Tony's Album Top Tens

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A quick word: Rather than continue updating an arbitrary list of yearly top tens and honorable mentions, I've decided to simply catalog albums I've rated at least 7 out of 10 and higher. (Years wherein I've not given at least ten 7's or higher, I'll also catalog the 6's temporarily.) There's a heavy bias toward very recent years for two reasons: (1) I signed up for a Spotify Premium account in early 2019 and (2) shortly thereafter is when I started rating and cataloging albums I listened to. So anything and everything listed on this page I've heard at least once since ca. mid-2019 (or more recently). Anything before that will not be here until I listen to it again (and believe me, the queue is depressingly long). One last note on live albums: I have finally decided to include live albums on my lists, though my valuation of live albums differs quite a bit from studio albums. A live album in which the artist does little more than play live renditions of songs that are ultra-faithful to their studio counterparts is not interesting to me. Even if I love the songs being played. This type of live album makes no sense to me. The live albums I cherish are the ones that offer an experience you can't get from the studio recordings; maybe the tracks have not been released elsewhere, are completely reimagined, or totally improvised and altered to the extent that they barely resemble their former selves. (Singles not included here; EPs are.)

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    10/10

    9/10

    8/10

  1. Where we've been, Where we go from here -- Friko
  2. Something in the Room She Moves -- Julia Holter

    3. 7/10

  3. Look How Long Lasting Everything Is Moving Forward for Once -- Hammok
  4. SHAME -- meth.
  5. Only God Was Above Us -- Vampire Weekend
  6. BLK LBL -- Armand Hammer
  7. Häxan Sabaoth -- Unaussprechlichen Kulten
  8. Deep Sage -- Gouge Away
  9. Activator -- Gerycz Powers Rolin
  10. Planned Obsolescence -- Chaser
  11. Ambivert -- Blemishes
  12. Bright Future -- Adrianne Lenker
  13. Imaginary Conversations -- Kevin Coleman
  14. Bronson Arm -- Bronson Arm
  15. Wake up and smell the petrichor -- chazaiya
  16. Cloudward -- Mary Halvorson
  17. Y'Y -- Amaro Freitas
  18. Wall of Eyes -- The Smile
  19. The Room -- Fabiano do Nascimento & Sam Gendel
  20. Iechyd da -- Bill Ryder-Jones
  21. Bicycle -- Patricia Taxxon

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Echoes -- Fire! Orchestra

    2. 8/10

  2. Attachment Styles -- M(h)aol
  3. The Lamb as Effigy -- Sprain
  4. Witchy Activities and the Maple Death -- Monika Roscher Bigband
  5. Camaraderie -- Quetzal Tirado Unit
  6. Solitaire -- Everyone Asked About You [archival]
  7. Úpal -- Kostnatění
  8. Gold Star -- Space Camp

    9. 7/10

  9. Hell Entrance: Liberation Paralysis -- Culpable
  10. Why Do You Mourn -- The End
  11. First Aid Kit -- Big Blood
  12. Figura -- The Canyon Observer
  13. Pink Colour Surgery -- The Psychotic Monks
  14. Helionomicon -- Ulthar
  15. The Head Hurts but the Heart Knows the Truth -- Headache
  16. Why Is This Happening to You? -- Fotbal
  17. Build Yourself a Shrine and Pray -- Bruxa Maria
  18. Thirty Three Recurring -- Fog
  19. Leprous Daylight -- Fossilization
  20. Doomscroll -- Naked Lungs
  21. Everything Is Alive -- Slowdive
  22. (Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality -- Eluvium
  23. Disharmonium - Nahab -- Blut aus Nord
  24. Formal Growth in the Desert -- Protomartyr
  25. zzz... zzz... zzz... -- kuragari
  26. Bosoragazan -- Odz Manouk
  27. Elite Terrorism Modulus -- Elite Terrorism Modulus
  28. Punk Tactics -- Joey Valance & Brae
  29. Unus mundus patet -- Jute Gyte
  30. Les trois amis de l'hiver -- Li Jianhong
  31. Mitsubishi Suicide -- Mitsubishi Suicide
  32. Posh Swat -- John Dwyer, Ryan Sawyer, Andres Renteria
  33. Determined to Strike -- Sarmat
  34. ZA! & la TransMegaCobla -- ZA! & la TransMegaCobla
  35. Crash Recoil -- Surgeon
  36. Devil Music -- Portrayal of Guilt
  37. Nizozot -- Bastarda
  38. CYRM -- ØXN
  39. Wasn't Built in a Day -- Rome Streetz & Big Ghost Ltd.
  40. Malivore -- Hasard
  41. Faced Out -- Faced Out
  42. Hive Mind Narcosis -- Thantifaxath
  43. We Must Leave You -- Throat
  44. The Gray in Between -- Jeromes Dream
  45. More Dead -- Sacrifices [Zhertvoprinosheniya]
  46. Saccades -- Rian Treanor & Ocen James
  47. Knocknarea -- Maruja
  48. Silhouette Machine -- Flooding
  49. Today I Laid Down -- bl4ck m4rket c4rt
  50. Blackened Cerebral Rifts -- Dead and Dripping
  51. The Beggar -- Swans
  52. Stereo Mind Game -- Daughter
  53. Teratoma -- 15,000 Guns
  54. Zorn -- Zorn
  55. Canto Ostinato -- Erik Hall
  56. Une interprétation de la dissolution glaciale en quatre mouvements -- Turpitude
  57. Burned Car Highway Light Volcanic -- Prizes Roses Rosa (p rosa) (panda rosa)
  58. Fake -- Hoplites
  59. Sól án varma -- Sól án varma
  60. II -- Pure Adult
  61. 93696 -- Liturgy
  62. Killed Alive -- Stella Research Committee
  63. Travel -- The Necks
  64. ...I Watched 10 Years of Pacific Weather... -- Prizes Roses Rosa (p rosa) (panda rosa) & Elijah Knutsen
  65. This Stupid World -- Yo La Tengo

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Ants From Up There -- Black Country, New Road

    2. 8/10

  2. Honest Comedy -- Infinity Land
  3. Most Normal -- Gilla Band
  4. Aveilut -- Scarcity
  5. 2 -- Coconuts
  6. Where the Heart Is -- Sweet Pill
  7. Ugly Season -- Perfume Genius
  8. Feeding the Machine -- Binker & Moses
  9. Parallel Weaving -- Sheng Jie & Shen Jing
  10. "Daumenbruch„ -- Faust
  11. The Liquified Throne of Simplicity -- Širom

    12. 7/10

  12. Dishes Are Never Done but Good Luck -- Helvetia
  13. God Save the Animals -- Alex G
  14. The Whole of the Body I Call ZOS -- ZOS
  15. Killing Nothing -- Boldy James & Real Bad Man
  16. Belladonna -- Mary Halvorson
  17. Copperhead -- Doom Beach
  18. Katyusha -- Martín Escalante, Teté Leguía & Weasel Walter
  19. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You -- Big Thief
  20. Darkness of God -- Heaving Earth
  21. God's Country -- Chat Pile
  22. Aethiopes -- Billy Woods
  23. caroline -- caroline
  24. Powięź -- Kurws
  25. A Muted Reality -- Angles
  26. Punkt -- Faust
  27. Heart Under -- Just Mustard
  28. The Ruby Cord -- Richard Dawson
  29. Bacchanalia -- Spintria
  30. Psyop of the Year -- EUNOIA
  31. WHT LBL -- Armand Hammer
  32. Devils Daughter Sings Her Hybrid Poem -- crazy doberman
  33. This Is Not an Island Anymore -- Die! Die! Die!
  34. Með hamri -- Misþyrming
  35. You Belong There -- Daniel Rossen
  36. Summer at Land's End -- The Reds, Pinks and Purples
  37. Regurgitorium -- Why Patterns
  38. Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses -- Blut aus Nord
  39. See You Out There -- Dave Gisler Trio with Jaimie Branch & David Murray
  40. Fair Exchange No Robbery -- Nicholas Craven and Boldy James
  41. Florist -- Florist
  42. Mystic Sisters -- City of Caterpillar
  43. Diner Coffee -- Mamaleek
  44. Void Patrol -- Void Patrol
  45. Deathfame -- Quelle Chris
  46. Comradely Objects -- Horse Lords
  47. While of Unsound Mind -- nouns
  48. Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling 'em Up -- Wednesday
  49. Pools of Green Fire -- Urushiol
  50. Everything Was Beautiful -- Spiritualized
  51. Consecration of the Spiritüs Flesh -- Esoctrilihum
  52. Return -- deathcrash
  53. Gold -- Rozwód
  54. Spirit of Ecstasy -- Imperial Triumphant
  55. Felicita -- Anadol
  56. Hellfire -- black midi
  57. Ascetic Reflection -- Altars
  58. Raum -- Tangerine Dream
  59. Hexen Valley -- Gnod
  60. Honeybee Table at the Butterfly Feast -- Teen Suicide
  61. Echt -- La Colonie de Vacances
  62. Together -- Duster
  63. There's Always Blood at the End of the Road -- Wiegedood
  64. A Light for Attracting Attention -- The Smile
  65. Koptycus -- Olés Brothers & Dominik Strycharski
  66. Every Flower in My Garden -- Lilien Rosarian
  67. stalled flutes, means -- Asian Glow
  68. Magma -- Black Flower
  69. The Ailing Facade -- Aeviterne
  70. In / Out / In -- Sonic Youth
  71. I Thought I Left You in Eden -- sun is poison
  72. Nocturnal Triumph -- Nocturnal Triumph
  73. Tana Talk 4 -- Benny the Butcher
  74. Eye Escapes -- Kraus
  75. Znój -- Zguba

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Volcanic Bird Enemy and the Voiced Concern -- Lil Ugly Mane

    2. 8/10

  2. La mort du sens -- Gnod
  3. For the First Time -- Black Country, New Road
  4. Filthy Dreams -- Leshiy
  5. Cull Ficle -- Asian Glow
  6. Coral Island -- The Coral
  7. G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! -- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  8. Jubilee -- Japanese Breakfast
  9. Promises -- Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra

    10. 7/10

  10. Caribou Killer -- Sun Is Poison
  11. The Lurch -- Yautja
  12. Preserved in Torment -- Mortiferum
  13. Repetition Hymns -- Black Swan
  14. _____ -- Sadness
  15. Contractions -- Michael Foster & Ben Bennett
  16. Thirstier -- Torres
  17. For the Glory of Your Redeemer -- Misotheist
  18. Solar Drone Ceremony -- Neptunian Maximalism
  19. För Allting -- Makthaverskan
  20. Uneasy -- Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh & Tyshawn Sorey
  21. I Became Birds -- Home Is Where
  22. Famine, Putrid and Fucking Endless -- Atvm
  23. Surrounding Structures -- Veik
  24. Calvaire -- Ferriterium
  25. DOM 1919 -- Nac/Hut Report
  26. Wax People -- Wax People
  27. Vlad Tapes -- Filmmaker
  28. Defeat -- Fire!
  29. Archeology -- The Stick Figures [archival]
  30. Katartisis -- Serpent Column
  31. Cavalcade -- black midi
  32. Call Me if You Get Lost -- Tyler, the Creator
  33. My Head Hz -- Naked Days
  34. Nafs at Peace -- Jaubi
  35. Azmari -- Samā'ī
  36. a softer focus -- claire rousay
  37. A Proposed Method for Determining Sanding Fitness -- Stella Research Committee
  38. He Whose Name Was Long Forgotten -- Fossilization
  39. Sinner Get Ready -- Lingua Ignota
  40. Bird Meets Wire -- Susan Alcorn, Leila Bordeuil & Ingrid Laubrock
  41. How the Garden Grows -- Yvette
  42. Razor's Edge -- Rome Streetz & Futurewave
  43. 1 House -- Slant
  44. Made Out of Sound -- Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt
  45. Holoceno -- Papangu
  46. Rien ne suffit -- Plebeian Grandstand
  47. Seminal Baptism -- Tantric Bile
  48. lines between the doorframe -- Asian Glow
  49. Radio Edit -- Ciśnienie
  50. Phantom Indigo -- Seputus
  51. Mental Decay -- Kvadrat
  52. Lucid Express -- Lucid Express
  53. Lucy & Aaron -- Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt
  54. The Divine Punishment -- Antediluvian
  55. Not Quite Dracula Music -- Soft Kill
  56. Golden Doubt -- Quivers
  57. The Space in Which the Uncontrollable Unknown Resides, Can Be the Place From Which Creation Arises -- Work, Money, Death
  58. A Beginner's Mind -- Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine
  59. I Have Seen the Light, and It Was Repulsive -- Sermon of Flames
  60. Hidemi -- Patrick Shiroishi
  61. Little Oblivions -- Julien Baker
  62. Yamawarau -- Fuubutsushi
  63. Negative Infinity -- The Flying Luttenbachers
  64. Laura Stevenson -- Laura Stevenson
  65. A Magnificent Day for an Exorcism -- TH1RT3EN
  66. The Cyclic Reckoning -- Suffering Hour
  67. Tawny -- Drug Church
  68. With Drums -- Machinefabriek
  69. Degenerations -- Diskord
  70. Obedient Form -- Vudmurk
  71. Storm in Summer -- Skullcrusher

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. The Microphones in 2020 -- The Microphones
  2. Éons -- Neptunian Maximalism

    3. 8/10

  3. Dead Kids, R.I.P. City -- Soft Kill
  4. Hamza -- Lonker See
  5. Free I.H: This Is Not the One You've Been Waiting For -- Illuminati Hotties
  6. Kathodos -- Serpent Column
  7. Kaiju Eats Cheeseburgers -- Darrifourcq Hermia Ceccaldi
  8. Welcome to Conceptual Beach -- Young Jesus
  9. Skáphe³ -- Skáphe
  10. Silver Tongue -- Torres
  11. Speciation -- Faceless Burial
  12. Endless Detainment -- Serpent Column

    13. 7/10

  13. No Moon -- Black Wing
  14. Allt Är Intet -- The End
  15. Punisher -- Phoebe Bridgers
  16. Telas -- Nicolás Jaar
  17. Imperii templum aries -- Ôros Kaù
  18. Less Life -- Died
  19. Mestarin Kynsi -- Oranssi Pazuzu
  20. Sideways to New Italy -- Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
  21. 2R0I2P0 -- Boris with Merzbow
  22. Songs -- Adrianne Lenker
  23. All Thoughts Fly -- Anna von Hausswolff
  24. Songs -- Adrianne Lenker
  25. Red Sun Through Smoke -- Ian William Craig
  26. Melinoë -- Akhlys
  27. The Common Task -- Horse Lords
  28. Forever Blue -- A.A. Williams
  29. Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin -- Eartheater
  30. The Great Dismal -- Nothing
  31. Don't Waste Your Anger -- The Smith Street Band
  32. New Dreams -- JFDR
  33. Mach's Hard Lemonade -- Mach-Hommy
  34. Limbo -- Gaerea
  35. The Kinspiral -- Prizes Roses Rosa (p rosa) (panda rosa)
  36. Calculus -- John Zorn
  37. Mystic Familiar -- Dan Deacon
  38. Devouring Ruin -- Wake
  39. Set My Heart on Fire Immediately -- Perfume Genius
  40. Klue -- Gezan
  41. Evermore -- Taylor Swift
  42. Relatos de angustia -- Selbst
  43. Artlessly Falling -- Mary Halvorson's Code Girl
  44. Second Body -- Two People
  45. NO -- Boris
  46. I Must Be Living Twice -- Black Marble
  47. The Sanguinary Impetus -- Defeated Sanity
  48. Unlocked -- Denzel Curry x Kenny Beats
  49. Atonement -- Exhalants
  50. Visions -- Matthew Tavares & Leland Whitty
  51. Lamentations -- William Basinski
  52. Misanthropic Breed -- Lik
  53. Visions of Bodies Being Burned -- clipping.
  54. Shadow of Fear -- Cabaret Voltaire
  55. Come & See -- Mamaleek
  56. Sleeper Vessels -- Fawn Limbs
  57. Undying Thirst -- Black Market Brass
  58. A Hero's Death -- Fontaines D.C.
  59. Love, Disorderly -- Thomas Azier
  60. Eternity of Shaog -- Esoctrilihum
  61. Alfredo -- Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist
  62. Empty Country -- Empty Country
  63. Obliviosus -- MSW
  64. Three -- The Necks
  65. The Suns of Perdition - Chapter II: Render Unto Eden -- Panzerfaust
  66. You Can Never Have a Long Enough Head Start -- Floral Tattoo
  67. From King to a GOD -- Conway the Machine
  68. Origin of the Alimonies -- Liturgy
  69. Terminal Aggressor II -- Dragged Into Sunlight
  70. Swimmer -- Tennis
  71. Four Dimensional Flesh -- Afterbirth
  72. Island -- Owen Pallett
  73. Lesions of a Different Kind -- Undeath

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    10/10

  1. Arrival -- Fire! Orchestra

    2. 9/10

    8/10

  2. The Third Ascension -- Glenn Branca
  3. Four of Arrows -- Great Grandpa
  4. Caligula -- Lingua Ignota
  5. House of Sugar -- (Sandy) Alex G
  6. Sea of Worry -- Have a Nice Life
  7. First Body -- Two People
  8. No World as Good as Mine -- Kai Whiston
  9. Keepsake -- Hatchie
  10. Schlagenheim -- black midi
  11. Two Hands -- Big Thief
  12. Disgorged from Psychotic Depths -- Mortiferum
  13. H.A.Q.Q. -- Liturgy

    14. 7/10

  14. Remove Your Skin Please -- Chat Pile
  15. Pure Adult -- Pure Adult
  16. Age of Excuse -- Mgła
  17. I Think We're Alone Now -- Randy Rulz
  18. From Untruth -- Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones
  19. Hearts of No Light -- Schammasch
  20. Titanic Rising -- Weyes Blood
  21. Guns -- Quelle Chris
  22. Hidden History of the Human Race -- Blood Incantation
  23. Morbid Stuff -- PUP
  24. There Existed an Addiction to Blood -- clipping.
  25. Ode to Joy -- Wilco
  26. U.F.O.F. -- Big Thief
  27. The Furnaces of Palingenesia -- Deathspell Omega
  28. Lover -- Taylor Swift
  29. This Dungeon Earth -- Chat Pile
  30. A Dawn to Fear -- Cult of Luna
  31. Dedicated -- Carly Rae Jepsen
  32. I Want to Be There -- Sadness
  33. Daemon -- Mayhem
  34. American Love Call -- Durand Jones & The Indications
  35. Cosmicism -- The Great Old Ones
  36. leaving meaning. -- Swans
  37. Birth of Violence -- Chelsea Wolfe
  38. So Divine -- Horse Jumper of Love
  39. Aevum -- Vukari
  40. The Fleeting Light of Impermanence -- The Appleseed Cast
  41. Trust in the Lifeforce of Deep Mystery -- The Comet Is Coming
  42. Planetary Clairvoyance -- Tomb Mold
  43. Legacy! Legacy! -- Jamila Woods
  44. uknowwhatimsayin¿ -- Danny Brown
  45. False Confession -- Weeping Sores
  46. Serotonin II -- yeule
  47. Patience -- Mannequin Pussy
  48. New Hell -- Greet Death
  49. IGOR -- Tyler, the Creator
  50. Sulphur English -- Inter Arma
  51. The Telluric Ashes of the Ö Vrth Immemorial Gods -- Esoctrilihum
  52. Purple Mountains -- Purple Mountains
  53. Algleymi -- Misþyrming
  54. ZUU -- Denzel Curry
  55. The Church Is at Fault -- Elephant Watchtower
  56. Remembering the Rockets -- Strange Ranger
  57. Bandana -- Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
  58. Mirror in Darkness -- Serpent Column
  59. American Football [LP3] -- American Football
  60. Miss Universe -- Nilufer Yanya
  61. Complicate Your Life with Violence -- L'Orange & Jeremiah Jae
  62. Portent -- False
  63. -><- -- Collider

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Aviary -- Julia Holter

    2. 8/10

  2. You Won't Get What You Want -- Daughters
  3. Some Rap Songs -- Earl Sweatshirt
  4. One Eye Sees Red -- Lonker See

    5. 7/10

  5. Paraffin -- Armand Hammer
  6. Inchoate with the Light Go I -- He Was Eaten by Owls
  7. Nearer My God -- Foxing
  8. Inside a Ringing Chord -- Cages
  9. American Dollar Bill – Keep Looking Sideways, You're Too Hideous to Look at Face On -- Keiji Haino + SUMAC
  10. 7 -- Beach House
  11. There Is a Place -- Maisha
  12. Dead Magic -- Anna von Hausswolff
  13. Love In Shadow -- SUMAC
  14. Tana Talk 3 -- Benny the Butcher
  15. 2012 - 2017 -- Against All Logic
  16. The Sciences -- Sleep
  17. Twin Fantasy (Face to Face) -- Car Seat Headrest
  18. Manor of Infinite Forms -- Tomb Mold
  19. Kiss Yr Frenemies -- Illuminati Hotties
  20. TA13OO -- Denzel Curry
  21. Misotheist -- Misotheist
  22. Infernal Decadence -- Spectral Wound
  23. Spanish Love Songs -- Schmaltz
  24. DAYTONA -- Pusha T

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Science Fiction -- Brand New
  2. Cigarettes After Sex -- Cigarettes After Sex

    3. 8/10

  3. Slowdive -- Slowdive
  4. Sleep Well Beast -- The National
  5. I Can Be a Clay Snapper -- Širom
  6. Ersatz Living -- Anwar Sadat
  7. Hell -- Hell

    8. 7/10

  8. Relatives in Descent -- Protomartyr
  9. Ill -- Makthaverskan
  10. Primal Incinerators of Moral Matrix -- Tetragrammacide
  11. Stranger in the Alps -- Phoebe Bridgers
  12. What Passes for Survival -- Pyrrhon
  13. DAMN. -- Kendrick Lamar
  14. Ornuthi Thalassa -- Serpent Column
  15. The King of No Man -- Captain, We're Sinking
  16. Retrocasual -- Cleric
  17. GT Ultra -- Guerilla Toss
  18. Greatest Hits -- Remo Drive
  19. Rocket -- (Sandy) Alex G
  20. Altar of Decay -- Mortiferum
  21. Saturation II -- Brockhampton
  22. Crack-Up -- Fleet Foxes
  23. Hiss Spun -- Chelsea Wolfe
  24. Atonement -- Immolation
  25. Flower Boy -- Tyler, the Creator
  26. Ornuthi Thalassa -- Serpent Column
  27. Saturation III -- Brockhampton
  28. Grotesque Miscreation -- Faceless Burial

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Horse Jumper of Love -- Horse Jumper of Love

    2. 8/10

  2. A Moon Shaped Pool -- Radiohead
  3. Atrocity Exhibition -- Danny Brown
  4. Blackstar -- David Bowie
  5. She Sleeps, She Sleeps -- Fire!
  6. The Glowing Man -- Swans

    7. 7/10

  7. I. -- Širom
  8. Ritual -- Fire! Orchestra
  9. Bottomless Pit -- Death Grips
  10. Eraser Stargazer-- Guerilla Toss
  11. Blonde -- Frank Ocean
  12. 22, A Million-- Bon Iver
  13. We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your service -- A Tribe Called Quest
  14. The Synarchy of Molten Bones -- Deathspell Omega
  15. Skáphe² -- Skáphe
  16. Emotion: Side B -- Carly Rae Jepsen
  17. Cody -- Joyce Manor
  18. Starspawn -- Blood Incantation
  19. Worry. -- Jeff Rosenstock
  20. Teens of Denial -- Car Seat Headrest
  21. The Wanderer -- Jana Winderen
  22. Ufonaut -- Entropia

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Holding Hands With Jamie -- Girl Band
  2. Nihil quam vacuitas ordinatum est -- Ad Nauseam

    3. 8/10

  3. Third Side of Tape -- Lil Ugly Mane
  4. Carrie & Lowell -- Sufjan Stevens
  5. E·MO·TION -- Carly Rae Jepsen
  6. Exercises in Futility -- Mgła
  7. Vulnicura -- Björk
  8. I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside -- Earl Sweatshirt

    9. 7/10

  9. Viet Cong -- Viet Cong [Preoccupations]
  10. Oblivion Access -- Lil Ugly Mane
  11. To Pimp a Butterfly -- Kendrick Lamar
  12. I Want to Hide My Face & Die -- Acid Ghost
  13. Divers -- Joanna Newsom
  14. No Closer to Heaven -- The Wonder Years
  15. Painted Shut -- Hop Along
  16. Litourgiya -- Batushka
  17. Copacetic -- Knuckle Puck
  18. Peripheral Vision -- Turnover
  19. Ten Love Songs -- Susanne Sundfor
  20. Abyss -- Chelsea Wolfe
  21. Adult Summers -- Prince Daddy & The Hyena
  22. Lore -- Elder

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    10/10

  1. To Be Kind -- Swans

    2. 9/10

    8/10

  2. Africa Express Presents... Terry Riley's In C Mali -- Africa Express
  3. Transmuted Marrow -- Gath Šmânê
  4. Wild Ivy League -- Wild Ivy
  5. Home, Like NoPlace Is There -- The Hotelier

    6. 7/10

  6. Shiny Eyed Babies -- Bent Knee
  7. The Unnatural World -- Have a Nice Life
  8. Enter! -- Fire! Orchestra
  9. Rise -- Jessica93
  10. The Mother of Virtues -- Pyrrhon
  11. Hit and Run -- Jack Ruby
  12. Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything -- Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra
  13. All That Is Solid Melts Into Air -- Kurws
  14. Totem -- White Suns
  15. Benji -- Sun Kil Moon
  16. Nothing Important -- Richard Dawson
  17. Want -- Wreck and Reference
  18. Mess -- Liars
  19. Promulgation of the Fall -- Dead Congregation
  20. Anonymous Bash -- Charles Hayward
  21. Oh, Common Life -- Fireworks
  22. Never Hungover Again -- Joyce Manor
  23. Time to Die -- Electric Wizard
  24. Decline & Fall -- Godflesh
  25. Black Messiah -- D'Angelo and The Vanguard
  26. 1989 -- Taylor Swift
  27. Run the Jewels 2 -- Run the Jewels
  28. A World Lit Only By Fire -- Godflesh

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    10/10

  1. Trouble Will Find Me -- The National

    2. 9/10

  2. The Future Is Cancelled -- Captain, We're Sinking

    3. 8/10

  3. Maybe You, No One Else Worth It -- Brave Bird
  4. Teethed Glory and Injury -- Altar of Plagues
  5. Exit! -- Fire! Orchestra
  6. Golden Grrrls -- Golden Grrrls
  7. Ceres & Calypso in the Deep Time -- Candy Claws
  8. Three Sided Tape Volume One -- Lil Ugly Mane
  9. Sunbather -- Deafheaven

    10. 7/10

  10. Hubardo -- Kayo Dot
  11. II -- Makthaverskan
  12. m b v -- My Bloody Valentine
  13. Whenever, If Ever... -- The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die
  14. Acid Rap -- Chance the Rapper
  15. Colored Sands -- Gorguts
  16. Modern Vampires of the City -- Vampire Weekend
  17. The Greatest Generation -- The Wonder Years
  18. The Next Day -- David Bowie
  19. Three Sided Tape Volume Two -- Lil Ugly Mane
  20. Yeezus -- Kanye West
  21. Summer Death -- Marietta
  22. Illumination Ritual -- The Appleseed Cast
  23. Kingdom of Conspiracy -- Immolation
  24. What You Don't See -- The Story So Far
  25. Kveikur -- Sigur Rós
  26. Vesper -- Entropia

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Just Married -- Glocca Morra
  2. The Seer -- Swans
  3. Bloom -- Beach House

    4. 8/10

  4. The Money Store -- Death Grips
  5. good kid, m.A.A.d. city -- Kendrick Lamar
  6. On the Impossible Past -- The Menzingers

    7. 7/10

  7. Outminded -- Dating
  8. Sorry -- White Lung
  9. Drought -- Deathspell Omega
  10. All We Love We Leave Behind -- Converge
  11. Ceremony -- Anna von Hausswolff
  12. France 98 -- Girl Band
  13. 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! -- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  14. Hell III -- Hell
  15. With Hearts Toward None -- Mgła
  16. Ten Stores -- mewithoutYou
  17. Mista Thug Isolation -- Lil Ugly Mane
  18. Green to Blue -- Breathless
  19. No Love Deep Web -- Death Grips
  20. channel ORANGE -- Frank Ocean
  21. Advaitic Songs -- Om
  22. Centipede Hz -- Animal Collective
  23. De Vermis Mysteriis -- High on Fire
  24. Sinews -- White Suns

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    10/10

    9/10

    8/10

  1. Bon Iver, Bon Iver -- Bon Iver
  2. Voids -- Have a Nice Life

    3. 7/10

  3. Giles Corey -- Giles Corey
  4. Dog Eat Dog -- Dog Eat Dog
  5. Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres -- Matana Roberts
  6. Mammal -- Altar of Plagues
  7. King of Limbs -- Radiohead
  8. Kaputt -- Destroyer
  9. Father, Son, Holy Ghost -- Girls
  10. Exmilitary -- Death Grips
  11. The Whole Love -- Wilco
  12. Let England Shake -- PJ Harvey
  13. Ravedeath, 1972 -- Tim Hecker
  14. Diabolus Absconditus -- Deathspell Omega
  15. Helplessness Blues -- Fleet Foxes
  16. Suburbia (I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing) -- The Wonder Years
  17. Gospel -- Fireworks
  18. From the Depths of Darkness -- Burzum
  19. Burst Apart -- The Antlers
  20. Under Soil and Dirt -- The Story So Far
  21. Damnesia -- Alkaline Trio
  22. XXX -- Danny Brown

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Paracletus -- Deathspell Omega
  2. Contra -- Vampire Weekend
  3. Coyote -- Kayo Dot
  4. High Violet -- The National

    5. 8/10

  5. Coconuts -- Coconuts
  6. Uberschleiss -- Scorpion Violente
  7. Daughters -- Daughters
  8. Halcyon Digest -- Deerhunter
  9. Teen Dream -- Beach House
  10. Liberation Through Hearing -- Demdike Stare
  11. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy -- Kanye West
  12. Majesty and Decay -- Immolation

    13. 7/10

  13. Murmuüre -- Murmuüre
  14. Forest of Evil -- Demdike Stare
  15. Throat -- Little Women
  16. Have One On Me -- Joanna Newsom
  17. Hell II -- Hell
  18. It's the Evil -- White Lung
  19. Brothers -- The Black Keys
  20. Chapters of Repugnance -- Defeated Sanity
  21. Have You Seen My Prefrontal Cortex? -- A Great Big Pile of Leaves
  22. My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky -- Swans
  23. Public Strain -- Women
  24. This Addiction -- Alkaline Trio
  25. Arkhaiomelisidonophunikheratos -- Satanicpornocultshop
  26. The Age of Adz -- Sufjan Stevens
  27. The Upsides -- The Wonder Years
  28. Bonfires -- Fireworks
  29. .neon -- Lantlos

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head -- Jordaan Mason & The Horse Museum

    2. 8/10

  2. Hospice -- The Antlers
  3. Daisy -- Brand New
  4. Merriweather Post Pavilion -- Animal Collective

    5. 7/10

  5. Rend Each Other Like Wild Beasts, Till the Earth Shall Reek with Midnight Massacre-- Gnaw Their Tongues
  6. Symbiosis -- Demdike Stare
  7. Daughter of Darkness -- Natural Snow Buildings
  8. Facial -- K-Branding
  9. Watersports -- Mi Ami
  10. Swarth -- Portal
  11. Common Existence -- Thursday
  12. In the Dream of the Sea Life -- Candy Claws
  13. Cat Party -- Cat Party
  14. Unutella -- Nuito
  15. Everything Is Fire -- Ulcerate
  16. Wind's Poem -- Mount Eerie
  17. You Will Never Know Why -- Sweet Trip
  18. Helvetia's Junk Shop -- Helvetia
  19. In This World -- susquatch
  20. Twin Stumps -- Twin Stumps

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Deathconsciousness -- Have a Nice Life
  2. Third -- Portishead

    3. 8/10

  3. Some Kind of Cadwallader -- Algernon Cadwallader
  4. Graves of the Archangels -- Dead Congregation
  5. Visiter -- The Dodos
  6. Child Bearing Man -- Little Teeth
  7. The Black Flux -- Virus

    8. 7/10

  8. Hello Everyone, Nice to Meet You, We're Midori -- Midori
  9. The New Backwards -- Coil
  10. Mass of the Fermenting Dregs -- Mass of the Fermenting Dregs
  11. Two Airships / Exploder Falls -- Candy Claws
  12. Gong Lake -- Neptune
  13. April -- Sun Kil Moon
  14. Horse -- Motorama
  15. The Chicago Project -- Matana Roberts
  16. Songs to Scream at the Sun -- Have Heart
  17. Blue Lambency Downward -- Kayo Dot
  18. The Unlistenable Years -- Toy Killers
  19. Ottoman Black -- Jason Crumer
  20. Mennonite -- KEN Mode
  21. Fleet Foxes -- Fleet Foxes
  22. Dawn -- Mount Eerie
  23. In Ghost Colours -- Cut Copy
  24. Black Pus 4: All Aboard the Magic Pus -- Black Pus
  25. Tigers Jaw -- Tigers Jaw
  26. Lost Wisdom -- Mount Eerie w/ Julie Doiron & Fred Squire

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. For Emma, Forever Ago -- Bon Iver
  2. Strawberry Jam -- Animal Collective
  3. Boxer -- The National

    4. 8/10

  4. Two Bands and a Legend -- Two Bands and a Legend
  5. In Rainbows -- Radiohead
  6. Fas - Ite, maledicti, in ignem aeternum -- Deathspell Omega

    7. 7/10

  7. Outre -- Portal
  8. Second♥ -- Midori
  9. Dead Rails -- Air Conditioning
  10. Drowner Yellow Swans -- Drowner Yellow Swans
  11. Souvenirs d'un autre monde -- Alcest
  12. David Thomas Broughton vs. 7 Hertz -- David Thomas Broughton vs. 7 Hertz
  13. Whitenoise Superstar -- Astrobrite
  14. Weighing Souls With Sand -- The Angelic Process
  15. Plaguebearer -- Wraiths
  16. Scribble Mural Comic Journal -- A Sunny Day in Glasgow
  17. Hvarf/Heim -- Sigur Rós
  18. And Their Refinement of the Decline -- Stars of the Lid
  19. Volta -- Björk
  20. Operator Dead... Post Abandoned -- Burning Star Core
  21. Shadows in the Light -- Immolation
  22. Allegory of Allergies -- Emeralds

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Drum's Not Dead -- Liars
  2. Ys -- Joanna Newsom
  3. The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me -- Brand New

    4. 8/10

  4. Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue -- Kayo Dot
  5. The Drift -- Scott Walker
  6. Donuts -- J Dilla
  7. Brother, Sister -- mewithoutYou
  8. Mass Hysterism in Another Situation -- New Direction Unit

    9. 7/10

  9. Blood in Our Wells -- Drudkh
  10. Settle Down City -- Young Widows
  11. Classic Erasmus Fusion -- Volcano the Bear
  12. Beautiful Seizure -- volcano!
  13. Ships -- Danielson
  14. Hail Infernal Darkness -- Drawn and Quartered
  15. Reprisal -- KEN Mode
  16. Destroyer's Rubies -- Destroyer
  17. Our Love Will Destroy the World -- Birchville Cat Motel
  18. Hell Songs -- Daughters
  19. Hell Hath No Fury -- Clipse
  20. Blood Mountain -- Mastodon
  21. Magic Potion -- The Black Keys
  22. New Sentimentality -- toe
  23. Dog Problems -- The Format
  24. We're Up to No Good, We're Up to No Good -- Rory
  25. Peregrine -- The Appleseed Cast

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Pink -- Boris
  2. Takk... -- Sigur Rós
  3. The Book About My Idle Plot on a Vague Anxiety -- toe

    4. 8/10

  4. Frances the Mute -- The Mars Volta
  5. Illinois -- Sufjan Stevens
  6. Alligator -- The National
  7. Feels -- Animal Collective

    8. 7/10

  8. How to Raise an Ox -- Zu & Mats Gustafsson
  9. Aerial -- Kate Bush
  10. Drinking Songs -- Matt Elliott
  11. The Golden Morning Breaks -- Colleen
  12. Be -- Common
  13. Fright Makes Right -- Cough
  14. Pinkshinyultrablast -- Astrobrite
  15. The Complete Guide to Insufficiency -- David Thomas Broughton
  16. I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning -- Bright Eyes
  17. Late Registration -- Kanye West
  18. Tell Me About the Long Dark Path Home -- The Newfound Interest in Connecticut
  19. Harnessing Ruin -- Immolation
  20. Kénôse -- Deathspell Omega
  21. Juturna -- Circa Survive

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. ///Codename: Dustsucker -- Bark Psychosis

    2. 8/10

  2. Bluffer's Guide to the Flight Deck -- Flotation Toy Warning
  3. Funeral -- Arcade Fire
  4. DNA on DNA -- DNA
  5. The College Dropout -- Kanye West

    6. 7/10

  6. Archaic -- Rudimentary Peni
  7. Shibuboshi -- Shibusashirazu
  8. Return of the Black Death -- Drawn and Quartered
  9. Jesu -- Jesu
  10. Sonic Nurse -- Sonic Youth
  11. Si monvmentvm reqvires, circvmspice -- Deathspell Omega
  12. Madvillainy -- Madvillain
  13. A Ghost Is Born -- Wilco
  14. Panopticon -- Isis
  15. Catch for Us the Foxes -- mewithoutYou
  16. Leviathan -- Mastodon
  17. We Live -- Electric Wizard
  18. Medúlla -- Björk
  19. Pollyanna -- Northstar
  20. Good News for People Who Love Bad News -- Modest Mouse
  21. Rubber Factory -- The Black Keys

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    10/10

  1. Ghosts of the Great Highway -- Sun Kil Moon
  2. The Disintegration Loops III -- William Basinski

    3. 9/10

  3. Mount Eerie -- The Microphones
  4. The Magnolia Electric Co. -- Songs: Ohia

    5. 8/10

  5. Vaudeville Villain -- Viktor Vaughn
  6. Pulling Our Weight -- The Radio Dept.
  7. Things Viral -- Khanate
  8. Dopesmoker -- Sleep
  9. Deja Entendu -- Brand New
  10. The Disintegration Loops II -- William Basinski

    11. 7/10

  11. Boris at Last -Feedbacker- -- Boris
  12. Happy Songs for Happy People -- Mogwai
  13. Black Eyes -- Black Eyes
  14. Choirs of the Eye -- Kayo Dot
  15. Transatlanticism -- Death Cab for Cutie
  16. The Disintegration Loops IV -- William Basinski
  17. Akuma no uta -- Boris
  18. De-Loused in the Comatorium -- The Mars Volta
  19. Coma Waering -- The Angelic Process
  20. A Special Album -- Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band
  21. velocity : design : comfort. -- Sweet Trip
  22. War All the Time -- Thursday
  23. Hail to the Thief -- Radiohead
  24. Make Yourself Sick -- Boys Night Out
  25. 6 -- Supersilent
  26. Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers -- The National
  27. The Room's Too Cold -- The Early November
  28. Nervous Cop -- Nervous Cop
  29. Two Conversations -- The Appleseed Cast
  30. Interventions and Lullabies -- The Format
  31. Everything Goes Numb -- Streetlight Manifesto
  32. It Won't Snow Where You're Going -- Park
  33. Give Up -- The Postal Service

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. ( ) -- Sigur Rós
  2. The Disintegration Loops -- William Basinski

    3. 8/10

  3. Mclusky Do Dallas -- Mclusky
  4. Hold Your Horse Is -- Hella
  5. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot -- Wilco
  6. Unholy Cult -- Immolation
  7. Yanqui U.X.O. -- Godspeed You! Black Emperor

    8. 7/10

  8. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots -- The Flaming Lips
  9. You Forgot It In People -- Broken Social Scene
  10. Didn't It Rain -- Songs: Ohia
  11. Songs About Leaving -- Carissa's Wierd
  12. Sadness Will Prevail -- Today Is the Day
  13. Remission -- Mastodon
  14. Oceanic -- Isis
  15. Let Us Prey -- Electric Wizard
  16. [A-->B] Life -- mewithoutYou
  17. Turn On the Bright Lights -- Interpol
  18. Songs for the Deaf -- Queens of the Stone Age
  19. Is This Thing Loaded? -- Northstar
  20. Lifted, or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground -- Bright Eyes
  21. Heathen -- David Bowie

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    10/10

  1. Vespertine -- Björk
  2. The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording -- John Coltrane

    3. 9/10

  3. The Argument -- Fugazi
  4. Amnesiac -- Radiohead

    5. 8/10

  5. The Glow, Pt. 2 -- The Microphones
  6. Leaves Turn Inside You -- Unwound
  7. She Knows... -- The Thing with Joe McPhee
  8. Renegade Heaven -- Bang On a Can All-Stars
  9. Nivraym -- Koenji Hyakkei
  10. Full Collapse -- Thursday

    11. 7/10

  11. Endless Summer -- Fennesz
  12. Bob Dinners & Larry Noodles Present Tubby Turdner's Celebrity Avalanche -- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
  13. Khanate -- Khanate
  14. Bath -- maudlin of the Well
  15. drukqs -- Aphex Twin
  16. Low Level Owl, Volume I -- The Appleseed Cast
  17. Ancient Melodies of the Future -- Built to Spill
  18. From Wisdom to Hate -- Gorguts
  19. How I Loved You -- The Angels of Light
  20. Stay What You Are -- Saves the Day
  21. A Better Version of Me -- Rainer Maria
  22. From Here to Infirmary -- Alkaline Trio
  23. Toxicity -- System of a Down
  24. Hymns -- Godflesh

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    10/10

  1. Kid A -- Radiohead
  2. Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! -- Godspeed You! Black Emperor

    3. 9/10

  3. Whatever You Love, You Are -- Dirty Three

    4. 8/10

  4. Ghost Tropic -- Songs: Ohia
  5. The Moon & Antarctica -- Modest Mouse
  6. Mare Vitalis -- The Appleseed Cast
  7. Close to a World Below -- Immolation
  8. No Kill No Beep Beep -- Q and Not U
  9. Dopethrone -- Electric Wizard
  10. The For Carnation -- The For Carnation
  11. Dead as Dreams -- Weakling

    12. 7/10

  12. Flood -- Boris
  13. Surrendered -- David S. Ware
  14. Relationship of Command -- At the Drive-In
  15. NYC Ghosts & Flowers -- Sonic Youth
  16. And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out -- Yo La Tengo
  17. Ezarian -- Lisabö
  18. Ramadan -- ee
  19. He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms... -- Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra
  20. Maybe I'll Catch Fire -- Alkaline Trio
  21. Fevers & Mirrors -- Bright Eyes
  22. Rated R -- Queens of the Stone Age
  23. Nixon -- Lambchop
  24. Alkaline Trio -- Alkaline Trio
  25. The Marshall Mathers LP -- Eminem
  26. Since I Left You -- The Avalanches

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    10/10

  1. American Football -- American Football

    2. 9/10

    8/10

  2. Don't Wake Me Up -- Microphones
  3. The Soft Bulletin -- The Flaming Lips
  4. Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada -- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  5. Failures for Gods -- Immolation
  6. Ágætis byrjun-- Sigur Rós
  7. Through Being Cool -- Saves the Day

    8. 7/10

  8. Paysage d'Hiver -- Paysage d'Hiver
  9. Calculating Infinity -- The Dillinger Escape Plan
  10. Pinback -- Pinback
  11. Make It It -- The Wicked Farleys
  12. Ponyoak -- Kleenex Girl Wonder
  13. The Fragile -- Nine Inch Nails
  14. Musick to Play in the Dark -- Coil
  15. Look Now Look Again -- Rainer Maria
  16. Keep It Like a Secret -- Built to Spill
  17. Live in Chicago, 1999 -- Joan of Arc
  18. Uterus and Fire -- Old Time Relijun
  19. In the Eyes of God -- Today Is the Day
  20. Come On Die Young -- Mogwai
  21. First Come, First Served -- Dr. Dooom
  22. Times of Grace -- Neurosis
  23. Under Glass -- Hash Jar Tempo
  24. No Division -- Hot Water Music
  25. New Mother -- The Angels of Light
  26. The Slim Shady LP -- Eminem
  27. Something to Write Home About -- The Get Up Kids

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Swans Are Dead -- Swans
  2. Obscura -- Gorguts

    3. 8/10

  3. End Hits -- Fugazi
  4. What Burns Never Returns -- Don Caballero
  5. Deserter's Songs -- Mercury Rev
  6. Cold River Songs -- Bodychoke
  7. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea -- Neutral Milk Hotel
  8. The Shape of Punk to Come -- Refused
  9. Moon Pix -- Cat Power
  10. Ocean Songs -- Dirty Three
  11. Number One of Three -- The Body Lovers
  12. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill -- Lauryn Hill

    13. 7/10

  13. How It Feels to Be Something On -- Sunny Day Real Estate
  14. Challenge for a Civilized Society -- Unwound
  15. Goddamnit -- Alkaline Trio
  16. XO -- Elliott Smith
  17. A Thousand Leaves -- Sonic Youth
  18. Frame & Canvas -- Braid
  19. Conglomerate International -- Frodus
  20. EndSerenading -- Mineral
  21. The Sound of Perseverance -- Death
  22. This Is Hardcore -- Pulp
  23. Water & Solutions -- Far

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    10/10

  1. Consume Red -- Ground-Zero
  2. The Lonesome Crowded West -- Modest Mouse

    3. 9/10

  3. OK Computer -- Radiohead
  4. Homogenic -- Björk

    5. 8/10

  5. Perfect from Now On -- Built to Spill
  6. Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space -- Spiritualized
  7. Everyone Asked About You -- Everyone Asked About You
  8. F♯A♯∞ -- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  9. Plays Standards -- Ground-Zero

    10. 7/10

  10. Hide Here Forever -- Strictly Ballroom
  11. Chiastic Slide -- Autechre
  12. Mogwai Young Team -- Mogwai
  13. I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One -- Yo La Tengo
  14. Temple of the Morning Star -- Today Is the Day
  15. Beautiful Charade -- Camber
  16. Come My Fanatics... -- Electric Wizard
  17. Either/Or -- Elliott Smith
  18. The Power of Failing -- Mineral
  19. Eight Hours Away From Being a Man -- Roadside Monument
  20. Portishead -- Portishead
  21. Sol Niger Within -- Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects
  22. Jersey's Best Dancers -- Lifetime
  23. Kelvingrove Baby -- The Bathers
  24. Nothing Feels Good -- The Promise Ring

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Filosofem -- Burzum
  2. This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About -- Modest Mouse
  3. Made Available: John Peel Sessions -- This Heat

    4. 8/10

  4. Soundtracks for the Blind -- Swans
  5. Stereo -- Christie Front Drive
  6. Repetition -- Unwound
  7. Oblations and Blessings -- David S. Ware
  8. Horse Stories -- Dirty Three
  9. None So Vile -- Cryptopsy
  10. Endtroducing... -- DJ Shadow

    11. 7/10

  11. Long Season -- Fishmans
  12. Today Is the Day -- Today Is the Day
  13. Through Silver in Blood -- Neurosis
  14. Marshmallows -- The For Carnation
  15. Die Tür ist zu -- Swans
  16. I Hope It Lands -- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
  17. (Revolutionary Pekinese Opera) Ver.1.28 -- Ground-Zero
  18. Interstate 8 -- Modest Mouse
  19. Richard D. James Album -- Aphex Twin
  20. Being There -- Wilco
  21. February / M.D. -- Mineral
  22. Excerpts from a Love Circus -- Lisa Germano
  23. Stealing From Our Favorite Thieves -- The Van Pelt
  24. Here in After -- Immolation
  25. Valentino -- Long Fin Killie
  26. Pinkerton -- Weezer

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    10/10

  1. Written in Waters -- Ved Buens Ende.....

    2. 9/10

  2. The Infamous -- Mobb Deep

    3. 8/10

  3. Liquid Swords -- Genius/GZA
  4. Symbolic -- Death
  5. Red Medicine -- Fugazi
  6. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness -- The Smashing Pumpkins
  7. Washing Machine -- Sonic Youth
  8. Stellar Regions -- John Coltrane
  9. 1. Outside -- David Bowie

    10. 7/10

  10. Don Caballero 2 -- Don Caballero
  11. The Great Annihilator -- Swans
  12. Ocean Beach -- Red House Painters
  13. The Future of What -- Unwound
  14. Pierced from Within -- Suffocation
  15. Long Division -- Low
  16. Electric Wizard -- Electric Wizard
  17. Post -- Björk
  18. The Bends -- Radiohead
  19. Bergtatt: Et eeventyr i 5 capitler -- Ulver
  20. Castor -- Castor
  21. Storm of the Light's Bane -- Dissection

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    10/10

  1. Yank Crime -- Drive Like Jehu

    2. 9/10

    8/10

  2. Those Who Caress the Pale -- Ved Buens Ende.....
  3. Willpower -- Today Is the Day
  4. Dummy -- Portishead
  5. De mysteriis dom sathanas -- Mayhem
  6. Welcome to Sky Valley -- Kyuss
  7. Diary -- Sunny Day Real Estate
  8. I Could Live in Hope -- Low

    9. 7/10

  9. Rusty -- Rodan
  10. Selected Ambient Works Volume II -- Aphex Twin
  11. There's Nothing Wrong With Love -- Built to Spill
  12. New Plastic Ideas -- Unwound
  13. Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star -- Sonic Youth
  14. The Funeral Pudding -- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
  15. Phantasies and Senseitions -- Bügsküll
  16. Selfless -- Godflesh
  17. Strangers from the Universe -- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
  18. Hvis lyset tar oss -- Burzum
  19. Christie Front Drive -- Christie Front Drive
  20. Human = Garbage -- Dystopia
  21. The Sea and Cake -- The Sea and Cake
  22. Weezer [The Blue Album] -- Weezer
  23. Ready to Die -- The Notorious B.I.G.
  24. Merciless -- Godflesh

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) -- Wu-Tang Clan
  2. Fake Train -- Unwound
  3. Souvlaki -- Slowdive
  4. In utero -- Nirvana

    5. 8/10

  5. The Problem With Me -- Seam
  6. Debut -- Björk
  7. Nespithe -- Demilich
  8. Siamese Dream -- The Smashing Pumpkins

    9. 7/10

  9. Ask Questions Later -- Cop Shoot Cop
  10. Painful -- Yo La Tengo
  11. Cure for Pain -- Morphine
  12. Red House Painters [Rollercoaster] -- Red House Painters
  13. Tindersticks -- Tindersticks
  14. Transcendence Into the Peripheral -- diSEMBOWELMENT
  15. Admonishing the Bishops -- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
  16. In On the Kill Taker -- Fugazi
  17. Repeat -- This Heat
  18. Spheres -- Pestilence
  19. Ground Zero -- Ground-Zero
  20. Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version -- Earth
  21. The Erosion of Sanity -- Gorguts
  22. Supernova -- Today Is the Day
  23. Individual Thought Patterns -- Death

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    10/10

  1. Down Colorful Hill -- Red House Painters
  2. Willisau (Quartet) 1991 -- Anthony Braxton

    3. 9/10

  3. Leng tch'e -- Naked City

    4. 8/10

  4. Liar -- The Jesus Lizard
  5. Shadow Weaver -- The Legendary Pink Dots
  6. Theoria -- Barry Guy London Jazz Composers Orchestra feat. Irène Schweizer
  7. Thunder Perfect Mind -- Nurse With Wound
  8. Fontanelle -- Babes in Toyland
  9. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me -- Angelo Badalamenti

    10. 7/10

  10. Lysol -- Melvins
  11. Good -- Morphine
  12. The Red in the Sky Is Ours -- At the Gates
  13. Lazer Guided Melodies -- Spiritualized
  14. Onward to Golgotha -- Incantation
  15. Slumber of Sullen Eyes -- Demigod
  16. Love of Life -- Swans
  17. Sleep's Holy Mountain -- Sleep
  18. This Is Not a Dream -- Dadamah
  19. Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde -- The Pharcyde
  20. Dawn of Dreams -- Pan.Thy.Monium
  21. Epidemic of Violence -- Demolition Hammer
  22. A Blaze in the Northern Sky -- Darkthrone
  23. Whut? Thee Album -- Redman
  24. Dry -- PJ Harvey
  25. Pure -- Godflesh
  26. Burzum -- Burzum
  27. Blues for the Red Sun -- Kyuss
  28. Wish -- The Cure

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    10/10

  1. Spiderland -- Slint
  2. Laughing Stock -- Talk Talk

    3. 9/10

    8/10

  3. Loveless -- My Bloody Valentine
  4. Dim the Lights, Chill the Ham -- Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
  5. Goat -- The Jesus Lizard
  6. Mental Blocks for All Ages -- Dog Faced Hermans
  7. Tremolo -- My Bloody Valentine
  8. Unquestionable Presence -- Atheist
  9. Human -- Death

    10. 7/10

  10. White Noise -- Cop Shoot Cop
  11. Ask the Ages -- Sonny Sharrock
  12. Just for a Day -- Slowdive
  13. April Is the Cruellest Month -- Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit
  14. Drive Like Jehu -- Drive Like Jehu
  15. Nevermind -- Nirvana
  16. Steady Diet of Nothing -- Fugazi
  17. Great Bliss, Vol. 2 -- David S. Ware Quartet
  18. Testimony of the Ancients -- Pestilence
  19. Yerself Is Steam -- Mercury Rev
  20. Body to Body, Job to Job -- Swans
  21. Great Bliss, Vol. 1 -- David S. Ware Quartet
  22. Contradictions Collapse -- Meshuggah
  23. On the Way Down from the Moon Palace -- Lisa Germano
  24. Mental Funeral -- Autopsy
  25. Gish -- The Smashing Pumpkins
  26. White Light from the Mouth of Infinity -- Swans
  27. Slavestate -- Godflesh

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Repeater -- Fugazi
  2. Naked City -- John Zorn [Naked City]

    3. 8/10

  3. Goo -- Sonic Youth
  4. Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic -- The Sundays
  5. Consumer Revolt -- Cop Shoot Cop
  6. Frizzle Fry -- Primus
  7. Rust in Peace -- Megadeth

    8. 7/10

  8. Nowhere -- Ride
  9. Head -- The Jesus Lizard
  10. Frigid Stars -- Codeine
  11. Born in Blood -- Pain Teens
  12. Danzig II: Lucifuge -- Danzig
  13. She Hangs Brightly -- Mazzy Star
  14. In the Marshes -- For Against
  15. Soundtrack from Twin Peaks -- Angelo Badalamenti
  16. Heaven or Las Vegas -- Cocteau Twins
  17. Love Poke Here -- Ed Hall
  18. Jordan: The Comeback -- Prefab Sprout
  19. Left Hand Path -- Entombed

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Disintegration -- The Cure
  2. Streetcleaner -- Godflesh

    3. 8/10

  3. Floating Into the Night -- Julee Cruise
  4. 13 Songs -- Fugazi
  5. Pure -- The Jesus Lizard
  6. Griller -- UT

    7. 7/10

  7. Severed Survival -- Autopsy
  8. On Fire -- Galaxie 500
  9. Altars of Madness -- Morbid Angel
  10. Nothingface -- Voivod
  11. Tweez -- Slint
  12. Bizarro -- The Wedding Present
  13. Symphony No. 6 (Devil Choirs at the Gates of Heaven) -- Glenn Branca
  14. Doolittle -- Pixies
  15. The Stone Roses -- The Stone Roses
  16. Snowball -- The Field Mice
  17. Technique -- New Order

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    10/10

  1. Today -- Galaxie 500

    2. 9/10

  2. Spirit of Eden -- Talk Talk
  3. Daydream Nation -- Sonic Youth

    4. 8/10

  4. Picture One -- Asylum Party
  5. Godflesh -- Godflesh

    6. 7/10

  6. The Tribe -- Caspar Brötzmann Massaker
  7. You Made Me Realise -- My Bloody Valentine
  8. Let's Skip the Details -- My Dad Is Dead
  9. Wormed by Leonard -- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
  10. Dancing to Restore an Eclipsed Moon -- Red Temple Spirits
  11. Undertow -- Blind Idiot God
  12. Isn't Anything -- My Bloody Valentine
  13. Africa -- Pharoah Sanders, John Hicks, Curtis Lundy & Idris Muhammed
  14. Cacophony -- Rudimentary Peni
  15. Leprosy -- Death
  16. Soliloquy for Lilith -- Nurse With Wound
  17. Malcolm X Park -- Unrest
  18. Starfish -- The Church
  19. Introspective -- Pet Shop Boys

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Sister -- Sonic Youth

    2. 8/10

  2. Strangeways, Here We Come -- The Smiths
  3. In Gut's House -- UT
  4. Children of God -- Swans

    5. 7/10

  5. The Walking -- Jane Siberry
  6. Ur Kaos -- Ur Kaos
  7. Blind Idiot God -- Blind Idiot God
  8. White-Out Conditions -- Bel Canto
  9. Floodland -- The Sisters of Mercy
  10. Seize the Rainbow -- Sonny Sharrock Band
  11. Fünf auf der nach oben offenen Richterskala -- Einstürzende Neubauten
  12. Psonic Psunspot -- The Dukes of Stratosphear
  13. Pleased to Meet Me -- The Replacements
  14. Drum -- Hugo Largo
  15. Merry Go Round -- Laughing Hyenas
  16. Come On Pilgrim -- Pixies
  17. Ruins II -- Ruins
  18. Killing Technology -- Voivod
  19. Locust Abortion Technician -- Butthole Surfers
  20. Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me -- The Cure
  21. Warehouse: Songs and Stories -- Hüsker Dü
  22. Within the Realm of a Dying Sun -- Dead Can Dance

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    10/10

  1. The Queen Is Dead -- The Smiths

    2. 9/10

  2. Rembrandt Pussyhorse -- Butthole Surfers

    3. 8/10

  3. Atomizer -- Big Black
  4. Public Castration Is a Good Idea -- Swans
  5. The Colour of Spring -- Talk Talk
  6. Brotherhood -- New Order
  7. Conviction -- UT

    8. 7/10

  8. EVOL -- Sonic Youth
  9. Morbid Visions -- Sepultura
  10. The Ghost Trade -- Camberwell Now
  11. Holy Money -- Swans
  12. Peace Sells...But Who's Buying? -- Megadeth
  13. Epicus Doomicus Metallicus -- Candlemass
  14. Song X -- Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman
  15. Twitch -- Ministry
  16. Greed -- Swans
  17. Master of Puppets -- Metallica
  18. Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express -- The Go-Betweens

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    10/10

  1. Bad Moon Rising -- Sonic Youth

    2. 9/10

    8/10

  2. Confidential -- UT
  3. The Head On the Door -- The Cure
  4. Hounds of Love -- Kate Bush
  5. Low-Life -- New Order

    6. 7/10

  6. Tim -- The Replacements
  7. Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good! -- Megadeth
  8. Meat Is Murder -- The Smiths
  9. Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants) -- Cecil Taylor Segments II
  10. New Day Rising -- Hüsker Dü
  11. Telephone Free Landslide Victory -- Camper Van Beethoven
  12. This Is the Sea -- The Waterboys
  13. Spleen and Ideal -- Dead Can Dance
  14. What Does Anything Mean? Basically -- The Chameleons

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Hatful of Hollow -- The Smiths

    2. 8/10

  2. Cop -- Swans
  3. From Her to Eternity -- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
  4. UT -- UT
  5. Tabula rasa -- Arvo Pärt
  6. Broadcasting From Home -- Penguin Café Orchestra
  7. The Smiths -- The Smiths
  8. Double Nickels on the Dime -- Minutemen
  9. Treasure -- Cocteau Twins

    10. 7/10

  10. Moving -- The Raincoats
  11. Let It Be -- The Replacements
  12. The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall -- The Fall
  13. Beating the Retreat -- Test Dept
  14. Micro-Phonies -- Cabaret Voltaire
  15. Zen Arcade -- Hüsker Dü
  16. Step Forward -- Portion Control
  17. Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac -- Butthole Surfers
  18. Purple Rain -- Prince and The Revolution

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    10/10

  1. Filth -- Swans

    2. 9/10

    8/10

  2. Prehistory -- Circle X
  3. Confusion Is Sex -- Sonic Youth
  4. Power, Corruption and Lies -- New Order
  5. Symphony No. 1 (Tonal Plexus) -- Glenn Branca

    6. 7/10

  6. Title in Limbo -- The Residents & Renaldo and The Loaf
  7. Perverted by Language -- The Fall
  8. What Makes a Man Start Fires? -- Minutemen
  9. Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T. -- Einstürzende Neubauten
  10. Violent Femmes -- Violent Femmes
  11. Transition -- Peter Michael Hamel
  12. Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks -- Brian Eno with Daniel Lanois & Roger Eno
  13. Let's Dance -- David Bowie
  14. Head Over Heels -- Cocteau Twins
  15. Speaking in Tongues -- Talking Heads
  16. The Art of Falling Apart -- Soft Cell

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    10/10

    9/10

    8/10

  1. Urban Bushmen -- Art Ensemble of Chicago
  2. Swans -- Swans
  3. Sonic Youth -- Sonic Youth
  4. Pornography -- The Cure
  5. Hex Enduction Hour -- The Fall
  6. Broken Shadows -- Ornette Coleman

    7. 7/10

  7. Seven Songs -- 23 Skidoo
  8. Vs. -- Mission of Burma
  9. Ice Cream for Crow -- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
  10. Leichenschrei -- SPK
  11. Ambient 4: On Land -- Brian Eno
  12. Philharmony -- Haruomi Hosono
  13. Room to Live (Undilutable Slang Truth!) -- The Fall
  14. New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) -- Simple Minds
  15. Ike Yard -- Ike Yard
  16. Nebraska -- Bruce Springsteen
  17. Perspective -- P-Model
  18. Big Science -- Laurie Anderson
  19. Miami -- The Gun Club
  20. You Can't Hide Your Love Forever -- Orange Juice

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    10/10

  1. Deceit -- This Heat
  2. The Ascension -- Glenn Branca
  3. Playing With a Different Sex -- Au Pairs

    4. 9/10

    8/10

  4. Odyshape -- The Raincoats
  5. Killing Time -- Massacre
  6. Circus Mort -- Circus Mort
  7. Movement -- New Order
  8. The Seduction -- Ludus

    9. 7/10

  9. Coffin for Head of State -- Fela
  10. Fire of Love -- The Gun Club
  11. Mark of the Mole -- The Residents
  12. Three Quartets -- Chick Corea
  13. Penguin Café Orchestra -- Penguin Café Orchestra
  14. Signals, Calls, and Marches -- Mission of Burma
  15. Architecture & Morality -- Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
  16. Faith -- The Cure
  17. Directions -- Miles Davis
  18. Still -- Joy Division
  19. Discipline -- King Crimson

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    10/10

  1. Closer -- Joy Division

    2. 9/10

  2. Remain in Light -- Talking Heads
  3. The River -- Bruce Springsteen
  4. For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder? -- The Pop Group
  5. Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror -- Harold Budd & Brian Eno

    6. 8/10

  6. Strange Celestial Road -- Sun Ra
  7. Crazy Rhythms -- The Feelies
  8. A-Z -- Colin Newman
  9. Jane from Occupied Europe -- Swell Maps
  10. The Visit -- Ludus

    11. 7/10

  11. Colossal Youth -- Young Marble Giants
  12. In the Flat Field -- Bauhaus
  13. Red Exposure -- Chrome
  14. Doc at the Radar Station -- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
  15. Contrasts -- Sam Rivers
  16. Special Edition -- Jack DeJohnette
  17. Digital Stimulation -- The Units
  18. Colours of Time -- Peter Michael Hamel
  19. Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) -- David Bowie
  20. Killing Joke -- Killing Joke
  21. Bass Culture -- Linton Kwesi Johnson
  22. The Hilversum Session -- Albert Ayler
  23. Never for Ever -- Kate Bush

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. This Heat -- This Heat

    2. 8/10

  2. Rust Never Sleeps -- Neil Young & Crazy Horse
  3. Lodger -- David Bowie
  4. Unknown Pleasures -- Joy Division
  5. Y -- The Pop Group
  6. Eskimo -- The Residents
  7. Birth of a Being -- David S. Ware
  8. Teenage Jesus & The Jerks -- Teenage Jesus & The Jerks

    9. 7/10

  9. Entertainment! -- Gang of Four
  10. Stand By -- Heldon
  11. Cut -- The Slits
  12. New Picnic Time -- Pere Ubu
  13. Live at the Witch Trials -- The Fall
  14. The Graveyard and the Ballroom -- A Certain Ratio
  15. The Raincoats -- The Raincoats
  16. Circle in the Found -- Pere Ubu
  17. Read Only Memory -- Chrome
  18. Fear of Music -- Talking Heads

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    10/10

  1. The Modern Dance -- Pere Ubu

    2. 9/10

    8/10

  2. Yellow Magic Orchestra -- Yellow Magic Orchestra
  3. Ducks Stab / Buster & Glen -- The Residents
  4. Alabama Feeling -- Arthur Doyle Plus 4
  5. Darkness on the Edge of Town -- Bruce Springsteen
  6. Music for 18 Musicians -- Steve Reich
  7. Not Available -- The Residents

    8. 7/10

  8. Dub Housing -- Pere Ubu
  9. Chairs Missing -- Wire
  10. No New York -- Contortions; Teenage Jesus & The Jerks; Mars; D.N.A.
  11. Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) -- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
  12. Body Meta -- Ornette Coleman
  13. Vernal Equinox -- Jon Hassell
  14. Ambient 1: Music for Airports -- Brian Eno
  15. The Kick Inside -- Kate Bush
  16. More Songs About Buildings and Food -- Talking Heads
  17. T.V.O.D. / Warm Leatherette -- The Normal

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    10/10

  1. Low -- David Bowie

    2. 9/10

  2. Marquee Moon -- Television

    3. 8/10

  3. Pink Flag -- Wire
  4. Dialoghi del presente -- Luciano Cilio
  5. Pharoah -- Pharoah Sanders
  6. Alien Soundtracks -- Chrome
  7. First Meditations (For Quartet) -- John Coltrane
  8. Lust for Life -- Iggy Pop
  9. "Heroes" -- David Bowie
  10. Dancing in Your Head -- Ornette Coleman

    11. 7/10

  11. Paragon -- Sam Rivers
  12. Zombie -- Fela Kuti & Afrika 70
  13. Animals -- Pink Floyd
  14. Before and After Science -- Brian Eno
  15. Ultravox! -- Ultravox!
  16. Implosions -- Stephan Micus
  17. Talking Heads: 77 -- Talking Heads
  18. The Idiot -- Iggy Pop
  19. Rumors -- Fleetwood Mac

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    10/10

  1. Station to Station -- David Bowie

    2. 9/10

    8/10

  2. Radio Ethiopia -- Patti Smith
  3. The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse -- Duke Ellington

    4. 7/10

  4. Desire -- Bob Dylan
  5. Mother Earth's Plantasia -- Mort Garson
  6. Third Reich 'n Roll -- The Residents
  7. Balladyna -- Tomasz Stanko
  8. Music from the Penguin Café -- Penguin Café Orchestra
  9. The Modern Lovers -- The Modern Lovers
  10. Moonmadness -- Camel
  11. Black Market -- Weather Report
  12. Water Babies -- Miles Davis
  13. Songs in the Key of Life -- Stevie Wonder

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Wish You Were Here -- Pink Floyd
  2. Blood on the Tracks -- Bob Dylan

    3. 8/10

  3. Born to Run -- Bruce Springsteen
  4. Expensive Shit -- Fela Kuti & Africa 70

    5. 7/10

  5. Another Green World -- Brian Eno
  6. Zuma -- Neil Young with Crazy Horse
  7. Neu! '75 -- Neu!
  8. Brown Rice -- Don Cherry
  9. In Praise of Learning -- Henry Cow
  10. Das Hohelied Salomos -- Popol Vuh
  11. Evening Star -- Fripp & Eno
  12. Fleetwood Mac -- Fleetwood Mac

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    10/10

  1. Red -- King Crimson

    2. 9/10

  2. Meet the Residents -- The Residents

    3. 8/10

  3. Interstellar Space -- John Coltrane
  4. Crystals -- Sam Rivers
  5. Get Up With It -- Miles Davis
  6. Autobahn -- Kraftwerk
  7. Love in Us All -- Pharoah Sanders
  8. Big Fun -- Miles Davis
  9. The Africa Brass Sessions, Vol. 2 -- John Coltrane

    10. 7/10

  10. On the Beach -- Neil Young
  11. Mirage -- Camel
  12. Soon Over Babaluma -- Can
  13. Here Come the Warm Jets -- Brian Eno
  14. Starless and Bible Black -- King Crimson
  15. Diamond Dogs -- David Bowie
  16. Radio City -- Big Star
  17. Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) -- Brian Eno

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Fare Forward Voyagers (Soldier's Choice) -- John Fahey
  2. Larks' Tongues in Aspic -- King Crimson
  3. Future Days -- CAN
  4. Izipho Zam (My Gifts) -- Pharoah Sanders

    5. 8/10

  5. Faust IV -- Faust
  6. Pakistani Pomade -- Alexander von Schlippenbach Trio
  7. Space Is the Place -- Sun Ra
  8. A.R. IV -- A.R. & Machines
  9. The Ear of the Behearer -- Dewey Redman
  10. The Wild, the Innocent, & the E Street Shuffle -- Bruce Springsteen
  11. Conference of the Birds -- David Holland Quartet

    12. 7/10

  12. The Faust Tapes -- Faust
  13. Houses of the Holy -- Led Zeppelin
  14. The Henry Cow Legend -- Henry Cow
  15. Aladdin Sane -- David Bowie
  16. AR3 -- A.R. & Machines
  17. Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. -- Bruce Springsteen
  18. Head Hunters -- Herbie Hancock
  19. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath -- Black Sabbath
  20. Lawrence of Newark -- Larry Young
  21. Dark Side of the Moon -- Pink Floyd
  22. Let's Get It On -- Marvin Gaye
  23. Innervisions -- Stevie Wonder
  24. Closing Time -- Tom Waits
  25. For Your Pleasure -- Roxy Music

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    10/10

  1. Ege Bamyasi -- CAN

    2. 9/10

  2. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars -- David Bowie
  3. Pink Moon -- Nick Drake

    4. 8/10

  4. Let My Children Hear Music -- Charles Mingus
  5. Close to the Edge -- Yes
  6. Echo -- A.R. & Machines
  7. On the Corner -- Miles Davis
  8. So Far -- Faust
  9. Infinity-- John Coltrane

    10. 7/10

  10. The Academy in Peril-- John Cale
  11. Science Fiction -- Ornette Coleman
  12. Hosianna Mantra-- Popol Vuh
  13. Sahara -- McCoy Tyner
  14. Transformer -- Lou Reed
  15. Black Unity -- Pharoah Sanders
  16. The Grand Wazoo -- The Mothers of Invention
  17. The Black Ark -- Noah Howard
  18. The Spotlight Kid -- Captain Beefheart
  19. Superfly -- Curtis Mayfield
  20. Clube da Esquina -- Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges
  21. Machine Head -- Deep Purple
  22. Saint Dominic's Preview -- Van Morrison

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    10/10

  1. Faust -- Faust
  2. Mirror Man -- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

    3. 9/10

  3. Die grüne Reise - The Green Journey -- A.R. & Machines
  4. First Utterance -- Comus
  5. In den Gärten Pharaos -- Popol Vuh
  6. Hunky Dory -- David Bowie

    7. 8/10

  7. Islands -- King Crimson
  8. Tago Mago -- CAN
  9. Journey in Satchidananda -- Alice Coltrane & Pharoah Sanders
  10. Pawn Hearts -- Van der Graaf Generator
  11. Universal Consciousness -- Alice Coltrane
  12. Sun Ship -- John Coltrane
  13. Meddle -- Pink Floyd
  14. Twins -- Ornette Coleman

    15. 7/10

  15. Music to Eat -- Hampton Grease Band
  16. Thembi -- Pharoah Sanders
  17. Fourth -- Soft Machine
  18. Chruch of Anthrax -- John Cale & Terry Riley
  19. A Tribute to Jack Johnson -- Miles Davis
  20. Fragile -- Yes
  21. What's Going On -- Marvin Gaye
  22. Love Call -- Ornette Coleman
  23. Bryter Layter -- Nick Drake
  24. Songs of Love and Hate -- Leonard Cohen
  25. The Call -- Mal Waldron, Jimmy Jackson, Eberhard Weber & Fred Braceful
  26. Tupelo Honey -- Van Morrison
  27. Led Zeppelin IV -- Led Zeppelin
  28. Sticky Fingers -- The Rolling Stones

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    10/10

  1. Bitches Brew -- Miles Davis
  2. Starsailor -- Tim Buckley
  3. Exuma -- Exuma

    4. 9/10

  4. Yeti -- Amon Düül II
  5. Exuma II -- Exuma
  6. Lorca -- Tim Buckley
  7. For Alto -- Anthony Braxton

    8. 8/10

  8. Third -- Soft Machine
  9. "mu" Second Part -- Don Cherry
  10. The Topography of the Lungs -- Evan Parker, Derek Bailey & Han Bennink
  11. In the Wake of Poseidon -- King Crimson
  12. Monkey-Pockey-Boo -- Sonny Sharrock
  13. Lizard -- King Crimson
  14. Moondance -- Van Morrison

    15. 7/10

  15. Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun) -- Pharoah Sanders
  16. Third Ear Band [Elements] -- Third Ear Band
  17. Transition -- John Coltrane
  18. Paranoid -- Black Sabbath
  19. Lick My Decals Off, Baby -- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
  20. Les stances à Sophie -- Art Ensemble of Chicago
  21. Soundtracks -- CAN
  22. Affenstunde -- Popol Vuh
  23. After the Gold Rush -- Neil Young
  24. Burnt Weeny Sandwich -- The Mothers of Invention
  25. Jewels of Thought -- Pharoah Sanders
  26. Cosmo's Factory -- Creedence Clearwater Revival
  27. Parallelograms -- Linda Perhacs
  28. Music for K -- Tomasz Stańko Quartet
  29. Loaded -- The Velvet Underground
  30. The Man Who Sold the World-- David Bowie
  31. Black Sabbath -- Black Sabbath
  32. Led Zeppelin III -- Led Zeppelin

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    10/10

  1. In a Silent Way -- Miles Davis
  2. Uncle Meat -- The Mothers of Invention
  3. "mu" First Part -- Don Cherry

    4. 9/10

  4. In the Court of the Crimson King -- King Crimson
  5. Black Woman -- Sonny Sharrock
  6. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere -- Neil Young
  7. Abbey Road -- The Beatles
  8. Porto Novo -- Marion Brown

    9. 8/10

  9. Trout Mask Replica -- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
  10. Happy Sad -- Tim Buckley
  11. Townes Van Zandt -- Townes Van Zandt
  12. The Living Music -- Alexander von Schlippenbach
  13. Phallus Dei -- Amon Düül II
  14. Nipples -- The Peter Brötzmann Sextext
  15. Valentyne Suite -- Colosseum
  16. Our Mother the Mountain -- Townes Van Zandt
  17. The Velvet Underground -- The Velvet Underground
  18. Karma -- Pharoah Sanders
  19. Arthur (or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) -- The Kinks
  20. Five Leaves Left -- Nick Drake

    21. 7/10

  21. Venus in Cancer -- Robbie Basho
  22. Volume Two -- The Soft Machine
  23. Let It Bleed -- The Rolling Stones
  24. Filles de Kilimanjaro -- Miles Davis
  25. Scott 4 -- Scott Walker
  26. Led Zeppelin II -- Led Zeppelin
  27. Gal Costa -- Gal Costa
  28. Hot Rats -- Frank Zappa
  29. Led Zeppelin -- Led Zeppelin
  30. Scott 3 -- Scott Walker

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    10/10

  1. Odessey and Oracle -- The Zombies

    2. 9/10

  2. Astral Weeks -- Van Morrison
  3. The Village Green Preservation Society -- The Kinks
  4. Machine Gun -- The Peter Brötzmann Octet
  5. Om -- John Coltrane

    6. 8/10

  6. Begin -- The Millennium
  7. Silver Apples -- Silver Apples
  8. It's Not Up to Us -- Byard Lancaster
  9. White Light / White Heat -- The Velvet Underground
  10. We're Only in It for the Money -- The Mothers of Invention
  11. Nefertiti -- Miles Davis
  12. Electric Ladyland -- The Jimi Hendrix Experience

    13. 7/10

  13. Love Cry -- Albert Ayler
  14. A Saucerful of Secrets -- Pink Floyd
  15. The Marble Index -- Nico
  16. Strictly Personal -- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
  17. The Magic of Ju-Ju -- Archie Shepp
  18. Cosmic Music -- John Coltrane & Alice Coltrane
  19. In C -- Terry Riley
  20. Miles in the Sky -- Miles Davis
  21. Contact -- Silver Apples
  22. Music from Big Pink -- The Band
  23. Beggars Banquet -- The Rolling Stones
  24. The Beatles [White Album] -- The Beatles

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    10/10

  1. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn -- Pink Floyd

    2. 9/10

  2. The Parable of Arable Land -- Red Crayola
  3. Safe as Milk -- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
  4. The Velvet Underground & Nico -- The Velvet Underground & Nico

    5. 8/10

  5. Forever Changes -- Love
  6. Chappaqua Suite -- Ornette Coleman
  7. Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy -- Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra
  8. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band -- The Beatles
  9. Kulu Sé Mama -- John Coltrane
  10. Compulsion -- Andrew Hill
  11. Monument -- Hansson & Karlsson
  12. Tauhid -- Pharoah Sanders
  13. Miles Smiles -- The Miles Davis Quintet

    14. 7/10

  14. Axis: Bold as Love -- The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  15. Contours -- Sam Rivers
  16. Globe Unity -- Alexander von Schlippenbach
  17. Goodbye and Hello -- Tim Buckley
  18. Magical Mystery Tour -- The Beatles
  19. Indian War Whoop -- The Holy Modal Rounders
  20. Expression -- John Coltrane
  21. Absolutely Free -- The Mothers of Invention
  22. The Empty Foxhole -- Ornette Coleman
  23. Songs of Leonard Cohen -- Leonard Cohen
  24. Sorcerer -- Miles Davis
  25. Far East Suite -- Duke Ellington
  26. Are You Experienced -- The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  27. The Doors -- The Doors

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    10/10

  1. Meditations -- John Coltrane

    2. 9/10

  2. Pet Sounds -- The Beach Boys
  3. Ascension -- John Coltrane

    4. 8/10

  4. Unit Structures -- Cecil Taylor
  5. Revolver -- The Beatles
  6. The Avant-Garde -- John Coltrane & Don Cherry
  7. Face to Face -- The Kinks
  8. Blonde on Blonde -- Bob Dylan

    9. 7/10

  9. The Psychedelic Sounds of... -- The 13th Floor Elevators
  10. Complete Communion -- Don Cherry
  11. Freak Out! -- The Mothers of Invention
  12. Sounds of Silence -- Simon & Garfunkel
  13. Astigmatic -- Krzysztof Komeda

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    9/10

  1. Ghosts -- Albert Ayler Quartet
  2. Rubber Soul -- The Beatles

    3. 8/10

  3. A Love Supreme -- John Coltrane
  4. Spiritual Unity -- Albert Ayler
  5. The Giuseppi Logan Quartet -- The Giuseppi Logan Quartet
  6. Highway 61 Revisited -- Bob Dylan

    7. 7/10

  7. Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul -- Otis Redding
  8. The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death -- John Fahey
  9. Free for All -- Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
  10. Jackson C. Frank -- Jackson C. Frank
  11. Pastel Blues -- Nina Simone
  12. E.S.P. -- Miles Davis
  13. Bahia -- John Coltrane
  14. Bringing It All Back Home -- Bob Dylan
  15. The John Coltrane Quartet Plays -- The John Coltrane Quartet
  16. Help! -- The Beatles

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    9/10

  1. Out to Lunch! -- Eric Dolphy

    2. 8/10

  2. Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus -- Charles Mingus
  3. Empyrean Isles -- Herbie Hancock
  4. Spirits -- Albert Ayler

    5. 7/10

  5. Eastern Sounds -- Yusef Lateef
  6. Crescent -- John Coltrane Quartet
  7. Black Pearls -- John Coltrane
  8. Song for My Father -- The Horace Silver Quintet
  9. Coltrane's Sound -- John Coltrane

    10. 6/10

  10. Vol. II: Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes -- John Fahey
  11. The Times They Are A-Changin' -- Bob Dylan
  12. Evolution -- Grachan Moncur III
  13. The Sidewinder -- Lee Morgan
  14. A Hard Day's Night -- The Beatles

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  1. The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady -- Charles Mingus

    2. 9/10

    8/10

  2. Money Jungle -- Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus & Max Roach

    3. 7/10

  3. Monk's Dream -- Thelonious Monk
  4. Seven Steps to Heaven -- Miles Davis
  5. Criss-Cross -- Thelonious Monk

    6. 6/10

  6. My Name Is Albert Ayler -- Albert Ayler
  7. Samba esquema novo -- Jorge Ben
  8. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan -- Bob Dylan
  9. Dakar -- John Coltrane
  10. Please Please Me -- The Beatles
  11. Duke Ellington & John Coltrane -- Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
  12. Quiet Nights -- Miles Davis
  13. Ballads -- John Coltrane Quartet

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  1. Ornette! -- Ornette Coleman

    2. 9/10

    8/10

  2. It's Time -- Max Roach
  3. Tijuana Moods -- Charles Mingus
  4. Ornette on Tenor -- Ornette Coleman

    5. 7/10

  5. Oh Yeah -- Charles Mingus
  6. Mosaic -- Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

    7. 6/10

  7. Coltrane -- The John Coltrane Quartet
  8. Far Cry -- Eric Dolphy
  9. Go! -- Dexter Gordon
  10. The Quest -- Mal Waldron with Eric Dolphy and Booker Ervin
  11. The Bridge -- Sonny Rollins
  12. Dig It! -- The Red Garland Quintet with John Coltrane
  13. Leapin' and Lopin' -- Sonny Clark
  14. Coltrane Plays the Blues -- John Coltrane

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    9/10

    8/10

  1. We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite -- Max Roach
  2. Free Jazz -- The Ornette Coleman Double Quartet
  3. Africa / Brass -- The John Coltrane Quartet
  4. Out There -- Eric Dolphy
  5. Olé Coltrane -- John Coltrane
  6. This Is Our Music -- The Ornette Coleman Quartet

    7. 7/10

  7. My Favorite Things -- John Coltrane
  8. Steamin' With the Miles Davis Quintet -- The Miles Davis Quintet
  9. Someday My Prince Will Come -- The Miles Davis Sextet

    10. 6/10

  10. The Blues and the Abstract Truth -- Oliver Nelson
  11. Settin' the Pace -- John Coltrane

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    9/10

    8/10

  1. Blues & Roots -- Charles Mingus
  2. Sketches of Spain -- Miles Davis
  3. Giant Steps -- John Coltrane

    4. 7/10

  4. At Last! -- Etta James
  5. Soul Station -- Hank Mobley
  6. Change of the Century -- Ornette Coleman
  7. True Blue -- Tina Brooks

    8. 6/10

  8. The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery -- Wes Montgomery
  9. Portrait in Jazz -- Bill Evans Trio
  10. Piano in the Background -- Duke Ellington & His Orchestra

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    9/10

    8/10

  1. Mingus Ah Um -- Charles Mingus
  2. The Shape of Jazz to Come -- Ornette Coleman
  3. Moanin' -- Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

    4. 7/10

  4. Kind of Blue -- Miles Davis
  5. Tomorrow Is the Question! The New Music of Ornette Coleman! -- Ornette Coleman
  6. Workin' With the Miles Davis Quintet -- The Miles Davis Quintet

    7. 6/10

  7. Time Out -- The Dave Brubeck Quartet
  8. Porgy and Bess -- Miles Davis

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    9/10

  1. Blue Train -- John Coltrane

    2. 8/10

  2. Milestones -- Miles Davis

    3. 7/10

  3. Ascenseur pour l'échafaud -- Miles Davis
  4. Relaxin' With the Miles Davis Quintet -- The Miles Davis Quintet

    5. 6/10

  5. Traneing In -- John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio
  6. Something Else!!!! The Music of Ornette Coleman -- Ornette Coleman
  7. Wheelin' and Dealin' -- John Coltrane, Frank Wess, Paul Quinichette, Mal Waldron, Doug Watkins & Art Taylor
  8. Soultrane -- John Coltrane
  9. Somethin' Else -- Cannonball Adderley

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    10/10

    9/10

    8/10

  1. Cookin' With the Miles Davis Quintet -- The Miles Davis Quintet

    2. 7/10

  2. Monk's Music -- Thelonious Monk Septet
  3. Brilliant Corners -- Thelonious Monk
  4. Saxophone Colossus -- Sonny Rollins
  5. 'Round About Midnight -- Miles Davis

    6. 6/10

  6. Tenor Conclave -- Hank Mobley, Al Cohn, John Coltrane & Zoot Sims
  7. Mating Call -- Tadd Dameron with John Coltrane
  8. Miles Ahead -- Miles Davis + 19

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    9/10

    8/10

    7/10

    6/10

  1. Collectors' Items -- Miles Davis

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    10/10

    9/10

    8/10

    7/10

    6/10

  1. Blue Moods -- Miles Davis

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    10/10

    9/10

    8/10

    7/10

  1. Clifford Brown and Max Roach -- Clifford Brown and Max Roach

    2. 6/10

  2. Miles Davis, Vol. 3 -- Miles Davis

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    9/10

    8/10

    7/10

    6/10

  1. Miles Davis, Vol. 2 -- Miles Davis