Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
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ddeeddles64 
I know this chart is primitive because I made it myself using very primitive means. (Now comes with retrofitted decorum.)
- Chart updated: 03/31/2022 01:15
- (Created: 04/07/2018 21:20).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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The barbarians have entered the city, they're peeing in the fountains and much worse is to follow.
[First added to this chart: 04/08/2018]
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1970
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7,471
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Oh. So it's not just hype after all. If only someone had played this for me back in 1990, instead of Sergeant Pepper. Like meeting a sibling you never knew you had. Sob.
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1969
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54,029
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Once upon a time, two Zen acolytes were observing a flag.
"The flag is moving" stated the first.
"The wind is moving" countered the other.
The Zen master overheard them and declared: "Not the wind. Not the flag. Mind is moving."
Not me. Not Alex Chilton. Music.
(All questions to Douglas R. Hofstadter.) [First added to this chart: 04/08/2018]
"The flag is moving" stated the first.
"The wind is moving" countered the other.
The Zen master overheard them and declared: "Not the wind. Not the flag. Mind is moving."
Not me. Not Alex Chilton. Music.
(All questions to Douglas R. Hofstadter.) [First added to this chart: 04/08/2018]
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1974
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1,896
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You can take this in 1969, or wait another ten years for Apocalypse 'Now'. Free choice.
[First added to this chart: 04/08/2018]
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1969
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1,751
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The sound of two brothers falling out of love with their passion and with each other. Their honest expression of a growing self-loathing produces a break-up album that surpasses Shoot Out the Lights. I love this so much.
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It's like The Ninth Configuration for WASPs. Don't order the swordfish.
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2005
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1,402
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My finest teenage discovery and one of only three albums in this chart that I heard before I was twenty, which makes me feel pretty sad. Memories Can't Wait vanquished my fear of the afterlife.
[First added to this chart: 04/08/2018]
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1979
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6,576
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Tell me the truth: they're not going to play Ripple at my funeral, are they?
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1970
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4,204
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[First added to this chart: 04/08/2018]
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1990
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2,505
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[First added to this chart: 04/08/2018]
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1998
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29,750
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Total albums: 100. Page 1 of 10
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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 | 19 | 19% | |
| 1970s | 38 | 38% | |
| 1980s | 13 | 13% | |
| 1990s | 13 | 13% | |
| 2000s | 11 | 11% | |
| 2010s | 6 | 6% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Miles Davis | 3 | 3% | |
| Neil Young | 3 | 3% | |
| Funkadelic | 2 | 2% | |
| Father John Misty | 2 | 2% | |
| Leonard Cohen | 2 | 2% | |
| The Flaming Lips | 2 | 2% | |
| Public Enemy | 2 | 2% | |
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| ! | 03/20/2023 09:07 | Moondance | 476 | 85/100 |
| ! | 03/31/2022 15:56 | Nkelleyslc | 113 | 91/100 |
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BestEverAlbums 03/20/2023 08:00 in Chart of the day (#4164): By ddeeddles64
BestEverAlbums 03/20/2023 08:00 in Chart of the day (#4164): By ddeeddles64“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by ddeeddles64 () 1. Fun House by The Stooges (1970) 2. Abbey Road by The Beatles (1969) 3. Radio City by Big Star (1974) 4. Songs From A Room by Leonard Cohen (1969) 5. Munki by The Jesus And Mary Chain (1998) 6. First Impressions Of Earth by…”
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BestEverAlbums 05/21/2022 08:00 in Chart of the day (#3861): By ddeeddles64“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by ddeeddles64 () 1. Fun House by The Stooges (1970) 2. Abbey Road by The Beatles (1969) 3. Radio City by Big Star (1974) 4. Songs From A Room by Leonard Cohen (1969) 5. Munki by The Jesus And Mary Chain (1998) 6. First Impressions Of Earth by…”
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BestEverAlbums 12/14/2020 09:00 in Chart of the day (#3339): By ddeeddles64“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by ddeeddles64 () 1. Fun House by The Stooges (1970) 2. Radio City by Big Star (1974) 3. Songs From A Room by Leonard Cohen (1969) 4. Munki by The Jesus And Mary Chain (1998) 5. First Impressions Of Earth by The Strokes (2006) 6. Fear Of Music…”
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Johnnyo 03/20/2023 19:14 | #295228
I really like this chart. Got a lot of class
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Moondance 03/20/2023 09:17 | #295200
One of the more intriguing charts I've seen. Not really sure what to make of it - and maybe that is what you intended.
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areminder 12/15/2020 05:28 | #262716
Solid albeit curious picks. The kind of picks one would make if digging though a record bin for something to play. Brilliant. Favorited
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Larcx13 12/14/2020 10:51 | #262673
Larcx13 12/14/2020 10:51 | #262673
Interesting picks! Pleasantly surprised to see Fun House at n.1
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zowie 06/27/2020 20:36 | #254625
great.loads I haven't listened too for yonks.a couple of underated albums you have chosen that I love, madness,thier best album,and the late great junior murvin.
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