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
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Grace 

 Jeff Buckley

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I started collecting vinyl records the summer after my freshman year in high school. A few months later, I found Jeff Buckley on the internet while looking for new music. I listened to the song “Grace” and really liked it. I read about the popularity and subsequent influence of this album online, but didn’t listen to the rest of the album. Then one day, I saw this album in the record store. There wasn’t anything else I wanted to buy that day, so I bought “Grace” even though I hadn’t heard the whole album yet. It was a shot in the dark, but it was a bullseye! I listened from start to finish when I got home and just laid on my bed and soaked it all in. That was probably my fifth record I ever bought, and it was such a fun experience. Now, I still can’t get enough of this album. Jeff was so talented and so passionate. His death has to be one of the most tragic in music history. I wish so badly we could’ve had more of him. To me, he was the greatest vocalist in popular music history, and this album is all the evidence needed to support that claim.

Favorite Tracks: Grace, Mojo Pin, Last Goodbye, Corpus Christi Carol, Hallelujah [First added to this chart: 10/23/2018]

Year of Release:

1994

Appears in:

1,714 charts

Rank Score:

18,122

Rank in 1994:

1

Rank in 1990s:

10

Overall Rank:

57

Average Rating:

 84 (1,955 votes)

Comments:

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Pinkerton 

 Weezer

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My brother is two years younger than me. We’ve shared a room for most of our lives, but we haven’t always shared the same interests. I wanted to have a good relationship with him, so when he got into video games, I did too. When he got into comics, I did too. I wanted us to have something to talk about and do together. When I started collecting records, he thought it was dumb. A comic cost 2 or 3 bucks, when I was spending 20 on some of my first records. Not to mention that our musical tastes contradicted each other for the most part. He like Nirvana and Eminem, I like Billy Joel and the Beatles, and we didn’t care for each other’s music. We both happened to get into Weezer at about the same time, though. He caught me listening to “Buddy Holly” one day and we started talking about it. We both grew to live the Blue album, and a couple of our friends at our summer job also hopped on the Weezer train. At the end of the summer, the four of us went to a Weezer/Pixies concert and had a blast. We made tons of memories, and by that time my brother and I had finally come to be on similar terms as far as music goes. Weezer was our middle ground, and from there we have found new music together, and come to love each other’s music, too. Now we are music majors in college. We share a massive record collection, and go to concerts together all the time. Having a brother that understands my music has been one of the biggest blessing I have in my life.
Now with that all said, I have to explain why I chose “Pinkerton” as my favorite album by Weezer.
For the longest time, Blue was my obvious favorite. The summer memories, and the overall nostalgic and positive vibes I felt from listening to the album put it at the top for me. That didn’t change until my first semester in college. It was the beginning of my adult life, I didn’t have any inner-circle friends, and a week into the semester, I went through my first breakup. I loved school, and I loved studying music, but my social life was a mess. Pinkerton is a lot more depressing than Blue, but it is the album that got me through that breakup and those other hard things I was going through. I didn’t need an album that would cheer me up. I needed an album that would tell me that it’s okay for me to be sad. “The Good Life” and “No Other One” felt especially relatable to me at the time. In the end, I got a lot better, and I found a lot of people that I could depend on. But I needed that time to recognize how sad I was, and because of that, Pinkerton will always have a special meaning to me.

Favorite Tracks: The Good Life, El Scorcho, No Other One, Why Bother?, Pink Triangle [First added to this chart: 12/13/2018]

Year of Release:

1996

Appears in:

1,097 charts

Rank Score:

10,482

Rank in 1996:

2

Rank in 1990s:

28

Overall Rank:

131

Average Rating:

 83 (1,574 votes)

Comments:

148

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Nevermind 

 Nirvana

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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]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

3,204 charts

Rank Score:

39,423

Rank in 1991:

1

Rank in 1990s:

2

Overall Rank:

13

Average Rating:

 87 (4,317 votes)

Comments:

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In The Aeroplane Over The Sea 

 Neutral Milk Hotel

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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]

Year of Release:

1998

Appears in:

2,422 charts

Rank Score:

34,575

Rank in 1998:

1

Rank in 1990s:

3

Overall Rank:

17

Average Rating:

 87 (2,947 votes)

Comments:

430

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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:

168 charts

Rank Score:

748

Rank in 1993:

35

Rank in 1990s:

387

Overall Rank:

2,188

Average Rating:

 75 (199 votes)

Comments:

12

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Whatever And Ever Amen 

 Ben Folds Five

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My cheat code for getting to Ben Folds albums on the list is his time spent in a trio called the Ben Folds Five. Great fuzzed out bass sounds, and the energy he put into this one is so fun. Brick is also a classic sad song.

Favorite Tracks: One Angry Dwarf, Brick [First added to this chart: 03/10/2022]

Year of Release:

1997

Appears in:

214 charts

Rank Score:

1,260

Rank in 1997:

29

Rank in 1990s:

252

Overall Rank:

1,371

Average Rating:

 76 (255 votes)

Comments:

13

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Rage Against The Machine 

 Rage Against The Machine

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I don’t know what anyone did to make these guys so mad, but boy am I glad I’m not the guy that upset them. They really live up to their name.

Favorite Tracks: Killing in the Name [First added to this chart: 03/10/2022]

Year of Release:

1992

Appears in:

1,291 charts

Rank Score:

12,036

Rank in 1992:

2

Rank in 1990s:

22

Overall Rank:

112

Average Rating:

 83 (1,647 votes)

Comments:

94

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Siamese Dream 

 The Smashing Pumpkins

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Favorite Tracks: Cherub Rock [First added to this chart: 04/02/2022]

Year of Release:

1993

Appears in:

1,596 charts

Rank Score:

18,124

Rank in 1993:

2

Rank in 1990s:

9

Overall Rank:

56

Average Rating:

 85 (1,939 votes)

Comments:

150

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The Colour And The Shape 

 Foo Fighters

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The recent loss of Taylor Hawkins is especially sad since we were considering seeing them play this summer.

Favorite Tracks: My Hero, Everlong [First added to this chart: 04/02/2022]

Year of Release:

1997

Appears in:

694 charts

Rank Score:

4,814

Rank in 1997:

9

Rank in 1990s:

68

Overall Rank:

356

Average Rating:

 78 (988 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	%
Snail Mail	1	1%
Sting	1	1%
The Smashing Pumpkins	1	1%
Pixies	1	1%
Arcade Fire	1	1%
BeBe & CeCe Winans	1	1%
Carpenters	1	1%
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Country	Albums	%
	64	64%
	24	24%
	4	4%
	3	3%
	3	3%
	1	1%
	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

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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