Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by Kurtco 
Honorable mentions:
- Arcade Fire - Funeral
- The Beatles - Abbey Road
- Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
- Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus
- Burial - Untrue
- CAN - Ege Bamyasi
- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
- Charles Mingus - The Black Saint And The Skinner Lady
- David Bowie - Low
- Dr. Dre - The Chronic
- Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
- Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full
- Frank Ocean - Blonde
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced ?
- Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
- Kany West & Kid Cudi - Kids See Ghosts
- Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, m.A.A.d City
- Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
- Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
- Nirvana - Nevermind
- Pink Floyd - Animals
- Portishead - Dummy
- Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
- Tyler, The Creator - Flower Boy
- The Who - Who's Next ?
- Chart updated: 03/01/2019 22:15
- (Created: 01/20/2019 17:12).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Experimental Rock, Art Rock
Radiohead is one of the most amazing bands and one of my favorite bands, that's for sure. It is true that "OK Computer" is the best album of the group, it is the most revolutionary and the most classic, but, I do not know why, I prefer "Kid A". For me, this album is one of the best examples of band evolutions. Radiohead has managed to release an excellent album completely different after the undisputed masterpiece "OK Computer" ... The band has reinvented itself using more electronic and experimental sounds. "Kid A" is Radiohead's most interesting album. It is impossible to get tired of this album, all the songs have an extraordinary universe. I'm a big fan.
10/10
Best track: "Idiotheque" [First added to this chart: 01/21/2019]
Radiohead is one of the most amazing bands and one of my favorite bands, that's for sure. It is true that "OK Computer" is the best album of the group, it is the most revolutionary and the most classic, but, I do not know why, I prefer "Kid A". For me, this album is one of the best examples of band evolutions. Radiohead has managed to release an excellent album completely different after the undisputed masterpiece "OK Computer" ... The band has reinvented itself using more electronic and experimental sounds. "Kid A" is Radiohead's most interesting album. It is impossible to get tired of this album, all the songs have an extraordinary universe. I'm a big fan.
10/10
Best track: "Idiotheque" [First added to this chart: 01/21/2019]
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2000
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Hip-Hop, Abstract Hip-Hop
Madvillainy is the result of the collaboration between rapper MF DOOM and beatmaker Madlib. First of all, MF DOOM is one of my favorite rappers: he is a major figure in underground rap and I like the mystery hovering around him. This album is the best rap album of the 2000s and one of the best rap albums of all time. Since "2001" by Dr. Dre released in 1999, rap artists are looking for catchy choruses and entangling melodies: this is the beginning of mainstream rap (with rappers such as 50 Cent or Eminem). Madvillainy is an album against the current, a UFO of the Rap game of the time. On this record, the beats are pretty minimalist and are really melodious or catchy. Otis Jackson (aka Madlib) composed these prod with simplistic tools but returns to the very essence of hip-hop thanks to this simplicity. This album is just awesome and the myth that revolves around is really captivating.
10/10
Best track: "All Caps" [First added to this chart: 01/21/2019]
Madvillainy is the result of the collaboration between rapper MF DOOM and beatmaker Madlib. First of all, MF DOOM is one of my favorite rappers: he is a major figure in underground rap and I like the mystery hovering around him. This album is the best rap album of the 2000s and one of the best rap albums of all time. Since "2001" by Dr. Dre released in 1999, rap artists are looking for catchy choruses and entangling melodies: this is the beginning of mainstream rap (with rappers such as 50 Cent or Eminem). Madvillainy is an album against the current, a UFO of the Rap game of the time. On this record, the beats are pretty minimalist and are really melodious or catchy. Otis Jackson (aka Madlib) composed these prod with simplistic tools but returns to the very essence of hip-hop thanks to this simplicity. This album is just awesome and the myth that revolves around is really captivating.
10/10
Best track: "All Caps" [First added to this chart: 01/21/2019]
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2004
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Lo-fi, Indie Folk, Psychedelic Folk
Microphones is an extraordinary band led by the genius Phil Elvrum who works on the experimentation in the lo-fi music. The very special art of Phil Elvrum and his band reaches its peak on this album of 2001. The sonic research started on "It Was Hot We Stayed in the Water" here reach an impressive maturity. It is nevertheless a matter of pure lo-fi but of so sophisticated lo-fi that one has to listen to it with the headphones to appreciate all the complexity. We must not believe that we are here in pure sound of experimentation. "The Glow, Pt. 2" is above all an "indie-pop" album full of shattering songs of simplicity and sincerity. It is clear that Phil Elvrum wanted to make a "complete" album: at once conceptual, experimental, melodic, modest and ambitious. Clearly one of the best independent rock albums of all time.
10/10
Best track: "The Glow, Pt. 2" [First added to this chart: 02/10/2019]
Microphones is an extraordinary band led by the genius Phil Elvrum who works on the experimentation in the lo-fi music. The very special art of Phil Elvrum and his band reaches its peak on this album of 2001. The sonic research started on "It Was Hot We Stayed in the Water" here reach an impressive maturity. It is nevertheless a matter of pure lo-fi but of so sophisticated lo-fi that one has to listen to it with the headphones to appreciate all the complexity. We must not believe that we are here in pure sound of experimentation. "The Glow, Pt. 2" is above all an "indie-pop" album full of shattering songs of simplicity and sincerity. It is clear that Phil Elvrum wanted to make a "complete" album: at once conceptual, experimental, melodic, modest and ambitious. Clearly one of the best independent rock albums of all time.
10/10
Best track: "The Glow, Pt. 2" [First added to this chart: 02/10/2019]
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2001
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Art Pop, Electronic, Progressive Pop
I am a big fan of Icelandic music and Björk is for me the perfect pop artist. "Vespertine" marks once again an evolution in the music of the artist, the album is cold and yet so warm, the beauty is at its peak! Björk writes with "Vespertine" his own fairy tale. It is not about poverty but about an album that aims on the contrary homogeneity, where Homogenic paradoxically spread on an extremely varied musical panel. This homogeneity is a richness, Vespertine listening as a story for children. Often the choirs carry the melody to peaks of emotion, it's magic. This is a wonderful album, magical and moving, which differs from the Icelandic discography by its extremely bright side. "Vespertine" is, for me, Björk's best album.
10/10
Best track: "Pagan Poetry" [First added to this chart: 01/21/2019]
I am a big fan of Icelandic music and Björk is for me the perfect pop artist. "Vespertine" marks once again an evolution in the music of the artist, the album is cold and yet so warm, the beauty is at its peak! Björk writes with "Vespertine" his own fairy tale. It is not about poverty but about an album that aims on the contrary homogeneity, where Homogenic paradoxically spread on an extremely varied musical panel. This homogeneity is a richness, Vespertine listening as a story for children. Often the choirs carry the melody to peaks of emotion, it's magic. This is a wonderful album, magical and moving, which differs from the Icelandic discography by its extremely bright side. "Vespertine" is, for me, Björk's best album.
10/10
Best track: "Pagan Poetry" [First added to this chart: 01/21/2019]
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2001
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Post-Rock
I discovered Godspeed not long ago and it's one of the biggest slap I've had in recent years. The third opus of the uncompromising Canadians is a marvel. On a double album and in four tracks, they compiled all the songs played on stage the past year and a half, interspersed with sound collages. The first track, "Storm", begins as dissonant Wagner, and evolves to Sonic Youth, before ending on scary piano notes. On the second track, after the magnificent violin solo of "Chord # 3", we find the incredible "World Police And Friendly Fire", one of the most impressive musical climbs in the history of rock. Later, on "Mohneim", a saturated violin makes the race with a dynamic rhythm, creating the most epic piece of the band. The fourth track, closer to concrete experiments, is just great and underrated. If the useless term 'post-rock' was to serve something, it would surely qualify this record, located light years away from the production of past productions and current productions. The band composed of 3 guitars, a bass, a violin, a cello and two drummers ensures the feeding of our brains for a very long time.
10/10
Best track: "Storm" [First added to this chart: 01/21/2019]
I discovered Godspeed not long ago and it's one of the biggest slap I've had in recent years. The third opus of the uncompromising Canadians is a marvel. On a double album and in four tracks, they compiled all the songs played on stage the past year and a half, interspersed with sound collages. The first track, "Storm", begins as dissonant Wagner, and evolves to Sonic Youth, before ending on scary piano notes. On the second track, after the magnificent violin solo of "Chord # 3", we find the incredible "World Police And Friendly Fire", one of the most impressive musical climbs in the history of rock. Later, on "Mohneim", a saturated violin makes the race with a dynamic rhythm, creating the most epic piece of the band. The fourth track, closer to concrete experiments, is just great and underrated. If the useless term 'post-rock' was to serve something, it would surely qualify this record, located light years away from the production of past productions and current productions. The band composed of 3 guitars, a bass, a violin, a cello and two drummers ensures the feeding of our brains for a very long time.
10/10
Best track: "Storm" [First added to this chart: 01/21/2019]
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2000
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2005
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2003
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2007
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[First added to this chart: 01/21/2019]
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 1 | 1% | |
| 1960s | 16 | 16% | |
| 1970s | 24 | 24% | |
| 1980s | 13 | 13% | |
| 1990s | 25 | 25% | |
| 2000s | 14 | 14% | |
| 2010s | 7 | 7% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Radiohead | 3 | 3% | |
| Bob Dylan | 3 | 3% | |
| The Beatles | 2 | 2% | |
| David Bowie | 2 | 2% | |
| Miles Davis | 2 | 2% | |
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | 2 | 2% | |
| The Velvet Underground | 2 | 2% | |
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From ForegroundNoise 11/07/2022 09:49
ForegroundNoise 11/07/2022 09:49
This chart is perfectly presented, especially for the first 30 entries. It's clear how deeply you adore these albums and your enthusiasm is infectious. Looks like you haven't touched this in a few years, would love to see how your opinion on these records has changed since 2019!
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Amazing list!!
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Great chart, thoughtful comments.
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gidgidi 06/16/2019 22:52
gidgidi 06/16/2019 22:52
Detailed, original, and interesting picks, great taste in music, this chart is perfect!
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From PeterSmith 06/16/2019 22:16
I like your chart. Love people finding Ziggy saw impressive so long after its release and glad that it isn't just a moment in time. Just found RATM recently and it blew me away.
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DommeDamian 03/17/2019 08:30
DommeDamian 03/17/2019 08:30
Why. Have. I. Not. Discovered. This. Classy. Ass. Chart. Until. Now???
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Paule 03/03/2019 22:53
Paule 03/03/2019 22:53
Undeniably a great, classic chart! Maybe add one album that is a bit more out of left field and personal ;)
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ffudnebbuh 02/22/2019 14:14
ffudnebbuh 02/22/2019 14:14
We have similar tastes. really like the variety...great chart.
I am surprised that everyone still appreciate the "velvet underground and nico" album.. That came out when I was in 7th grade..so great. never gets old. Came out during the 'summer of love' with 'are you experienced" (may 31st), "sgt pepper"(june 1st) and "surrealistic pillow". amazing
summer for music. and then there was all of the singles being released on AM radio..every day was something new. I can't explain it..I was lucky to have been a kid then.
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RoundTheBend 02/09/2019 18:17
RoundTheBend 02/09/2019 18:17
Amazing top 10, even if I'd keep the same artist and swap another album of theirs. Well balanced and fine choices. 29 artists in common.
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Strangel 01/27/2019 08:58
Strangel 01/27/2019 08:58
This strikes me as a very well thought out objective Greatest Albums chart. You have found 3 albums outside the top 500 on this site and all of those three are inside the top 1000. Do you have some less acclaimed favourites that you believe warrant being in the company of some of these classics? I reckon music appreciation is largely a subjective experience. The objective stuff is important in assessing the best of the best, of course, but surely you have more outliers beyond the top 500 that warrant a call out.
Nonetheless I agree with many of your choices. It’s good to see you have an appreciation for the Icelandic beauty of Sigur Ros and Björk amongst the acclaimed classics.
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