | |
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| 1. The Beatles | |
| 2. Radiohead | |
| 3. Pink Floyd | |
| 4. David Bowie | |
| 5. Bob Dylan | |
| 6. Led Zeppelin | |
| 7. The Rolling Stones | |
| 8. Arcade Fire | |
| 9. Nirvana | |
| 10. The Velvet Underground | |
| 11. Neil Young | |
| 12. Kendrick Lamar | |
| 13. Miles Davis | |
| 14. The Smiths | |
| 15. The Beach Boys | |
| 16. Kanye West | |
| 17. R.E.M. | |
| 18. Pixies | |
| 19. Jimi Hendrix | |
| 20. Bruce Springsteen |