Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
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VikaGatling 
This chart is very personal. I do not fancy gathering some most influential or most important or whichever items to the list.
There is no "one album for artist" rule, because I really like those placed into my chart. Maybe later it will expand, so I have some place to put the new interesting things. Sorry for now.
- Chart updated: 02/25/2024 18:45
- (Created: 02/22/2013 17:51).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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The most consistent music album I've ever heard. Sounds terrific.
Run, rabbit run, and you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking.
Must be listened in whole. [First added to this chart: 02/22/2013]
Run, rabbit run, and you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking.
Must be listened in whole. [First added to this chart: 02/22/2013]
Year of Release:
1973
Appears in:
Rank Score:
59,128
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I've changed my mind about this one. I disliked it after the first listen. But a fewer times after I understood: it describes what I felt like in my teens and I should have listened to it then, the album would have been inspiring and helpful at that time. It sounds adorable. I still can't agree with its very first position in the overall chart: Dark Side is better.
Must-hear: from start to the end [First added to this chart: 11/29/2013]
Must-hear: from start to the end [First added to this chart: 11/29/2013]
Year of Release:
1997
Appears in:
Rank Score:
62,890
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I like only the first half of the album, but it is just epic! Almost every song is genious.
Must-hear:
- 6. I Want You (She's So Heavy)
- 1. Come Together
- 2. Something
- 8. Because
- 4. Oh! Darling
- 7. Here Comes The Sun
Funny:
- 3. Maxwell's Silver Hammer
- 5. Octopus's Garden [First added to this chart: 03/18/2013]
Must-hear:
- 6. I Want You (She's So Heavy)
- 1. Come Together
- 2. Something
- 8. Because
- 4. Oh! Darling
- 7. Here Comes The Sun
Funny:
- 3. Maxwell's Silver Hammer
- 5. Octopus's Garden [First added to this chart: 03/18/2013]
Year of Release:
1969
Appears in:
Rank Score:
56,539
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Depressive, hard, dark sound. It's what you need when life came to dead end.
I've been listening to Depeche Mode since early childhood - my uncle was their devoted fan and had a collection of copied tapes.
Must-hear:
- 1. Barrel Of a Gun
- 3. Home
- 6. Useless
- 10. The Bottom Line
Cool:
- the rest of the album [First added to this chart: 03/08/2013]
I've been listening to Depeche Mode since early childhood - my uncle was their devoted fan and had a collection of copied tapes.
Must-hear:
- 1. Barrel Of a Gun
- 3. Home
- 6. Useless
- 10. The Bottom Line
Cool:
- the rest of the album [First added to this chart: 03/08/2013]
Year of Release:
1997
Appears in:
Rank Score:
1,292
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Music from the desert. Mariachi + folk-rock. Melancholic. Latino dancing rhythms. Almost perfect album.
Must-hear songs:
- 6. Algiers
- 3. Sinner in the Sea
- 4. Fortune Teller
Good:
- all the rest [First added to this chart: 03/06/2013]
Must-hear songs:
- 6. Algiers
- 3. Sinner in the Sea
- 4. Fortune Teller
Good:
- all the rest [First added to this chart: 03/06/2013]
Some other world to fly away with no returning back... They say, that this totally sick album was created using Heroin. Could be true, anyway, I'm very fond of it.
Must-hear: [First added to this chart: 12/04/2013]
Must-hear: [First added to this chart: 12/04/2013]
The next best thing by the Beatles. Taxman is one of the most exciting songs ever, Eleanor is adorable, almost all the rest are very good. Tomorrow Never Knows is brainbursting, one of my all-time favorites.
By the way, I don't get the hype about Sgt Pepper and I'm glad that people nowadays start preferring Revolver.
If this chart had no end, I'd include also Please Please Me and Let it Be (and maybe The White one). They all have been in the chart while it was closed to the public. But we must choose the best, mustn't we? Anyway, 3 is more then enough =)
Must-hear:
- 1. Taxman
- 2. Eleanor Rigby
- 5. Here, There and Everywhere
- 6. Yellow Submarine
- 10. For No One
- 14. Tomorrow Never Knows
Pretty good:
- the rest [First added to this chart: 08/26/2014]
By the way, I don't get the hype about Sgt Pepper and I'm glad that people nowadays start preferring Revolver.
If this chart had no end, I'd include also Please Please Me and Let it Be (and maybe The White one). They all have been in the chart while it was closed to the public. But we must choose the best, mustn't we? Anyway, 3 is more then enough =)
Must-hear:
- 1. Taxman
- 2. Eleanor Rigby
- 5. Here, There and Everywhere
- 6. Yellow Submarine
- 10. For No One
- 14. Tomorrow Never Knows
Pretty good:
- the rest [First added to this chart: 08/26/2014]
Year of Release:
1966
Appears in:
Rank Score:
48,920
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IMHO, the best double album and the best solo album among the Beatles' ex-members. It is romantic and funny and a bit sad but also very cozy in some strange way, and it brings peace and joy into my life.
Must-hear:
- 1. I'd Have You Anytime
- 2. My Sweet Lord
- 4. Isn't It A Pity
- 5. What Is Life
- 9. Run Of The Mill
- 10 (1). Beware Of Darkness
- 11 (2). Apple Scruffs
- 12 (3). Ballad Of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)
- 13 (4). Awaiting On You All
- 16 (7). Art Of Dying
Nice:
- the rest [First added to this chart: 11/15/2013]
Must-hear:
- 1. I'd Have You Anytime
- 2. My Sweet Lord
- 4. Isn't It A Pity
- 5. What Is Life
- 9. Run Of The Mill
- 10 (1). Beware Of Darkness
- 11 (2). Apple Scruffs
- 12 (3). Ballad Of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)
- 13 (4). Awaiting On You All
- 16 (7). Art Of Dying
Nice:
- the rest [First added to this chart: 11/15/2013]
Year of Release:
1970
Appears in:
Rank Score:
12,408
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My favourite progressive epic song of all times is Close to the Edge. I love it's every sound. The second song on the album is slightly worse, and the third one I don't like at all. So, where to place it within the chart? As high as possible, of course!
Must-immediately-hear-if-still-haven't:
- 1. Close to the Edge [First added to this chart: 10/15/2013]
Must-immediately-hear-if-still-haven't:
- 1. Close to the Edge [First added to this chart: 10/15/2013]
Year of Release:
1972
Appears in:
Rank Score:
13,757
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Brilliant re-edit of a number of Genesis' best songs. Great work. Let it be the one and only compilation/remix album in this chart.
[First added to this chart: 02/22/2013]
Total albums: 100. Page 1 of 10
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 11 | 11% | |
| 1970s | 31 | 31% | |
| 1980s | 14 | 14% | |
| 1990s | 17 | 17% | |
| 2000s | 13 | 13% | |
| 2010s | 13 | 13% | |
| 2020s | 1 | 1% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Camel | 3 | 3% | |
| The Beatles | 3 | 3% | |
| Dead Can Dance | 2 | 2% | |
| Pink Floyd | 2 | 2% | |
| Caravan | 2 | 2% | |
| Cocteau Twins | 2 | 2% | |
| Supertramp | 2 | 2% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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58 | 58% | |
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14 | 14% | |
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5 | 5% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 2 from 84th to 82ndHeaven Or Las Vegas by Cocteau Twins |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 2 from 81st to 83rdWildhoney by Tiamat |
| Down 2 from 82nd to 84thFreudiana by The Alan Parsons Project |
| Down 2 from 83rd to 85thAja by Steely Dan |
| New entries |
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| Treasure by Cocteau Twins |
| Leavers |
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| The Angel And The Dark River by My Dying Bride |
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| 03/30/2025 21:04 |  slatsheit | 26 | 88/100 | |
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| 08/02/2022 12:51 | bonnequestion | 37 | 98/100 | |
| 02/04/2022 11:06 | IlMala | 178 | 95/100 |
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From slatsheit 03/30/2025 21:05 | #308258
slatsheit 03/30/2025 21:05 | #308258
Very cool list! We have a fair number in common, and others you include would be in my top 500. There are a couple I don't like, but everyone's tastes are different, and it's always interesting. I enjoy your commentaries as well!
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