Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by 
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: 04/11/2024 20:45
- (Created: 08/05/2018 19:08).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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[First added to this chart: 08/06/2018]
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1972
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[First added to this chart: 01/17/2020]
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1970
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[First added to this chart: 02/19/2022]
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2021
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Excellent! They had a great new wave/post punk type sound. The new wave genre itself is quite underated.
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2001
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2014
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[First added to this chart: 08/10/2018]
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1999
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1982
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It never stops most of the way through! Constant energy and catchiness. My favorite Talking Heads album.
[First added to this chart: 08/05/2018]
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1978
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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 | 10 | 10% | |
| 1990s | 27 | 27% | |
| 2000s | 21 | 21% | |
| 2010s | 8 | 8% | |
| 2020s | 6 | 6% |
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| Björk | 3 | 3% | |
| The Rolling Stones | 3 | 3% | |
| XTC | 2 | 2% | |
| Queen | 2 | 2% | |
| Yes | 2 | 2% | |
| Perfume Genius | 2 | 2% | |
| The Flaming Lips | 2 | 2% | |
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42 | 42% | |
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39 | 39% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 23 from 48th to 25th Let It Bleed by The Rolling Stones |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 5 from 39th to 44th Tommy by The Who |
| Down 1 from 25th to 26th Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John |
| Down 1 from 26th to 27th The Stranger by Billy Joel |
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| 90/100 | 02/19/2024 14:45 |  Bach | | 78/100 |
| 90/100 | 02/19/2024 09:52 | Moondance | | 84/100 |
| 95/100 | 01/27/2023 02:13 | KineticEchoes02 | | 88/100 |
| 95/100 | 01/26/2023 20:26 |  MadhattanJack | | 84/100 |
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95/100
From KineticEchoes02 01/27/2023 02:12
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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90/100
From Johnnyo 11/28/2022 07:47
Love this chart.
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90/100
From StreakyNuno 10/29/2022 20:34
thanks for recommending me this wonderful album by Royksoop... Junior
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95/100
From leniad 06/19/2022 08:28
really liked your chart, listen to jazz?
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80/100
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C_Krug2009 06/29/2021 00:37
C_Krug2009 06/29/2021 00:37
Bjork and Lana are amazing :)
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hoyquarlow 04/26/2021 14:32
hoyquarlow 04/26/2021 14:32
Extremely varied, love it
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90/100
From mrmcrook 04/13/2021 23:32
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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80/100
From mianfei 01/11/2021 09:02
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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85/100
From Bloaf38 11/29/2020 02:02
Very interesting chart. Lots of stuff you dont' see everyday. Really cool to see Feels ranked so high. I also think that's Animal Collective's best
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95/100
From pctrooper 11/27/2020 22:41
Thanks for the comment. Your chart is pretty diverse, as well. Lots of my favorites on here I don't see very much, such as VDGG and Jeff Beck. I have also been listening to UFO a bit recently for the first time, and have really been enjoying it.
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