Best Albums

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GPA      Group: Album/CD Title
3.900     Sky: Don't Hold Back
3.800     Cat Stevens: Tea for the Tillerman
3.750     Electric Light Orchestra: Face the Music
3.750     America: History - America's Greatest Hits
3.727     Graham Nash: Songs for Beginners
3.714     Supertramp: Even in the Quietest Moments
3.667     Who: Tommy
3.667     Enya: Watermark
3.667     Paul McCartney: Ram
3.667     Jethro Tull: Aqualung
3.636     Nektar: Recycled
3.625     Moody Blues: Every Good Boy Deserves Favor
3.600     Cat Stevens: Teaser and the Firecat
3.583     Fleetwood Mac: Mirage
3.583     America: America
3.556     Genesis: Genesis
3.550     Fleetwood Mac: Tusk
3.500     Bellamy Brothers: Let Your Love Flow
3.500     Anne Murray: Greatest Hits
3.500     America: Homecoming
3.500     Buffalo Springfield: Retrospective
3.471*   George Harrison: All Things Must Pass    
3.455     Berlin: Best of Berlin
3.444     Jefferson Starship: Freedom at Point Zero
3.444     Who: Who's Next
3.429     Jackson Browne: Hold Out
3.429     Yes: Fragile
3.364     5th Dimension: Greatest Hits
3.364     Fleetwood Mac: Fleetwood Mac
3.338     Yes: Close to the Edge
3.333     James Gang: Thirds
3.333     Michael Oldfield: Tubular Bells
3.300     Elton John: Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player
3.300     Stevie Nicks: Bella Donna
3.300     Moody Blues: A Question of Balance
3.300     Chumbawamba: Tubthumper
3.300     Grass Roots: Temptation Eyes
3.273     Stevie Nicks: Rock a Little
3.273     Byrds: Greatest Hits
3.250     Badfinger: Straight Up
3.227     Moody Blues: This is the Moody Blues
3.222     Moody Blues: In Search of the Lost Chord
3.222     Eagles: One of These Nights
3.222     Christopher Cross: Cristopher Cross
3.200     Gerry Rafferty: City to City
3.200     Harry Nilsson: Nilsson Schmilsson
3.200     Creedence Clearwater Revival: Pendulum
3.200     Fleetwood Mac: Bare Trees
3.200     Eagles: On the Border
3.200     Eagles: Desperado
3.200     Berlin: Count Three & Pray
3.182     Guess Who: Best of the Guess Who
3.182     Steppenwolf: Steppenwolf
3.182     Fleetwood Mac: Rumours
3.182     Little River Band: Time Exposure
3.182     Dawn: Candida
3.167     Fleetwood Mac: Tango in the Night
3.167     Beach Boys: Good Vibrations
3.167     Stevie Nicks: The Other Side of the Mirror
3.143     Warren Zevon: Best of Warren Zevon
3.111     Lindsey Buckingham: Go Insane
3.111     Karla Bonoff: Restless Nights
3.111     Alan Parsons Project: Turn of a Friendly Card
3.111     Abba: The Album
3.111     Sky: Sailor's Delight
3.111     Electric Light Orchestra: OLE ELO
3.100     Electric Light Orchestra: Balance of Power
3.100     Ozark Mountain Daredevils: Ozark Mountain Daredevils
3.100     Crabby AppletonCrabby Appleton
3.100     Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers
3.100     Juice Newton & Silver Spur
3.100     Jimmy Buffett: Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
3.100     Steely Dan: Can't Buy a Thrill
3.084     Neil Sedaka: Sedaka's Back
3.083     Grand Funk Railroad: Mark, Don, & Mel
3.077     Fleetwood Mac: Behind the Mask
3.077     Markahuasi: Traditional & Contemporary Music of the Andes
3.071     Simon & Garfunkel: Greatest Hits
3.067     Beach Boys: 15 Big Ones
3.043     Jesus Christ Superstar
3.000     Lindsey Buckingham: Out of the Cradle
3.000     Supertramp: Crime of the Century
3.000     Abba: The Visitor
3.000     Lindsey Buckingham: Law and Order
3.000     A-ha: East of the Sun, West of the Moon
3.000     Bruce Hornsby & the Range: The Way It Is
3.000     Bread: Baby I'm A Want You
3.000     Alan Parsons Project: Pyramid
3.000     Poco: Blue and Gray
3.000     Carpenters: Close to You
3.000     Linda Ronstadt: Heart Like a Wheel
3.000     Alan Parsons Project: Eye in the Sky
3.000     Cyndi Lauper: She's So Unusual
3.000     Mountain: Nantucket Sleighride
3.000     Godspell: Godspell
3.000     Gary Wright: Dream Weaver
3.000     Alan Parsons Project: Tales of Mystery & Imagination
3.000     Electric Light Orchestra: A New World Record
3.000     Alan Parsons Project: Ammonia Avenue
3.000     Alan Parsons Project: Eve
3.000     Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young: Deja Vu
3.000     Paul McCartney & Wings: Band on the Run
3.000     Hootie & the Blowfish: Cracked Rear View
3.000     Abba: Super Trouper

*Originally released as a 23 song, 3 album set.  The score here does not include the 5 songs on the last "Apple Jam" album.
last major update 2 January 2002