Top 42 Greatest Music Albums by 
Ollie 
Why is all the best music so bloody sad?
- Chart updated: 12/20/2020 17:45
- (Created: 04/21/2014 15:04).
- Chart size: 42 albums.
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Top 42 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 2 | 5% | |
| 1970s | 7 | 17% | |
| 1980s | 5 | 12% | |
| 1990s | 12 | 29% | |
| 2000s | 10 | 24% | |
| 2010s | 6 | 14% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Arcade Fire | 2 | 5% | |
| Carole King | 1 | 2% | |
| Elliott Smith | 1 | 2% | |
| Slint | 1 | 2% | |
| Foo Fighters | 1 | 2% | |
| King Crimson | 1 | 2% | |
| Neil Young & Crazy Horse | 1 | 2% | |
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Top 42 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 12 from 30th to 18th Turn On The Bright Lights by Interpol |
| Up 8 from 47th to 39th FIDLAR by FIDLAR |
| Up 8 from 46th to 38th Remain In Light by Talking Heads |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 8 from 32nd to 40th Back To Black by Amy Winehouse |
| Down 4 from 6th to 10th The Soft Bulletin by The Flaming Lips |
| Down 1 from 2nd to 3rd If You're Feeling Sinister by Belle And Sebastian |
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100/100  | 12/20/2020 19:53 | DJENNY | | 100/100 |
 90/100 | 01/20/2018 01:46 |  thirstyDog | | 86/100 |
| 95/100 | 12/16/2016 00:20 | Seab | | 93/100 |
| 75/100 | 06/06/2016 11:14 | TheSmiths82-87 | | 83/100 |
| 80/100 | 02/20/2016 12:43 | tim0505 | | 80/100 |
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thirstyDog 01/20/2018 01:47
Whoa, very surprised to see Robert Cray in your top 10 :O
Like to see Fidlar in your chart and the high position of Built to spill
yes!!!
Wasteman. Deftones don't even feature and Vampire Weekend are above FIDLA
HoldenM 05/21/2015 10:37
Flawless.
Love your top 10
ffudnebbuh 04/11/2015 11:25
nice chart, check out music from before your time, you might be surprised
We have 12 albums in common on our charts. 0.0
Considering our shared musical tastes, I would suggest listening to Destroyer's albums, especially the older stuff. I remember awhile ago I opened up a Pandora account again just because I was bored, and I decided to make a Destroyer station. Pretty much all my favorite artists I liked in the past couple of years popped up. I was surprised by this because if I choose any other artist, the other artists on the station will be something I haven't heard of, or something I don't like. I thought it was interesting how, just by the fact that I liked Destroyer, they could extrapolate the rest of my musical tastes. Apparently it was inevitable that I would find Destroyer. It's strange, because I didn't even think the music that popped up on Destroyer's station sounded that much alike to them. Dan Bejar, the lead singer/songwriter, was really into folk and shoegaze music, and references the two quite a bit in his song lyrics. Those two genres are my bread-and-butter.
gerhard 04/03/2015 18:18
Lovely chart, just started getting into Nick Drake, its always nice seeing so many indie folk albums alongside the alternative classics
jomth 03/29/2015 21:09
Glad you have do much love for Nick Drake.
Your top 10 simply a beautiful collection.
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| Best Artists of the 1960s | |
|---|---|
| 1. The Beatles | |
| 2. The Velvet Underground | |
| 3. Jimi Hendrix | |
| 4. Bob Dylan | |
| 5. The Beach Boys | |
| 6. The Jimi Hendrix Experience | |
| 7. The Velvet Underground & Nico | |
| 8. Led Zeppelin | |
| 9. The Doors | |
| 10. The Rolling Stones | |
| 11. John Coltrane | |
| 12. King Crimson | |
| 13. Frank Zappa | |
| 14. The Kinks | |
| 15. Love | |
| 16. Van Morrison | |
| 17. Neil Young | |
| 18. Charles Mingus | |
| 19. Miles Davis | |
| 20. The Zombies |