Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
by 
Daydreamer 
A rough prototype, there are many albums which would definitely be in my top 100 but I didn't know where to place them so I will be adding them as soon as I figure out where they should be.
Also I by no means think these albums are the greatest using some objective criteria, more like 100 best albums ever according to my tastes and opinions. Enjoy :)
P. S. In the process of adding comments currently
- Chart updated: 05/24/2019 18:45
- (Created: 01/19/2017 22:26).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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David Bowie is for me the greatest rock star ever. Larger than life, enigmatic and incredibly unique. This album is filled with so many great melodies combined with Bowie's theatrical siging which are forever imprinted in your mind. This is rock drama at it's finest.
[First added to this chart: 01/23/2017]
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1972
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42,458
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Up to this point Radiohead have conquered the world with both rock and electronic music, so here they gave as some kind of synthesis of their previous sounds - alt rock and electronica. But it sounds incredibly fresh, creative and concise, without a single note out of place. Also, this is probably their best album lyrically with songs dealing with personal and emotional problems and only make the songs more powerful and hard hitting. They had an amazing run from 1995-2000 and with this 2007 release they proved that they hadn't lost a bit of that magic.
[First added to this chart: 01/23/2017]
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2007
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42,817
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What else can be said about this masterpiece? After so many listens it hasn't lost a bit of its magic. It has the most perfect flow ever and literally not a single note is out of place. Pure perfection. I literally can't even thing a single thing that describe how good this album actually is
[First added to this chart: 01/23/2017]
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1973
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59,049
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Radiohead are the Pink Floyd of the modern era. Creative, innovative and daring. This album is the soundtrack of the modern man living in the era of technology dealing with modern problems of isolation and loneliness. They created a bluepring many other rock acts would copy and music was changed forever.
[First added to this chart: 01/23/2017]
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1997
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62,723
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What I love about Springsteen so much is that he is a man filled with so much passion and he pours it all into his music. Born To Run is the last album of his early romantic idealistic phase which would soon be replaced by hard realism. This is the album when it all came togheter for him, making one last great statement of youthful hope and resistance.
[First added to this chart: 01/23/2017]
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1975
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15,137
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A little piece of true magic recorded by Jeff Mangum. A concept album losely based on Anne Frank but also dealing with themes of family, relationships and reincarnation. Mangum's voice will soon become one of your favourites since it's incredibly passionate and his lyrics are on a Dylan level with some incredible surreal imagery. Incredible stuff.
[First added to this chart: 04/21/2017]
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1998
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31,716
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David Bowie the chameleon. Never has the art of reinventing itself been so beautiful like on this record. Bowie teamed up with Brian Eno and Tony Visconti to make something incredibly unique and ahead of it's time, yet to pleasant to listen to. The fact that Sides A and B are polar opossites and I still can't decide which one I like better really says something.
[First added to this chart: 02/26/2017]
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1977
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16,641
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Released as a second album from his electric mid 60's trilogy this album finds Dylan at his most cynical, biting and agressive. Mike Bloomfield's guitar playing gives the music that hard edge and drive matching Dylan's scathing lyrics and delivery. Some of his most imaginative lyrical work can be found here.
[First added to this chart: 01/23/2017]
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1965
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26,631
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The one where they cemented themselves as kings. Having already made one step towards seriousness with Rubber Soul, they took it one step further with this one. Their most psychedelic, trippy, LSD influenced records with some lovely eastern influences remains one of the more groundbreaking albums of all time. It's so much ahead of it's time it's not even funny.
[First added to this chart: 01/23/2017]
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1966
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Given the fact I wasn't big on indie rock and that this band is so unique in many ways, I expected this album would take some time to get into. However, it grabed me from the first second of the first song and never let go. The sound is so raw which makes the songs even more emotionally engaging, and even though it deals with some dark themes like death or loss in general, it never feels bleak or desperate, but almost like this album is a beacon of hope during hard time. I find it incredibly catharsic and optimistic
[First added to this chart: 01/23/2017]
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2004
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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 | 18 | 18% | |
| 1970s | 28 | 28% | |
| 1980s | 13 | 13% | |
| 1990s | 15 | 15% | |
| 2000s | 14 | 14% | |
| 2010s | 12 | 12% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| The Beatles | 6 | 6% | |
| Queen | 5 | 5% | |
| David Bowie | 5 | 5% | |
| Radiohead | 5 | 5% | |
| Bob Dylan | 4 | 4% | |
| Pink Floyd | 4 | 4% | |
| Bruce Springsteen | 4 | 4% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 1 from 68th to 69thAchtung Baby by U2 |
| Down 1 from 69th to 70thHouses Of The Holy by Led Zeppelin |
| Down 1 from 70th to 71stA Moon Shaped Pool by Radiohead |
| New entries |
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| Aladdin Sane by David Bowie |
| Leavers |
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| Sounds Of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel |
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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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| 09/17/2025 13:57 | Johnnyo | 2,576 | 80/100 | |
| 10/15/2021 15:59 | Fritz | 27 | 91/100 | |
| 07/20/2020 17:29 |  Goliath | 350 | 86/100 | |
| 05/11/2020 16:23 | EyeKanFly | 209 | 88/100 | |
| 03/26/2020 03:21 | adbrack1988 | 25 | 97/100 |
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This chart is rated in the top 2% of all charts on BestEverAlbums.com. This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 90.4/100, a mean average of 90.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 91.2/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 9.9.
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From Johnnyo 09/17/2025 13:57 | #310951
Excellent chart and hitting many of the right notes (pun intended) for me.
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From Fritz 10/15/2021 15:59 | #275053
Sam's Town by the Killers is such an underrated gem, extra point for that
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From Goliath 07/20/2020 17:30 | #255874
Goliath 07/20/2020 17:30 | #255874
32 in common, great chart.
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From EyeKanFly 05/11/2020 16:23 | #251300
EyeKanFly 05/11/2020 16:23 | #251300
The further towards 100 you go the more unique and interesting it gets IMO. Seems we have a lot in common, though I maybe skew a little more recent.
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From AgainstMeAgainstYou 04/05/2019 14:40 | #234533
Really earnest and sincere. You care deeply about the albums in the top part of your list and it shows. I love the picks and I love the notes.
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ExTeaSea 03/16/2019 19:49 | #233671
Good chart! Was nice seeing Innuendo and Bone Machine on here mixed in with tons of highly rated albums. Innuendo is easily one of Queens best and most underrated songs.
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From Rivera 01/22/2019 04:55 | #230234
Really great albums. Well done!
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From tim0505 01/21/2019 10:18 | #230186
One word..excellent !
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From hailey 12/13/2018 16:42 | #226993
I think this is a really good chart, really liked the descriptions of some of the albums and overall i agree with most of where you put each of the albums.
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From Ulf 04/16/2018 20:19 | #213064
very nice chart with some classics. comments are always appreciated . :)
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