Top 40 Greatest Music Albums
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41-100, more or less in chronological order: Frank Zappa Freak Out, Van Morrison Astral Weeks, Doors Strange Days, Pink Floyd Piper At The Gates of Dawn, Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited, Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced, David Peel Have A Marijuana, Tim Buckley Starsailor, Tim Buckley Goodbye and Hello, Townes Van Zandt Our Mother The Mountain, In The Court of the Crimson King, Faust IV, Neu 75, Nico Desert Shore, Amon Duul Yeti, Amon Duul Phallus Dei, Aphrodite's Child 666, Can Tago Mago, David Crosby If I Could Only Remember My Name, Peter Green The End of The Game, Music From the Penguin Cafe, Public Image Ltd Metal Box, Public Image Ltd Flowers of Romance, Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols, Ramones Too Tough to Die, Talking Heads Fear of Music, Television Marquee Moon, XTC White Music, Butthole Surfers Rembrant Pussyhorse, Gun Club Fire of Love, Gun Club Miami, Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime, Husker Du New Day Rising, Dream Syndicate Days of Wine and Roses, Soft Boys Underwater Moonlight, Cocteau Twins Treasure, Dinosaur Jr You're Living All Over Me, Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction, American Music Club California, Julian Cope World Shut Your Mouth, Julian Cope Fried, Metallica Ride The Lightning, Metallica Master of Puppets, Sonic Youth Bad Moon Rising, Sonic Youth Daydream Nation, Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones, Swans Children of God, Swans White Light from the Mouth of Infinity, Swans Soundtracks for the Blind, Slint Tweez, X Los Angeles, Foetus Thaw, Morphine Good, Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral, Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die, Black Tape For a Blue Girl Remnants of a Deeper Purity, Calexico The Black Light, Talk Talk Spirit of Eden, Dadamah This Is Not a Dream, Drive Like Jehu Yank Crime, Jesus Lizard Goat, Kyuss Blues for the Red Sun, Mercury Rev Boces, Orbital II, Portishead Dummy, Red House Painters Down Colorful Hill, Red House Painters Rollercoaster, Smog Wild Love, Vampire Rodents Premonition, Furry Things The Big Saturday Illusion, Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO, Colleen The Golden Morning Breaks, Jessica Bailiff, Joanna Newsom Have One on Me, Julia Holter Aviary, Weyes Blood The Outside Room, Pharmakon Abandon
- Chart updated: 03/15/2025 02:45
- (Created: 09/15/2021 04:32).
- Chart size: 40 albums.
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The most complex and innovative album of all time
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Year of Release:
1967
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1,332
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1991
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Position significantly lowered by the awful "Here She Comes Now"
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1968
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9,027
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Far superior to the mediocre "Ghosteen" and "The Boatman's Call"
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1990
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2,187
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"Meet the Residents": 5 stars
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1974
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762
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Top 40 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 7 | 18% | |
| 1970s | 10 | 25% | |
| 1980s | 5 | 13% | |
| 1990s | 13 | 33% | |
| 2000s | 2 | 5% | |
| 2010s | 3 | 8% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| The Mothers Of Invention | 3 | 8% | |
| Popol Vuh (DE) | 2 | 5% | |
| Royal Trux | 1 | 3% | |
| Angkor Wat | 1 | 3% | |
| The Flaming Lips | 1 | 3% | |
| Laurel Halo | 1 | 3% | |
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | 1 | 3% | |
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Top 40 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 2 from 27th to 25th Absolutely Free by The Mothers Of Invention |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 1 from 25th to 26th Hosianna Mantra by Popol Vuh (DE) |
| Down 1 from 26th to 27th Blonde On Blonde by Bob Dylan |
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Pleasantly surprised to see love for Emotional Plague, avant-garde banger.
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