Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
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sophialeviev 
Just personal opinion, based on music I love. More notes on the way!
My last.fm: https://www.last.fm/user/sophialeviev
- Chart updated: 01/27/2019 19:15
- (Created: 03/13/2018 02:06).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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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 | 6 | 6% | |
| 1970s | 7 | 7% | |
| 1980s | 7 | 7% | |
| 1990s | 34 | 34% | |
| 2000s | 28 | 28% | |
| 2010s | 18 | 18% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Radiohead | 8 | 8% | |
| Sufjan Stevens | 5 | 5% | |
| The Beatles | 5 | 5% | |
| Aphex Twin | 5 | 5% | |
| Animal Collective | 4 | 4% | |
| Björk | 3 | 3% | |
| Pink Floyd | 3 | 3% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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47 | 47% | |
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41 | 41% | |
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5 | 5% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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1 | 1% | |
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1 | 1% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
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| OK Computer by Radiohead |
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
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| ! | 11/07/2020 22:07 | 99 | 92/100 | |
| ! | 01/05/2020 18:07 | PeterSmith | 68 | 82/100 |
| ! | 11/20/2019 19:47 | pctrooper | 332 | 88/100 |
| ! | 10/08/2019 15:32 | 18 | 90/100 | |
| ! | 08/18/2019 20:41 | Shattypants | 10 | 81/100 |
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I like this charts although not familiar with many of the albums - finish your notes so I can decide which one's I will listen to this year!!
Also agree that you should look back further to 60's, 70's & 80's stuff.
Seems you quite like serious/intelligent stuff so I suggest trying Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation from the 80's - avant rock/ art punk; try Lou Reed's Berlin from the 70's - second side is pretty heavy going but if it hits a nerve then you will love it; Captain Beefheart - Safe As Milk from the 60's - Blues/Garage/Acid and Psychedelic Rock with a few defo weird bits.
One of the best charts I’ve seen on the site
Wow, it keeps getting better! Because you like Animal Collective + Sgt. Pepper's, you may enjoy The Smile Sessions.
I like reading the notes! Great chart!
Great Job! I would recommend you listen to Modest Mouse, since you like Built to Spill. Overall great choices
Love the Fishmans representation! It's a lot of Radiohead but I can dig it. There's a wide variety of genres here to check out.
Excellent chart!
Great Chart and thanks for fishmans. Never heard before about his music. Now, i´m a little bit excited before my first listen.
I´m suprised that Panda Bears Person Pitch is not in your list.
So maybe you know them, but if you don´t, listen to Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
LOVE your notes and the inclusion of Vespertine so high, along with a ton of my own personal favourites from the 90s/00s!! That said, with more Radiohead albums than anything from the 60s/70s/80s makes me feel like your missing out on some older underground classics? I might get this wrong but here's a couple of picks that you might enjoy :)
Nico - Chelsea Girl (gorgeous chamber folk album from the VU collaborater)
The United States Of America - The United States Of America (the only album from the massively ahead of their time and influential psychedelic rock band)
Brigitte Fontaine - Comme A La Radio (experimental chanson album loved by Beck and Sonic Youth among others)
Exuma - Exuma (eerie and sometimes beautiful folk from the Bahamas)
Galaxie 500 - On Fire (exemplary dream pop album that could be released now and still sound as fresh)
Loved the chart, love the albums, so here are some recommendations:
1. Faraquet - The View from This Tower (2000)
2. Duster - Stratosphere (1998)
3. Calamine - Calamine (1999)
4. Silversun Pickups - Carnavas (2006)
5. Mid-Air Thief - Crumbling 무너지기 (2018)
6. Don Caballero - American Don (2000)
7. Sigur Rós - Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust (2008)
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| Best Artists of the 1980s | |
|---|---|
| 1. The Smiths | |
| 2. Prince | |
| 3. Pixies | |
| 4. The Cure | |
| 5. Talking Heads | |
| 6. U2 | |
| 7. Metallica | |
| 8. Kate Bush | |
| 9. R.E.M. | |
| 10. The Stone Roses | |
| 11. Sonic Youth | |
| 12. Michael Jackson | |
| 13. Bruce Springsteen | |
| 14. Iron Maiden | |
| 15. Prince And The Revolution | |
| 16. Tom Waits | |
| 17. Joy Division | |
| 18. New Order | |
| 19. Talk Talk | |
| 20. Rush |







