Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by 
Tamthebam 
I love all types of music it doesn't matter to me if the artist is considered "cool" or not. I've been collecting music for over 50 years and these are the albums I've listened to the most. I love to try and listen to everything an artist has recorded. I love music to enhance my moods I like albums that give an atmosphere/a theme, whether that is in Soul/ R n B, country, folk, jazz, indie, rock or "easy listening" or pop music. My favourite decade is the 70's. Its 2024 and I just realised that the majority of my chart is female ! This was not a conscious decision it just happened
- Chart updated: 17 hours ago
- (Created: 06/14/2012 18:49).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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A brilliant debut album from Judie Tzuke and still her best. The title track & Stay With Me 'Till Dawn along with the beautiful For You are the stand out tracks. All the songs were written by Judie & Mike Paxman her musical collaborator. Paul Buckmaster was responsible for the string arrangements on Bring The Rain & Stay With Me.... overall the album has a pop/rock feel with Tzukes strong vocals the highlight. This and her next two albums were released on Elton John's Rocket label. She also toured with him on his 1981 north american tour.
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An amazing album so far ahead of its time. The instrumentals on Side 1 which open & close Side 1 are brilliant and there is Sound & Vision & Be My Wife I don't think Side 2 on low is as good as "side 2" on heroes and that pulls the albums overall score down but it is still in my Top 100.
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1977
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Pigs, Dogs, Sheep & more pigs ........... a brilliant album especially the track Dogs this is one of my favourite Floyd album it hasn't aged as much as say some of their early albums from the sixties. It seamlessly runs one track into another and is best listened to as a whole.
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1977
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Rickie Lee Jones 3rd studio album is one of her best. Gravity, It Must Be Love and Runaround are all brilliant songs , the final tracks are a mini suite - Rorschachs/Theme For The Pope - The Unsigned Painting/The Weird Beast and is a haunting end to the album.
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1991
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12,829
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An atmospheric album expands upon the sounds created on Debut and takes it further, more electronic sounding and as a result creates a different atmosphere, which is just as rewarding. My favourite tracks are Army Of Me, I Miss You, Isobel & Enjoy. My 4th Bjork album in my Top 100.
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1995
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This is regarded as one of Joni's best albums. My favourite Joni album is Hejira. Court & Spark is my 2nd best Joni album. It is full of great songs the first 3 tracks being an example of Joni at her best. Overall the album has a jazzy feel to it which she would further explore in her next 3 albums before releasing Mingus a full jazz album.
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1974
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So sublime you really feel the pain he must have been going thru an emotional time when he recorded this. The atmosphere is sad and sombre like being at a wake. Years after this album was recorded he lost his son and recorded Skeleton Tree.
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2001
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1972
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 8 | 8% | |
| 1970s | 37 | 37% | |
| 1980s | 14 | 14% | |
| 1990s | 24 | 24% | |
| 2000s | 10 | 10% | |
| 2010s | 7 | 7% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| David Bowie | 7 | 7% | |
| Stevie Wonder | 4 | 4% | |
| Kate Bush | 4 | 4% | |
| Björk | 4 | 4% | |
| Rickie Lee Jones | 4 | 4% | |
| Erykah Badu | 3 | 3% | |
| Radiohead | 3 | 3% | |
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36 | 36% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 4 from 88th to 84th Animals by Pink Floyd |
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| Down 2 from 84th to 86th Achtung Baby by U2 |
| Down 1 from 86th to 87th Post by Björk |
| Down 1 from 87th to 88th Court And Spark by Joni Mitchell |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums ratings
87/100 (from 104 votes)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
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 80/100  | 05/14/2024 13:59 |  AvalancheGrips | | 89/100 |
| 75/100 | 12/28/2023 22:26 | ThuramThugood | | 87/100 |
| 90/100 | 12/03/2023 07:12 | KineticEchoes02 | | 88/100 |
| 95/100 | 11/17/2023 03:28 | Sonoffatboy | | 90/100 |
| 75/100 | 09/06/2023 11:01 |  Xxnu99etxX | | 90/100 |
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This chart is rated in the top 17% of all charts on BestEverAlbums.com. This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 87.4/100, a mean average of 87.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 87.5/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 10.2.
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Larcx13 11/23/2023 11:42
Larcx13 11/23/2023 11:42
Madonna...🤔
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100/100
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CharlieBarley 06/17/2023 13:53
CharlieBarley 06/17/2023 13:53
Great chart Tam! I rated it before years ago and it's still top Mark's from me. Great taste in music.
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100/100
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melisandre 04/16/2023 09:12
melisandre 04/16/2023 09:12
Nice chart Tam!
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85/100
From Johnnyo 02/04/2023 16:25
Very personal chart. I like it
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95/100
From leniad 07/31/2022 05:35
great seeing your chart and re rating it, i agree bowie is the best artist ever solo
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85/100
From RioBravo 06/18/2021 06:26
Seems like a good list to explore when I want to find some new R&B artists and albums. And I too love Stevie Wonder.
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95/100
From BraddlesHendo 09/02/2020 02:02
This is the coolest great albums. Some I don’t have mostly the R & B music
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90/100
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Julelios 02/27/2020 11:07
Julelios 02/27/2020 11:07
A very personnal chart. I like it. Thanks
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90/100
From temment 02/05/2020 11:17
Excellent list with some surprises. Love that Prefab Sprout get a listing.
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90/100
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ExTeaSea 12/29/2019 05:08
ExTeaSea 12/29/2019 05:08
Great chart! Love how high you rated David Bowie's "Outside" it's so good! Also fantastic seeing REMs album "Up" it's so underrated. Also multiple Bjork is a plus. Found your chart through Erykah Badu's album "Baduizm" really dig her, really like "Worldwide Underground"
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