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:

2,923 charts

Rank Score:

43,857

Rank in 2007:

1

Rank in 2000s:

1

Overall Rank:

6

Average Rating:

 90 (3,945 votes)

Comments:

396

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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:

4,134 charts

Rank Score:

60,060

Rank in 1973:

1

Rank in 1970s:

1

Overall Rank:

2

Average Rating:

 92 (5,331 votes)

Comments:

592

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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:

383 charts

Rank Score:

3,504

Rank in 1999:

10

Rank in 1990s:

88

Overall Rank:

493

Average Rating:

 80 (495 votes)

Comments:

25

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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:

218 charts

Rank Score:

1,976

Rank in 2001:

14

Rank in 2000s:

142

Overall Rank:

875

Average Rating:

 82 (226 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:

2,889 charts

Rank Score:

34,118

Rank in 2004:

1

Rank in 2000s:

3

Overall Rank:

15

Average Rating:

 88 (3,662 votes)

Comments:

401

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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:

1,057 charts

Rank Score:

12,191

Rank in 1991:

4

Rank in 1990s:

20

Overall Rank:

102

Average Rating:

 83 (1,281 votes)

Comments:

123

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F♯ A♯ ∞ [F-Sharp, A-Sharp, Infinity] 

 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:

655 charts

Rank Score:

6,561

Rank in 1997:

5

Rank in 1990s:

51

Overall Rank:

246

Average Rating:

 84 (781 votes)

Comments:

49

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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:

838 charts

Rank Score:

7,724

Rank in 2000:

4

Rank in 2000s:

32

Overall Rank:

198

Average Rating:

 82 (944 votes)

Comments:

69

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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:

149 charts

Rank Score:

1,038

Rank in 1994:

45

Rank in 1990s:

299

Overall Rank:

1,631

Average Rating:

 78 (154 votes)

Comments:

8

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Close To The Edge 

 Yes

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Year of Release:

1972

Appears in:

1,199 charts

Rank Score:

13,894

Rank in 1972:

4

Rank in 1970s:

24

Overall Rank:

87

Average Rating:

 85 (1,479 votes)

Comments:

120

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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition

Country	Albums	%
	55	55%
	32	32%
	7	7%
	2	2%
	2	2%
	1	1%
	1	1%

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