Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by 
jbfarmer 
Growing up in a small town in Idaho, I’m surprised that my music taste ever became what it is. My dad was a music major for a few years in college, so I guess that combined with my obsession with the piano from a young age kinda just evolved over the years. There was a point where I was the only person I knew that liked my music outside of my family. I collected records and checked out this website all by myself. Eventually I had friends that I could relate to with this stuff. Feel free to check out their charts, too! keatownrodriguez and pjohnsongolf
A lot of these albums mean a lot to me and have been the soundtracks to important phases of my twenty years of life. There’s always more work to be done on this chart, but I can feel pretty good about it for now. After making this chart, I feel more like I just wrote an autobiography so I hope you can enjoy my story.
- Chart updated: 08/27/2022 18:45
- (Created: 07/13/2018 07:02).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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With as much as Steely Dan experimented in the studio, and how often they turned musicians around, it’s surprising that they ever developed a sort of consistent sound and had the success they did. I think Aja is their best because there isn’t a full track on here, and they cover a lot of ground on this album.
Favorite Tracks: Deacon Blues, Peg, Black Cow [First added to this chart: 03/10/2022]
Favorite Tracks: Deacon Blues, Peg, Black Cow [First added to this chart: 03/10/2022]
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1977
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All I have to say is that he wrote these songs so well that they still sound great even with just piano and vocals. I really dig his style, and Rockin’ the Suburbs is relatable to everyone I feel like.
Favorite Tracks: Still Fighting it, Not the Same [First added to this chart: 03/10/2022]
Favorite Tracks: Still Fighting it, Not the Same [First added to this chart: 03/10/2022]
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2001
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Timeless Best-Seller
Favorite Tracks: Beat it, Billie Jean [First added to this chart: 03/10/2022]
Favorite Tracks: Beat it, Billie Jean [First added to this chart: 03/10/2022]
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1982
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When I just want to feel the 2000’s.
Favorite Tracks: Sweetness, Bleed American, The Middle [First added to this chart: 03/10/2022]
Favorite Tracks: Sweetness, Bleed American, The Middle [First added to this chart: 03/10/2022]
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2001
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It seems so long ago when my brother lived Nirvana and I couldn’t care less about them. Things really have changed. This album really has grown on me, and I don’t know what I’d do without some of these songs.
Favorite Tracks: Come as you Are, Breed, In Bloom, Something in the Way [First added to this chart: 12/13/2018]
Favorite Tracks: Come as you Are, Breed, In Bloom, Something in the Way [First added to this chart: 12/13/2018]
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1991
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Trippy Indie Folk music that you won’t find anywhere else.
Favorite Tracks: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Two-Headed Boy, The King of Carrot Flowers Prs 2 and 3 [First added to this chart: 03/10/2022]
Favorite Tracks: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Two-Headed Boy, The King of Carrot Flowers Prs 2 and 3 [First added to this chart: 03/10/2022]
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1998
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Favorite Tracks: Changes, Life on Mars
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1971
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Sting is one of my favorites, though I have a hard time with his albums because I always feel like there are a couple tracks that slow the album way down. This is probably his best, though.
Favorite Tracks: Fields of Gold, Seven Days, If I Ever Lose My Faith in You [First added to this chart: 03/10/2022]
Favorite Tracks: Fields of Gold, Seven Days, If I Ever Lose My Faith in You [First added to this chart: 03/10/2022]
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1993
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725
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Favorite Tracks: Blinded, Faster, Crystal Baller
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Have ever been to natural hot springs in the winter? I highly recommend it. This album is the soundtrack to that experience. Especially if you go at night.
Favorite Tracks: Head Over Heals, Everybody Wants to Rule the World [First added to this chart: 03/10/2022]
Favorite Tracks: Head Over Heals, Everybody Wants to Rule the World [First added to this chart: 03/10/2022]
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1985
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 2 | 2% | |
| 1960s | 7 | 7% | |
| 1970s | 19 | 19% | |
| 1980s | 14 | 14% | |
| 1990s | 9 | 9% | |
| 2000s | 20 | 20% | |
| 2010s | 23 | 23% | |
| 2020s | 6 | 6% |
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| Journey | 1 | 1% | |
| Pixies | 1 | 1% | |
| Arcade Fire | 1 | 1% | |
| Elvis Presley | 1 | 1% | |
| Carpenters | 1 | 1% | |
| Death Cab For Cutie | 1 | 1% | |
| Rage Against The Machine | 1 | 1% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
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| Down 1 from 19th to 20th Sheer Heart Attack by Queen |
| Down 1 from 20th to 21st Eddie And The Cruisers by John Cafferty And The Beaver Brown Band |
| Down 1 from 21st to 22nd Talking Book by Stevie Wonder |
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 Never For Everby Kate Bush |
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80/100 | 09/24/2022 14:21 |  mutley88 | | 79/100 |
 100/100 | 04/11/2022 16:16 |  Larcx13 | | 86/100 |
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From ChiefyArchie 12/19/2023 03:32
Never in history has more thought and time been put into a greatest albums of all time chart. This man is a legend and the only reason I ever found this website. The pure craziness and drastic differences from one artist to the next should tell you how much he knows music. I don’t have all the same favorite artists or albums, but I have major respect for this chart.
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80/100
From mutley88 09/24/2022 14:49
mutley88 09/24/2022 14:49
This is everything a BEA chart should be, though a lot of the albums on here aren't my cup of tea, the personal comments make it great would've rated 100 if every album had a comment. Came to this through a shared love for the Chicago album and would probably have skipped through it if not for the comments. I get how experience shapes the music we come to love, for example "Take Me Home Country Roads" A tune I once regarded with disdain has become a favourite memory now of a drunken karoake night in Thailand. I would like to return here years from now to see how it evolves over a time. If BEA had been around in my 20's it would have been a completely different chart to the one now, probably contain a lot more cheesy 80's synthpop.
Hope that is a typo in the Nirvana comment & that your brother loved & not lived a long time ago, was bit worried there. Never knew Robert Smith did a song with Blink 182.
as a postscript while typing this had that Plini album playing in the background, it's a grower. Nice one
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