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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They weren't necessarily an album band, and this was a compilation of tracks from various sessions. Nobody (except Half Man Half Biscuit) do comic lyrics like Morrissey, where you may think he's being morbid the intention was ironic, or perhaps the attention was to appear ironic by being morbid? The mystique is in not knowing
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1987
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This is a collection of 4 EPs, and includes their best track; 'Lazy Line Painter Jane', a story of a narcosis sufferring bisexual artist with a yeast infection. They don't write them like they used to!
[First added to this chart: 02/18/2016]
I was born in 1968, but my parents were oblivious to popular music so, at 12, when I became interested in anything other than classical or a few easy listening dullards I had to started buying my own records. Consequently I spent years exploring back catalogues of sixties and seventies greats, this meant that by the late eighties I had got up to date. This album was the first ever new release début album that I ever bought, and one of the first bands I saw live (at Rock City, Nottingham).
[First added to this chart: 05/09/2017]
Total albums: 3. Page 1 of 1
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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 | 6 | 6% | |
| 1970s | 15 | 15% | |
| 1980s | 22 | 22% | |
| 1990s | 32 | 32% | |
| 2000s | 16 | 16% | |
| 2010s | 9 | 9% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Belle And Sebastian | 4 | 4% | |
| The Cure | 4 | 4% | |
| The Smiths | 3 | 3% | |
| Radiohead | 3 | 3% | |
| Blur | 2 | 2% | |
| Pink Floyd | 2 | 2% | |
| The Beatles | 2 | 2% | |
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Onater 01/10/2017 08:28 | #182155
You have the best comments on this site.
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Interesting chart. Enjoyed the comments
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arthur237 03/08/2016 22:00 | #161588
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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