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August 1966. You can't find a song like Taxman before that. There was no punk. No anti-government lyrics in any significant release. No nails-on-chalkboard guitar solos like that. Punk records today don't typically have a bite like this. And that's just the opening track. Who would have thought that was a good idea? Who wants to hear nails on a chalkboard? They didn't care - it fit their mood, the lyrics, and sound. You couldn't have done this if you wanted to. If you went to a record producer with this in 1966, they'd tell you to fuck off. The Beatles could do it b/c they were the biggest band in the world - and as TWENTY YEAR OLDS they said, "hey guys, let's stop touring the world and getting all the girls and everything else that we want - let's sit in the studio instead and just create art unlike anyone's ever heard." Who does that in their 20's? Everyone I know would just keep touring and sleeping around well into their 40's, releasing the same pretty hits and making mountains of cash. Why gamble on this? Who would? These guys, they're gods. And this finally opened the door for other bands. NOW someone could go to a record producer with ugly shit and he'd say, "okay, let's go." How much dumber and prettier The Velvet Underground & Nico might have been without this, we'll never know. No more "Tutti Fruiti." No more "Rock Around The Clock." No more Buddy Holly. As good as it was, this marked the end of it.

To follow that track with Eleanor Rigby? Where was the orchestral rock before that? The blasphemous lyrics? Nonexistent. Next - I'm Only Sleeping.... The 60's are known for psychedelic rock, but where was this before August 1966? It wasn't around. This is where it started. They use brand new production techniques here too - playing riffs back backwards. Sounds like nothing special now but it's only been done so many times b/c of this.

The next track, Love You To... find another rock song/Indian music before this. Find another song that lyrically and musically puts you in the middle of a drugged orgy, even today that would be controversial. Back before the puritan times this was released in, it was entirely unheard of. I mean... whether or not John Lennon literally pissed on nuns is still debated. No one has these balls today.

Look at Yellow Submarine - you take that cinematic middle section for granted today but it had never been done before - nothing like it in the middle of a song. The lyrical content is again focused on the mind-opening power of drugs and continues in She Said and Doctor Robert. Look at the closing track - yet more brand new, drug-fueled production techniques.

Rock was cookie cutter before this, not art. Music was a product to be bought and sold. It played to a simple feeling like happiness or sadness. There was no complexity of this level in rock music. In classical, yeah. Jazz, yeah. Blues? Arguably also yeah. And this record comes from what was basically a glorified boy band in comparison before this. Imagine if the Backstreet Boys just suddenly released an album full of songs each in brand new genres. It doesn't even make sense that this came out in August 1966.

I didn't even mention how good the songs actually are. I just mentioned how brand new and all-encompassing the sounds are. But yeah, every layer is far better than they should be, considering how high they must have been. It's not like they were just the first to paint a fucking square, or something lame like that. Most songs are perfect and will never stop seeing play. A couple others are 9/10 at least.

At #4 in the overall chart, I think it's HIGHLY underrated. There is a gulf between this and everything else.
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1966
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1973
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1997
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1972
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1991
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1975
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1975
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2000
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1969
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1969
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition

Decade Albums %


1930s 0 0%
1940s 0 0%
1950s 1 1%
1960s 18 18%
1970s 31 31%
1980s 17 17%
1990s 17 17%
2000s 9 9%
2010s 6 6%
2020s 1 1%
Artist Albums %


Radiohead 8 8%
The Beatles 6 6%
Pink Floyd 4 4%
Led Zeppelin 4 4%
The Rolling Stones 4 4%
Swans 4 4%
David Bowie 3 3%
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Country Albums %


United Kingdom 46 46%
United States 45 45%
Canada 4 4%
Mixed Nationality 4 4%
Norway 1 1%
Soundtrack? Albums %
No 99 99%
Yes 1 1%

Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes

Biggest climbers
Climber Up 29 from 66th to 37th
The Queen Is Dead
by The Smiths
Climber Up 24 from 41st to 17th
Songs About Fucking
by Big Black
Climber Up 12 from 96th to 84th
Born To Run
by Bruce Springsteen
Biggest fallers
Faller Down 12 from 63rd to 75th
Free Your Mind... And Your Ass Will Follow
by Funkadelic
Faller Down 12 from 80th to 92nd
None So Vile
by Cryptopsy
Faller Down 12 from 81st to 93rd
Houses Of The Holy
by Led Zeppelin

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From 02/03/2024 22:03
@Kinetic I could never restrict myself to just 1 album per artist, I don't even think that's fair. If I did that, I couldn't have Abbey Road on the chart, just b/c it's by the Beatles (?!?!?!?). That's not fair or honest. Unfortunately, this is going to become even more unsurprising and "samey" as I absolutely need to add The Wall and The White album now. The more familiar I am with all the albums in this site's overall chart, the more my tastes align with it. I wouldn't even know most of this shit if it wasn't for this site. I don't believe in opinions really - I'm a nihilist and I'm absolutely convinced that if you ask a million ppl any question, the correct answer will be provided more often than any specific incorrect answer, whether that question is "what is 2+2" or "who's better between Brittney Spears and Madonna?" This site has given us a better top 1000 than I could have ever come up with. It's absurd to think one knows better than the combination of everyone combined. No way is it just an opinion that Beethoven is better than Insane Clown Posse, for example, and if this is a matter of fact then there's no reason that anything else would truly be an opinion; that is to say, no way are they "equal" and Beethoven is only preferred to ICP randomly or perhaps due to a "more common bias." I have my biases for sure (noise rock and extreme metal for the most part), but I know that's all they are: biases. Some ppl, for some reason, consider this stance "arrogant" or "elitist," but it's not even my own "opinions" that I believe are correct, so I don't understand where they're coming from. I mean, I'm a guy who listens to Ramones more often than Beethoven and I can admit Beethoven's better, so they can get lost with that. I believe the opposite - it's truly arrogant to think that your opinion that "some 3rd rate band is better than The Beatles" is equally valid as the consensus.
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From 02/01/2023 08:09
Loving this chart man! Very similar tastes to mine, so of course I've got no choice to rate it highly. For those you've provided comment I love what you've written - some great insights, not only personal connections but great perspective on the albums themselves, stuff I hadn't picked up on before. Good humour too. Even with multiple albums per artist, there is great diversity of genre here and top quality music overall.
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From 01/31/2023 17:08
Good chart. Nothing too surprising but that’s fine with me.
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From 01/31/2023 11:04
Standard chart for this site ~ no real surprises. Sadly, nothing (artist or album) originating from below the Tropic of Cancer.
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From 05/30/2022 05:21
Hey dude, very nice list, fairly similar to mine.
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From 05/05/2022 17:24
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.
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From 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!
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From 04/14/2022 18:53
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.
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From 04/17/2019 19:41
Con Air's the one with the iceberg, right?
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From 04/23/2018 23:38
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.
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