Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by dihansse
This list is based on scoring of individual tracks but with the adagium of one album per artist and no best ofs.
I have now also added at the end of each entry all the regular albums of the artist in question that would appear in my top 250 if I don't apply the one album per artist rule; to that I've added the year of issue, my personal score and all the tracks on the album with a score of 95 or 100 (roughly my top 1000 of favorite songs ever).
- Chart updated: 03/03/2024 17:45
- (Created: 10/30/2015 20:28).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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In any case I like everything from this band from the earlier punk songs to the more elaborate pop songs on their latter albums. I know it's maybe a bit exaggerated but to me Bob Mould and Grant Hart (who died in 2017) are the Lennon/McCartney of the indie scene. Their hard edged tracks always had a melodic and adventurous side to them.
After the band broke up through all kind of drugs problems, the follow ups were nearly as good: Grant Hart solo and with Nova Mob and Bob Mould solo and with Sugar.
Favorite tracks on this album (1984): Something I Learned Today, Indecision Time, Beyond The Treshold, I'll Never Forget You, What's Going On, Masochism World, Somewhere, Whatever
Favorite tracks on other albums:
Flip Your Wig (1985): Flip Your Wig, Makes No Sense At All, Hate Paper Doll, Green Eyes, Divide And Conquer, Games, Find Me, Flexible Flyer, Private Plane
New Day Rising (1985): Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill, Celebrated Summer [First added to this chart: 05/01/2019]
When the Saints broke up, Ed Kuepper proceeded with the Aints. Although they built on the Saints legacy, they had a very own sound with beautiful guitars and a lot of jazzy influences. This led to very long and winding but incredibly good songs like the ones on their debut album "Ascension" and its follow-up "Autocannibalism".
However "Ascension" is somewhat better and includes real (and I mean REAL) guitar and saxophone solos based songs like "It's Still Nowhere" and "Like an Oil Spill".
After that I kept following the solo career of Ed Kuepper which was more based on singer songwriter-like accoustic songs.
Favorite tracks on this album (1991): It's Still Nowhere, What's It Like Out There?, A Good Soundtrack, Like An Oil Spill, Ascension
Favorite tracks on other albums:
Autocannibalism (1992): You Can't Please Everybody, Linda And Abilene, Ill Wind, The Aints Go Camping [First added to this chart: 10/30/2015]
The CD I most cherish is in fact a compilation of the ep "Rocking the Forest" (which contains fantastic tracks like "Gimme Indie Rock" and "It's so Hard to Fall in Love") and "Sebadoh vs Helmet" not in the least because it contains one of my favorite songs "Brand New Love". I have seen Sebadoh a few times live and finally they played it live as an encore in their 2019 tour: I was in heaven. The way this songs sets of very slowly and the way it ends in absolute chaos is beyond words.
This album is the quintessential indie album to me and is my absolute favorite in this top 100. It has very rough feeling but it's so honest it almost makes you cry. Most of other tracks are also not less than fantastic, eg the duo Mean "Distance" (again slow beginning erupting in chaos) and "...Burned" (slow start going over in beautiful guitar part).
The 1994 album Bakesale nearly matches the quality of this album and the 1996 Harmacy is a good third.
Favorite tracks on this album (1992): Gimme Indie Rock, It's So Hard To Fall In Love, Vampire, Mind Meld, Notsur Dnuora, Selcric, Brand New Love, Mean Distance, ...Burned, Good Things Proud Man
Favorite tracks on other albums:
III (1991): The Freed Pig
Bubble & Scrape (1993): Soul And Fire, Sacred Attention
Bakesale (1994): Magnet's Coil, Not A Friend, Not Too Amused, Skull, Rebound, Mystery Man, Together Or Alone
Harmacy (1996): On Fire, Ocean, Beauty Of The Ride, Zone Doubt, Too Pure, Open Ended)
The Sebadoh (1999): Weird, Flame, Thrive, Sorry [First added to this chart: 10/31/2015]
Please also check out the mini album Beaster where he's even more hard-edged.
Favorite track on this album (1992): The Act We Act, A Good Idea, Changes, Helpless, If I Can't Change Your Mind, Fortune Teller, Slick, Man On The Moon
Favorite tracks on other albums:
Beaster (1993): Tilted, Judas Cradle, JC Auto
File Under Easy Listening (1994): Explode And Make Up [First added to this chart: 02/11/2017]
Favorite track on this album (1986): Battery, Master Of Puppets, The Thing That Should Not Be, Welcome Home (Sanitarium), Disposable Heroes
Favorite tracks on other albums:
Kill 'Em All (1983): Seek & Destroy
Ride The Lightning (1984): Fade To Black, Creeping Death
... And Justice For All (1988): Blackened, ...And Justice For All, One
Metallica (1991): Enter Sandman, Sad But True [First added to this chart: 10/30/2015]
When I would pick a song I would pick The Wagon from Green Mind also because that was the track that drew me into the band, when I would follow my heart I would probably choose Where You Been but when I take the scores of all tracks together it is this one which is the first of their third period and which really blew my mind (after ten long years of waiting) when I first heard it.
Favorite tracks on this album (2007): Almost Ready, Pick Me Up, Back To Your Heart, This Is All I Came To Do, Been There All The Time, It's Me
Favorite tracks on other albums:
You're Living All Over Me (1987): Little Furry Things, Raisins
Bug (1988): Freak Scene
Green Mind (1991): The Wagon
Where You Been (1993): Out There, Start Choppin', Get Me
Without A Sound (1994): Feel The Pain
Hand It Over (1997): Alone
Farm (2009): Plans, Said The People, There's No Here
Give A Glimpse Of What Yr Not (2016): Lost All Day, Knocked Around
I Bet On Sky (2012): Watch The Corners
Sweep It Into Space (2021): none [First added to this chart: 02/11/2017]
Daydream Nation is definitely the best of their albums with Sister and Dirty as excellent second and thirds.
Favorite tracks on this album (1988): Teenage Riot, 'Cross The Breeze, Eric's Trip, Total Trash, Candle, Trilogy
Favorite tracks on other albums:
Bad Moon Rising (1985): Death Valley '69
Evol (1986): Expressway To Your Skull
Sister (1987): (I Got A) Catholic Block, Stereo Sanctity, Tuff Gnarl, Hot Wire My Heart, Kotton Krown, White Kross
Goo (1990): Cinderella's Big Score, Titanium Expose, Dirty Boots
Dirty (1992): 100%, Sugar Kane, Chapel Hill, Purr
Washing Machine (1995): Becuz, The Diamond Sea
A Thousand Leaves (1998): Sunday
Murray Street (2002): Rain On Tin [First added to this chart: 10/30/2015]
A bit after that I bought the CD reissue of "Surfer Rosa" which also included the EP "Come On Pilgrim" and I liked this album even better because and all the 22 tracks had an immediate appeal and a bonus: it contained a few tracks sung (Gigantic) or co-sung (River Euphrates) or with some sexy spoken comments (I'm Amazed) by Kim Deal, a real indie heroin only comparable to that other Kim of Sonic Youth. When the Pixies split, the Breeders were in my opinion better than the solo efforts of Frank Black.
Favorite track on this album (1987): , Holiday Song, Nimrod's Song
Favorite tracks on other albums:
Surfer Rosa (1988): Bone Machine, Break My Body, Broken Face, Gigantic, River Euphrates, Where Is My Mind?,
Doolittle (1989): Debaser, Tame, Wave Of Mutilation, Crackity Jones, No. 13 Baby, Gouge Away
Complete 'B' Sides (2001): Winterlong [First added to this chart: 09/15/2019]
Favorite tracks on this album (1992): Leg, Palomine, Brain-Tag, Tom Boy, Balentine
Favorite tracks on other albums:
Lamprey (1995): Tell Me Sad [First added to this chart: 10/30/2015]
Favorite tracks on this album (1991): Smells Like Teen Spirit, In Bloom, Drain You, Stay Away, On A Plain, Something In The Way
Favorite tracks on other albums:
Bleach (1989): About A Girl
Incesticide (1992): Aneurysm
In Utero (1993) Dumb, Pennyroyal Tea, All Apologies
But the better versions of many of these songs are on The live MTV Unplugged in NY album which also contains The Man Who Sold The World and Where Did You Sleep Last Night not on a regular album. [First added to this chart: 02/11/2017]
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
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1930s | 0 | 0% | |
1940s | 0 | 0% | |
1950s | 0 | 0% | |
1960s | 4 | 4% | |
1970s | 16 | 16% | |
1980s | 20 | 20% | |
1990s | 40 | 40% | |
2000s | 10 | 10% | |
2010s | 8 | 8% | |
2020s | 2 | 2% |
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Ty Segall & Freedom Band | 1 | 1% | |
R.E.M. | 1 | 1% | |
Arcade Fire | 1 | 1% | |
Motörhead | 1 | 1% | |
Pixies | 1 | 1% | |
Sex Pistols | 1 | 1% | |
The Afghan Whigs | 1 | 1% | |
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44 | 44% | ||
36 | 36% | ||
6 | 6% | ||
5 | 5% | ||
4 | 4% | ||
2 | 2% | ||
1 | 1% | ||
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
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Down 1 from 96th to 97th X&Y by Coldplay |
Down 1 from 97th to 98th No Quarter: Jimmy Page And Robert Plant Unledded by Jimmy Page & Robert Plant |
Down 1 from 98th to 99th Live Through This by Hole |
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Rumours by Fleetwood Mac |
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All Things Must Pass by George Harrison |
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Great list and nice to read all the commentaries!
I LOVE your Top 100 chart. It is unabashedly a tribute to the 90's, yet you aren't afraid to throw in some classic rock just because it's good. AC/DC and Belle and Sebastian on the same chart? Brilliant! I own so many of these albums, and there are others I've never even heard of. Bravo.
Nice personal chart that privileges a certain generation and rock scene, though there are many nice surprises. Love seeing love for The Saints. And any list with Zen Arcade at the top can't be bad.
Well, that's one hell of a chart. There are probably only 3 or 4 charts that have ever got 100 from me but you get it hands down. This is top notch. Love the variety and having Eleventh Dream Day's Prairie School Freakout @ 37 is a great pick. Stunning chart
Well done! Very nice chat with super descriptions. ( a little too focused on early '90s)
Now we're talking! Some of the definitive music from the american underground scene right here
Really cool chart! I appreciate how different it is. There's some early 90s stuff on here I need to check out because I'm not as familiar with late 80s and early 90s like I am with other years/decades.
Love it. Loads of fantastic indie rock pioneers.
I give you 85 points because i like some of your selection and others i don´t know but you have a good choice.
Interesting concept and very good wording. A few interesting choices, even with a lot that is very familiar and rather focused on 1980s and 1990s indie music.
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