Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by 
seb7 
currently reworking my top 100 songs. unsorted spotify playlist of top 500 here
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4gp6KJiLZfavjfwSNolZrz?si=a32ded9b7fde49ab
- Chart updated: 02/26/2024 22:15
- (Created: 11/11/2020 16:37).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Post-Punk // Synthpop
Synth-Punk implies the existence of post-synth-punk. This is it. Peter Hook is my favorite bassist, and Age of Consent might just be my favorite song ever. This album walks the line in the history of New Order where they had shifted enough away from Joy Divison to be true post-punk anymore, yet they still hadn't become full-on dance yet. It is the most wonderful mix of both. Also, the cover is just gorgeous.
Won't you please let me go
These words lie inside they hurt me so
And I'm not the kind that likes to tell you
Just what I want to do
I'm not the kind that needs to tell you
Just what you want me to
I saw you this morning
I thought that you might like to know
I received your message in full a few days ago
I understood every word that it said
And now that I've actually heard it
You're going to regret [First added to this chart: 05/11/2021]
Synth-Punk implies the existence of post-synth-punk. This is it. Peter Hook is my favorite bassist, and Age of Consent might just be my favorite song ever. This album walks the line in the history of New Order where they had shifted enough away from Joy Divison to be true post-punk anymore, yet they still hadn't become full-on dance yet. It is the most wonderful mix of both. Also, the cover is just gorgeous.
Won't you please let me go
These words lie inside they hurt me so
And I'm not the kind that likes to tell you
Just what I want to do
I'm not the kind that needs to tell you
Just what you want me to
I saw you this morning
I thought that you might like to know
I received your message in full a few days ago
I understood every word that it said
And now that I've actually heard it
You're going to regret [First added to this chart: 05/11/2021]
Year of Release:
1983
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6,939
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Funk Rock // Art Rock
[First added to this chart: 04/02/2021]
Year of Release:
1976
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13,198
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Hard Bop
Quite possible my favorite Bop album ever. Also quite possibly my favorite Davis Quintet Lineup. Miles, John, Red, Paul and Philly put on quite a stellar performance. [First added to this chart: 01/11/2021]
Quite possible my favorite Bop album ever. Also quite possibly my favorite Davis Quintet Lineup. Miles, John, Red, Paul and Philly put on quite a stellar performance. [First added to this chart: 01/11/2021]
Year of Release:
1957
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1,716
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MBP // Contemporary Folk
[First added to this chart: 11/19/2022]
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Spiritual Jazz
[First added to this chart: 11/13/2020]
Year of Release:
1965
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17,159
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This is In the Flat Field by Bauhaus
Goth-Rock // Post-Punk // Noise
It’s pouring deep into december. You’re walking. Not enough layers on. You forgot an umbrella. The sun is going down. Your apartment isn’t that far, you can see it at the end of the road. The streets are empty. It’s weird to see them this quiet. You don’t know, you can’t hear the man stalking you, just 10 feet behind. The rain is coming down hard today. Maybe even hard enough to hide a small scream.
Bauhaus’s debut album is an animation of omen and haunt. Somehow, this album was created with the purpose intent to horrify the listener. There is no fast, energetic song. The only tastes of passion are the stunning vocal performances and the masterful drumming. In fact, Peter Murphy must have been crazy or very very high on a bad trip while making this album. He howls and and howls on Stigmata Martyr especially, but is doing so on the whole album. The mood on this album is just crafted so perfectly. Every song fits in and makes an impression. Each one is more terrifying than the last.
Your nerves are running high. Rain and wind and voices of the dead are swirling around you in a flat field of mud. You’ll never make it out of here alive. You were certain you lost the guy. You’ve been running for oh so long. The voices whisper in your ears to just let go. Lay on the ground and let the mud pile. You hear footsteps behind you. You swing around, just quick enough to see the face of death before you fall. Fall and fall and fall and fall and fall…..
9.5 murders in your sleep / 10 [First added to this chart: 01/30/2022]
Goth-Rock // Post-Punk // Noise
It’s pouring deep into december. You’re walking. Not enough layers on. You forgot an umbrella. The sun is going down. Your apartment isn’t that far, you can see it at the end of the road. The streets are empty. It’s weird to see them this quiet. You don’t know, you can’t hear the man stalking you, just 10 feet behind. The rain is coming down hard today. Maybe even hard enough to hide a small scream.
Bauhaus’s debut album is an animation of omen and haunt. Somehow, this album was created with the purpose intent to horrify the listener. There is no fast, energetic song. The only tastes of passion are the stunning vocal performances and the masterful drumming. In fact, Peter Murphy must have been crazy or very very high on a bad trip while making this album. He howls and and howls on Stigmata Martyr especially, but is doing so on the whole album. The mood on this album is just crafted so perfectly. Every song fits in and makes an impression. Each one is more terrifying than the last.
Your nerves are running high. Rain and wind and voices of the dead are swirling around you in a flat field of mud. You’ll never make it out of here alive. You were certain you lost the guy. You’ve been running for oh so long. The voices whisper in your ears to just let go. Lay on the ground and let the mud pile. You hear footsteps behind you. You swing around, just quick enough to see the face of death before you fall. Fall and fall and fall and fall and fall…..
9.5 murders in your sleep / 10 [First added to this chart: 01/30/2022]
Year of Release:
1980
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1,557
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Post-Punk // Shoegaze
[First added to this chart: 06/10/2021]
Year of Release:
2008
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4,747
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Screamo // Post-Hardcore
[First added to this chart: 04/26/2023]
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New Wave // Synth Funk
[First added to this chart: 11/11/2020]
Year of Release:
1984
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4,423
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Jazz Rock // Post-Punk // Art Rock
[First added to this chart: 10/05/2022]
Total albums: 100. Page 8 of 10
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 5 | 5% | |
| 1960s | 12 | 12% | |
| 1970s | 15 | 15% | |
| 1980s | 16 | 16% | |
| 1990s | 12 | 12% | |
| 2000s | 11 | 11% | |
| 2010s | 20 | 20% | |
| 2020s | 9 | 9% |
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| Juan De La Cruz Band | 2 | 2% | |
| David Bowie | 2 | 2% | |
| Alice Coltrane | 2 | 2% | |
| Jim O'Rourke | 2 | 2% | |
| Misfits | 2 | 2% | |
| Mitski | 2 | 2% | |
| Angel Olsen | 2 | 2% | |
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66 | 66% | |
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12 | 12% | |
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6 | 6% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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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 10 from 55th to 45th A Promise by Xiu Xiu |
| Up 10 from 45th to 35th Velocity : Design : Comfort by Sweet Trip |
| Up 8 from 54th to 46th Grace by Jeff Buckley |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 46 from 34th to 80th 時間 [Jikan] by Betcover!! |
| Down 27 from 47th to 74th Mil Coisas Invisiveis by Tim Bernardes |
| Down 9 from 48th to 57th Jubilee by Japanese Breakfast |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums ratings
93/100 (from 29 votes)
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90/100  | 03/29/2024 10:25 | Johnnyo | | 80/100 |
 90/100 | 11/20/2023 12:32 | mianfei | | 61/100 |
| 95/100 | 04/24/2023 12:29 |  Xxnu99etxX | | 90/100 |
| 95/100 | 04/14/2023 21:47 | chavaloricardin | | 83/100 |
| 100/100 | 08/06/2022 22:04 | ThuramThugood | | 87/100 |
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This chart is rated in the top 1% of all charts on BestEverAlbums.com. This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 92.6/100, a mean average of 94.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 95.0/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 6.4.
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90/100
From mianfei 11/20/2023 12:36
This must be about the best chart I have ever seen. Its composition is like nothing else I have seen on this site or anywhere else, has some quite good notes (though I will say that they could do more than discuss the best tracks and look at each album’s wider importance) and many very unsual albums. The song list, too, is very good.
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95/100
From chavaloricardin 04/14/2023 21:45
¡Dios mío! la mitad de los álbumes que están aquí no los conozco. Me diste algo para escuchar, grandioso chart.
Tu lista de canciones también es muy interesante.
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OMG! Half of the albums that are here I don't know. You gave me something to listen to, great chart.
Your track list is also very interesting
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100/100
From 
Repo 08/29/2022 18:41
Repo 08/29/2022 18:41
Team Dresch!!! Killer selection, my friend! Quite diverse!
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100/100
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pa 07/22/2022 15:22
pa 07/22/2022 15:22
Thank you so much for you rating and comment Seb! I will be happy to listen to your recommendation quite soon <3
I really love your chart as well and your notes are awesome.
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100/100
From 
sssvnnn 03/24/2022 14:20
sssvnnn 03/24/2022 14:20
fantastic chart.
It starts nicely with some classics, but it shows some pretty unknown and interesting picks besides the mainstream.
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90/100
From 
EyeKanFly 04/15/2021 20:51
EyeKanFly 04/15/2021 20:51
Nice chart, as far as 60s/70s-centric charts go, this one is right up my alley. Personally my chart is more slanted towards the recent decades, but this is great.
I'll have to listen to the Philippine albums here
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80/100
From RioBravo 03/17/2021 06:34
Very nice. Lots of my favorites here. I got to give Quicksilver Messenger Service a try.
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100/100
From 
Larcx13 01/07/2021 17:58
Larcx13 01/07/2021 17:58
So Time Out is back on! I really like your list still. Good stuff. A little bit too 70s oriented, which is okay since it's such a great decade for music, but I like to see diversity through out the decades and genres. It just shows more of an open mind but eh... I get it. My original list had nearly 40 entries for the 90s lol.
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100/100
From corduroycyborg 12/25/2020 17:44
merry christmas
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100/100
From BraddlesHendo 12/08/2020 03:29
Cool stuff Great Number 1
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