Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by 
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- Chart updated: 12/20/2024 21:45
- (Created: 11/11/2020 16:37).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Indescribable
[First added to this chart: 04/23/2021]
Year of Release:
2016
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12,488
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Singer Songwriter // Piano Rock
[First added to this chart: 11/11/2020]
Year of Release:
1970
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10,163
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Chamber Rock // Post-Rock
Favorite Tracks: Concorde, Haldern, Basketball Shoes
You are sitting on the edge of your seat, and backwards you fall. Your head crashes into the water. A pool filled with angels and memories and catharsis.
Ants may be my most important release of this whole year. It is so good that I can confidently make that decision at February. Impeccable songwriting. The instruments lend themselves not unlike Masked Dancers, which I just reviewed. Somehow the guitar wiggles its way into your heart, the violin and sax into your soul. Isaac Wood may just be my favorite male vocalist of all time. His words over 1 short hour carry more emotional weight than I may be able to produce in my life. Scratch that. Even the drums have more emotion than I could hope to convey in words. It’s stunning…..
Do you even like me? You are going to say yes and I’ll take that I guess. I would be lying if I said I don’t seek your social emotional validation. I said I didn’t care, but maybe I do. Is this even part of the write-up anymore? Am I even saying things I mean? Is that guitar that’s ringing in my ears real or are you calling out to me? Is that violin really comforting me? Does that sax really whisper my story? Am I so blind to the world? I think that with a few more listens, I could answer those questions.
Concorde, we're old now
And you wield a lightsaber
And led by the dark to our place on the table
So don't tell me you're hungry
'Cause darling I'm starving myself
And I heard you're on Atkins as well
I was made to love you
Can't you tell? [First added to this chart: 02/05/2022]
Favorite Tracks: Concorde, Haldern, Basketball Shoes
You are sitting on the edge of your seat, and backwards you fall. Your head crashes into the water. A pool filled with angels and memories and catharsis.
Ants may be my most important release of this whole year. It is so good that I can confidently make that decision at February. Impeccable songwriting. The instruments lend themselves not unlike Masked Dancers, which I just reviewed. Somehow the guitar wiggles its way into your heart, the violin and sax into your soul. Isaac Wood may just be my favorite male vocalist of all time. His words over 1 short hour carry more emotional weight than I may be able to produce in my life. Scratch that. Even the drums have more emotion than I could hope to convey in words. It’s stunning…..
Do you even like me? You are going to say yes and I’ll take that I guess. I would be lying if I said I don’t seek your social emotional validation. I said I didn’t care, but maybe I do. Is this even part of the write-up anymore? Am I even saying things I mean? Is that guitar that’s ringing in my ears real or are you calling out to me? Is that violin really comforting me? Does that sax really whisper my story? Am I so blind to the world? I think that with a few more listens, I could answer those questions.
Concorde, we're old now
And you wield a lightsaber
And led by the dark to our place on the table
So don't tell me you're hungry
'Cause darling I'm starving myself
And I heard you're on Atkins as well
I was made to love you
Can't you tell? [First added to this chart: 02/05/2022]
Year of Release:
2022
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6,173
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Surf Rock // Ambient Pop
Favorite Tracks: Never Find a Girl, The Next Time, Standing Time
This album means so much to me. I discovered it while cleaning out my grandmothers house. There is no other album that comes close to comforting me as this one does. [First added to this chart: 06/29/2022]
Favorite Tracks: Never Find a Girl, The Next Time, Standing Time
This album means so much to me. I discovered it while cleaning out my grandmothers house. There is no other album that comes close to comforting me as this one does. [First added to this chart: 06/29/2022]
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Post-Punk // Experimental Punk
[First added to this chart: 02/26/2021]
Year of Release:
2021
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2,970
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New Wave
Favorite Tracks: Bonny, Horsin' Around, When the Angels
My personal favorite "80s" album. Yknow, it just sounds like the 80s. Even so, Paddy's songwriting just brings the album to a whole new level. There's just something different about this album.
I spend the days with my vanity
I'm lost in heaven and I'm lost to earth
Didn't give you minutes not even moments
All my life in a tower of foil
Shaded feelings, don't believe you
When you were there before my eyes
No one planned it took it for granted [First added to this chart: 05/07/2021]
Favorite Tracks: Bonny, Horsin' Around, When the Angels
My personal favorite "80s" album. Yknow, it just sounds like the 80s. Even so, Paddy's songwriting just brings the album to a whole new level. There's just something different about this album.
I spend the days with my vanity
I'm lost in heaven and I'm lost to earth
Didn't give you minutes not even moments
All my life in a tower of foil
Shaded feelings, don't believe you
When you were there before my eyes
No one planned it took it for granted [First added to this chart: 05/07/2021]
Year of Release:
1985
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3,446
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Post-Punk (as post-punky as it could get)
North American release
Tracks: India, Sister Europe, Pulse, Fall, We Love You, Soap Commercial, Imitation of Christ, Wedding Song, Flowers
The most creative post-punk album. Richard Butler's singing is just so unique. From the album structure to the songwriting, everything is just perfect.
Imitation of Christ
This you who lie and scream
You fall to dust
You fall to dust
In walls of words
Your words are blind
You speak and you are dumb and blind
The word that is your god
Is you who fall so low and fall so far
Imitation of Christ [First added to this chart: 12/03/2020]
North American release
Tracks: India, Sister Europe, Pulse, Fall, We Love You, Soap Commercial, Imitation of Christ, Wedding Song, Flowers
The most creative post-punk album. Richard Butler's singing is just so unique. From the album structure to the songwriting, everything is just perfect.
Imitation of Christ
This you who lie and scream
You fall to dust
You fall to dust
In walls of words
Your words are blind
You speak and you are dumb and blind
The word that is your god
Is you who fall so low and fall so far
Imitation of Christ [First added to this chart: 12/03/2020]
Year of Release:
1980
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Rank Score:
575
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Psychedelic Rock // Blues Rock
[First added to this chart: 11/02/2022]
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Post-Punk // Synthpop
Synth-Punk implies the existence of post-synth-punk. This is it. Peter Hook is my favorite bassist, and Age of Consent might just be my favorite song ever. This album walks the line in the history of New Order where they had shifted enough away from Joy Divison to be true post-punk anymore, yet they still hadn't become full-on dance yet. It is the most wonderful mix of both. Also, the cover is just gorgeous.
Won't you please let me go
These words lie inside they hurt me so
And I'm not the kind that likes to tell you
Just what I want to do
I'm not the kind that needs to tell you
Just what you want me to
I saw you this morning
I thought that you might like to know
I received your message in full a few days ago
I understood every word that it said
And now that I've actually heard it
You're going to regret [First added to this chart: 05/11/2021]
Synth-Punk implies the existence of post-synth-punk. This is it. Peter Hook is my favorite bassist, and Age of Consent might just be my favorite song ever. This album walks the line in the history of New Order where they had shifted enough away from Joy Divison to be true post-punk anymore, yet they still hadn't become full-on dance yet. It is the most wonderful mix of both. Also, the cover is just gorgeous.
Won't you please let me go
These words lie inside they hurt me so
And I'm not the kind that likes to tell you
Just what I want to do
I'm not the kind that needs to tell you
Just what you want me to
I saw you this morning
I thought that you might like to know
I received your message in full a few days ago
I understood every word that it said
And now that I've actually heard it
You're going to regret [First added to this chart: 05/11/2021]
Year of Release:
1983
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Rank Score:
6,757
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Funk Rock // Art Rock
[First added to this chart: 04/02/2021]
Year of Release:
1976
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Rank Score:
12,923
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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 | 12 | 12% | |
| 1970s | 16 | 16% | |
| 1980s | 14 | 14% | |
| 1990s | 13 | 13% | |
| 2000s | 15 | 15% | |
| 2010s | 16 | 16% | |
| 2020s | 9 | 9% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Angel Olsen | 2 | 2% | |
| Jeff Buckley | 2 | 2% | |
| David Bowie | 2 | 2% | |
| フィッシュマンズ [Fishmans] | 2 | 2% | |
| Quicksilver Messenger Service | 2 | 2% | |
| Mitski | 2 | 2% | |
| Alice Coltrane | 2 | 2% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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64 | 64% | |
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13 | 13% | |
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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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2 | 2% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 41 from 81st to 40th Deathconsciousness by Have A Nice Life |
| Up 12 from 25th to 13th Come In by Weatherday |
| Up 12 from 24th to 12th Ants From Up There by Black Country, New Road |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 4 from 10th to 14th Eureka by Jim O'Rourke |
| Down 4 from 11th to 15th Masked Dancers: Concern In So Many Things You Forget Where You Are by The Brave Little Abacus |
| Down 4 from 12th to 16th You Forgot It In People by Broken Social Scene |
| New entries |
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 Relationship Of Commandby At The Drive-In |
| Hejira by Joni Mitchell |
| Tim by The Replacements |
| Keep It Like A Secret by Built To Spill |
| The Bends by Radiohead |
| Ugly But Honest: 1996-1999 by Carissa's Wierd |
| Leavers |
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 In The Flat Fieldby Bauhaus |
| Solitude by Lord Snow |
| 13 Songs by Fugazi |
| Bad Brains by Bad Brains |
| A Crow Looked At Me by Mount Eerie |
| To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar |
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 80/100  | 07/22/2024 01:18 |  MadhattanJack | | 84/100 |
| 90/100 | 03/29/2024 10:25 | Johnnyo | | 80/100 |
| 90/100 | 11/20/2023 12:32 | mianfei | | 62/100 |
| 95/100 | 04/24/2023 12:29 |  Xxnu99etxX | | 90/100 |
| 95/100 | 04/14/2023 21:47 | chavaloricardin | | 83/100 |
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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
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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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100/100
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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90/100
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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100/100
From corduroycyborg 12/25/2020 17:44
merry christmas
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100/100
From BraddlesHendo 12/08/2020 03:29
Cool stuff Great Number 1
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