Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
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seb7 
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- Chart updated: 08/17/2025 15:45
- (Created: 11/11/2020 16:37).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Jazz Folk
[First added to this chart: 01/02/2025]
Year of Release:
1976
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Rank Score:
3,847
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Singer Songwriter // Piano Rock
[First added to this chart: 11/11/2020]
Year of Release:
1970
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Rank Score:
9,614
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Soul // RnB
Favorite Tracks: What's Going On, God Is Love, Save the Children
An album that obliterated what was expected from Motown at the time. As Gaye displays his talent in writing and performing compositions, he also perfectly displays his thoughts and feelings about the outside world. It is, arguably, a perfect album, or as close to perfect as you can come.
But who really cares?
Who's willing to try?
To save our world
To save our sweet world
To save a world
That is destined...to die
Oh, la la la la, la la la
Oh, oh, dig it everybody [First added to this chart: 11/11/2020]
Favorite Tracks: What's Going On, God Is Love, Save the Children
An album that obliterated what was expected from Motown at the time. As Gaye displays his talent in writing and performing compositions, he also perfectly displays his thoughts and feelings about the outside world. It is, arguably, a perfect album, or as close to perfect as you can come.
But who really cares?
Who's willing to try?
To save our world
To save our sweet world
To save a world
That is destined...to die
Oh, la la la la, la la la
Oh, oh, dig it everybody [First added to this chart: 11/11/2020]
Year of Release:
1971
Appears in:
Rank Score:
19,139
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Funk Rock // Art Rock
[First added to this chart: 04/02/2021]
Year of Release:
1976
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Rank Score:
12,140
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Jazz Rock // Latin Rock
"You're committing a career suicide"- Clive Davis.
Favorite Tracks: Song of the Wind, All the Love of the Universe, Every Step of the Way
Oh, oh, do
New thoughts
Will purify my mind
And clean my body
New lives
Will fall together like an endless story
All the love of the universe
Will be shared by all that's living
And I don't really care
About tomorrow
Today
Is all I really need to find the answers
I'll find the constant flow
Of all the harmony [First added to this chart: 01/12/2021]
"You're committing a career suicide"- Clive Davis.
Favorite Tracks: Song of the Wind, All the Love of the Universe, Every Step of the Way
Oh, oh, do
New thoughts
Will purify my mind
And clean my body
New lives
Will fall together like an endless story
All the love of the universe
Will be shared by all that's living
And I don't really care
About tomorrow
Today
Is all I really need to find the answers
I'll find the constant flow
Of all the harmony [First added to this chart: 01/12/2021]
Year of Release:
1972
Appears in:
Rank Score:
1,107
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Jazz Funk // Soul Jazz
Favorite Tracks: The Revolution Will not Be Televised, Lady Day and John Coltrane, The Prisoner
As lyrically impactful or even more so than What's Going On. The jazz compositions, the funky styles, the politically charged poems. Everything about this album is great.
Plastic people with plastic minds
Are on their way to plastic homes
No beginning, there ain't no ending
Just on and on and on and on and on
It's all because they're so afraid to say that they're alone
Until our hero rides in, rides in on his saxophone
Could you call on Lady Day?
Could you call on John Coltrane?
Now, 'cause they'll, they'll wash your troubles
Your troubles, your troubles, your troubles away! [First added to this chart: 01/23/2021]
Favorite Tracks: The Revolution Will not Be Televised, Lady Day and John Coltrane, The Prisoner
As lyrically impactful or even more so than What's Going On. The jazz compositions, the funky styles, the politically charged poems. Everything about this album is great.
Plastic people with plastic minds
Are on their way to plastic homes
No beginning, there ain't no ending
Just on and on and on and on and on
It's all because they're so afraid to say that they're alone
Until our hero rides in, rides in on his saxophone
Could you call on Lady Day?
Could you call on John Coltrane?
Now, 'cause they'll, they'll wash your troubles
Your troubles, your troubles, your troubles away! [First added to this chart: 01/23/2021]
Year of Release:
1971
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Rank Score:
1,176
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Folk Pop // Contemporary Folk
[First added to this chart: 11/11/2020]
Year of Release:
1971
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Rank Score:
16,362
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Soul // Jazz Funk
[First added to this chart: 02/28/2021]
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Spiritual Jazz // Free Jazz
Alice Coltrane's greatest work. So emotionally powerful. It can be ecstatic, raging, content, and so much more. It takes me to a different place, man. [First added to this chart: 02/05/2021]
Alice Coltrane's greatest work. So emotionally powerful. It can be ecstatic, raging, content, and so much more. It takes me to a different place, man. [First added to this chart: 02/05/2021]
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Jazz Folk
[First added to this chart: 05/07/2025]
Year of Release:
1975
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Rank Score:
2,487
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 5 | 5% | |
| 1960s | 11 | 11% | |
| 1970s | 19 | 19% | |
| 1980s | 14 | 14% | |
| 1990s | 14 | 14% | |
| 2000s | 17 | 17% | |
| 2010s | 15 | 15% | |
| 2020s | 5 | 5% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| David Bowie | 3 | 3% | |
| Joni Mitchell | 3 | 3% | |
| Jeff Buckley | 2 | 2% | |
| Black Country, New Road | 2 | 2% | |
| Grouper | 2 | 2% | |
| フィッシュマンズ [Fishmans] | 2 | 2% | |
| Angel Olsen | 2 | 2% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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62 | 62% | |
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20 | 20% | |
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6 | 6% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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1 | 1% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 2 from 3rd to 1st Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk by Jeff Buckley |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 1 from 1st to 2nd Bookends by Simon & Garfunkel |
| Down 1 from 2nd to 3rd Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill by Grouper |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums ratings
92/100 (from 31 votes)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
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100/100  | 08/18/2025 04:24 |  LadyGodiva | | 97/100 |
 90/100 | 05/08/2025 19:09 |  sssvnnn | | 83/100 |
| 80/100 | 01/25/2025 14:14 |  SomethingSpecial | | 85/100 |
| 100/100 | 01/14/2025 16:37 |  EyeKanFly | | 88/100 |
| 80/100 | 07/22/2024 01:18 |  MadhattanJack | | 85/100 |
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This chart is rated in the top 1% of all charts on BestEverAlbums.com. This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 91.8/100, a mean average of 93.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 93.6/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 7.1.
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100/100
From LadyGodiva 08/18/2025 04:24
LadyGodiva 08/18/2025 04:24
Ok now I have to go and listen to ‘Those who throw objects at the crocodiles will be asked to retrieve them’ as it sounds very intriguing :) Nice chart - eclectic and fun. I like it a lot x
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100/100
From EyeKanFly 01/14/2025 16:39
EyeKanFly 01/14/2025 16:39
Bumped up the rating, your chart definitely isn't as "60s/70s-centric" as it was when I first rated this.
Overall amazing list, I have listened to the Philippine albums and really enjoyed them. Lots in common and overall great diversity in genres. Lots to love in this list and lots to add to my wishlist as well!
#306991 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
From 
NowhereMan 01/14/2025 15:49
NowhereMan 01/14/2025 15:49
There is a lot here I have not listened to, but huge kudos for having Bookends at number 1. I have it at 2!
#306990 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
90/100
From mianfei 11/20/2023 12:36
This must be about the best chart I have ever seen. Its composition is like nothing else I have seen on this site or anywhere else, has some quite good notes (though I will say that they could do more than discuss the best tracks and look at each album’s wider importance) and many very unsual albums. The song list, too, is very good.
#300075 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
95/100
From chavaloricardin 04/14/2023 21:45
¡Dios mío! la mitad de los álbumes que están aquí no los conozco. Me diste algo para escuchar, grandioso chart.
Tu lista de canciones también es muy interesante.
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OMG! Half of the albums that are here I don't know. You gave me something to listen to, great chart.
Your track list is also very interesting
#296095 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
100/100
From 
Repo 08/29/2022 18:41
Repo 08/29/2022 18:41
Team Dresch!!! Killer selection, my friend! Quite diverse!
#289004 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (1 helpful | 1 unhelpful)
100/100
From 
pa 07/22/2022 15:22
pa 07/22/2022 15:22
Thank you so much for you rating and comment Seb! I will be happy to listen to your recommendation quite soon <3
I really love your chart as well and your notes are awesome.
#287732 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
90/100
From sssvnnn 03/24/2022 14:20
sssvnnn 03/24/2022 14:20
fantastic chart.
It starts nicely with some classics, but it shows some pretty unknown and interesting picks besides the mainstream.
#283299 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
100/100
From EyeKanFly 04/15/2021 20:51
EyeKanFly 04/15/2021 20:51
Nice chart, as far as 60s/70s-centric charts go, this one is right up my alley. Personally my chart is more slanted towards the recent decades, but this is great.
I'll have to listen to the Philippine albums here
#268586 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
80/100
From RioBravo 03/17/2021 06:34
Very nice. Lots of my favorites here. I got to give Quicksilver Messenger Service a try.
#267425 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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