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

  3. The Healer -- SUMAC
  4. 8/10

  5. Where we've been, Where we go from here -- Friko
  6. I Wish You Every Success -- Fashion Tips
  7. Lives Outgrown -- Beth Gibbons
  8. not all prochecies -- i.o
  9. Flesh Tape -- Flesh Tape
  10. The Promise of Rain -- Scarcity
  11. 7/10

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


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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Echoes -- Fire! Orchestra
  2. 8/10

  3. Attachment Styles -- M(h)aol
  4. The Lamb as Effigy -- Sprain
  5. Úpal -- Kostnatění
  6. Witchy Activities and the Maple Death -- Monika Roscher Bigband
  7. Camaraderie -- Quetzal Tirado Unit
  8. Solitaire -- Everyone Asked About You [archival]
  9. Gold Star -- Space Camp
  10. 7/10

  11. Hell Entrance: Liberation Paralysis -- Culpable
  12. Why Do You Mourn -- The End
  13. First Aid Kit -- Big Blood
  14. Figura -- The Canyon Observer
  15. Pink Colour Surgery -- The Psychotic Monks
  16. Helionomicon -- Ulthar
  17. The Head Hurts but the Heart Knows the Truth -- Headache
  18. Why Is This Happening to You? -- Fotbal
  19. Build Yourself a Shrine and Pray -- Bruxa Maria
  20. Thirty Three Recurring -- Fog
  21. Leprous Daylight -- Fossilization
  22. Doomscroll -- Naked Lungs
  23. Everything Is Alive -- Slowdive
  24. (Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality -- Eluvium
  25. Disharmonium - Nahab -- Blut aus Nord
  26. Formal Growth in the Desert -- Protomartyr
  27. zzz... zzz... zzz... -- kuragari
  28. Bosoragazan -- Odz Manouk
  29. Elite Terrorism Modulus -- Elite Terrorism Modulus
  30. Punk Tactics -- Joey Valance & Brae
  31. Unus mundus patet -- Jute Gyte
  32. Les trois amis de l'hiver -- Li Jianhong
  33. Mitsubishi Suicide -- Mitsubishi Suicide
  34. Posh Swat -- John Dwyer, Ryan Sawyer, Andres Renteria
  35. Determined to Strike -- Sarmat
  36. ZA! & la TransMegaCobla -- ZA! & la TransMegaCobla
  37. Crash Recoil -- Surgeon
  38. Devil Music -- Portrayal of Guilt
  39. Nizozot -- Bastarda
  40. CYRM -- ØXN
  41. Wasn't Built in a Day -- Rome Streetz & Big Ghost Ltd.
  42. Malivore -- Hasard
  43. Faced Out -- Faced Out
  44. Hive Mind Narcosis -- Thantifaxath
  45. We Must Leave You -- Throat
  46. The Gray in Between -- Jeromes Dream
  47. More Dead -- Sacrifices [Zhertvoprinosheniya]
  48. Saccades -- Rian Treanor & Ocen James
  49. Knocknarea -- Maruja
  50. Silhouette Machine -- Flooding
  51. Today I Laid Down -- bl4ck m4rket c4rt
  52. Blackened Cerebral Rifts -- Dead and Dripping
  53. The Beggar -- Swans
  54. Stereo Mind Game -- Daughter
  55. Teratoma -- 15,000 Guns
  56. Zorn -- Zorn
  57. Canto Ostinato -- Erik Hall
  58. Une interprétation de la dissolution glaciale en quatre mouvements -- Turpitude
  59. Burned Car Highway Light Volcanic -- Prizes Roses Rosa (p rosa) (panda rosa)
  60. Fake -- Hoplites
  61. Sól án varma -- Sól án varma
  62. II -- Pure Adult
  63. 93696 -- Liturgy
  64. Killed Alive -- Stella Research Committee
  65. Travel -- The Necks
  66. ...I Watched 10 Years of Pacific Weather... -- Prizes Roses Rosa (p rosa) (panda rosa) & Elijah Knutsen
  67. 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

  3. Honest Comedy -- Infinity Land
  4. Most Normal -- Gilla Band
  5. Aveilut -- Scarcity
  6. 2 -- Coconuts
  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

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


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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Volcanic Bird Enemy and the Voiced Concern -- Lil Ugly Mane
  2. 8/10

  3. La mort du sens -- Gnod
  4. For the First Time -- Black Country, New Road
  5. Filthy Dreams -- Leshiy
  6. G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! -- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  7. Imperative Imperceptible Impulse -- Ad Nauseam
  8. Vlad Tapes -- Filmmaker
  9. Jubilee -- Japanese Breakfast
  10. Promises -- Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra
  11. 7/10

  12. Caribou Killer -- Sun Is Poison
  13. The Lurch -- Yautja
  14. Preserved in Torment -- Mortiferum
  15. Repetition Hymns -- Black Swan
  16. Cull Ficle -- Asian Glow
  17. Contractions -- Michael Foster & Ben Bennett
  18. Thirstier -- Torres
  19. For the Glory of Your Redeemer -- Misotheist
  20. Coral Island -- The Coral
  21. Solar Drone Ceremony -- Neptunian Maximalism
  22. _____ -- Sadness
  23. För Allting -- Makthaverskan
  24. Uneasy -- Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh & Tyshawn Sorey
  25. I Became Birds -- Home Is Where
  26. Famine, Putrid and Fucking Endless -- Atvm
  27. Surrounding Structures -- Veik
  28. Calvaire -- Ferriterium
  29. DOM 1919 -- Nac/Hut Report
  30. Wax People -- Wax People
  31. Defeat -- Fire!
  32. Archeology -- The Stick Figures [archival]
  33. Katartisis -- Serpent Column
  34. Cavalcade -- black midi
  35. Call Me if You Get Lost -- Tyler, the Creator
  36. My Head Hz -- Naked Days
  37. Nafs at Peace -- Jaubi
  38. Azmari -- Samā'ī
  39. a softer focus -- claire rousay
  40. A Proposed Method for Determining Sanding Fitness -- Stella Research Committee
  41. He Whose Name Was Long Forgotten -- Fossilization
  42. Sinner Get Ready -- Lingua Ignota
  43. Bird Meets Wire -- Susan Alcorn, Leila Bordeuil & Ingrid Laubrock
  44. How the Garden Grows -- Yvette
  45. Razor's Edge -- Rome Streetz & Futurewave
  46. 1 House -- Slant
  47. Imperative Imperceptible Impulse -- Ad Nauseam
  48. Made Out of Sound -- Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt
  49. Holoceno -- Papangu
  50. Rien ne suffit -- Plebeian Grandstand
  51. Seminal Baptism -- Tantric Bile
  52. lines between the doorframe -- Asian Glow
  53. Radio Edit -- Ciśnienie
  54. Phantom Indigo -- Seputus
  55. Mental Decay -- Kvadrat
  56. Lucid Express -- Lucid Express
  57. Lucy & Aaron -- Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt
  58. The Divine Punishment -- Antediluvian
  59. Not Quite Dracula Music -- Soft Kill
  60. Golden Doubt -- Quivers
  61. The Space in Which the Uncontrollable Unknown Resides, Can Be the Place From Which Creation Arises -- Work, Money, Death
  62. A Beginner's Mind -- Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine
  63. I Have Seen the Light, and It Was Repulsive -- Sermon of Flames
  64. Hidemi -- Patrick Shiroishi
  65. Little Oblivions -- Julien Baker
  66. Yamawarau -- Fuubutsushi
  67. Negative Infinity -- The Flying Luttenbachers
  68. Laura Stevenson -- Laura Stevenson
  69. A Magnificent Day for an Exorcism -- TH1RT3EN
  70. The Cyclic Reckoning -- Suffering Hour
  71. Tawny -- Drug Church
  72. With Drums -- Machinefabriek
  73. Degenerations -- Diskord
  74. 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

  4. Dead Kids, R.I.P. City -- Soft Kill
  5. Hamza -- Lonker See
  6. Speciation -- Faceless Burial
  7. Lena -- Anna Högberg Attack
  8. Endless Detainment -- Serpent Column
  9. Kaiju Eats Cheeseburgers -- Darrifourcq Hermia Ceccaldi
  10. Welcome to Conceptual Beach -- Young Jesus
  11. Skáphe³ -- Skáphe
  12. 7/10

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


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    10/10

  1. Arrival -- Fire! Orchestra
  2. 9/10

  3. The Third Ascension -- Glenn Branca
  4. 8/10

  5. Four of Arrows -- Great Grandpa
  6. Caligula -- Lingua Ignota
  7. House of Sugar -- (Sandy) Alex G
  8. Sea of Worry -- Have a Nice Life
  9. First Body -- Two People
  10. No World as Good as Mine -- Kai Whiston
  11. Keepsake -- Hatchie
  12. Schlagenheim -- black midi
  13. Two Hands -- Big Thief
  14. Disgorged from Psychotic Depths -- Mortiferum
  15. H.A.Q.Q. -- Liturgy
  16. 7/10

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


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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Aviary -- Julia Holter
  2. 8/10

  3. You Won't Get What You Want -- Daughters
  4. Some Rap Songs -- Earl Sweatshirt
  5. Spiraling -- Special Interest
  6. Vile Luxury -- Imperial Triumphant
  7. One Eye Sees Red -- Lonker See
  8. Gestures Been -- They Are Gutting a Body of Water
  9. Paraffin -- Armand Hammer
  10. 7/10

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


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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Science Fiction -- Brand New
  2. 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. Cigarettes After Sex -- Cigarettes After Sex
  9. 7/10

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


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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Horse Jumper of Love -- Horse Jumper of Love
  2. 8/10

  3. A Moon Shaped Pool -- Radiohead
  4. Atrocity Exhibition -- Danny Brown
  5. Blackstar -- David Bowie
  6. She Sleeps, She Sleeps -- Fire!
  7. The Glowing Man -- Swans
  8. 7/10

  9. I. -- Širom
  10. Ritual -- Fire! Orchestra
  11. Bottomless Pit -- Death Grips
  12. Plays the Music of Twin Peaks -- Xiu Xiu
  13. Eraser Stargazer-- Guerilla Toss
  14. Blonde -- Frank Ocean
  15. 22, A Million-- Bon Iver
  16. We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your service -- A Tribe Called Quest
  17. The Synarchy of Molten Bones -- Deathspell Omega
  18. Skáphe² -- Skáphe
  19. Emotion: Side B -- Carly Rae Jepsen
  20. Cody -- Joyce Manor
  21. Starspawn -- Blood Incantation
  22. Worry. -- Jeff Rosenstock
  23. Teens of Denial -- Car Seat Headrest
  24. The Wanderer -- Jana Winderen
  25. 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

  4. Third Side of Tape -- Lil Ugly Mane
  5. Carrie & Lowell -- Sufjan Stevens
  6. E·MO·TION -- Carly Rae Jepsen
  7. Exercises in Futility -- Mgła
  8. Vulnicura -- Björk
  9. 7/10

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


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    10/10

  1. To Be Kind -- Swans
  2. 9/10

    8/10

  3. Africa Express Presents... Terry Riley's In C Mali -- Africa Express
  4. Transmuted Marrow -- Gath Šmânê
  5. Shiny Eyed Babies -- Bent Knee
  6. Wild Ivy League -- Wild Ivy
  7. Promulgation of the Fall -- Dead Congregation
  8. 7/10

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


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    10/10

  1. Trouble Will Find Me -- The National
  2. 9/10

  3. Teethed Glory and Injury -- Altar of Plagues
  4. 8/10

  5. Maybe You, No One Else Worth It -- Brave Bird
  6. Exit! -- Fire! Orchestra
  7. Colored Sands -- Gorguts
  8. The Future Is Cancelled -- Captain, We're Sinking
  9. Summer Death -- Marietta
  10. Three Sided Tape Volume One -- Lil Ugly Mane
  11. Vermis -- Ulcerate
  12. 7/10

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


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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Just Married -- Glocca Morra
  2. The Seer -- Swans
  3. 8/10

  4. The Money Store -- Death Grips
  5. good kid, m.A.A.d. city -- Kendrick Lamar
  6. Bloom -- Beach House
  7. On the Impossible Past -- The Menzingers
  8. 7/10

  9. Outminded -- Dating
  10. Sorry -- White Lung
  11. Drought -- Deathspell Omega
  12. All We Love We Leave Behind -- Converge
  13. Ceremony -- Anna von Hausswolff
  14. France 98 -- Girl Band
  15. Abominamentvm -- Imperial Triumphant
  16. 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! -- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  17. Hell III -- Hell
  18. With Hearts Toward None -- Mgła
  19. Ten Stores -- mewithoutYou
  20. Mista Thug Isolation -- Lil Ugly Mane
  21. Green to Blue -- Breathless
  22. No Love Deep Web -- Death Grips
  23. channel ORANGE -- Frank Ocean
  24. Advaitic Songs -- Om
  25. Centipede Hz -- Animal Collective
  26. De Vermis Mysteriis -- High on Fire
  27. 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

  5. Dog Eat Dog -- Dog Eat Dog
  6. Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres -- Matana Roberts
  7. Parrot Flies -- Algernon Cadwallader
  8. Mammal -- Altar of Plagues
  9. King of Limbs -- Radiohead
  10. The Destroyers of All -- Ulcerate
  11. Father, Son, Holy Ghost -- Girls
  12. Exmilitary -- Death Grips
  13. Roads to Judah -- Deafheaven
  14. The Whole Love -- Wilco
  15. XXX -- Danny Brown
  16. Let England Shake -- PJ Harvey
  17. Ravedeath, 1972 -- Tim Hecker
  18. Diabolus Absconditus -- Deathspell Omega
  19. Kaputt -- Destroyer
  20. Helplessness Blues -- Fleet Foxes
  21. Gospel -- Fireworks
  22. From the Depths of Darkness -- Burzum
  23. Burst Apart -- The Antlers
  24. Under Soil and Dirt -- The Story So Far
  25. Damnesia -- Alkaline Trio
  26. 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

  5. Coconuts -- Coconuts
  6. Uberschleiss -- Scorpion Violente
  7. Daughters -- Daughters
  8. Contra -- Vampire Weekend
  9. Halcyon Digest -- Deerhunter
  10. Liberation Through Hearing -- Demdike Stare
  11. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy -- Kanye West
  12. Majesty and Decay -- Immolation
  13. 7/10

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


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    10/10

  1. The Live in Lisbon -- Virginia Genta & Chris Corsano
  2. 9/10

  3. Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head -- Jordaan Mason & The Horse Museum
  4. 8/10

  5. Masked Dancers: Concern in So Many Things You Forget Where You Are -- The Brave Little Abacus
  6. Daisy -- Brand New
  7. Hospice -- The Antlers
  8. Rend Each Other Like Wild Beasts, Till the Earth Shall Reek with Midnight Massacre-- Gnaw Their Tongues
  9. Merriweather Post Pavilion -- Animal Collective
  10. 7/10

  11. Everything Is Fire -- Ulcerate
  12. Symbiosis -- Demdike Stare
  13. Daughter of Darkness -- Natural Snow Buildings
  14. Black Hole -- Full Blast
  15. Facial -- K-Branding
  16. Watersports -- Mi Ami
  17. White Tomb -- Altar of Plagues
  18. Bummer Times Demo -- Merchant Ships
  19. Common Existence -- Thursday
  20. In the Dream of the Sea Life -- Candy Claws
  21. Cat Party -- Cat Party
  22. Swarth -- Portal
  23. iwrotehaikusaboutcannibalisminyouryearbook LP -- iwrotehaikusaboutcannibalisminyouryearbook
  24. Unutella -- Nuito
  25. Wind's Poem -- Mount Eerie
  26. You Will Never Know Why -- Sweet Trip
  27. Helvetia's Junk Shop -- Helvetia
  28. In This World -- susquatch
  29. 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

  6. Some Kind of Cadwallader -- Algernon Cadwallader
  7. The Second Original Silence -- Original Silence
  8. Mass of the Fermenting Dregs -- Mass of the Fermenting Dregs
  9. Visiter -- The Dodos
  10. The Black Flux -- Virus
  11. 7/10

  12. Hello Everyone, Nice to Meet You, We're Midori -- Midori
  13. The New Backwards -- Coil
  14. Two Airships / Exploder Falls -- Candy Claws
  15. Gong Lake -- Neptune
  16. April -- Sun Kil Moon
  17. Horse -- Motorama
  18. The Chicago Project -- Matana Roberts
  19. Songs to Scream at the Sun -- Have Heart
  20. Blue Lambency Downward -- Kayo Dot
  21. The Unlistenable Years -- Toy Killers
  22. Ottoman Black -- Jason Crumer
  23. Mennonite -- KEN Mode
  24. Fleet Foxes -- Fleet Foxes
  25. Dawn -- Mount Eerie
  26. In Ghost Colours -- Cut Copy
  27. Black Pus 4: All Aboard the Magic Pus -- Black Pus
  28. Tigers Jaw -- Tigers Jaw
  29. 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

  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. Strawberry Jam -- Animal Collective
  8. 7/10

  9. Outre -- Portal
  10. Second♥ -- Midori
  11. Dead Rails -- Air Conditioning
  12. Drowner Yellow Swans -- Drowner Yellow Swans
  13. Souvenirs d'un autre monde -- Alcest
  14. David Thomas Broughton vs. 7 Hertz -- David Thomas Broughton vs. 7 Hertz
  15. Whitenoise Superstar -- Astrobrite
  16. Weighing Souls With Sand -- The Angelic Process
  17. Liars -- Liars
  18. Plaguebearer -- Wraiths
  19. Scribble Mural Comic Journal -- A Sunny Day in Glasgow
  20. Hvarf/Heim -- Sigur Rós
  21. And Their Refinement of the Decline -- Stars of the Lid
  22. Volta -- Björk
  23. Operator Dead... Post Abandoned -- Burning Star Core
  24. Shadows in the Light -- Immolation
  25. 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

  6. Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue -- Kayo Dot
  7. Donuts -- J Dilla
  8. Brother, Sister -- mewithoutYou
  9. Mass Hysterism in Another Situation -- New Direction Unit
  10. Algernon Cadwallader -- Algernon Cadwallader
  11. Hail Infernal Darkness -- Drawn and Quartered
  12. 7/10

  13. Blood in Our Wells -- Drudkh
  14. Settle Down City -- Young Widows
  15. The Air Force -- Xiu Xiu
  16. Classic Erasmus Fusion -- Volcano the Bear
  17. Beautiful Seizure -- volcano!
  18. Ships -- Danielson
  19. Reprisal -- KEN Mode
  20. Destroyer's Rubies -- Destroyer
  21. Our Love Will Destroy the World -- Birchville Cat Motel
  22. Hell Songs -- Daughters
  23. Hell Hath No Fury -- Clipse
  24. Blood Mountain -- Mastodon
  25. Magic Potion -- The Black Keys
  26. New Sentimentality -- toe
  27. Dog Problems -- The Format
  28. We're Up to No Good, We're Up to No Good -- Rory
  29. 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

  4. Tell Me About the Long Dark Path Home -- The Newfound Interest in Connecticut
  5. Takk... -- Sigur Rós
  6. Illinois -- Sufjan Stevens
  7. Alligator -- The National
  8. The Book About My Idle Plot on a Vague Anxiety -- toe
  9. Feels -- Animal Collective
  10. 7/10

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


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    10/10

    9/10

  1. ///Codename: Dustsucker -- Bark Psychosis
  2. 8/10

  3. Bluffer's Guide to the Flight Deck -- Flotation Toy Warning
  4. Funeral -- Arcade Fire
  5. DNA on DNA -- DNA
  6. The College Dropout -- Kanye West
  7. 7/10

  8. Archaic -- Rudimentary Peni
  9. Shibuboshi -- Shibusashirazu
  10. Return of the Black Death -- Drawn and Quartered
  11. Jesu -- Jesu
  12. Sonic Nurse -- Sonic Youth
  13. Si monvmentvm reqvires, circvmspice -- Deathspell Omega
  14. Madvillainy -- Madvillain
  15. They Were Wrong, So We Drowned -- Liars
  16. A Ghost Is Born -- Wilco
  17. Panopticon -- Isis
  18. Catch for Us the Foxes -- mewithoutYou
  19. Leviathan -- Mastodon
  20. We Live -- Electric Wizard
  21. Medúlla -- Björk
  22. Decimate Christendom -- Incantation
  23. Pollyanna -- Northstar
  24. Good News for People Who Love Bad News -- Modest Mouse
  25. 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

  4. Mount Eerie -- The Microphones
  5. Things Viral -- Khanate
  6. 8/10

  7. Vaudeville Villain -- Viktor Vaughn
  8. The Magnolia Electric Co. -- Songs: Ohia
  9. Pulling Our Weight -- The Radio Dept.
  10. A Promise -- Xiu Xiu
  11. Dopesmoker -- Sleep
  12. The Disintegration Loops II -- William Basinski
  13. 7/10

  14. Boris at Last -Feedbacker- -- Boris
  15. Happy Songs for Happy People -- Mogwai
  16. Deja Entendu -- Brand New
  17. Black Eyes -- Black Eyes
  18. Choirs of the Eye -- Kayo Dot
  19. Extermination Revelry -- Drawn and Quartered
  20. Transatlanticism -- Death Cab for Cutie
  21. The Disintegration Loops IV -- William Basinski
  22. Akuma no uta -- Boris
  23. De-Loused in the Comatorium -- The Mars Volta
  24. Coma Waering -- The Angelic Process
  25. A Special Album -- Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band
  26. velocity : design : comfort. -- Sweet Trip
  27. War All the Time -- Thursday
  28. Hail to the Thief -- Radiohead
  29. Make Yourself Sick -- Boys Night Out
  30. 6 -- Supersilent
  31. Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers -- The National
  32. The Room's Too Cold -- The Early November
  33. Nervous Cop -- Nervous Cop
  34. Two Conversations -- The Appleseed Cast
  35. Interventions and Lullabies -- The Format
  36. Everything Goes Numb -- Streetlight Manifesto
  37. It Won't Snow Where You're Going -- Park
  38. 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

  4. ( ) -- Sigur Rós
  5. Mclusky Do Dallas -- Mclusky
  6. We Are the Only Friends We Have -- Piebald
  7. Hold Your Horse Is -- Hella
  8. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot -- Wilco
  9. Unholy Cult -- Immolation
  10. Yanqui U.X.O. -- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  11. 7/10

  12. Less Is More or Less -- The Newfound Interest in Connecticut
  13. You Forgot It In People -- Broken Social Scene
  14. Didn't It Rain -- Songs: Ohia
  15. Songs About Leaving -- Carissa's Wierd
  16. Sadness Will Prevail -- Today Is the Day
  17. Remission -- Mastodon
  18. Oceanic -- Isis
  19. Let Us Prey -- Electric Wizard
  20. [A-->B] Life -- mewithoutYou
  21. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots -- The Flaming Lips
  22. Turn On the Bright Lights -- Interpol
  23. Ballads -- Derek Bailey
  24. Songs for the Deaf -- Queens of the Stone Age
  25. Is This Thing Loaded? -- Northstar
  26. Lifted, or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground -- Bright Eyes
  27. 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

  4. The Argument -- Fugazi
  5. They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top -- Liars
  6. Amnesiac -- Radiohead
  7. 8/10

  8. Leaves Turn Inside You -- Unwound
  9. She Knows... -- The Thing with Joe McPhee
  10. The Glow, Pt. 2 -- The Microphones
  11. Judeobeast Assassination -- Grand Belial's Key
  12. Renegade Heaven -- Bang On a Can All-Stars
  13. Full Collapse -- Thursday
  14. 7/10

  15. A Sun That Never Sets -- Neurosis
  16. It's a Wonderful Life -- Sparklehorse
  17. Endless Summer -- Fennesz
  18. Bob Dinners & Larry Noodles Present Tubby Turdner's Celebrity Avalanche -- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
  19. Khanate -- Khanate
  20. Nivraym -- Koenji Hyakkei
  21. Bath -- maudlin of the Well
  22. drukqs -- Aphex Twin
  23. Where You Are and Where You Want to Be -- On the Might of Princes
  24. Low Level Owl, Volume I -- The Appleseed Cast
  25. Ancient Melodies of the Future -- Built to Spill
  26. From Wisdom to Hate -- Gorguts
  27. Toxicity -- System of a Down
  28. Document #8 -- pageninetynine
  29. How I Loved You -- The Angels of Light
  30. Stay What You Are -- Saves the Day
  31. A Better Version of Me -- Rainer Maria
  32. From Here to Infirmary -- Alkaline Trio
  33. 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

  4. Whatever You Love, You Are -- Dirty Three
  5. Close to a World Below -- Immolation
  6. Ghost Tropic -- Songs: Ohia
  7. 8/10

  8. The Moon & Antarctica -- Modest Mouse
  9. Mare Vitalis -- The Appleseed Cast
  10. No Kill No Beep Beep -- Q and Not U
  11. Dopethrone -- Electric Wizard
  12. The For Carnation -- The For Carnation
  13. Dead as Dreams -- Weakling
  14. The Final Chapter -- Filth of Mankind
  15. 7/10

  16. The Miracle of 86 -- Miracle of 86
  17. Flood -- Boris
  18. Surrendered -- David S. Ware
  19. I Wrote the Last Chapter for You -- Edaline
  20. Relationship of Command -- At the Drive-In
  21. NYC Ghosts & Flowers -- Sonic Youth
  22. And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out -- Yo La Tengo
  23. Ezarian -- Lisabö
  24. Ramadan -- ee
  25. He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms... -- Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra
  26. Maybe I'll Catch Fire -- Alkaline Trio
  27. The Infernal Storm -- Incantation
  28. Fevers & Mirrors -- Bright Eyes
  29. Rated R -- Queens of the Stone Age
  30. Nixon -- Lambchop
  31. Alkaline Trio -- Alkaline Trio
  32. The Marshall Mathers LP -- Eminem
  33. Since I Left You -- The Avalanches


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    10/10

  1. American Football -- American Football
  2. 9/10

    8/10

  3. Don't Wake Me Up -- Microphones
  4. Times of Grace -- Neurosis
  5. The Soft Bulletin -- The Flaming Lips
  6. Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada -- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  7. Failures for Gods -- Immolation
  8. Ágætis byrjun-- Sigur Rós
  9. 7/10

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


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    10/10

  1. Obscura -- Gorguts
  2. 9/10

  3. Swans Are Dead -- Swans
  4. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea -- Neutral Milk Hotel
  5. 8/10

  6. End Hits -- Fugazi
  7. What Burns Never Returns -- Don Caballero
  8. Cold River Songs -- Bodychoke
  9. Ocean Songs -- Dirty Three
  10. Moon Pix -- Cat Power
  11. TNT -- Tortoise
  12. Number One of Three -- The Body Lovers
  13. 7/10

  14. How It Feels to Be Something On -- Sunny Day Real Estate
  15. Challenge for a Civilized Society -- Unwound
  16. Mocking the Philanthropist -- Grand Belial's Key
  17. The Shape of Punk to Come -- Refused
  18. Diabolical Conquest -- Incantation
  19. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill -- Lauryn Hill
  20. Goddamnit -- Alkaline Trio
  21. XO -- Elliott Smith
  22. The Roaring Mechanism -- P.E.E.
  23. A Thousand Leaves -- Sonic Youth
  24. Frame & Canvas -- Braid
  25. Conglomerate International -- Frodus
  26. The Boom, the Motion, and the Music -- The Jazz June
  27. EndSerenading -- Mineral
  28. The Sound of Perseverance -- Death
  29. Swingset in June -- Swingset in June
  30. Handsome, Beautiful / Sometimes Memory Fails Me Sometimes -- Everyone Asked About You
  31. Deserter's Songs -- Mercury Rev
  32. This Is Hardcore -- Pulp
  33. Water & Solutions -- Far


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    10/10

  1. Consume Red -- Ground-Zero
  2. The Lonesome Crowded West -- Modest Mouse
  3. 9/10

  4. OK Computer -- Radiohead
  5. Homogenic -- Björk
  6. 8/10

  7. Perfect from Now On -- Built to Spill
  8. Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space -- Spiritualized
  9. Everyone Asked About You -- Everyone Asked About You
  10. F♯A♯∞ -- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  11. Plays Standards -- Ground-Zero
  12. 7/10

  13. Miracle Research Center Staff -- P.E.E.
  14. Hide Here Forever -- Strictly Ballroom
  15. Chiastic Slide -- Autechre
  16. Mogwai Young Team -- Mogwai
  17. I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One -- Yo La Tengo
  18. Hazel -- Far Apart
  19. Temple of the Morning Star -- Today Is the Day
  20. Beautiful Charade -- Camber
  21. Come My Fanatics... -- Electric Wizard
  22. Either/Or -- Elliott Smith
  23. The Power of Failing -- Mineral
  24. Eight Hours Away From Being a Man -- Roadside Monument
  25. Portishead -- Portishead
  26. Sol Niger Within -- Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects
  27. ...When Life Hands You Lemons -- Piebald
  28. Jersey's Best Dancers -- Lifetime
  29. Kelvingrove Baby -- The Bathers
  30. 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

  6. Soundtracks for the Blind -- Swans
  7. Stereo -- Christie Front Drive
  8. Repetition -- Unwound
  9. Oblations and Blessings -- David S. Ware
  10. Horse Stories -- Dirty Three
  11. None So Vile -- Cryptopsy
  12. Endtroducing... -- DJ Shadow
  13. 7/10

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


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    10/10

  1. Written in Waters -- Ved Buens Ende.....
  2. 9/10

  3. The Infamous -- Mobb Deep
  4. 8/10

  5. Liquid Swords -- Genius/GZA
  6. Symbolic -- Death
  7. Red Medicine -- Fugazi
  8. Gar Box Demo #2 [I Win Me Over.] -- P.E.E.
  9. Don Caballero 2 -- Don Caballero
  10. Washing Machine -- Sonic Youth
  11. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness -- The Smashing Pumpkins
  12. Stellar Regions -- John Coltrane
  13. 7/10

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


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    10/10

  1. Yank Crime -- Drive Like Jehu
  2. 9/10

  3. Dummy -- Portishead
  4. 8/10

  5. Those Who Caress the Pale -- Ved Buens Ende.....
  6. At Action Park -- Shellac
  7. Willpower -- Today Is the Day
  8. De mysteriis dom sathanas -- Mayhem
  9. Welcome to Sky Valley -- Kyuss
  10. Diary -- Sunny Day Real Estate
  11. Rusty -- Rodan
  12. I Could Live in Hope -- Low
  13. 7/10

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


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    10/10

  1. Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) -- Wu-Tang Clan
  2. 9/10

  3. Fake Train -- Unwound
  4. Souvlaki -- Slowdive
  5. In utero -- Nirvana
  6. 8/10

  7. The Problem With Me -- Seam
  8. Nespithe -- Demilich
  9. Siamese Dream -- The Smashing Pumpkins
  10. Painful -- Yo La Tengo
  11. Debut -- Björk
  12. 7/10

  13. Ask Questions Later -- Cop Shoot Cop
  14. 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
  15. Cure for Pain -- Morphine
  16. Red House Painters [Rollercoaster] -- Red House Painters
  17. Tindersticks -- Tindersticks
  18. Transcendence Into the Peripheral -- diSEMBOWELMENT
  19. Admonishing the Bishops -- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
  20. In On the Kill Taker -- Fugazi
  21. Repeat -- This Heat
  22. Spheres -- Pestilence
  23. Ground Zero -- Ground-Zero
  24. Covenant -- Morbid Angel
  25. Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version -- Earth
  26. Enemy of the Sun -- Neurosis
  27. The Erosion of Sanity -- Gorguts
  28. Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly -- Moss Icon
  29. Supernova -- Today Is the Day
  30. 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

  4. Leng tch'e -- Naked City
  5. Liar -- The Jesus Lizard
  6. Thunder Perfect Mind -- Nurse With Wound
  7. 8/10

  8. Shadow Weaver -- The Legendary Pink Dots
  9. Theoria -- Barry Guy London Jazz Composers Orchestra feat. Irène Schweizer
  10. The Red in the Sky Is Ours -- At the Gates
  11. Fontanelle -- Babes in Toyland
  12. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me -- Angelo Badalamenti
  13. 7/10

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


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    10/10

  1. Spiderland -- Slint
  2. Laughing Stock -- Talk Talk
  3. 9/10

  4. Loveless -- My Bloody Valentine
  5. 8/10

  6. Dim the Lights, Chill the Ham -- Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
  7. Goat -- The Jesus Lizard
  8. Mental Blocks for All Ages -- Dog Faced Hermans
  9. Tremolo -- My Bloody Valentine
  10. Unquestionable Presence -- Atheist
  11. Human -- Death
  12. 7/10

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


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    10/10

  1. Repeater -- Fugazi
  2. 9/10

  3. Frizzle Fry -- Primus
  4. 8/10

  5. Goo -- Sonic Youth
  6. Naked City -- John Zorn [Naked City]
  7. Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic -- The Sundays
  8. Consumer Revolt -- Cop Shoot Cop
  9. Rust in Peace -- Megadeth
  10. 7/10

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


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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Disintegration -- The Cure
  2. Streetcleaner -- Godflesh
  3. 8/10

  4. Floating Into the Night -- Julee Cruise
  5. 13 Songs -- Fugazi
  6. On Fire -- Galaxie 500
  7. Pure -- The Jesus Lizard
  8. Griller -- UT
  9. Tweez -- Slint
  10. 7/10

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


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    10/10

  1. Today -- Galaxie 500
  2. 9/10

  3. Spirit of Eden -- Talk Talk
  4. Daydream Nation -- Sonic Youth
  5. 8/10

  6. Picture One -- Asylum Party
  7. Godflesh -- Godflesh
  8. The Tribe -- Caspar Brötzmann Massaker
  9. 7/10

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


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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Sister -- Sonic Youth
  2. 8/10

  3. Strangeways, Here We Come -- The Smiths
  4. In Gut's House -- UT
  5. Children of God -- Swans
  6. Blind Idiot God -- Blind Idiot God
  7. 7/10

  8. The Walking -- Jane Siberry
  9. Ur Kaos -- Ur Kaos
  10. White-Out Conditions -- Bel Canto
  11. Floodland -- The Sisters of Mercy
  12. Seize the Rainbow -- Sonny Sharrock Band
  13. Fünf auf der nach oben offenen Richterskala -- Einstürzende Neubauten
  14. Psonic Psunspot -- The Dukes of Stratosphear
  15. Pleased to Meet Me -- The Replacements
  16. Drum -- Hugo Largo
  17. Merry Go Round -- Laughing Hyenas
  18. Come On Pilgrim -- Pixies
  19. Ruins II -- Ruins
  20. Killing Technology -- Voivod
  21. Locust Abortion Technician -- Butthole Surfers
  22. Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me -- The Cure
  23. Warehouse: Songs and Stories -- Hüsker Dü
  24. 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

  3. Rembrandt Pussyhorse -- Butthole Surfers
  4. 8/10

  5. Atomizer -- Big Black
  6. Public Castration Is a Good Idea -- Swans
  7. The Colour of Spring -- Talk Talk
  8. Conviction -- UT
  9. 7/10

  10. EVOL -- Sonic Youth
  11. Morbid Visions -- Sepultura
  12. The Ghost Trade -- Camberwell Now
  13. Brotherhood -- New Order
  14. Holy Money -- Swans
  15. Peace Sells...But Who's Buying? -- Megadeth
  16. Epicus Doomicus Metallicus -- Candlemass
  17. Song X -- Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman
  18. Twitch -- Ministry
  19. Greed -- Swans
  20. Master of Puppets -- Metallica
  21. 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

  3. Confidential -- UT
  4. The Head On the Door -- The Cure
  5. Hounds of Love -- Kate Bush
  6. Low-Life -- New Order
  7. 7/10

  8. Tim -- The Replacements
  9. Meat Is Murder -- The Smiths
  10. Dinosaur -- Dinosaur
  11. Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good! -- Megadeth
  12. Amer$ide: Rock & Roll Is Dead - Long Live Rat at Rat R -- Rat at Rat R
  13. Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants) -- Cecil Taylor Segments II
  14. New Day Rising -- Hüsker Dü
  15. Laibach -- Laibach
  16. Telephone Free Landslide Victory -- Camper Van Beethoven
  17. Le poison qui rend fou -- Present
  18. A Cool Dark Place to Die -- Theatre of Ice
  19. Rites of Spring -- Rites of Spring
  20. Thursday Afternoon -- Brian Eno
  21. Six Compositions (Quartet) 1984 -- Anthony Braxton
  22. Salad Days -- Minor Threat
  23. Seven Churches -- Possessed
  24. This Is the Sea -- The Waterboys
  25. Spleen and Ideal -- Dead Can Dance
  26. Rum Sodomy & the Lash -- The Pogues
  27. 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

  4. Cop -- Swans
  5. UT -- UT
  6. Tabula rasa -- Arvo Pärt
  7. Broadcasting From Home -- Penguin Café Orchestra
  8. The Smiths -- The Smiths
  9. Double Nickels on the Dime -- Minutemen
  10. 7/10

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


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    10/10

  1. Filth -- Swans
  2. 9/10

    8/10

  3. Prehistory -- Circle X
  4. Confusion Is Sex -- Sonic Youth
  5. Power, Corruption and Lies -- New Order
  6. Symphony No. 1 (Tonal Plexus) -- Glenn Branca
  7. 7/10

  8. Title in Limbo -- The Residents & Renaldo and The Loaf
  9. Perverted by Language -- The Fall
  10. What Makes a Man Start Fires? -- Minutemen
  11. Out of Step -- Minor Threat
  12. Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T. -- Einstürzende Neubauten
  13. Violent Femmes -- Violent Femmes
  14. Transition -- Peter Michael Hamel
  15. Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks -- Brian Eno with Daniel Lanois & Roger Eno
  16. Let's Dance -- David Bowie
  17. Head Over Heels -- Cocteau Twins
  18. Speaking in Tongues -- Talking Heads
  19. 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

  8. Seven Songs -- 23 Skidoo
  9. Vs. -- Mission of Burma
  10. Ice Cream for Crow -- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
  11. Leichenschrei -- SPK
  12. Ambient 4: On Land -- Brian Eno
  13. Philharmony -- Haruomi Hosono
  14. Room to Live (Undilutable Slang Truth!) -- The Fall
  15. New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) -- Simple Minds
  16. Ike Yard -- Ike Yard
  17. Nebraska -- Bruce Springsteen
  18. Perspective -- P-Model
  19. Big Science -- Laurie Anderson
  20. Miami -- The Gun Club
  21. 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

  5. Fire of Love -- The Gun Club
  6. 8/10

  7. Minor Threat -- Minor Threat
  8. Odyshape -- The Raincoats
  9. Killing Time -- Massacre
  10. Circus Mort -- Circus Mort
  11. Movement -- New Order
  12. The Seduction -- Ludus
  13. 7/10

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


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    10/10

  1. Closer -- Joy Division
  2. 9/10

  3. Remain in Light -- Talking Heads
  4. For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder? -- The Pop Group
  5. 8/10

  6. Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror -- Harold Budd & Brian Eno
  7. Ming -- David Murray Octet
  8. Strange Celestial Road -- Sun Ra
  9. 1/2 Gentlemen / Not Beasts -- Half Japanese
  10. Crazy Rhythms -- The Feelies
  11. A-Z -- Colin Newman
  12. The River -- Bruce Springsteen
  13. Jane from Occupied Europe -- Swell Maps
  14. 7/10

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


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    10/10

  1. This Heat -- This Heat
  2. 9/10

  3. Teenage Jesus & The Jerks -- Teenage Jesus & The Jerks
  4. 8/10

  5. Rust Never Sleeps -- Neil Young & Crazy Horse
  6. Lodger -- David Bowie
  7. Unknown Pleasures -- Joy Division
  8. Y -- The Pop Group
  9. Eskimo -- The Residents
  10. Birth of a Being -- David S. Ware
  11. 7/10

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


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    10/10

  1. The Modern Dance -- Pere Ubu
  2. 9/10

  3. Alabama Feeling -- Arthur Doyle Plus 4
  4. 8/10

  5. Yellow Magic Orchestra -- Yellow Magic Orchestra
  6. Ducks Stab / Buster & Glen -- The Residents
  7. Darkness on the Edge of Town -- Bruce Springsteen
  8. Music for 18 Musicians -- Steve Reich
  9. Not Available -- The Residents
  10. 7/10

  11. Dub Housing -- Pere Ubu
  12. Chairs Missing -- Wire
  13. No New York -- Contortions; Teenage Jesus & The Jerks; Mars; D.N.A.
  14. Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) -- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
  15. Body Meta -- Ornette Coleman
  16. Vernal Equinox -- Jon Hassell
  17. Ambient 1: Music for Airports -- Brian Eno
  18. The Kick Inside -- Kate Bush
  19. More Songs About Buildings and Food -- Talking Heads
  20. 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

  4. Pink Flag -- Wire
  5. Marquee Moon -- Television
  6. Dialoghi del presente -- Luciano Cilio
  7. Pharoah -- Pharoah Sanders
  8. Alien Soundtracks -- Chrome
  9. First Meditations (For Quartet) -- John Coltrane
  10. "Heroes" -- David Bowie
  11. Dancing in Your Head -- Ornette Coleman
  12. 7/10

  13. Paragon -- Sam Rivers
  14. Zombie -- Fela Kuti & Afrika 70
  15. Herz aus Glas [Cœur de verre] -- Popol Vuh
  16. Animals -- Pink Floyd
  17. Before and After Science -- Brian Eno
  18. Ultravox! -- Ultravox!
  19. Implosions -- Stephan Micus
  20. Lust for Life -- Iggy Pop
  21. Talking Heads: 77 -- Talking Heads
  22. The Idiot -- Iggy Pop
  23. Rumors -- Fleetwood Mac


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    10/10

  1. Station to Station -- David Bowie
  2. 9/10

    8/10

  3. Radio Ethiopia -- Patti Smith
  4. The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse -- Duke Ellington
  5. 7/10

  6. Desire -- Bob Dylan
  7. Mother Earth's Plantasia -- Mort Garson
  8. Third Reich 'n Roll -- The Residents
  9. Balladyna -- Tomasz Stanko
  10. Music from the Penguin Café -- Penguin Café Orchestra
  11. Unlawful Noise -- Haazz & Company
  12. The Modern Lovers -- The Modern Lovers
  13. Moonmadness -- Camel
  14. Black Market -- Weather Report
  15. Water Babies -- Miles Davis
  16. 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

  4. Born to Run -- Bruce Springsteen
  5. Expensive Shit -- Fela Kuti & Africa 70
  6. Trio and Duet -- Anthony Braxton
  7. 7/10

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


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    10/10

  1. Red -- King Crimson
  2. 9/10

  3. Meet the Residents -- The Residents
  4. Autobahn -- Kraftwerk
  5. 8/10

  6. Interstellar Space -- John Coltrane
  7. Crystals -- Sam Rivers
  8. Get Up With It -- Miles Davis
  9. Love in Us All -- Pharoah Sanders
  10. Big Fun -- Miles Davis
  11. The Africa Brass Sessions, Vol. 2 -- John Coltrane
  12. 7/10

  13. On the Beach -- Neil Young
  14. Mirage -- Camel
  15. Soon Over Babaluma -- Can
  16. Here Come the Warm Jets -- Brian Eno
  17. In the Tradition -- Anthony Braxton
  18. Starless and Bible Black -- King Crimson
  19. Diamond Dogs -- David Bowie
  20. Radio City -- Big Star
  21. 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

  7. Faust IV -- Faust
  8. Pakistani Pomade -- Alexander von Schlippenbach Trio
  9. A.R. IV -- A.R. & Machines
  10. The Ear of the Behearer -- Dewey Redman
  11. The Wild, the Innocent, & the E Street Shuffle -- Bruce Springsteen
  12. Conference of the Birds -- David Holland Quartet
  13. 7/10

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


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    10/10

  1. Ege Bamyasi -- CAN
  2. Pink Moon -- Nick Drake
  3. 9/10

  4. Neu! -- Neu!
  5. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars -- David Bowie
  6. 8/10

  7. Let My Children Hear Music -- Charles Mingus
  8. Hosianna Mantra-- Popol Vuh
  9. Close to the Edge -- Yes
  10. Echo -- A.R. & Machines
  11. On the Corner -- Miles Davis
  12. So Far -- Faust
  13. Infinity-- John Coltrane
  14. 7/10

  15. Dogon A.D. -- Julius Hemphill
  16. The Academy in Peril-- John Cale
  17. Science Fiction -- Ornette Coleman
  18. Sahara -- McCoy Tyner
  19. Black Unity -- Pharoah Sanders
  20. Transformer -- Lou Reed
  21. The Black Ark -- Noah Howard
  22. Circle-2 Gathering -- Circle
  23. The Grand Wazoo -- The Mothers of Invention
  24. The Spotlight Kid -- Captain Beefheart
  25. Saxophone Improvisations Series F -- Anthony Braxton
  26. Superfly -- Curtis Mayfield
  27. Clube da Esquina -- Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges
  28. World Galaxy -- Alice Coltrane With Strings
  29. Machine Head -- Deep Purple
  30. Saint Dominic's Preview -- Van Morrison


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  1. Faust -- Faust
  2. Mirror Man -- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
  3. 9/10

  4. Die grüne Reise - The Green Journey -- A.R. & Machines
  5. First Utterance -- Comus
  6. In den Gärten Pharaos -- Popol Vuh
  7. Hunky Dory -- David Bowie
  8. 8/10

  9. Islands -- King Crimson
  10. Tago Mago -- CAN
  11. Improvisie -- Paul Bley
  12. Journey in Satchidananda -- Alice Coltrane & Pharoah Sanders
  13. Pawn Hearts -- Van der Graaf Generator
  14. Universal Consciousness -- Alice Coltrane
  15. Sun Ship -- John Coltrane
  16. Meddle -- Pink Floyd
  17. Twins -- Ornette Coleman
  18. 7/10

  19. Music to Eat -- Hampton Grease Band
  20. Thembi -- Pharoah Sanders
  21. Fourth -- Soft Machine
  22. Chruch of Anthrax -- John Cale & Terry Riley
  23. A Tribute to Jack Johnson -- Miles Davis
  24. Fragile -- Yes
  25. Bronca Buenos Aires -- Jorge López Ruiz
  26. What's Going On -- Marvin Gaye
  27. Love Call -- Ornette Coleman
  28. Bryter Layter -- Nick Drake
  29. Songs of Love and Hate -- Leonard Cohen
  30. The Call -- Mal Waldron, Jimmy Jackson, Eberhard Weber & Fred Braceful
  31. Tupelo Honey -- Van Morrison
  32. Led Zeppelin IV -- Led Zeppelin
  33. 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

  5. Yeti -- Amon Düül II
  6. Exuma II -- Exuma
  7. Lorca -- Tim Buckley
  8. For Alto -- Anthony Braxton
  9. 8/10

  10. Third -- Soft Machine
  11. Liberation Music Orchestra -- Charlie Haden
  12. "mu" Second Part -- Don Cherry
  13. In the Wake of Poseidon -- King Crimson
  14. Monkey-Pockey-Boo -- Sonny Sharrock
  15. Piano Rags by Scott Joplin -- Joshua Rifkin (comp. Scott Joplin)
  16. Lizard -- King Crimson
  17. Moondance -- Van Morrison
  18. 7/10

  19. Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun) -- Pharoah Sanders
  20. Third Ear Band [Elements] -- Third Ear Band
  21. Transition -- John Coltrane
  22. Lick My Decals Off, Baby -- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
  23. Les stances à Sophie -- Art Ensemble of Chicago
  24. Soundtracks -- CAN
  25. Affenstunde -- Popol Vuh
  26. Black Suite -- Jacques Coursil
  27. After the Gold Rush -- Neil Young
  28. Burnt Weeny Sandwich -- The Mothers of Invention
  29. Jewels of Thought -- Pharoah Sanders
  30. The Topography of the Lungs -- Evan Parker, Derek Bailey & Han Bennink
  31. Paranoid -- Black Sabbath
  32. Cosmo's Factory -- Creedence Clearwater Revival
  33. Parallelograms -- Linda Perhacs
  34. Music for K -- Tomasz Stańko Quartet
  35. Loaded -- The Velvet Underground
  36. The Man Who Sold the World-- David Bowie
  37. Black Sabbath -- Black Sabbath
  38. 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

  5. In the Court of the Crimson King -- King Crimson
  6. Black Woman -- Sonny Sharrock
  7. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere -- Neil Young
  8. Valentyne Suite -- Colosseum
  9. Porto Novo -- Marion Brown
  10. A Rainbow in Curved Air -- Terry Riley
  11. Al - Fatihah -- Black Unity Trio
  12. 8/10

  13. Trout Mask Replica -- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
  14. Is -- Chick Corea
  15. Happy Sad -- Tim Buckley
  16. Townes Van Zandt -- Townes Van Zandt
  17. The Living Music -- Alexander von Schlippenbach
  18. Phallus Dei -- Amon Düül II
  19. Nipples -- The Peter Brötzmann Sextext
  20. Our Mother the Mountain -- Townes Van Zandt
  21. Abbey Road -- The Beatles
  22. Karma -- Pharoah Sanders
  23. The Yellow Princess -- John Fahey
  24. 7/10

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


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    10/10

  1. Astral Weeks -- Van Morrison
  2. Odessey and Oracle -- The Zombies
  3. 9/10

  4. The Village Green Preservation Society -- The Kinks
  5. Machine Gun -- The Peter Brötzmann Octet
  6. Om -- John Coltrane
  7. 8/10

  8. Begin -- The Millennium
  9. Silver Apples -- Silver Apples
  10. It's Not Up to Us -- Byard Lancaster
  11. White Light / White Heat -- The Velvet Underground
  12. We're Only in It for the Money -- The Mothers of Invention
  13. Nefertiti -- Miles Davis
  14. Electric Ladyland -- The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  15. 7/10

  16. Love Cry -- Albert Ayler
  17. A Saucerful of Secrets -- Pink Floyd
  18. Now He Sings, Now He Sobs -- Chick Corea
  19. The Marble Index -- Nico
  20. Strictly Personal -- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
  21. The Magic of Ju-Ju -- Archie Shepp
  22. Cosmic Music -- John Coltrane & Alice Coltrane
  23. In C -- Terry Riley
  24. Miles in the Sky -- Miles Davis
  25. The Voice of the Turtle -- John Fahey
  26. 3 Compositions of New Jazz -- Anthony Braxton
  27. Contact -- Silver Apples
  28. Music from Big Pink -- The Band
  29. Beggars Banquet -- The Rolling Stones
  30. 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

  4. The Parable of Arable Land -- Red Crayola
  5. Safe as Milk -- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
  6. Intents and Purposes: The Jazz Artistry of Bill Dixon -- The Bill Dixon Orchestra
  7. Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy -- Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra
  8. The Velvet Underground & Nico -- The Velvet Underground & Nico
  9. 8/10

  10. Forever Changes -- Love
  11. Chappaqua Suite -- Ornette Coleman
  12. Sound -- Roscoe Mitchell Sextet
  13. Song For -- Joseph Jarman
  14. Kulu Sé Mama -- John Coltrane
  15. Compulsion -- Andrew Hill
  16. Monument -- Hansson & Karlsson
  17. Tauhid -- Pharoah Sanders
  18. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band -- The Beatles
  19. Requia & Other Compositions for Guitar Solo -- John Fahey
  20. 7/10

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


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    10/10

  1. Meditations -- John Coltrane
  2. 9/10

  3. Pet Sounds -- The Beach Boys
  4. Ascension -- John Coltrane
  5. 8/10

  6. Unit Structures -- Cecil Taylor
  7. Revolver -- The Beatles
  8. The Avant-Garde -- John Coltrane & Don Cherry
  9. Blonde on Blonde -- Bob Dylan
  10. 7/10

  11. The Psychedelic Sounds of... -- The 13th Floor Elevators
  12. Complete Communion -- Don Cherry
  13. Face to Face -- The Kinks
  14. Freak Out! -- The Mothers of Invention
  15. Sounds of Silence -- Simon & Garfunkel
  16. 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

  4. Spiritual Unity -- Albert Ayler
  5. Rubber Soul -- The Beatles
  6. The Giuseppi Logan Quartet -- The Giuseppi Logan Quartet
  7. Highway 61 Revisited -- Bob Dylan
  8. Explosions -- Bob James Trio
  9. 7/10

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


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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Out to Lunch! -- Eric Dolphy
  2. 8/10

  3. Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus -- Charles Mingus
  4. Empyrean Isles -- Herbie Hancock
  5. Spirits -- Albert Ayler
  6. Tonight at Noon -- Charles Mingus
  7. 7/10

  8. Eastern Sounds -- Yusef Lateef
  9. Crescent -- John Coltrane Quartet
  10. Black Pearls -- John Coltrane
  11. Song for My Father -- The Horace Silver Quintet
  12. Coltrane's Sound -- John Coltrane
  13. 6/10

  14. Vol. II: Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes -- John Fahey
  15. The Times They Are A-Changin' -- Bob Dylan
  16. Evolution -- Grachan Moncur III
  17. The Sidewinder -- Lee Morgan
  18. 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

  3. Money Jungle -- Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus & Max Roach
  4. 7/10

  5. Monk's Dream -- Thelonious Monk
  6. Seven Steps to Heaven -- Miles Davis
  7. Criss-Cross -- Thelonious Monk
  8. 6/10

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


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    10/10

  1. Ornette! -- Ornette Coleman
  2. 9/10

    8/10

  3. It's Time -- Max Roach
  4. Tijuana Moods -- Charles Mingus
  5. Ornette on Tenor -- Ornette Coleman
  6. 7/10

  7. Oh Yeah -- Charles Mingus
  8. Mosaic -- Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
  9. 6/10

  10. Coltrane -- The John Coltrane Quartet
  11. Far Cry -- Eric Dolphy
  12. Go! -- Dexter Gordon
  13. The Quest -- Mal Waldron with Eric Dolphy and Booker Ervin
  14. The Bridge -- Sonny Rollins
  15. Dig It! -- The Red Garland Quintet with John Coltrane
  16. Leapin' and Lopin' -- Sonny Clark
  17. 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

  8. My Favorite Things -- John Coltrane
  9. Steamin' With the Miles Davis Quintet -- The Miles Davis Quintet
  10. Someday My Prince Will Come -- The Miles Davis Sextet
  11. 6/10

  12. The Blues and the Abstract Truth -- Oliver Nelson
  13. 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

  6. At Last! -- Etta James
  7. Soul Station -- Hank Mobley
  8. Change of the Century -- Ornette Coleman
  9. Mingus Dynasty -- Charles Mingus and His Jazz Groups
  10. True Blue -- Tina Brooks
  11. 6/10

  12. The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery -- Wes Montgomery
  13. Portrait in Jazz -- Bill Evans Trio
  14. 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

  3. Mingus Ah Um -- Charles Mingus
  4. Moanin' -- Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
  5. 7/10

  6. Kind of Blue -- Miles Davis
  7. Tomorrow Is the Question! The New Music of Ornette Coleman! -- Ornette Coleman
  8. Workin' With the Miles Davis Quintet -- The Miles Davis Quintet
  9. 6/10

  10. Time Out -- The Dave Brubeck Quartet
  11. Porgy and Bess -- Miles Davis


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    10/10

    9/10

  1. Blue Train -- John Coltrane
  2. 8/10

  3. Milestones -- Miles Davis
  4. 7/10

  5. Ascenseur pour l'échafaud -- Miles Davis
  6. Relaxin' With the Miles Davis Quintet -- The Miles Davis Quintet
  7. 6/10

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


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    10/10

    9/10

  1. The Clown -- Charles Mingus
  2. 8/10

  3. Cookin' With the Miles Davis Quintet -- The Miles Davis Quintet
  4. 7/10

  5. Monk's Music -- Thelonious Monk Septet
  6. Brilliant Corners -- Thelonious Monk
  7. Saxophone Colossus -- Sonny Rollins
  8. 'Round About Midnight -- Miles Davis
  9. Mingus Three -- Charles Mingus, Hampton Hawes & Danny Richmond
  10. 6/10

  11. Tenor Conclave -- Hank Mobley, Al Cohn, John Coltrane & Zoot Sims
  12. Mating Call -- Tadd Dameron with John Coltrane
  13. 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

  3. 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

  3. 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