Top 55 Greatest Music Albums
by melc88

I am now starting to put together my actual chart of the Best Ever Albums although this is currently far from complete!
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[First added to this chart: 09/01/2011]
Year of Release:
1987
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5,731
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Buy album United States
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[First added to this chart: 09/14/2011]
Year of Release:
1984
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Rank Score:
5,981
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Top rated album (85/100 - 1047 votes)  85 (1,047 votes)
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Total albums: 2. Page 1 of 1
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Top 55 Greatest Music Albums composition

Decade Albums %


1930s 0 0%
1940s 0 0%
1950s 0 0%
1960s 4 7%
1970s 8 15%
1980s 8 15%
1990s 17 31%
2000s 15 27%
2010s 3 5%
2020s 0 0%
Country Albums %


United Kingdom 30 55%
United States 17 31%
Canada 3 5%
Australia 2 4%
Norway 1 2%
New Zealand 1 2%
Mixed Nationality 1 2%
Compilation? Albums %
No 51 93%
Yes 4 7%
Live? Albums %
No 46 84%
Yes 9 16%
Soundtrack? Albums %
No 54 98%
Yes 1 2%

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From 07/16/2014 11:18 | #116876
Entertaining chart!
I hope you go on!
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From 07/20/2013 10:23 | #82012
Good to see someone who likes the smiths fourth album!
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From 01/04/2013 03:30 | #59999
Don`t agree with all of it, but it`s still a good list. Nick Cave is worthy of your favourable opinion.
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From 08/14/2012 16:10 | #48521
Good chart, but the Song Remains the Same is nowhere near as good as other LZ albums.
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From 08/13/2012 17:19 | #48418
Decent chart, needs a few more entries.
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From 05/14/2012 11:54 | #42297
Good chart. I will call back when it is complete. No More Shall We Part is highly rated by my wife, but I prefer other albums by the great Nick Cave.
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From 12/18/2011 06:14 | #33205
Off the beaten track. A nice start.
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From 10/23/2011 08:11 | #28906
Nice start.
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From 09/23/2011 03:01 | #27760
I like the chart... I was just debating where to place "No more Shall we part"
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From 09/10/2011 09:21 | #27321
Promising. Great to see Nick Cave on top. What about "The Boatmans Call" by the same genius?
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