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).
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Origin Of Symmetry 

 Muse

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My introduction to Muse was playing “Knights of Cydonia” on Guitar Hero III as a kid. In high school, I listened to their first three albums all of the time. Matt’s vocals are killer ALL Of THE TIME!!! Origin is probably my favorite because of the spacey synth sounds that they mix with their guitars. Not to mention the passion in the songwriting. This album is FUN, it’s SHOWY, and I love it!

Favorite Tracks: New Born, Bliss, Plug in Baby [First added to this chart: 12/13/2018]

Year of Release:

2001

Appears in:

803 charts

Rank Score:

7,817

Rank in 2001:

7

Rank in 2000s:

37

Overall Rank:

217

Average Rating:

 80 (1,411 votes)

Comments:

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Revolver 

 The Beatles

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The Beatles were such a consistent band. They have so many good albums, and I have loved them for a long time. I used to think that the white album was my favorite, followed by “Revolver,” then “Rubber Soul.” Then I realized something. My favorite Beatles song of all time is “Here, There and Everywhere.” Most Beatles albums have a moment like this track, but that is missing from White in my opinion. And because of that, Revolver has risen. It’s always been close between the two, but now I know why I can say I like Revolver more, and it is all because of that beautiful Paul McCartney tune.

Favorite Tracks: Here, There, and Everywhere, Got to Get You into My Life, Eleanore Rigby [First added to this chart: 03/05/2022]

Year of Release:

1966

Appears in:

3,478 charts

Rank Score:

57,016

Rank in 1966:

1

Rank in 1960s:

2

Overall Rank:

4

Average Rating:

 91 (4,473 votes)

Comments:

477

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In My Room 

 Jacob Collier

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Like a lot of people, I found Jacob Collier on YouTube. Not only did I live his arrangements and original songs, but I had a lot of fun watching him teach music theory concepts and explain why he wrote music the way he did. It was exciting to see someone only a few years older than me succeed in making complex harmonies, soloing in jazz styles, and singing with himself in his bedroom. I admire the ambition behind his large-scale “Djesse” project, I think he is at his best in this intimate bedroom album. I probably watched the transcription video of “You and I” a hundred times when I was 15 because I wanted to know how he took an already-great Stevie Wonder song to the next level. I would sit at my piano and play along with “Hideaway” because I thought it was just so beautiful. I hope when he is done with “Djesse” that he will go back to making the most out of a small set of resources for a while. Needless to say, I’ll always be impressed by his abilities as a musician.

Favorite Tracks: Hideaway, Savior, You and I [First added to this chart: 12/13/2018]

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

8 charts

Rank Score:

112

Rank in 2016:

198

Rank in 2010s:

2,160

Overall Rank:

10,409

Average Rating:

 68 (22 votes)

Comments:

2

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I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It 

 The 1975

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This is my brother’s absolute very album of all time, and also his favorite band. As a consequence to that fact, I’ve heard it many, many times, and it just keeps getting better. These guys are nuts! The production is perfection, the songwriting is downright gorgeous, and overall I think these guys are the complete package. This album gives me winter vibes, as opposed to my many summer albums I have on this list. Most of my memories with these tunes are from my Sophomore year when we had a crazy snow year (8 Snow Days where we didn’t go to school) so we listened to a lot of music with our friends in the basement. A lot of those tracks that Keaton played were The 1975 songs that he was just starting to discover. We’ve had a lot of fun keeping up with their newest releases, and A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships has been my favorite by them at times, but I think this albums takes the cake these days because of the beautifully simple moments it contains.

Favorite Tracks: Love Me, She’s American, Somebody Else, Paris [First added to this chart: 03/10/2022]

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

151 charts

Rank Score:

1,109

Rank in 2016:

26

Rank in 2010s:

250

Overall Rank:

1,558

Average Rating:

 68 (253 votes)

Comments:

16

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Zenyatta Mondatta 

 The Police

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I love The Police to death. I had a compilation Cd of their stuff with some Sting songs on it, too. I listened to that a lot the winter of my Freshman year. I have a lot of good memories going for drives in the snow with my cousin and shooting guns with him at the range when it was cold while listening to The Police. This is also the odd reason that “Fields of Gold” always makes me think of winter. Synchronicity is a great album, but I think I like the songs that I like on Zenyatta Mondatta even more. Sting is one of my favorite vocalists, Andy Summers is probably my favorite guitarist ever, and Stewart Copeland is easily one of my favorite drummers. These guys had tons of talent and refused to do what everyone else was doing. The result of this was a timeless sound and some really great records.

Favorite Tracks: Don’t Stand so Close to Me, Driven to Tears, Bombs Away, Canary in a Cole Mine [First added to this chart: 12/13/2018]

Year of Release:

1980

Appears in:

336 charts

Rank Score:

1,648

Rank in 1980:

25

Rank in 1980s:

168

Overall Rank:

1,070

Average Rating:

 76 (507 votes)

Comments:

19

19.

Never For Ever 

 Kate Bush

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She’s brilliant, she’s exceptional, she’s a queen.

Favorite tracks: Babooshka, The Wedding List, Army Dreamers

Year of Release:

1980

Appears in:

248 charts

Rank Score:

1,499

Rank in 1980:

31

Rank in 1980s:

189

Overall Rank:

1,182

Average Rating:

 79 (359 votes)

Comments:

18

20. (19) 1

Sheer Heart Attack 

 Queen

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This might come as a shocker, but my favorite Queen song of all time is “Killer Queen”. Our school out on an air concert some years, and we wanted to do a few songs for it. Our main act was “Killer Queen”. We got all dressed up, and had three of us standing out there, but my brother was dressed up as Freddie Mercury backstage. He didn’t come out until the song started, and the school went insane. He really surprised everybody and lived up his moments as Freddie. We had such a good time, and our friend that had already graduated sat in the front row and was grinning ear to ear. Plus, “Brighten Rock” is a total jam, so I really don’t have a hard time saying this is Queen’s best album. This is right where it belongs for me.

Favorite Tracks: Killer Queen, Brighten Rock, Stone Cold Crazy [First added to this chart: 12/13/2018]

Year of Release:

1974

Appears in:

482 charts

Rank Score:

3,091

Rank in 1974:

7

Rank in 1970s:

138

Overall Rank:

575

Average Rating:

 79 (787 votes)

Comments:

53

27. (26) 1

In The Court Of The Crimson King (An Observation By King Crimson) 

 King Crimson

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200g vinyl version of this one goes hard. Prog rock at its best.

Favorite Tracks: 20th Century Skizoid Man [First added to this chart: 03/10/2022]

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

1,985 charts

Rank Score:

31,666

Rank in 1969:

2

Rank in 1960s:

7

Overall Rank:

25

Average Rating:

 89 (2,348 votes)

Comments:

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Hunky Dory 

 David Bowie

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Favorite Tracks: Changes, Life on Mars [First added to this chart: 03/10/2022]

Year of Release:

1971

Appears in:

1,799 charts

Rank Score:

22,119

Rank in 1971:

3

Rank in 1970s:

13

Overall Rank:

46

Average Rating:

 87 (2,374 votes)

Comments:

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38. (37) 1

Ten Summoner's Tales 

 Sting

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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]

Year of Release:

1993

Appears in:

157 charts

Rank Score:

729

Rank in 1993:

37

Rank in 1990s:

396

Overall Rank:

2,226

Average Rating:

 75 (195 votes)

Comments:

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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition

Decade	Albums	%
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%

Artist	Albums	%
Pixies	1	1%
Arcade Fire	1	1%
John Lennon	1	1%
Asian Kung-Fu Generation	1	1%
Carpenters	1	1%
Death Cab For Cutie	1	1%
Blink-182	1	1%
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Country	Albums	%
	64	64%
	24	24%
	4	4%
	3	3%
	3	3%
	1	1%
	1	1%

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 Ever by Kate Bush

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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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From 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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