Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by hairymarx1
My key criteria for selection are innovation and originality, mainly within the various strands of electronic and psychedelic-based music, which are my major areas of interest.
The fourth, often overlapping criteria, are that albums engage on an emotional and intellectual level and have a consistent conceptual narrative thread running through them.
Entries 51-100 are subject to frequent change. I made the conscious decision to omit compilations, classical and jazz releases. Maximum of one album per artist.
I would like to thank the music critic Pierro Scaruffi (www.scaruffi.com) for introducing me to some of the artists in this chart who have made my life richer as a result.
- Chart updated: 08/04/2016 22:45
- (Created: 03/16/2011 02:09).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
Decade | Albums | % | |
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1930s | 0 | 0% | |
1940s | 0 | 0% | |
1950s | 0 | 0% | |
1960s | 24 | 24% | |
1970s | 35 | 35% | |
1980s | 17 | 17% | |
1990s | 18 | 18% | |
2000s | 4 | 4% | |
2010s | 2 | 2% | |
2020s | 0 | 0% |
Artist | Albums | % | |
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The Orb | 1 | 1% | |
Van Morrison | 1 | 1% | |
Faust | 1 | 1% | |
Cocteau Twins | 1 | 1% | |
Can | 1 | 1% | |
Sonic Youth | 1 | 1% | |
Mary Margaret O'Hara | 1 | 1% | |
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The actual reason is because he was an ass to me.
many recs to seek out
You know, I decided to actually look into claims of plagirization of scaruffi. And I have decided that while this guy certainly mimicks him very closely, he is in fact stating his own opinions and beliefs. That doesn't mean that he doesn't fall prey to the same meaningless pretentious verbosity that scaruffi does, but I dont think he is downright stealing scaruffi's work, just heavily imitating. He still deserves a poor score for being both unoriginal and uninteresting, but not the 5/100 that he previously recieved from me.
Scaruffi imitation at its most mediocre. See skeeter's comment below
Thanks for Rickie Lee Jones. Never heard of her before. But it's very beautiful music.
The reason for all the low ratings on this chart is that its creator Daniel Margrain aka hairymarx1 plagiarized all the analysis and comments of the albums from Piero Scaruffi. He's also done this repeatedly elsewhere on this site, Amazon and his own website. See Scaruffi's website that he mentions in his introduction on here as being the music critic who "introduced him to some of the artists in the chart" (of course without giving credit for all the plagiarized reviews) and type in keywords "Daniel Margrain" and "plagiarist" in the search engine to see the full details and extent of this. I pointed this out before but since this site only displays the 10 most recent comments for a chart I guess the notice needs a boost now.
One of the most refreshing charts I have read. Mine, by comparison is much more mainstream, I am finding. Love that you are a fan of psychedelic rock. I had no idea there were so many psych artists. I can't wait to discover some of these. I have got a few of these albums but not many. I am just getting into PIL and Metal Box is going to be my next purchase. I love Lydon gone psychotic, which seems to be his default setting. I also like Velvets, Neil young, Pink Floyd and Ms Patti Smith - I own 2 box sets of hers but only have Horses on my 70s chart. Maybe I should put it in my Top 100. I like that you stick to your guns, I love your notes (I read them all whilst listening to Joni Mitchell) and I admire your originality. I can only wait to see if reading this shakes up my charts a bit. Good work! Only reason it's not 100/100 is I only know a small amount of these albums. Only 5 albums in common but vive la difference! Is very good though.
Definitely not the easiest chart, but I like it a lot!!
Very interesting list, thanks ;)
I'm confused what's with all the low ratings?
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