Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by steve397 Unknown

This is mostly just a personal list of the greatest albums/most essential albums of all time for me. I see other charts on here often limit to only 1 or 2 albums per artist meaning it is effectively a top artists list and not a top albums list, so there are no such limits here. Most albums on here are unique and varied as most artists on here would be hard to box into a genre. So here are my favorite albums, the albums that have influenced me throughout my life, it is very difficult to put numbers to them and they are all quite interchangable.

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Best tracks: The Evil That Men Do, Infinite Dreams, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, The Clairvoyant, Can I Play with Madness [First added to this chart: 05/16/2016]
Year of Release:
1988
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2,618
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Best tracks: Fields of Verdun, A Ghost in the Trenches, Great War, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Future of Warfare, The Attack of the Dead Men [First added to this chart: 07/20/2019]
Year of Release:
2019
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129
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Best tracks: Hallowed Be Thy Name, The Number of the Beast, Prisoner, Children of the Damned, Run to the Hills [First added to this chart: 05/06/2016]
Year of Release:
1982
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6,653
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Best tracks: Sister Morphine, Moonlight Mile, Can't You Hear Me Knocking, Brown Sugar, Bitch [First added to this chart: 04/29/2016]
Year of Release:
1971
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19,401
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Best tracks: Caroleon's Prayer, A Lifetime of War, Long Live the King, Carolus Rex, Gott Mit Uns, 1648 [First added to this chart: 08/11/2017]
Year of Release:
2012
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142
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Best tracks: The Trooper, Revelations, Where Eagles Dare, Flight of Icarus, Still Life, To Tame A Land [First added to this chart: 05/01/2016]
Year of Release:
1983
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1,739
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Best tracks: Endless Forms Most Beautiful, My Walden, Edema Ruh, Weak Fantasy [First added to this chart: 06/05/2021]
Year of Release:
2015
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Rank Score:
334
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Best tracks: 2112, The Twilight Zone, Something For Nothing, Lessons [First added to this chart: 08/12/2019]
Year of Release:
1976
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4,700
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Best tracks: Thrasher, Pocahontas, My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue), Hey Hey My My (Into the Black), Powderfinger, Ride My Lama [First added to this chart: 04/29/2016]
Year of Release:
1979
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4,644
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Best tracks: Christmas Truce, Soldier Of Heaven, Race To The Sea, Stormtroopers, Dreadnought, Hellfighters, The Unkillable Soldier [First added to this chart: 03/04/2022]
Year of Release:
2022
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107
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition

Decade Albums %


1930s 0 0%
1940s 0 0%
1950s 0 0%
1960s 7 7%
1970s 49 49%
1980s 14 14%
1990s 4 4%
2000s 13 13%
2010s 11 11%
2020s 2 2%
Artist Albums %


Iron Maiden 11 11%
Sabaton 9 9%
Black Sabbath 7 7%
Jethro Tull 7 7%
The Rolling Stones 7 7%
Nightwish 5 5%
Rush 5 5%
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Country Albums %


United Kingdom 55 55%
Canada 12 12%
Sweden 11 11%
United States 9 9%
Finland 5 5%
Ireland 4 4%
Mixed Nationality 3 3%
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Live? Albums %
No 99 99%
Yes 1 1%

Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes

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Tyranny Of Souls
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Biggest fallers
Faller Down 7 from 90th to 97th
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From 03/04/2024 09:57
We walk very different musical pathways so I was surprised that we had 9 albums in common - and that made me smile. Your passion is yours to enjoy.
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From 04/24/2023 00:19
Totally agree on the 1-pr-artist-issue
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From 01/20/2022 20:42
Go Iron Maiden! Nice chart.
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95/100
From 04/20/2021 06:22
Heavy selection of music and then there's rolling stone xD
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From 11/19/2020 16:41
Someone loves the 70s... and Iron Maiden.
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90/100
From 09/18/2020 03:54
Lot of good albums. Couple not my cup of tea but that's the joy of music. If we all liked exactly the same, how dull life would be
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From 07/04/2020 19:41
Maybe the best list I've seen for annoying the neighbours. Have you heard High Tide's "Sea Shanties"? I think you might like it.
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From 07/04/2020 11:19
Gotta give it to you how many british acts there is here.
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From 03/18/2020 18:15
Great chart, right up my street, 19 in common, maybe I need to hear Sabaton!
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From 12/22/2019 21:07
This chart and my overall chart don't have any overlap, but if I'm looking for seventies metal, this is the chart I'm coming to for ideas!
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