Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by 
imacgill 
- Chart updated: 08/10/2025 18:15
- (Created: 07/24/2022 20:56).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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My formative music years were the eighties and early nineties where I listened to mostly post punk and new wave, so this album being number 1 on my Greatest Music chart might seem odd. At the time, I wasn't big fan of some genres including folk and rap. However, as I grew older my musical mind opened up (the internet helped) and I was soon listening to a lot of different sounds. When I first heard this album from Neutral Milk Hotel I was totally blown away. Singer Jeff Mangum has this very melancholic but luring voice that make this one of the most beautiful albums ever released. The fact that this is a concept album and was made with an array of different musical instruments including a singing saw makes it all the more brilliant.
Live Moment: Seeing Neutral Milk Hotel play on their reunion tour in 2014. [First added to this chart: 07/24/2022]
Live Moment: Seeing Neutral Milk Hotel play on their reunion tour in 2014. [First added to this chart: 07/24/2022]
Year of Release:
1998
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34,117
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A lot of people will disagree but Jack White is the best guitarist of his generation. Don't fuck with Meg White either. Never heard two people make such a racket....but in a very good way.
[First added to this chart: 07/24/2022]
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2003
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11,516
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[First added to this chart: 10/30/2022]
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2017
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4,357
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[First added to this chart: 04/30/2023]
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2002
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13,487
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[First added to this chart: 07/24/2022]
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2001
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5,869
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[First added to this chart: 09/05/2022]
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2001
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29,336
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[First added to this chart: 07/24/2022]
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1986
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3,542
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[First added to this chart: 09/11/2022]
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2003
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2,562
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[First added to this chart: 07/24/2022]
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2010
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10,806
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Maybe the best noise pop album this side of Psychocandy.
[First added to this chart: 07/24/2022]
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2009
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714
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 5 | 5% | |
| 1970s | 17 | 17% | |
| 1980s | 20 | 20% | |
| 1990s | 15 | 15% | |
| 2000s | 30 | 30% | |
| 2010s | 13 | 13% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| U2 | 4 | 4% | |
| Radiohead | 3 | 3% | |
| LCD Soundsystem | 3 | 3% | |
| Depeche Mode | 3 | 3% | |
| Prince | 2 | 2% | |
| Arctic Monkeys | 2 | 2% | |
| Oasis | 2 | 2% | |
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42 | 42% | |
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6 | 6% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 1 from 94th to 93rd Hounds Of Love by Kate Bush |
| Up 1 from 93rd to 92nd 1999 by Prince |
| Up 1 from 92nd to 91st Hurry Up, We're Dreaming by M83 |
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| Down 63 from 31st to 94th Silent Alarm by Bloc Party |
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
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 85/100  | 01/25/2025 14:16 |  SomethingSpecial | | 85/100 |
| 95/100 | 04/29/2024 02:19 | tk421ucopy | | 85/100 |
| 100/100 | 10/30/2022 20:52 | DJENNY | | 100/100 |
| 85/100 | 08/09/2022 14:37 |  Larcx13 | | 86/100 |
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CassidyInc 04/30/2024 02:11
Loving the comments about your first experience hearing each album. I can't stand U2 and it's almost enough to make me give them a second chance.
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From tk421ucopy 04/29/2024 02:19
Keep it up with the comments!! Excited to see where the chart goes from here
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