Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
by Daminoutrek76 
Work in progress.
There are my favourite albums, and not the greatest ever albums or the most acclaimed.
My Top songs (last update 2014) :
1) Hey Jude (The Beatles - Past Masters)
2) God Only Knows (The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds)
3) Heroin (The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico)
4) Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (Daft Punk - Discovery)
5) Time (Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon)
6) England (The National - High Violet)
7) Idioteque (Radiohead – Kid A)
8) Waterloo Sunset (The Kinks - Something Else by The Kinks)
9) Radioactivity (Live) (Kraftwerk - Minimum-Maximum)
10) Sway (The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers)
11) All Along The Watchtower (Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland)
12) Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here)
13) Numbers (Kraftwerk - Computer World)
14) Golden Slumbers (The Beatles - Abbey Road)
15) Champagne Supernova (Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?)
16) Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water)
17) Behind Blue Eyes (The Who - Who's Next)
18) Somewhere Only We Know (Keane - Hopes and Fears)
19) The Things You Said (Depeche Mode - Music For the Masses)
20) Invaders Must Die (The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die)
21) She's Leaving Home (The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)
22) Neighborhood #1(Tunnels) (Arcade Fire – Funeral)
23) My Girls (Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion)
24) How Soon Is Now ? (The Smiths – Hatful Of Hollow)
25) Maybe I’m Amazed (Paul McCartney – McCartney)
26) Life On Mars ? (David Bowie – Hunky Dory)
27) Can’t Stand Me Now (The Libertines – The Libertines)
28) Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar) (The Doors – The Doors)
29) Impossible Soul (Sufjan Stevens – The Age Of Adz)
30) Bro’s (Panda Bear – Person Pitch)
31) Tomorrow Never Knows (The Beatles – Revolver)
32) Good Vibrations (The Beach Boys – SMiLE)
33) Surfin’ Bird (The Trashmen – Surfin’ Bird)
34) 19-2000 (Soulchild Remix) (Gorillaz – Gorillaz)
35) Stairway To Heaven (Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV)
36) Rollin’ And Scratchin’ (Daft Punk – Homework)
37) Another One Bites The Dust (Queen – Greatest Hits II)
38) You Can’t Always Get What You Want (The Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed)
39) What Would I Want ? Sky (Animal Collective – Fall Be Kind EP)
40) Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (The Police – The Police)
41) Symphony N°25 In G Minor (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
42) Everything In Its Right Place (Radiohead – Kid A)
43) Debaser (Pixies – Doolittle)
44) Common People (Pulp – Different Class)
45) The Robots (Kraftwerk – The Man-Machine)
46) Lorelai (Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues)
47) Heroes And Villains (The Beach Boys - SMiLE)
48) L’Estasi Dell’Oro (Ennio Morricone – Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo)
49) Us And Them (Pink Floyd – The Dark Side Of The Moon)
50) Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (Green Day – American Idiot)
- Chart updated: 10/26/2018 15:15
- (Created: 11/24/2011 22:44).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Fav. Tracks : Instant Crush - Touch - Lose Yourself To Dance
[First added to this chart: 05/24/2013]
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2013
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Fav. Tracks : Numbers - Computer Love - Computer World
[First added to this chart: 11/24/2011]
Year of Release:
1981
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3,439
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Fav. Tracks : Golden Slumbers - Oh! Darling - You Never Give Me Your Money
[First added to this chart: 11/24/2011]
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1969
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56,596
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Fav. Tracks : God Only Knows - Wouldn't It Be Nice - I Know There's An Answer
[First added to this chart: 11/24/2011]
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1966
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38,274
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Fav. Tracks : Tomorrow Never Knows - Eleanor Rigby - And Your Bird Can Sing
[First added to this chart: 11/24/2011]
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1966
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48,977
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Fav. Tracks : Comfortably Numb - In The Flesh? - The Trial
[First added to this chart: 11/24/2011]
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1979
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24,747
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Fav. Tracks : Idioteque - Everything In Its Right Place - Kid A
[First added to this chart: 11/24/2011]
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2000
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41,235
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Fav. Tracks : My Girls - Brother Sport - Bluish
[First added to this chart: 12/07/2011]
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2009
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9,019
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Fav. Tracks : The Robots - Spacelab - The Man-Machine
[First added to this chart: 11/24/2011]
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1978
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4,435
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Fav. Tracks : Time - Us And Them - Money
[First added to this chart: 11/24/2011]
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1973
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59,133
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Total albums: 100. Page 1 of 10
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 1 | 1% | |
| 1960s | 14 | 14% | |
| 1970s | 23 | 23% | |
| 1980s | 7 | 7% | |
| 1990s | 10 | 10% | |
| 2000s | 32 | 32% | |
| 2010s | 13 | 13% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Daft Punk | 5 | 5% | |
| Kraftwerk | 5 | 5% | |
| The Beatles | 5 | 5% | |
| Pink Floyd | 5 | 5% | |
| Radiohead | 5 | 5% | |
| The Who | 5 | 5% | |
| Sufjan Stevens | 2 | 2% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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47 | 47% | |
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31 | 31% | |
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6 | 6% | |
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5 | 5% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 2 from 100th to 98th( ) [Svigaplatan] by Sigur Rós |
| Up 2 from 99th to 97thTen Love Songs by Susanne Sundfør |
| Up 2 from 98th to 96thAM by Arctic Monkeys |
| New entries |
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| A Love Supreme by John Coltrane |
| Einstein On The Beach by Philip Glass Ensemble |
| Leavers |
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| Help! by The Beatles |
| Meddle by Pink Floyd |
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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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| 03/29/2019 01:25 |  jdenny2018 | 102 | 91/100 | |
| 03/28/2019 23:12 | danbell | 18 | 64/100 | |
| 03/28/2019 21:51 |  LebowskiRams | 18 | 74/100 | |
| 03/28/2019 18:21 |  NickGordons | 15 | 88/100 | |
| 03/28/2019 17:43 |  LoganGrube | 29 | 86/100 |
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This chart is rated in the top 13% of all charts on BestEverAlbums.com. This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 87.5/100, a mean average of 87.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 87.8/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 10.6.
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EyeKanFly 02/02/2020 22:07 | #247425
EyeKanFly 02/02/2020 22:07 | #247425
Glad to see Random Access Memories still at #1! What a great album
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From LebowskiRams 03/28/2019 21:51 | #234141
LebowskiRams 03/28/2019 21:51 | #234141
Hard agree with RAM being Daft Punk's best
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From NickGordons 03/28/2019 18:21 | #234134
NickGordons 03/28/2019 18:21 | #234134
Wow that's a great chart! 28 albums in common, great taste, I think that Revolver is the greatest Beatles album, but Abbey Road great too, don't agree with Daft Punk, but otherwise is cool)) Add your chart in favorites
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From yoizillmatic 03/28/2019 14:12 | #234120
Great list, and the idea to leave your favorite songs at the top was brilliant as well. Might have to steal that idea from ya if you don't mind.
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From Rivera 03/28/2019 13:15 | #234119
Great selections - can't go wrong with Daft Punk and Kraftwerk.
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ForegroundNoise 03/28/2019 09:41 | #234111
ForegroundNoise 03/28/2019 09:41 | #234111
Nice chart!! Good to see Coltrane and Glass sneaking in to the top 100 ;)
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From chris lancaster 07/06/2014 11:31 | #116149
What a gorgeous list.
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From tglegoman4 11/18/2013 23:51 | #93465
I like how you had some Kraftwerk in the top 10. Don't see that all that often.
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Antonio-Pedro 11/18/2013 13:38 | #93339
Antonio-Pedro 11/18/2013 13:38 | #93339
Great chart nice to see that someone likes trans europa express
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meccalecca 11/18/2013 13:09 | #93338
meccalecca 11/18/2013 13:09 | #93338
Great chart overall. Not sure how I feel about RAM at #1, but judging by all of the Kraftwerk and Daft Punk, you're no fly by night fan.
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| Best Ever Artists | |
|---|---|
| 1. The Beatles | |
| 2. Radiohead | |
| 3. Pink Floyd | |
| 4. David Bowie | |
| 5. Bob Dylan | |
| 6. Led Zeppelin | |
| 7. The Rolling Stones | |
| 8. Arcade Fire | |
| 9. Neil Young | |
| 10. Nirvana | |
| 11. The Velvet Underground | |
| 12. Kendrick Lamar | |
| 13. Miles Davis | |
| 14. The Smiths | |
| 15. R.E.M. | |
| 16. The Beach Boys | |
| 17. Kanye West | |
| 18. Bruce Springsteen | |
| 19. Pixies | |
| 20. The Cure |
