Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by 
Spyglass 
My chart is ordered from best to worst. These albums I have chosen are albums that go above and beyond the boundaries of music, and have brilliance to share in whatever forms they take. All of the albums I've chosen are very special to me in one way or another, even if they're outside of my comfort zone, because a comfort zone doesn't matter when you're trying to comprehend all forms of music.
I've added little stories that describe my feelings when listening to each album. They're quite odd, but I love a little odd now and then.
- Chart updated: 11/11/2020 00:15
- (Created: 04/03/2020 22:07).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Vocal Jazz / Soul
"It's very dangerous to try and break my heart. I know you've done it with many other girls, leaving them crying in their homes and scarred every time they look at the phone. But I'm not a girl, I'm a woman. And if you try to tear me up inside, I'll tear you up from skin to bone. I'm not your property to slap around, I'm a free spirit and I don't care what your testosterone-ridden pride says. I'm not saying I'm better than you because I'm a woman. I'm better than you because I'm a lover, and you're a one-night stand man. I've been doing this since I was a little girl. I've had a lot of practice in breaking the souls of people who break hearts." [First added to this chart: 04/03/2020]
"It's very dangerous to try and break my heart. I know you've done it with many other girls, leaving them crying in their homes and scarred every time they look at the phone. But I'm not a girl, I'm a woman. And if you try to tear me up inside, I'll tear you up from skin to bone. I'm not your property to slap around, I'm a free spirit and I don't care what your testosterone-ridden pride says. I'm not saying I'm better than you because I'm a woman. I'm better than you because I'm a lover, and you're a one-night stand man. I've been doing this since I was a little girl. I've had a lot of practice in breaking the souls of people who break hearts." [First added to this chart: 04/03/2020]
Year of Release:
1965
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2,777
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Chamber Folk / Prog Folk / Singer-Songwriter
"Anyone can try as hard as they can to become a modern myth, but it takes a special kind of knowledge of mythology and something truly innovative to make it so. With just a soft voice and a harp, one can behead Medusa and slay the Minotaur. The logic behind mythology in music is the same logic that can describe what would happen if the planets were to align. One does not need to face a dragon to become a myth. Mythology is an attitude that you take with you the moment you read your first fairy tale. You may exude it, but you must not flaunt it. Mythology must be tame, presentable and relatable. It must make others who read this fables feel like either heroes or royalty. This is not the kind of myth you tell to your friends at a bar or to spook people around a campfire with. And it's not necessarily the myth that you should read in a book. In fact, it might take a few tries to understand exactly what makes a myth. But I can promise you that when you become a myth, you immediately know it." [First added to this chart: 04/04/2020]
"Anyone can try as hard as they can to become a modern myth, but it takes a special kind of knowledge of mythology and something truly innovative to make it so. With just a soft voice and a harp, one can behead Medusa and slay the Minotaur. The logic behind mythology in music is the same logic that can describe what would happen if the planets were to align. One does not need to face a dragon to become a myth. Mythology is an attitude that you take with you the moment you read your first fairy tale. You may exude it, but you must not flaunt it. Mythology must be tame, presentable and relatable. It must make others who read this fables feel like either heroes or royalty. This is not the kind of myth you tell to your friends at a bar or to spook people around a campfire with. And it's not necessarily the myth that you should read in a book. In fact, it might take a few tries to understand exactly what makes a myth. But I can promise you that when you become a myth, you immediately know it." [First added to this chart: 04/04/2020]
Year of Release:
2006
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9,209
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Indie Folk / Chamber Pop
"My report is one our home state, and is based upon old records I found at the library behind a bunch of crossword puzzle books nobody ended up checking out. Anyone can do a report with an average history book, but the phrasings and writings in this book brought real poetry to our whole history. It was so beautiful in its description of our history that I wanted to believe it could predict the future." [First added to this chart: 04/03/2020]
"My report is one our home state, and is based upon old records I found at the library behind a bunch of crossword puzzle books nobody ended up checking out. Anyone can do a report with an average history book, but the phrasings and writings in this book brought real poetry to our whole history. It was so beautiful in its description of our history that I wanted to believe it could predict the future." [First added to this chart: 04/03/2020]
Year of Release:
2005
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23,114
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Spiritual Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz
"I've been to Heaven before. My husband took me there after his death. You wanna hear the music I heard? It's real nice, brother." [First added to this chart: 06/04/2020]
"I've been to Heaven before. My husband took me there after his death. You wanna hear the music I heard? It's real nice, brother." [First added to this chart: 06/04/2020]
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1971
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1,769
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Dance-Pop / Contemporary R&B
"I met here at the bar. They were having a 10th Anniversary of Disco party, whatever that means. I saw her on the dance floor doing movies I didn't know were possible, as if she were a student of contortionism. She danced like a soul free from its body, attempting to seduce the angels to allow her into Heaven. Having taken dance lessons myself, I decided to watch and wait to see how she would treat the other boys before I took my stand. She rejected them all, as if they were trying to be too human as opposed to her almost astral movement, something spiritual. I was the only one who could understand her. I didn't try to mimic her movements: I mimicked her philosophy, translating it into my bodily movements. I wasn't very good, but she could see that I understood what she was doing. And so she danced with me. Afterwards, she got in the back of my '85 Mustang and we had the wildest night of our lives, especially when she revealed the reason why she could dance like that to me. For anyone who sees me like this, don't be scared. She taught me that there's nothing to be afraid of, not even monsters." [First added to this chart: 04/03/2020]
"I met here at the bar. They were having a 10th Anniversary of Disco party, whatever that means. I saw her on the dance floor doing movies I didn't know were possible, as if she were a student of contortionism. She danced like a soul free from its body, attempting to seduce the angels to allow her into Heaven. Having taken dance lessons myself, I decided to watch and wait to see how she would treat the other boys before I took my stand. She rejected them all, as if they were trying to be too human as opposed to her almost astral movement, something spiritual. I was the only one who could understand her. I didn't try to mimic her movements: I mimicked her philosophy, translating it into my bodily movements. I wasn't very good, but she could see that I understood what she was doing. And so she danced with me. Afterwards, she got in the back of my '85 Mustang and we had the wildest night of our lives, especially when she revealed the reason why she could dance like that to me. For anyone who sees me like this, don't be scared. She taught me that there's nothing to be afraid of, not even monsters." [First added to this chart: 04/03/2020]
Year of Release:
1982
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16,967
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Modern Classical / Film Soundtrack / Orchestral
"With this wand I translate the magics of the universe for all to hear and understand. The forces of good and evil have no limitations when spread across the universe. The ambiguity of philosophy creates evil, where the understanding of it creates good. My wand of light is a sword against the twisted darkness and the tainted wo0rds of our ancestors, so I bring forth a light not seen since the ancient times." [First added to this chart: 06/05/2020]
"With this wand I translate the magics of the universe for all to hear and understand. The forces of good and evil have no limitations when spread across the universe. The ambiguity of philosophy creates evil, where the understanding of it creates good. My wand of light is a sword against the twisted darkness and the tainted wo0rds of our ancestors, so I bring forth a light not seen since the ancient times." [First added to this chart: 06/05/2020]
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Post-Rock
"Not to make assumptions or be rude, but I believe I can see into your mind. I might not know your greatest achievements, deepest sorrows or even what you had for breakfast, but I can make an educated guess at everything that surrounds you and how you soak it in. Could you make a list of the many things that you take for granted, all because you compare all that's good and golden with things born of evil and soot? The pain that you are going through this very moment (and have been for thousands of moments just like this one) is simply a variant of the pain anyone else could be going through. Through connecting all of these variants of pain into one human category, we're all someone who deserves a kind examination of the soul, so if you're willing to let me see what you want me to see, I'll help you see the world in a new light." [First added to this chart: 04/03/2020]
"Not to make assumptions or be rude, but I believe I can see into your mind. I might not know your greatest achievements, deepest sorrows or even what you had for breakfast, but I can make an educated guess at everything that surrounds you and how you soak it in. Could you make a list of the many things that you take for granted, all because you compare all that's good and golden with things born of evil and soot? The pain that you are going through this very moment (and have been for thousands of moments just like this one) is simply a variant of the pain anyone else could be going through. Through connecting all of these variants of pain into one human category, we're all someone who deserves a kind examination of the soul, so if you're willing to let me see what you want me to see, I'll help you see the world in a new light." [First added to this chart: 04/03/2020]
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1996
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4,519
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East Coast Hip Hop
"The story of my life is a simple one. Big booties, pirate's booty, brass monkey, stayin' funky, girls and booze worldwide." [First added to this chart: 06/06/2020]
"The story of my life is a simple one. Big booties, pirate's booty, brass monkey, stayin' funky, girls and booze worldwide." [First added to this chart: 06/06/2020]
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1989
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Modern Classical
"Spring is not a simply cheerful, childish time for birds to sing cute little songs and children to play in the grass and water. It's a powerful force that cannot be stopped. It redefines the world as we see it, and spreads happiness across the world. Happiness itself may be the epitome of cheerfulness, but the force at which Spring renders us all in a high emotional state is so terrible that such a thing needs to be addressed. It's almost as if the seasons control us. We address these changes in a celebratory way with our holidays, but are the changes always so celebratory if we're linked together in a way that almost spells the doom of freedom and the will to change ourselves? These so called "changes" are a cycle and a force that cannot be stopped. If we're not careful, we'll become a part of it." [First added to this chart: 04/06/2020]
"Spring is not a simply cheerful, childish time for birds to sing cute little songs and children to play in the grass and water. It's a powerful force that cannot be stopped. It redefines the world as we see it, and spreads happiness across the world. Happiness itself may be the epitome of cheerfulness, but the force at which Spring renders us all in a high emotional state is so terrible that such a thing needs to be addressed. It's almost as if the seasons control us. We address these changes in a celebratory way with our holidays, but are the changes always so celebratory if we're linked together in a way that almost spells the doom of freedom and the will to change ourselves? These so called "changes" are a cycle and a force that cannot be stopped. If we're not careful, we'll become a part of it." [First added to this chart: 04/06/2020]
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Atmo-Sludge Metal / Post-Metal
"I've written too many poems on my old war life to forgive myself. My whole life has been dedicated to the stench of death and the droppings of bombs that I thought I had ran away from. If I don't stop writing, the past will haunt my dreams. When you're at war, you can't focus on the vibrant daytime sky. You can only focus on the smoke coming from the wounds you've dealt to the earth, and like an optical illusion... the whole sky goes gray. Your memories are distorted, much like your mind once you've set foot on the battlefield." [First added to this chart: 04/04/2020]
"I've written too many poems on my old war life to forgive myself. My whole life has been dedicated to the stench of death and the droppings of bombs that I thought I had ran away from. If I don't stop writing, the past will haunt my dreams. When you're at war, you can't focus on the vibrant daytime sky. You can only focus on the smoke coming from the wounds you've dealt to the earth, and like an optical illusion... the whole sky goes gray. Your memories are distorted, much like your mind once you've set foot on the battlefield." [First added to this chart: 04/04/2020]
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 3 | 3% | |
| 1960s | 16 | 16% | |
| 1970s | 29 | 29% | |
| 1980s | 12 | 12% | |
| 1990s | 19 | 19% | |
| 2000s | 14 | 14% | |
| 2010s | 7 | 7% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Led Zeppelin | 2 | 2% | |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor | 2 | 2% | |
| The Beach Boys | 2 | 2% | |
| Stevie Wonder | 2 | 2% | |
| Jay-Z | 2 | 2% | |
| Charles Mingus | 2 | 2% | |
| Vangelis | 2 | 2% | |
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51 | 51% | |
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26 | 26% | |
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9 | 9% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 1 from 12th to 11th To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar |
| Up 1 from 11th to 10th Ride The Lightning by Metallica |
| Up 1 from 10th to 9th Blade Runner by Vangelis |
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| Down 3 from 9th to 12th The Last Waltz by The Band |
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