Top 20 Greatest Music Albums
by Tintenty 
These are listed in order, but I love them all. Apart from number 1, I didn't really want to separate them. The list lacks objectivity. I confess that these are my favoutites, I don't know how you would define the "best". I don't have a problem with liking the same music as everyone else and I don't really worry too much about the persona that the media graft on to artists, because I don't think we ever get to see anything other than what suits the journalists agenda anyway.
I can also guarantee I've missed stuff out. My favourite Pop song is, and always will be, Ride a white swan by T Rex.
- Chart updated: 02/12/2011 11:29
- (Created: 02/12/2011 11:29).
- Chart size: 20 albums.
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My favourite live album. Played it to death. Oh dear look what they've done to the blues. Anyone in that audience? Steve Harley is my all time favourite minstrel
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This is indisputably one of the finest albums ever. You just can't not like it. All tracks relevant now and forever.
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1979
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Everyone had relics. We taped a song based on one of these days, but in all my years of judging...this album deserves a vote.
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1979
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I probably don't really have a favourite Zappa album, but this has so much brilliance on it
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1979
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Played it doing my homework on a mono record player. I got it second hand and listened over and over again. Couldn't be dragged away.
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1971
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Another one that grabbed me on the road in Scotland. This time it was a tape. I still listen to it. Did a bit of rock climbing at the time and everyone was naming new routes after genesis tracks. Thank you Dave Lawson and Lynn Rogers.
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1974
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Easy to laugh at, but I still play it and love it. I love the words lyrics in the songs and the words in the narrative. So of its time.
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It could have been ziggy stardust, but Quicksand swings it for me.
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1971
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Saw them at Knebworth. 140 thousand crowd and Freddie had us all in the palm of his hand. Magic.
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1975
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Deeply unfashionable for as long as I can remember. But what a band to see live. Quo-o-o-o-oh.
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Top 20 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 2 | 10% | |
| 1970s | 10 | 50% | |
| 1980s | 3 | 15% | |
| 1990s | 2 | 10% | |
| 2000s | 2 | 10% | |
| 2010s | 1 | 5% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| The Stone Roses | 1 | 5% | |
| The Rolling Stones | 1 | 5% | |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1 | 5% | |
| Genesis | 1 | 5% | |
| The Clash | 1 | 5% | |
| Rick Wakeman | 1 | 5% | |
| Madonna | 1 | 5% | |
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