Top 50 Greatest Music Albums
by 
TheAstralPlane 
One album per artist.
Honorable Mention (In no particular order)
Suede-Suede
Music Has The Right to Children-Boards of Canada
Bloom-Beach House
Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space-Spiritualized
Spiritual Unity-Albert Ayler
Funeral-Arcade Fire
Brothers-The Black Keys
Turn on the Bright Lights-Interpol
Damaged-Black Flag
Complete Discography-Minor Threat
(What's the Story) Morning Glory-Oasis
Since I Left You-The Avalanches
La's-The La's
Parklife-Blur
Automatic For The People-R.E.M
Blue-Joni Mitchell
Tapestry-Carole King
Disraeli Gears-Cream
Is This It-The Strokes
Maxinquaye-Tricky
Forever Changes-Love
Spiderland-Slint
Sounds of Silver-LCD Soundsystem
Violator-Depeche Mode
3 Feet High and Rising-De La Soul
Paid in Full-Eric B. & Rakim
Mos Def and Talib Kweli Are Black Star
The Glow Pt. 2-The Microphones
Pet Sounds-The Beach Boys
What's Goin On-Marvin Gaye
Otis Blue-Otis Redding
Ride the Lightning-Metallica
Blue Lines-Massive Attack
Screamadelica-Primal Scream
The Stone Roses-The Stone Roses
Odelay-Beck
Paranoid-Black Sabbath
Another Green World-Brian Eno
Getz/Gilberto-Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto
The Black Saint and Sinner Lady-Charles Mingus
Live at Newport-Duke Ellington
Live at the Apollo-James Brown
Kick Out The Jams-MC5
The Great Twenty Eight-Chuck Berry
Elvis Presley-Elvis Presley
At Folsom Prison-Johnny Cash
The Kinks Are Village Green Preservation Society-The Kinks
Suicide-Suicide
Laughing Stock-Talk Talk
Wild Gift-X
Disintegration-The Cure
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust-David Bowie
You're Living All Over Me-Dinosaur Jr.
This Nation's Saving Grace-The Fall
On Fire-Galaxie 500
Bee Thousand-Guided By Voices
Exile In Guyville-Liz Phair
Dookie-Green Day
Trans Europe Express-Kraftwerk
Transformer-Lou Reed
The Holy Bible-Manic Street Preachers
The Moon and Antarctica-Modest Mouse
Anthology-Muddy Waters
Life After Death-Notorious B.I.G
Stankonia-Outkast
Songs for the Deaf-Queens of the Stone Age
Dub Housing-Pere Ubu
Pretenders-The Pretenders
Metal Box-Public Image Ltd
Rage Against the Machine-Rage Against the Machine
Rocket to Russia-The Ramones
Californication-Red Hot Chili Peppers
Complete Collection-Robert Johnson
Parsley Sage Rosemary and Thyme-Simon and Garfunkel
Siamese Dream-Smashing Pumpkins
Saxophone Colossus-Sonny Rollins
Songs In The Key Of Life-Stevie Wonder
Rain Dogs-Tom Waits
Violent Femmes-Violent Femmes
Pink Flag-Wire
xx-The xx
- Chart updated: 11/06/2012 06:19
- (Created: 10/18/2011 04:31).
- Chart size: 50 albums.
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[First added to this chart: 10/17/2011]
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1967
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38,739
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1991
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27,890
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1992
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6,884
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1979
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30,172
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2000
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40,755
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1966
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48,197
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1977
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19,409
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1975
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43,817
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1972
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19,219
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[First added to this chart: 10/17/2011]
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1988
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15,382
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Top 50 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 1 | 2% | |
| 1960s | 9 | 18% | |
| 1970s | 18 | 36% | |
| 1980s | 12 | 24% | |
| 1990s | 9 | 18% | |
| 2000s | 1 | 2% | |
| 2010s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1 | 2% | |
| PJ Harvey | 1 | 2% | |
| The Jesus And Mary Chain | 1 | 2% | |
| Pink Floyd | 1 | 2% | |
| Nine Inch Nails | 1 | 2% | |
| The Modern Lovers | 1 | 2% | |
| Sex Pistols | 1 | 2% | |
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Top 50 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 1 from 19th to 18thAre You Experienced by The Jimi Hendrix Experience |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 8 from 40th to 48thDoolittle by Pixies |
| Down 1 from 18th to 19thThe Modern Lovers by The Modern Lovers |
| New entries |
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| The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails |
| Leavers |
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| Spiderland by Slint |
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
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| 11/03/2016 00:09 | Seab | 2,001 | 93/100 | |
| 06/30/2016 01:29 |  kadupheming | 153 | 93/100 | |
| 01/22/2016 17:31 |  PatrickD | 94 | 94/100 | |
| 10/27/2013 17:58 |  tgarritsen | 375 | 86/100 | |
| 10/27/2013 15:26 | quadrophenia17 | 406 | 82/100 |
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This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 86.1/100, a mean average of 86.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.2/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 9.6.
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From TheKing 08/24/2024 11:41 | #304866
Come back and update this chart please! It rules :)
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From tgarritsen 10/27/2013 17:57 | #89467
tgarritsen 10/27/2013 17:57 | #89467
Good chart, and really good position 1 choice
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From quadrophenia17 10/27/2013 15:27 | #89452
Can't wait to see your other 50 choices!
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Antonio-Pedro 10/27/2013 14:12 | #89449
Antonio-Pedro 10/27/2013 14:12 | #89449
Aweasome chart no its not aweasome its amazing
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From 
HazeyTwilight 08/22/2013 15:40 | #84341
HazeyTwilight 08/22/2013 15:40 | #84341
Even though it's 50 entries, I think this is one of the best charts that implicate the one album per artist rule on this site. Most of your honourable mentions are good too.
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ffudnebbuh 04/25/2013 12:33 | #74419
ffudnebbuh 04/25/2013 12:33 | #74419
great chart
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Patman360 03/30/2013 14:32 | #70586
Patman360 03/30/2013 14:32 | #70586
Love it! Well done, now we need a full 100!
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From 5thbeatle 03/30/2013 14:19 | #70582
Super chart! However I also think theres more than 1 great album of the last 15 years.
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SingingPeasant96 03/30/2013 12:56 | #70577
SingingPeasant96 03/30/2013 12:56 | #70577
Amazing Choices!
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revolver94 01/01/2013 08:33 | #59664
revolver94 01/01/2013 08:33 | #59664
don't remember this chart, but I loved it in July and I love it now!
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