Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
by Vasco 
Constantly in the works...
-No compilations/live recordings
Lenght, Main Music Genre - Original Score (if 8.8 or more=Classic; if 9.8-10=Perfect)
Missing on this site: "Ritual Spirit" EP + "The Spoils" single (2016) by Massive Attack - 8.8 (Classic)
- Chart updated: 02/14/2026 17:15
- (Created: 12/27/2016 23:24).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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1h05, Industrial Metal - 10 (Fucking Perfect) (all of them)
[First added to this chart: 03/03/2018]
Year of Release:
1994
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9,138
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1h21, Progressive Rock - 10 (Fucked-Up-Kind-Of-Perfect) (Comfortably Numb; In The Flesh; The Trial)
[First added to this chart: 02/02/2017]
Year of Release:
1979
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24,443
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53 min., Alternative Rock - 10 (AAAAAAAHHHH-Perfect) (Karma Police; Climbing Up The Walls; Exit Music)
[First added to this chart: 02/01/2017]
Year of Release:
1997
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62,038
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41 min., Progressive Rock - 10 (Orwell-Would-Be-Proud-Perfect) (Pigs; Dogs; Sheep)
[First added to this chart: 02/02/2017]
Year of Release:
1977
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21,963
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34 min., Emo Rock - 10 (Also Fucking Perfect)
[First added to this chart: 02/07/2019]
Year of Release:
1996
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9,677
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51 min., Psychadelich Rock - 10 (Fuzz-Buzz-Perfect) (Nothing That Has Happened...; Mind Mischief; Keep On Lying)
[First added to this chart: 02/01/2017]
Year of Release:
2012
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14,130
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1h06, Heavy Metal - 10 (Death-Like Perfect) (Iowa; People=Shit; The Heretic Anthem)
[First added to this chart: 09/21/2019]
Year of Release:
2001
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588
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43 min., Gothic Rock - 10 (Perfect) (The Figurehead; Cold; One Hundred Years)
[First added to this chart: 07/07/2019]
Year of Release:
1982
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5,734
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2h01, Noise Rock - 10 (zdfbdsfbnidjf-Perfect) (Oxygen; Bring The Sun/ Toussaint L'Ouverture; To Be Kind)
[First added to this chart: 08/20/2018]
Year of Release:
2014
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6,056
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48 min., Industrial Rock - 10 (Perfect) (City Song; Guest House; Daughter)
[First added to this chart: 11/07/2018]
Year of Release:
2018
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2,835
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Total albums: 100. Page 1 of 10
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 1 | 1% | |
| 1970s | 8 | 8% | |
| 1980s | 11 | 11% | |
| 1990s | 23 | 23% | |
| 2000s | 22 | 22% | |
| 2010s | 25 | 25% | |
| 2020s | 10 | 10% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
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| The Cure | 7 | 7% | |
| Radiohead | 6 | 6% | |
| Depeche Mode | 5 | 5% | |
| Pink Floyd | 4 | 4% | |
| Massive Attack | 4 | 4% | |
| Fiona Apple | 4 | 4% | |
| Nine Inch Nails | 4 | 4% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
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| 06/25/2025 08:00 |  SomethingSpecial | 1,089 | 85/100 | |
| 12/30/2023 11:21 |  Bach | 961 | 78/100 | |
| 06/29/2023 18:01 | Johnnyo | 2,581 | 80/100 | |
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From Johnnyo 06/29/2023 18:01 | #297852
Very strong chart.
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From mrmcrook 02/03/2021 00:50 | #265629
I like your genre classifications for each album and not just for the band. Very precise
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From leniad 12/10/2020 22:27 | #262500
good
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From CompassCharlatan 11/06/2020 23:27 | #260285
Good stuff. I will have to save a lot of your choices for future listening.
Peace and Love
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From Santiago 08/20/2020 22:47 | #257258
This is an amazing chart! Great selections.
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ExTeaSea 01/15/2020 04:15 | #246853
ExTeaSea 01/15/2020 04:15 | #246853
Great chart! Love seeing Massive Attack and LCD Soundsystem.
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buzzdainer 11/16/2019 15:22 | #244921
buzzdainer 11/16/2019 15:22 | #244921
A really strong chart, and I appreciate the sense of purpose you've expressed by excluding compilations, live albums, and EP's from your chart. I've found it generally easy to exclude compilations, although sometimes I've struggled to know what to do when an artist includes some new, great songs on a "best of" compilation. I've allowed EP's and live albums into my year charts, but generally have excluded them from decade charts--but even then, the distinction can be blurry (Nine Inch Nails' Broken being one example). Great job on this chart!
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From Thad 11/13/2019 17:44 | #244779
Some pleasantly surprising choices.
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desh79 09/30/2019 10:25 | #243225
desh79 09/30/2019 10:25 | #243225
An interesting list - some classics (Dark Side of the Moon, Disintegration) mixed with more contemporary albums (Daughters, Blackstar). I like it.
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ForegroundNoise 07/21/2019 15:08 | #240081
ForegroundNoise 07/21/2019 15:08 | #240081
At first I thought this would be a by-the-numbers rock chart, but the passion in your notes, as well as the hip hop picks gave me a happy surprise.
In terms of your separation of EPs and LPs, here's a thread I started that discusses the arbitrariness of the division that you might find interesting, given how you include Broken by NIN:
https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=20954&highlight=
All in all great stuff man!
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