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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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]
Favorite Tracks: Here, There, and Everywhere, Got to Get You into My Life, Eleanore Rigby [First added to this chart: 03/05/2022]
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1966
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Even before I started buying records, I developed a fancy for CDs. My favorite thing about CDs was putting them in the car stereo and listening to them from front to back. Listening to compilation CDs is how I got to know a lot of my favorite songs by a lot of my favorite artists. Since I didn’t live during the time period when they were new, my first exposure to Billy Joel, The Police, and Chicago were all on compilation CDs. That Chicago compilation CD was one that I listened to with my family a lot in the car. My dad and I like a lot of the same music, and he pretty well understands why I like what I like. My mom’s music taste mostly consists of stuff that was popular when she was growing up in the 70’s and 80’s. She would always sing songs when I was a kid that I had no idea who wrote them, or where they came from. Chicago was one of those groups that she could randomly remember lyrics to at any time. As we listened more and more to the compliation CD, I found out that my mom knew a lot of the 80’s hits by Chicago. I love their stuff from the 60’s, 70’s and the 80’s. I know a lot of fans hate everything after Chicago X, but I honestly love that stuff, too. Their first two albums are still my favorites, though. During my last two years in high school, I played sax in a band with my dad on trumpet, and a couple of older guys were in the band, too. We mostly played Chicago and Blood, Sweat, and Tears stuff, and playing those horn parts was such a fun time. Most of what we played was from Chicago Transit Authority, which I think is just such a solid album. And Chicago will always be one of my favorite bands because of the connections I make with their music to both of my parents.
Favorite Tracks: Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?, Beginnings, Questions 67 and 68 [First added to this chart: 10/23/2018]
Favorite Tracks: Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?, Beginnings, Questions 67 and 68 [First added to this chart: 10/23/2018]
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1969
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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]
Favorite Tracks: 20th Century Skizoid Man [First added to this chart: 03/10/2022]
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1969
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Favorite Tracks: Wouldn’t it be Nice, Don’t Talk, God Only Knows
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1966
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Sounds kinda like old Chicago, which I think is fun. They add some nice touches to the sub-genre that they shared.
Favorite Tracks: Spinning Wheel [First added to this chart: 04/02/2022]
Favorite Tracks: Spinning Wheel [First added to this chart: 04/02/2022]
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1968
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Great old concept album combining different genres.
Favorite Tracks: Dawn: Dawn is a Feeling [First added to this chart: 12/13/2018]
Favorite Tracks: Dawn: Dawn is a Feeling [First added to this chart: 12/13/2018]
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1967
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Favorite Tracks: Do You Believe in Magic, On the Road Again
[First added to this chart: 04/02/2022]
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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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| John Lennon | 1 | 1% | |
| Muse | 1 | 1% | |
| Nirvana | 1 | 1% | |
| Chon | 1 | 1% | |
| Blood, Sweat & Tears | 1 | 1% | |
| Asian Kung-Fu Generation | 1 | 1% | |
| The Killers | 1 | 1% | |
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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
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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