Top 40 Greatest Music Albums
by lmmailloux 
I don't claim that these are the best albums of all time, but my personal picks for favorite albums. Dark Side of the Moon, Pet Sounds, Hotel California... all great albums, but they don't make my list.
- Chart updated: 12/17/2024 17:45
- (Created: 02/25/2011 07:39).
- Chart size: 40 albums.
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Favorite Tracks: Soil Soil, The Con, Call It Off, practically everything...
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Favorite Tracks: What Sarah Said, Summer Skin, Marching Bands of Manhattan
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2005
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1,522
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Favorite Tracks: Paranoid Android, No Surprises, Let Down
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Year of Release:
1997
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50,541
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Favorite Tracks: The Background, Semi-Charmed Life, Motorcycle Drive By, I Want You
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1997
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1,330
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Favorite Tracks: We Looked Like Giants, Title and Registration, Death of an Interior Decorator, Tiny Vessels
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2003
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2,437
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Favorite Tracks: Bodysnatchers, Reckoner, 15 Step
[First added to this chart: 04/19/2011]
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2007
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33,890
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Favorite Tracks: Parkdale, Soft Rock Star, Raw Sugar
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Favorite Tracks: The Ocean, The Cure, On Directing
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Favorite Tracks: Anna Begins, Round Here, A Murder of One
[First added to this chart: 06/22/2012]
Year of Release:
1993
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1,660
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Favorite Tracks: Scar Tissue, Purple Stain, Around the World
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Year of Release:
1999
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4,576
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Total albums: 40. Page 1 of 4
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Top 40 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1970s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1980s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1990s | 10 | 25% | |
| 2000s | 23 | 58% | |
| 2010s | 7 | 18% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Death Cab For Cutie | 3 | 8% | |
| Metric | 2 | 5% | |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers | 2 | 5% | |
| Dispatch | 2 | 5% | |
| Tegan And Sara | 2 | 5% | |
| Radiohead | 2 | 5% | |
| Third Eye Blind | 2 | 5% | |
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Top 40 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
|---|
| Up 3 from 33rd to 30thOld World Underground, Where Are You Now? by Metric |
| Up 3 from 24th to 21stMutemath by Mutemath |
| Up 2 from 31st to 29thOnly Way To Be Alone by Good Old War |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 9 from 30th to 39thThe Color Spectrum: The Complete Collection by The Dear Hunter |
| Down 5 from 7th to 12thBlood Sugar Sex Magik by Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Down 4 from 32nd to 36thSilent Steeples by Dispatch |
| New entries |
|---|
| The Photo Album by Death Cab For Cutie |
| Omega La La by Rubblebucket |
| Strict Joy by The Swell Season |
| Illmatic by Nas |
| Leavers |
|---|
| Oracular Spectacular by MGMT |
| Bleed American by Jimmy Eat World |
| Funhouse by P!nk |
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| 11/11/2011 02:08 | travisk44 | 12 | 79/100 | |
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From travisk44 11/11/2011 02:09 | #30351
Love that Eisley made the cut. Great chart.
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