Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
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After hearing "Hold On Tight" on Casey Kasem's American Top 40 Mighty 690 AM Radio Show back in Summer 1981 while with family around Ventura, California, a U.S. Route 101 road trip to Santa Barbara's Mission when I was just 8 years old, Dad then bought me my very first Electric Light Orchestra album from Tower Records, an audio cassette of Time by ELO, thus started the fandom 38 years ago! 8-) [First added to this chart: 05/02/2011]
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1981
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1977
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1976
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3,081
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[First added to this chart: 05/02/2011]
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1974
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1,345
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1975
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754
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35th Anniversary 2 LP released on August 3, 2018 [First added to this chart: 05/02/2011]
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1983
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446
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1986
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282
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2001
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254
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1979
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1,100
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[First added to this chart: 05/02/2011]
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1973
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462
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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%
Country Albums %


United Kingdom 65 65%
United States 28 28%
Mixed Nationality 6 6%
Canada 1 1%
Compilation? Albums %
No 54 54%
Yes 46 46%
Live? Albums %
No 96 96%
Yes 4 4%
Soundtrack? Albums %
No 93 93%
Yes 7 7%

Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes

Biggest climbers
Climber Up 4 from 12th to 8th
Zoom
by Electric Light Orchestra
Climber Up 2 from 9th to 7th
Balance Of Power
by Electric Light Orchestra
Climber Up 1 from 7th to 6th
Secret Messages
by Electric Light Orchestra
Biggest fallers
Faller Down 4 from 5th to 9th
Discovery
by Electric Light Orchestra
Faller Down 2 from 8th to 10th
On The Third Day
by Electric Light Orchestra
Faller Down 2 from 36th to 38th
Beyond The Dream
by OrKestra
TitleSourceTypePublishedCountry
Top 29 Music Albums of the 1980sTrekkiELO1980s decade chart2025
Listmeister Listens - Electric Light Orchestra ListmeisterCustom chart2017
Top 26 Music Albums of the 1970sTrekkiELO1970s decade chart2025
Top 21 Music Albums of the 1990sTrekkiELO1990s decade chart2025
Top 100 Greatest Music Albums Squonk007Overall chart2025
Top 50 Greatest Music AlbumsClouds2095Overall chart2010Unknown
Top 13 Music Albums of the 2000sTrekkiELO2000s decade chart2025
RANKING: ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA Captain_DudeCustom chart2017
Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s Squonk0071980s decade chart2025
Platinum decade 1980sfabm0Custom chart2025

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72/100 (from 26 votes)
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From 04/09/2021 23:03 | #268400
After looking at your chart, I see why your handle name is what it is. Hilarious. It's so logical Spock.
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From 09/15/2019 04:04 | #242625
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!
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From 03/21/2019 02:36 | #233823
Too much greatest hits albums
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90/100
From 12/10/2018 22:57 | #226710
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
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60/100
From 11/23/2018 15:44 | #225549
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.
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From 09/01/2018 10:15 | #220343
There’s so much cool music out there man, explore!
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From 06/03/2017 12:32 | #191905
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.
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90/100
From 06/02/2017 03:28 | #191837
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.
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From 09/06/2016 16:10 | #174396
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?
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From 09/05/2016 10:51 | #174318
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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