Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by Rm12398

CHART OF THE DAY(!): 05/29/2023, 11/01/2024

While always being into music, I have only really started delving into the album format since 2019. I started off by listening to every record in the book "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" by Robert Dimery before expanding my search for albums onto this site.

From Late 2022 to Early 2023, I listened to the "500 Greatest Albums of the 1960's" from Uncut. This will be why that only 60's albums seemed to be moving around my chart at that moment in time. As a list, I feel it is a very well balanced list of popular music from this period and is worth checking out if you, like myself, were not alive to experience these fantastic years of music.

Will try to add descriptions to each entry as and when I can.
GRADES:
A+ = 100
A = 95
A- = 90
B+ 85
B = 80
B- = 75
C+ = 70
C = 65
C- = 60
D+ = 55
D = 50
D- = 45
E+ = 40
E = 35
E- = 30
F = 25 and Under.

• Chart updated: 11/09/2024 00:45
• (Created: 07/08/2021 23:56).
• Chart size: 100 albums.

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Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven 

 Godspeed You! Black Emperor

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87 minutes of cinematic and apocalyptic beauty that completely immerses you from beginning to end. It sounds so ethereal, so grand and so cinematic.

Top tracks: Storm, Sleep, Like Antennas To Heaven.
100/100 (A++) [First added to this chart: 02/08/2022]

Year of Release:

2000

Appears in:

1,097 charts

Rank Score:

13,362

Rank in 2000:

2

Rank in 2000s:

10

Overall Rank:

93

Average Rating:

 86 (1,324 votes)

Comments:

107

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Ágætis Byrjun 

 Sigur Rós

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This album is beautifully mesmerizing and is truly unlike anything I have ever heard before. Any words I put here feel like an injustice to just how much of a fantastic experience this album is. Simply Stunning.

Top tracks: Flugufrelsarinn, Viorar Vel Til Loftarasa, Staralfur.
100/100 (A++) [First added to this chart: 07/08/2021]

Year of Release:

1999

Appears in:

1,397 charts

Rank Score:

15,843

Rank in 1999:

1

Rank in 1990s:

14

Overall Rank:

78

Average Rating:

 86 (1,704 votes)

Comments:

139

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In The Aeroplane Over The Sea 

 Neutral Milk Hotel

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Brilliantly unique vocals, fantastically frantic pace and some of the best song writing you will find. This is the Ultimate Indie-Rock album.

Top Tracks: In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, Holland, 1945, Two-Headed Boy.
100/100 (A++) [First added to this chart: 02/08/2022]

Year of Release:

1998

Appears in:

2,420 charts

Rank Score:

35,066

Rank in 1998:

1

Rank in 1990s:

3

Overall Rank:

17

Average Rating:

 87 (2,943 votes)

Comments:

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The Queen Is Dead 

 The Smiths

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Alternative Rock - Indie Pop
Marr's guitar work and Morrissey's lyrics along with his unique delivery are truly unstoppable here. I was hooked from the first listen and have been hooked ever since.
Top Tracks: I Know It's Over, There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, Cemetry Gates
100/100 (A++) [First added to this chart: 02/08/2022]

Year of Release:

1986

Appears in:

2,485 charts

Rank Score:

35,915

Rank in 1986:

1

Rank in 1980s:

1

Overall Rank:

16

Average Rating:

 88 (2,899 votes)

Comments:

265

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Ants From Up There 

 Black Country, New Road

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This album has been rapidly climbing my list ever since its release. Wonderfully grand, yet it is also riddled with fragility, especially in Wood's vocal (who left the band citing mental health during the rollout). It is perfectly imperfect. Beautiful yet flawed. The best album of 2022 and it's not close at all.

Top Tracks: Concorde, Basketball Shoes, Snow Globes.
100/100 (A++) [First added to this chart: 03/24/2022]

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

573 charts

Rank Score:

6,543

Rank in 2022:

1

Rank in 2020s:

1

Overall Rank:

257

Average Rating:

 85 (586 votes)

Comments:

58

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The Velvet Underground & Nico 

 The Velvet Underground & Nico

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It was different before it was cool to be different.

Top Tracks: Heroin, All Tomorrow's Parties, Sunday Morning

100/100 (A++) [First added to this chart: 07/08/2021]

Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

3,035 charts

Rank Score:

42,208

Rank in 1967:

2

Rank in 1960s:

4

Overall Rank:

10

Average Rating:

 89 (3,521 votes)

Comments:

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Days Of Future Passed 

 The Moody Blues

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Rock and orchestral arrangements in perfect harmony. What a fantastic listen. "The Night" is particularly stunning.

Top Tracks: The Night, The Day Begins, The Afternoon
100/100 (A++) [First added to this chart: 03/24/2022]

Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

655 charts

Rank Score:

5,125

Rank in 1967:

13

Rank in 1960s:

47

Overall Rank:

346

Average Rating:

 80 (686 votes)

Comments:

51

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Pure Comedy 

 Father John Misty

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Top Tracks: Ballad Of The Dying Man, So I'm Growing Old On Magic Mountain, Leaving LA
100/100 (A++)

Other Albums Ranked:
2. God's Favourite Customer: A (95/100)
3. I Love You, Honeybear: A (95/100)
4. Fear Fun: B+ (85/100)
5. Chloe And The Next 20th Century: B (80/100) [First added to this chart: 03/24/2022]

Year of Release:

2017

Appears in:

401 charts

Rank Score:

2,628

Rank in 2017:

9

Rank in 2010s:

96

Overall Rank:

667

Average Rating:

 77 (600 votes)

Comments:

44

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OK Computer 

 Radiohead

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Top Tracks: Let Down, Airbag, Paranoid Android
95/100 (A+)

2. In Rainbows: A (95/100)
3. Kid A: A- (90/100)
4. Amnesiac: A- (90/100)
5. The Bends: A- (90/100)
6. A Moon Shaped Pool: B+ (85/100)
7. Hail To The Thief: B+ (85/100)
8. Pablo Honey: B (80/100)
9. The King Of Limbs: C+ (70/100) [First added to this chart: 02/08/2022]

Year of Release:

1997

Appears in:

4,396 charts

Rank Score:

67,949

Rank in 1997:

1

Rank in 1990s:

1

Overall Rank:

1

Average Rating:

 92 (5,601 votes)

Comments:

848

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The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place 

 Explosions In The Sky

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This album is a comfort blanket of beautifully pure sounding guitars and climactic crescendo instrumentation. Never has post rock sounded so soothing and so beautiful. This album spawned a lot of clones of this blueprint but none can quite match the atmosphere and the beauty of the original.

Top Tracks: Your Hand Is Mine, The Only Moment We Are Alone, First Breath After Coma
95/100 (A+) [First added to this chart: 03/24/2022]

Year of Release:

2003

Appears in:

374 charts

Rank Score:

2,535

Rank in 2003:

11

Rank in 2000s:

108

Overall Rank:

702

Average Rating:

 79 (510 votes)

Comments:

33

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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition

Decade	Albums	%
1930s	0	0%
1940s	0	0%
1950s	1	1%
1960s	25	25%
1970s	19	19%
1980s	4	4%
1990s	13	13%
2000s	18	18%
2010s	14	14%
2020s	6	6%

Artist	Albums	%
Sigur Rós	5	5%
Godspeed You! Black Emperor	4	4%
Bob Dylan	4	4%
Radiohead	3	3%
The Beatles	3	3%
Sufjan Stevens	3	3%
The Rolling Stones	3	3%
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Country	Albums	%
	46	46%
	29	29%
	10	10%
	5	5%
	5	5%
	2	2%
	1	1%
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes

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Down 1 from 91st to 92nd Déjà Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Down 1 from 92nd to 93rd Maggot Brain by Funkadelic
Down 1 from 93rd to 94th Neon Bible by Arcade Fire

New entries
I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight by Richard & Linda Thompson

Leavers
The Beatles (The White Album) by The Beatles

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90/100	05/09/2025 10:33	Tamthebam	622	85/100
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100/100	11/01/2024 13:55	DrewHamster	317	79/100
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From Tamthebam 05/09/2025 10:37

An interesting chart & 15 albums in common, the 70's should be next on your listening agenda.

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From Johnnyo 05/31/2023 04:14

Really interesting chart. Like it a lot

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From Rm12398 11/10/2022 15:45

@Arthurknight Can an album ranked 253rd be slept on? Because I certainly feel that Foxtrot is slept on with regards to the Genesis catalogue and it is my personal favourite of theirs. Absolutely love The Flaming Lips but when you listen to so much good music, there are going to be tough cuts. That's the fun of the limit of 100 though right? Got to make tough decisions. Thanks for taking the time to go through my chart, shall go and return the favour with your chart now:)

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From Arthurknight 11/10/2022 01:52

I was not expecting to stumble onto Genesis Foxtrot while going through this list, but you're right! It is the best Genesis album and Watcher of the Skies is truly magical. I can't help but cry at seeing things like Soft Bulletin get sharply excised in your edit notes but it's a fun exercise in advertising your process.

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From Rm12398 10/21/2022 19:46

@pinkfreud1981 Thank you for taking the time to read through it.

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From pinkfreud1981 10/21/2022 15:13

Really liked your chart. Definetly going to give anothet listen listen to Godspeed you ..

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From jackharrison21 09/11/2022 21:41

Probably the most similar chart and music taste I've ever seen to my own on this site!!!

Loving the appreciation for Godspeed/Silver Mt Zion, seen them live twice (as well as Efrim solo) and off to see them again next week, genuinely never seen a band that is so good live!

I also began working my way through the '1001 albums to hear before you die' a number of years ago, so maybe that's where a lot of the similarity comes from.

Will definitely be listening to the 22 albums I've not heard on here :)

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