Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
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- Chart updated: 04/06/2013 11:03
- (Created: 09/25/2011 12:53).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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This is number one for so many reasons. First of all, I grew up on this album. I remember hearing this when I was 5 or 6 and even back then when I didn't know shit about music, I knew that I liked this. This is one of the most versatile albums I can think of. Brad Nowell can pull of any genre he puts his mind to: ska, reggae, punk, alternative, rap, fucking everything. It deserves this spot.
Favorite Songs: 5446 That's My Number/Ball and Chain, Don't Push, Right Back, KRS-One, Waiting for My Ruca, Let's Go Get Stoned (Sorry I can't stop lol let's just say EVERY song) [First added to this chart: 09/25/2011]
Favorite Songs: 5446 That's My Number/Ball and Chain, Don't Push, Right Back, KRS-One, Waiting for My Ruca, Let's Go Get Stoned (Sorry I can't stop lol let's just say EVERY song) [First added to this chart: 09/25/2011]
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1992
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Modest Mouse is a band that I didn't even know about until Good News came out, and back then I didn't think too much of them. I mean, Float On was a catchy song, but so is everything on the radio. A couple years later, when We Were Dead came out, I saw a little more promise, so I downloaded all of their old shit, and I was just completely blown away. The Lonesome Crowded West is their second album and it is nothing short of a freakin masterpiece. Isaac Brock is a genius. From the eccentrically beautiful opener that is Teeth Like God's Shoeshine all the way through to the folkified Styrofoam Boots, there is not a bad song on this CD. Doin' the Cockroach and Cowboy Dan have got to be two of the greatest songs ever recorded. In my opinion ;]
Favorite Songs: Trucker Atlas, Doin' the Cockroach, Cowboy Dan, Styrofoam Boots/It's All Nice on Ice, Alright, Heart Cooks Brain [First added to this chart: 09/25/2011]
Favorite Songs: Trucker Atlas, Doin' the Cockroach, Cowboy Dan, Styrofoam Boots/It's All Nice on Ice, Alright, Heart Cooks Brain [First added to this chart: 09/25/2011]
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1997
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I try to spread out artists on this list. I hate clumping them all together. BUT... I completely refuse to put this album any lower than number three. This is almost -ALMOST- as good as their second CD. Lonesome is just a little more refined and better produced. But still, every song on this album has that beauty in its instruments and lyrics that only Brock can scribe. And the EMOTION in Custom Concern... nobody else can make life sound more depressing and mundane than him and that is what I love about this album.
Favorites: Custom Concern, Head South, Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset, Make Everyone Happy/Mechanical Birds, Breakthrough [First added to this chart: 09/25/2011]
Favorites: Custom Concern, Head South, Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset, Make Everyone Happy/Mechanical Birds, Breakthrough [First added to this chart: 09/25/2011]
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1996
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1,613
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Everyone loves Oracular Spectacular and for some reason not many like, or even really talk about Congratulations. Don't get me wrong Oracular Spectacular is brilliant. Every song on that album is a hit. But that's just it, Oracular is a bunch of good songs, whereas Congratulations is an ALBUM. These songs go together like sex, drugs and psychedelia.
Favorites: Flash Delirium, Siberian Breaks, Brian Eno, It's Working [First added to this chart: 09/25/2011]
Favorites: Flash Delirium, Siberian Breaks, Brian Eno, It's Working [First added to this chart: 09/25/2011]
Year of Release:
2010
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2,656
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Merriweather Post Pavilion is basically Animal Collective's pop CD. And I hated it at first. I got into Animal Collective for their very, very.. VERY weird acoustics Feels and Sung Tongs. Those CDs are amazing. But this album has grown on me more and more. I'm seeing now that even though it is their poppiest with songs like My Girls, it is still just as out there as their older albums. The instrumental break in Brothersport is one of the greatest, trance-iest beats I've ever heard. I could zone out to those shrieks for hours. It took the keyboards from Strawberry Jam and focused them to make one of the best psychedelic albums of all time. They did not lose their touch. While I'm on the subject, Centipede Hz, their new album still hasn't quite grown on me yet, but I think in time it might.
Favorites: Brothersport, Lion in a Coma, Summertime Clothes [First added to this chart: 09/25/2011]
Favorites: Brothersport, Lion in a Coma, Summertime Clothes [First added to this chart: 09/25/2011]
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2009
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8,647
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Robbin' the Hood... What can I say about you? Let me start by saying this is NOT an album for everybody lol. It is Brad Nowell in very obvious deep stages of heroin addiction. A problem that I know about all too well. That might be why I connect with this album more than most. It's doesn't have the great production value of their other two main releases, but something about it has a giant electrical spark of genius creativity. This is the album that gets me thinking what other remarkable things Brad could've written if he hadn't died so young...
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After listening to Modest Mouse all day, it takes one of two things to drag me out of my deep slump of self-induced depression: a fucking miracle, or The Unicorns. They are one of the lightest, happiest bands on my iPod. Every time I hear Nicholas Thorburn's voice, it puts a smile on my face. He can make the oddest subject matter into something to dance about.
Favorites: Tuff Ghost, Jellybones, I Was Born (A Unicorn) [First added to this chart: 09/25/2011]
Favorites: Tuff Ghost, Jellybones, I Was Born (A Unicorn) [First added to this chart: 09/25/2011]
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2003
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Another album in which there is not one bad song. Track one: amazing, track two: entrancing, track three: powerful, track four: beautiful, track five: funky fresh, it just goes on and on. Not a dull moment. I'm sorry, I've run out of ways to proclaim my love for the band. Just read the first two.
Favorites: Tiny Cities Made of Ashes, Perfect Disguise, 3rd Planet, Paper Thin Walls, Gravity Rides Everything [First added to this chart: 09/25/2011]
Favorites: Tiny Cities Made of Ashes, Perfect Disguise, 3rd Planet, Paper Thin Walls, Gravity Rides Everything [First added to this chart: 09/25/2011]
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2000
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Ah The Shins. Another band that can put a huge smile on my face. They can also put me my nice, relaxing, lazy mode though. I believe that this is the best all out indie record to ever be recorded and Those to Come is one of the most beautiful songs to ever grace the acoustic guitar. I could be on freaking Adderall and it could put my ass to bed. There is just something about his voice that nobody else can replicate. It's just so soothing.
Favorites: Those to Come, Kissing the Lipless, Pink Bullets, Saint Simon [First added to this chart: 04/01/2013]
Favorites: Those to Come, Kissing the Lipless, Pink Bullets, Saint Simon [First added to this chart: 04/01/2013]
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2003
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Poor, poor Brad. This is the last thing he recorded before that shitty, shitty day in music history. He didn't even get to hear what most consider his magnum opus. It is a great record, way ahead of its time and just a little after Brad's. He had an unmatchable talent for writing hit songs without you know, "selling out." He made it look so easy. Almost every song he's ever written sounds like it could be a single. It makes me so sad that he'll never get to see how many people love the music he's written...
Favorites: Under My Voodoo, Get Ready, Garden Grove, Seed, The Ballad of Johnny Butt, Burritos [First added to this chart: 09/25/2011]
Favorites: Under My Voodoo, Get Ready, Garden Grove, Seed, The Ballad of Johnny Butt, Burritos [First added to this chart: 09/25/2011]
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1996
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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 | 3 | 3% | |
| 1970s | 3 | 3% | |
| 1980s | 1 | 1% | |
| 1990s | 24 | 24% | |
| 2000s | 59 | 59% | |
| 2010s | 10 | 10% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Modest Mouse | 9 | 9% | |
| Streetlight Manifesto | 4 | 4% | |
| Cake | 4 | 4% | |
| Sublime | 4 | 4% | |
| Animal Collective | 4 | 4% | |
| Radiohead | 3 | 3% | |
| The Beatles | 3 | 3% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
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| ! | 07/26/2015 05:26 |  travelful | 208 | 99/100 |
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pearljammer13 TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/31/2012 01:00 | #59531
pearljammer13 TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/31/2012 01:00 | #59531
Dude A+ reconstruction, this is now one of my absolute favorite charts on the site.
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craola 06/19/2014 17:33 | #114796
craola 06/19/2014 17:33 | #114796
It's a shame you don't like Modest Mouse ;)
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Wtfwwd 04/02/2013 05:46 | #71076
Wtfwwd 04/02/2013 05:46 | #71076
I was just trying to edit it. I was messing with it for like an hour and I finally got it just how I wanted it. I clicked Save Chart and I looked at it and everything was completely out of order. Nowhere near the order I put it in. And it deleted three albums. I have no clue which lol. I'm pissed, and don't feel like fixing it right now. But just know that this is not my list. It has most of the albums, but not the right order at all.
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Wtfwwd 04/06/2013 07:05 | #71576
Wtfwwd 04/06/2013 07:05 | #71576
There! Fixed it! And added a bunch of comments. Got bored after the first 17 or 18. Maybe I'll do the rest at some point. But not tonight. It's 3am lol. Hope you enjoy the re-reconstruction :]
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Wtfwwd 12/30/2012 21:03 | #59510
Wtfwwd 12/30/2012 21:03 | #59510
I did a complete reconstruction of the list. I made the old one almost two years ago. I had some pretty terrible choices on there lol (e.g. jon lajoie). thanks for the feedback.
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