Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by sageamagoo
Hey you—make more time for music in your life! It is a great gift of our universe that we have ready access to all the audio art in history. Take advantage of the internet, it's all out there: leagues of fine specimens just waiting for you to discover.
I spend every day exploring our planet's music. Here, I've boiled down 3000 albums from all corners of the world into 100 perfect records I couldn't live without.
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- Chart updated: 01/16/2024 15:45
- (Created: 10/29/2012 20:32).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Magma were paying attention to the burgeoning musical revolution happening in jazz and popular music, soon to be the Canterbury Scene. Zappa, Soft Machine, and King Crimson broke the ice for new musical possibilities, and from another direction Miles, Herbie & John had just created brand-new sounds with Jazz Fusion. But Magma did what no one ever dreamed possible before.
Magma's debut is the most daring, forward-thinking album of 1970. It's the final form of the evolution experimental music took from all these influences into fine art of the highest order. It is the most important album ever made for how it fused these styles with aspects of modern classical and is completely brilliant over 4 epic sides. This album was the bleeding edge of novel music that immediately preceeded the advancements Faust, Can, Gong and Henry Cow made in 1971.
Magma led the way to the outer bounds of our imagination at the most crucial year in music history. The story of Kobians fleeing the tyranny of their home planet only to instate fascism on the planet they invade speaks volumes about horrors humanity has only begun to experience without one word being spoken in a discernable language (naturally it's all in Kobian).
Here in 1970 was the first pioneering use of heavy technical complexity that inspired King Crimson's Larks' Tongues in Aspic, at the very cusp of the birth of metal itself.
Magma had an ear to the ground on so many fronts and with complete artistic integrity and full use of the studio crafted this groundbreaking mindmelting piece of audio history and pointed the way for decades of music to come. [First added to this chart: 10/09/2023]
The look on your face tells me everything - it's your link to the world. The Soft Bulletin is a constant display of your innermost thoughts for anyone looking to notice. [First added to this chart: 10/29/2012]
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
Decade | Albums | % | |
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1930s | 0 | 0% | |
1940s | 0 | 0% | |
1950s | 0 | 0% | |
1960s | 7 | 7% | |
1970s | 24 | 24% | |
1980s | 17 | 17% | |
1990s | 32 | 32% | |
2000s | 15 | 15% | |
2010s | 2 | 2% | |
2020s | 3 | 3% |
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Cardiacs | 5 | 5% | |
NoMeansNo | 4 | 4% | |
The Residents | 4 | 4% | |
Mr. Bungle | 3 | 3% | |
The Flaming Lips | 2 | 2% | |
Ween | 2 | 2% | |
Radiohead | 2 | 2% | |
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40 | 40% | ||
36 | 36% | ||
6 | 6% | ||
4 | 4% | ||
3 | 3% | ||
3 | 3% | ||
2 | 2% | ||
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This is one of the more impressive charts I have seen, although mostly completely different from my own. The write-ups are quite decent, and the chart is quite diverse although I would say there is — for an overall chart — a little too much focus on a few artists.
I always appreciate recommendations! They're all fantastic albums :) I have Third & Flying Teapot on vinyl
Fantastic chart all around. For a proggy person I recommend to you:
Soft Machine - I, Third
Gong - Flying Teapot
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom.
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I really like this chart. thoughts on zaireeka ?
I rarely rate other's people charts because I think it is kind of weird to judge people's taste. However, I don't hesitate to highly rate a chart such as this one, not because I agree with all of its choices, but because it is perfectly made.
This chart represent everything I'd like all charts to be: it is very personal, full of picks that are more obscure (I hate charts that look just like a reorganisation of the top-100 of this website) and there are tons of interesting comments explaining the choices. Good job!
As for the picks, I really like the inclusion of two Flaming Lips albums that are too often ignored: At War With The Mystics and Clouds Taste Metallic. Two wonderful albums by one of the greatest band of the last 30 years. Also, I'm glad to see Surf's Up here, what an underrated album! Crocodiles by Echo & The Bunnymen is another choice I really like. Not the typical E&TB we see on most chart, but I agree it's one of, if not their best. And what about See You On The Other Side by Mercury Rev! Bold choice, I like that you included this gem in here.
Your chart also convinced me to look into two bands I still haven't listened to enough : Gorillaz and NoMeansNo. Thanks and keep up your good work!
Update: I love Prefab Sprout now
Thanks for showing your wonderful chart with all your lovely notes. I really like many of these fun albums, such as Spilt Milk, Wrong, and The Mollusk. I will give a try to Prefab Sprout now. :)
What an absolutely gorgeous chart!!! The write-ups are as personal and special as the picks themselves. You manage to hit right in the special pleases with them!
Mind if I borrow the concept of grading how the album has grown? Really love the idea, it kinda gives another perspective on how the record relates to you.
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