The chart for 15 December 1971 would make an interesting top 20. And that was just one week!
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1971 was THE year for great albums. What a chart - nice to see that I have 15 out of the top 20.
Interesting that Meddle is on the Starline label?
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Is it possible that the Zeppelin album is number one through presales as it is just listed as “New” ?
I don’t think such a relaxed listing would happen in print today.
Could it be that the fourth Led Zeppelin album didn’t have a name. Although ‘we’ refer to it as Led Zep IV or the four symbols and I’ve heard it referred to as the Runes. I think it was officially untitled so I guess the chart listing makes sense in this respect.
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The Jim Reeves is a classic. And who could forget, um, Frank Pourcel? 
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Wow Blackmass - that list is not a million miles from mine. Don’t know your number 18 so going to check the band and album out.
Big Black will knock your socks off.
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Many years ago there was a Q magazine article on Robert Plant’s record collection and he had the Big Black album.
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Hi everybody, here comes the latest chart after two quiet weeks with some significant contributions and a total number of entries that slightly exceed 1000 for the first time (1011). Out of 20 positions only 11 have more than one vote while only 4 positions are clearly defined.
Have a good weekend, here it is:
| 1 | Pink Floyd | The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973) | 13 |
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| 2 | Miles Davis | Kind Of Blue | 12 |
| 3 | The Beatles | Abbey Road (1969) | 11 |
| 4 | Pink Floyd | The Wall (1979) | 10 |
| 5 | David Bowie | The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars | 8 |
| Pink Floyd | Wish You Were Here | 8 | |
| 6 | The Beatles | White Album (1968) | 7 |
| 7 | David Bowie | Hunky Dory | 6 |
| Dire Straits | Dire Straits (1978) | 6 | |
| Joni Mitchell | Hejira | 6 | |
| Led Zeppelin | IV (1971) | 6 | |
| Paul Simon | Graceland | 6 | |
| Talk Talk | Spirit of Eden (1988) | 6 | |
| The Beatles | Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band | 6 | |
| 8 | Bob Dylan | Blood On The Tracks | 5 |
| Cannonball Adderley | Somethin’ Else | 5 | |
| Cowboy Junkies | The Trinity Session | 5 | |
| Donald Fagen | The Nightfly (1982) | 5 | |
| Miles Davis | Bitches Brew | 5 | |
| Peter Gabriel | So | 5 | |
| Prefab Sprout | Steve Mc Queen (1985) | 5 | |
| Radiohead | The Bends | 5 | |
| Rickie Lee Jones | Rickie Lee Jones | 5 | |
| Simple Minds | New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) (1982) | 5 | |
| Steely Dan | Aja (1977) | 5 | |
| Yes | The Yes Album (1971) | 5 | |
| 9 | Fleetwood Mac | Rumours (1977) | 4 |
| Genesis | Selling England by the Pound (1974) | 4 | |
| Leftfield | Leftism | 4 | |
| Lou Reed | Transformer | 4 | |
| Marvin Gaye | Whats going on | 4 | |
| Radiohead | Kid A | 4 | |
| Radiohead | OK Computer (1997) | 4 | |
| Supertramp | Crime of the Century (1974) | 4 | |
| The Rolling Stones | Sticky Fingers | 4 | |
| The Who | Quadrophenia | 4 | |
| The Who | Who’s Next (1971) | 4 | |
| Dusty Springfield | Dusty In Memphis | 4 | |
| 10 | Black Sabbath | Black Sabbath | 3 |
| Bob Dylan | Blonde on Blonde | 3 | |
| Caravan | In The Land Of The Grey and Pink | 3 | |
| Christine and the Queens | Chris | 3 | |
| David Bowie | Black Star | 3 | |
| David Bowie | Station To Station | 3 | |
| Deep Purple | Made in Japan | 3 | |
| Depeche Mode | Violator | 3 | |
| Echo & The Bunnymen | Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain | 3 | |
| Elton John | Captain Fantastic & The Brown Dirt Cowboy | 3 | |
| Elton John | Madman Across the Water | 3 | |
| Elvis Costello with Burt Bacharach | Painted From Memory (1998) | 3 | |
| Fairport Convention | Liege and Lief | 3 | |
| Fairport Convention | Unhalfbricking | 3 | |
| Jennifer Warnes | Famous Blue Raincoat | 3 | |
| John Coltrane | Blue Train | 3 | |
| Joy Division | Unknown Pleasures 1979 | 3 | |
| King Crimson | In the Court of the Crimson King (An Observation by King Crimson) | 3 | |
| Led Zeppelin II | Led Zeppelin II | 3 | |
| Massive Attack | Blue Lines | 3 | |
| Oliver Nelson | Oliver Nelson - The Blues And The Abstract Truth | 3 | |
| Paul McCartney | Ram | 3 | |
| Pink Floyd | Animals (1977) | 3 | |
| Pink Floyd | Meddle | 3 | |
| Santana | Abraxas | 3 | |
| Supertramp | Crisis? What Crisis? | 3 | |
| Talk Talk | The Colour of Spring (1986) | 3 | |
| The Beatles | Revolver | 3 | |
| The Beatles | Rubber Soul | 3 | |
| The Doors | L.A. Woman | 3 | |
| The Smiths | The Queen is Dead | 3 | |
| The Stone Roses | The Stone Roses | 3 | |
| Van Morrison | Moondance | 3 | |
| Wilco | Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2001) | 3 | |
| WISHBONE ASH | Argus (1972) | 3 | |
| XTC | Apple Venus Volume 1 | 3 | |
| Yes | Close to the Edge | 3 |
Alessandro
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What a question! This will be very hard as some of my favourite albums I have over listened and don’t play so much now BUT they are simply sublime when I do play them. The list is not in order!
Pearl Jam - Ten
Deftones - White Pony
Metallica - …And Justice For All
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Metallica - St. Anger
Metallica - Load
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Sepultura - Arise
Miles Davis - My Funny Valentine
Nirvana - Unplugged New York MTV
Neil Young - Live At Massey Hall
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Guns ‘N Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Sonny Rollins - Saxaphone Colossus
King Crimson - In The Court Of A Crimson King
Sons Of Kemet - Your Queen Is A Reptile
System Of A Down - System Of A Down
Neil Young - Hawks & Doves
Led Zeppelin - In Through The Out Door
Sepultura - Chaos AD
I started this reply the day the thread started. This should be an indication of the toughness of this task.
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Interesting the G’nR isn’t more popular generally…
Appetite For Destruction was the first album I bought aged maybe 12 years old. It got me into music! Everyone needs a catalyst right?!
They are popular, but perhaps not top 20 material.
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A fine album. The previous two (Rain Plans and Silver Seas) are also excellent.
Top 20 Favorite Albums (today, for this moment… this list is volatile)
Beattes - Abbey Road
Yes - Fragile
Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July
Cowboy Junkies - Caution Horses
Elton John - Yellow Brick Road
k. d. lang - Ingenue
Led Zeppelin - IV
Lyle Lovett - Joshua Judges Ruth
Lucinda Williams - West
Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come On Come On
Natalie Merchant - Paradise Is There
Paul Simon - Graceland
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Prince - Purple Rain
R.E.M - Out Of Time
Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
Steely Dan - Can’t Buy A Thrill
Sting - Ten Summoner’s Tales
Tom Petty - Wildflowers
Who - Who’s Next
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My list in particular order. No Beatles or Pink Floyd or Led Zep. Would make the list if it is the Top 30 albums. I love Brazilian bossa and so there are a number of bossa albums. Would have included Ennio Morricone and Stelvio Cipriani but they both have so many soundtracks that it will have to be a compilation of their works.
Lucinda Williams - Sweet Old World
Linda Ronstadt - Heart Like A Wheel
Elis Regina & Tom Jobim - Elis & Tom
Leila Pinheiro - A Bossa
Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball
Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
Boz Scaggs - Fade Into Light
Dawes - Stories Don’t End
Cowboy Junkies - Trinity Sessions
Greg Brown - Poet Game
Grey DeLisle - Homewrecker
J J Cale - Naturally
Toots Thielemans - Brasil Project 2
Sara Isaksson & Rebecca Tornqvist - Fire In The Hole
Stan Getz - Getz & Gilberto
Van Morrison - Poetic Champions Compose
War on Drugs - Lost In the Dream
Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On
The Band - Music From Big Pink
Jane Duboc & Gerry Mulligan - Paraiso
Finally, I have got my top 20 albums. Split into two groups, the first ten are my core albums which have been my favourites since I first heard them, the final ten are my current favourites which are subject to change without prior notice.
Very un-naim like… 
Yes - 90125
Yes - Going for the One
Yes - The Yes Album
Rush - Vapor Trails (original mix)
Astra - The Weirding
Jean Michel Jarre - The Concerts in China
Yello - Touch
Tommy Smith - Karma
Tommy Smith - Paris
Pendragon - Pure
Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
Lunatic Soul - Walking on a Flashlight Beam
Lunatic Soul - Fractured
Pineapple Thief - Your Wilderness
AES Dana - Pollen
Ronny Jordan - The Rough and The Smooth
Vertical Horizon - Everything You Want
Controlling Crowds I-III
Motorpsycho - The Tower
Astropilot - Solar Walk III - Event Horizon
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Bruce Springsteen -Born in the U.S.A.
Guns N’ Roses -Appetite for Destruction
U2 -The Joshua Tree
Placebo-Black Market Music
Radiohead-The Bends
Ben Harper-Fight for Your Mind
Placebo -Black Market Music
The Black Keys -Rubber Factory
Depeche Mode -Songs of Faith and Devotion
Depeche Mode -Music for the Masses
U2 -Achtung Baby
The Cult - Electric
The Cult -Love
The Church -Starfish
The Stone Roses -The Stone Roses
James -Laid
INXS -Kick
Eurythmics -Revenge
Morrissey -Viva Hate
Oasis -(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?
it is difficult - no jazz or classic included and there will be 80 left out that I don’t remember but each one of these gave me hours and hours pleasure with crappy stereos, car radios,discmans, LPs, CDs,Cassetes…
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