Top 40 Greatest Music Albums
by TitoVampir 
The Best 40 albums ever (To be expanded and updated, hopefully) a.k.a. My favourite albums ever. One artist per album to not clog up the list and to make other great music visible. Some write ups here and there, I try not to go too overboard but sometimes I just let go of myself. Hope you enjoy the chart as it stands now.
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- (Created: 08/13/2026 11:14).
- Chart size: 40 albums.
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New Wave/Post Punk/Art Rock
I find it strange that the further up on these types of lists you go, the less you have to say. Which sounds counterintuitive but I realize that simply there exist no adequate words to translate exactly what I feel when I hear this album. I like writing in a flowery way, and try to convey as much as I can any noteworthy quality of anything I enjoy but this... Even after 10 years, I get lost for words. To me, this is like air or water, it is that obviously essential and excellent to my mind and body that there is no need to describe what you intuitively know to be essential to your own self.. [First added to this chart: 08/16/2026]
I find it strange that the further up on these types of lists you go, the less you have to say. Which sounds counterintuitive but I realize that simply there exist no adequate words to translate exactly what I feel when I hear this album. I like writing in a flowery way, and try to convey as much as I can any noteworthy quality of anything I enjoy but this... Even after 10 years, I get lost for words. To me, this is like air or water, it is that obviously essential and excellent to my mind and body that there is no need to describe what you intuitively know to be essential to your own self.. [First added to this chart: 08/16/2026]
Post Rock/Shoegaze/Christian Rock
A majestic Rock Opera that riffs hard and noises even harder. It achieves a perfect consonance where it feels very human and down to earth while also reaching extreme spiritual heights rivaling those of Good Friday masses. (Weird comparison for sure, but that is my standard!!).
These melodies forget where they come from only to take you with them. We shall be free indeed.
Best Song: Into the Storm (Song of the century even!!) [First added to this chart: 08/16/2026]
A majestic Rock Opera that riffs hard and noises even harder. It achieves a perfect consonance where it feels very human and down to earth while also reaching extreme spiritual heights rivaling those of Good Friday masses. (Weird comparison for sure, but that is my standard!!).
These melodies forget where they come from only to take you with them. We shall be free indeed.
Best Song: Into the Storm (Song of the century even!!) [First added to this chart: 08/16/2026]
Art Rock/Reggae/Jazz Rock
'Treci Svijet' (Third World) is quite appropriately a whole world of its own which, with it's sophisticated arrangements and inspiring songwriting, combines various third world genres, jazz and the experimental post-punk principals to create a transcendental experience and one of the most original musical languages and ways of expression . I always listen to it in awe and witness how Rundek and Sacher were genius masters of catharsis. On it, they managed to reach a perfect emotional climax without it sounding disingenuous or forced and focusing on it with a clear accent on subtlety. It's so easy and free it feels like it's floating. If they were in any bigger country this could've started its own subgenre and yet, God has chosen to keep it in this small part of the world.
Best Songs: Neobičan Dan/Patuljci u Vrtu/Skriveni Iza Lažnih Imena/Treći Svijet
(Also, I swear I didn't pick the first three albums based on their yellow covers, it just turned out that way, lol) [First added to this chart: 08/16/2026]
'Treci Svijet' (Third World) is quite appropriately a whole world of its own which, with it's sophisticated arrangements and inspiring songwriting, combines various third world genres, jazz and the experimental post-punk principals to create a transcendental experience and one of the most original musical languages and ways of expression . I always listen to it in awe and witness how Rundek and Sacher were genius masters of catharsis. On it, they managed to reach a perfect emotional climax without it sounding disingenuous or forced and focusing on it with a clear accent on subtlety. It's so easy and free it feels like it's floating. If they were in any bigger country this could've started its own subgenre and yet, God has chosen to keep it in this small part of the world.
Best Songs: Neobičan Dan/Patuljci u Vrtu/Skriveni Iza Lažnih Imena/Treći Svijet
(Also, I swear I didn't pick the first three albums based on their yellow covers, it just turned out that way, lol) [First added to this chart: 08/16/2026]
Progressive Rock/Psychedelic Rock/Latin Rock
[First added to this chart: 08/16/2026]
Year of Release:
2005
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2,132
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Symphonic Prog
In my eyes, no prog band could ever compete with Camel. They must have had a direct access to God for there is no other explanation on how anyone can write such divine melodies and sounds. Their very best, though they had no short of excellent works. [First added to this chart: 08/16/2026]
In my eyes, no prog band could ever compete with Camel. They must have had a direct access to God for there is no other explanation on how anyone can write such divine melodies and sounds. Their very best, though they had no short of excellent works. [First added to this chart: 08/16/2026]
Year of Release:
1976
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1,526
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Industrial Rock/Noise Rock
One of the most interesting and devastating musical works that I've ever experienced. The concept of simple rhythm gets utilized to the fullest here, so much so that Cop Shoot Cop somehow discovered and perfected a way of expression where the only thing you need is to accent the right beat at the right time and at the right level of intensity to create sound that is more emotional than 99% of the stuff that's out there. The vocals do their part brilliantly too, Tod Ashley took a lot from the styles of Albini and Lydon but surpassed them in nearly every way just by removing any and all subtlety that they had. The lead (bass) riffs in this album serve the regular purpose of showing progression like in most rock but in this case they are used more for building up to the release instead of actually providing it themselves, as they're not the ones who completely carry the composition (like it would be normally expected in pop and rock music). So what this album really is, is a subversion of a genre that was already considered a subversion itself (punk/industrial rock) hence the reason for its originality, unpredictability and its fascinating nature. Also, since I haven't commented on them, the pure industrial interludes are near perfect in their execution (Disconnect 666 especially) and this is basically the only album I've heard where they aren't just pointless filler but interesting in and of themselves. Overall a brilliant release. Absolutely amazing and nothing else.
Best Song: Burn Your Bridges - Perhaps the truest masterpiece of their technique with its subtle build up and playing with alternate tunings and even moments of atonality leading to an incredibly bombastic and rhythmically mega-intense finish. One of the ultimate masterpieces of popular music.
Fun fact about this album: It might be the only album in history to feature Two Bassists, Two Samplers and a drum-set enhanced with random found metal pieces a la Ein Neu.
No doubt that the originality and idiosyncracy of the present arrangements extends to the brilliant compositions themselves. [First added to this chart: 08/16/2026]
Post-Punk/Experimental Rock/Industrial
This is in my opinion the most cohesive, well paced album ever made both conceptually and musically (though Pere Ubu practically fuse those two together here to the point where they become one). From the avant-garde high pitched guitar shreek of "Non-Alignment Pact" through the more and more subtly evolving madness of every track to come (just compare the gradual sonic and vocal development from "Modern Dance" to "Over My Head") then to the album's ideological peak in "Sentimental Journey" and finally to the album's brilliant (anti-) climax in "Humor Me", Pere Ubu's debut is absolutely perfect in every aspect. It's the stress and sick comical ways of the modern age completely dissected through simple punk music. Though I suppose that you could say that in this case the punk gets completely distorted and twisted by the thing it's criticizing itself which just adds yet another brilliant layer to this masterpiece. It's simply the medium/art of the album format at its very peak and I doubt I'll ever see it topped. [First added to this chart: 08/16/2026]
This is in my opinion the most cohesive, well paced album ever made both conceptually and musically (though Pere Ubu practically fuse those two together here to the point where they become one). From the avant-garde high pitched guitar shreek of "Non-Alignment Pact" through the more and more subtly evolving madness of every track to come (just compare the gradual sonic and vocal development from "Modern Dance" to "Over My Head") then to the album's ideological peak in "Sentimental Journey" and finally to the album's brilliant (anti-) climax in "Humor Me", Pere Ubu's debut is absolutely perfect in every aspect. It's the stress and sick comical ways of the modern age completely dissected through simple punk music. Though I suppose that you could say that in this case the punk gets completely distorted and twisted by the thing it's criticizing itself which just adds yet another brilliant layer to this masterpiece. It's simply the medium/art of the album format at its very peak and I doubt I'll ever see it topped. [First added to this chart: 08/16/2026]
Year of Release:
1978
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1,957
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Post-Punk/Experimental Rock/Post-Hardcore/Noise Rock
The music is very mesmerizing to say the least. It's impossible to describe it, I suppose using the vague term ''abstract" does it justice more than most could even though nothing really can. It's intense, it's insane and it's funny but in a very repulsive and morbid way. It predates and invents Mr. Bungle, NoMeansNo, Drive Like Jehu etc. and your general weird post-hardcore/noise rock/heavy rock music yet it remains in relative obscurity even here in ex-Yucountries (for the average man at least). Do check it out if you ever have a knack for crazy experimental and highly original rock. An Avant-Garde masterpiece in my eyes. Their drummer, the legendary VD, said it best:
''... ja sam se trudio da stvorim prostora za neke otvorene forme gde bih, ovaj, uspeo da stvorim situaciju da komuniciramo tim instrumentima tokom same svirke. E sad, i to je bio nekako,za mene bar, najkvalitetniji deo muzike koju je Sarlo pravio. Taj neki organizovani... U nekoj meri organizovani haos,ovaj, koji je Sarlo uspeo da pravi..'' [First added to this chart: 08/16/2026]
The music is very mesmerizing to say the least. It's impossible to describe it, I suppose using the vague term ''abstract" does it justice more than most could even though nothing really can. It's intense, it's insane and it's funny but in a very repulsive and morbid way. It predates and invents Mr. Bungle, NoMeansNo, Drive Like Jehu etc. and your general weird post-hardcore/noise rock/heavy rock music yet it remains in relative obscurity even here in ex-Yucountries (for the average man at least). Do check it out if you ever have a knack for crazy experimental and highly original rock. An Avant-Garde masterpiece in my eyes. Their drummer, the legendary VD, said it best:
''... ja sam se trudio da stvorim prostora za neke otvorene forme gde bih, ovaj, uspeo da stvorim situaciju da komuniciramo tim instrumentima tokom same svirke. E sad, i to je bio nekako,za mene bar, najkvalitetniji deo muzike koju je Sarlo pravio. Taj neki organizovani... U nekoj meri organizovani haos,ovaj, koji je Sarlo uspeo da pravi..'' [First added to this chart: 08/16/2026]
Industrial Metal
[First added to this chart: 08/16/2026]
Rock/New Wave/Folk Rock
Đoni's biggest success, a collection of poetic works based on urban paranoia, love and human absurdity. The styles of music vary as much as the themes and they are successful all the time, the rhythms and riffs become not only new wave and post punk explorations, but perfect abstractions and soundtracks to everyday life, which this album heightens to almost mythical realms. Đoni saw the hidden beauty of everyday life and brought the negative space of it to the forefront, these are odes to the things we all experience on even the most dull days but never quite properly notice and here they are praised, cried over, laughed at and dismissed, he covers every little thing. It is absolutely insane that he wrote another amazing double album one year after Suncana strana, no doubt one of the finest geniuses of the era and perhaps in the history of music. This has that Velvet Underground vibe to it that really makes you appreciate the obvious little things.
Tko To Tamo Pjeva, Volim Te, 68, Ne Prodajem, Proljeće, Ako znaš, Ljudi Samoće, Strah od Smrit, Hladan kao Led, Naizgled Lijepa, Iran, Kao ti i ja, Cudne Navike and Filigranski Plocnici are the standouts and some of my absolute favoruites. Is it completely brilliant all the way through? Well, perhaps no, but like 80% is the best thing ever, and very very special to me, hence it gets the perfect score from me.
''Čini mi se rođače
da je standard pokvario ljude
jedu govna i sanjare'' [First added to this chart: 08/16/2026]
Đoni's biggest success, a collection of poetic works based on urban paranoia, love and human absurdity. The styles of music vary as much as the themes and they are successful all the time, the rhythms and riffs become not only new wave and post punk explorations, but perfect abstractions and soundtracks to everyday life, which this album heightens to almost mythical realms. Đoni saw the hidden beauty of everyday life and brought the negative space of it to the forefront, these are odes to the things we all experience on even the most dull days but never quite properly notice and here they are praised, cried over, laughed at and dismissed, he covers every little thing. It is absolutely insane that he wrote another amazing double album one year after Suncana strana, no doubt one of the finest geniuses of the era and perhaps in the history of music. This has that Velvet Underground vibe to it that really makes you appreciate the obvious little things.
Tko To Tamo Pjeva, Volim Te, 68, Ne Prodajem, Proljeće, Ako znaš, Ljudi Samoće, Strah od Smrit, Hladan kao Led, Naizgled Lijepa, Iran, Kao ti i ja, Cudne Navike and Filigranski Plocnici are the standouts and some of my absolute favoruites. Is it completely brilliant all the way through? Well, perhaps no, but like 80% is the best thing ever, and very very special to me, hence it gets the perfect score from me.
''Čini mi se rođače
da je standard pokvario ljude
jedu govna i sanjare'' [First added to this chart: 08/16/2026]
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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 | 5 | 13% | |
| 1970s | 6 | 15% | |
| 1980s | 15 | 38% | |
| 1990s | 10 | 25% | |
| 2000s | 4 | 10% | |
| 2010s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| At The Drive-In | 1 | 3% | |
| Pere Ubu | 1 | 3% | |
| The Kinks | 1 | 3% | |
| Slint | 1 | 3% | |
| J. G. Thirlwell | 1 | 3% | |
| Šarlo Akrobata | 1 | 3% | |
| The Lookouts | 1 | 3% | |
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18 | 45% | |
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6 | 15% | |
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3 | 8% | |
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3 | 8% | |
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3 | 8% | |
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3 | 8% | |
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2 | 5% | |
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