Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by rnanderson8

List of albums I consider to be the greatest. This should exemplify my music taste and hopefully anyone reading this finds something new to listen to. Constantly updating and adding new albums. You'll find a mix of indie, hip-hop/rap, post-rock, emo, shoegaze, and what you'd hopefully consider classics. Completely and utterly subjective. Enjoy!

Songs w/ (*) are considered some of my greatest tracks of all time.

• Chart updated: 11/21/2019 01:45
• (Created: 05/25/2019 16:54).
• Chart size: 100 albums.

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In Rainbows 

 Radiohead

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Radiohead's seventh album is a masterpiece. It's their most beautiful and most raw work to date and every song is perfect both on its own and in the entire scope of the album. Songs like "Bodysnatchers" and "Jigsaw Falling Into Place" with their addictive hooks will have you dancing while those like "Nude" and "Videotape" will have you crying into your pillow. Impeccable flow, songwriting, lyricism, guitar work, etc. Will likely be the greatest album for the rest of my life. 100

Best Track(s): Bodysnatchers, Nude, Weird Fishes/Arpeggi*, All I Need, Reckoner, Jigsaw Falling Into Place*, Videotape

Worst Track: House of Cards

Best Moment: The greatest bridge and breakdown of any song ever; The last two minutes of Bodysnatchers [First added to this chart: 05/25/2019]

Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

2,833 charts

Rank Score:

51,132

Rank in 2007:

1

Rank in 2000s:

2

Overall Rank:

6

Average Rating:

 90 (3,835 votes)

Comments:

386

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The Dark Side Of The Moon 

 Pink Floyd

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Pink Floyd's best album for me is no doubt Dark Side. The intro "Speak To Me" pulls you in with its pulse and different sound effects of what's to come, and by the time the Synth and Clare Torry's voice crescendo into "Breathe", you've been transported. The album is a spectacular work about time, death, insanity, and everything in between. Great flow, transitions, lyricism, and the song writing and spotlight is very excellently balanced here between Gilmour and Waters, as it should be. 100

Best Track(s): Breathe, Time*, Great Gig In the Sky, Us and Them

Worst Track: On The Run

Best Moment: Speak To Me into Breathe [First added to this chart: 05/25/2019]

Year of Release:

1973

Appears in:

4,043 charts

Rank Score:

71,188

Rank in 1973:

1

Rank in 1970s:

1

Overall Rank:

2

Average Rating:

 92 (5,203 votes)

Comments:

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American Football 

 American Football

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The greatest heartbreak/break up album ever. This album really hits hard in a lot of ways. The lyrics are incredibly desolate and make the listener feel so so lonesome. Kinsella's guitar work and the math-rock influence are what really make the album catchy and listenable even when you don't need the break up vibe. Extremely soothing and emotional. 100

Best Track(s): Never Meant, But The Regrets Are Killing Me, I'll See You When We're Both Not So Emotional*, Stay Home

Worst Track: You Know I Should Be Leaving Soon

Best Moment: 2:30 of I'll See You, always gets me [First added to this chart: 05/25/2019]

Year of Release:

1999

Appears in:

364 charts

Rank Score:

3,829

Rank in 1999:

10

Rank in 1990s:

86

Overall Rank:

470

Average Rating:

 80 (472 votes)

Comments:

24

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Leaves Turn Inside You 

 Unwound

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One of the most overlooked albums in terms of its songwriting and consistency, if there's one album on this list everyone should give a listen its this one. Never has an album become better and more addictive with every listen. Starting with two straight minutes of feedback, it may be reasonable to question whether it's worth waiting it out (it really really is). 100

Best Track(s): We Invent You, Look A Ghost, December*, Terminus*, Off This Century, One Lick Less, Scarlette, October All Over, Radio Gra, Below The Salt* (Thats 10/14).

Worst Track: Summer Freeze

Best Moment: 4:30 into Below the Salt, or the outro to Terminus [First added to this chart: 05/25/2019]

Year of Release:

2001

Appears in:

204 charts

Rank Score:

2,019

Rank in 2001:

14

Rank in 2000s:

141

Overall Rank:

889

Average Rating:

 83 (212 votes)

Comments:

10

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Funeral 

 Arcade Fire

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A masterful work about dwelling in death, youth, and love. All ten tracks demonstrate just how talented singers/songwriters Win Butler and Regine Chassagne really are. This record really rocks, and might make you shed a few tears. 100

Best Track(s): Tunnels*, Une Anne Sans Lumiere, Power Out, Crown Of Love, Wake Up

Worst Track: In The Backseat (still a great closer!)

Best Moment: Last minute of Une Ane Sans Lumiere [First added to this chart: 05/25/2019]

Year of Release:

2004

Appears in:

2,826 charts

Rank Score:

41,745

Rank in 2004:

1

Rank in 2000s:

3

Overall Rank:

15

Average Rating:

 88 (3,599 votes)

Comments:

400

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Spiderland 

 Slint

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The best Math-rock/Post-rock/Post-hardcore record ever made. Britt Walford's drumming digs deep, McMahan's weeps and dialogue will make your skin crawl, Pajo and Buckler's guitar work is tight and pulsing but only when it needs to be. 100

Best Track(s): Breadcrumb Trail, Nosferatu Man, Washer*, Good Morning, Captain

Worst Track: For Dinner...

Best Moment: "My head is empty, my toes are warm, I am safe from harm", and everything after... [First added to this chart: 05/25/2019]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

1,020 charts

Rank Score:

13,731

Rank in 1991:

4

Rank in 1990s:

18

Overall Rank:

95

Average Rating:

 84 (1,235 votes)

Comments:

120

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F♯ A♯ ∞ (LP Version) 

 Godspeed You! Black Emperor

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Contrary to many GY!BE fans, I believe the band really hit the nail on the head with their first record. There's a lot of emotion in the ethereal samples, effects, and dialogue the band uses on this record, the builds are incredible and the experience from front to back is like none other. Obviously the CD version is the superior cut from these sessions, but the hooked groove and the infinite loop at the end of the record is ever so haunting. 100

Best Track(s): Dead Flag Blues (Intro), The Cowboy, Dead Flag Blues (Outro), The Sad Mafioso, Divorce & Fever, Dead Metheny*, String Loop Manufactured During Downpour

Worst Track: Slow Moving Trains

Best Moment: 8:20-12:10 of East Hastings, greatest build in rock music [First added to this chart: 05/25/2019]

Year of Release:

1997

Appears in:

577 charts

Rank Score:

6,094

Rank in 1997:

7

Rank in 1990s:

55

Overall Rank:

294

Average Rating:

 84 (732 votes)

Comments:

47

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Since I Left You 

 The Avalanches

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Groovy and touching sampling, an album like no other. 95

Best Track(s): Since I Left You*, Radio, Two Heart in 3/4 Time, A Different Feeling, Electricity*, Frontier Psychiatrist

Worst Track: Pablo's Cruise

Best Moment: Either of the grooves in Electricity or Radio [First added to this chart: 05/31/2019]

Year of Release:

2000

Appears in:

806 charts

Rank Score:

8,822

Rank in 2000:

4

Rank in 2000s:

30

Overall Rank:

185

Average Rating:

 82 (920 votes)

Comments:

67

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Yank Crime 

 Drive Like Jehu

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With every listen of this record I can feel every instrument being played cutting into me and digging deep. Everything about this album is great. The Post-Hardcore sound fusing with a lot of hooks in these crazy time signatures just makes it all the more interesting and all the better to thrash to. Plus the theme regarding countries that colonized small and helpless countries and all the guilt they should feel. There is not an album like this. This SLAPS. 100

Best Track(s): Here Come the Rome Plows, Golden Brown*, Luau*, Super Unison, New Math, Sinews

Worst Track: New Intro

Best Moment: Breakdown in the middle of Golden Brown, or chorus of Luau [First added to this chart: 05/25/2019]

Year of Release:

1994

Appears in:

136 charts

Rank Score:

1,129

Rank in 1994:

44

Rank in 1990s:

285

Overall Rank:

1,533

Average Rating:

 78 (145 votes)

Comments:

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Close To The Edge 

 Yes

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Year of Release:

1972

Appears in:

1,134 charts

Rank Score:

14,443

Rank in 1972:

4

Rank in 1970s:

24

Overall Rank:

90

Average Rating:

 85 (1,419 votes)

Comments:

115

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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition

Decade	Albums	%
1930s	0	0%
1940s	0	0%
1950s	1	1%
1960s	7	7%
1970s	13	13%
1980s	7	7%
1990s	26	26%
2000s	27	27%
2010s	19	19%
2020s	0	0%

Artist	Albums	%
Pink Floyd	4	4%
Radiohead	3	3%
Animal Collective	3	3%
David Bowie	3	3%
Fugazi	2	2%
Kendrick Lamar	2	2%
Unwound	2	2%
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Country	Albums	%
	55	55%
	32	32%
	7	7%
	2	2%
	2	2%
	1	1%
	1	1%

Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes

Biggest climbers
Up 31 from 78th to 47th Schlagenheim by Black Midi
Up 30 from 80th to 50th Vespertine by Björk
Up 23 from 71st to 48th Strawberry Jam by Animal Collective

Biggest fallers
Down 42 from 27th to 69th Blond by Frank Ocean
Down 33 from 51st to 84th The Velvet Underground & Nico by The Velvet Underground & Nico
Down 23 from 69th to 92nd Joy As An Act Of Resistance. by Idles

New entries
Superfly by Curtis Mayfield
This Town Needs Guns by This Town Needs Guns
Cosmogramma by Flying Lotus

Leavers
A Moon Shaped Pool by Radiohead
Five Leaves Left by Nick Drake
Pink Moon by Nick Drake

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