Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by 
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- Chart updated: 06/17/2025 23:45
- (Created: 11/11/2020 16:37).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Folk Pop // Folk Rock
A monolith in the realm of all music ever made. Timeless melodies, true and heartfelt music, magical production.
Favorite Tracks: Overs, Old Friends, Punky's Dilemma
How long can I delay?
We're just a habit, like saccharin
And I'm habitually feelin' kinda blue
But each time I try on the thought of leavin' you
I stop [First added to this chart: 11/11/2020]
A monolith in the realm of all music ever made. Timeless melodies, true and heartfelt music, magical production.
Favorite Tracks: Overs, Old Friends, Punky's Dilemma
How long can I delay?
We're just a habit, like saccharin
And I'm habitually feelin' kinda blue
But each time I try on the thought of leavin' you
I stop [First added to this chart: 11/11/2020]
Year of Release:
1968
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5,787
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Ambient Folk // Ambient Pop
[First added to this chart: 05/28/2023]
Year of Release:
2008
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1,191
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Slacker Rock // Art Rock
[First added to this chart: 11/19/2024]
Year of Release:
1998
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Rank Score:
693
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Indescribable
[First added to this chart: 04/23/2021]
Year of Release:
2016
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Rank Score:
12,489
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Jazz Folk
[First added to this chart: 01/02/2025]
Year of Release:
1976
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3,852
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Singer Songwriter // Piano Rock
[First added to this chart: 11/11/2020]
Year of Release:
1970
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Rank Score:
9,762
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Riot Grrrl // Post Hardcore
Favorite Tracks : Fagetarian and Dyke, Freewheel, , She's Amazing, #1 Chance Pirate TV
All of this is me and i'm not sure who the other is
she maybe came from all of you
this house is warm i think i'll take a nap just like
Freewheel [First added to this chart: 09/24/2021]
Favorite Tracks : Fagetarian and Dyke, Freewheel, , She's Amazing, #1 Chance Pirate TV
All of this is me and i'm not sure who the other is
she maybe came from all of you
this house is warm i think i'll take a nap just like
Freewheel [First added to this chart: 09/24/2021]
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Chamber Pop // Progressive Pop
Favorite Track: Eureka
Here on this phone
A quarter a day room for me
And as things stay the same
I'm quickly running out of change
You're thinking on your feet
While you're sitting there on your ass
Fresh crease in your shirts
No stain of sweat on your back
There's no need
There's an employee
To make up for all of your slack
A seed don't make a tree
Without a servant who waters the grass [First added to this chart: 10/24/2021]
Favorite Track: Eureka
Here on this phone
A quarter a day room for me
And as things stay the same
I'm quickly running out of change
You're thinking on your feet
While you're sitting there on your ass
Fresh crease in your shirts
No stain of sweat on your back
There's no need
There's an employee
To make up for all of your slack
A seed don't make a tree
Without a servant who waters the grass [First added to this chart: 10/24/2021]
Year of Release:
1999
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Rank Score:
984
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Chamber Rock // Indie Rock
Favorite Tracks: KC Accidental. Almost Crimes, I’m Still Your Fag
You can sometimes forget that there is darkness in people. That they can be forced out of this world by a little pill or shot just because they wanted to escape it. And we blame them, not the world for doing this.
I don’t need drugs. I have Broken Social Scene. Their sophomore album is like a drug. It brings me euphoria and calms me and makes me feel so much. But everytime that final note of Pitter Patter fades out, I think it takes little bit of my soul with it. Soon there won't be any soul left. For now, I can sit here, in pitch black at 11 pm and just bask in the wonder that pours from my headphones.
I found this album at the end of winter break. When I was as tired inside as I looked on the out. Those days when my eyes were glossed over with sorrow and tears. This album spoke to me like nothing else did. I hold this music very dear to my heart. Those drums took their rough calloused hands and reached out. They pulled me in close. Those horns told me that I could do it, that I could push through. I will always be grateful,
I will always be BSS’s Fag.
Heard about your wife and kids where we slept
Felt their mouths with stitches at that were slowly lit
Kept your uniform this time because I couldn't quit
Haven't felt the ground so cold without getting sick
And I'm still your fag
I'm still your fag [First added to this chart: 01/04/2022]
Favorite Tracks: KC Accidental. Almost Crimes, I’m Still Your Fag
You can sometimes forget that there is darkness in people. That they can be forced out of this world by a little pill or shot just because they wanted to escape it. And we blame them, not the world for doing this.
I don’t need drugs. I have Broken Social Scene. Their sophomore album is like a drug. It brings me euphoria and calms me and makes me feel so much. But everytime that final note of Pitter Patter fades out, I think it takes little bit of my soul with it. Soon there won't be any soul left. For now, I can sit here, in pitch black at 11 pm and just bask in the wonder that pours from my headphones.
I found this album at the end of winter break. When I was as tired inside as I looked on the out. Those days when my eyes were glossed over with sorrow and tears. This album spoke to me like nothing else did. I hold this music very dear to my heart. Those drums took their rough calloused hands and reached out. They pulled me in close. Those horns told me that I could do it, that I could push through. I will always be grateful,
I will always be BSS’s Fag.
Heard about your wife and kids where we slept
Felt their mouths with stitches at that were slowly lit
Kept your uniform this time because I couldn't quit
Haven't felt the ground so cold without getting sick
And I'm still your fag
I'm still your fag [First added to this chart: 01/04/2022]
Year of Release:
2002
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Rank Score:
5,647
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Jazz Pop // Jazz Rock // Jazz Fusion // Space Pop
Favorites: Problem Number 6, Galaxy, Ya Ya Breathe, Lachrymose
Lachrymose does exactly what it promises. It’s all way over my head but in these times, only these times, I can still feel.
It took a while to get here.
Bruno Pernadas’ 2016 album Those Who Throw Objects At the Crocodiles Will Be Asked To Retrieve Them is just as intriguing as it seems. It says so many truths. It says one just want to be free of boundaries. They want to be no one but themselves, anywhere in the Galaxy, Anywhere in Spacetime. It doesn’t matter what others think of them. They have you. They are lost without you. But when you are by their side they can go anywhere in the Galaxy, Anywhere in Spacetime. Those Who Throw Objects can take you anywhere.
I got in that spaceship. It rocked and rumbled under me. I saw heaven for two seconds, I thought of you. I saw fire for two seconds, I thought of me. I crashed into the cold water, a valley in the ocean, I died thinking of you and me. I waited by the water and you never came. We never had boundaries. Now I don’t.
This album transcends all boundaries. Like all innovations of music somehow led to this point. Jazz, Rock, Pop, Electronica, all welded together into a warm hug of beautiful guitar solos and trumpets and funky basslines. There’s electronic instrumentation reminiscent of Sweet Trip’s best music and just the sweetest, silkiest vocals present all over this album. The lyrics present such vivid imagery of days and love gone by. However, it amazes me how much the music adds to that image. Perhaps even more than the lyrics. I read Circe while listening to this album for the first time. I weeped for the first time in a long time. It was before December. I could still feel.
I knew a guy who used to cry. He sat in bed all day and night. He was lachrymose, closed all day. He dreamed of flying, he had to stay.
I don’t mind and I don’t care. You caught my eyes, I had to stare. What a star you are. I don’t know what that means. It’s been a while since you grounded your dreams.
10 rockets / 10
Sometimes I stop and wonder
Will you start to fly
You drive by and shoot in places
I thought I saw you try
Oh, what a mess
Almost a year now
Oh, what a star you are
Stop making sense
Down by the water
It's over my head, now
Way over my head, now
Way over my head, now [First added to this chart: 10/06/2021]
Favorites: Problem Number 6, Galaxy, Ya Ya Breathe, Lachrymose
Lachrymose does exactly what it promises. It’s all way over my head but in these times, only these times, I can still feel.
It took a while to get here.
Bruno Pernadas’ 2016 album Those Who Throw Objects At the Crocodiles Will Be Asked To Retrieve Them is just as intriguing as it seems. It says so many truths. It says one just want to be free of boundaries. They want to be no one but themselves, anywhere in the Galaxy, Anywhere in Spacetime. It doesn’t matter what others think of them. They have you. They are lost without you. But when you are by their side they can go anywhere in the Galaxy, Anywhere in Spacetime. Those Who Throw Objects can take you anywhere.
I got in that spaceship. It rocked and rumbled under me. I saw heaven for two seconds, I thought of you. I saw fire for two seconds, I thought of me. I crashed into the cold water, a valley in the ocean, I died thinking of you and me. I waited by the water and you never came. We never had boundaries. Now I don’t.
This album transcends all boundaries. Like all innovations of music somehow led to this point. Jazz, Rock, Pop, Electronica, all welded together into a warm hug of beautiful guitar solos and trumpets and funky basslines. There’s electronic instrumentation reminiscent of Sweet Trip’s best music and just the sweetest, silkiest vocals present all over this album. The lyrics present such vivid imagery of days and love gone by. However, it amazes me how much the music adds to that image. Perhaps even more than the lyrics. I read Circe while listening to this album for the first time. I weeped for the first time in a long time. It was before December. I could still feel.
I knew a guy who used to cry. He sat in bed all day and night. He was lachrymose, closed all day. He dreamed of flying, he had to stay.
I don’t mind and I don’t care. You caught my eyes, I had to stare. What a star you are. I don’t know what that means. It’s been a while since you grounded your dreams.
10 rockets / 10
Sometimes I stop and wonder
Will you start to fly
You drive by and shoot in places
I thought I saw you try
Oh, what a mess
Almost a year now
Oh, what a star you are
Stop making sense
Down by the water
It's over my head, now
Way over my head, now
Way over my head, now [First added to this chart: 10/06/2021]
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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 | 11 | 11% | |
| 1970s | 19 | 19% | |
| 1980s | 14 | 14% | |
| 1990s | 14 | 14% | |
| 2000s | 17 | 17% | |
| 2010s | 15 | 15% | |
| 2020s | 5 | 5% |
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| David Bowie | 3 | 3% | |
| Joni Mitchell | 3 | 3% | |
| Sade | 2 | 2% | |
| Jim O'Rourke | 2 | 2% | |
| Grouper | 2 | 2% | |
| Black Country, New Road | 2 | 2% | |
| Jeff Buckley | 2 | 2% | |
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62 | 62% | |
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20 | 20% | |
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6 | 6% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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1 | 1% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 61 from 100th to 39th The Hissing Of Summer Lawns by Joni Mitchell |
| Up 56 from 91st to 35th The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill by Lauryn Hill |
| Up 54 from 74th to 20th Let It Be... Naked by The Beatles |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 63 from 12th to 75th Karma by Pharoah Sanders |
| Down 61 from 15th to 76th Masked Dancers: Concern In So Many Things You Forget Where You Are by The Brave Little Abacus |
| Down 55 from 22nd to 77th For The First Time by Black Country, New Road |
| New entries |
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 Wish You Were Hereby Pink Floyd |
| Jaco Pastorius by Jaco Pastorius |
| Leavers |
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 Come Inby Weatherday |
| Mother Earth's Plantasia by Mort Garson |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums ratings
92/100 (from 31 votes)
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 90/100  | 05/08/2025 19:09 |  sssvnnn | | 83/100 |
| 80/100 | 01/25/2025 14:14 | SomethingSpecial | | 85/100 |
| 100/100 | 01/15/2025 16:34 | Exist-en-ciel | | 99/100 |
| 100/100 | 01/14/2025 16:37 |  EyeKanFly | | 88/100 |
| 80/100 | 07/22/2024 01:18 |  MadhattanJack | | 85/100 |
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100/100
From EyeKanFly 01/14/2025 16:39
EyeKanFly 01/14/2025 16:39
Bumped up the rating, your chart definitely isn't as "60s/70s-centric" as it was when I first rated this.
Overall amazing list, I have listened to the Philippine albums and really enjoyed them. Lots in common and overall great diversity in genres. Lots to love in this list and lots to add to my wishlist as well!
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NowhereMan 01/14/2025 15:49
NowhereMan 01/14/2025 15:49
There is a lot here I have not listened to, but huge kudos for having Bookends at number 1. I have it at 2!
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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
From 
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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90/100
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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100/100
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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