Top 96 Greatest Music Albums by bobnickmad 
The longer this chart becomes the harder it is to find a mix between personal favorites and those records in each genre that I would recommend to someone else.
Also, I find metal quite hard to properly rate among other rock and pop albums because what metal tries to convey is a bit different, going more toward a sense of large scale over the personal. It's even harder with jazz.
- Chart updated: 04/13/2023 16:45
- (Created: 07/27/2020 18:27).
- Chart size: 96 albums.
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Coltrane really speaks through the instrument here. The way the four pieces are arranged as complimentary mental states create an overall narrative structure that compensate for the lack of words. This is pure emotional expression.
[First added to this chart: 12/19/2021]
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1965
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The Beatles, Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan and the likes pushed rock music from something fun but very basic to further potential, but Jimmi Hendrix had more ambition than all the 60s greats, pushing his music further instrumentally and production wise, but without loosing what made rock fun and relatable in the first place.
[First added to this chart: 08/23/2022]
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1968
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Definite artistic statement. Has anyone changed the definition of singing like Dylan did here ? It`s like each lyric is cut in marble and written with an impressionistic brush.
[First added to this chart: 07/27/2020]
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1965
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31,057
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I see this album as nr.1 on many official best album charts, and I agree with the sentiment.
The experimentalism here seems more genuine than on Sg.Peppers and more groundbreaking then V.U. and Nico, but it`s all integrated in their sense of the perfect pop melody which they already mastered like a magic formula. If only they could have written longer songs. [First added to this chart: 07/27/2020]
The experimentalism here seems more genuine than on Sg.Peppers and more groundbreaking then V.U. and Nico, but it`s all integrated in their sense of the perfect pop melody which they already mastered like a magic formula. If only they could have written longer songs. [First added to this chart: 07/27/2020]
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1966
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Simply the best collection of songs rock and pop music has ever produced.
[First added to this chart: 07/27/2020]
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1979
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36,238
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Pop-rock perfection. Bowie already proved on his previous album, Hunky Dory, that he could be on par with his idols (Dylan and Lou Reed) when it came to song-writting, but the instrumentation did not felt cohesive enough; here he makes everything more elegant, and the result is a complete masterpiece of pop melody and rock'n'roll energy.
[First added to this chart: 07/27/2020]
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1972
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50,098
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Joy Division must be definition of efficiency in rock music: no wasted or unnecesary riff, bass line or drum pattern.
[First added to this chart: 07/27/2020]
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1979
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Lou Reed is the definition of effortlesly cool, while Nico and John Cale add a sense of somber melancholy. Chock full of brilliant songs.
[First added to this chart: 07/27/2020]
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1967
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21st Century Schizoid Man is one of the highlights of music, be it modern or classical. The other pieces take a more sublte approach, but it feels like it was meant to be played at a great court in a high fantasy setting.
[First added to this chart: 01/25/2023]
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1969
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Takes the unbelievable energy and agression of their debut, mixes ut with great songwritting, the perfect balance of diversity for a metal album, the best track order of any album (except Master of Puppets and A Love Supreme), and a sound that is both massive, raw and majestic. The definition of everything that is great about metal.
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1984
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Top 96 Greatest Music Albums composition
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 1 | 1% | |
| 1960s | 15 | 16% | |
| 1970s | 14 | 15% | |
| 1980s | 30 | 31% | |
| 1990s | 16 | 17% | |
| 2000s | 10 | 10% | |
| 2010s | 10 | 10% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| The Beatles | 4 | 4% | |
| John Coltrane | 3 | 3% | |
| Bob Dylan | 3 | 3% | |
| David Bowie | 3 | 3% | |
| Katatonia | 2 | 2% | |
| The Damned | 2 | 2% | |
| Metallica | 2 | 2% | |
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55 | 57% | |
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24 | 25% | |
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| 100/100 | 02/12/2023 05:54 |  urmom22 | | 93/100 |
| 95/100 | 04/13/2022 02:46 | mrmcrook | | 92/100 |
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| 100/100 | 03/25/2022 21:25 |  Larcx13 | | 86/100 |
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From urmom22 02/21/2023 07:45
urmom22 02/21/2023 07:45
Hell yea brother
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From mrmcrook 04/13/2022 02:46
I like your added notes. Good taste.
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Thats one gnarly top 10
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