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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1989
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1991
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44,569
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1968
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46,634
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1995
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36,463
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1966
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62,082
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1971
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23,758
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1994
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12,838
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1991
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5,750
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1977
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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% | |
| The Clash | 2 | 2% | |
| Nirvana (US) | 2 | 2% | |
| Suede | 2 | 2% | |
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Other charts by Melody Maker
Year charts
- Melody Maker Best Albums of 2000 by Melody Maker (2000 year chart)
- Melody Maker Best Albums of 1999 by Melody Maker (1999 year chart)
- Melody Maker Best Albums of 1998 by Melody Maker (1998 year chart)
- Melody Maker Best Albums of 1997 by Melody Maker (1997 year chart)
- Melody Maker Best Albums of 1996 by Melody Maker (1996 year chart)
- Melody Maker Best Albums of 1995 by Melody Maker (1995 year chart)
- Melody Maker Best Albums of 1994 by Melody Maker (1994 year chart)
- Melody Maker Best Albums of 1993 by Melody Maker (1993 year chart)
- Melody Maker Best Albums of 1992 by Melody Maker (1992 year chart)
- Melody Maker Best Albums of 1991 by Melody Maker (1991 year chart)
- Melody Maker Best Albums of 1990 by Melody Maker (1990 year chart)
- Melody Maker Best Albums of 1989 by Melody Maker (1989 year chart)
- Melody Maker Best Albums of 1988 by Melody Maker (1988 year chart)
- Melody Maker Best Albums of 1987 by Melody Maker (1987 year chart)
- Melody Maker Best Albums of 1986 by Melody Maker (1986 year chart)
- Melody Maker Best Albums of 1979 by Melody Maker (1979 year chart)
Decade charts
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- Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by Melody Maker (published 2000)
[Melody Maker was founded in 1926 and disbanded in 2000.]
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73/100 (from 87 votes)
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90/100  | 08/11/2022 02:23 |  imacgill | | 90/100 |
40/100 | 01/30/2022 23:06 | KineticEchoes02 | | 88/100 |
20/100 | 09/21/2021 08:49 |  DommeDamian | | 90/100 |
90/100 | 06/04/2021 01:49 |  Skroskznik | | 92/100 |
65/100 | 04/20/2021 13:00 | Guigou | | 75/100 |
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This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 73.3/100, a mean average of 70.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.9/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 18.3.
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70/100
From Larcx13 08/25/2020 11:27
Not bad. Not great. Nice to see something slightly different from Rolling Stone lol.
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25/100
From mianfei 03/15/2019 01:39
Although this list is dated and has many flaws common to British music magazines, it still does include quite a lot of sometimes-overlooked albums of extreme merit, like ‘Spiderland’ and ‘Dummy’. There is even some semi-underground British music that is overlooked by more modern magazine lists in the United States. Nevertheless, it is ridiculous to recommend this list compared to something by Harrington or Scaruffi.
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40/100
From 
Goliath 05/02/2018 09:54
Goliath 05/02/2018 09:54
This chart doesn't work for me, far too 90's orientated. Stone Roses at number 2, good grief.
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60/100
From 
desh79 01/09/2017 18:44
desh79 01/09/2017 18:44
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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60/100
From stangetzaway 07/06/2016 09:42
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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75/100
From gon2bed 01/18/2015 12:36
11 albums and 11 artists in common. This was 2000 so having OK computer so low is okay. The order overall is not for me but most of the albums in the list is great.
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90/100
From 
GandalfORiley345 03/27/2014 03:29
GandalfORiley345 03/27/2014 03:29
Since today, this is my favorite professional chart
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From Marco88 02/05/2014 14:54
finally a fresh chart!
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50/100
From 
tgarritsen 12/17/2013 02:24
tgarritsen 12/17/2013 02:24
The first ten are great but further down the list, some albums just seem so random.
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From ThomCNTV 11/29/2013 19:01
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