Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
by Insomniac 
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- Chart updated: 07/19/2017 17:15
- (Created: 04/03/2016 19:20).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Standout Tracks: Pictures of You, Fascination Street
[First added to this chart: 04/18/2016]
Year of Release:
1989
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25,444
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Standout Tracks: Indifference, rearviewmirror
[First added to this chart: 04/18/2016]
Year of Release:
1993
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5,165
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Standout Tracks: Paranoid Android, Lucky
[First added to this chart: 04/18/2016]
Year of Release:
1997
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59,207
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Standout Tracks: Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part One), Welcome To The Machine
[First added to this chart: 04/18/2016]
Year of Release:
1975
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41,681
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Standout Tracks: Down In A Hole, Would?
[First added to this chart: 04/18/2016]
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1992
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7,463
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Standout Tracks: Better Man, Immortality
[First added to this chart: 04/18/2016]
Year of Release:
1994
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2,714
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Standout Tracks: Ramshackle, Lord Only Knows
[First added to this chart: 04/18/2016]
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1996
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6,035
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Standout Tracks: Roads, Sour Times
[First added to this chart: 04/18/2016]
Year of Release:
1994
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16,046
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(To list) Standout Tracks:... would be missing the point.
[First added to this chart: 04/23/2016]
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2000
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11,937
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Standout Tracks: Us and Them, The Great Gig In The Sky
[First added to this chart: 04/18/2016]
Year of Release:
1973
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56,061
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Total albums: 100. Page 1 of 10
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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 | 0 | 0% | |
| 1970s | 5 | 5% | |
| 1980s | 13 | 13% | |
| 1990s | 47 | 47% | |
| 2000s | 24 | 24% | |
| 2010s | 11 | 11% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Pearl Jam | 6 | 6% | |
| The Cure | 4 | 4% | |
| Nick Cave | 3 | 3% | |
| Pink Floyd | 3 | 3% | |
| Anathema | 2 | 2% | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins | 2 | 2% | |
| The Smiths | 2 | 2% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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56 | 56% | |
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30 | 30% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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1 | 1% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
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Up 1 from 12th to 11th |
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Down 4 from 17th to 21st |
Down 2 from 11th to 13th |
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| ! | 08/03/2018 22:13 |  WildHorses | 113 | 91/100 |
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WildHorses 08/03/2018 22:15 | #219158
WildHorses 08/03/2018 22:15 | #219158
Great chart! Full of greats in the alternative side. will check out some of them.
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LedZep TOP 100 COMMENTER 02/06/2017 22:12 | #185025
LedZep TOP 100 COMMENTER 02/06/2017 22:12 | #185025
Very good chart, loads of my favourites here. Just a little bit too 90s and 00s orientated, there were some really fantastic albums in the 80s and especially 70s
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Cojo7 04/03/2016 22:06 | #163238
Cojo7 04/03/2016 22:06 | #163238
Nice list, although a little bit too much 90's alt-rock for me.
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