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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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]
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]
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1973
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[First added to this chart: 05/25/2019]
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1972
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14,443
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Timeless classic and some of the best songwriting that is out there. 90
Best Track(s): Five Years, Moonage Daydream, Starman, Lady Stardust, Ziggy Stardust, Suffragette City, Rock 'N' Roll Suicide
Worst Track: Hang On to Yourself
Best Moment: Chorus of Starman [First added to this chart: 05/31/2019]
Best Track(s): Five Years, Moonage Daydream, Starman, Lady Stardust, Ziggy Stardust, Suffragette City, Rock 'N' Roll Suicide
Worst Track: Hang On to Yourself
Best Moment: Chorus of Starman [First added to this chart: 05/31/2019]
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1972
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The perfect eulogy album for a band member and friend who lost himself to insanity. Overall Pink Floyd's second best work, mostly because of the front and back 9 part overture dedicated to their lost companion. Overall a lot of similiar successes that they had on Dark Side with balance, great songwriting, great solos. "Wish you were here" is a great title track and "Have A Cigar" is not that good. 95
Best Track(s): Shine On You Crazy Diamond*, Welcome to the Machine, Wish You Were Here
Worst Track: Have A Cigar
Best Moment: End of parts 1-5 when they switch to four and the sax goes offf. [First added to this chart: 05/25/2019]
Best Track(s): Shine On You Crazy Diamond*, Welcome to the Machine, Wish You Were Here
Worst Track: Have A Cigar
Best Moment: End of parts 1-5 when they switch to four and the sax goes offf. [First added to this chart: 05/25/2019]
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1975
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50,777
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Led Zeppelin's greatest work. I am not of the opinion that moving away from their jazz stuff was why they broke out, because their earliest stuff is their best. This album just has the best song writing and the best variation amongst tracks. It plays like a greatest hits record and they didn't need the jazz to make a great collection of songs. "Going to California" might stand out from the rest of the tracks but the penultimate song pulls you away from the grooves and lets you drift away for just a couple minutes before "When The Levee Breaks" comes crashing in. Great closure to an album. 95
Best Track(s): Black Dog, Stairway To Heaven, Misty Mountain Hop, Going to California*, When The Levee Breaks
Worst Track: The Battle Of Evermore
Best Moment: You could say the breakdown at the end of Stairway To Heaven, which is what I'm gonna say. [First added to this chart: 05/25/2019]
Best Track(s): Black Dog, Stairway To Heaven, Misty Mountain Hop, Going to California*, When The Levee Breaks
Worst Track: The Battle Of Evermore
Best Moment: You could say the breakdown at the end of Stairway To Heaven, which is what I'm gonna say. [First added to this chart: 05/25/2019]
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1971
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[First added to this chart: 11/20/2019]
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1971
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19,696
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[First added to this chart: 10/01/2019]
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1977
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19,397
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Great concept and overall great flow, the songs between Hey You and Comfortably Numb just drag a little, but the front half though.. 90
Best Track(s): In the Flesh?, Another Brick In The Wall, Pt. 2, Mother, Goodbye Blue Sky, Young Lust, Hey You, Comfortably Numb, Run Like Hell, Waiting For The Worms
Worst Track: Stop
Best Moment: That guitar/motif in Hey You [First added to this chart: 05/25/2019]
Best Track(s): In the Flesh?, Another Brick In The Wall, Pt. 2, Mother, Goodbye Blue Sky, Young Lust, Hey You, Comfortably Numb, Run Like Hell, Waiting For The Worms
Worst Track: Stop
Best Moment: That guitar/motif in Hey You [First added to this chart: 05/25/2019]
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1979
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30,120
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Nice. 90
Best Track(s): Disorder*, Day of the Lords, Candidate, She's Lost Control, Shadowplay, Interzone, I Remember Nothing
Worst Track: Insight
Best Moment: Guitar line on Shadowplay [First added to this chart: 06/20/2019]
Best Track(s): Disorder*, Day of the Lords, Candidate, She's Lost Control, Shadowplay, Interzone, I Remember Nothing
Worst Track: Insight
Best Moment: Guitar line on Shadowplay [First added to this chart: 06/20/2019]
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1979
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1972
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3,465
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 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% |
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| 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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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 |
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| 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 |
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 Superflyby Curtis Mayfield |
| This Town Needs Guns by This Town Needs Guns |
| Cosmogramma by Flying Lotus |
| Leavers |
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 A Moon Shaped Poolby Radiohead |
| Five Leaves Left by Nick Drake |
| Pink Moon by Nick Drake |
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