Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
by TrekkiELO 
- Chart updated: 07/21/2025 03:45
- (Created: 05/03/2011 05:53).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 1 | 1% | |
| 1970s | 26 | 26% | |
| 1980s | 29 | 29% | |
| 1990s | 21 | 21% | |
| 2000s | 13 | 13% | |
| 2010s | 9 | 9% | |
| 2020s | 1 | 1% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
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| Electric Light Orchestra | 26 | 26% | |
| Genesis | 5 | 5% | |
| Phil Collins | 5 | 5% | |
| The Traveling Wilburys | 3 | 3% | |
| Jeff Lynne's ELO | 3 | 3% | |
| Electric Light Orchestra Part II | 3 | 3% | |
| The Orchestra | 3 | 3% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
|---|
| Up 4 from 12th to 8th Zoom by Electric Light Orchestra |
| Up 2 from 9th to 7th Balance Of Power by Electric Light Orchestra |
| Up 1 from 7th to 6th Secret Messages by Electric Light Orchestra |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 4 from 5th to 9th Discovery by Electric Light Orchestra |
| Down 2 from 8th to 10th On The Third Day by Electric Light Orchestra |
| Down 2 from 36th to 38th Beyond The Dream by OrKestra |
| New entries |
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| Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 1 by The Traveling Wilburys |
| Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 3 by The Traveling Wilburys |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
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| ! | 03/31/2025 12:57 | 1,104 | 85/100 | |
| ! | 01/26/2023 22:02 | Johnnyo | 2,557 | 80/100 |
| ! | 04/09/2021 22:58 | mrmcrook | 756 | 92/100 |
| ! | 05/04/2020 21:38 | NSPE | 350 | 77/100 |
| ! | 04/11/2020 14:24 | Szyfman | 174 | 85/100 |
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This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 71.9/100, a mean average of 66.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 66.5/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 27.5.
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After looking at your chart, I see why your handle name is what it is. Hilarious. It's so logical Spock.
Holy crap man, you really like ELO! So does my dad, haha! He talks about them all the time. I'm glad to see you also like Genesis a lot. That's my favorite band but my dad hates them for some reason. I love their albums with Phil Collins on vocals you have included, but if you're gonna do multiple albums you gotta at least put a couple of their 70's albums on here. I mean come on, you included "Turn it on Again", their compilation album, but no "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway", no "Foxtrot", not even "A Trick of the Tail" or "Wind and Wuthering" in spite of the fact that you're obviously a huge Collins fan? I implore you to add some of their earlier stuff; you've still got room on your chart!
Too much greatest hits albums
Can't knock the love for ELO, big fan here, but are you shure your top 10 isn't reversed mate?
My Ratings would be-
Time: 7.5
Balance: 6
Zoom: 6.5
Secret Messages: 6.5
Out Of Blue: 10
New World Record: 10
Face The Music: 9
Eldorado: 9
Discovery: 8
On Third Day: 8
ELO is great but there's so much good music out there! I agree you should expand your musical knowledge. I grew up on 80s Genesis but eventually got into their 70s progressive rock stuff which I find better then their pop rock stuff. You should check out Yes, their 70s stuff like The Yes Album, Fragile, Close to the Edge, Relayer etc.. They are one of my favorite bands. Tales from Topographic Oceans is my favorite Yes album , it's a double album with four twenty minute songs haha, it's brilliant. Love your addition of Star Trek soundtracks haha, the James Horner ones are excellent. You should really expand your music, so much great stuff out there! Also expand beyond greatest hits, Stevie Wonder has like five great 70s albums that are better than just the hits. If you like ELO I'd also check out Supertramp, I actually like them more, Crime of the Century is one of my very favorite albums. Good luck in your musical journey.
There’s so much cool music out there man, explore!
I can believe, that someone does like ELO a lot. So do I. But Phil Collins? Really? So, Leo Sayer gets a rating of 100 from you, but he is not good enough to get one record into your 84 greatest Albums of all time. You are not taking this very seriously, do you? Which, of course, is probably the right attitude.
-- Just saw that 320 artists get a 100 rating and 3 a 5. Nothing in between. I envy you.
Its awesome that you put all your favorite artists all in a row. How honest can u get. However, the order of your Top 10 ELO's is the REVERSE of what mine would be. Id start with El Dorado and go to Face the Music to New World to Out of the Blue etc. Thats just how i would do it tho.
I would rate this low, but i assume that you'll just aimlessly rate me lower too. But seriously. Why is your entire top ten the same band?
I know you like ELO, but a top 10 with only albums from one artist is a very narrow-minded list
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