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.
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1970
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7,415
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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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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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1,879
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You can take this in 1969, or wait another ten years for Apocalypse 'Now'. Free choice.
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1969
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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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1,373
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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.
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1979
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6,637
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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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1990
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2,540
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1998
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29,636
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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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| Neil Young | 3 | 3% | |
| Miles Davis | 3 | 3% | |
| The Flaming Lips | 2 | 2% | |
| Public Enemy | 2 | 2% | |
| The Fall | 2 | 2% | |
| Scott Walker | 2 | 2% | |
| The Velvet Underground | 2 | 2% | |
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| ! | 03/31/2022 15:56 | Nkelleyslc | 113 | 91/100 |
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pctrooper 01/21/2020 22:40 | #247060
Plenty of great picks on here. I share your affinity for rock albums with a rawer edge to them. Check out Peter Hammill's Nadir's Big Chance if you haven't before.
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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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EyeKanFly 01/20/2020 19:55 | #247034
EyeKanFly 01/20/2020 19:55 | #247034
Neat stuff! I'll have to check out a few of these albums. I can't say I've ever given The Fall a listen, that's first up.
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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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DommeDamian 04/15/2018 08:32 | #212909
DommeDamian 04/15/2018 08:32 | #212909
I like the variety of artists. Even though we don't have anything in common, I'm always flattered to see NMH at the top 10.
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