Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
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I've been on BEA in various forms over the last decade. I'll have an account, use it for a year or so, then forget it for a year...then come back and realize my old rating system is impossible to fix so I start all over. Nothing has had a greater impact on me musically from the ages of 14-24 than this website. The most important thing I've learned is that I haven't heard anything and I will never, ever feel like I have. The sheer volume of music out there is impossible to comprehend.
- Chart updated: 07/16/2022 04:15
- (Created: 02/05/2022 22:06).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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There's great work, and then there's work that transforms you as a person. It grips the trunk of your soul and shakes the rotten fruit from your branches.
If You're Feeling Sinister killed a part of me that was infected. When you grow up in a religious, far-right household, parts of you are bound to be deeply, irreparably sick, and the only treatment is to identify those parts and cut them out. Stuart Murdoch's loving, careful depictions of various regular people, the kinds of regular people that operate in direct opposition to the Puritan Work Ethic and thundering heterosexuality of the church, tenderly taught me what was sick and what was well...and sounded damn good while doing it.
As a young teenager, listening to this album made me feel guilty. Loving it left me feeling liberated. So I listened and listened until I couldn't feel guilty anymore. [First added to this chart: 02/05/2022]
If You're Feeling Sinister killed a part of me that was infected. When you grow up in a religious, far-right household, parts of you are bound to be deeply, irreparably sick, and the only treatment is to identify those parts and cut them out. Stuart Murdoch's loving, careful depictions of various regular people, the kinds of regular people that operate in direct opposition to the Puritan Work Ethic and thundering heterosexuality of the church, tenderly taught me what was sick and what was well...and sounded damn good while doing it.
As a young teenager, listening to this album made me feel guilty. Loving it left me feeling liberated. So I listened and listened until I couldn't feel guilty anymore. [First added to this chart: 02/05/2022]
Year of Release:
1996
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10,266
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The story goes that Nick Drake's understated, intimate lyricism was a product of his being "too sensitive for this world," a remark that diminishes his skill and commitment to revision by reducing them to an emotional quirk. Nick had "a skin too few" maybe, as Gabrielle Drake would say, but hardly a superpower or malignant brand of genius.
Five Leaves Left is his best album by a hair, and that hair grows on a little patch of versatility. While Pink Moon and Bryter Layter are masterpieces in their own right (and both would find spots on this chart if it weren't for my 1 album per artist rule), Five Leaves Left is more emotionally flexible. "Time Has Told Me" could be either your mother whispering the opening notes of a lullaby or your lover murmuring a gentle good morning. It's the balm you reach for to soothe or the champagne you sip to celebrate.
Five Leaves Left is both a respite from the harshness of the world and an exploration of the thousands of beauties you might find within it, and that duality only happens through Nick Drake's willingness to speak as carefully as he listens. [First added to this chart: 02/05/2022]
Five Leaves Left is his best album by a hair, and that hair grows on a little patch of versatility. While Pink Moon and Bryter Layter are masterpieces in their own right (and both would find spots on this chart if it weren't for my 1 album per artist rule), Five Leaves Left is more emotionally flexible. "Time Has Told Me" could be either your mother whispering the opening notes of a lullaby or your lover murmuring a gentle good morning. It's the balm you reach for to soothe or the champagne you sip to celebrate.
Five Leaves Left is both a respite from the harshness of the world and an exploration of the thousands of beauties you might find within it, and that duality only happens through Nick Drake's willingness to speak as carefully as he listens. [First added to this chart: 02/05/2022]
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1969
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8,852
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As a fiery fourteen year old who was a bit too involved in the Elton John concert bootlegging community, my soul purpose in joining BEA was to prove that Elton John was the greatest musical force to ever exist. Luckily for everyone involved, cooler heads prevailed, and I was granted the rare opportunity to be humiliated by my elders and those who knew far, far more than me, an opportunity I took with some hesitation...
(I deleted my account)
Every teenager needs a good kick in the ass sometimes, and that kick got me started down the long and winding road from classic-rock-supremacism to...well, listening to music besides Elton John and Led Zeppelin (who, unlike Elton, don't even appear on this chart). What that should tell you is that, despite 10 years of effort to find records I like more than Madman Across the Water, it holds up very, very well. [First added to this chart: 02/05/2022]
(I deleted my account)
Every teenager needs a good kick in the ass sometimes, and that kick got me started down the long and winding road from classic-rock-supremacism to...well, listening to music besides Elton John and Led Zeppelin (who, unlike Elton, don't even appear on this chart). What that should tell you is that, despite 10 years of effort to find records I like more than Madman Across the Water, it holds up very, very well. [First added to this chart: 02/05/2022]
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1971
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1,664
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[First added to this chart: 02/05/2022]
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1990
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1,762
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[First added to this chart: 02/07/2022]
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2006
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955
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[First added to this chart: 07/15/2022]
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1982
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1,095
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[First added to this chart: 06/26/2022]
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2022
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7,175
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[First added to this chart: 02/05/2022]
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1973
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1,425
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[First added to this chart: 02/07/2022]
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1986
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33,875
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 1 | 1% | |
| 1960s | 8 | 8% | |
| 1970s | 18 | 18% | |
| 1980s | 20 | 20% | |
| 1990s | 14 | 14% | |
| 2000s | 15 | 15% | |
| 2010s | 18 | 18% | |
| 2020s | 6 | 6% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice | 1 | 1% | |
| Richard & Linda Thompson | 1 | 1% | |
| Allo Darlin' | 1 | 1% | |
| Alvvays | 1 | 1% | |
| Yumi Zouma | 1 | 1% | |
| David Sylvian | 1 | 1% | |
| The Bluegrass Album Band | 1 | 1% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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63 | 63% | |
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24 | 24% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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1 | 1% | |
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1 | 1% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 10 from 60th to 50thSolid Air by John Martyn |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 2 from 53rd to 55thLightfoot! by Gordon Lightfoot |
| Down 1 from 50th to 51stHelplessness Blues by Fleet Foxes |
| Down 1 from 51st to 52ndThe Velvet Underground by The Velvet Underground |
| New entries |
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| The Great Unwanted by Lucky Soul |
| Leavers |
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| Lucid Dreamer by Krüger Brothers |
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| ! | 01/05/2023 15:21 | uphill | 4 | 93/100 |
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From uphill 01/05/2023 15:22 | #292519
Discovered Alvvays by this chart
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From seb7 03/01/2022 05:07 | #282056
seb7 03/01/2022 05:07 | #282056
I really don't agree with most of your choices. I can, however, appreciate the diversity and the care put into this chart. On a site full of so similarly-minded individuals, it's so nice to see a chart that stands out. Some great notes for the first few albums!!
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From pctrooper 02/07/2022 22:20 | #280928
Not a huge fan of everything on here but I do really like around 50 or so of your choices. It's nice to see charts like this that are actually interesting and don't just copy the overall picks, plus there are some new albums to discover which I have not heard of before.
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Larcx13 02/07/2022 18:59 | #280921
Larcx13 02/07/2022 18:59 | #280921
Speaking of blind spots... 0 albums in common. Perfect!
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From kynes 02/06/2022 07:35 | #280833
kynes 02/06/2022 07:35 | #280833
Why do we have an unreal number of albums in common?
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