Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by 
meruizh 
I ask myself every now and then why I love music so much? Why has it become some sort of an addiction? To listen to new albums every chance I get, with every minute of my spare time trying to get my hands on my favorite records. I have come to realize that I am submerged in this crazy world of music, in which the last thing I am thinking off before going to bed is: “What album am I going to play tomorrow?”
I once read an article that mentioned that obsessive music listeners tend to be depressive people. At first it had me questioning me if this was really true. Am I just listening to stuff in order to give some sort of meaning to life? But music is not meant to give definition to your life; music is just part of it. When you play a specific album that creates a scenery in your head of a romantic night, or when you play some “depressive” album when you are in a down mood, music will always give you a hand.
In my case, music has something special I cannot find in anything else. I often find myself in the desperate need for it. It is a sort of “click” a song or an album can have in you. It is something I cannot describe with words. This “click” comes in rare occasions, but when it happens, it is like magic. It is an incredible feeling.
Music wakes me up and accompanies me throughout my day. Every single album, song or lyric are part of me. However, at the end, I think nothing gives me more pleasure than to share this passion, this small treasure I get from music, with the people I care about the most.
I am trying to give a comment on each album, not an album review, but a reflection, which tells you a bit of my experience with the album, or why I like it so much.
- Chart updated: 12/12/2018 18:45
- (Created: 12/30/2010 22:51).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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This album came out of nowhere this year (2013). Or at least I wasn't expecting it at all. I heard people buzzing about it in BEA, and then pitchfork and then a friend of mine, mentioned it. I said, what a hell, let’s give it a listen. I didn't even preview any of the songs; I didn't know what I was getting into. Suddenly, 11 minute opener 'Golden Arrow' comes on slowly, filling all corners of itself with beautifully reverberating organs and other bits and bobs until it reaches a kick drum beat that is mentally thrilling. Then when Harrington's guitar eventually slides in... Oh shit!! The apex of musical ecstasy. I wanted to marry this song already.
I barely noticed "Sitra", and again I was in the climax in "Heart". Every texture on “Heart” is as pleasurable on the ears as the one that came before it. The almost choir-esque synths that enter around the two-minute mark are beyond gorgeous and the way Harrington's guitar sounds on this track and all others is divine.
Now let’s take a minute to talk about “Paper Trail”. It’s the sexiest motherfuckin song ever created. You want this song to take a human shape and make love to it. If you want proof that Jaar is a goddamn dance wizard you need look no further than this track. The drums and bass swagger along so brilliantly and everything they lay on top of them will seduce the pants off of you. I can’t decide what’s sexier, Nico's breathy vocals or Harrington's soulful blues licks.
The mood keeps on going in “The Only Shrine I've Seen" with an ancient techno feeling. It starts off with Nico's usual atmosphere building tactics but in its second half shifts into something approaching disco. The sensibility around this track makes you feel like ancient disco god ready to take over the World. “Freak, Go Home” is filled with interesting layers of drums, cowbell and embracing beats that follow the mystique the album created throughout its first five tracks.
Let’s fast forward ourselves to the fantastic closer. “Metatron” as its name suggest has some godlike providence. The first 3/4s are the album's most explicitly progressive passage. The guitar Harrington is playing here sounds right out of the David Gilmour playbook. Yet, when the track returns after a false finish for it and the album's last hurrah it turns into yet another gigantic moment. The synths and drums in here are imposing, giving at the end one last guitar riff that will keep you in bed for the next couple of minutes. You’ve achieved ecstasy.
Jaar and Harrington achieve a sort of electronic comfort zone. The tempo and arrangements submerge the listener into a slow motion climax that make you want to stay in it forever.
Skinny wrote for me the perfect sentence to describe this album
"....Watching the sun take years to rise, and never getting impatient." [First added to this chart: 12/18/2013]
I barely noticed "Sitra", and again I was in the climax in "Heart". Every texture on “Heart” is as pleasurable on the ears as the one that came before it. The almost choir-esque synths that enter around the two-minute mark are beyond gorgeous and the way Harrington's guitar sounds on this track and all others is divine.
Now let’s take a minute to talk about “Paper Trail”. It’s the sexiest motherfuckin song ever created. You want this song to take a human shape and make love to it. If you want proof that Jaar is a goddamn dance wizard you need look no further than this track. The drums and bass swagger along so brilliantly and everything they lay on top of them will seduce the pants off of you. I can’t decide what’s sexier, Nico's breathy vocals or Harrington's soulful blues licks.
The mood keeps on going in “The Only Shrine I've Seen" with an ancient techno feeling. It starts off with Nico's usual atmosphere building tactics but in its second half shifts into something approaching disco. The sensibility around this track makes you feel like ancient disco god ready to take over the World. “Freak, Go Home” is filled with interesting layers of drums, cowbell and embracing beats that follow the mystique the album created throughout its first five tracks.
Let’s fast forward ourselves to the fantastic closer. “Metatron” as its name suggest has some godlike providence. The first 3/4s are the album's most explicitly progressive passage. The guitar Harrington is playing here sounds right out of the David Gilmour playbook. Yet, when the track returns after a false finish for it and the album's last hurrah it turns into yet another gigantic moment. The synths and drums in here are imposing, giving at the end one last guitar riff that will keep you in bed for the next couple of minutes. You’ve achieved ecstasy.
Jaar and Harrington achieve a sort of electronic comfort zone. The tempo and arrangements submerge the listener into a slow motion climax that make you want to stay in it forever.
Skinny wrote for me the perfect sentence to describe this album
"....Watching the sun take years to rise, and never getting impatient." [First added to this chart: 12/18/2013]
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2013
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I think a feel really peaceful when I listen to this album. Since Sunday Morning I'm completely at ease with myself after that there are 10 songs left which are perfectly written. Right about the middle Heroin kicks in and wow! my mind blows out. Perfect album
[First added to this chart: 12/18/2011]
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1967
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This album is all about having fun, it just bleeds excitement and emotion out of it. I like all the The Kills albums, but this one is different. Instead of aiming for rock perfection, I think they just didn't care anymore and just let it flow. Their "ballads", Black Balloons and Goodnight Bad morning they just have deep powerful lyrics.
"Your eyes, ready for takeoff, melt in your head. What a beautiful state we're in" [First added to this chart: 08/25/2011]
"Your eyes, ready for takeoff, melt in your head. What a beautiful state we're in" [First added to this chart: 08/25/2011]
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2008
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430
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 11 | 11% | |
| 1970s | 8 | 8% | |
| 1980s | 8 | 8% | |
| 1990s | 23 | 23% | |
| 2000s | 31 | 31% | |
| 2010s | 19 | 19% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Radiohead | 5 | 5% | |
| The Beatles | 4 | 4% | |
| The National | 3 | 3% | |
| Coldplay | 3 | 3% | |
| Pink Floyd | 3 | 3% | |
| Arcade Fire | 3 | 3% | |
| Blur | 2 | 2% | |
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41 | 41% | |
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39 | 39% | |
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6 | 6% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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1 | 1% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
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| Up 14 from 99th to 85th Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven by Godspeed You! Black Emperor |
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| Down 1 from 85th to 86th † [Cross] by Justice (FR) |
| Down 1 from 86th to 87th Parachutes by Coldplay |
| Down 1 from 87th to 88th Selected Ambient Works 85-92 by Aphex Twin |
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90/100  | 03/12/2019 22:17 |  ForegroundNoise | | 87/100 |
95/100 | 03/09/2019 03:39 | bkogz | | 92/100 |
85/100 | 03/08/2019 18:47 |  greatson | | 80/100 |
100/100 | 03/08/2019 16:20 |  Rhyner | | 99/100 |
100/100 | 03/08/2019 15:37 |  DommeDamian | | 90/100 |
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From ForegroundNoise 03/12/2019 22:25
ForegroundNoise 03/12/2019 22:25
God I am astounded by your notes, truly something to be proud of. That said you seem to be someone much more comfortable in the modern era, with many of your older pics being slanted towards the classics. The 70s and 80s (the former especially!!) I think could do with a little more love, so here's a couple from those decades I think you might enjoy:
The Stooges - Fun House
Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day
Brian Eno - Another Green World
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Music For Nine Postcards
Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me
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85/100
From greatson 03/08/2019 18:47
greatson 03/08/2019 18:47
well done!
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90/100
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nitomano 04/22/2017 06:31
nitomano 04/22/2017 06:31
Great chart!
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80/100
From LedZep 04/19/2017 11:54
LedZep 04/19/2017 11:54
I like the descriptions very much, but it's not that diverse (not talking about Radiohead, more about the lack of pre 90s albums). It's a great chart nontheless
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95/100
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Strangel 10/19/2016 11:46
Strangel 10/19/2016 11:46
You're obviously still young but you write like you've been a music connoisseur for 30+ years. A shit load of time and effort put into this and I really enjoyed reading your summaries on the impact each album has had on you.
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100/100
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Davy 05/27/2016 08:06
Davy 05/27/2016 08:06
I normally don't give a 100/100-rating, but your chart deserves every single point. You manage to explain what everyone on this website is feeling about music and the amount of effort you put into this chart and these comments is amazing. Chapeau, señor
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100/100
From 
ShadowColossi 04/02/2016 14:55
ShadowColossi 04/02/2016 14:55
Helllll yeah. Love this. Love the comments- Even longer than mine! Very well constructed list, can tell the music on this chart is very important to you.
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craola 07/28/2015 21:21
craola 07/28/2015 21:21
props on the album comments. really well put together with lots to say.
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100/100
From 
awesomness425 06/01/2015 22:47
awesomness425 06/01/2015 22:47
These Notes Are On Point and the album choices are good as well (You Said a lot of Radiohead..pfft...i have the whole discography and thier live album), but also i saw a good amount of post-rock and you're right it's quite an interesting genre. I don't know if i'd put any on my list because as good as i know it is i just don't give the albums much listens...its something i listen to while lying on bed or when looking up at the cloud's or something, but Mogwai's Young Team or Sigur Ros' Agaetus Byrjun...Tied To be my favorite chart on this website...If you haven't already i reccomend Smashing Pumpkins
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100/100
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Laurence 03/31/2015 12:55
Laurence 03/31/2015 12:55
Great chart! Love your notes as well, (though I haven't read them all yet) especially those for Doolittle - they're spot on!
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