Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
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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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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]
Favorite Tracks: New Born, Bliss, Plug in Baby [First added to this chart: 12/13/2018]
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2001
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In that glorious summer with my work friends and brother obsessing over Weezer, we also discovered Sufjan Stevens. My friend Peyton and I were listening to new music that we were finding on this website while playing Call of Duty. He turned on “Carrie and Lowell”, and we were interested in listening to more. Then, he put on “Illinois”. From the first track we were shook. We kept pausing the game and looking at each other like “what is going on?!?” We were blindsided by the sounds of his middle-school-sounding band, and the layers of the folky string instruments. The stories were so personal, and we couldn’t wait to tell my brother Keaton when he got home. We’ll always be die-hard Sufjan fans. It took us a long time before we even knew how to pronounce his name, but that day playing video games and hearing this album for the first time is still one of my favorite memories.
Favorite Tracks: Chicago, Come On, Feel the Illionoise!, Casimir-Pulaski day, John Wayne Gacy, JR. [First added to this chart: 10/23/2018]
Favorite Tracks: Chicago, Come On, Feel the Illionoise!, Casimir-Pulaski day, John Wayne Gacy, JR. [First added to this chart: 10/23/2018]
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2005
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Another really great instrumental album. If you’re not familiar with him, William Joseph is a super-talent. He is a wonderful pianist and even better writer. He got his big break with David Foster in his early 20’s and you can hear some of David’s influence in the album. Piano solo songs with orchestra and a drum kit. William himself sometimes calls it “classical pop”. I was about 11 when my piano teacher gave me a William Joseph sing to learn. I got really curious and watched a lot of his YouTube videos and decided I wanted to be William Joseph when I grew up. I saw him in concert, started writing music, and long story short got an opportunity to play my original music for him. He like it enough that he taught me songwriting lessons for a couple years after that. I was so lucky to learn from someone I looked ho to so much. But I was his biggest fan before I was his student, and you’ll see why if you listen to this album.
Favorite Tracks: Within, Eternal, Piano Fantasy, Se Si Perde Un Amore [First added to this chart: 03/10/2022]
Favorite Tracks: Within, Eternal, Piano Fantasy, Se Si Perde Un Amore [First added to this chart: 03/10/2022]
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The kings of the Concept album. The Black Parade is undeniably great. Such great storytelling, and so many good songs. But I’d say 3 out of my top 4 My Chem songs are on Three Cheers. Still great concept album crafting, and I almost like it more that the story is a little less obvious on this one.
Favorite Tracks: I’m not Okay, Helena, Thank you for the Venom [First added to this chart: 03/10/2022]
Favorite Tracks: I’m not Okay, Helena, Thank you for the Venom [First added to this chart: 03/10/2022]
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2004
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I loved this album for a long time. Everyone knows Mr. Brightside, and I really started to dig more and more from this album as time went by. One track stands out more to me now than it did before, though. I served a 2 year church service mission after my first semester of college. I made a lot of really great friends during that time in Oregon, and we all developed a love for “All These Things that I’ve Done”. This track has interesting religious connections, and I think it’s probably one of the most personal things Brandon Flowers has ever written, whether he intended it to be that way or not. Either way, this track is the definition of nostalgia for me, and makes me look back on my life in a way that few songs have been able to do.
Favorite Tracks: All These Things that I’ve Done, Mr. Brightside, Jenny Was a Friend of Mine [First added to this chart: 04/02/2022]
Favorite Tracks: All These Things that I’ve Done, Mr. Brightside, Jenny Was a Friend of Mine [First added to this chart: 04/02/2022]
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2004
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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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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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Favorite Tracks: Blinded, Faster, Crystal Baller
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Favorite Tracks: Wake Up, Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
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2004
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A lot of my favorite jazz artists these days praise J Dilla. He was such a unique creator.
Favorite Tracks: Don’t Cry, Workinonit [First added to this chart: 03/10/2022]
Favorite Tracks: Don’t Cry, Workinonit [First added to this chart: 03/10/2022]
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2006
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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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% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Tennis (US) | 1 | 1% | |
| Van Halen | 1 | 1% | |
| Foo Fighters | 1 | 1% | |
| Joji | 1 | 1% | |
| Sukima Switch | 1 | 1% | |
| Billie Eilish | 1 | 1% | |
| Sufjan Stevens | 1 | 1% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
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| Down 1 from 19th to 20thSheer Heart Attack by Queen |
| Down 1 from 20th to 21stEddie And The Cruisers by John Cafferty And The Beaver Brown Band |
| Down 1 from 21st to 22ndTalking Book by Stevie Wonder |
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| Never For Ever by Kate Bush |
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| ! | 12/19/2023 03:28 | ChiefyArchie | 1 | 100/100 |
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From ChiefyArchie 12/19/2023 03:32 | #300545
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 | #289934
mutley88 09/24/2022 14:49 | #289934
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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