Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by 
MadhattanJack 
- Chart updated: 07/15/2025 23:15
- (Created: 08/28/2021 02:46).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Nobody seems to know for certain, but there was a single called "I Like Trains" released in 1968 by a country singer named Bob Luman. (The song itself was written by Glenn Sutton.) The b-side of the single was Rita Welty's "World of Unhappiness" — unhappiness being what all of this band's songs are essentially about. So, my guess is they probably Googled the term "world of unhappiness," thinking that might make for an appropriate band name (as long as no one else had taken it), and "I Like Trains" popped up as one of the first results because of the single — it still does, in fact, at least at the time of this writing. Maybe the sheer incongruity of that term appealed to them in an ironic sort of way. But of course, this is all just an absurd theory.
Meanwhile, some people still refer to "Progress Reform" as an "EP," despite it's having 8 songs on it. Some also insist that there should be a bullet character between the two words in the title, i.e., "Progress • Reform," because that's how it appears on the album cover. These are minor points, though... there's no need to start a war over it, though wars have been started over things that were even more minor. That's one of the reasons we live in a world of unhappiness. [First added to this chart: 06/28/2022]
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 3 | 3% | |
| 1970s | 21 | 21% | |
| 1980s | 32 | 32% | |
| 1990s | 26 | 26% | |
| 2000s | 10 | 10% | |
| 2010s | 7 | 7% | |
| 2020s | 1 | 1% |
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| XTC | 7 | 7% | |
| David Bowie | 3 | 3% | |
| Roxy Music | 3 | 3% | |
| Robyn Hitchcock And The Egyptians | 2 | 2% | |
| Cocteau Twins | 2 | 2% | |
| Wire | 2 | 2% | |
| The Chameleons | 2 | 2% | |
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72 | 72% | |
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21 | 21% | |
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90/100  | 08/02/2025 21:26 | Vulgarplacards | | 90/100 |
 100/100 | 07/12/2025 16:21 |  baystateoftheart | | 96/100 |
| 90/100 | 07/12/2025 15:32 | BorderFreeAndrew | | 81/100 |
| 90/100 | 07/03/2025 01:26 |  urmom22 | | 93/100 |
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Great choices, some new to me- I’ll seek them out!
baystateoftheart 07/12/2025 16:23
Great unique choices, and the entertaining write-ups especially make it shine. Your notes about excluding Radiohead do make me wonder what a totally unaltered list of your favorites would be like.
Kudos for a refreshingly unique chart. And for being even more obsessed with XTC than I used to be.
urmom22 07/03/2025 01:27
That's really suuuuuuuuper super girl
7 Albums by the amazing XTC, no problem with me. So many bands I love here and so many Albums I look forward to listening to.
seb7 08/12/2024 16:03
Very cool and fairly specific taste. Dig it!
CassidyInc 03/29/2024 22:12
Fun chart with some downright hilarious write-ups. I listened to an XTC album (Skylarking) yesterday at your suggestion. Unfortunately not a vibe for me.
Great chart, not because of the music, because of the hilarious comments. Of course it could be a great chart music wise, but I wouldn't know, although the few albums in it I do know are very good. I would never have thought of checking out XTC's go2, but now I just might! P.S. The DIV I DED album is now in another chart.
Very interesting chart. Glad to see included a number of artists I like who don't usually get as much recognition as they deserve, eg The Auteurs, The Associates and Lush. Also, I enjoyed the witty comments, eg on the Beatles and Paul McCartney albums!
I've had a lot of fun checking out this chart and reading the comments. Definitely different to most BEA charts and that's what I really like. It ooooozes personality & sincerity (no BEA peer pressure here!)
I love it that we only have 1 album in common.
I love it that a citizen of the USA significantly favours the music of the UK (very very rare in my observation of BEA charts).
I love it that I can return to this chart and (hopefully) discover an album/artist (or 2) who has evaded my line of sight & hearing for the past 50 - 10years ¬ and be everly grateful for the guided discovery.
I love it that someone from the northern hemisphere has included 1 album from Australia (that is not Nick Cave, AC/DC, Tame Impala or KG&TLW) AND 1 album from New Zealand (any album from NZ is amazing!).
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