Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by Lastings

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***songs listed under albums are anything rated 4 or 5 stars in my itunes. thanks!***

**updated 8/16/2019**

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Atlantic city / johnny 99 / highway patrolman / state trooper / reason to believe [First added to this chart: 02/09/2011]
Year of Release:
1982
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Rank Score:
5,761
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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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Rank Score:
16,462
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Cover me/ Working on the highway / Downbound Train / I'm on fire / No Surrender / Bobby Jean / I'm going down / My Hometown [First added to this chart: 01/21/2012]
Year of Release:
1984
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Rank Score:
8,267
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Born Under Punches (The heat goes on) / Crosseyed and Painless / The Great Curve / Once in a lifetime / Listening Wind [First added to this chart: 01/21/2012]
Year of Release:
1980
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Rank Score:
30,730
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Buy album United States
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Where the streets../ I still haven't found what I'm looking for/ with or without you/ bullet the blue sky/ In god's country [First added to this chart: 02/09/2011]
Year of Release:
1987
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Rank Score:
19,881
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74. (=)
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[First added to this chart: 08/16/2019]
Year of Release:
1989
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Rank Score:
37,394
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Controversy / Private Joy / Ronnie, Talk to Russia / Let's Work / Annie Christian [First added to this chart: 04/25/2016]
Year of Release:
1981
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Rank Score:
567
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80. (=)
Buy album United States
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[First added to this chart: 01/21/2012]
Year of Release:
1984
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Rank Score:
3,368
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Dirty Mind / When you were Mine / Do it all night / Gotta Broken Heart Again / Uptown [First added to this chart: 04/25/2016]
Year of Release:
1980
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Rank Score:
1,774
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90. (=)
Buy album United States
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[First added to this chart: 01/21/2012]
Year of Release:
1983
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Rank Score:
10,649
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition

Decade Albums %


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%
Artist Albums %


Radiohead 6 6%
The Beatles 5 5%
Led Zeppelin 4 4%
Pearl Jam 3 3%
Kanye West 3 3%
The Shins 3 3%
Pink Floyd 3 3%
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Country Albums %


United States 58 58%
United Kingdom 30 30%
Iceland 4 4%
Canada 3 3%
France 2 2%
Australia 1 1%
Ireland 1 1%
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Live? Albums %
No 99 99%
Yes 1 1%
Soundtrack? Albums %
No 99 99%
Yes 1 1%

Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes

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Hopes And Fears
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Climber Up 1 from 32nd to 31st
Discovery
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Biggest fallers
Faller Down 2 from 31st to 33rd
Binaural
by Pearl Jam

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From 02/09/2023 09:41
Great chart 15 in common !
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From 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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From 09/02/2018 08:24
excellent chart
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From 12/18/2017 17:29
Really original chart with all great quality records
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From 03/28/2017 19:40
Just listening to Houses of the Holy hahah. Such an underrated thing
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From 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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From 01/01/2017 19:25
haven't seen Harvest on anyone's list in a while..
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From 01/01/2017 10:51
Very nice chart!
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From 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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From 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 Albums of the 1990s
1. OK Computer by Radiohead
2. Nevermind by Nirvana
3. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel
4. Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
5. The Bends by Radiohead
6. Automatic For The People by R.E.M.
7. Ten by Pearl Jam
8. Siamese Dream by The Smashing Pumpkins
9. Grace by Jeff Buckley
10. In Utero by Nirvana
11. (What's The Story) Morning Glory? by Oasis
12. Illmatic by Nas
13. Ágætis Byrjun by Sigur Rós
14. Dummy by Portishead
15. Weezer (Blue Album) by Weezer
16. Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins
17. Homogenic by Björk
18. Spiderland by Slint
19. Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) by Wu-Tang Clan
20. Achtung Baby by U2
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