Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by jackbrown8786

@Kinetic I could never restrict myself to just 1 album per artist, I don't even think that's fair. If I did that, I couldn't have Abbey Road on the chart, just b/c it's by the Beatles (?!?!?!?). That's not fair or honest. Unfortunately, this is going to become even more unsurprising and "samey" as I absolutely need to add The Wall and The White album now. The more familiar I am with all the albums in this site's overall chart, the more my tastes align with it. I wouldn't even know most of this shit if it wasn't for this site. I don't believe in opinions really - I'm a nihilist and I'm absolutely convinced that if you ask a million ppl any question, the correct answer will be provided more often than any specific incorrect answer, whether that question is "what is 2+2" or "who's better between Brittney Spears and Madonna?" This site has given us a better top 1000 than I could have ever come up with. It's absurd to think one knows better than the combination of everyone combined. No way is it just an opinion that Beethoven is better than Insane Clown Posse, for example, and if this is a matter of fact then there's no reason that anything else would truly be an opinion; that is to say, no way are they "equal" and Beethoven is only preferred to ICP randomly or perhaps due to a "more common bias." I have my biases for sure (noise rock and extreme metal for the most part), but I know that's all they are: biases. Some ppl, for some reason, consider this stance "arrogant" or "elitist," but it's not even my own "opinions" that I believe are correct, so I don't understand where they're coming from. I mean, I'm a guy who listens to Ramones more often than Beethoven and I can admit Beethoven's better, so they can get lost with that. I believe the opposite - it's truly arrogant to think that your opinion that "some 3rd rate band is better than The Beatles" is equally valid as the consensus.

Loving this chart man! Very similar tastes to mine, so of course I've got no choice to rate it highly. For those you've provided comment I love what you've written - some great insights, not only personal connections but great perspective on the albums themselves, stuff I hadn't picked up on before. Good humour too. Even with multiple albums per artist, there is great diversity of genre here and top quality music overall.

Good chart. Nothing too surprising but that’s fine with me.

Standard chart for this site ~ no real surprises. Sadly, nothing (artist or album) originating from below the Tropic of Cancer.

Hey dude, very nice list, fairly similar to mine.

I've come to the conclusion that there are a handful of 10/10 albums and then literally hundreds of 9/10 albums that are all essentially interchangeable, so I'm done for a while again. I probably listen to some more than others, or return to some more frequently and I don't think this chart reflects that accurately enough. I thought at least my top 10 were cemented, but that's not even the case. Top 2 are almost surely cemented. That's all I can be sure of.

When I get on a roll of adding albums, after a few of them I start to question myself. I just deleted Station to Station to add Trilogy, but after my next inevitable Bowie kick there's no doubt I'm going to readd the album to an essentially random location between 50 and 100. I have the urge to add Can's Tago Mago like that right now. Cocteau Twins' Heaven or Las Vegas as well. But I won't b/c it seems pointless right now. They're not comparable to anything and the question of which is better seems a joke. Maybe I'm just feeling down about losing all those Bowie and Eno albums I had at the bottom of the list, which was preventing me from adding anything for a long time - I didn't want to delete them and couldn't justify it b/c I couldn't see anything as strictly better in any capacity. And I love them so much.

Lately at work, I've been playing albums from the top 200. Mostly at random, but with the goal of making sure I play completely different albums throughout the course of a day. It seems to make time go faster. I don't even listen to what I want to. It's definitely affecting what albums I listen to more. Experimental albums are getting much more play. It's stopping me from ordering albums based on how much I listen. The chart was already hard enough and now it doesn't even make sense (again). I don't see this cycle ending. Other people don't seem to have such problems. They seem so sure. I should be too, but I suppose I don't know my own opinions. Or they change throughout the year. Sometimes I don't even believe in opinions. I don't believe in them now. I think anyone could admit that creating a symphony worse than Beethoven's 5th would be a much easier task than creating a better one (which the idea alone makes me laugh). I don't think anyone really believes in them. With opinions out of the equation, refer back to the first sentence of this whole rant.

From ddeeddles64 04/16/2022 09:52

Every time I see Con Air in the tv listings I chuckle. I haven’t listened to Tom Waits in a while. I keep wondering if I might just spend a whole year listening to Mingus. Now would be an appropriate time!

I haven't looked at this in years. I don't even remember putting the Con Air soundtrack at #1, that is hilarious. I was probably drunk. I've never even listened to it, what a troll.... Con Air is the best worst movie of all time though. Back in 6th grade, decades ago now, me or my friends or all of us (I don't even remember) would go to the local video store and swap the VHS tapes of classics like The Godfather with that of Con Air... good times.

Anyway, I've fallen completely in love with Tom Waits since my 2nd most recent trip through his older stuff now and I have no clue where he belongs in the midst of this. How could I?..... Is he better than Metallica, The Beatles, MBV, Swans, Nas?! Impossible to say, they just aren't comparable. Tips, please? I listen to Waits more NOW, but I've heard them more throughout my life. I don't even know where to start. The more I appreciate different genres, the more hopeless I feel attempting to rank these. The very concept of ranking them is just absurd and laughable at this point, I don't know why I still care to.

From ddeeddles64 04/17/2019 19:41

Con Air's the one with the iceberg, right?

well now it's even messier. I just added a bunch of Bowie and Eno albums to the end of it but I'm still leaving room at the end to add albums to the site through here (it's the only way I know how).

I feel so full of shit b/c I can't even rank the Bowie albums against each other, let alone against Metallica or Parliament or Michael Jackson.... I don't really know what to do with these. I know they're wrong where they are but it feels wrong to move them up. I'm stuck.