Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
by pago82 
- Chart updated: 12/30/2025 23:45
- (Created: 08/11/2011 19:06).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Grunge, alternative rock
[First added to this chart: 08/11/2011]
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1991
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37,463
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Grunge, alternative rock, noise rock
[First added to this chart: 08/11/2011]
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1993
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17,289
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Grunge, alternative rock, hard rock, debut
[First added to this chart: 08/11/2011]
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1991
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18,389
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Alternative rock, art rock, experimental rock, electronic
[First added to this chart: 08/11/2011]
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1997
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62,860
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Electronica, experimental rock, post-rock,
electronic rock, art rock, ambient, IDM [First added to this chart: 08/11/2011]
electronic rock, art rock, ambient, IDM [First added to this chart: 08/11/2011]
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2000
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41,253
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Grunge, hard rock, heavy metal, alternative rock, alternative metal
[First added to this chart: 08/11/2011]
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1994
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8,408
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Grunge, alternative rock, hard rock
[First added to this chart: 08/11/2011]
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1993
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5,092
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Alternative metal, grunge, heavy metal, alternative rock, hard rock
[First added to this chart: 08/11/2011]
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1992
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7,443
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Alternative rock, indie rock, surf rock
[First added to this chart: 08/11/2011]
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1989
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31,271
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Grunge, alternative rock, experimental rock, art rock, hard rock
[First added to this chart: 08/11/2011]
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1994
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2,646
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Total albums: 100. Page 1 of 10
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 15 | 15% | |
| 1970s | 7 | 7% | |
| 1980s | 6 | 6% | |
| 1990s | 30 | 30% | |
| 2000s | 21 | 21% | |
| 2010s | 15 | 15% | |
| 2020s | 6 | 6% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Nirvana | 5 | 5% | |
| Pearl Jam | 5 | 5% | |
| Radiohead | 5 | 5% | |
| The Beatles | 5 | 5% | |
| Arcade Fire | 3 | 3% | |
| Alice In Chains | 3 | 3% | |
| Pixies | 3 | 3% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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47 | 47% | |
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23 | 23% | |
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8 | 8% | |
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8 | 8% | |
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5 | 5% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
|---|
| Up 28 from 64th to 36thMagical Mystery Tour by The Beatles |
| Up 11 from 90th to 79thSuperfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles by Mudhoney |
| Up 8 from 39th to 31stRubber Soul by The Beatles |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 37 from 34th to 71stPustvopol by Katarína Máliková |
| Down 29 from 70th to 99thLed Zeppelin II by Led Zeppelin |
| Down 18 from 47th to 65thOnly God Was Above Us by Vampire Weekend |
| Leavers |
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| Lonerism by Tame Impala |
| Fetch by Melt-Banana |
| Indie Cindy by Pixies |
| Odelay by Beck |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
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| 01/09/2026 13:50 | BorderFreeAndrew | 106 | 81/100 | |
| 01/29/2025 12:44 |  SomethingSpecial | 1,095 | 85/100 | |
| 11/04/2024 14:17 | DrewHamster | 315 | 79/100 | |
| 07/24/2024 19:57 | bwoodlan | 32 | 70/100 | |
| 04/05/2024 17:39 | Larcx13 | 1,138 | 86/100 |
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This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 79.2/100, a mean average of 78.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.2/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 13.2.
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From BorderFreeAndrew 01/09/2026 14:03 | #312542
Things I can instantly tell by looking at this chart:
1. You grew up in & started discovering music in the 1990's.
2. You're from the former Czechoslovakia.
The US and UK albums on your chart are mostly pretty good IMO but they're a little too obvious. I prefer a chart that gives me some surprises and/or shows a more iconoclastic perspective. And I've heard most of the Czech and Slovak albums on your list (Karel Kryl, Pražský Výběr, Dežo Ursiny, Pavol Hammel & Marián Varga, Katarína Máliková, Collegium Musicum). They're good but I wouldn't consider them close to all-time Top 100 material.
I would encourage you to expand your horizons and listen to a wider variety of genres & music from other regions and cultures. There's an amazing world of music that exists beyond classic rock/grunge/alt-rock. If you included more of that diversity in your chart, I would find it a lot more interesting.
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From Larcx13 04/05/2024 17:42 | #302873
Larcx13 04/05/2024 17:42 | #302873
Nice selection. Shuffle it up a little maybe?
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From notsquib 08/23/2023 04:25 | #298799
Loved seeing Black Gives Way to Blue and that Deerhunter album on a chart! There is quite a lot of standard grunge on this chart. Very interested in checking out the Czech and Slovakian albums you put here, since I have little to no experience with music from around there.
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From Johnnyo 08/22/2023 16:28 | #298794
Not sure why I rated this charts so low first time around. Must have been having a bad day. Very decent album
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From Moondance 12/24/2022 10:33 | #292172
No surprises on where your love of music resides. Really good to see you recognising homegrown artists/albums from Slovakia & Czech Republic.
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From Johnnyo 05/29/2021 08:33 | #270150
Although I like a lot of albums on this chart it doesn't really grab me.
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Keatownrodriguez 09/02/2020 15:56 | #257683
Keatownrodriguez 09/02/2020 15:56 | #257683
You do love the 90's, nothing wrong with that. Nirvana is also a favorite of mine. Love to see The mars volta so high too
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From BraddlesHendo 09/02/2020 14:53 | #257681
Good stuff lots of grunge
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From mianfei 02/17/2020 22:30 | #247911
On many levels, this is the most disappointing chart to reach “Chart of the Day”, with its absence of diversity due to the heavy focus on 1990s grunge, which fails to capture the diversity and talent even of that decade – although some of the post-rock inclusions are refreshing after looking through.
The chart is redeemed a little by the presence of some very unusual albums from Eastern Europe, though the fact that these are from the user’s homeland and hence less likely to be long-term research or personal discovery detracts even from that.
A minor issue but one that does bug me, is the absence of “shuffling” so that similar or obviously related albums are placed adjacent.
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ForegroundNoise 05/10/2019 08:03 | #236083
ForegroundNoise 05/10/2019 08:03 | #236083
Nice to see some post-rock picks sneaking in, though the top ten is a little too homogeneous for my liking!!
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