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: 11/24/2024 01:45
- (Created: 08/05/2018 19:08).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
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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 Chemical Brothers | 2 | 2% | |
| Led Zeppelin | 2 | 2% | |
| R.E.M. | 2 | 2% | |
| Nine Inch Nails | 2 | 2% | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins | 2 | 2% | |
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44 | 44% | |
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39 | 39% | |
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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 22 from 98th to 76th Midnite Vultures by Beck |
| Up 5 from 68th to 63rd Physical Graffiti by Led Zeppelin |
| Up 5 from 67th to 62nd Led Zeppelin III by Led Zeppelin |
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| Down 20 from 62nd to 82nd Stereo Type A by Cibo Matto |
| Down 4 from 52nd to 56th A Trick Of The Tail by Genesis |
| Down 4 from 53rd to 57th Big Science by Laurie Anderson |
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 Surrenderby The Chemical Brothers |
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Great to see Pink Floyd and Bjork...Obviously The Dark Side of the Moon is a felt absence
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.
Love this chart.
thanks for recommending me this wonderful album by Royksoop... Junior
really liked your chart, listen to jazz?
C_Krug2009 06/29/2021 00:37
Bjork and Lana are amazing :)
hoyquarlow 04/26/2021 14:32
Extremely varied, love it
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.
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
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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