Top 60 Greatest Music Albums by 
Jackwc 
I typically find the chore of organizing my music into categories based on which I believe is "best" to be positively horrifying. I was, however, able to somewhat gather myself together in order to assemble this list.
As a rule of thumb, I only include one album per band. ONLY ONE. This allows for more variety and flavour in my list. Also, I don't choose my albums based on the album's influence or history, just how I see its quality (and to some degree its sentimentality ...to a great degree, actually).
I understand that opinions are subjective, so I am open to any comments about my choice of albums in this list, or just about how much you hate me and how I don't know what I'm talking about.
Thank you.
- Chart updated: 04/20/2015 20:15
- (Created: 02/26/2011 23:02).
- Chart size: 60 albums.
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I recall having just left middle school when Fucked Up's debut LP "Hidden World" dropped. It was pretty under the radar, but menacingly loud and bitingly beautiful. I was just ready for it at the time - raw, unpolished, angry. It was my record. The band grew with me; I was a confused, lost and disillusioned teen when "Chemistry" dropped, an album that itself felt lost in the cosmos. Using it as my compass, I sought passage to a place beyond the stars, where I could nest in peace and in ignorance of the trivialities of the physical plane.
"Iron antlers
Fill the sky,
Metal organs
Fertilize,
Sparks and ingots
Come alive,
The chemistry
Of common life." [First added to this chart: 08/06/2011]
"Iron antlers
Fill the sky,
Metal organs
Fertilize,
Sparks and ingots
Come alive,
The chemistry
Of common life." [First added to this chart: 08/06/2011]
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"Mellon Collie" has been with me all my life, so I have many memories concealed within its aural walls. Most of all I remember long car rides at night, slouching into the backseat on a bored sunset somewhere at the horizon of sleep. My father and my step-mother argue over overpasses and I close my eyes and turn up the volume and drift above it all like a heavy cloud.
"My life
Has Been
Extraordinary;
Blessed
And cursed
And won." [First added to this chart: 02/26/2011]
"My life
Has Been
Extraordinary;
Blessed
And cursed
And won." [First added to this chart: 02/26/2011]
Year of Release:
1995
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15,295
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Probably the greatest "metal" album ever recorded - assuming you do it justice to even classify it as merely that. It takes influences from folk music, honky tonk, jazz, progressive, alternative and death metal to construct a dystopian alien coming-of-age story set in the suburbs. Characterizing the benevolent punishments of parental guardians as the tyrannical rule of an alien overlord (the protagonists stereo being taken from him seen as a great forced drought of music in "Desert Of Song") it serves to both mock and celebrate the frivolity of youth.
"Everything's
A novelty;
Everyone grows
But me." [First added to this chart: 02/26/2011]
"Everything's
A novelty;
Everyone grows
But me." [First added to this chart: 02/26/2011]
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I met Buck 65 at a house party once. Much like his album, he carried himself with such a fascinating, awkward demeanor, surrounded by his acolytes, the bohemian children whose opus he had crafted. An album about taking shelter in obscurity, trying to forever keep in toe with a forever retreating subculture that is destined to one day escape you when you lose your footing. An album about our fleeting, hip youth.
"I fought off sleep
With both fists and sometimes fire -
With no more than a blow gun
I made from an exhausted pen,
I shot the stars out of the sky." [First added to this chart: 12/05/2012]
"I fought off sleep
With both fists and sometimes fire -
With no more than a blow gun
I made from an exhausted pen,
I shot the stars out of the sky." [First added to this chart: 12/05/2012]
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An album so intimate you can feel its heartbeat and its breath on your neck. I once took a walk through the woods at night on shrooms while blaring this into my ears at full volume, watching the stars contort amongst the leafy heavens, scattering their light like luminous seeds from which the day will grow. This album is ethereal. It is the gentle wind through your hair at night and the earth between your bare toes.
"Scrape
Your knee,
It is
Only skin;
Makes
The sound
Of violins." [First added to this chart: 05/06/2012]
"Scrape
Your knee,
It is
Only skin;
Makes
The sound
Of violins." [First added to this chart: 05/06/2012]
Year of Release:
2006
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8,787
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A tremendous wall of sound, numbing you, isolating you, and bringing you along for a ride through the wastelands of the human soul; the bleakest, loneliest trip you'll ever take. Each second is just so dense and anesthetizing that it makes it hard to mentally escape the album once it has begun.
"The skyline was beautiful on fire
All twisted metal stretching upwards
Everything washed in a thin orange haze.
I said, "Kiss me, you're beautiful -
These are truly the last days."
You grabbed my hand
And we fell into it
Like a daydream
Or a fever." [First added to this chart: 03/08/2011]
"The skyline was beautiful on fire
All twisted metal stretching upwards
Everything washed in a thin orange haze.
I said, "Kiss me, you're beautiful -
These are truly the last days."
You grabbed my hand
And we fell into it
Like a daydream
Or a fever." [First added to this chart: 03/08/2011]
Year of Release:
1997
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5,522
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I was in freshman year when I first listened to "Emergency & I", and the crisp yet chaotic production felt as though a mirror to my own quickly declining, abusive relationship. An album about the apocalyptic end of youth and with it innocence, and the numb cynicism that accompanies it; as someone who was very new to adulthood, this spoke to me in volumes.
"Now I notice
The streetlamp’s hum,
The ghosts of graffiti
They couldn’t quite erase,
The blank-faced stares
On the subway
As the people go home." [First added to this chart: 05/14/2012]
"Now I notice
The streetlamp’s hum,
The ghosts of graffiti
They couldn’t quite erase,
The blank-faced stares
On the subway
As the people go home." [First added to this chart: 05/14/2012]
Year of Release:
1999
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3,817
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When I was seventeen this album seemed to know everything about me, every petty nuance of my psyche elaborated upon with such prose. Their whimsical, rainy-afternoon indie rock pours down upon you and slowly wears you away and breaks you down, like so much rain on a jagged rockface, reducing you to weeping sediment, stroking the raw nerve imbedded in the rock.
"Oh, we're so disarming, darling,
Everything we did believe
Is diving, diving, diving,
Diving off the balcony.
Tired and wired,
We ruin too easy.
Sleep in our clothes
And wait for winter to leave." [First added to this chart: 05/21/2011]
"Oh, we're so disarming, darling,
Everything we did believe
Is diving, diving, diving,
Diving off the balcony.
Tired and wired,
We ruin too easy.
Sleep in our clothes
And wait for winter to leave." [First added to this chart: 05/21/2011]
Year of Release:
2007
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10,022
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The first great hip hop tragedy. "MBDTF" begins by describing Kanye as a man of great bravado; arrogant and sure of himself, beheld to no one. But as the album progresses, the cracks in the surface begin to become more prevalent. The album begins to become more and more introspective and we are left in the end not with a great man, but a sadly pathetic man, desperately grasping at fallen pieces on the ground, trying to recognize his own lost humanity. When money and power become as much the tools to bring you to your knees as they are to raise you on your feet, "who will survive in America?"
"I made mistakes,
I bump my head,
The courts sucked me dry,
I spent that bread.
She needs her daddy,
Baby please,
Can't let her grow up
In that ghetto university" [First added to this chart: 11/23/2011]
"I made mistakes,
I bump my head,
The courts sucked me dry,
I spent that bread.
She needs her daddy,
Baby please,
Can't let her grow up
In that ghetto university" [First added to this chart: 11/23/2011]
Year of Release:
2010
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24,025
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I starred into her smokey gray eyes in the dark, the lights off because we couldn't afford the electricity, sitting on the floor because there weren't any chairs and there was wine and toast on the floor around us, and she asked if I would like to go to bed and I said yes. And I lay there next to her, pressing my hand against the tambourine-headed tattoo that marked her thigh and in that single bed we dove into milky-white dreams.
"The only girl
I ever loved
Was born with roses
In her eyes,
But then they buried her alive
One evening,
1945." [First added to this chart: 12/05/2012]
"The only girl
I ever loved
Was born with roses
In her eyes,
But then they buried her alive
One evening,
1945." [First added to this chart: 12/05/2012]
Year of Release:
1998
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35,162
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Top 60 Greatest Music Albums composition
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 5 | 8% | |
| 1970s | 7 | 12% | |
| 1980s | 8 | 13% | |
| 1990s | 15 | 25% | |
| 2000s | 22 | 37% | |
| 2010s | 3 | 5% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| The Ocean | 1 | 2% | |
| Suicide | 1 | 2% | |
| Joanna Newsom | 1 | 2% | |
| X (US) | 1 | 2% | |
| The Weakerthans | 1 | 2% | |
| Comus | 1 | 2% | |
| Peter Gabriel | 1 | 2% | |
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32 | 53% | |
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13 | 22% | |
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