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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Untitled (Led Zeppelin IV) 

 Led Zeppelin

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[First added to this chart: 01/02/2010]

Year of Release:

1971

Appears in:

3,152 charts

Rank Score:

39,053

Rank in 1971:

1

Rank in 1970s:

4

Overall Rank:

12

Average Rating:

 90 (3,996 votes)

Comments:

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Led Zeppelin II 

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[First added to this chart: 04/28/2010]

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

1,948 charts

Rank Score:

21,091

Rank in 1969:

3

Rank in 1960s:

13

Overall Rank:

41

Average Rating:

 87 (2,746 votes)

Comments:

176

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Top 50 Greatest Music Albums composition

Country	Albums	%
	30	60%
	14	28%
	3	6%
	2	4%
	1	2%

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85/100  !	07/12/2015 09:57	greatson	906	80/100
100/100  !	02/10/2015 23:56	JasonZaia	171	89/100
90/100  !	02/02/2015 04:38	AMEIER	79	84/100
90/100  !	11/20/2014 05:51	BraddlesHendo	497	91/100
50/100  !	04/22/2014 23:11	Kaiser	115	64/100

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From JasonZaia 02/10/2015 23:56 | #134641

Brilliant chart! Top Marks!

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From AMEIER 02/02/2015 04:37 | #133735

Very interesting tastes and a nice list to check, cheers!!

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From BraddlesHendo 11/20/2014 05:53 | #127487

Not much love from my great era the 80's. But yes the 60's were brilliant

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From flyingcitrus 12/06/2013 03:41 | #96480

Great list, very comprehensive.

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From jhuik 12/06/2013 01:19 | #96468

Great start, well worth highlighting.

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From Antonio-Pedro 12/05/2013 23:15 | #96462

Great chart not very in common but some great picks

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From tgarritsen 12/05/2013 13:44 | #96403

Cool chart, I'm happy to see a stevie wonder album in the top 10.

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From Patman360 06/30/2013 00:36 | #80092

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.

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From EyeKanFly 06/04/2013 19:26 | #78084

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.

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From unwound 06/04/2013 19:00 | #78082

awesome!

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