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 3500 albums from all corners of the world into 100 perfect records I couldn't live without.
Albums that it killed me to remove from this chart (to bring it down to 2 albums per artist):
Cardiacs - On Land and In The Sea + Guns + Pony (basically a Cardiacs album)
NoMeansNo - Wrong + The Worldhood of the World (As Such)
The Residents - Intermission + Animal Lover
Mr. Bungle - California
Björk - Homogenic
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
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- Chart updated: 01/04/2025 05:45
- (Created: 10/29/2012 20:32).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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We've got heads on sticks. I float down the levee. And now I'm listening to Kid A for the millionth time and discovering the floundering mindlessness we're all trained to endure is a waking nightmare that robs us all from a worthier existence. Turn and run.
[First added to this chart: 12/11/2012]
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2000
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Truly evokes blood being drawn. Warm acoustic samples galore are blended electronically with intriguing, visionary production techniques. Eclectic organic creations that move your body to swing in the sampled groove. The original 2006 Australian CD is the REAL version, essential for the full experience.
[First added to this chart: 04/12/2013]
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Post-apocalyptic trip hop for survivors of the next world war.
[First added to this chart: 10/29/2012]
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2005
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Crazy production from the famed Madlib meets MF DOOM's juiciest verses. Truly extraordinary vibes from the weathered perspective of a Mad Villain.
[First added to this chart: 06/29/2015]
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2004
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The Lonesome Crowded West is one of the most real albums ever about modern life experience. Because they already said it all, Modest Mouse freed themselves to take a MAJOR abstract turn for the follow-up, and focus on even more artful, imaginative instrumentals. The whole album succeeds as a suite with The Stars Are Projectors as its towering centrepiece. Lonely and existentialist.
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Sufjan thought bigger than the competition, using everything from oboe to flute to banjo to electric piano to create dense, catchy, compositions with passionate complexity. Knowing Sufjan was deep in the closet puts into context who the "revenant" might be and why Sufjan felt so close to the victims of John Wayne Gacy, Jr. Something changes a person who spends their life in greasy urban sprawls like Chicago (and Detroit) - Sufjan sings with an edge of angst and paranoia that would deepen in years to come. Sufjan had a great passion for artists like Stereolab and Elliott Smith, and knew how to bedazzle without losing sight of reality.
[First added to this chart: 10/29/2012]
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2005
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A visionary progressive sludge metal experience that puts you in Ahab's shoes as he hunts for the White Whale. Ride through torrential rain and bucking waves with an experienced jazz drummer and the finest riffage in all the land.
[First added to this chart: 09/15/2014]
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2004
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Soundtracks dark times. Some listens of this crushed all my internal blockers stopping me from feeling the worst (this is important to do now and again). Many albums turn things around by the end to profess all the good in the world, but Hail To The Thief ends on anger and desperation. Sometimes that's what I need. Sometimes it's motivation to go do something new.
[First added to this chart: 08/12/2013]
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When ominously, Ween proclaim "It's gonna be a long night" in a song about time-dilating substances, they mean it. Then, clumsily, a waft of Zoloft appears and everything is calm… until the helplessness of this falsity is mumbled, "I can't explain what I'm feeling inside…" Residents-esque romp So Many People in the Neighbourhood shows this modern fear of watching thousands of people carry out their day in a city, walking here, walking there, living unknown lives–you don't know if they're very good people.
[First added to this chart: 12/12/2016]
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Prog with a one-third incorporation of metal, plenty of hooks and gorgeous layered harmonies. In Absentia is dark in all the right places with beautiful hifi production showcasing a huge array of cymbals and a dense atmosphere of guitars, strings, synths and more. Strip The Soul is groove incarnate, the perfect last stop on this mesmerizing journey. The 2020 remaster will blow your socks off!
[First added to this chart: 11/01/2012]
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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 | 25 | 25% | |
| 1980s | 13 | 13% | |
| 1990s | 28 | 28% | |
| 2000s | 19 | 19% | |
| 2010s | 5 | 5% | |
| 2020s | 7 | 7% |
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| Kate Bush | 2 | 2% | |
| The Residents | 2 | 2% | |
| Mr. Bungle | 2 | 2% | |
| Modest Mouse | 2 | 2% | |
| The Flaming Lips | 2 | 2% | |
| Radiohead | 2 | 2% | |
| NoMeansNo | 2 | 2% | |
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31 | 31% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 10 from 70th to 60th John Zorn's Bagatelles by John Zorn |
| Up 8 from 62nd to 54th The Sea Nymphs by The Sea Nymphs |
| Up 2 from 52nd to 50th Quebec by Ween |
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| Down 5 from 47th to 52nd Vespertine by Björk |
| Down 3 from 41st to 44th Clara Crocodilo by Arrigo Barnabé |
| Down 3 from 56th to 59th The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me by Brand New |
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80/100  | 06/06/2025 17:48 |  Tamthebam | | 85/100 |
80/100 | 01/29/2025 12:41 | SomethingSpecial | | 85/100 |
100/100 | 01/15/2025 17:18 | Exist-en-ciel | | 99/100 |
 95/100 | 12/11/2024 14:49 | DrewHamster | | 79/100 |
| 100/100 | 11/06/2024 00:42 |  Repo | | 100/100 |
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100/100
From Repo 11/06/2024 21:45
Repo 11/06/2024 21:45
Thanks for such a great comment! Really made my day! :)
I've got a bunch of punk & metal charts for different years that I'm always working on. Here's my metal chart for 1982 as an example...
https://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=68314
... if you feel like diving further! \m/
There's also my blog ...
https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=713071#713071
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100/100
From Repo 11/06/2024 00:43
Repo 11/06/2024 00:43
Soul Coughing in the top 10! Love it! And yeah Plastic Death is oneof the best albums of the year!!!
Great write-ups & just a fantastic chart!!!
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95/100
From 
Cargusbralem 11/05/2024 16:21
Cargusbralem 11/05/2024 16:21
Awesome chart, the music passion is so evident.
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80/100
From mianfei 11/21/2023 10:02
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.
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From sageamagoo 11/15/2023 00:00
sageamagoo 11/15/2023 00:00
I always appreciate recommendations! They're all fantastic albums :) I have Third & Flying Teapot on vinyl
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100/100
From 
DommeDamian 11/14/2023 09:27
DommeDamian 11/14/2023 09:27
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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90/100
From leniad 03/21/2022 06:06
liked this chart
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From weyesgroove 03/16/2021 17:47
I really like this chart. thoughts on zaireeka ?
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100/100
From bonnequestion 06/27/2020 15:00
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!
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95/100
From pctrooper 05/10/2020 01:35
Update: I love Prefab Sprout now
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