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.

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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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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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The best he's ever sounded in my opinion, musically and vocally.

Favorite song: Sarah
[First added to this chart: 08/05/2018]
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1976
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4,278
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[First added to this chart: 08/05/2018]
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1968
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18,813
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Possibly the best debut album ever by a band. Starts off with three huge catchy as heck radio hits. Ends with their two best songs. Every album should have a killer last track and this one doesn't disappoint. [First added to this chart: 08/05/2018]
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1978
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[First added to this chart: 08/11/2018]
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2004
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842
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[First added to this chart: 08/05/2018]
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1993
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421
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[First added to this chart: 08/13/2019]
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2017
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1,541
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[First added to this chart: 08/11/2018]
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1996
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[First added to this chart: 08/10/2018]
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1977
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition

Decade Albums %


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%
Country Albums %


United States 42 42%
United Kingdom 39 39%
Canada 4 4%
Iceland 4 4%
Mixed Nationality 4 4%
France 2 2%
Norway 2 2%
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes

Biggest climbers
Climber Up 8 from 13th to 5th
Debut
by Björk
Climber Up 7 from 72nd to 65th
Transmissions From The Satellite Heart
by The Flaming Lips
Climber Up 7 from 71st to 64th
Permanent Waves
by Rush
Biggest fallers
Faller Down 26 from 46th to 72nd
Killer
by Alice Cooper
Faller Down 10 from 63rd to 73rd
Architecture & Morality
by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
Faller Down 8 from 66th to 74th
Ágætis Byrjun
by Sigur Rós

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From 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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From 11/28/2022 07:47
Love this chart.
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From 10/29/2022 20:34
thanks for recommending me this wonderful album by Royksoop... Junior
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From 06/19/2022 08:28
really liked your chart, listen to jazz?
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From 06/29/2021 00:37
Bjork and Lana are amazing :)
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From 04/26/2021 14:32
Extremely varied, love it
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From 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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From 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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From 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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From 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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