{"id":18535,"date":"2022-03-28T07:27:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T13:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=18535"},"modified":"2022-03-18T08:47:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T14:47:25","slug":"top-200-albums-91-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/top-200-albums-91-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 200 Albums: #91 \u2013 100"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We last counted down the Top 200 albums in my iTunes library four years ago. Since that time, the world has literally changed, and my commute has decreased from 1+ hours each way to 25 steps. So, despite the decrease in potential listening time, I figured it was time to take another look, based on number of plays from late 2007 through the morning of January 1, 2022.<\/p>\n

Today, we kick off the second half of our countdown with the next batch of ten albums that I have listened to the most over the last 15 years, breaking the triple digit total play plateau with four compilations, and music from the 60s, 80s, 90s, and beyond.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>#100: The Beatles \u2013 Help!<\/em>
\niTunes stats: 115 plays
\nPrevious Ranking: 94<\/a><\/p>\n

A 55% increase in plays for the five of the fourteen tracks from this 1965 album, the band’s fifth, and the soundtrack to their same-named film.<\/p>\n

#99: Various Artists \u2013\u00a0Saturday\u00a0Morning Cartoons’ Greatest Hits<\/em>
\niTunes stats: 117 plays
\nPrevious Ranking: 165<\/a><\/p>\n

This collection of cartoon theme songs from the 60s and 70s covered by some of the bigger alternative acts of the 90s, including Liz Phair, Material Issue, and Sponge, amongst others, saw an increase of 69 listens to jump 66 spots in the rankings.<\/p>\n

#97: Various Artists \u2013 Rock N’ Roll Era: 1964<\/em>
\niTunes stats: 119 plays
\nPrevious Ranking: 109<\/a><\/p>\n

An 83% increase in plays over the past four years for this edition of the Time Life series, featuring songs by Chuck Berry, The Drifters, and Roy Orbison, among others.<\/p>\n

#97: The Beatles \u2013 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band<\/em>
\niTunes stats: 119 plays
\nPrevious Ranking: 127<\/a><\/p>\n

The remastered version of this Beatles\u2019 eighth studio album adds 40 new listens across the five songs out of thirteen in my collection.<\/p>\n

#94: The Lonely Island \u2013 Turtleneck & Chain<\/em>
\niTunes stats: 120 plays
\nPrevious Ranking: 79<\/a><\/p>\n

A 48% increase for the four tracks from this second album from the SNL<\/em> digital short maestros.<\/p>\n

#94: Metallica \u2013 Metallica<\/em>
\niTunes stats: 120 plays
\nPrevious Ranking: 94<\/a><\/p>\n

Colloquially known as The Black Album<\/em>, this self-titled fifth studio album saw a 62% increase in plays over the past four years.<\/p>\n

#94: Various Artists \u2013 Private Parts: The Album<\/em>
\niTunes stats: 120 plays
\nPrevious Ranking: 94<\/a><\/p>\n

Released in 1997, the soundtrack to Howard Stern\u2019s so-called cinematic love letter to his now wife, who he would divorce two years later, saw an additional 46 plays to its combination of music and movie clips.<\/p>\n

#93: Cheap Trick \u2013 The Greatest Hits
\n<\/em>iTunes stats: 121 plays
\nPrevious Ranking: 104<\/a><\/p>\n

Five songs from the long career of Cheap Trick from their greatest hits compilation, which I purchased at Discount Den during my college days, parlayed a 78% increase in listens to jump 28 spots on the chart.<\/p>\n

#91: Various Artists \u2013 Monsters of Rock<\/em>
\niTunes stats: 122 plays
\nPrevious Ranking: 85<\/a><\/p>\n

This compilation of 80s hair bands, like White Lion, Winger, and Firehouse, added 43 new plays to the eight different tracks in my collection over the past four years.<\/p>\n

#91: Purdue “All-American” Marching Band \u2013 Stadium Echoes
\n<\/em>iTunes stats: 113 plays
\nPrevious Ranking: 64<\/a><\/p>\n

Two tracks from the alma mater’s marching band, which currently includes Mr. Danny, somehow managed both a 23% increase in listens totaling 23 new listens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We last counted down the Top 200 albums in my iTunes library four years ago. Since that time, the world has literally changed, and my commute has decreased from 1+ hours each way to 25 steps. So, despite the decrease in potential listening time, I figured it was time to take another look, based on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[96,289,279,978,10013,530,10011,849,328,452,88,194,180,5257,1187,10012,688,1237,3677,5103,1347,1353],"class_list":["post-18535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-beatles","tag-boiler-up","tag-cheap-trick","tag-chuck-berry","tag-discount-den","tag-firehouse","tag-help","tag-howard-stern","tag-itunes","tag-liz-phair","tag-lonely-island","tag-material-issue","tag-metallica","tag-private-parts","tag-purdue-all-american-marching-band","tag-roy-orbison","tag-snl","tag-sponge","tag-the-drifters","tag-time-life","tag-white-lion","tag-winger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18535"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18848,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18535\/revisions\/18848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}