Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by Gerard1968 
Hello, I have decide to apply my own parameters to this list:
I shall create an absolute top 40.
From 40 to 100 the list will only include one album by any single act.
The ethos being to show my opinion of the best albums of all time, but also to demonstrate a range of my tastes. I hope this will be more informative, rather than just an indication of my favourite half dozen acts. After all the point of thus site is to open up acts for others to investigate, if you like my top 40 then our tastes coinside; it follows that my 40 to 100 may include artists and bands you don't know, but will like.
What informs my choices can be consigned into two sets; the bands I grew up with, I was 16 in the mid eighties and left University in 1992, the second set is bands that if they had been there for my informative years I would have liked.
As an indie-kid from the eighties I do not agree with those who bemoan the decade. Every era's charts have banality at their core, the problem with the eighties is that it was defined by big hair, big shoulder pads, and an objectional fixation with materialism. Don't let that tarnish all that was good, some if the best, including my favourite, albums were conceived in the era.
I have not yet completed the notes/ordering, in addition a lot of the notes are drafts, and may not make much sence as they currently are. So the current list is a 'work in progress', and will be completed soon(ish)
- Chart updated: 05/15/2017 09:15
- (Created: 02/18/2016 16:21).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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I'm not keen on Electioneering, otherwise the perfect album. Its not that that particular song is weak, but I find it out of sync with the rest of the album. The Airbag EP has tracks recorded at the same period, some of which would have been more in tune with the album
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1997
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Querky pop at its very best. Understated and often overlooked. With subjects such as stroke victims, mental health, binge drinking and a spoilt bedding conclusion to a wet dream you'd expect an album of a darker nature. But Stuart Murdoch's intension is not to shock, just to document real life: as tunefully as is possible
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1998
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An album that sums up the mood of the zeitgeist of its time. It has everything; rave, acoustic rock, pop, trippy 6 am chill. Don't view it as fortysomething nostalgia, this album is as fresh as ever, and hides its 25 odd years with aplomb.
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1991
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5,436
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Jarvis's provincial city housing estate folk poetry accompanied by catchy tunes! The cynicism in the vocal juxtaposes the jaunty guitars, keys and viola. Es and Wizz sums up the end of mass rave culture in one song, ' Mother, I can't come home because I seem to have left an important part of my brain somewhere in a field in Hampshire'
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1995
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The ultimate party album, it wreaks of substance abuse, and other abuse besides. It's dirty and unresistable, those who don't dance are forced out of their seats
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1990
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1,751
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The later 'Urban Hymns' album propelled them into the higher echelons of 'BritPop', but for me the emersive guitars on the first two albums are Somme of the most seductive committed to tape.
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1995
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1,093
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Who else but Stuart would write, 'You liberated the boy I never rated, and now he's throwing discus for Liverpool and Widnes'? As well as the comfort of sports gear we're also treated to fables of generational gaps and open relationships.
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1996
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11,964
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Julian Cope could have been a standup comic, have a listen online to some of his interviews! Esoteric and erudite, juxtaposed to whimsy, a combination only a handful of people could pull off without ridicule. This sprawling epic album says a lot about him, but I don't think anyone could ever claim to know exactly what he's all about, not even the arch druid himself.
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More hypnotic layered guitar. Like a painting of layer wash that never quite reveals itself, but is all the better for the enigma.
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1993
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Any glance at my list will establish that I'm not into hiphop. Triphop, on the other hand, is absolutely acceptable to my tastes, and this is the masterpiece of an entire subgenre. You can almost smell the cigarrettes!
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1994
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 6 | 6% | |
| 1970s | 15 | 15% | |
| 1980s | 22 | 22% | |
| 1990s | 32 | 32% | |
| 2000s | 16 | 16% | |
| 2010s | 9 | 9% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| The Cure | 4 | 4% | |
| Belle And Sebastian | 4 | 4% | |
| Radiohead | 3 | 3% | |
| The Smiths | 3 | 3% | |
| The Beatles | 2 | 2% | |
| The Verve | 2 | 2% | |
| Joy Division | 2 | 2% | |
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arthur237 03/08/2016 22:00
Fantastic, i am sure i will find many albums here I will like. I totally agree with your choice of alex turner, your comments about the white album and pink moon.
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