Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by jackbrown8786 (2022)

Hey dude, very nice list, fairly similar to mine.

I've come to the conclusion that there are a handful of 10/10 albums and then literally hundreds of 9/10 albums that are all essentially interchangeable, so I'm done for a while again. I probably listen to some more than others, or return to some more frequently and I don't think this chart reflects that accurately enough. I thought at least my top 10 were cemented, but that's not even the case. Top 2 are almost surely cemented. That's all I can be sure of.

When I get on a roll of adding albums, after a few of them I start to question myself. I just deleted Station to Station to add Trilogy, but after my next inevitable Bowie kick there's no doubt I'm going to readd the album to an essentially random location between 50 and 100. I have the urge to add Can's Tago Mago like that right now. Cocteau Twins' Heaven or Las Vegas as well. But I won't b/c it seems pointless right now. They're not comparable to anything and the question of which is better seems a joke. Maybe I'm just feeling down about losing all those Bowie and Eno albums I had at the bottom of the list, which was preventing me from adding anything for a long time - I didn't want to delete them and couldn't justify it b/c I couldn't see anything as strictly better in any capacity. And I love them so much.

Lately at work, I've been playing albums from the top 200. Mostly at random, but with the goal of making sure I play completely different albums throughout the course of a day. It seems to make time go faster. I don't even listen to what I want to. It's definitely affecting what albums I listen to more. Experimental albums are getting much more play. It's stopping me from ordering albums based on how much I listen. The chart was already hard enough and now it doesn't even make sense (again). I don't see this cycle ending. Other people don't seem to have such problems. They seem so sure. I should be too, but I suppose I don't know my own opinions. Or they change throughout the year. Sometimes I don't even believe in opinions. I don't believe in them now. I think anyone could admit that creating a symphony worse than Beethoven's 5th would be a much easier task than creating a better one (which the idea alone makes me laugh). I don't think anyone really believes in them. With opinions out of the equation, refer back to the first sentence of this whole rant.

From ddeeddles64 04/16/2022 09:52

Every time I see Con Air in the tv listings I chuckle. I haven’t listened to Tom Waits in a while. I keep wondering if I might just spend a whole year listening to Mingus. Now would be an appropriate time!

I haven't looked at this in years. I don't even remember putting the Con Air soundtrack at #1, that is hilarious. I was probably drunk. I've never even listened to it, what a troll.... Con Air is the best worst movie of all time though. Back in 6th grade, decades ago now, me or my friends or all of us (I don't even remember) would go to the local video store and swap the VHS tapes of classics like The Godfather with that of Con Air... good times.

Anyway, I've fallen completely in love with Tom Waits since my 2nd most recent trip through his older stuff now and I have no clue where he belongs in the midst of this. How could I?..... Is he better than Metallica, The Beatles, MBV, Swans, Nas?! Impossible to say, they just aren't comparable. Tips, please? I listen to Waits more NOW, but I've heard them more throughout my life. I don't even know where to start. The more I appreciate different genres, the more hopeless I feel attempting to rank these. The very concept of ranking them is just absurd and laughable at this point, I don't know why I still care to.

From ddeeddles64 04/17/2019 19:41

Con Air's the one with the iceberg, right?

well now it's even messier. I just added a bunch of Bowie and Eno albums to the end of it but I'm still leaving room at the end to add albums to the site through here (it's the only way I know how).

I feel so full of shit b/c I can't even rank the Bowie albums against each other, let alone against Metallica or Parliament or Michael Jackson.... I don't really know what to do with these. I know they're wrong where they are but it feels wrong to move them up. I'm stuck.

From LedZep 02/04/2018 20:04

When it takes its final shape I'll rate again, seems messy at this point

From mozzmozz 01/19/2018 19:11

Hi Jack, I know it's a bit nerdy, but I put everything on a spreadsheet first, then transpose it to BEA afterwards.

....Well, this is embarrassing... I was adding more albums and went to add Simon And Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water at around the 60th album and after clicking "Add Chart" it automatically deleted the album b/c I already had it listed at #38.... oops. How do you say? "Facepalm"? If that tells you anything about how hard it is for me to order these........... The order really can't be taken too seriously past about 25.

Whatever, the list will always be screwed b/c I'll never have a guess as to where double LP's should go in relation to single LP's. I never listen to doubles anyway, I don't have time for it in my life right now.

@mozzmozz - you're absolutely right and I'll remove each of the albums from this list after they're added to the site. So, now (most of them). I don't know how else to add them to the site though but after adding them to the chart and then adding them to my collection, I'll then delete them from the chart from now on.