Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
by Melody Maker (2000) 
Melody Maker was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies. These are their best albums of all time. Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom and founded in 1926, was the world's oldest weekly music newspaper. In 2000, it ceased to exist and merged with NME. During that year it also published their all time top 100 albums.
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1986
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1995
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1966
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1991
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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 | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 11 | 11% | |
| 1970s | 19 | 19% | |
| 1980s | 28 | 28% | |
| 1990s | 42 | 42% | |
| 2000s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2010s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| The Smiths | 4 | 4% | |
| Manic Street Preachers | 3 | 3% | |
| Beastie Boys | 3 | 3% | |
| The Beatles | 3 | 3% | |
| David Bowie | 2 | 2% | |
| New Order | 2 | 2% | |
| R.E.M. | 2 | 2% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums similar charts
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| NME 's 100 Best Albums Of All Time | New Music Express | Overall chart | 2003 | |
| 100 Greatest Albums Ever | Q | Overall chart | 2006 | |
| Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | Q | Overall chart | 1997 | |
| NME Best Albums Of All Time 2003 | WayneMC | Custom chart | 2019 | |
| Top 100 Greatest Music Albums |  RFNAPLES | Overall chart | 2013 | |
| The Guardian 100 Best Albums Ever | The Guardian | Overall chart | 1997 | |
| NME Best 500 Albums Of All Time (1-100) 2013 | WayneMC | Custom chart | 2016 | |
| The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time | New Music Express | Overall chart | 2013 | |
| NME: The 100 greatest albums of all time | Johnnyo | Custom chart | 2021 | |
| Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | Channel 4 | Overall chart | 2005 | |
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Other overall charts
| Title | Source | Type | Published | Country |
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| The Top 100 Albums | VH1 | Overall chart | 2001 | |
| Top 100 Albums | ABC | Overall chart | 2006 |  |
| The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time | New Music Express | Overall chart | 2013 | |
Other charts by Melody Maker
A total of 21 charts from Melody Maker are available; the 3 most recent of this type are highlighted below.
| Title | Source | Type | Published | Country |
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| Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | Melody Maker | Overall chart | 2000 | |
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| ! | 08/11/2022 02:23 |  imacgill | 9 | 92/100 |
| ! | 01/30/2022 23:06 | KineticEchoes02 | 110 | 88/100 |
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jkilmartin 03/05/2013 21:36 | #67167
Good old Melody Maker. For me, the definitive music magazine from the mid-80s through mid-90s and then they lost the plot a bit. Some of which is evident from this chart. Lack of The Cure -- a band that routinely topped their end of year polls throughout the aforementioned period -- is criminal. But overall, not a bad chart.
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desh79 01/09/2017 18:44 | #182111
desh79 01/09/2017 18:44 | #182111
Dog Man Star at 16? Modern Life is Rubbish at 22? Sure, whatever. On the plus side, glad to see Screamadelica in the top 10 and also some albums like Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express, which I consider rather underrated, featured in the list.
Farewell Melody Maker, we hardly knew ye...
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stangetzaway 07/06/2016 09:42 | #170657
Solid chart but some silly choices in top 10. Can tell it's a British chart with the love for the manic street preachers who don't seem popular anywhere else.
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junodog4 TOP 100 COMMENTER 02/04/2013 16:52 | #63932
junodog4 TOP 100 COMMENTER 02/04/2013 16:52 | #63932
I find it interesting that a major UK publication seems to be unaware of music across the Atlantic. It's a little UK bias.
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tonagamu TOP 100 COMMENTER 03/16/2009 14:29 | #3095
good choice for a number 1 I see how the smiths are truly influential
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