Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by Cosmo Unknown

This chart is a collection of pieces of my musical psyche...I guess I've tried to create a list of the greatest albums *within my own taste*. There are a few compilation albums included, but only if they are coherent samples of non-album songs, like Hatful of Hollow or the Smile Sessions, for example.

I am often drawn to music that I find beautiful and imaginative, not necessarily influential. The heavy emphasis on 2010s records is owed to it being the music of my time, and thus I have been able to live in its landscape and feel its effects more deeply than, say, 1970s music.

Still very much a work-in-progress.

I hope you like it!

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"And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death."

Favorite Tracks:
4. Time
7. Us and Them
9. Brain Damage
10. Eclipse
[First added to this chart: 08/21/2017]
Year of Release:
1973
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71,836
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"Come on you target for faraway laughter,
Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!
You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon."

Favorite Track: "Shine on You Crazy Diamond"
[First added to this chart: 08/21/2017]
Year of Release:
1975
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51,033
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Total albums: 2. Page 1 of 1

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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition

Decade Albums %


1930s 0 0%
1940s 0 0%
1950s 8 8%
1960s 8 8%
1970s 10 10%
1980s 11 11%
1990s 8 8%
2000s 10 10%
2010s 38 38%
2020s 7 7%
Artist Albums %


The Smiths 5 5%
Beach House 4 4%
Cocteau Twins 3 3%
Radiohead 3 3%
Frank Sinatra 3 3%
The Beach Boys 3 3%
Tame Impala 3 3%
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Country Albums %


United States 52 52%
United Kingdom 32 32%
Canada 4 4%
Australia 3 3%
France 3 3%
Iceland 2 2%
Japan 1 1%
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Compilation? Albums %
No 97 97%
Yes 3 3%
Soundtrack? Albums %
No 98 98%
Yes 2 2%

Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes

Biggest climbers
Climber Up 8 from 78th to 70th
Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely
by Frank Sinatra
Climber Up 7 from 38th to 31st
Pang
by Caroline Polachek
Climber Up 5 from 80th to 75th
Blue Day
by Slowdive
Biggest fallers
Faller Down 20 from 40th to 60th
House Of Balloons
by The Weeknd
Faller Down 18 from 63rd to 81st
Saturdays = Youth
by M83
Faller Down 8 from 68th to 76th
Electric Ladyland
by The Jimi Hendrix Experience

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From 11/26/2021 20:21
Good list to find some more recent stuff
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From 09/15/2020 23:30
Cool stuff, I like that you have so many 2010s albums.
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From 09/15/2020 17:08
Great chart, unafraid to go heavy on great recent albums! Love to see Telstar on here too
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From 09/15/2020 14:54
Thought it was a pretty good list with lots of classic albums... then I saw A Brief Inquiry and was mega impressed!!!
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From 09/28/2019 09:01
What a breath of fresh air this chart is!! It's nice to see someone unafraid to put modern picks right up there with the classics, '7' is such a good pick for no.1 (definitely my favourite Beach House album too). As far as I can tell a large part of the governing rule of what sways you is how 'beautiful' an album is, so here's a few picks I think'll be up your street:

Joanna Newsom - Ys
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
Arthur Russell - World Of Echo
Jim O'Rourke - Eureka
Fishmans - Long Season
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From 05/28/2019 13:16
Happy to see Ceres & Calypso so high up :)!
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From 06/03/2018 00:19
Great list!
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From 12/08/2017 00:55
Fantastic. Can’t disagree with all the Smiths albums/compilations. Every single of these 6 deserves to be on my chart too, but I have 3 per artist rule. Although the chart is mainly indie, there are several hidden gems and unexpected picks, as well as some classics you can’t disagree with. Great chart all in all.
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From 09/09/2017 01:25
A great eclectic bunch and some fine jazz picks in there. Keep it up!
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Best Albums of 2018
1. Twin Fantasy (Face To Face) by Car Seat Headrest
2. Kids See Ghosts by Kids See Ghosts
3. Joy As An Act Of Resistance. by Idles
4. 7 by Beach House
5. You Won't Get What You Want by Daughters
6. Wide Awake! by Parquet Courts
7. Little Dark Age by MGMT
8. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino by Arctic Monkeys
9. Golden Hour by Kacey Musgraves
10. Some Rap Songs by Earl Sweatshirt
11. Be The Cowboy by Mitski
12. Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe
13. Daytona by Pusha T
14. A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships by The 1975
15. TA13OO by Denzel Curry
16. Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides by SOPHIE
17. Aviary by Julia Holter
18. Double Negative by Low
19. 2012-2017 by Against All Logic
20. Veteran by JPEGMAFIA
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