Top 72 Greatest Music Albums
by YoungPunk 
Chart is made up of albums I have rated 100/100.
- Chart updated: 06/29/2018 04:45
- (Created: 02/20/2018 00:52).
- Chart size: 72 albums.
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This is a sort of opera "greatest hits" performance, which collectively is better than any single opera. Carreras, Domingo, and Pavarotti are all legends, although Pavarotti is my favorite. He was lucky to be born with such a beautiful voice. They don't make them like any of these guys anymore! This music is where bubblegum pop comes from!
[First added to this chart: 04/08/2018]
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This is far and away the greatest opera, especially because of its length. Wagner used atonality to stretch this opera out to a whopping 14-15 hours, and in correlation, communicated more story (which he wrote himself) than any other previous opera. Roger Waters is the only artist I can think of to have such talent in both music and writing. A little bit weird, but if you are gifted in music like my 2 year old nephew you will get it right away! :)
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This is the only recording I have that I am unsure of performance quality, but it is the only Barber of Seville on BEA. Also the orchestra is named after the great Rossini himself so how can they be bad at Barber of Seville? Most of Rossini's operas where megahits among the public (Semiramide was a notable exception), he would be an even bigger billboard artist than Drake if you can believe it! I have heard and own a bunch of Rossini operas, but they would clog up the top of this list and this is far and away his best, written at the age of 24!
In fact I've been so obsessed with this opera I went through the score and recorded every key and noted every absurdity in the score to improve my own composition. I think it was beneficial! [First added to this chart: 04/09/2018]
In fact I've been so obsessed with this opera I went through the score and recorded every key and noted every absurdity in the score to improve my own composition. I think it was beneficial! [First added to this chart: 04/09/2018]
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Wow! does this guy not get enough attention! He was the greatest composer of melody, and his ideas inspired very notably Chopin and Wagner, and those are just my faves! He pioneered long, sensitive melodies that people probably just don't understand, but they should! Was more inconsistent than Rossini however, and died at an early age :(
[First added to this chart: 04/09/2018]
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Sleeping beauty used to be my G.O.A.T. work but my taste matured. It has some very wonky parts with radical score writing but still sounds great!
[First added to this chart: 06/07/2018]
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This is probably the most exciting Verdi work. The Dies Irae is definitely the highlight, but there is a lot more epic and scary music to be found here. Some of it seems out of place in a Requiem though...
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Nuts! Watch if into strip dancing!
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I just decided John Coltrane was more talented than Beethoven. Usually composers like that's close to final works before a grisly death is the greatest, so I checked the next album after A Love Supreme and its way better. A barbaric orgy that poses a direct antithesis to the ordered classics I love. Wonderful!
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Another scary Requiem, but not as epic. I'm sure Mozart wrote most of it, all his students could do was copy and paste... Another composer that died too early...
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All of my favorite composers die early! JK. But this is great piano music! Chopin shared my disdain for grandiose symphonies with no purpose and stuck to writing beautiful piano music. It was what he wanted.
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Top 72 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 1 | 1% | |
| 1960s | 6 | 8% | |
| 1970s | 16 | 22% | |
| 1980s | 15 | 21% | |
| 1990s | 4 | 6% | |
| 2000s | 9 | 13% | |
| 2010s | 21 | 29% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Pink Floyd | 6 | 8% | |
| Prince | 5 | 7% | |
| Rush | 3 | 4% | |
| Jethro Tull | 3 | 4% | |
| Carlos Santana | 3 | 4% | |
| Gorillaz | 3 | 4% | |
| Sir Georg Solti / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | 2 | 3% | |
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10 | 14% | |
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bobbyb5 03/31/2018 04:58 | #212041
bobbyb5 03/31/2018 04:58 | #212041
This chart makes my head spin. It is mind-boggling and confusing, but that's what makes it good.
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Luigii TOP 100 COMMENTER 02/25/2018 03:04 | #209541
Get's popcorn to see where this list goes. Because this is an exciting list. Not only do you have what is regarded as rock classics. But, you also have pop favorites. Keep this going forward.
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bobbyb5 03/31/2018 05:01 | #212042
bobbyb5 03/31/2018 05:01 | #212042
Actually, I'd like to see your personal biases instead of the way you restricted it to only highly rated albums. There's nothing wrong with personal biases.
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badseed 06/20/2018 05:44 | #217059
badseed 06/20/2018 05:44 | #217059
In response to your recent comment on my chart, I don't know that I necessarily feel that way (decades getting progressively worse), but it's pretty close to that. It really just depends on my mood, but I've generally always loved the 60s most, followed by the 70s, initially due to the likes of all the big mainstream acts but this site has helped me expand tremendously specifically into the jazz and guitar rock of that era. It keeps getting closer though to be honest (on my first profile here, probably about 6 years ago, my initial chart was probably 90% just 60s & 70s). As I dig deeper into modern hip hop, post rock and electronic I keep growing to love the recent years but the fact that I'm still finding new jazz, post punk, krautrock, psychedelic, etc. makes it difficult for them to really catch up. I'm trying to balance my list now; not sure if you saw it before or after my recent update.
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Lacobra 10/04/2018 18:04 | #222042
I respect this chart quite a great deal. What you're trying to do here so uniquely is worth the time analyzing. The problem is, though, that there's still a lot of super important popular music that I suspect you might not have heard and that is extremely instructive for understanding the strenghts and innovations of popular music. Heading straight to the charts (specially the modern charts) is a terrible idea. Again, it's not that the music is "bad", it's just that it gives a misleading picture. Take into account: most of the most acclaimed artists in history of popular music (particularly those from the 64-74 period) are REALLY that great, and they help give a clear picture of what the strenghts of the artform are.
Also, Dream Theater sucks ass. Good chart anyway.
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