Top 250 Albums (Part One)
No order. Can't add more than 100 items to a list, so doing this in three parts. Stay tuned. |
1 | | Ahmed Abdul-Malik East Meets West
Arabic Jazz |
2 | | Air Moon Safari
Downtempo, Ambient Pop |
3 | | Al Green Call Me
Soul |
4 | | Albert Ayler Spiritual Unity
Free Jazz |
5 | | Alice Coltrane Journey in Satchidananda
Spiritual Jazz, Avantgarde Jazz |
6 | | Alice in Chains Dirt
Grunge |
7 | | Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks
Ambient, Dark Jazz, Soundtrack |
8 | | Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion
Psychedelic Pop |
9 | | Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II
Ambient |
10 | | Arcade Fire Funeral
Art Pop, Indie Rock |
11 | | Archie Shepp The Magic of Ju-Ju
Free Jazz |
12 | | Aretha Franklin I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You
Deep Soul |
13 | | Astor Piazzolla Tango: Zero Hour
Tango Nuevo |
14 | | At the Drive-In Relationship of Command
Post-Hardcore |
15 | | Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister
Chamber Pop, Indie Pop |
16 | | Bernard Parmegiani Sonare
Musique concrète, Electroacoustic |
17 | | Billie Holiday Lady Sings The Blues
Vocal Jazz |
18 | | Bjork Homogenic
Art Pop |
19 | | Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children
IDM, Ambient Techno |
20 | | Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks
Singer/Songwriter |
21 | | Burzum Filosofem
Black Metal |
22 | | Can Tago Mago
Krautrock |
23 | | Charles Mingus The Clown
Post-Bop |
24 | | Coil The Ape Of Naples
Electronic, Post-Industrial |
25 | | Arnold Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21
Expressionism, Modern Classical |
26 | | Dalek Absence
Abstract Hip Hop |
27 | | David Bowie Low
Art Rock |
28 | | Death Human
Technical Death Metal |
29 | | Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030
Experimental Hip Hop |
30 | | Dexter Gordon Go!
Hard Bop |
31 | | Dionne Warwick The Windows of the World
Smooth Soul |
32 | | DJ Shadow Endtroducing...
Instrumental Hip Hop, Plunderphonics |
33 | | The Doors The Doors
Psychedelic Rock |
34 | | Duke Ellington Masterpieces By Ellington
Big Band |
35 | | Ennio Morricone The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Soundtrack, Spaghetti Western |
36 | | Fields of the Nephilim Elizium
Gothic Rock |
37 | | Flying Lotus Cosmogramma
IDM, Glitch Hop |
38 | | Frank Zappa Joe’s Garage
Comedy Rock |
39 | | Funkadelic Maggot Brain
Funk |
40 | | Fushitsusha Withdrawe, This Sable Disclosure Ere Devot'd
Noise Rock |
41 | | George Crumb Black Angels
Modern Classical |
42 | | Goldie Timeless
Atmospheric Drum and Bass |
43 | | Harry Partch Delusion of the Fury
Microtonal, Opera |
44 | | Herbie Hancock Head Hunters
Jazz Fusion |
45 | | Iannis Xenakis Orchestral Works, Vol II
Modern Classical, Stochastic Music |
46 | | Jeff Buckley Grace
Singer/Songwriter |
47 | | Johann Sebastian Bach Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Baroque Music |
48 | | Johnny Cash Johnny Cash With His Hot And Blue Guitar
Country, Rockabilly |
49 | | Lou Reed Transformer
Glam Rock |
50 | | Love Forever Changes
Psychedelic Pop |
51 | | Madvillain Madvillainy
Abstract Hip Hop |
52 | | Mahmoud Ahmed Soul of Addis
Ethio-Jazz, Tizita |
53 | | Marvin Gaye What's Going On
Soul |
54 | | Massive Attack Mezzanine
Trip Hop |
55 | | Merzbow Venereology
Harsh Noise |
56 | | Neil Young On the Beach
Folk Rock |
57 | | Nick Drake Pink Moon
Contemporary Folk |
58 | | Nina Simone Little Girl Blue
Vocal Jazz |
59 | | Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral
Industrial Rock |
60 | | Deftones White Pony
Alternative Metal |
61 | | Oliver Nelson The Blues and the Abstract Truth
Hard Bop |
62 | | OutKast Aquemini
Southern Hip Hop |
63 | | Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Indie Rock |
64 | | Pedestrian Deposit Fatale
Noise |
65 | | Philip Glass Glassworks
Minimalism |
66 | | Popol Vuh Hosianna Mantra
Neoclassical New Age |
67 | | Ramones Ramones
Punk |
68 | | Sam Cooke Night Beat
Soul |
69 | | Diamanda Galas Plague Mass
Experimental, A cappella |
70 | | Annette Peacock I'm the One
Singer/Songwriter, Experimental Rock |
71 | | Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica
Experimental Rock |
72 | | Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech
Progressive Metal |
73 | | Miles Davis On the Corner
Jazz Fusion |
74 | | Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree
Singer/Songwriter, Art Rock |
75 | | Ornette Coleman Science Fiction
Free Jazz |
76 | | Serge Gainsbourg Histoire de Melody Nelson
French Pop |
77 | | Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians
Minimalism |
78 | | Wayne Shorter Speak No Evil
Post-Bop |
79 | | Peter Brotzmann Machine Gun
European Free Jazz |
80 | | Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
East Coast Hip Hop |
81 | | Yma Sumac Voice of the Xtabay
Exotica |
82 | | Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Indie Rock, Noise Pop |
83 | | The Zombies Odessey and Oracle
Psychedelic Pop |
84 | | Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett
Breakcore, Drill and Bass |
85 | | Tom Waits Bone Machine
Experimental Rock, Singer/Songwriter |
86 | | Meshuggah Nothing
Djent |
87 | | Tenhi Maaaet
Dark Folk |
88 | | Värttinä Aitara
Runolaulu |
89 | | T-Bone Walker T-Bone Blues
Electric Texas Blues |
90 | | Swans Soundtracks for the Blind
Experimental Rock, Post-Rock |
91 | | Sun Ra Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy
Free Jazz |
92 | | Scott Walker Scott 4
Baroque Pop, Singer/Songwriter |
93 | | Tinariwen Amassakoul
Tishoumaren |
94 | | Townes Van Zandt Townes Van Zandt
Singer/Songwriter |
95 | | Katy Carr Screwing Lies
Contemporary Folk |
96 | | Otis Redding Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
Deep Soul |
97 | | The Stooges Raw Power
Proto-Punk |
98 | | Sonny Rollins Saxophone Colossus
Hard Bop |
99 | | Naked City Naked City
Avantgarde Jazz, Grindcore |
100 | | Karlheinz Stockhausen Helikopter-Quartett (Arditti String Quartet)
Modern Classical, Serialism |
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