Top 96 Greatest Music Albums
by 
drstuey 
Listening to each of these albums is like having an old friend around for dinner, and gives a warm feeling inside. Focusing on the albums that I love the most rather than sonic innovation in this list. Albums that I play the most and never tire of playing. So there is some artist repetition. Order is not correct yet. At the bottom are some obscure oddities, that's don't really deserve a place, mainly they are here to add missing albums to the DB that I will include in year charts when allowed.
- Chart updated: 06/27/2021 06:15
- (Created: 03/27/2021 02:58).
- Chart size: 96 albums.
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This is almost certainly the album I have listened to the most because there was a period after the release of Thirteen when I listened to little else on my walkman than a cassette with Bandwagonesqe on one side and Thirteen on the other.
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1991
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1,585
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Year of Release:
1984
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3,810
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2003
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4,038
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1996
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1,602
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1969
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12,271
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1998
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4,866
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1984
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4,039
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Top 96 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 5 | 5% | |
| 1970s | 4 | 4% | |
| 1980s | 24 | 25% | |
| 1990s | 32 | 33% | |
| 2000s | 27 | 28% | |
| 2010s | 4 | 4% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Stereolab | 5 | 5% | |
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | 5 | 5% | |
| Tortoise | 5 | 5% | |
| Teenage Fanclub | 5 | 5% | |
| LCD Soundsystem | 4 | 4% | |
| BMX Bandits | 4 | 4% | |
| The Beatles | 3 | 3% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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40 | 42% | |
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32 | 33% | |
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8 | 8% | |
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6 | 6% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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Top 96 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 2 from 29th to 31stAbbey Road by The Beatles |
| Down 2 from 30th to 32ndRattlesnakes by Lloyd Cole And The Commotions |
| Down 2 from 31st to 33rdThe Campfire Headphase by Boards Of Canada |
| New entries |
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| Either/Or by Elliott Smith |
| Mayflower by The Weather Prophets |
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From sssvnnn 01/06/2025 06:04 | #306822
sssvnnn 01/06/2025 06:04 | #306822
interesting and personal chart.
I would call it 80th 90th folktronic.
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