Top 10 Greatest Music Albums
by smmullen 
The one rule that I stuck too when creating this chart is one album per band, so great albums like Nevermind, Surfer Rosa, Sandinista, Sign O' the Times, 13, practically every Bowie album, and biggest of all THE BENDS by Radiohead did not make the cut. I would also like to talk about some tought cuts, Smashing Pumpkins-Siamese Dream, Brian Eno-Here Come the Warm Jets, Beach Boys-Pet Sounds, Queens of the Stone Age-Songs for the Deaf, Sly and the Family Stone-There's a Riot Goin' On, Echo and the Bunnymen-Ocean Rain, Buzzcocks-Singles Going Steady, Wire-Pink Flag, Soundgarden-Superunknown, Pavement-Slanted and Enchanted, New Pornograhpers-Twin Cinema, Bob Dylan-Highway 61 Revisited, Beatles-Sgt. Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Band, Television-Marquee Moon, Wilco-Summer Teeth, XTC-Skylarking and Drums and Wires, Husker Du-New Day Rising, Garbage-Garbage, The Cars-The Cars, Roxy Music-Country Life, Jimi Hendrix Experience-Electric Ladyland, Frank Black-Frank Black, Blondie-Parallel Lines, Black Sabbath-Paranoid, New Radicals-Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too (really underrated), Replacements-Let It Be, and lastly Harvey Danger-King James Version. You can see that a lot of these albums I just mentioned aren't exactly validated to be on these lists since they are not universally recognized by other accredited lists, but I still believe they deserve recognition.
- Chart updated: 04/06/2010 12:48
- (Created: 04/16/2006 10:37).
- Chart size: 10 albums.
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1977
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1989
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1997
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1994
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1984
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15,871
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1979
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30,350
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1986
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1993
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17,277
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1980
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27,512
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Top 10 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1970s | 2 | 20% | |
| 1980s | 5 | 50% | |
| 1990s | 3 | 30% | |
| 2000s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2010s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| The Clash | 1 | 10% | |
| The Smiths | 1 | 10% | |
| Nirvana | 1 | 10% | |
| Talking Heads | 1 | 10% | |
| Sonic Youth | 1 | 10% | |
| David Bowie | 1 | 10% | |
| Pixies | 1 | 10% | |
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
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| 04/11/2015 17:43 |  calsper | 646 | 71/100 | |
| 12/08/2013 15:47 |  antiloopje | 144 | 81/100 | |
| 11/23/2011 17:08 |  revolver94 | 235 | 84/100 | |
| 07/14/2011 16:21 |  Triple Seis | 1,251 | 79/100 | |
| 07/24/2010 17:14 |  covecove | 331 | 81/100 |
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This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 84.2/100, a mean average of 80.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.1/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 13.9.
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From antiloopje 12/08/2013 15:47 | #96820
antiloopje 12/08/2013 15:47 | #96820
very, very interesting top 10 list
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From covecove 07/25/2010 00:16 | #13686
covecove 07/25/2010 00:16 | #13686
I think this is one of the best top 10s in the site and if you decide to enter more albums reflecting your personal tastes I think it will trully be one of my favorites
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Freddie55 12/29/2009 11:35 | #7908
Freddie55 12/29/2009 11:35 | #7908
Excellent first 10.
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From billman 10/23/2009 11:09 | #6857
"Low" is a great way to start a great list.
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From caralladas76 04/25/2008 22:05 | #594
One of the best lists i´ve seen here. Congrats.
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