Top 34 Greatest Music Albums
by StevePereira 
My own 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die - a work in progress
- Chart updated: 07/02/2018 14:15
- (Created: 05/30/2018 23:07).
- Chart size: 34 albums.
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1970
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5,415
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1991
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36,019
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Guthrie underpins Bob Dylan and the whole singer-songwriter genre. He made folk music important and cool, and gave it social significance and political importance. His influence cannot be over stated, though is often under looked. Some critics enthuse about St Peppers being the first concept album. Nope. This came over 25 years earlier, and is a proper, fully conceived concept, and way more important than the fay incomplete attempt by the Fab Four, as it deals with a significant event - the Dust Bowl droughts in mid-America between 1934 and 1940, and gives the affected people a voice. It is one of the earliest albums of popular music, and was released on six 78rpm discs in two folders or "albums".
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Released in 1945 shortly after Miller's death as a 4 disc set of 78s with two tracks on each disc, this was one of the first best-selling albums on the newly created Billboard album chart, staying at number one for 16 weeks. Glenn Miller was the most famous, popular and acclaimed big band leader of the 20th century. Many jazz critics dismiss his style of smooth swing as too commercial, preferring the snap and energy of Benny Goodman and Count Basie. I see what they mean, but I don't see the need to dismiss the one or other as both have their place and both require skill and artistry, just of a slightly different sort. The album on Spotify is a 2010 release with 18 tracks, so is not the original 1945 album which only had eight tracks.
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1955
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4,550
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1970
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In its original six track format this is a blistering live album. Various increasingly bloated versions have been released over the years - the Deluxe version has 33 tracks, which includes a live recording of Tommy. That one is not a blistering live album - it is drawn out and ultimately boring. Listen to, and only to, the original six track album.
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1970
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2,106
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Wow! This is such a hugely influential album - Jackson's most important (though Thriller would be more popular and commercially successful). He and Quincy Jones developed a smooth rhythmic very danceable style of music that would become known as modern or contemporary R&B - quite possibly the most successful musical style of the 21st century.
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1979
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4,846
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The band's fame rests on their first two albums, and this, their second, is the better of the two. Afterwards Carlos Santana moved more into jazz fusion, leaving behind much of the rock feel that made his Latin-rock fusion so appealing.
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1970
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Total albums: 34. Page 1 of 4
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Top 34 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 1 | 3% | |
| 1950s | 7 | 21% | |
| 1960s | 1 | 3% | |
| 1970s | 10 | 29% | |
| 1980s | 4 | 12% | |
| 1990s | 9 | 26% | |
| 2000s | 2 | 6% | |
| 2010s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Various Artists | 3 | 9% | |
| Bill Haley And His Comets | 1 | 3% | |
| Frank Sinatra | 1 | 3% | |
| The Clash | 1 | 3% | |
| Louis Prima | 1 | 3% | |
| Syd Barrett | 1 | 3% | |
| Misty In Roots | 1 | 3% | |
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Top 34 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
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Down 17 from 12th to 29th |
Down 14 from 14th to 28th |
Down 11 from 11th to 22nd |
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