Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
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• (Created: 03/06/2012 11:06).
• Chart size: 100 albums.

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OK Computer 

 Radiohead

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As of this year, OK Computer has been my favourite album for a decade. That's crazy to think about. In that entire time, I think that Mellon Collie, Pet Sounds, and - maybe - To Pimp a Butterfly have been the only albums that I've even considered might challenge it. Every time, though, I quickly shut that down. Every time I return to this album, I have a little voice in the back of my head that says, "okay, here's where you find the flaws." And yet, every time, that doesn't happen. Everything about this is Radiohead firing on all cylinders flawlessly. This has the best set of lyrics Thom Yorke has ever put on a record, some of the band's best and most energetic playing, several of their absolute best songs - Climbing Up the Walls, No Surprises, Let Down, Karma Police, and Paranoid Android are all S-tier Radiohead, with the rest of the album sitting in the A- or upper B-tiers at worst - and a total cohesion that is absent from their first two records and never quite matched by anything that came after it. It kinda feels strange that this is so solidly the site's overall #1, as this is a quirky, weird, long, dense record...but I think that's part of the miracle of OK Computer. It just yanks you into it from that first distorted guitar note in Airbag to the final triangle note in The Tourist.

RADIOHEAD: #1
1997: #1
1990s: #1 [First added to this chart: 03/06/2012]

Year of Release:

1997

Appears in:

4,411 charts

Rank Score:

65,029

Rank in 1997:

1

Rank in 1990s:

1

Overall Rank:

1

Average Rating:

 92 (5,631 votes)

Comments:

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Pet Sounds 

 The Beach Boys

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This is not something that human beings are capable of. I don't think there will ever be a more moving, more beautiful, more impeccably composed 36 minutes of music than can be found on Pet Sounds. It's absolutely bonkers that this was ever floating around the bottom, let alone the immediate exterior, of my top 10: if there is ONE perfect album in the world, one which I have not a single criticism of a single moment of, then you're looking at it. This has God Only Knows on it, and it's debatable whether or not that's even the best song here. I rest my case.

THE BEACH BOYS: #1
1966: #1
1960s: #1 [First added to this chart: 03/06/2012]

Year of Release:

1966

Appears in:

2,850 charts

Rank Score:

39,655

Rank in 1966:

2

Rank in 1960s:

5

Overall Rank:

11

Average Rating:

 88 (3,276 votes)

Comments:

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To Pimp A Butterfly 

 Kendrick Lamar

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KENDRICK LAMAR: #1
2015: #1
2010s: #1 [First added to this chart: 01/19/2016]

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

1,836 charts

Rank Score:

31,940

Rank in 2015:

1

Rank in 2010s:

1

Overall Rank:

19

Average Rating:

 89 (2,298 votes)

Comments:

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Nebraska 

 Bruce Springsteen

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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: #1
1982: #1
1980s: #1 [First added to this chart: 03/29/2019]

Year of Release:

1982

Appears in:

731 charts

Rank Score:

5,802

Rank in 1982:

5

Rank in 1980s:

37

Overall Rank:

290

Average Rating:

 80 (995 votes)

Comments:

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Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness 

 The Smashing Pumpkins

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A two-hour rock opera that puts all of its peers to shame. Billy Corgan turns the story of falling in love and drifting apart into an epic poem that could be the soundtrack of the greatest romance film ever made, if such a film were made around it. This is, overall, the best usage of the electric guitar ever captured on tape. The way that Billy Corgan turns that instrument into an orchestra of its own is something that he began to experiment with on Siamese Dream, but blew into the stratosphere here. Is Mellon Collie flawless? Is every song a 10/10? No, but none of the 28 songs are subpar either, and when a song on here hits, it HITS. This might not quite be the greatest album ever made, but it's certainly the GRANDEST album ever made.

THE SMASHING PUMPKINS: #1
1995: #1
1990s: #2 [First added to this chart: 07/17/2013]

Year of Release:

1995

Appears in:

1,495 charts

Rank Score:

14,854

Rank in 1995:

3

Rank in 1990s:

16

Overall Rank:

84

Average Rating:

 83 (1,859 votes)

Comments:

169

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What's Going On 

 Marvin Gaye

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It feels impossible to do proper justice to What's Going On with mere words. It's really easy to laud the social commentary, the prescient production techniques, the all but flawless performances all around but particularly from Marvin, the evocative lyrics that put Marvin right up there alongside the other great American songwriters...all of that is true of this album but saying it feels like such a surface level, almost vapid distillation of what What's Going On achieves. More than being sent on a musical journey, this album transports you to a mentality and a particular period in American history, after Fred Hampton, before Watergate. Long after the Great Depression, long before the Great Recession. And it feels like Marvin knew the American Dream was going to terminally crumble whether it took years or took decades. What's Going On isn't as potent as it was when it came out; it's tenfold more.

MARVIN GAYE: #1
1971: #1
1970s: #2 [First added to this chart: 03/06/2012]

Year of Release:

1971

Appears in:

1,636 charts

Rank Score:

19,183

Rank in 1971:

4

Rank in 1970s:

15

Overall Rank:

49

Average Rating:

 85 (1,947 votes)

Comments:

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7. (13) 6

Revolver 

 The Beatles

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THE BEATLES: #1
1966: #2
1960s: #2 [First added to this chart: 03/06/2012]

Year of Release:

1966

Appears in:

3,576 charts

Rank Score:

50,304

Rank in 1966:

1

Rank in 1960s:

2

Overall Rank:

4

Average Rating:

 91 (4,581 votes)

Comments:

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Rumours 

 Fleetwood Mac

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FLEETWOOD MAC: #1
1977: #1
1970s: #1 [First added to this chart: 03/06/2012]

Year of Release:

1977

Appears in:

2,301 charts

Rank Score:

31,067

Rank in 1977:

1

Rank in 1970s:

6

Overall Rank:

21

Average Rating:

 87 (2,635 votes)

Comments:

187

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Grace 

 Jeff Buckley

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JEFF BUCKLEY: #1
1994: #1
1990s: #3 [First added to this chart: 07/17/2013]

Year of Release:

1994

Appears in:

1,727 charts

Rank Score:

18,073

Rank in 1994:

1

Rank in 1990s:

8

Overall Rank:

54

Average Rating:

 84 (1,962 votes)

Comments:

171

10. (9) 1

So 

 Peter Gabriel

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PETER GABRIEL: #1
1986: #1
1980s: #2 [First added to this chart: 03/29/2019]

Year of Release:

1986

Appears in:

811 charts

Rank Score:

7,094

Rank in 1986:

4

Rank in 1980s:

28

Overall Rank:

225

Average Rating:

 80 (932 votes)

Comments:

61

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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition

Decade	Albums	%
1930s	0	0%
1940s	0	0%
1950s	2	2%
1960s	10	10%
1970s	31	31%
1980s	17	17%
1990s	22	22%
2000s	8	8%
2010s	10	10%
2020s	0	0%

Artist	Albums	%
Bruce Springsteen	7	7%
Radiohead	6	6%
The Police	4	4%
Marvin Gaye	3	3%
The Beatles	3	3%
David Bowie	3	3%
Pink Floyd	3	3%
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Country	Albums	%
	53	53%
	38	38%
	3	3%
	3	3%
	1	1%
	1	1%
	1	1%

Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes

Biggest climbers
Up 6 from 13th to 7th Revolver by The Beatles

Biggest fallers
Down 1 from 7th to 8th Rumours by Fleetwood Mac
Down 1 from 8th to 9th Grace by Jeff Buckley
Down 1 from 9th to 10th So by Peter Gabriel

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From Jaymantheman 07/19/2023 00:43

Great top 100 albums!! Heavy on The Bruce, love a few of them myself, although he doesn't crack my 100. Anyway...like the descriptions and keep delaying to add my own.

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From Jaymantheman 07/19/2023 00:43

Great top 100 albums!! Heavy on The Bruce, love a few of them myself, although he doesn't crack my 100. Anyway...like the descriptions and keep delaying to add my own.

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From DommeDamian 10/01/2019 15:29

Descriptions matter, otherwise love love love your album picks! Diversity when its best imo.

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From ForegroundNoise 10/01/2019 09:45

Not sure how much this is the finished articled (since you've put this as under construction) but a great mix of albums nonetheless. Some notes to your favourites would be really interesting to see!

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From AgainstMeAgainstYou 07/13/2017 17:04

Working on the notes. It's one of those things that I really struggle to put into words for some reason.

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From voland 06/02/2017 08:11

Amazing chart!

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From CharlieBarley 06/02/2017 07:30

Good solid chart. 33 albums in common. I would like a few more notes but overall it is very good.

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From CA Dreamin 06/02/2017 01:37

Great list. We have pretty similar taste. Love the variety of albums here. The only thing I don't love is the somewhat lack of '80s albums.

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From platus 06/01/2017 18:04

Strong chart. Congrats

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From LedZep 06/01/2017 12:13

I expected more Canadian albums tbh. A really cool list tho, and the descriptions are so kick ass! Shame there isn't more of them, but a nice list dude. Galapagos-Porcelina and Zero-To Forgive are some of the best track groups that I've ever listened to. Also nice to see Dream Theater, and the Rush choice is very cool, maybe my fav by them right now. Solid jazz choices too!

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