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

    7/10

  1. Never Exhale -- DITZ
  2. Goldstar -- Imperial Triumphant
  3. Beatings Come From Heaven -- Usta
  4. 45 Pounds -- YHWH Nailgun
  5. Soft Spot -- Honningbarna
  6. FALS -- Herma
  7. The Last Days of May -- Fennesz
  8. Waiting Room -- Kathryn Mohr

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    10/10

  1. Night Palace -- Mount Eerie

    2. 9/10

  2. The Healer -- SUMAC

    3. 8/10

  3. Where we've been, Where we go from here -- Friko
  4. I Wish You Every Success -- Fashion Tips
  5. Lives Outgrown -- Beth Gibbons
  6. not all prochecies -- i.o
  7. Flesh Tape -- Flesh Tape
  8. The Promise of Rain -- Scarcity

    9. 7/10

  9. Exhaust -- Pyrrhon
  10. Look How Long Lasting Everything Is Moving Forward for Once -- Hammok
  11. What You Want -- Ogbert the Nerd
  12. Heavy Metal -- Cameron Winter
  13. Eventually the River Rises Here Too, Same as it Always Has -- Shiroishi, Prymek, Nguyen
  14. The Vault -- Maruja
  15. SHAME -- meth.
  16. Only God Was Above Us -- Vampire Weekend
  17. Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus -- Gigan
  18. BLK LBL -- Armand Hammer
  19. 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto With Bison Horn Grips -- Xiu Xiu
  20. Planned Obsolescence -- Chaser
  21. Wild Guess -- Robber Robber
  22. Vitriseptome -- Mitochondrion
  23. my anti-aircraft friend -- julie
  24. Pain Without Hope of Healing -- Basque
  25. Solitude With the Eternal... -- Adversarial
  26. Deep Sage -- Gouge Away
  27. Activator -- Gerycz Powers Rolin
  28. SABLE, -- Bon Iver
  29. Hálios -- Ceremony of Silence
  30. Drugs of the Sun -- Blinder
  31. Songs of a Lost World -- The Cure
  32. Endlessness -- Nala Sinephro
  33. Oak Lace Apparition -- Alora Crucible
  34. Something in the Room She Moves -- Julia Holter
  35. Häxan Sabaoth -- Unaussprechlichen Kulten
  36. For the Rest of Your Life -- twikipedia
  37. Dissection Maps -- Old Saw
  38. صاحب الموتور بيستند عليكن -- Ta2reeban
  39. How Could I Not Be Your Girl? -- Space Camp
  40. Zvyozdny Khram -- Zvyozdny Khram
  41. Come and See -- Gurriers
  42. Spot Land -- Gnod
  43. Purity -- Morgan Garrett
  44. Party Album -- Famous
  45. Great Tribulations -- Filmmaker
  46. Muuntautuja -- Oranssi Pazuzu
  47. "No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead" -- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  48. Precipice -- Ill Considered
  49. A Dog's Chance -- Polo Perks <3 <3 <3, AyooLii & Feardorian
  50. Ambivert -- Blemishes
  51. Bright Future -- Adrianne Lenker
  52. Imaginary Conversations -- Kevin Coleman
  53. Bronson Arm -- Bronson Arm
  54. Chronicles of Lunacy -- Defeated Sanity
  55. Wake up and smell the petrichor -- chazaiya
  56. American Standard -- Uniform
  57. Cloudward -- Mary Halvorson
  58. Demonolatry -- Abhorration
  59. Necrobiology -- Effluence
  60. X's -- Cigarettes After Sex
  61. Trout Mask Replica Replica -- The 180 Gs
  62. Y'Y -- Amaro Freitas
  63. Wall of Eyes -- The Smile
  64. The Room -- Fabiano do Nascimento & Sam Gendel
  65. Iechyd da -- Bill Ryder-Jones
  66. 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. Úpal -- Kostnatění
  5. Witchy Activities and the Maple Death -- Monika Roscher Bigband
  6. Camaraderie -- Quetzal Tirado Unit
  7. Solitaire -- Everyone Asked About You [archival]
  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. Ugly Season -- Perfume Genius
  7. Feeding the Machine -- Binker & Moses
  8. Parallel Weaving -- Sheng Jie & Shen Jing
  9. "Daumenbruch„ -- Faust
  10. The Liquified Throne of Simplicity -- Širom

    11. 7/10

  11. Dishes Are Never Done but Good Luck -- Helvetia
  12. God Save the Animals -- Alex G
  13. The Whole of the Body I Call ZOS -- ZOS
  14. Killing Nothing -- Boldy James & Real Bad Man
  15. Belladonna -- Mary Halvorson
  16. Copperhead -- Doom Beach
  17. Katyusha -- Martín Escalante, Teté Leguía & Weasel Walter
  18. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You -- Big Thief
  19. Darkness of God -- Heaving Earth
  20. God's Country -- Chat Pile
  21. Aethiopes -- Billy Woods
  22. caroline -- caroline
  23. Powięź -- Kurws
  24. A Muted Reality -- Angles
  25. Punkt -- Faust
  26. Heart Under -- Just Mustard
  27. The Ruby Cord -- Richard Dawson
  28. Bacchanalia -- Spintria
  29. Psyop of the Year -- EUNOIA
  30. Where the Heart Is -- Sweet Pill
  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. At the Foothills of Deliration -- Faceless Burial
  46. YHWH Nailgun -- YHWH Nailgun
  47. Deathfame -- Quelle Chris
  48. Comradely Objects -- Horse Lords
  49. While of Unsound Mind -- nouns
  50. Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling 'em Up -- Wednesday
  51. Pools of Green Fire -- Urushiol
  52. Everything Was Beautiful -- Spiritualized
  53. Consecration of the Spiritüs Flesh -- Esoctrilihum
  54. Return -- deathcrash
  55. Gold -- Rozwód
  56. Spirit of Ecstasy -- Imperial Triumphant
  57. Felicita -- Anadol
  58. Hellfire -- black midi
  59. Ascetic Reflection -- Altars
  60. Raum -- Tangerine Dream
  61. Hexen Valley -- Gnod
  62. Honeybee Table at the Butterfly Feast -- Teen Suicide
  63. Echt -- La Colonie de Vacances
  64. Together -- Duster
  65. There's Always Blood at the End of the Road -- Wiegedood
  66. A Light for Attracting Attention -- The Smile
  67. Koptycus -- Olés Brothers & Dominik Strycharski
  68. Every Flower in My Garden -- Lilien Rosarian
  69. stalled flutes, means -- Asian Glow
  70. Magma -- Black Flower
  71. The Ailing Facade -- Aeviterne
  72. In / Out / In -- Sonic Youth
  73. I Thought I Left You in Eden -- sun is poison
  74. Nocturnal Triumph -- Nocturnal Triumph
  75. Tana Talk 4 -- Benny the Butcher
  76. Eye Escapes -- Kraus
  77. 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. G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! -- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  6. Imperative Imperceptible Impulse -- Ad Nauseam
  7. Vlad Tapes -- Filmmaker
  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. Cull Ficle -- Asian Glow
  15. Contractions -- Michael Foster & Ben Bennett
  16. Thirstier -- Torres
  17. For the Glory of Your Redeemer -- Misotheist
  18. Coral Island -- The Coral
  19. Solar Drone Ceremony -- Neptunian Maximalism
  20. _____ -- Sadness
  21. För Allting -- Makthaverskan
  22. Uneasy -- Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh & Tyshawn Sorey
  23. I Became Birds -- Home Is Where
  24. Famine, Putrid and Fucking Endless -- Atvm
  25. Surrounding Structures -- Veik
  26. Calvaire -- Ferriterium
  27. DOM 1919 -- Nac/Hut Report
  28. Wax People -- Wax People
  29. Defeat -- Fire!
  30. Archeology -- The Stick Figures [archival]
  31. Katartisis -- Serpent Column
  32. Cavalcade -- black midi
  33. Call Me if You Get Lost -- Tyler, the Creator
  34. My Head Hz -- Naked Days
  35. Nafs at Peace -- Jaubi
  36. Azmari -- Samā'ī
  37. a softer focus -- claire rousay
  38. A Proposed Method for Determining Sanding Fitness -- Stella Research Committee
  39. He Whose Name Was Long Forgotten -- Fossilization
  40. Sinner Get Ready -- Lingua Ignota
  41. Bird Meets Wire -- Susan Alcorn, Leila Bordeuil & Ingrid Laubrock
  42. How the Garden Grows -- Yvette
  43. Razor's Edge -- Rome Streetz & Futurewave
  44. 1 House -- Slant
  45. Imperative Imperceptible Impulse -- Ad Nauseam
  46. Made Out of Sound -- Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt
  47. Holoceno -- Papangu
  48. Rien ne suffit -- Plebeian Grandstand
  49. Seminal Baptism -- Tantric Bile
  50. lines between the doorframe -- Asian Glow
  51. Radio Edit -- Ciśnienie
  52. Phantom Indigo -- Seputus
  53. Mental Decay -- Kvadrat
  54. Lucid Express -- Lucid Express
  55. Lucy & Aaron -- Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt
  56. The Divine Punishment -- Antediluvian
  57. Not Quite Dracula Music -- Soft Kill
  58. Golden Doubt -- Quivers
  59. The Space in Which the Uncontrollable Unknown Resides, Can Be the Place From Which Creation Arises -- Work, Money, Death
  60. A Beginner's Mind -- Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine
  61. I Have Seen the Light, and It Was Repulsive -- Sermon of Flames
  62. Hidemi -- Patrick Shiroishi
  63. Little Oblivions -- Julien Baker
  64. Yamawarau -- Fuubutsushi
  65. Negative Infinity -- The Flying Luttenbachers
  66. Laura Stevenson -- Laura Stevenson
  67. A Magnificent Day for an Exorcism -- TH1RT3EN
  68. The Cyclic Reckoning -- Suffering Hour
  69. Tawny -- Drug Church
  70. With Drums -- Machinefabriek
  71. Degenerations -- Diskord
  72. 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. Speciation -- Faceless Burial
  6. Lena -- Anna Högberg Attack
  7. Endless Detainment -- Serpent Column
  8. Kaiju Eats Cheeseburgers -- Darrifourcq Hermia Ceccaldi
  9. Welcome to Conceptual Beach -- Young Jesus
  10. Skáphe³ -- Skáphe

    11. 7/10

  11. No Moon -- Black Wing
  12. Allt Är Intet -- The End
  13. Kathodos -- Serpent Column
  14. Silver Tongue -- Torres
  15. Telas -- Nicolás Jaar
  16. Imperii templum aries -- Ôros Kaù
  17. Less Life -- Died
  18. Mestarin Kynsi -- Oranssi Pazuzu
  19. Sideways to New Italy -- Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
  20. 2R0I2P0 -- Boris with Merzbow
  21. Songs -- Adrianne Lenker
  22. All Thoughts Fly -- Anna von Hausswolff
  23. Punisher -- Phoebe Bridgers
  24. Songs -- Adrianne Lenker
  25. Red Sun Through Smoke -- Ian William Craig
  26. Melinoë -- Akhlys
  27. Free I.H: This Is Not the One You've Been Waiting For -- Illuminati Hotties
  28. The Common Task -- Horse Lords
  29. Forever Blue -- A.A. Williams
  30. Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin -- Eartheater
  31. The Great Dismal -- Nothing
  32. Don't Waste Your Anger -- The Smith Street Band
  33. New Dreams -- JFDR
  34. Mach's Hard Lemonade -- Mach-Hommy
  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. Everything Seems Better Now -- vs self
  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. Evermore -- Taylor Swift
  57. Sleeper Vessels -- Fawn Limbs
  58. Undying Thirst -- Black Market Brass
  59. A Hero's Death -- Fontaines D.C.
  60. Love, Disorderly -- Thomas Azier
  61. Eternity of Shaog -- Esoctrilihum
  62. Alfredo -- Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist
  63. Empty Country -- Empty Country
  64. Obliviosus -- MSW
  65. Three -- The Necks
  66. The Suns of Perdition - Chapter II: Render Unto Eden -- Panzerfaust
  67. You Can Never Have a Long Enough Head Start -- Floral Tattoo
  68. From King to a GOD -- Conway the Machine
  69. Origin of the Alimonies -- Liturgy
  70. Terminal Aggressor II -- Dragged Into Sunlight
  71. Swimmer -- Tennis
  72. Four Dimensional Flesh -- Afterbirth
  73. Island -- Owen Pallett
  74. Lesions of a Different Kind -- Undeath

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    10/10

  1. Arrival -- Fire! Orchestra

    2. 9/10

  2. The Third Ascension -- Glenn Branca

    3. 8/10

  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. -><- -- 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. Spiraling -- Special Interest
  5. Vile Luxury -- Imperial Triumphant
  6. One Eye Sees Red -- Lonker See
  7. Gestures Been -- They Are Gutting a Body of Water
  8. Paraffin -- Armand Hammer

    9. 7/10

  9. Inchoate with the Light Go I -- He Was Eaten by Owls
  10. Brace up! -- Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt
  11. Distress Test -- Orchestra of Constant Distress
  12. Sunstroke -- BROM
  13. Inside a Ringing Chord -- Cages
  14. Qujaku -- Qujaku
  15. American Dollar Bill – Keep Looking Sideways, You're Too Hideous to Look at Face On -- Keiji Haino + SUMAC
  16. Wednesday -- Just Mustard
  17. 7 -- Beach House
  18. There Is a Place -- Maisha
  19. Dead Magic -- Anna von Hausswolff
  20. Nearer My God -- Foxing
  21. Love In Shadow -- SUMAC
  22. Tana Talk 3 -- Benny the Butcher
  23. Only Love -- The Armed
  24. Burnt Sugar -- Gouge Away
  25. 2012 - 2017 -- Against All Logic
  26. The Sciences -- Sleep
  27. Twin Fantasy (Face to Face) -- Car Seat Headrest
  28. Manor of Infinite Forms -- Tomb Mold
  29. Kiss Yr Frenemies -- Illuminati Hotties
  30. TA13OO -- Denzel Curry
  31. Misotheist -- Misotheist
  32. Infernal Decadence -- Spectral Wound
  33. Spanish Love Songs -- Schmaltz
  34. DAYTONA -- Pusha T

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Science Fiction -- Brand New

    2. 8/10

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

    8. 7/10

  8. Relatives in Descent -- Protomartyr
  9. Ill -- Makthaverskan
  10. What Passes for Survival -- Pyrrhon
  11. Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic Iridescence -- Gigan
  12. Yeah, No, I Know -- Macseal
  13. The Ghosts That I Fear -- Dad Thighs
  14. Retrocasual -- Cleric
  15. GT Ultra -- Guerilla Toss
  16. Primal Incinerators of Moral Matrix -- Tetragrammacide
  17. Greatest Hits -- Remo Drive
  18. Ornuthi Thalassa -- Serpent Column
  19. Rocket -- (Sandy) Alex G
  20. Altar of Decay -- Mortiferum
  21. The King of No Man -- Captain, We're Sinking
  22. Stranger in the Alps -- Phoebe Bridgers
  23. DAMN. -- Kendrick Lamar
  24. Saturation II -- Brockhampton
  25. Crack-Up -- Fleet Foxes
  26. Hiss Spun -- Chelsea Wolfe
  27. Atonement -- Immolation
  28. Temple ov BBV -- Temple ov BBV
  29. Flower Boy -- Tyler, the Creator
  30. Ornuthi Thalassa -- Serpent Column
  31. Saturation III -- Brockhampton
  32. 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. Plays the Music of Twin Peaks -- Xiu Xiu
  11. Eraser Stargazer-- Guerilla Toss
  12. Blonde -- Frank Ocean
  13. 22, A Million-- Bon Iver
  14. We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your service -- A Tribe Called Quest
  15. The Synarchy of Molten Bones -- Deathspell Omega
  16. Skáphe² -- Skáphe
  17. Emotion: Side B -- Carly Rae Jepsen
  18. Cody -- Joyce Manor
  19. Starspawn -- Blood Incantation
  20. Worry. -- Jeff Rosenstock
  21. Teens of Denial -- Car Seat Headrest
  22. The Wanderer -- Jana Winderen
  23. 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. 7/10

  8. Viet Cong -- Viet Cong [Preoccupations]
  9. Oblivion Access -- Lil Ugly Mane
  10. Summer -- Oakwood
  11. To Pimp a Butterfly -- Kendrick Lamar
  12. I Want to Hide My Face & Die -- Acid Ghost
  13. Divers -- Joanna Newsom
  14. I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside -- Earl Sweatshirt
  15. Painted Shut -- Hop Along
  16. Litourgiya -- Batushka
  17. No Closer to Heaven -- The Wonder Years
  18. Copacetic -- Knuckle Puck
  19. Peripheral Vision -- Turnover
  20. Ten Love Songs -- Susanne Sundfor
  21. Abyss -- Chelsea Wolfe
  22. Adult Summers -- Prince Daddy & The Hyena
  23. 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. Shiny Eyed Babies -- Bent Knee
  5. Wild Ivy League -- Wild Ivy
  6. Promulgation of the Fall -- Dead Congregation

    7. 7/10

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

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    10/10

  1. Trouble Will Find Me -- The National

    2. 9/10

  2. Teethed Glory and Injury -- Altar of Plagues

    3. 8/10

  3. Maybe You, No One Else Worth It -- Brave Bird
  4. Exit! -- Fire! Orchestra
  5. Colored Sands -- Gorguts
  6. The Future Is Cancelled -- Captain, We're Sinking
  7. Summer Death -- Marietta
  8. Three Sided Tape Volume One -- Lil Ugly Mane
  9. Vermis -- Ulcerate

    10. 7/10

  10. Hubardo -- Kayo Dot
  11. II -- Makthaverskan
  12. The Feral Wisdom -- Wormlust
  13. m b v -- My Bloody Valentine
  14. Whenever, If Ever... -- The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die
  15. Golden Grrrls -- Golden Grrrls
  16. Sunbather -- Deafheaven
  17. Ceres & Calypso in the Deep Time -- Candy Claws
  18. Modern Vampires of the City -- Vampire Weekend
  19. The Greatest Generation -- The Wonder Years
  20. The Next Day -- David Bowie
  21. Three Sided Tape Volume Two -- Lil Ugly Mane
  22. Multi-Dimensional Fractal-Sorcery and Super Science -- Gigan
  23. Acid Rap -- Chance the Rapper
  24. Illumination Ritual -- The Appleseed Cast
  25. Kingdom of Conspiracy -- Immolation
  26. Yeezus -- Kanye West
  27. What You Don't See -- The Story So Far
  28. Kveikur -- Sigur Rós
  29. Vesper -- Entropia

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Just Married -- Glocca Morra
  2. The Seer -- Swans

    3. 8/10

  3. The Money Store -- Death Grips
  4. good kid, m.A.A.d. city -- Kendrick Lamar
  5. Bloom -- Beach House
  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. Abominamentvm -- Imperial Triumphant
  14. 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! -- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  15. Hell III -- Hell
  16. With Hearts Toward None -- Mgła
  17. Ten Stores -- mewithoutYou
  18. Mista Thug Isolation -- Lil Ugly Mane
  19. Green to Blue -- Breathless
  20. No Love Deep Web -- Death Grips
  21. channel ORANGE -- Frank Ocean
  22. Advaitic Songs -- Om
  23. Centipede Hz -- Animal Collective
  24. De Vermis Mysteriis -- High on Fire
  25. Sinews -- White Suns

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    10/10

    9/10

    8/10

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

    4. 7/10

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

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Paracletus -- Deathspell Omega
  2. Coyote -- Kayo Dot
  3. High Violet -- The National

    4. 8/10

  4. Coconuts -- Coconuts
  5. Uberschleiss -- Scorpion Violente
  6. Daughters -- Daughters
  7. Contra -- Vampire Weekend
  8. Halcyon Digest -- Deerhunter
  9. Liberation Through Hearing -- Demdike Stare
  10. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy -- Kanye West
  11. Majesty and Decay -- Immolation

    12. 7/10

  12. Murmuüre -- Murmuüre
  13. Forest of Evil -- Demdike Stare
  14. Throat -- Little Women
  15. Dear God, I Hate Myself -- Xiu Xiu
  16. Have One On Me -- Joanna Newsom
  17. Just Got Back From the Discomfort—We're Alright -- The Brave Little Abacus
  18. Teen Dream -- Beach House
  19. Hell II -- Hell
  20. Sisterworld -- Liars
  21. It's the Evil -- White Lung
  22. Brothers -- The Black Keys
  23. Chapters of Repugnance -- Defeated Sanity
  24. Have You Seen My Prefrontal Cortex? -- A Great Big Pile of Leaves
  25. My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky -- Swans
  26. Public Strain -- Women
  27. This Addiction -- Alkaline Trio
  28. Arkhaiomelisidonophunikheratos -- Satanicpornocultshop
  29. The Age of Adz -- Sufjan Stevens
  30. The Upsides -- The Wonder Years
  31. Bonfires -- Fireworks
  32. .neon -- Lantlos

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    10/10

  1. The Live in Lisbon -- Virginia Genta & Chris Corsano

    2. 9/10

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

    3. 8/10

  3. Masked Dancers: Concern in So Many Things You Forget Where You Are -- The Brave Little Abacus
  4. Daisy -- Brand New
  5. Hospice -- The Antlers
  6. Rend Each Other Like Wild Beasts, Till the Earth Shall Reek with Midnight Massacre-- Gnaw Their Tongues
  7. Merriweather Post Pavilion -- Animal Collective

    8. 7/10

  8. Everything Is Fire -- Ulcerate
  9. Symbiosis -- Demdike Stare
  10. Daughter of Darkness -- Natural Snow Buildings
  11. Black Hole -- Full Blast
  12. Facial -- K-Branding
  13. Watersports -- Mi Ami
  14. White Tomb -- Altar of Plagues
  15. Bummer Times Demo -- Merchant Ships
  16. Common Existence -- Thursday
  17. In the Dream of the Sea Life -- Candy Claws
  18. Cat Party -- Cat Party
  19. Swarth -- Portal
  20. iwrotehaikusaboutcannibalisminyouryearbook LP -- iwrotehaikusaboutcannibalisminyouryearbook
  21. Unutella -- Nuito
  22. Wind's Poem -- Mount Eerie
  23. You Will Never Know Why -- Sweet Trip
  24. Helvetia's Junk Shop -- Helvetia
  25. In This World -- susquatch
  26. Twin Stumps -- Twin Stumps

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Deathconsciousness -- Have a Nice Life
  2. Third -- Portishead
  3. Graves of the Archangels -- Dead Congregation
  4. Child Bearing Man -- Little Teeth

    5. 8/10

  5. Some Kind of Cadwallader -- Algernon Cadwallader
  6. The Second Original Silence -- Original Silence
  7. Mass of the Fermenting Dregs -- Mass of the Fermenting Dregs
  8. Visiter -- The Dodos
  9. The Black Flux -- Virus

    10. 7/10

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

    3. 8/10

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

    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. Liars -- Liars
  16. Plaguebearer -- Wraiths
  17. Scribble Mural Comic Journal -- A Sunny Day in Glasgow
  18. Hvarf/Heim -- Sigur Rós
  19. And Their Refinement of the Decline -- Stars of the Lid
  20. Volta -- Björk
  21. Operator Dead... Post Abandoned -- Burning Star Core
  22. Shadows in the Light -- Immolation
  23. Allegory of Allergies -- Emeralds

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    10/10

    9/10

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

    5. 8/10

  5. Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue -- Kayo Dot
  6. Donuts -- J Dilla
  7. Brother, Sister -- mewithoutYou
  8. Mass Hysterism in Another Situation -- New Direction Unit
  9. Algernon Cadwallader -- Algernon Cadwallader
  10. Hail Infernal Darkness -- Drawn and Quartered

    11. 7/10

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

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Frances the Mute -- The Mars Volta
  2. Pink -- Boris

    3. 8/10

  3. Tell Me About the Long Dark Path Home -- The Newfound Interest in Connecticut
  4. Takk... -- Sigur Rós
  5. Illinois -- Sufjan Stevens
  6. Alligator -- The National
  7. The Book About My Idle Plot on a Vague Anxiety -- toe
  8. Feels -- Animal Collective

    9. 7/10

  9. How to Raise an Ox -- Zu & Mats Gustafsson
  10. Aerial -- Kate Bush
  11. Kosherat -- Grand Belial's Key
  12. Drinking Songs -- Matt Elliott
  13. Fright Makes Right -- Cough
  14. ABCDEFGHIJKickball -- Kickball
  15. La forêt -- Xiu Xiu
  16. The Golden Morning Breaks -- Colleen
  17. Be -- Common
  18. Pinkshinyultrablast -- Astrobrite
  19. The Complete Guide to Insufficiency -- David Thomas Broughton
  20. I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning -- Bright Eyes
  21. Late Registration -- Kanye West
  22. Harnessing Ruin -- Immolation
  23. Kénôse -- Deathspell Omega
  24. Juturna -- Circa Survive

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    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. They Were Wrong, So We Drowned -- Liars
  14. A Ghost Is Born -- Wilco
  15. Panopticon -- Isis
  16. Catch for Us the Foxes -- mewithoutYou
  17. Leviathan -- Mastodon
  18. We Live -- Electric Wizard
  19. Medúlla -- Björk
  20. Decimate Christendom -- Incantation
  21. Pollyanna -- Northstar
  22. Good News for People Who Love Bad News -- Modest Mouse
  23. 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. Things Viral -- Khanate

    5. 8/10

  5. Vaudeville Villain -- Viktor Vaughn
  6. The Magnolia Electric Co. -- Songs: Ohia
  7. Pulling Our Weight -- The Radio Dept.
  8. A Promise -- Xiu Xiu
  9. Dopesmoker -- Sleep
  10. The Disintegration Loops II -- William Basinski

    11. 7/10

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

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Knife Play -- Xiu Xiu
  2. The Disintegration Loops -- William Basinski

    3. 8/10

  3. ( ) -- Sigur Rós
  4. Mclusky Do Dallas -- Mclusky
  5. We Are the Only Friends We Have -- Piebald
  6. Hold Your Horse Is -- Hella
  7. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot -- Wilco
  8. Unholy Cult -- Immolation
  9. Yanqui U.X.O. -- Godspeed You! Black Emperor

    10. 7/10

  10. Less Is More or Less -- The Newfound Interest in Connecticut
  11. You Forgot It In People -- Broken Social Scene
  12. Didn't It Rain -- Songs: Ohia
  13. Songs About Leaving -- Carissa's Wierd
  14. Sadness Will Prevail -- Today Is the Day
  15. Remission -- Mastodon
  16. Oceanic -- Isis
  17. Let Us Prey -- Electric Wizard
  18. [A-->B] Life -- mewithoutYou
  19. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots -- The Flaming Lips
  20. Turn On the Bright Lights -- Interpol
  21. Ballads -- Derek Bailey
  22. Songs for the Deaf -- Queens of the Stone Age
  23. Is This Thing Loaded? -- Northstar
  24. Lifted, or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground -- Bright Eyes
  25. 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. They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top -- Liars
  5. Amnesiac -- Radiohead

    6. 8/10

  6. Leaves Turn Inside You -- Unwound
  7. She Knows... -- The Thing with Joe McPhee
  8. The Glow, Pt. 2 -- The Microphones
  9. Judeobeast Assassination -- Grand Belial's Key
  10. Renegade Heaven -- Bang On a Can All-Stars
  11. Full Collapse -- Thursday

    12. 7/10

  12. A Sun That Never Sets -- Neurosis
  13. It's a Wonderful Life -- Sparklehorse
  14. Endless Summer -- Fennesz
  15. Bob Dinners & Larry Noodles Present Tubby Turdner's Celebrity Avalanche -- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
  16. Khanate -- Khanate
  17. Nivraym -- Koenji Hyakkei
  18. Bath -- maudlin of the Well
  19. drukqs -- Aphex Twin
  20. Where You Are and Where You Want to Be -- On the Might of Princes
  21. Low Level Owl, Volume I -- The Appleseed Cast
  22. Ancient Melodies of the Future -- Built to Spill
  23. From Wisdom to Hate -- Gorguts
  24. Toxicity -- System of a Down
  25. Document #8 -- pageninetynine
  26. How I Loved You -- The Angels of Light
  27. Stay What You Are -- Saves the Day
  28. A Better Version of Me -- Rainer Maria
  29. From Here to Infirmary -- Alkaline Trio
  30. 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. Close to a World Below -- Immolation
  5. Ghost Tropic -- Songs: Ohia

    6. 8/10

  6. The Moon & Antarctica -- Modest Mouse
  7. Mare Vitalis -- The Appleseed Cast
  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. The Final Chapter -- Filth of Mankind

    13. 7/10

  13. The Miracle of 86 -- Miracle of 86
  14. Flood -- Boris
  15. Surrendered -- David S. Ware
  16. I Wrote the Last Chapter for You -- Edaline
  17. Relationship of Command -- At the Drive-In
  18. NYC Ghosts & Flowers -- Sonic Youth
  19. And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out -- Yo La Tengo
  20. Ezarian -- Lisabö
  21. Ramadan -- ee
  22. He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms... -- Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra
  23. Maybe I'll Catch Fire -- Alkaline Trio
  24. The Infernal Storm -- Incantation
  25. Fevers & Mirrors -- Bright Eyes
  26. Rated R -- Queens of the Stone Age
  27. Nixon -- Lambchop
  28. Alkaline Trio -- Alkaline Trio
  29. The Marshall Mathers LP -- Eminem
  30. 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. Times of Grace -- Neurosis
  4. The Soft Bulletin -- The Flaming Lips
  5. Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada -- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  6. Failures for Gods -- Immolation
  7. Ágætis byrjun-- Sigur Rós

    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. 98.12.28 Otokotachi no wakare -- Fishmans
  13. Through Being Cool -- Saves the Day
  14. Ponyoak -- Kleenex Girl Wonder
  15. The Fragile -- Nine Inch Nails
  16. Musick to Play in the Dark -- Coil
  17. Look Now Look Again -- Rainer Maria
  18. Keep It Like a Secret -- Built to Spill
  19. Live in Chicago, 1999 -- Joan of Arc
  20. Uterus and Fire -- Old Time Relijun
  21. In the Eyes of God -- Today Is the Day
  22. Come On Die Young -- Mogwai
  23. First Come, First Served -- Dr. Dooom
  24. Under Glass -- Hash Jar Tempo
  25. No Division -- Hot Water Music
  26. New Mother -- The Angels of Light
  27. The Slim Shady LP -- Eminem
  28. Something to Write Home About -- The Get Up Kids

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    10/10

  1. Obscura -- Gorguts

    2. 9/10

  2. Swans Are Dead -- Swans
  3. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea -- Neutral Milk Hotel

    4. 8/10

  4. End Hits -- Fugazi
  5. What Burns Never Returns -- Don Caballero
  6. Cold River Songs -- Bodychoke
  7. Ocean Songs -- Dirty Three
  8. Moon Pix -- Cat Power
  9. TNT -- Tortoise
  10. Number One of Three -- The Body Lovers

    11. 7/10

  11. How It Feels to Be Something On -- Sunny Day Real Estate
  12. Challenge for a Civilized Society -- Unwound
  13. Mocking the Philanthropist -- Grand Belial's Key
  14. The Shape of Punk to Come -- Refused
  15. Diabolical Conquest -- Incantation
  16. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill -- Lauryn Hill
  17. Goddamnit -- Alkaline Trio
  18. XO -- Elliott Smith
  19. The Roaring Mechanism -- P.E.E.
  20. A Thousand Leaves -- Sonic Youth
  21. Frame & Canvas -- Braid
  22. Conglomerate International -- Frodus
  23. The Boom, the Motion, and the Music -- The Jazz June
  24. EndSerenading -- Mineral
  25. The Sound of Perseverance -- Death
  26. Swingset in June -- Swingset in June
  27. Handsome, Beautiful / Sometimes Memory Fails Me Sometimes -- Everyone Asked About You
  28. Deserter's Songs -- Mercury Rev
  29. This Is Hardcore -- Pulp
  30. 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. Miracle Research Center Staff -- P.E.E.
  11. Hide Here Forever -- Strictly Ballroom
  12. Chiastic Slide -- Autechre
  13. Mogwai Young Team -- Mogwai
  14. I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One -- Yo La Tengo
  15. Hazel -- Far Apart
  16. Temple of the Morning Star -- Today Is the Day
  17. Beautiful Charade -- Camber
  18. Come My Fanatics... -- Electric Wizard
  19. Either/Or -- Elliott Smith
  20. The Power of Failing -- Mineral
  21. Eight Hours Away From Being a Man -- Roadside Monument
  22. Portishead -- Portishead
  23. Sol Niger Within -- Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects
  24. ...When Life Hands You Lemons -- Piebald
  25. Jersey's Best Dancers -- Lifetime
  26. Kelvingrove Baby -- The Bathers
  27. 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. Millions Now Living Will Never Die -- Tortoise

    5. 8/10

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

    12. 7/10

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

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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. Gar Box Demo #2 [I Win Me Over.] -- P.E.E.
  7. Don Caballero 2 -- Don Caballero
  8. Washing Machine -- Sonic Youth
  9. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness -- The Smashing Pumpkins
  10. Stellar Regions -- John Coltrane

    11. 7/10

  11. The Great Annihilator -- Swans
  12. Upon the Throne of Apocalypse -- Incantation
  13. Ocean Beach -- Red House Painters
  14. The Future of What -- Unwound
  15. Pierced from Within -- Suffocation
  16. Long Division -- Low
  17. 1. Outside -- David Bowie
  18. Electric Wizard -- Electric Wizard
  19. Post -- Björk
  20. The Bends -- Radiohead
  21. Bergtatt: Et eeventyr i 5 capitler -- Ulver
  22. Castor -- Castor
  23. Storm of the Light's Bane -- Dissection

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    10/10

  1. Yank Crime -- Drive Like Jehu

    2. 9/10

  2. Dummy -- Portishead

    3. 8/10

  3. Those Who Caress the Pale -- Ved Buens Ende.....
  4. At Action Park -- Shellac
  5. Willpower -- Today Is the Day
  6. De mysteriis dom sathanas -- Mayhem
  7. Welcome to Sky Valley -- Kyuss
  8. Diary -- Sunny Day Real Estate
  9. Rusty -- Rodan
  10. I Could Live in Hope -- Low

    11. 7/10

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

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    10/10

  1. Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) -- Wu-Tang Clan

    2. 9/10

  2. Fake Train -- Unwound
  3. Souvlaki -- Slowdive
  4. In utero -- Nirvana

    5. 8/10

  5. The Problem With Me -- Seam
  6. Nespithe -- Demilich
  7. Siamese Dream -- The Smashing Pumpkins
  8. Painful -- Yo La Tengo
  9. Debut -- Björk

    10. 7/10

  10. Ask Questions Later -- Cop Shoot Cop
  11. Sometimes If You Stand Further Away From Something, It Does Not Seem as Big. Sometimes You Can Stand So Close to Something You Can Not Tell What You Are Looking At.-- caP'n Jazz
  12. Cure for Pain -- Morphine
  13. Red House Painters [Rollercoaster] -- Red House Painters
  14. Tindersticks -- Tindersticks
  15. Transcendence Into the Peripheral -- diSEMBOWELMENT
  16. Admonishing the Bishops -- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
  17. In On the Kill Taker -- Fugazi
  18. Repeat -- This Heat
  19. Spheres -- Pestilence
  20. Ground Zero -- Ground-Zero
  21. Covenant -- Morbid Angel
  22. Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version -- Earth
  23. Enemy of the Sun -- Neurosis
  24. The Erosion of Sanity -- Gorguts
  25. Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly -- Moss Icon
  26. Supernova -- Today Is the Day
  27. 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. Liar -- The Jesus Lizard
  5. Thunder Perfect Mind -- Nurse With Wound

    6. 8/10

  6. Shadow Weaver -- The Legendary Pink Dots
  7. Theoria -- Barry Guy London Jazz Composers Orchestra feat. Irène Schweizer
  8. The Red in the Sky Is Ours -- At the Gates
  9. Fontanelle -- Babes in Toyland
  10. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me -- Angelo Badalamenti

    11. 7/10

  11. Lysol -- Melvins
  12. Good -- Morphine
  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. Souls at Zero -- Neurosis
  21. Dawn of Dreams -- Pan.Thy.Monium
  22. Epidemic of Violence -- Demolition Hammer
  23. A Blaze in the Northern Sky -- Darkthrone
  24. Whut? Thee Album -- Redman
  25. Dry -- PJ Harvey
  26. Pure -- Godflesh
  27. Burzum -- Burzum
  28. Blues for the Red Sun -- Kyuss
  29. Wish -- The Cure

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    10/10

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

    3. 9/10

  3. Loveless -- My Bloody Valentine

    4. 8/10

  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

  1. Repeater -- Fugazi

    2. 9/10

  2. Frizzle Fry -- Primus

    3. 8/10

  3. Goo -- Sonic Youth
  4. Naked City -- John Zorn [Naked City]
  5. Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic -- The Sundays
  6. Consumer Revolt -- Cop Shoot Cop
  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. On Fire -- Galaxie 500
  6. Pure -- The Jesus Lizard
  7. Griller -- UT
  8. Tweez -- Slint

    9. 7/10

  9. Severed Survival -- Autopsy
  10. Wrong -- NoMeansNo
  11. Altars of Madness -- Morbid Angel
  12. Nothingface -- Voivod
  13. Bizarro -- The Wedding Present
  14. Symphony No. 6 (Devil Choirs at the Gates of Heaven) -- Glenn Branca
  15. Doolittle -- Pixies
  16. The Stone Roses -- The Stone Roses
  17. Snowball -- The Field Mice
  18. 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. The Tribe -- Caspar Brötzmann Massaker

    7. 7/10

  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. Blind Idiot God -- Blind Idiot God

    6. 7/10

  6. The Walking -- Jane Siberry
  7. Ur Kaos -- Ur Kaos
  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. Conviction -- UT

    7. 7/10

  7. EVOL -- Sonic Youth
  8. Morbid Visions -- Sepultura
  9. The Ghost Trade -- Camberwell Now
  10. Brotherhood -- New Order
  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. Meat Is Murder -- The Smiths
  8. Dinosaur -- Dinosaur
  9. Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good! -- Megadeth
  10. Amer$ide: Rock & Roll Is Dead - Long Live Rat at Rat R -- Rat at Rat R
  11. Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants) -- Cecil Taylor Segments II
  12. New Day Rising -- Hüsker Dü
  13. Laibach -- Laibach
  14. Telephone Free Landslide Victory -- Camper Van Beethoven
  15. Le poison qui rend fou -- Present
  16. A Cool Dark Place to Die -- Theatre of Ice
  17. Rites of Spring -- Rites of Spring
  18. Thursday Afternoon -- Brian Eno
  19. Six Compositions (Quartet) 1984 -- Anthony Braxton
  20. Salad Days -- Minor Threat
  21. Seven Churches -- Possessed
  22. This Is the Sea -- The Waterboys
  23. Spleen and Ideal -- Dead Can Dance
  24. Rum Sodomy & the Lash -- The Pogues
  25. What Does Anything Mean? Basically -- The Chameleons

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. From Her to Eternity -- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
  2. Hatful of Hollow -- The Smiths

    3. 8/10

  3. Cop -- Swans
  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. 7/10

  9. Moving -- The Raincoats
  10. Let It Be -- The Replacements
  11. The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall -- The Fall
  12. My War -- Black Flag
  13. Zen Arcade -- Hüsker Dü
  14. Family Man -- Black Flag
  15. Beating the Retreat -- Test Dept
  16. Micro-Phonies -- Cabaret Voltaire
  17. Treasure -- Cocteau Twins
  18. Step Forward -- Portion Control
  19. Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac -- Butthole Surfers
  20. 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. Out of Step -- Minor Threat
  10. Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T. -- Einstürzende Neubauten
  11. Violent Femmes -- Violent Femmes
  12. Transition -- Peter Michael Hamel
  13. Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks -- Brian Eno with Daniel Lanois & Roger Eno
  14. Let's Dance -- David Bowie
  15. Head Over Heels -- Cocteau Twins
  16. Speaking in Tongues -- Talking Heads
  17. 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

  4. Fire of Love -- The Gun Club

    5. 8/10

  5. Minor Threat -- Minor Threat
  6. Odyshape -- The Raincoats
  7. Killing Time -- Massacre
  8. Circus Mort -- Circus Mort
  9. Movement -- New Order
  10. The Seduction -- Ludus

    11. 7/10

  11. Coffin for Head of State -- Fela
  12. Mark of the Mole -- The Residents
  13. Three Quartets -- Chick Corea
  14. Penguin Café Orchestra -- Penguin Café Orchestra
  15. Signals, Calls, and Marches -- Mission of Burma
  16. Architecture & Morality -- Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
  17. In My Eyes -- Minor Threat
  18. Sei still, wisse ICH BIN -- Popol Vuh
  19. Faith -- The Cure
  20. Directions -- Miles Davis
  21. Still -- Joy Division
  22. Discipline -- King Crimson

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    10/10

  1. Closer -- Joy Division

    2. 9/10

  2. Remain in Light -- Talking Heads
  3. For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder? -- The Pop Group

    4. 8/10

  4. Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror -- Harold Budd & Brian Eno
  5. Ming -- David Murray Octet
  6. Strange Celestial Road -- Sun Ra
  7. 1/2 Gentlemen / Not Beasts -- Half Japanese
  8. Crazy Rhythms -- The Feelies
  9. A-Z -- Colin Newman
  10. The River -- Bruce Springsteen
  11. Jane from Occupied Europe -- Swell Maps

    12. 7/10

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

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    10/10

  1. This Heat -- This Heat

    2. 9/10

  2. Teenage Jesus & The Jerks -- Teenage Jesus & The Jerks

    3. 8/10

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

    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

  2. Alabama Feeling -- Arthur Doyle Plus 4

    3. 8/10

  3. Yellow Magic Orchestra -- Yellow Magic Orchestra
  4. Ducks Stab / Buster & Glen -- The Residents
  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. Bäbi -- Milford Graves

    3. 9/10

    8/10

  3. Pink Flag -- Wire
  4. Marquee Moon -- Television
  5. Dialoghi del presente -- Luciano Cilio
  6. Pharoah -- Pharoah Sanders
  7. Alien Soundtracks -- Chrome
  8. First Meditations (For Quartet) -- John Coltrane
  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. Herz aus Glas [Cœur de verre] -- Popol Vuh
  14. Animals -- Pink Floyd
  15. Before and After Science -- Brian Eno
  16. Ultravox! -- Ultravox!
  17. Implosions -- Stephan Micus
  18. Lust for Life -- Iggy Pop
  19. Talking Heads: 77 -- Talking Heads
  20. The Idiot -- Iggy Pop
  21. 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. Unlawful Noise -- Haazz & Company
  10. The Modern Lovers -- The Modern Lovers
  11. Moonmadness -- Camel
  12. Black Market -- Weather Report
  13. Water Babies -- Miles Davis
  14. 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. Trio and Duet -- Anthony Braxton

    6. 7/10

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

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    10/10

  1. Red -- King Crimson

    2. 9/10

  2. Meet the Residents -- The Residents
  3. Autobahn -- Kraftwerk

    4. 8/10

  4. Interstellar Space -- John Coltrane
  5. Crystals -- Sam Rivers
  6. Get Up With It -- Miles Davis
  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. In the Tradition -- Anthony Braxton
  15. Starless and Bible Black -- King Crimson
  16. Diamond Dogs -- David Bowie
  17. Radio City -- Big Star
  18. Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) -- Brian Eno

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    10/10

    9/10

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

    6. 8/10

  6. Faust IV -- Faust
  7. Pakistani Pomade -- Alexander von Schlippenbach Trio
  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. Damned Flame / Hope -- Blast
  18. Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. -- Bruce Springsteen
  19. Head Hunters -- Herbie Hancock
  20. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath -- Black Sabbath
  21. Lawrence of Newark -- Larry Young
  22. Dark Side of the Moon -- Pink Floyd
  23. Let's Get It On -- Marvin Gaye
  24. Innervisions -- Stevie Wonder
  25. Closing Time -- Tom Waits
  26. For Your Pleasure -- Roxy Music

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    10/10

  1. Ege Bamyasi -- CAN
  2. Pink Moon -- Nick Drake

    3. 9/10

  3. Neu! -- Neu!
  4. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars -- David Bowie

    5. 8/10

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

    12. 7/10

  12. Dogon A.D. -- Julius Hemphill
  13. The Academy in Peril-- John Cale
  14. Science Fiction -- Ornette Coleman
  15. Sahara -- McCoy Tyner
  16. Black Unity -- Pharoah Sanders
  17. Transformer -- Lou Reed
  18. The Black Ark -- Noah Howard
  19. Circle-2 Gathering -- Circle
  20. The Grand Wazoo -- The Mothers of Invention
  21. The Spotlight Kid -- Captain Beefheart
  22. Saxophone Improvisations Series F -- Anthony Braxton
  23. Superfly -- Curtis Mayfield
  24. Clube da Esquina -- Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges
  25. World Galaxy -- Alice Coltrane With Strings
  26. Machine Head -- Deep Purple
  27. 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. Improvisie -- Paul Bley
  10. Journey in Satchidananda -- Alice Coltrane & Pharoah Sanders
  11. Pawn Hearts -- Van der Graaf Generator
  12. Universal Consciousness -- Alice Coltrane
  13. Sun Ship -- John Coltrane
  14. Meddle -- Pink Floyd
  15. Twins -- Ornette Coleman

    16. 7/10

  16. Music to Eat -- Hampton Grease Band
  17. Thembi -- Pharoah Sanders
  18. Fourth -- Soft Machine
  19. Chruch of Anthrax -- John Cale & Terry Riley
  20. A Tribute to Jack Johnson -- Miles Davis
  21. Fragile -- Yes
  22. Bronca Buenos Aires -- Jorge López Ruiz
  23. What's Going On -- Marvin Gaye
  24. Love Call -- Ornette Coleman
  25. Bryter Layter -- Nick Drake
  26. Songs of Love and Hate -- Leonard Cohen
  27. The Call -- Mal Waldron, Jimmy Jackson, Eberhard Weber & Fred Braceful
  28. Tupelo Honey -- Van Morrison
  29. Led Zeppelin IV -- Led Zeppelin
  30. 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. Liberation Music Orchestra -- Charlie Haden
  10. "mu" Second Part -- Don Cherry
  11. In the Wake of Poseidon -- King Crimson
  12. Monkey-Pockey-Boo -- Sonny Sharrock
  13. Piano Rags by Scott Joplin -- Joshua Rifkin (comp. Scott Joplin)
  14. Lizard -- King Crimson
  15. Moondance -- Van Morrison

    16. 7/10

  16. Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun) -- Pharoah Sanders
  17. Third Ear Band [Elements] -- Third Ear Band
  18. Transition -- John Coltrane
  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. Black Suite -- Jacques Coursil
  24. After the Gold Rush -- Neil Young
  25. Burnt Weeny Sandwich -- The Mothers of Invention
  26. Jewels of Thought -- Pharoah Sanders
  27. The Topography of the Lungs -- Evan Parker, Derek Bailey & Han Bennink
  28. Paranoid -- Black Sabbath
  29. Cosmo's Factory -- Creedence Clearwater Revival
  30. Parallelograms -- Linda Perhacs
  31. Music for K -- Tomasz Stańko Quartet
  32. Loaded -- The Velvet Underground
  33. The Man Who Sold the World-- David Bowie
  34. Black Sabbath -- Black Sabbath
  35. 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. Valentyne Suite -- Colosseum
  8. Porto Novo -- Marion Brown
  9. A Rainbow in Curved Air -- Terry Riley
  10. Al - Fatihah -- Black Unity Trio

    11. 8/10

  11. Trout Mask Replica -- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
  12. Is -- Chick Corea
  13. Happy Sad -- Tim Buckley
  14. Townes Van Zandt -- Townes Van Zandt
  15. The Living Music -- Alexander von Schlippenbach
  16. Phallus Dei -- Amon Düül II
  17. Nipples -- The Peter Brötzmann Sextext
  18. Our Mother the Mountain -- Townes Van Zandt
  19. Abbey Road -- The Beatles
  20. Karma -- Pharoah Sanders
  21. The Yellow Princess -- John Fahey

    22. 7/10

  22. Venus in Cancer -- Robbie Basho
  23. Prayer for Peace -- Amalgam
  24. Volume Two -- The Soft Machine
  25. The Velvet Underground -- The Velvet Underground
  26. Arthur (or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) -- The Kinks
  27. Five Leaves Left -- Nick Drake
  28. Anthony Braxton [B-X° / N O I 47A] -- Anthony Braxton
  29. Let It Bleed -- The Rolling Stones
  30. Filles de Kilimanjaro -- Miles Davis
  31. Scott 4 -- Scott Walker
  32. Bleak House -- Terje Rypdal
  33. Led Zeppelin II -- Led Zeppelin
  34. Esoteric Circle -- Jan Garbarek with Terje Rypdal
  35. Gal Costa -- Gal Costa
  36. Luna Surface -- Alan Silva and His Celestrial Communication Orchestra
  37. Hot Rats -- Frank Zappa
  38. Led Zeppelin -- Led Zeppelin
  39. Scott 3 -- Scott Walker

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    10/10

  1. Astral Weeks -- Van Morrison
  2. Odessey and Oracle -- The Zombies

    3. 9/10

  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. Now He Sings, Now He Sobs -- Chick Corea
  16. The Marble Index -- Nico
  17. Strictly Personal -- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
  18. The Magic of Ju-Ju -- Archie Shepp
  19. Cosmic Music -- John Coltrane & Alice Coltrane
  20. In C -- Terry Riley
  21. Miles in the Sky -- Miles Davis
  22. The Voice of the Turtle -- John Fahey
  23. 3 Compositions of New Jazz -- Anthony Braxton
  24. Contact -- Silver Apples
  25. Music from Big Pink -- The Band
  26. Beggars Banquet -- The Rolling Stones
  27. The Beatles [White Album] -- The Beatles

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    10/10

  1. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn -- Pink Floyd
  2. Strange Strings -- Sun Ra and His Astro Infinity Arkestra

    3. 9/10

  3. The Parable of Arable Land -- Red Crayola
  4. Safe as Milk -- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
  5. Intents and Purposes: The Jazz Artistry of Bill Dixon -- The Bill Dixon Orchestra
  6. Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy -- Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra
  7. The Velvet Underground & Nico -- The Velvet Underground & Nico

    8. 8/10

  8. Forever Changes -- Love
  9. Chappaqua Suite -- Ornette Coleman
  10. Sound -- Roscoe Mitchell Sextet
  11. Song For -- Joseph Jarman
  12. Kulu Sé Mama -- John Coltrane
  13. Compulsion -- Andrew Hill
  14. Monument -- Hansson & Karlsson
  15. Tauhid -- Pharoah Sanders
  16. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band -- The Beatles
  17. Requia & Other Compositions for Guitar Solo -- John Fahey

    18. 7/10

  18. Axis: Bold as Love -- The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  19. Contours -- Sam Rivers
  20. Globe Unity -- Alexander von Schlippenbach
  21. Goodbye and Hello -- Tim Buckley
  22. Chelsea Girl -- Nico
  23. Magical Mystery Tour -- The Beatles
  24. Indian War Whoop -- The Holy Modal Rounders
  25. Miles Smiles -- The Miles Davis Quintet
  26. Expression -- John Coltrane
  27. Absolutely Free -- The Mothers of Invention
  28. The Empty Foxhole -- Ornette Coleman
  29. Songs of Leonard Cohen -- Leonard Cohen
  30. Sorcerer -- Miles Davis
  31. Far East Suite -- Duke Ellington
  32. Are You Experienced -- The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  33. Volume 6: Days Have Gone By -- John Fahey
  34. 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. Blonde on Blonde -- Bob Dylan

    8. 7/10

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

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Ghosts -- Albert Ayler Quartet
  2. A Love Supreme -- John Coltrane

    3. 8/10

  3. Spiritual Unity -- Albert Ayler
  4. Rubber Soul -- The Beatles
  5. The Giuseppi Logan Quartet -- The Giuseppi Logan Quartet
  6. Highway 61 Revisited -- Bob Dylan
  7. Explosions -- Bob James Trio

    8. 7/10

  8. Volume 3: Dance of Death & Other Plantation Favorites -- John Fahey
  9. Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul -- Otis Redding
  10. Volume 5: The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death -- John Fahey
  11. Solo Monk -- Thelonious Monk
  12. Free for All -- Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
  13. Jackson C. Frank -- Jackson C. Frank
  14. Pastel Blues -- Nina Simone
  15. Point of Departure -- Andrew Hill
  16. E.S.P. -- Miles Davis
  17. Bahia -- John Coltrane
  18. Bringing It All Back Home -- Bob Dylan
  19. The John Coltrane Quartet Plays -- The John Coltrane Quartet
  20. Help! -- The Beatles

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    10/10

    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. Tonight at Noon -- Charles Mingus

    6. 7/10

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

    11. 6/10

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

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    10/10

  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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    10/10

  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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    10/10

    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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    10/10

    9/10

    8/10

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

    5. 7/10

  5. At Last! -- Etta James
  6. Soul Station -- Hank Mobley
  7. Change of the Century -- Ornette Coleman
  8. Mingus Dynasty -- Charles Mingus and His Jazz Groups
  9. True Blue -- Tina Brooks

    10. 6/10

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

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    10/10

    9/10

  1. The Shape of Jazz to Come -- Ornette Coleman

    2. 8/10

  2. Mingus Ah Um -- Charles Mingus
  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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    10/10

    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

  1. The Clown -- Charles Mingus

    2. 8/10

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

    3. 7/10

  3. Monk's Music -- Thelonious Monk Septet
  4. Brilliant Corners -- Thelonious Monk
  5. Saxophone Colossus -- Sonny Rollins
  6. 'Round About Midnight -- Miles Davis
  7. Mingus Three -- Charles Mingus, Hampton Hawes & Danny Richmond

    8. 6/10

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

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    10/10

    9/10

    8/10

  1. Pithecanthropus erectus -- The Charlie Mingus Jazz Workshop

    2. 7/10

    6/10

  2. 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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    10/10

    9/10

    8/10

    7/10

    6/10

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