Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
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Chicken4Sale 
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- Chart updated: 10/24/2018 22:45
- (Created: 01/13/2017 03:38).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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"I'm amazed that I survived
An airbag saved my life"
Top 5 Tracks:
1. Let Down
2. Paranoid Android
3. No Surprises
4. The Tourist
5. Karma Police [First added to this chart: 01/14/2017]
An airbag saved my life"
Top 5 Tracks:
1. Let Down
2. Paranoid Android
3. No Surprises
4. The Tourist
5. Karma Police [First added to this chart: 01/14/2017]
Year of Release:
1997
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Rank Score:
59,205
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"Did they get you trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?"
Top 5 Tracks:
1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part 1
2. Wish You Were Here
3. Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part 2
4. Have a Cigar
5. Welcome to the Machine [First added to this chart: 01/14/2017]
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?"
Top 5 Tracks:
1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part 1
2. Wish You Were Here
3. Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part 2
4. Have a Cigar
5. Welcome to the Machine [First added to this chart: 01/14/2017]
Year of Release:
1975
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Rank Score:
41,661
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"Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream
It is not dying, it is not dying"
Top 5 Tracks:
1. Tomorrow Never Knows
2. Eleanor Rigby
3. Got to Get You Into My Life
4. I'm Only Sleeping
5. Love You To [First added to this chart: 01/14/2017]
It is not dying, it is not dying"
Top 5 Tracks:
1. Tomorrow Never Knows
2. Eleanor Rigby
3. Got to Get You Into My Life
4. I'm Only Sleeping
5. Love You To [First added to this chart: 01/14/2017]
Year of Release:
1966
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Rank Score:
46,236
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"You can try the best you can, you can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough"
Top 5 Tracks:
1. How to Disappear Completely
2. Idioteque
3. Motion Picture Soundtrack
4. Everything In Its Right Place
5. The National Anthem [First added to this chart: 01/14/2017]
The best you can is good enough"
Top 5 Tracks:
1. How to Disappear Completely
2. Idioteque
3. Motion Picture Soundtrack
4. Everything In Its Right Place
5. The National Anthem [First added to this chart: 01/14/2017]
Year of Release:
2000
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Rank Score:
38,607
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"I remember you was conflicted
Misusing your influence
Sometimes I did the same"
Top 5 Tracks:
1. The Blacker the Berry
2. Wesley's Theory
3. How Much A Dollar Cost
4. Mortal Man
5. Alright [First added to this chart: 01/14/2017]
Misusing your influence
Sometimes I did the same"
Top 5 Tracks:
1. The Blacker the Berry
2. Wesley's Theory
3. How Much A Dollar Cost
4. Mortal Man
5. Alright [First added to this chart: 01/14/2017]
Year of Release:
2015
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Rank Score:
28,902
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"And as I climb into an empty bed
Oh well, enough said"
Top 5 Tracks:
1. There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
2. The Queen is Dead
3. I Know It's Over
4. Bigmouth Strikes Again
5. The Boy With The Thorn In His Side [First added to this chart: 01/14/2017]
Oh well, enough said"
Top 5 Tracks:
1. There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
2. The Queen is Dead
3. I Know It's Over
4. Bigmouth Strikes Again
5. The Boy With The Thorn In His Side [First added to this chart: 01/14/2017]
Year of Release:
1986
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Rank Score:
31,326
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"One thing I can tell you is you got to be free"
Top 5 Tracks:
1. Abbey Road Medley
2. Something
3. I Want You (She's So Heavy)
4. Come Together
5. Because [First added to this chart: 01/14/2017]
Top 5 Tracks:
1. Abbey Road Medley
2. Something
3. I Want You (She's So Heavy)
4. Come Together
5. Because [First added to this chart: 01/14/2017]
Year of Release:
1969
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Rank Score:
53,617
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"There's a starman waiting in the sky
He'd like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds"
Top 5 Tracks:
1. Ziggy Stardust
2. Moonage Daydream
3. Starman
4. Suffragette City
5. Star [First added to this chart: 01/14/2017]
He'd like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds"
Top 5 Tracks:
1. Ziggy Stardust
2. Moonage Daydream
3. Starman
4. Suffragette City
5. Star [First added to this chart: 01/14/2017]
Year of Release:
1972
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40,488
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"And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon"
Top 5 Tracks:
1. Time
2. Brain Damage/Eclipse
3. Us and Them
4. Money
5. Breathe [First added to this chart: 01/14/2017]
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon"
Top 5 Tracks:
1. Time
2. Brain Damage/Eclipse
3. Us and Them
4. Money
5. Breathe [First added to this chart: 01/14/2017]
Year of Release:
1973
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Rank Score:
56,065
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"Can't believe how strange it is
to be anything at all"
Top 5 Tracks:
1. Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2
2. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
3. Oh Comely
4. Holland, 1945
5. The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1 [First added to this chart: 01/14/2017]
to be anything at all"
Top 5 Tracks:
1. Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2
2. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
3. Oh Comely
4. Holland, 1945
5. The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1 [First added to this chart: 01/14/2017]
Year of Release:
1998
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Rank Score:
29,700
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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 | 1 | 1% | |
| 1960s | 19 | 19% | |
| 1970s | 15 | 15% | |
| 1980s | 15 | 15% | |
| 1990s | 24 | 24% | |
| 2000s | 17 | 17% | |
| 2010s | 9 | 9% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
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| Radiohead | 6 | 6% | |
| The Beatles | 6 | 6% | |
| David Bowie | 4 | 4% | |
| Pink Floyd | 4 | 4% | |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor | 3 | 3% | |
| Led Zeppelin | 3 | 3% | |
| The Velvet Underground | 2 | 2% | |
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| ! | 07/15/2019 00:32 | Purplepash | 1,848 | 88/100 |
| ! | 07/14/2019 16:23 |  DommeDamian | 1,005 | 89/100 |
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BestEverAlbums 07/14/2019 08:00 in Chart of the day (#2821): By Chicken4Sale
BestEverAlbums 07/14/2019 08:00 in Chart of the day (#2821): By Chicken4Sale“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by Chicken4Sale () 1. OK Computer by Radiohead (1997) 2. Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd (1975) 3. Revolver by The Beatles (1966) 4. Kid A by Radiohead (2000) 5. To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar (2015) 6. The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths…”
View forum post →From BestEverAlbums 11/20/2018 09:00 in Chart of the day (#2585): By Chicken4Sale
BestEverAlbums 11/20/2018 09:00 in Chart of the day (#2585): By Chicken4Sale“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by Chicken4Sale () 1. OK Computer by Radiohead (1997) 2. Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd (1975) 3. Revolver by The Beatles (1966) 4. Kid A by Radiohead (2000) 5. To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar (2015) 6. The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths…”
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NowhereMan 11/20/2018 11:02 | #225270
NowhereMan 11/20/2018 11:02 | #225270
Classic after classic, can't go wrong.
Would love to see a #101-#200
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ForegroundNoise 11/20/2018 10:47 | #225269
ForegroundNoise 11/20/2018 10:47 | #225269
Really great list, lots and lots of the classics!!
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Mr November 10/20/2018 08:13 | #222788
An undeniably good chart full of classics, it just seems a little short on contemporary albums for someone of your age. Do you see much live music? I find that very much colours my opinions of albums, Alligator may not be my top album if I hadn't seen The National playing the songs from it in a tiny room in the Manchester Students Union. 19 albums in common though, you have ondoubted good taste ;)
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