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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1991
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1966
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1988
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7,022
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1992
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19,192
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1971
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18,981
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1977
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20,174
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1972
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1989
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31,638
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1989
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1975
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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% | |
| Belle And Sebastian | 2 | 2% | |
| Blur | 2 | 2% | |
| Pet Shop Boys | 2 | 2% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums similar charts
| Title | Source | Type | Published | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time | New Music Express | Overall chart | 2013 | |
| NME Best 500 Albums Of All Time (1-100) 2013 | WayneMC | Custom chart | 2016 | |
| 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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| 100 Best Albums - 2024 Edition | Apple Music | Overall chart | 2024 | |
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| Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | Melody Maker | Overall chart | 2000 | |
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| ! | 01/22/2025 17:37 | Johnnyo | 2,558 | 80/100 |
| ! | 08/11/2022 02:23 |  imacgill | 8 | 91/100 |
| ! | 01/30/2022 23:06 | KineticEchoes02 | 111 | 88/100 |
| ! | 09/21/2021 08:49 |  DommeDamian | 1,004 | 89/100 |
| ! | 04/20/2021 13:00 | Guigou | 48 | 77/100 |
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This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 73.3/100, a mean average of 70.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.8/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 18.3.
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Larcx13 08/25/2020 11:27 | #257420
Larcx13 08/25/2020 11:27 | #257420
Not bad. Not great. Nice to see something slightly different from Rolling Stone lol.
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From mianfei 03/15/2019 01:39 | #233554
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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Goliath 05/02/2018 09:54 | #214017
Goliath 05/02/2018 09:54 | #214017
This chart doesn't work for me, far too 90's orientated. Stone Roses at number 2, good grief.
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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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From 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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From gon2bed 01/18/2015 12:36 | #131842
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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GandalfORiley345 03/27/2014 03:29 | #107719
GandalfORiley345 03/27/2014 03:29 | #107719
Since today, this is my favorite professional chart
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From Marco88 02/05/2014 14:54 | #102274
finally a fresh chart!
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tgarritsen 12/17/2013 02:24 | #97833
tgarritsen 12/17/2013 02:24 | #97833
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 | #95398
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