Top 60 Greatest Music Albums
by viktorretoft 
This is probably more of a personal favorites list, but anyway you put it, it's always pretty hard to be objective on music, but this fine collection of albums are the best I have listened to by far. I am only 16 years old, and grew up in the 2000's, some that's why I have alot of newer stuff, because that stuff is exactly what there touches my generation, and ofcourse I love those records too.
- Chart updated: 12/17/2011 20:36
- (Created: 04/03/2011 16:20).
- Chart size: 60 albums.
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This album changed my life, it has been awe inspiring in it's existential themes, it touches themes that no other musician would even dare to poke to. Overall the album have this gloomy mood. You feel Ian's soul through the music. The music is cold, but yet in some way it surrounds you, and stays inside you.
Though it captures all these things it has this eccentric hypnotic nerve of punk, it takes you to another time, it takes you to a small club in Macclesfield, and it makes you stay there till the final track runs out.
First time I listened to this LP, I thought it was some really boring and mechanic music with a dead guy singing, but after watching the film Control, I thought: why not listen to it one more time, just ONE. I did and from there on it stayed close to my heart and has had countless plays on my stereo and I-pod. For a beautiful summerday or a sad winternight. [First added to this chart: 04/07/2011]
Though it captures all these things it has this eccentric hypnotic nerve of punk, it takes you to another time, it takes you to a small club in Macclesfield, and it makes you stay there till the final track runs out.
First time I listened to this LP, I thought it was some really boring and mechanic music with a dead guy singing, but after watching the film Control, I thought: why not listen to it one more time, just ONE. I did and from there on it stayed close to my heart and has had countless plays on my stereo and I-pod. For a beautiful summerday or a sad winternight. [First added to this chart: 04/07/2011]
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1979
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21,041
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[First added to this chart: 04/07/2011]
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1986
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32,629
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[First added to this chart: 04/07/2011]
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1997
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61,638
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[First added to this chart: 06/18/2011]
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2000
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40,356
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[First added to this chart: 04/07/2011]
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1980
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14,654
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[First added to this chart: 04/07/2011]
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1994
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16,324
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I borrowed this album from the libary and I remember listening to it the first time. Shine On You Crazy Diamond, was just like a guitar-gasm with such a beautiful text, then the 2nd track came on, Welcome To Machine, and it feld really alienating and far away, with the urban-sounds in the start and all. Then Have A Cigar came, and I just thought: This track has sucha power. The start of the song I didn't really like, but when coming further into the song, it just raised up and up, to a plateau of controlled power I hadn't witnessed in a long time. When I came to Wish You Were Here I cried, a little tear ran down from my cheak, I had never cried to a track before(maybe to Bon Iver some time), Wish You Were Here is one of the best tracks ever made, so powerful and emotional. The only thing there drags the album down is the 12 minute album-ender Shine On You Crazy Diamond part 2, which draged toooo long.
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1975
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43,477
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[First added to this chart: 04/07/2011]
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1967
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42,016
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[First added to this chart: 04/07/2011]
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1967
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8,825
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[First added to this chart: 04/07/2011]
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1970
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18,626
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Top 60 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 1 | 2% | |
| 1960s | 10 | 17% | |
| 1970s | 10 | 17% | |
| 1980s | 7 | 12% | |
| 1990s | 9 | 15% | |
| 2000s | 16 | 27% | |
| 2010s | 7 | 12% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Bob Dylan | 3 | 5% | |
| Pink Floyd | 3 | 5% | |
| Elliott Smith | 2 | 3% | |
| Joy Division | 2 | 3% | |
| The Smiths | 2 | 3% | |
| Animal Collective | 2 | 3% | |
| Radiohead | 2 | 3% | |
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Top 60 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 11 from 41st to 30thIn The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel |
| Up 9 from 34th to 25thSound Of Silver by LCD Soundsystem |
| Up 5 from 59th to 54thThe Colour Of Spring by Talk Talk |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 4 from 24th to 28thParanoid by Black Sabbath |
| Down 4 from 53rd to 57thRust Never Sleeps by Neil Young & Crazy Horse |
| Down 4 from 54th to 58thPerson Pitch by Panda Bear |
| New entries |
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| Ege Bamyası by Can |
| Leavers |
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| Figure 8 by Elliott Smith |
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| 04/05/2014 05:56 | micha122 | 21 | 83/100 | |
| 09/04/2012 23:50 | JamesCollier | 4 | 74/100 | |
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From JamesCollier 09/04/2012 23:52 | #50007
Nice to see someone so young admiring things so old and diverse.
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From junodog4 09/04/2012 16:17 | #49949
junodog4 09/04/2012 16:17 | #49949
Every chart should have comments for each entry. It makes the chart more informative. Solid chart.
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From vesander 02/03/2012 22:35 | #36394
Really strong chart! And I'm not just saying that because our Top 10s are similar ;).
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From luis 02/03/2012 18:19 | #36377
I particulary like your top 10
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Patman360 02/03/2012 15:34 | #36371
Patman360 02/03/2012 15:34 | #36371
Great chart!
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From Rikuff 02/03/2012 11:03 | #36366
I agree!
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From album guru joe 02/03/2012 09:46 | #36365
I dig ya list...cool top 10, though diff from mine i own nearly all lp's listed in ya chart :)
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TheAstralPlane 01/12/2012 03:40 | #35052
TheAstralPlane 01/12/2012 03:40 | #35052
Nice choices man! I like the write up's about the albums that you include.
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From KILLALLHIPPIES 01/10/2012 20:12 | #34960
a couple i personally hate but uderstand the value,outherwise this chart is godlike.
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From Mr November 12/20/2011 06:58 | #33338
Wow, you must have listened to a staggering amount of music in your 16 years to come up with a chart with this diversity. There's older albums here that I've never got round to listening to in 37 years (Bowie's Low for example.)
I do like Joy Division but I have the Heart & Soul boxset so it's difficult to seperate into individual albums mentally. I've always preferred New Order, I grew up with my brother playing Substance a lot and it always stuck with me.
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