Top 40 Greatest Music Albums
by NotDavieRay 
- Chart updated: 11/26/2019 03:15
- (Created: 11/22/2019 06:30).
- Chart size: 40 albums.
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Hollow Worlds by Comaduster is my personal favorite album of all time, and in my opinion, an underrated masterpiece. Despite never reaching the mainstream, it individually transformed traditional elements from drum and bass and darkwave into a profound and lyrically forward masterpiece, becoming one of, if not, the greatest and most forward-thinking electronic album of all time. Its own original poetic, pristine and spacious sound is something that will become timeless in the years to come.
Favorite Track: Nightsail [First added to this chart: 11/22/2019]
Favorite Track: Nightsail [First added to this chart: 11/22/2019]
One of the most surreal and visceral musical experiences I ever had was listening to this album, the overall 2-hour journey from start to finish that kept me in suspense. Its a terrifyingly brilliant musical experience, fraught with excerpts and inspirations from noise rock & experimentalism, with a strong dash of the sickening nature of human behavior, tossed in for added effect.
Favorite Track: Bring The Sun/Toussaint L'Ouverture [First added to this chart: 11/22/2019]
Favorite Track: Bring The Sun/Toussaint L'Ouverture [First added to this chart: 11/22/2019]
Year of Release:
2014
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6,044
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Wonderfully depressing and dreamlike, Deathconsciousness deserves its status as a cult album. The entire record brings you into this dystopian journey into an absence of feeling, dissociation, and an overall crushing atmosphere.
Favorite Track: Bloodhail [First added to this chart: 11/22/2019]
Favorite Track: Bloodhail [First added to this chart: 11/22/2019]
Year of Release:
2008
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4,092
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8. (10) 2
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Death Grips is the group that broke the barriers for hip hop and experimental music with all their intense and questionable releases since 2010, and The Money Store happens to be that finest concoction of madness and adrenaline. A conceptual piece about a mentally unstable individual who works the streets and hustles for money, every track on this album absolutely slams into the listener like a freight train on fire with no driver at the wheel. It's intense, it's enthralling, it's so brilliantly produced and it isn't something that can be so easily mimicked, which is why it deserves its status as my favorite hip-hop piece.
Favorite Track: The Fever (Aye Aye) [First added to this chart: 11/22/2019]
Favorite Track: The Fever (Aye Aye) [First added to this chart: 11/22/2019]
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2012
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6,841
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Another post-rock piece, this one happens to be from one of my all-time favorite bands. This whole album plays out as an epic journey from life to death, with this space-age, artistic sound shaped around it. Weirdly enough it's based on the life and works of Immanuel Velikovsky, a Russian scientist from the 1900s. The lead singer actually was reading about him when trying to come up with ideas for a new album, and the band wound up creating and releasing this in the fall of 2009. Its a nostalgic work for me personally and I think it's one of the most underrated albums of all time.
Favorite Track: Letters From Saint Angelica [First added to this chart: 11/22/2019]
Favorite Track: Letters From Saint Angelica [First added to this chart: 11/22/2019]
Without a doubt my all-time favorite metal album. The sound created here is often described by listeners as "metal for astronauts," creating a sort of spacious music that builds and progresses into something so blindingly loud and powerful that by the time it's over you're just awestruck. There are strong uses of what sounds like prog-inspired riffs (specifically on the track Absent), melodic radiofrequency samples and a sort of conceptualized story around it. Hopefully, you don't mind loud music and screaming vocals.
Favorite Track: Au Pays Natal [First added to this chart: 11/22/2019]
Favorite Track: Au Pays Natal [First added to this chart: 11/22/2019]
Behind this wall of organized synthetic sound, you'll find what I consider some of the most rhythmic and coolest guitar riffs ever, along with some fun and catchy lyrics to go along with it. Celldweller is a single man whose gone by many names and aliases over the years but is best known under this name and label. Because of his ongoing identity crisis, however, his work is almost always hard to pinpoint into a single genre, ranging from alternative/industrial rock to experimental drum and bass. In the end, critics find it easiest to call him, "Electronic Rock," making him somewhat of a pioneer to an entire field of underground music. His most ambitious release, "Wish Upon A Blackstar," was a work in progress for him for nearly an entire decade until its finalized release in 2012, which was a big turning point in music for me.
Favorite Track: Eon [First added to this chart: 11/22/2019]
Favorite Track: Eon [First added to this chart: 11/22/2019]
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This album is the most perfect celestial dose of both haunting and alluring storytelling, the lyrics and sound fusing together like two puzzle pieces, filling in the final space to complete a beautiful painting. Overall, Comaduster's "Solace" is another undiscovered masterpiece, a piece of art in it's purest form.
Favorite Track: Solace [First added to this chart: 11/22/2019]
Favorite Track: Solace [First added to this chart: 11/22/2019]
[First added to this chart: 11/22/2019]
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2018
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2,831
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Top 40 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 3 | 8% | |
| 1970s | 7 | 18% | |
| 1980s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1990s | 9 | 23% | |
| 2000s | 9 | 23% | |
| 2010s | 12 | 30% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Pink Floyd | 4 | 10% | |
| Radiohead | 3 | 8% | |
| The Beatles | 2 | 5% | |
| Sufjan Stevens | 2 | 5% | |
| Comaduster | 2 | 5% | |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor | 2 | 5% | |
| Swans | 2 | 5% | |
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Top 40 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 12 from 14th to 2ndTo Be Kind by Swans |
| Up 8 from 21st to 13thOK Computer by Radiohead |
| Up 2 from 10th to 8thThe Money Store by Death Grips |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 3 from 8th to 11thThe Beatles (The White Album) by The Beatles |
| Down 2 from 2nd to 4thLoveless by My Bloody Valentine |
| Down 2 from 7th to 9thThe Martyrdom Of A Catastrophist by Junius |
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