Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
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Favorite songs overall:
• Sinnerman - Nina Simone (1965)
• Move On Up - Curtis Mayfield (1970)
• One of These Days - Pink Floyd (1971)
• Supper's Ready - Genesis (1972)
• The Cinema Show - Genesis (1973)
• Comme un sage - Harmonium (1976)
• La Villa Strangiato - Rush (1978)
• Disorder - Joy Division (1979)
• Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads (1980)
• Lorelei - Cocteau Twins (1984)
• Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order (1986)
• It's Alright - Pet Shop Boys (1988)
• Like a Prayer - Madonna (1989)
• Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack (1991)
• Digging in the Dirt - Peter Gabriel (1992)
• Xtal - Aphex Twin (1992)
• Building Steam With a Grain of Salt - DJ Shadow (1996)
• Teardrop - Massive Attack (1998)
• Unison - Björk (2001)
• J'erre - Dumas (2003)
• Someone Great - LCD Soundsystem (2007)
• Christmas Unicorn - Sufjan Stevens (2012)
• Afterlife - Arcade Fire (2013)
• Now or Never Now - Metric (2018)
• Death & Romance - Magdalena Bay (2024)
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 2 | 2% | |
| 1960s | 12 | 12% | |
| 1970s | 20 | 20% | |
| 1980s | 12 | 12% | |
| 1990s | 12 | 12% | |
| 2000s | 20 | 20% | |
| 2010s | 12 | 12% | |
| 2020s | 10 | 10% |
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| My Bloody Valentine | 1 | 1% | |
| Nick Drake | 1 | 1% | |
| Cocteau Twins | 1 | 1% | |
| 青葉市子 [Ichiko Aoba] | 1 | 1% | |
| Tom Zé | 1 | 1% | |
| Mach-Hommy | 1 | 1% | |
| Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers | 1 | 1% | |
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42 | 42% | |
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27 | 27% | |
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9 | 9% | |
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5 | 5% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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1 | 1% | |
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From awesomness425 16 hours ago | #312118
awesomness425 16 hours ago | #312118
lots of stuff on here i need to check out. You just took me having the highest ranked score on Gorecki a day after I updated my chart after two years lol
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