Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by Weepingguitarman 
Keeping it one album per artist for the sake of variety, but I'm including recommendations (ACO = Also Check Out) in the notes for other favorites of mine. There is still so much music I want to listen to, so if you don't see your favorite band on here, let me know! Maybe (probably) I just haven't heard of them/gotten around to listening to them yet.
I'll try to include notes for as many as I can, but I'm going to be changing and adding to this chart all the time, so it won't be fast.
- Chart updated: 10/05/2020 03:15
- (Created: 09/07/2016 03:42).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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2001
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I was NOT prepared for this album. When I listened to it for the first time, I was at a point where I thought an album like OK Computer was the most experimental thing ever made. When I was engulfed by the end of the world after the four most iconic snare hits in music, it was a religious experience. Since then, I've become a little more familiar with shoegaze, but nothing I've heard has come close to this album.
ACO: Isn't Anything and m b v [First added to this chart: 10/10/2016]
ACO: Isn't Anything and m b v [First added to this chart: 10/10/2016]
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1991
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One of the most transcendent, spiritual albums that I've ever experienced. The culmination of what a lot of late sixties Impluse! records were working towards, including the legendary Coltrane himself (not to mention the legendary Coltrane HERself). Nobody finds beauty in chaos and chaos in beauty like Pharoah.
ACO: Love In Us All [First added to this chart: 09/10/2017]
ACO: Love In Us All [First added to this chart: 09/10/2017]
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1969
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The pinnacle of what is achievable by four guys with two guitars, a bass, and a drum kit. People praise the punk movement, and in particular bands like the Sex Pistols and the Ramones, for their back-to-basics simplicity that grounded and reinvigorated rock, but this album is a whirlwind tour of the full implications of that concept. Each riff is so instant and catchy that it could carry a whole song, but the songs rarely stretch past two minutes, and often go through several parts. This is everything I love about music in a microcosm.
ACO: Chairs Missing, the followup album to this, sees Wire exploring different instrumentation and arrangement, and building longer songs, without losing the spark that makes this album special. A different kind of brilliance. [First added to this chart: 02/04/2018]
ACO: Chairs Missing, the followup album to this, sees Wire exploring different instrumentation and arrangement, and building longer songs, without losing the spark that makes this album special. A different kind of brilliance. [First added to this chart: 02/04/2018]
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1977
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This album took a while to grow on me, and I think, ironically, a lot of that has to do with how little it has to hide from you. The lyrics are poetic, but not to the point of being dense or difficult. The melodies are beautiful, but simple. Joni is a good guitarist and pianist, but not in a way that’s flashy. Some albums feel like they’re buried underground, and you slowly unearth them with listen after listen. With this album, it’s all right there for you. You just get to know it, and become comfortable with it, until eventually you realize how perfectly everything comes together.
ACO: Hissing of Summer Lawns [First added to this chart: 12/23/2016]
ACO: Hissing of Summer Lawns [First added to this chart: 12/23/2016]
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1971
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Probably what I love the most about music is how it can transport you anywhere, across time and space, in mere seconds. Whenever I hear the opening of Rainy Day Women, all I have to do is close my eyes and I'm at my grandfathers farm in the dead of winter, and I can stay there for 72 minutes. I could talk about how Bob Dylan is the greatest songwriter of all time, or the immense skill of the Nashville session musicians this album was recorded with, or the stand out tracks like I Want You, Just Like A Woman, and Stuck Inside of Mobile, but all of that was overexplained half a century ago. My experience with this album, and yours: that's what's new. That's what keeps music like this alive. That's what makes this album great.
ACO: Blood On The Tracks and Highway 61 are the obvious picks, but Bob Dylan has one of the richest discographies in musical history and it's worth diving in earfirst. [First added to this chart: 08/13/2017]
ACO: Blood On The Tracks and Highway 61 are the obvious picks, but Bob Dylan has one of the richest discographies in musical history and it's worth diving in earfirst. [First added to this chart: 08/13/2017]
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1966
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If any one band could sum up everything great about music in the '90s, it would be Pavement. Nirvana and Radiohead are great (as this list will tell you) but they didn't hit the decade as hard, or embody it so fully. Don't think for a second that means this album sounds dated, though. It's still incredibly fresh, and if somehow you haven't listened to it yet, you're in for a real treat.
ACO: Brighten The Corners for more polish, Slanted and Enchanted for less [First added to this chart: 12/23/2016]
ACO: Brighten The Corners for more polish, Slanted and Enchanted for less [First added to this chart: 12/23/2016]
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1994
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It took me a long time to digest this album. It encompasses so many different styles and emotions, and it is an incredibly sonically dense listen, but a very rewarding one. Each time I listen to it I find something new to focus in on, and each time I love this album a little more. Maybe it'll click with you instantly, but if not, give it the time it deserves. Come back to it in a few weeks. Months. Years. It'll still be there.
ACO: Sister and Goo are right next to this in chronology and quality, but Sonic Youth don't really have a bad album [First added to this chart: 12/23/2016]
ACO: Sister and Goo are right next to this in chronology and quality, but Sonic Youth don't really have a bad album [First added to this chart: 12/23/2016]
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1988
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Every song on this album makes me happy. Even the sad ones.
ACO: s/t and Hug Of Thunder [First added to this chart: 10/10/2016]
ACO: s/t and Hug Of Thunder [First added to this chart: 10/10/2016]
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2002
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When it comes to old hip hop I find there's a pretty sharp divide: albums from the 80's (even albums I love, like 3 Feet High and Rising, Nation Of Millions, and Strictly Business) sound dated to me. Not every album from the 90's still sounds fresh, but it's where production standards start to hold up to the modern day. It's not a coincidence that Tribe's first album came out in 1990. Something about the creative sampling, amazing production, and interplay between Q-Tip and Phife Dawg (RIP) make this into one of the smoothest albums of all time, and definitely one of the best.
ACO: People's Instinctive Travels [First added to this chart: 12/23/2016]
ACO: People's Instinctive Travels [First added to this chart: 12/23/2016]
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1991
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 1 | 1% | |
| 1960s | 9 | 9% | |
| 1970s | 20 | 20% | |
| 1980s | 17 | 17% | |
| 1990s | 23 | 23% | |
| 2000s | 16 | 16% | |
| 2010s | 14 | 14% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| GZA/Genius | 1 | 1% | |
| The Replacements | 1 | 1% | |
| Wipers | 1 | 1% | |
| Have A Nice Life | 1 | 1% | |
| Julee Cruise | 1 | 1% | |
| Bruce Springsteen | 1 | 1% | |
| Bob Dylan | 1 | 1% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 38 from 41st to 3rd Karma by Pharoah Sanders |
| Up 37 from 51st to 14th If You're Feeling Sinister by Belle And Sebastian |
| Up 30 from 100th to 70th Ys by Joanna Newsom |
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| Down 23 from 11th to 34th The Wall by Pink Floyd |
| Down 22 from 5th to 27th Deathconsciousness by Have A Nice Life |
| Down 19 from 23rd to 42nd Let Love In by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds |
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From jeitee 12/28/2020 02:20
love the notes on a lot of these albums. looking forward to seeing if you add notes to ys and loud city song
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pjohnsongolf 12/27/2020 18:23
pjohnsongolf 12/27/2020 18:23
Great chart man! I will definitely check some stuff out!
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NowhereMan 12/27/2020 11:08
NowhereMan 12/27/2020 11:08
A really great read revisiting. Picked up a few new recommendations too; thanks!
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From Johnnyo 01/02/2019 07:45
Really love your chart and the notes against each entry really add to the enjoyment. Thanks for taking the time to do this.
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foxytreeko 09/05/2018 21:12
foxytreeko 09/05/2018 21:12
One of my favorite charts I have ever seen on this site, I love your picks and descriptions of what each of these albums mean to you! Can't wait until you finish commenting on the rest of your chart!
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From Komorebi-D 03/12/2018 04:23
Komorebi-D 03/12/2018 04:23
Dude this chart is work of art. I adore every single title on here except for three and that’s only because I haven’t heard them. We practically have the exact same taste. This is excellent!
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Antonio-Pedro 02/13/2018 23:48
Antonio-Pedro 02/13/2018 23:48
I'm so happy I dug upon this chart, there is so much beauty in your notes on the middle to the end part, makes justice to the whole list, also loved your annotation on Steve reich's record, really wll thought and is probably going to get me to listen to it again.
Also I'm a very personal person with my notes, and as much as there some personal touch here I think you have a quite cool feature to present your favorite records in an objective way, as you're telling them their own inner beauties, that's cute, I like it.
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From Lgk21 01/03/2018 23:11
This is a great chart in part because of the great selections of albums but also because of the quality of your descriptions.
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HoldenM 01/03/2018 21:47
HoldenM 01/03/2018 21:47
Nary a bad record in sight.
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ForegroundNoise 01/03/2018 12:35
ForegroundNoise 01/03/2018 12:35
AHHhhh what an incredible chart!! Especially the notes!! Love the #1 pick and the inclusion of Blood Visions, I'm sure you know way more stuff than I do but in case you haven't listened, check out these underground beauties:
Rodan - Rusty
Bark Psychosis - Hex
This Heat - Deceit
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Fishmans - Long Season
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