Top 40 Greatest Music Albums
by Andrash 
Whew! Selecting my "favorite ever" albums and limiting myself to only forty - what a task! But I did it. This list spans almost four decades of music and reflects my ever-evolving taste since the moment I first pressed the Play button on my Technics cassette recorder in the mid 80's. I limited this to one album per band, which of course is artificial and leaves lots of favorites out, but the benefit of the method is that it allowed me to add a more diverse set of music - and diverse my taste is :-) Enjoy, and I'd love to hear your feedback. Also: proud to have added two new bands and six new albums to BEA as part of this compilation! --Andrash
- Chart updated: 10/30/2012 18:14
- (Created: 10/30/2012 04:33).
- Chart size: 40 albums.
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[First added to this chart: 10/30/2012]
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1995
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28,565
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[First added to this chart: 10/30/2012]
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1975
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44,247
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[First added to this chart: 10/30/2012]
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1990
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9,757
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[First added to this chart: 10/30/2012]
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[First added to this chart: 10/30/2012]
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2002
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805
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[First added to this chart: 10/30/2012]
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1994
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3,351
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[First added to this chart: 10/30/2012]
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1998
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9,896
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[First added to this chart: 10/30/2012]
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1997
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478
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[First added to this chart: 10/30/2012]
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1987
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3,646
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Total albums: 40. Page 1 of 4
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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 | 0 | 0% | |
| 1970s | 1 | 3% | |
| 1980s | 6 | 15% | |
| 1990s | 13 | 33% | |
| 2000s | 16 | 40% | |
| 2010s | 4 | 10% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Pink Floyd | 1 | 3% | |
| Arcade Fire | 1 | 3% | |
| The National | 1 | 3% | |
| Element Of Crime | 1 | 3% | |
| Dead Can Dance | 1 | 3% | |
| Tears For Fears | 1 | 3% | |
| Boards Of Canada | 1 | 3% | |
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11 | 28% | |
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3 | 8% | |
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Top 40 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 3 from 33rd to 36thXX by The xx |
| Down 2 from 35th to 37thIf You're Feeling Sinister by Belle And Sebastian |
| Down 1 from 31st to 32ndOracular Spectacular by MGMT |
| New entries |
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| Love Over Gold by Dire Straits |
| The Suburbs by Arcade Fire |
| Leavers |
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| Funeral by Arcade Fire |
| Dead Elvis by Death In Vegas |
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| Best Ever Artists | |
|---|---|
| 1. The Beatles | |
| 2. Radiohead | |
| 3. Pink Floyd | |
| 4. David Bowie | |
| 5. Bob Dylan | |
| 6. Led Zeppelin | |
| 7. The Rolling Stones | |
| 8. Arcade Fire | |
| 9. Nirvana | |
| 10. Neil Young | |
| 11. The Velvet Underground | |
| 12. Kendrick Lamar | |
| 13. Miles Davis | |
| 14. The Smiths | |
| 15. R.E.M. | |
| 16. The Beach Boys | |
| 17. Kanye West | |
| 18. Bruce Springsteen | |
| 19. Pixies | |
| 20. The Cure |
