Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
by Lourenco 
This is a rock music chart only. The criteria applied is: originality and aesthetic excellence. An album is a work of art, just like a poem or a painting. These are, in my strong opinion, a hundred that coined unique styles, new ways of musical technicalities, and emotional sensibilities. I believe that it can be reached a kind of objectivity when we're dealing with art only when we communicate with a lot of art in a critical mindset. That is, the more you hear; the more you know; the better you judge. If there's a tendency to favor a musical genre more than another (say, post-rock more than pop rock) then it's because I think it's a genre that has better art to offer, until now.
I tried to put only one album per artist/band so that people can know more bands (most of these artists/bands have wonderful albums besides the ones I put here).
Tons of omissions that annoy me. In the future I'll narrow the subject (best ever albums being the widest) and make more precise lists.
- Chart updated: 01/08/2019 15:15
- (Created: 01/06/2019 23:30).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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1969
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5,924
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1970
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1,460
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1991
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26,636
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1967
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37,081
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1991
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11,442
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1972
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1,864
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1967
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8,780
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1991
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1,763
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1984
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4,595
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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 | 13 | 13% | |
| 1970s | 23 | 23% | |
| 1980s | 20 | 20% | |
| 1990s | 33 | 33% | |
| 2000s | 5 | 5% | |
| 2010s | 6 | 6% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Can | 2 | 2% | |
| The Velvet Underground | 2 | 2% | |
| Slint | 2 | 2% | |
| Van Morrison | 2 | 2% | |
| The Replacements | 2 | 2% | |
| Pink Floyd | 2 | 2% | |
| Klaus Schulze | 2 | 2% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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59 | 59% | |
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17 | 17% | |
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8 | 8% | |
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6 | 6% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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1 | 1% | |
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Amirkhosro 08/23/2020 11:21 | #257342
Quite possibly my favorite rock chart on BEA. Just beautiful.
WL/WH deserves a better place though. Just saying.
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