Top 40 Greatest Music Albums
by pnreum 
Tomorrow, many of these may be different, but this is the list for today
- Chart updated: 11/20/2012 05:25
- (Created: 11/20/2012 03:46).
- Chart size: 40 albums.
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I was blessed to attend the live premier of this work in London in 2004. Brian and van Dyke have created a long form composition for live performamce from the ashes of The Smile album from the Sixties
[First added to this chart: 11/19/2012]
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2004
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2,326
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I wrote an essay for the booklet for this boxed set. I also contributed grapics to the set. This album became the most famous unreleased album in rock history. Brian Wilson's creativity was seemingly endless. The set captures his modular production style, revolutionary for the Sixties. This is rock's first interactive album. Every obsessive, myself included has compiled his own track order for the music herein.
[First added to this chart: 11/19/2012]
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2011
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5,738
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Rock's finest female songwriter, in my opinion
[First added to this chart: 11/19/2012]
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1968
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1,435
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Their best realized long work, in my opinion
[First added to this chart: 11/19/2012]
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1973
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7,045
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An album with too many great melodies for its own good....simmply a tour de force
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1972
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1,282
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A live album that captures the band in its Seventies glory with Lowell George
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1978
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465
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Brian's best fully realized album from the Sixties
[First added to this chart: 11/19/2012]
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1966
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37,728
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The pinnacle of the album as art in the Motown catalog in my opinion
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1971
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18,850
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This is a masterwork from a band that can literally play anything anytime
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Most musicians would sell their soul to write as great an album's full of tunes as this one
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1969
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Total albums: 40. Page 1 of 4
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Top 40 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 1 | 3% | |
| 1960s | 10 | 25% | |
| 1970s | 17 | 43% | |
| 1980s | 2 | 5% | |
| 1990s | 4 | 10% | |
| 2000s | 4 | 10% | |
| 2010s | 2 | 5% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
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| The Beach Boys | 3 | 8% | |
| The Band | 2 | 5% | |
| Brian Wilson | 2 | 5% | |
| The Who | 2 | 5% | |
| Little Feat | 2 | 5% | |
| Los Lobos | 1 | 3% | |
| Robbie Robertson & The Red Road Ensemble | 1 | 3% | |
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Top 40 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
|---|
| Up 39 from 40th to 1stBrian Wilson Presents Smile by Brian Wilson |
| Up 37 from 39th to 2ndThe Smile Sessions by The Beach Boys |
| Up 35 from 38th to 3rdEli And The Thirteenth Confession by Laura Nyro |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 30 from 2nd to 32ndAt Fillmore East by The Allman Brothers Band |
| Down 22 from 11th to 33rdMind If We Make Love To You by Wondermints |
| Down 17 from 5th to 22ndMusic For The Native Americans by Robbie Robertson & The Red Road Ensemble |
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