Top 50 Greatest Music Albums by NathanTen 
This list is essentially my choices from 2011, frozen in time. I'm happy enough with it, but it's still a little too stiff and guilty of ancestor-worship. Since then I've seriously overhauled my list (on another music site I have a top 350 up with titles ranging chronologically from Washington Phillips, Ella Fitzgerald, and Chuck Berry to Bad as Me by Tom Waits and Kendrick Lamar. I look forward to getting the next level status and being able to expand and switch around titles as I see fit.
Albums that easily could have made the chart, in no particular order: Pink Moon, Remain in Light, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Call Me, Thriller, Odelay, Sticky Fingers, Stories from the City Stories from the Sea, The Who Sell Out, Pretzel Logic, Achtung Baby, Elvis Presley, Bringing It All Back Home, Kala, Paul's Boutique, A Love Supreme, Raising Hell, Electro-Shock Blues, The Bends, Houses of the Holy, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, Illinois, Dirty Mind, Surfer Rosa, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Born to Run, The Queen is Dead, The Low End Theory, Slanted and Enchanted
- Chart updated: 06/30/2013 05:12
- (Created: 11/25/2008 12:18).
- Chart size: 50 albums.
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Top 50 Greatest Music Albums composition
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 1 | 2% | |
| 1960s | 19 | 38% | |
| 1970s | 13 | 26% | |
| 1980s | 6 | 12% | |
| 1990s | 4 | 8% | |
| 2000s | 7 | 14% | |
| 2010s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| The Beatles | 5 | 10% | |
| Miles Davis | 3 | 6% | |
| The Rolling Stones | 3 | 6% | |
| Bob Dylan | 3 | 6% | |
| Marvin Gaye | 2 | 4% | |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 2 | 4% | |
| U2 | 2 | 4% | |
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85/100  | 07/12/2015 09:57 |  greatson | | 80/100 |
100/100 | 02/10/2015 23:56 | JasonZaia | | 89/100 |
90/100 | 02/02/2015 04:38 |  AMEIER | | 84/100 |
90/100 | 11/20/2014 05:51 | BraddlesHendo | | 91/100 |
50/100 | 04/22/2014 23:11 |  Kaiser | | 64/100 |
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Brilliant chart! Top Marks!
AMEIER 02/02/2015 04:37
Very interesting tastes and a nice list to check, cheers!!
Not much love from my great era the 80's. But yes the 60's were brilliant
flyingcitrus 12/06/2013 03:41
Great list, very comprehensive.
jhuik 12/06/2013 01:19
Great start, well worth highlighting.
Antonio-Pedro 12/05/2013 23:15
Great chart not very in common but some great picks
tgarritsen 12/05/2013 13:44
Cool chart, I'm happy to see a stevie wonder album in the top 10.
Patman360 06/30/2013 00:36
I like this chart, it really reminds of me what my chart was like when I first arrived here (Minus the hip hop albums), gives me good nostalgic vibes. 11 albums in common isn't bad at all, props on Graceland aswell, needs more love around these parts. Looking forward to seeing a full 100.
EyeKanFly 06/04/2013 19:26
My only problem with this chart is that it's dominated by 60s/70s music. Almost half the albums are from the 60s. They are all great albums though, just not a ton of chronological variety.
unwound 06/04/2013 19:00
awesome!
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