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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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 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 | % | |
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| 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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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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 Somewhere Cityby 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 |
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90/100  | 06/20/2022 17:53 |  Applerill | | 75/100 |
95/100 | 02/28/2022 12:31 |  Cytoma | | 90/100 |
100/100 | 12/15/2021 06:09 |  MCOTho | | 92/100 |
100/100 | 09/21/2021 01:19 | leniad | | 85/100 |
 90/100 | 08/25/2020 07:25 |  ssteve | | 92/100 |
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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.
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.
love your chart friend
Whoo yeah, ya got good charting skills! I really like picks 50-60, and I quite dig the second half of your list overall.
DommeDamian 11/28/2018 20:45
Keep on perfecting your chart
This is excellent. Every choice was clearly well thought out.
Onater 01/01/2018 21:38
I think this might be my list from another timeline
Damn good chart!
Wow high marks for ...Like Clockwork. I love it!
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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