Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by WilliamFrayer Unknown

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

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Best Tracks: Come Together, Oh! Darling, I Want You (She's So Heavy), Here Comes The Sun, You Never Give Me Your Money, Sun King/Mean Mr. Mustard/Polythene Pam/She Came In Through The Bathroom Window, Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End/Her Majesty

The Beatles are the reason that I started listening to music other than what was on the radio at the time, and I can't thank them enough for that. Every single album of theirs is undoubtedly a classic in my mind, but Abbey Road takes the cake for me. This album was a combination of every Beatle's experiences throughout their journey of the sixties from Paul's Oh! Darling to George's Here Comes The Sun to John's You Never Give Me Your Money to even Ringo's Octopus's Garden. The personality of this album cannot be ignored for me, and it holds some of the Beatles' best work. It's impossible to imagine how they could've followed up this one.

Favorite: Oh! Darling

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[First added to this chart: 03/24/2017]
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1969
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65,792
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Best Tracks: Care of Cell 44, Maybe After He's Gone, Hung Up On A Dream, This Will Be Our Year, Friends of Mine, Time of the Season

No one knows for sure what the Zombies could have made if they hadn't split apart after creating this album, but I can't imagine them topping this one. Every song is so catchy and has so much potential to be a radio single that someone could easily convince me that this was a greatest hits record if I knew nothing else about it.

Favorite: Care of Cell 44

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[First added to this chart: 03/24/2017]
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1968
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15,429
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Best Tracks: Eleanor Rigby, I'm Only Sleeping, Here There and Everywhere, Yellow Submarine, Good Day Sunshine, For No One, Tomorrow Never Knows

Yeah I suppose this record is more consistently great in comparison to Abbey Road, which is why it's still in my top 20, but it still doesn't have the charm of their last album. Regardless, this is possibly the most classic album of all time and if someone told me they've never listened to music before, this would be the first album I'd recommend to them.

Favorite: I'm Only Sleeping

9.5/10
[First added to this chart: 03/24/2017]
Year of Release:
1966
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57,223
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Best Tracks: Wouldn't It Be Nice, You Still Believe In Me, That's Not Me, Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder), I'm Waiting For The Day, Sloop John B, God Only Knows, I Know There's An Answer, Here Today

Brian Wilson's pure determination to make the greatest album of all time is so inspiring in itself, and after each listen I'm more and more convinced he achieved his goal. The amount of instrumentation and overall sound effects throughout this is astonishing, and every track flows smoothly to the next. Anyone who says The Beach Boys are a novelty band have never really listened to this record.

Favorite: I Know There's An Answer

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[First added to this chart: 03/24/2017]
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1966
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Best Tracks: Candy Says, Pale Blue Eyes, Jesus, Beginning To See The Light, The Murder Mystery, After Hours

All four Velvet Underground albums are great, but their self-titled sticks with me the most. Definitely the most easily accessible as well as consistent one in their discography. I can listen to this any time; it fits all moods.

Favorite: After Hours

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[First added to this chart: 07/27/2017]
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1969
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Best Tracks: Blowin' in the Wind, Masters of War, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, Don't Think Twice it's All Right, Bob Dylan's Dream, Talking World War III Blues

It took me a while to accept it, I think, but this is probably my favorite Bob Dylan album. I'm not saying it's his most groundbreaking or anything... but it's where Dylan feels the most like Dylan to me. It's just so dang good.

Favorite: Don't Think Twice it's All Right

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[First added to this chart: 01/22/2018]
Year of Release:
1963
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8,607
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Best Tracks: Back in the U.S.S.R., Glass Onion, The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Martha My Dear, Blackbird, Piggies, Rocky Raccoon, Yer Blues, Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey, Helter Skelter

Well... I mean... It's the White Album. What else is there to say? Filled to the top of the glass with great songs.

Favorite: Happiness is a Warm Gun

8.9/10
[First added to this chart: 03/24/2017]
Year of Release:
1968
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43,411
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Best Tracks: Part 1: Acknowledgement, Part 2: Resolution

Obviously I'm not much of a jazz enthusiast or anything, I wish I was though. At least with this record I can pretend I know a little. I've tried to listen to a decent handful of classic jazz records but this is the only one that has truly clicked for me. Coltrane is easily my favorite.

Favorite: Part 1: Acknowledgement

8.9/10
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1965
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17,203
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Best Tracks: Sunday Morning, Venus In Furs, Heroin, I'll Be Your Mirror

Lou Reed invented music.

Favorite: Sunday Morning

8.8/10
[First added to this chart: 06/04/2017]
Year of Release:
1967
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Best Tracks: Time Has Told Me, River Man, Three Hours, Day Is Done, 'Cello Song, The Thoughts Of Mary Jane, Saturday Sun

This man was perfect.

Favorite: Saturday Sun

8.8/10
[First added to this chart: 03/24/2017]
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1969
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Total albums: 16. Page 1 of 2

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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%
Joanna Newsom 2 2%
Weezer 2 2%
Joni Mitchell 2 2%
Violent Femmes 2 2%
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Country Albums %


United States 58 58%
United Kingdom 28 28%
Canada 6 6%
Mixed Nationality 4 4%
Iceland 3 3%
New Zealand 1 1%
Compilation? Albums %
No 99 99%
Yes 1 1%

Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes

Biggest climbers
Climber Up 34 from 91st to 57th
Painted Shut
by Hop Along
Climber Up 25 from 72nd to 47th
Paranoid
by Black Sabbath
Climber Up 14 from 87th to 73rd
Meaty Beaty Big & Bouncy
by The Who
Biggest fallers
Faller Down 29 from 48th to 77th
The Dark Side Of The Moon
by Pink Floyd
Faller Down 19 from 20th to 39th
The Velvet Underground
by The Velvet Underground
Faller Down 18 from 14th to 32nd
Pink Moon
by Nick Drake

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From 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 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 09/21/2021 01:19
love your chart friend
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From 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 11/28/2018 20:45
Keep on perfecting your chart
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From 01/02/2018 22:40
This is excellent. Every choice was clearly well thought out.
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From 01/01/2018 21:38
I think this might be my list from another timeline
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From 01/01/2018 18:45
Damn good chart!
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From 07/11/2017 06:13
Wow high marks for ...Like Clockwork. I love it!
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From 05/27/2017 08:43
11 artists in common?! =Youre not an everyday user with an everyday chart - if gnomesayin'
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