Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by pranafilms

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Currently, my Top 100 Favorite albums.

These are either my all time favorites, albums that have been on repeat, or childhood favorites that have had a massive impact on me.

Apparently, I was also chart of the day 6 times. (5/6/2017, 2/6/2018, 10/6/2018, 4/28/2019, 2/1/2021, 5/14/2023)
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• Chart updated: 10/11/2023 01:15
• (Created: 01/10/2016 05:08).
• Chart size: 100 albums.

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Hounds Of Love 

 Kate Bush

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Kate Bush is my favorite artist and made my favorite album, Hounds of Love. Its an album that just hits me the right way. From its pop sensibilities on the first side, to experiential prog rock Ninth Wave, there is so much this album has to offer. And its all so beautiful.

From the album's hit "Running Up That Hill", one of the most perfect song detailing a need for equality and seeing differing perspectives through a lover's eyes, to "Cloudbusting", a song dedicated to psychoanalyst becomes an inadvertent song from a son growing up and coming out of their shell to their father, its all just beautiful.

And that doesn't top my favorite song on the album, the title track, one of the purest songs about love their ever was; but not about falling in love. Its instead about being in love but being to scared to actually do something about the feeling that you have in relation to love. Its filled with such yearning and want.

And the second side is so wild. From the thunderous "Waking the Witch", to the ethereal "Hello Earth", this side encapsulates so many sounds while still being the same story, all about a woman alone, drifting at sea.

To me it seems quite clear that Kate Bush was ahead of her time with this album, and its placement in the top 100 of the latest Rolling Stones' Greatest Albums of All Time list, to the clear inspiration of her sound in an artist like Adele, St. Vincent and others, it seems like we are just catching up to her. So maybe the woman in the Ninth Wave was Kate herself, adrift alone in the sea of music, alone with herself and what she was creating.

Fav song: title track [First added to this chart: 01/26/2016]

Year of Release:

1985

Appears in:

1,347 charts

Rank Score:

19,311

Rank in 1985:

1

Rank in 1980s:

7

Overall Rank:

57

Average Rating:

 85 (1,335 votes)

Comments:

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All Things Must Pass 

 George Harrison

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My favorite solo Beatles effort, cause it is so enormous. Just an outpouring of all the work that George had in his head, released onto the world in gorgeous detail. It flows. (George is also my favorite Beatle.)

Fav track: title track [First added to this chart: 01/10/2016]

Year of Release:

1970

Appears in:

1,167 charts

Rank Score:

13,582

Rank in 1970:

3

Rank in 1970s:

25

Overall Rank:

97

Average Rating:

 85 (1,267 votes)

Comments:

112

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Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven 

 Godspeed You! Black Emperor

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Bombastic.

Fav song: Storm [First added to this chart: 10/27/2016]

Year of Release:

2000

Appears in:

1,064 charts

Rank Score:

14,766

Rank in 2000:

2

Rank in 2000s:

10

Overall Rank:

89

Average Rating:

 86 (1,289 votes)

Comments:

106

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Endtroducing..... 

 DJ Shadow

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Just you favorite deejay savior here, with a debut album full of fantastic sample after sample. My favorite album in the genre of triphop. Makes one feels so cool while listen, even during its dark broodiness. Another album that was my favorite at one point.

Fav song: What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1 – Blue Sky Revisit) [First added to this chart: 01/10/2016]

Year of Release:

1996

Appears in:

948 charts

Rank Score:

10,298

Rank in 1996:

3

Rank in 1990s:

30

Overall Rank:

147

Average Rating:

 84 (1,082 votes)

Comments:

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To Pimp A Butterfly 

 Kendrick Lamar

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Much how like Coltrane made A Love Supreme as a love letter to god, Kendrick Lamar did the same for To Pimp a Butterfly. So radical in its politics, full of a fantastic storyline, of one man obtaining it all, feeling worthless and finding God, and not to mention its fantastic jazz inspired instrumentation and great bars, it really is the album of the 2010s. Big Kendrick fan.

Fav song: How Much a Dollar Cost? (hard to pick one) [First added to this chart: 03/03/2017]

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

1,775 charts

Rank Score:

37,240

Rank in 2015:

1

Rank in 2010s:

1

Overall Rank:

19

Average Rating:

 89 (2,221 votes)

Comments:

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Pink Moon 

 Nick Drake

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Beauty in such simplicity; sorrow at its most sustained.

Fav song: From the Morning [First added to this chart: 01/10/2016]

Year of Release:

1972

Appears in:

1,502 charts

Rank Score:

20,127

Rank in 1972:

3

Rank in 1970s:

15

Overall Rank:

50

Average Rating:

 87 (1,802 votes)

Comments:

142

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Forever Changes 

 Love

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One of my favorite albums of not just 1967, the psychedelic year; the Summer of Love era, but also of the 1960s period. Just great pop song tinged with psychedelic production and laced with latin inspired guitars. Would we have had rock in the 70s if not for Love?

Fav song: You Set the Scene [First added to this chart: 01/10/2016]

Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

1,439 charts

Rank Score:

17,163

Rank in 1967:

5

Rank in 1960s:

18

Overall Rank:

72

Average Rating:

 85 (1,587 votes)

Comments:

150

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What's Going On 

 Marvin Gaye

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Motown soul goes political, and frankly the world is better off from it happening. A great album from beginning to end. And realizing this one a vinyl copy I bought of the album, which sounded fantastic, just added to the enjoyment.

Fav song: Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) [First added to this chart: 06/07/2016]

Year of Release:

1971

Appears in:

1,567 charts

Rank Score:

19,730

Rank in 1971:

4

Rank in 1970s:

16

Overall Rank:

53

Average Rating:

 85 (1,884 votes)

Comments:

143

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The Velvet Underground 

 The Velvet Underground

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This album had never been my favorite in the VU's catalog. I had always gone around with the other four albums, but recently I found myself attached to this album more than others. Its soft touch and mellow songs with Candy Says and Pure Blue Eyes to throwback rockers like What Goes On and Beginning to See the Light, to the beauty of Jesus and the simplicity of After Hours, its lineup almost a personal rock opera, all of which makes its departure from the abrasive and experimental previous two albums worth it for this result (although this album still features that experimentation with the weirdo Murder Mystery). Just nice that I finally came around to this album, so much so, that I think it became one of my new favorite albums. [First added to this chart: 04/08/2023]

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

1,192 charts

Rank Score:

13,814

Rank in 1969:

6

Rank in 1960s:

23

Overall Rank:

94

Average Rating:

 86 (1,589 votes)

Comments:

115

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In The Aeroplane Over The Sea 

 Neutral Milk Hotel

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I blame my high school friend Wren for putting me onto this album. Its their fault; now I love it. I'm a hipster now.

But seriously, I love the tracks instrumentation, the overarching story through the songs, one of a loved lost, and the weird songwriting from Mangum. [First added to this chart: 01/10/2016]

Year of Release:

1998

Appears in:

2,379 charts

Rank Score:

39,524

Rank in 1998:

1

Rank in 1990s:

3

Overall Rank:

16

Average Rating:

 87 (2,868 votes)

Comments:

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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition

Decade	Albums	%
1930s	0	0%
1940s	0	0%
1950s	1	1%
1960s	29	29%
1970s	31	31%
1980s	16	16%
1990s	10	10%
2000s	7	7%
2010s	6	6%
2020s	0	0%

Artist	Albums	%
The Beatles	8	8%
The Beach Boys	3	3%
The Velvet Underground	3	3%
Kate Bush	3	3%
The Who	3	3%
Kendrick Lamar	2	2%
Talking Heads	2	2%
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Country	Albums	%
	52	52%
	39	39%
	5	5%
	2	2%
	1	1%
	1	1%

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From Johnnyo 05/14/2023 19:13

Love this chart.

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From qwert9579 04/28/2019 11:39

niiiiice chart, love the amount of instrumental heavy albums here

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From ffudnebbuh 10/06/2018 13:20

Excellent chart

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From vancevisuals 02/07/2018 00:54

Nice to see Red Rose Speewadway on a list

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From Thad 02/06/2018 17:09

This might be my favorite chart on this whole website. First of all, I love your hip hop choices more than anyone I have seen on here. DJ Shadow, Kendrick, Brockhampton, and J Dilla? Well done. Lots of alternative classics as well like Captain Beefheart and Love. Big fan of your Sufjan Stevens pick as well, though I personally would go with Age of Adz. But all in all, very awesome

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From Tamthebam 02/06/2018 15:21

Lookin forward to the complete 100, great choices Kate Bush at the top - brilliant mixture of genres . Where is Velvet Underground ft. Nico ?

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From ForegroundNoise 02/06/2018 11:20

Really eclectic mix, but I'm a big fan of this chart!! Looking forward to the next 50 and their notes

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From CharlieBarley 02/06/2018 09:28

Blimey. What a good chart. Lots of my favourites and very eclectic. Look forward to seeing notes and your eventual top 100.

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From LedZep 06/20/2017 12:38

It's a very interesting chart but I must listen to some of the albums I don't know before rating it for real

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From platus 05/07/2017 03:55

Good chart!

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