Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by 
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charts up to 100 now!! Thanks for checking out my chart. Comments are very welcome and encouraged!.. even the negative ones.. also encouraged are suggestions of anything I should listen to or should consider a must have. I keep my collection and wishlist public on here and try to keep it updated.
***songs listed under albums are anything rated 4 or 5 stars in my itunes. thanks!***
**updated 8/16/2019**
- Chart updated: 02/26/2022 07:45
- (Created: 02/08/2011 21:59).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Let's Go Crazy / Take me with you / The Beautiful Ones / Computer Blue / When Doves Cry / I would die for you / Baby I'm a Star / Purple Rain
[First added to this chart: 01/21/2012]
Year of Release:
1984
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16,462
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Like a rolling stone / tombstone blues / from a buick 6 / ballad of a thin man / highway 61 revisited /
[First added to this chart: 02/09/2011]
Year of Release:
1965
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31,063
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The District Sleeps Alone / Such Great Heights / Sleeping In / We will become silhouettes / Natural Anthem / Brand New Colony
[First added to this chart: 01/06/2015]
Year of Release:
2003
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4,149
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Bitch, Don't Kill my vibe / The Art of Peer Pressure / Good Kid / M.a.a.d City / Swimming pools / Sing about me/I'm dying of thirst
[First added to this chart: 03/01/2019]
Year of Release:
2012
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25,756
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Drive my car / norwegian wood (this bird has flown) / nowhere man / Michelle / girl / In my life / run for your life /
[First added to this chart: 02/09/2011]
Year of Release:
1965
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30,630
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26. (=)
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My keyboard doesn't type in icelandic. but, tracks 1 / 2 / 4 / 5
[First added to this chart: 03/02/2011]
Year of Release:
2008
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1,672
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Brain of J. / Faithful / No way / Given to Fly / MFC / In hiding / all those yesterdays
[First added to this chart: 02/09/2011]
Year of Release:
1998
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1,460
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All falls down / spaceship / jesus walks / get 'em high / two words / through the wire /
[First added to this chart: 02/09/2011]
Year of Release:
2004
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9,307
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Sleeping lessons / australia / phantom limb / sea legs / spilt needles
[First added to this chart: 02/09/2011]
Year of Release:
2007
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2,558
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30. (=)
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Is this it?/ someday/ alone together/ last night /hard to explain /Trying your luck /take it or leave it
[First added to this chart: 02/09/2011]
Year of Release:
2001
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33,179
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 13 | 13% | |
| 1970s | 12 | 12% | |
| 1980s | 11 | 11% | |
| 1990s | 19 | 19% | |
| 2000s | 35 | 35% | |
| 2010s | 10 | 10% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Radiohead | 6 | 6% | |
| The Beatles | 5 | 5% | |
| Led Zeppelin | 4 | 4% | |
| Kanye West | 3 | 3% | |
| The Shins | 3 | 3% | |
| Pink Floyd | 3 | 3% | |
| Bob Dylan | 3 | 3% | |
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58 | 58% | |
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30 | 30% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums ratings
88/100 (from 97 votes)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
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75/100  | 02/09/2023 22:09 |  pedro1976 | | 84/100 |
75/100 | 02/09/2023 20:25 |  MadhattanJack | | 84/100 |
90/100 | 02/09/2023 09:39 |  Tamthebam | | 85/100 |
90/100 | 05/01/2022 14:41 | MasterOfPuppets | | 91/100 |
 85/100 | 02/23/2020 21:45 |  ssteve | | 92/100 |
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This chart is rated in the top 14% of all charts on BestEverAlbums.com. This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 87.6/100, a mean average of 86.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 87.7/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 9.8.
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From Tamthebam 02/09/2023 09:41
Tamthebam 02/09/2023 09:41
Great chart 15 in common !
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90/100
From PeterSmith 06/29/2019 15:28
Great chart - most of the stuff I know of your chart I really like. Ziggy deserves the love
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95/100
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qwert9579 09/02/2018 08:24
qwert9579 09/02/2018 08:24
excellent chart
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Sean 12/18/2017 17:29
Sean 12/18/2017 17:29
Really original chart with all great quality records
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80/100
From LedZep 03/28/2017 19:40
LedZep 03/28/2017 19:40
Just listening to Houses of the Holy hahah. Such an underrated thing
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CharlieBarley 01/01/2017 22:49
CharlieBarley 01/01/2017 22:49
Good chart man. A lot of nice selections. I am just getting into the Decemberists so good to see them. Good work.
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80/100
From vancevisuals 01/01/2017 19:25
haven't seen Harvest on anyone's list in a while..
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85/100
From zrommeke 01/01/2017 10:51
Very nice chart!
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From blueandthemoon 05/26/2016 23:33
Very nice chart. Good selections from the 2000s. And a nice spattering of "classics". We had 18 albums in common.
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80/100
From crimson 05/14/2016 06:48
I love your chart. I wish my friends, if I can say I have, had tastes so similar to mine.
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| Best Artists of the 2000s | |
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| 1. Radiohead | |
| 2. Arcade Fire | |
| 3. The Strokes | |
| 4. Coldplay | |
| 5. Sufjan Stevens | |
| 6. Arctic Monkeys | |
| 7. Wilco | |
| 8. Animal Collective | |
| 9. Muse | |
| 10. The White Stripes | |
| 11. Kanye West | |
| 12. Phil Elverum | |
| 13. Interpol | |
| 14. Modest Mouse | |
| 15. Queens Of The Stone Age | |
| 16. Madvillain | |
| 17. Godspeed You! Black Emperor | |
| 18. LCD Soundsystem | |
| 19. The National | |
| 20. The Flaming Lips |