Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
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ExTeaSea 
Been trying to limit my chart to one album per artist. That way I can include more of my favorite artists. This rating game is fun and challenging that's for sure.
But I kinda switched back to being more honest with myself and including more albums by the same artists haha. 3 Stones albums! 3 Bjork cuz heck yeah! Etc haha.
Sometimes I look at my chart and I'm like is this really my 100 favorite albums?? Ranking is challenging but fun haha.
- Chart updated: 06/11/2026 09:45
- (Created: 08/05/2018 19:08).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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It's their "White album" and it's a beast of a collection of songs. Best album of the 90s easily. Pumpkins at their peak of creation.
[First added to this chart: 08/05/2018]
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1995
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Truly perfect album that I can listen to pretty much anytime and still not get tired of it. Begins and ends with essentially the same wonderful short and to the point song which makes for a great intro and outro to the album. Then in the middle, three of some of the most epic and brilliant tracks Pink Floyd has ever done or anyone for that matter.
The first time I came across this album I was all like, why is there only five songs? My love for progressive rock was born.
Favorite song: Dogs. Probably my all time favorite song. [First added to this chart: 08/05/2018]
The first time I came across this album I was all like, why is there only five songs? My love for progressive rock was born.
Favorite song: Dogs. Probably my all time favorite song. [First added to this chart: 08/05/2018]
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1977
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21,288
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Merriweather and Strawberry Jams are great and get all the love but for me Feels is their best. Every song is great in its own bizarre beautiful sorta way. It has the best flow of any of their albums and it gives me the 'feels' on the reg more often than most albums out their.
[First added to this chart: 08/05/2018]
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2005
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2,797
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One of the few albums where I just sat there and listened to it and did nothing else.
[First added to this chart: 08/05/2018]
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2000
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39,341
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Still her most fun album. Perfect arrangement of catchy unique songs.
[First added to this chart: 08/05/2018]
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1993
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5,201
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His most personal, unique and mature album. Truly electronic perfection in my ears.
[First added to this chart: 08/05/2018]
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2001
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1,472
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Psyched out electro pop rock bliss. Futuristic bar music on a space ship. Trippy brain drugs party heaven.
Lava lamp shattering on the floor in slow motion while it's raining. These are not lyrics it's just my strange way of describing this album. [First added to this chart: 08/10/2018]
Lava lamp shattering on the floor in slow motion while it's raining. These are not lyrics it's just my strange way of describing this album. [First added to this chart: 08/10/2018]
[First added to this chart: 08/11/2018]
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1997
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12,489
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[First added to this chart: 08/05/2018]
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1969
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8,052
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The best he's ever sounded in my opinion, musically and vocally.
Favorite song: Sarah [First added to this chart: 08/05/2018]
Favorite song: Sarah [First added to this chart: 08/05/2018]
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1976
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Total albums: 100. Page 1 of 10
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 6 | 6% | |
| 1970s | 22 | 22% | |
| 1980s | 9 | 9% | |
| 1990s | 28 | 28% | |
| 2000s | 21 | 21% | |
| 2010s | 8 | 8% | |
| 2020s | 6 | 6% |
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| The Rolling Stones | 3 | 3% | |
| Björk | 3 | 3% | |
| The Flaming Lips | 3 | 3% | |
| Perfume Genius | 2 | 2% | |
| Yes | 2 | 2% | |
| R.E.M. | 2 | 2% | |
| XTC | 2 | 2% | |
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46 | 46% | |
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38 | 38% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 12 from 94th to 82ndMelody A.M. by Röyksopp |
| Up 9 from 90th to 81stStrange Mercy by St. Vincent |
| Up 4 from 72nd to 68thSurrender by The Chemical Brothers |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 8 from 56th to 64thA Trick Of The Tail by Genesis |
| Down 3 from 80th to 83rdWest Of Eden by HMLTD |
| Down 3 from 88th to 91stCocoa Sugar by Young Fathers |
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| ! | 06/09/2026 22:03 |  serpico | 180 | 81/100 |
| ! | 01/27/2026 16:52 | matterhornrider | 101 | 93/100 |
| ! | 08/02/2025 11:57 |  DommeDamian | 1,005 | 89/100 |
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serpico 06/09/2026 22:03 | #314856
serpico 06/09/2026 22:03 | #314856
Una selección interesante de discos.
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StreakyNuno 01/04/2025 21:01 | #306801
Great to see Pink Floyd and Bjork...Obviously The Dark Side of the Moon is a felt absence
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KineticEchoes02 01/27/2023 02:12 | #293295
Great choices in your chart! Great to see the love for Bjork, Soundgarden, Tool, PF, and Smashing Pumpkins. I like that you haven't just gone for the widely accepted favourite of the artist in many cases. Hats off putting Animals above WYWH and Dark Side (not an easy call), what a masterpiece - I also have that in my top 10. Must check out some of the Norwegian and Japanese artists you've got here. Would agree that it's too hard to settle on one album per artist.
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Johnnyo 11/28/2022 07:47 | #291614
Love this chart.
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StreakyNuno 10/29/2022 20:34 | #290892
thanks for recommending me this wonderful album by Royksoop... Junior
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leniad 06/19/2022 08:28 | #286500
really liked your chart, listen to jazz?
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C_Krug2009 06/29/2021 00:37 | #271136
C_Krug2009 06/29/2021 00:37 | #271136
Bjork and Lana are amazing :)
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hoyquarlow 04/26/2021 14:32 | #268996
hoyquarlow 04/26/2021 14:32 | #268996
Extremely varied, love it
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mrmcrook 04/13/2021 23:32 | #268513
Love your chart. So much variety within genres and years in which released. 5 albums in common, 19 artists. You have many more artists featured which is good to see that never made my top 100 but are on my decade or year lists. Overall, great list.
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mianfei 01/11/2021 09:02 | #264192
A very good list even with artists of no appeal to me like Queen, the Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana and Alice in Chains.
Although a child of the 1990s, I completely agree with ‘H to He Who Am the Only One’ and ‘Turn of the Cards’ – actually the only two albums here common to my own chart. Nonetheless, there are a lot of other exceptional artists like Portishead, Stevie Wonder, Björk, St. Vincent and Roxy Music, to make this all the more impressive. The Lilith Fair artists of the 1990s, and also Tori Amos, sound more like Renaissance than Joni Mitchell.
Some recommendations I might make:
— Annette Peacock’s ‘I’m the One’ – she was cited by the old ‘Rough Guide’ as a precursor to Laurie Anderson, and is in my opinion a much better artist
— Essra Mohawk’s ‘Primordial Lovers’ – gorgeously sensual vocals that should appeal if you like Renaissance and Roxy
— Lamb’s ‘Lamb’ – an intensely beautiful and dense work, the best trip-hop albums outside of Portishead I have heard
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