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Welcome to BestEverAlbums.com!

What is the greatest music album of all time? If you ask a hundred different people to name the best album of all time, the chances are that you will not get a unanimous answer!

This web site's purpose is to achieve a means of establishing the greatest music albums of all time by using legitimate critical sources and calculating a ranking based on the rank and number of times an album has appeared in a 'greatest album' chart and then ranking the albums according to their aggregate performance.

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Featured thread:
2012 albums (Forum: Music)
"Let's start this year off good. Let's start off with Guided By Voices new album 'Let's Go Eat the Fa..."
From mooseboy101 on Tuesday 3 January 2012
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What album are you listening to right now? (Forum: Music)
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From Le_Samurai on Thursday 17 May 2012
Wildly inconsistent albums (Forum: Music)
"Use Your Illusion II - GNR Trusted by Millions - 54-40 Weezer - Blue Album Let it Be - The Rep..."
From Noise Pollution on Thursday 17 May 2012
Greatest EPs ever (Forum: Music)
" CellarDoor wrote: 1. My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise 2. Pixies - Come On Pilgrim..."
From Eggman/Walrus/Taxman on Thursday 17 May 2012

Latest comments RSS
Apple by Mother Love Bone ( 3 comments)
"Rock doesn't get much better than this. The solo on "Stardog Champion" will blow your F***ing mind. ..."
From mayonaise93 on Thursday 17th May 2012
Who's Next by The Who ( 37 comments)
"Vinyl is the only way. If you want to feel like you're in 1971 listening to this album for the first..."
From mayonaise93 on Thursday 17th May 2012
Asia by Asia ( 4 comments)
"It's one of the biggest disappointment. Very good players and the resultate very poor :(..."
From Mirek on Thursday 17th May 2012
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Latest ratings
Every Breath You Take: The Classics by The Police
Rating: 
85/100
From RFNAPLES on 2012-05-17 12:25:04
Discover America by Van Dyke Parks
Rating: 
70/100
From Norman Bates on 2012-05-17 12:18:48
Remission by Mastodon
Rating: 
70/100
From dexmc on 2012-05-17 11:49:51
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Site news and announcements

May 2012 site update: Year charts now released!
From albummaster on Monday 7 May 2012
Year charts
Year charts are now live for Level 6 users. 'Year' charts will contribute 5% of a chart's normal weight towards the overall rankings. A discussion on the scoring system can be found here.

In a year chart, you can only pick from albums released in the relevant year. You can still add albums to your list that are not already on the site, but if they are subsequently found to be released in the 'wrong' year, they will not contribute towards the rankings. (N.B. BEA uses the original year of release for each album, so you need to be aware that any albums that you add to your year charts are not re-releases of older albums, and the BEA year of release will be final (if BEA have this wrong, let us know and it will be corrected).

Display of IP addresses
Although somebody's IP address cannot identify anybody directly, it could be used in conjunction with other personal data to narrow down the possibilities. Therefore, BEA will now mask from view the first two octets of each IP address. Entire IP addresses can still be seen by data moderators (e.g. to help identify anybody trying to 'game' the site); but to increase member privacy, whole IP addresses will no longer be visible to everybody else.

'New additions' threshold
To help stop the admin area of the site being overloaded with new albums, users will no longer be able to add more than 40 'new' albums to the site within a three day period (unless they help out with data moderation, in which case, editing will be automatically re-enabled). You can still make unlimited changes to your charts if the number of 'new' albums falls under this threshold, so most people will be unaffected. (A 'new' album is one that is not already on BEA.)

Comment votes
An option has been added to neutralise your comment vote on the individual album, band and chart pages.

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