Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by WilliamFrayer

DISCLAIMER: I'm a white straight male who is pretty uncultured and I have aimed to reflect that on this chart.

List of perfect songs (not represented on this chart)

1.) The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
2.) Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
3.) Uncle Tupelo - Moonshiner
4.) New Order - Age of Consent
5.) Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
6.) Coldplay - Sparks
7.) LCD Soundsystem - Dance Yrself Clean
8.) The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize??
9.) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Soul To Squeeze
10.) The Stranglers - Golden Brown
11.) The Walkmen - The Rat
12.) Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
13.) The National - Fake Empire
14.) The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
15.) The Velvet Underground - Stephanie Says
16.) Massive Attack - Paradise Circus
17.) Getz/Gilberto - The Girl From Ipanema
18.) Weezer - California Kids
19.) Blur - The Universal
20.) R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe
21.) Carpenters - (They Long to Be) Close to You
22.) Beulah - If We Can Land a Man On the Moon, Surely I Can Win Your Heart
23.) Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky
24.) The Smiths - Is it Really So Strange?
25.) Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye

• Chart updated: 09/08/2021 22:45
• (Created: 03/23/2017 01:07).
• Chart size: 100 albums.

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9. (8) 1

After The Gold Rush 

 Neil Young

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Best Tracks: Tell Me Why, After The Gold Rush, Only Love Can Break Your Heart, Don't Let It Bring You Down, When You Dance I Can Really Love

Ooh baby this has really grown on me recently. Very intimate and engaging song after song. I can't help but sing along to every single one. The minimalism Young shows on this record, at least in comparison to the albums he made with Crazy Horse (or even Harvest), is really effective to me.

Favorite: Tell Me Why

9.7/10 [First added to this chart: 06/13/2018]

Year of Release:

1970

Appears in:

1,520 charts

Rank Score:

16,263

Rank in 1970:

2

Rank in 1970s:

22

Overall Rank:

82

Average Rating:

 86 (1,739 votes)

Comments:

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16. (23) 7

Blue 

 Joni Mitchell

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Best Tracks: All I Want, My Old Man, Carey, California, A Case Of You

I still have yet to delve into the rest of most of her albums, but this record by itself tells me really all I need to know. Joni just knows how to write songs.

Favorite: All I Want

9.5/10 [First added to this chart: 02/24/2018]

Year of Release:

1971

Appears in:

1,329 charts

Rank Score:

17,075

Rank in 1971:

6

Rank in 1970s:

21

Overall Rank:

76

Average Rating:

 85 (1,450 votes)

Comments:

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17. (16) 1

Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? 

 The Unicorns

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Best Tracks: I Don't Wanna Die, Tuff Ghost, Sea Ghost, Jellybones, Child Star, I Was Born (A Unicorn), Tuff Luff, Ready to Die

I'm glad that this album has a cult following or else I wouldn't have bothered to listen. The Unicorns bring quite a unique tongue-in-cheek style with this, and it's very engaging to me personally. Never bored during this one.

Favorite: I Was Born (A Unicorn)

9.5/10 [First added to this chart: 12/28/2017]

Year of Release:

2003

Appears in:

215 charts

Rank Score:

1,529

Rank in 2003:

23

Rank in 2000s:

180

Overall Rank:

1,159

Average Rating:

 79 (297 votes)

Comments:

19

71. (68) 3

Songs Of Leonard Cohen 

 Leonard Cohen

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Best Tracks: Suzanne, Master Song, The Stranger Song, So Long Marianne, Hey That's No Good Way to Say Goodbye, One of Us Cannot Be Wrong

*sigh* Where do I start with Mr. Cohen here? This is the album I've arbitrarily chosen by him to be on this chart, but idek. Songs From A Room is just as good, and so is Love & Hate. Oh well, this will have to do.

Favorite: Suzanne

8.8/10 [First added to this chart: 12/08/2017]

Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

1,001 charts

Rank Score:

10,247

Rank in 1967:

7

Rank in 1960s:

25

Overall Rank:

150

Average Rating:

 84 (1,085 votes)

Comments:

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83.

The Dream Is Over 

 PUP

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Best Tracks: If This Tour Doesn't Kill You I Will, DVP, Doubts, Sleep In The Heat, My Life Is Over And I Couldn't Be Happier, Can't Win, Pine Point

Pop punk! Their 2019 album is great as well but this is slightly above it in my mind.

Favorite: If This Tour Doesn't Kill You, I Will

8.7/10

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

67 charts

Rank Score:

303

Rank in 2016:

72

Rank in 2010s:

848

Overall Rank:

4,587

Average Rating:

 76 (77 votes)

Comments:

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84. (79) 5

Court And Spark 

 Joni Mitchell

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Best Tracks: Court And Spark, Help Me, Free Man In Paris, Same Situation, Car On A Hill, Down To You, Trouble Child

Joni Mitchell makes music.

Favorite: Court And Spark

8.7/10 [First added to this chart: 09/08/2021]

Year of Release:

1974

Appears in:

477 charts

Rank Score:

3,127

Rank in 1974:

6

Rank in 1970s:

132

Overall Rank:

566

Average Rating:

 82 (559 votes)

Comments:

37

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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition

Decade	Albums	%
1930s	0	0%
1940s	0	0%
1950s	0	0%
1960s	16	16%
1970s	15	15%
1980s	13	13%
1990s	14	14%
2000s	20	20%
2010s	22	22%
2020s	0	0%

Artist	Albums	%
The Beatles	4	4%
The Smiths	4	4%
Hop Along	3	3%
The Strokes	2	2%
Queens Of The Stone Age	2	2%
Joanna Newsom	2	2%
Weezer	2	2%
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Country	Albums	%
	58	58%
	28	28%
	6	6%
	4	4%
	3	3%
	1	1%

Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes

Biggest climbers
Up 34 from 91st to 57th Painted Shut by Hop Along
Up 25 from 72nd to 47th Paranoid by Black Sabbath
Up 14 from 87th to 73rd Meaty Beaty Big & Bouncy by The Who

Biggest fallers
Down 29 from 48th to 77th The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd
Down 19 from 20th to 39th The Velvet Underground by The Velvet Underground
Down 18 from 14th to 32nd Pink Moon by Nick Drake

New entries
Somewhere City by Origami Angel
Pang by Caroline Polachek
Rustic Bullshit by Talons'
Soviet Kitsch by Regina Spektor
The Dream Is Over by PUP
2020 by Richard Dawson

Leavers
MTV Unplugged In New York by Nirvana
The Glow Pt. 2 by The Microphones
Forever Changes by Love
Live At Massey Hall 1971 by Neil Young
Just Got Back From The Discomfort - We're Alright by The Brave Little Abacus
Graceland by Paul Simon

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From WilliamFrayer 02/26/2022 10:14

I'll probably delete this comment at some point but I figured I'd address the last commenter since I have Chart of the Day today and some people might see.

I have a silly disclaimer on my chart that admittedly isn't that funny, but it's meant to be a joke. I didn't mean to trigger anyone. But now deleting it would feel like a cop out so I'll still leave it there for now.

The purpose of the disclaimer has nothing to do with anything other than the fact that I'm self-conscious about the variety of genres that are present on my chart here, and more specifically, the lack thereof. Mostly general rock music and a few basic/predictable outliers. I realize that it's something that I shouldn't feel self-conscious about because no one can listen to and enjoy every type of music. But it's a distant goal that I have to eventually have more variety with the genre representation in my favorite albums.

I could keep going but this is already too long so I'll leave it here. Thanks for viewing my chart! I'll update it again eventually I'm sure.

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From MCOTho 12/15/2021 06:17

Hey we have the same favorite album! Also a ton of other stuff in common. I think that your disclaimer is extremely disturbing though. Only bigots care about race, sexuality, and gender and make broad generalizations on the basis of such things. I really thought people with good taste in music couldn't possibly be influenced by insane ideologies, but I guess that's not true. This chart makes me happy and disgusted at the same time. I hope you grow out of your racism - cause you clearly aren't just another NPC listening to whatever they put on the radio. Still gotta give you 100 though as that's what this site is supposed to be about - music - not race. Shit ruins everything.

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From leniad 09/21/2021 01:19

love your chart friend

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From pctrooper 10/21/2019 20:02

Whoo yeah, ya got good charting skills! I really like picks 50-60, and I quite dig the second half of your list overall.

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From DommeDamian 11/28/2018 20:45

Keep on perfecting your chart

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From Lgk21 01/02/2018 22:40

This is excellent. Every choice was clearly well thought out.

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From Onater 01/01/2018 21:38

I think this might be my list from another timeline

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From zrommeke 01/01/2018 18:45

Damn good chart!

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From RandolphCarterJr 07/11/2017 06:13

Wow high marks for ...Like Clockwork. I love it!

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From DommeDamian 05/27/2017 08:43

11 artists in common?! =Youre not an everyday user with an everyday chart - if gnomesayin'

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