Top 40 Greatest Music Albums
by Threnodyforjimmy 
This is by no means a presumptuous list of personal favorites subjectively labeled as a literal "Best Of". These are just some music selections that have added to my existence on earth; Maybe they could add to yours as well.
- Chart updated: 03/20/2016 02:15
- (Created: 03/19/2016 17:05).
- Chart size: 40 albums.
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A jazz classic by possibly the most innovative voice of avant garde phrasing. Many considered him to be an oddity based on his condition, but his unique voice allowed him to reach in and bring out what many haven't been able to.
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Brilliant, danceable compositions can be an actual thing.
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One of the most touching albums I own. Goes straight to your soul. His score for Keislowski's "Dekalogue" is also amazing.
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Peter Steele was excellent at mixing classic pop rock sensibilities and impeccable production skills into a 90s metal scene that lacked elements of honest male sensitivity.
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Lush layers of beautifully chaotic guitar with Jarboe lending a floating voice over the crushing waves.
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2007
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Beautiful phrasing of classics by the master of the keyboard, on solo piano.
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2013
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Certain ambient music artists have the ability to reach the listener on a cellular level with sound vibrations -- Harold Budd is one of those few. The second disc in this set containing the remix of "As Long As I Can Hold My Breath", which adds meditative length to the original version, making it one of my favorite songs ever
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Might be my favorite chill album.
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The political awareness of punk and brutality of extreme metal. Produced by the forefather of nu-metal, Ross Robinson, this is the type of music that the genre should've been compromised of instead of what got barfed out in the 2000s with Disturbed, Seether and the like. Also, this is one of the few "world music hybrid" albums made in harmony with the musical Other involved -- The Xavante native tribe of Brazil. Amazing, heavy, heartfelt music from a band at its peak before self-implosion took over.
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1996
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Few bands make heavy music so stunningly gorgeous as they do.
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Top 40 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 1 | 3% | |
| 1970s | 1 | 3% | |
| 1980s | 1 | 3% | |
| 1990s | 12 | 30% | |
| 2000s | 16 | 40% | |
| 2010s | 9 | 23% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Various Artists | 3 | 8% | |
| Bernie Worrell | 1 | 3% | |
| Da Yoopers | 1 | 3% | |
| Hieroglyphics | 1 | 3% | |
| Jonas Hellborg / Shawn Lane / Jeff Sipe | 1 | 3% | |
| Harold Budd | 1 | 3% | |
| Kronos Quartet & Astor Piazzolla | 1 | 3% | |
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Top 40 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 34 from 36th to 2nd Free Your Mind... And Your Ass Will Follow by Funkadelic |
| Up 31 from 34th to 3rd Silence, Night & Dreams by Zbigniew Preisner & Teresa Salgueiro |
| Up 24 from 29th to 5th Viscera by Byla And Jarboe |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 12 from 28th to 40th Songs For Fart Lovers by Da Yoopers |
| Down 8 from 7th to 15th Electric Tears by Buckethead |
| Down 8 from 8th to 16th Xaphan: Book Of Angels Volume 9 by Secret Chiefs 3 |
| New entries |
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| Mulholland Dr. by Various Artists |
| The Great Southern Trendkill by Pantera |
| Sea Change by Beck |
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sssvnnn 08/14/2018 22:17 | #219691
challeging and intereting chart.
sure no "best of alltime music" more a best of interesting picks that no one knows.
Good.
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