Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by Drbassexpert24

This chart is constantly evolving as I listen to new and different albums. I was raised on some of these albums. Others were the soundtrack to my teens and university years. Many are very new to me even though they may be several decades old.


If I limited artists to the number of albums they could have on this list, it would be very unfair to the artists who have repeatedly knocked it out of the park in terms of presenting a fully rounded and enjoyable sonorous package.

• Chart updated: 11/14/2024 15:45
• (Created: 02/11/2020 21:44).
• Chart size: 100 albums.

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The Dark Side Of The Moon 

 Pink Floyd

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[First added to this chart: 02/21/2020]

Year of Release:

1973

Appears in:

4,086 charts

Rank Score:

68,048

Rank in 1973:

1

Rank in 1970s:

1

Overall Rank:

2

Average Rating:

 92 (5,261 votes)

Comments:

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In Rainbows 

 Radiohead

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[First added to this chart: 02/21/2020]

Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

2,876 charts

Rank Score:

48,622

Rank in 2007:

1

Rank in 2000s:

1

Overall Rank:

5

Average Rating:

 90 (3,878 votes)

Comments:

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Wish You Were Here 

 Pink Floyd

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[First added to this chart: 02/21/2020]

Year of Release:

1975

Appears in:

2,947 charts

Rank Score:

48,597

Rank in 1975:

1

Rank in 1970s:

2

Overall Rank:

6

Average Rating:

 91 (3,991 votes)

Comments:

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Untitled (Led Zeppelin IV) 

 Led Zeppelin

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[First added to this chart: 02/21/2020]

Year of Release:

1971

Appears in:

3,101 charts

Rank Score:

42,508

Rank in 1971:

1

Rank in 1970s:

4

Overall Rank:

12

Average Rating:

 90 (3,939 votes)

Comments:

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OK Computer 

 Radiohead

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This album is not in my top because the majority of people agree. This album really stands in its own league for quality, variety, and progress along the musical narrative. Radiohead really changed their place in musical history with OK Computer. Their first album, Pablo Honey, seemed built around a one hit wonder about a man with sensitivity in the modern world. The next album, The Bends, has many promising themes and starts to experiment with some guitar effects towards an interesting outcome. However, The Bends really starts sounding too much like a mirror of Nirvana and the grunge scene.

Even though I was very late to the game, the sound of Radiohead really resonated with me during university and extra studies.

OK Computer really lets the skill and creativity of each and every band member to truly shine. Thoms voice has the uniqueness of a phoenix, the hauntingness of David Bowie and Leonard Cohen, and the falsetto of Freddie Mercury.
Ed’s guitar effect soundscapes inhabit the intensity of the most famous cinema soundtracks, the wide-ranging grandiose sounds of symphonies, and the raw expressions of an individual. Ed’s imaginative backdrop is often what separates Radiohead from other bands.
Jonny really capitalizes on the idea of soft verses and intense choruses with his guitar and array of delay, modulation, and dirt effects. Jonny (and the rest of the band) also regularly employs synthesizers, pianos, drum machines, mallet percussion, and even effects as instruments.
Philip hardly plays a back beat just to simply play something. Philip often plays fast jazzy riffs twice the tempo of the rest of instruments. This really provides a great dueling between the energetic rhythm and the apathetic melodies.
Colin's bass employs the punch and groove to really round out the sound. He adds to both the melancholy with his full, slightly dirty tone, and to the energy with his bass runs and fills. Sometimes the album versions utilize synthesizers for the bass, but Colin captures it well in live performances. Where would we be without the powerful bassline in Exit Music?
Nigel seems to complete the final sound of Radiohead since he fully produced this and all subsequent albums for Radiohead. I believe that Radiohead’s best decision was hiring Nigel full time for their albums as he pushed the songs to (and beyond) the next level, and this is the reason he is my favorite record producer.

Radiohead is experimental and artsy, capable of making a rocking anthem, dark ballad, or even a radio hit, willing to explore genres ranging from jazz, blues, rock, grunge, punk rock, electronica, film score, trip hop, musique concrète, psychedelia, and classical.
Radiohead shows that each instrumentalist need not play in every song. And, if they do, they may play an alternative instrument, or just a background sound, or mess with effects on the vocals to create a new tone. This creativity is what defines the sound of Radiohead in the history of music.
One of my favorite quotes about Radiohead’s writing process comes from Ed O’Brien during the British and Irish Modern Music Institute Masterclass: “Everybody brings something. No one writes your own part. If you don’t have a part you don’t play.” I interpret this as every part of each song comes from the emotionally raw creativity of the individual. And, that the tie in to the larger picture of each song, and hence each album, is that every instrumental voice is consequential. [First added to this chart: 02/21/2020]

Year of Release:

1997

Appears in:

4,374 charts

Rank Score:

72,248

Rank in 1997:

1

Rank in 1990s:

1

Overall Rank:

1

Average Rating:

 92 (5,561 votes)

Comments:

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Bitches Brew 

 Miles Davis

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[First added to this chart: 06/11/2020]

Year of Release:

1970

Appears in:

936 charts

Rank Score:

9,846

Rank in 1970:

6

Rank in 1970s:

40

Overall Rank:

154

Average Rating:

 84 (1,175 votes)

Comments:

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Kid A 

 Radiohead

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[First added to this chart: 02/21/2020]

Year of Release:

2000

Appears in:

3,183 charts

Rank Score:

48,491

Rank in 2000:

1

Rank in 2000s:

2

Overall Rank:

7

Average Rating:

 89 (4,399 votes)

Comments:

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Fragile 

 Yes

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[First added to this chart: 07/19/2021]

Year of Release:

1971

Appears in:

796 charts

Rank Score:

6,822

Rank in 1971:

11

Rank in 1970s:

61

Overall Rank:

251

Average Rating:

 84 (1,076 votes)

Comments:

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Moving Pictures 

 Rush

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[First added to this chart: 03/10/2020]

Year of Release:

1981

Appears in:

998 charts

Rank Score:

9,779

Rank in 1981:

1

Rank in 1980s:

20

Overall Rank:

157

Average Rating:

 83 (1,277 votes)

Comments:

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Absolution 

 Muse

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[First added to this chart: 02/21/2020]

Year of Release:

2003

Appears in:

939 charts

Rank Score:

8,171

Rank in 2003:

3

Rank in 2000s:

33

Overall Rank:

195

Average Rating:

 79 (1,629 votes)

Comments:

109

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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition

Decade	Albums	%
1930s	0	0%
1940s	0	0%
1950s	3	3%
1960s	16	16%
1970s	36	36%
1980s	4	4%
1990s	7	7%
2000s	19	19%
2010s	13	13%
2020s	2	2%

Artist	Albums	%
Radiohead	6	6%
Led Zeppelin	5	5%
Rush	5	5%
Red Hot Chili Peppers	4	4%
Yes	4	4%
Muse	4	4%
Shpongle	3	3%
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Country	Albums	%
	44	44%
	37	37%
	10	10%
	5	5%
	2	2%
	2	2%

Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes

Biggest climbers
Up 44 from 75th to 31st Thick As A Brick by Jethro Tull
Up 27 from 93rd to 66th Red Octopus by Jefferson Starship
Up 21 from 61st to 40th Made In Japan by Deep Purple

Biggest fallers
Down 30 from 53rd to 83rd Red by King Crimson
Down 15 from 52nd to 67th The Velvet Underground & Nico by The Velvet Underground & Nico
Down 9 from 59th to 68th Blood Sugar Sex Magik by Red Hot Chili Peppers

New entries
The Cars by The Cars

Leavers
Ellington At Newport by Duke Ellington And His Orchestra

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80/100	07/18/2023 09:39	Tamthebam	598	85/100
80/100	07/18/2023 08:13	Moondance	463	85/100
95/100	11/17/2022 11:45	KineticEchoes02	111	88/100
85/100	11/16/2022 17:19	Goliath	349	86/100
85/100	11/16/2022 09:20	Johnnyo	2,127	80/100

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This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 86.1/100, a mean average of 86.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.2/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 9.9.

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From Johnnyo 11/16/2022 09:20

Very classic chart with some nice outliers. All in all, a great chart

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90/100

From sssvnnn 07/24/2022 19:30

Very classical chart - fine.
(not too many surprises...)

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From mrmcrook 02/16/2021 22:47

Good mix. Lot of usual suspects but that's understandable. Nice range of others

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From 0129114 09/07/2020 14:48

dude your list is amazing

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From guzguzgarbit 09/07/2020 12:06

In this chart I can see the usual rock albums (Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Led Zeppelin), but most of the lesser known picks here are among my favourite electronic albums: deadmau5, Feed Me, Stephan Bodzin, Cubicolor? Amazing... I would love to see some notes, because I'm quite puzzled.

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From 0129114 07/08/2020 17:57

MUSE! LMAOOO

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From mianfei 03/14/2020 12:09

A list about which I have mixed emotions.

On the one hand there is a lot of 1990s and 2000s alternative rock which I have deplored ever since it transformed the only radio available to me as a child in virtually enclosed suburbs of western Melbourne.

On the other hand the list is diverse and personal in a manner impossible if one was merely listening to the music described in the previous paragraph. Although almost none of the list correlates with my own, and the areas of musical interest are different from my own chart, the combination of electronica – including even some albums that remind me of Piero Scaruffi – classic rock, alternative rock and even some metal is very unusual.

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