| 4.0 excellent |
| Afrika Bambaataa and The Soulsonic Force Planet Rock |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore |
| Aphex Twin ...I Care Because You Do |
| Autolux Future Perfect |
| Badly Drawn Boy The Hour Of Bewilderbeast |
| Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique |
| Beck Mellow Gold |
| Black Flag Damaged |
| Black Milk Tronic |
| Blonde Redhead Misery is a Butterfly |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children |
| Brian Eno Another Green World |
| Cap'n Jazz Analphabetapolothology |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Safe As Milk |
| Count Bass D Dwight Spitz |
| Cyne Evolution Fight |
| David Bowie Low |
| Devo Greatest Hits |
| Diamond D Stunts, Blunts and Hip Hop |
| DJ Shadow The Private Press |
| Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst |
| Eyvind Kang Virginal Co-Ordinates |
| Faraquet The View From This Tower |
| Fennesz Black Sea |
| Flying Lotus 1983 |
| Four Tet Rounds |
| Gang Starr Daily Operation |
| Gang Starr Step in the Arena |
| Godflesh Messiah |
| Goon Moon Licker's Last Leg |
| Gordian Knot Gordian Knot |
| Grachan Moncur III Evolution |
| Grant Green Green Street |
| Grass Widow Grass Widow |
| Gravenhurst Fires In Distant Buildings |
| Guilty Simpson Ode to the Ghetto |
| Harvey Milk Courtesy and Good Will Toward Men |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness |
| Hella Hold Your Horse Is |
| Herbie Hancock Head Hunters |
| ISIS Panopticon |
| ISIS Celestial |
| ISIS Clearing the Eye (DVD) |
| J Dilla Donuts |
| Jaylib Champion Sound |
| Jens Lekman Oh You're So Silent Jens |
| Jeromes Dream Completed |
| Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue |
| King Crimson Red |
| Kraftwerk The Man-Machine |
| Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley |
| Madlib Beat Konducta Vol 1-2: Movie Scenes |
| Madvillain Madvillainy 2: The Madlib Remix |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines |
| maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second |
| Maximillian Colby Discography |
| Michio Kurihara Sunset Notes |
| Midlake The Trials of Van Occupanther |
| Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime |
| Minutemen Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat |
| Minutemen Paranoid Time |
| Mogwai Rock Action |
| Mr. Bungle California |
| Mulatu Astatke Ethiopiques 4: Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale |
| My Dying Bride The Dreadful Hours |
| Nadja Truth Becomes Death |
| Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York |
| Opeth Morningrise |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Organized Konfusion Organized Konfusion |
| Pelican Australasia |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Polvo Today's Active Lifestyles |
| Polvo Exploded Drawing |
| Portrait Discography |
| Pumice Pebbles |
| Pygmy Lush Mount Hope |
| Quasimoto The Unseen |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R |
| I still think this is QOTSA's best album, but the individual songs make it lasting for me. Some tracks I can't listen to everyday, like "Quick and to the Pointless", or "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" (just to point fingers). Not to say they are bad songs, just that they don't entice me well enough. Some songs are so well written, and so well executed, that they are among my favorite songs ever. Songs like "Better Living Through Chemistry" and "I Think I Lost My Headache" are so strong, that the albums parts are greater than their whole. |
| Richard Youngs Airs of the Ear |
| Rites of Spring End on End |
| Saetia A Retrospective |
| Secret Chiefs 3 Book of Horizons |
| Shellac At Action Park |
| Six Organs Of Admittance Dark Noontide |
| Six Organs Of Admittance School of the Flower |
| Slick Rick The Great Adventures of Slick Rick |
| Slum Village Fan-Tas-Tic Vol.1 |
| Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway |
| Swans The Great Annihilator |
| Tabla Beat Science Live in San Francisco at Stern Grove |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden |
| Talk Talk The Colour of Spring |
| It's hard to discuss Talk Talk's earlier output without mentioning their groundbreaking, later releases. The last album to exercise their romantic approach to synthpop, experimental outbreak was already starting to show; Mark Hollis' extravagant leadership wasn't yet the main component of his songwriting. The slow dirge Chameleon Day could have been a outtake from Laughing Stock. At times, the music sounds a little firmly rooted in typical 80s pop excess. The bright and bouncy Living in Another World falls danger to this but is saved because the songwriting is so open and joyous. Life's What You Make It is iconic on its own, and other highlights such as Time It's Time or Give It Up demonstrate Hollis' burgeoning musical scope. By no means a recommended album before the latter two, The Colour of Spring is still an essential album that embodies the spirit of the band. |
| Television Marquee Moon |
| The American Analog Set From Our Living Room To Yours |
| The Dismemberment Plan Change |
| The Doors The Doors |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots |
| The Jesus Lizard Goat |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Notwist Neon Golden |
| The Notwist 12 |
| The Prodigy Music for the Jilted Generation |
| The Smiths Hatful of Hollow |
| The Streets Original Pirate Material |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die |
| TV on the Radio Young Liars |
| Tyler, the Creator Bastard |
| Ultramagnetic MCs Critical Beatdown |
| Unwound Repetition |
| Ween Shinola, Vol. 1 |
| Wipers Youth of America |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| Yes Close to the Edge |
| Yes Fragile |
