| 5.0 classic |
| Amon Duul II Yeti |
| Amon Tobin Adventures In Foam |
| What a great album. Love the jazz/jungle mix. It is the album I play most of Tobin's discography. The warmest of his releases. |
| Amon Tobin Bricolage |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II |
| Aphex Twin ...I Care Because You Do |
| Autechre Tri Repetae |
| One of the great electronic albums. It holds up to repeated listens. Autechre have released some very good albums but this one is the best, closely followed by Amber - their only other essential album. |
| Autechre Amber |
| Autechre Tri Repetae++ |
| Autechre Exai |
| Autechre Quaristice (Versions) |
| Bennie Maupin The Jewel in the Lotus |
| This album is a real grower. The first time I heard it I was underwhelmed - now I would rate it in my top ten jazz albums. If you enjoy Bitches Brew and Headhunters, you will love this album. Give it about four or five listens before it grabs you. |
| Bob Dylan Time Out of Mind |
| Bob Dylan John Wesley Harding |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited |
| Bob Dylan The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series 11 |
| Brian Eno Another Green World |
| Such a great record. 14 tracks, five with vocals. The album is perfectly balanced. The first of many great Eno albums. If you like David Bowie's album "Low", you will appreciate Another Green World. |
| Brian Eno Lux |
| Brian Eno Ambient 4: On Land |
| Brian Eno Eno Box I: Instrumental |
| A fantastic introduction to Eno's ambient work. It also has the Music for Films 1976 tracks as an added bonus. Might be hard to find nowadays. |
| Brian Eno and Jon Hassell Fourth World, Vol 1: Possible Musics |
| Burial Untrue |
| Cabaret Voltaire The Conversation |
| A mind blowing release! A quadruple LP release. The track "Project" is almost one hour long. A great electronic album that ranks with other 1994 electronic albums like Autechre "Amber" and Aphex Twin Ambient II. If you like those two artists, give this album a go |
| Cabaret Voltaire The Crackdown |
| Initial LP releases came with a bonus 12". This is the release to own. The 12" is an electronic masterpiece - two of the tracks are very ambient. The main LP is also very good. Much more commercial and 80s sounding compared to their previous release (12 x 45). A dark electronic album |
| Cabaret Voltaire 2x45 |
| A fantastic release. More two 12' than a full album (2 x 45 is an apt title). The first disc is the final recording with Watson, whose found tape sounds were so essential to their earlier releases. He doesn't disappoint on his final outing - Yashar has most probably Cabaret Voltaire's most famous found tape "There's 70 Billion people out there. Where are they hiding?" The second 12" is just as good. Could be Cabaret Voltaire's most "rock" album. |
| Cabaret Voltaire Red Mecca |
| Often regarded as their best release. Not my very favourite, but in my top three for four Cab albums. A very well structured and cohesive album which has obviously had a lot of time and care put into the recording. Best played as a whole album. |
| Cabaret Voltaire The Voice of America |
| Even better than their debut. Found tapes dominate the opening tracks. More structured than "Mix-up" but still very experimental. The stand out track is "Obsession" |
| Cabaret Voltaire Mix-Up |
| What a debut! A collage of tape loops, keyboards, guitars, bass, vocals and percussion. Very experimental and has aged so well. Not an easy listen, but enjoyable all the same |
| Cabaret Voltaire The Living Legends |
| Can Soon Over Babaluma |
| Can Future Days |
| Can Ege Bamyasi |
| Can Tago Mago |
| Cannonball Adderley Somethin' Else |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica |
| Cecil Taylor Unit Structures |
| Chrome Red Exposure |
| Click Click Rorschach Testing |
| Clock DVA Advantage |
| Coil Horse Rotorvator |
| Coil The Ape Of Naples |
| Current Value Frequency Hunt |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... |
| Einsturzende Neubauten Silence is Sexy |
| Einsturzende Neubauten Perpetuum Mobile |
| Einsturzende Neubauten Lament |
| Eric Dolphy Out to Lunch! |
| Eric Dolphy At the Five Spot, Vol. 1 |
| Faust Faust IV |
| Faust The Faust Tapes |
| Faust Faust/Faust So Far |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles |
| Frank Zappa The Grand Wazoo |
| Frank Zappa Waka/Jawaka |
| Frank Zappa Hot Rats |
| Fripp and Eno The Equatorial Stars |
| An absolutely stunning release. Up there with the previous two Fripp/Eno albums, yet very different. This album is more ambient than the 70's releases. A great album to read to. |
| Fripp and Eno No Pussyfooting |
| I can't imagine what the reaction to this album would have been like in 1973. It is so different than any release of its time (or any time really). Fripp would have to be one of the greatest guitarists of all time. This album is so experimental and weird, yet oddly listenable. The recent CD release has an extra disc with a half-speed version of "Heavenly Corporation" which makes a great 40 minute ambient piece. The bonus disc also has both tracks in reverse. Find this double CD and buy it. |
| Fripp and Eno Evening Star |
| More structured than No Pussyfooting. Side one is five shorter pieces and side two is one ling piece - "An Index of Metals". Index of Metals is a very structured piece and is lovely, the best piece recorded by Fripp/Eno. A beautiful album. |
| Gang of Four Solid Gold |
| In my teenage years this was my favourite album of all time. There's not a bad track. Love the upfront funky bass and edgy guitar sound. Today it still sounds great. It is one of the great new wave albums that is far superior to their debut album. |
| Genesis Nursery Cryme |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ [Vinyl] |
| Harmonia Musik von Harmonia |
| Herbie Hancock Crossings |
| A fantastic jazz fusion album. Three tracks - a side long piece and two tracks on side two. Love the electronic angle. This album is the middle release of one of the great trilogies in jazz - Mwandishi (1971), Crossings (1972), Sextant (1973). |
| Herbie Hancock Sextant |
| My favourite of the great Herbie jazz fusion trilogy. The use of mellotron is the clincher. |
| Husker Du Zen Arcade |
| A hardcore band releases a double concept album in 1984. A risky move, but they pulled it off. So many great songs, especially "Pink Turns to Blue" and "Never Talking to You". A must listen album. |
| John Coltrane Olé Coltrane |
| One of the great Coltrane albums. The track "Ole" starts off with a killer bass riff. This album is a harder sound than "My Favourite Things" but I think that is what makes me go back to "Ole" on a regular basis. If you like Coltrane, get this album. |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme |
| John Lennon John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band |
| Joy Division Closer |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures |
| Karlheinz Stockhausen Hymnen |
| What an album! The first great electronic album - a massive four sides of vinyl. It is a raw and brutal electronic journey with moments of intense beauty. There is a section midway through side 3 that feels like a decent to the terrors of hell (and I'm an atheist). I have cleared out a few parties with this album. It is definitely an acquired taste. |
| Kraftwerk Computer World |
| Mark Hollis Mark Hollis |
| Max Roach Percussion Bitter Sweet |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew |
| This is the album that got me into jazz. My brother borrowed this album and brought it home one day and after about two bars in, I knew that I had to own this album. The next day I jumped onto my Raleigh 20 and peddled into town to buy it - a very happy moment in my life discovering this album. And as a bonus, "Bitches Brew" is great introduction to the wonderful world of jazz fusion! |
| Miles Davis Get Up with It |
| When I first heard this album I really disliked it. I was a big fan of Bitches Brew, On The Corner and Agharta, so I was looking forward to this album. It is so different from Miles's other fusion releases. A few years after my initial revulsion, I went back to this album and fell in love with it. "He Loved Him Madly", the first of the two side long pieces, is a stunner, almost ambient jazz. Another standout track is "Rated X" with its funky rhythms buried under loud dissonant organ chords played by Miles. This album requires time but it reaps rewards. |
| Miles Davis Agharta |
| Miles Davis On the Corner |
| Miles Davis Live Evil |
| Ministry Filth Pig |
| Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime |
| An absolute classic. 45 songs with only a few throwaways. Up there with Husker Du's "Zen Arcade". Buy this album! |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West |
| Nas Illmatic |
| Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere |
| Neu! Neu! '75 |
| Neu! Neu! |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| Ornette Coleman Change of the Century |
| Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come |
| Ornette Coleman Ornette! |
| Ornette Coleman At The Golden Circle, Volume Two |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side Of The Moon |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| PJ Harvey Is This Desire? |
| Psychic TV Dreams Less Sweet |
| Public Image Ltd. Metal Box |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R |
| The high points on this album - I Think I Lost My headache, The Lost Art of Keeping A Secret, Leg of Lamb, Auto Pilot, and Better Living Through Chemistry - make this album one of the best rock albums of the last 20 years. |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Ram Trilogy Molten Beats |
| Robert Wyatt Rock Bottom |
| Roni Size and Reprazent New Forms |
| Shellac Terraform |
| Shellac At Action Park |
| Shipping News Flies The Fields |
| Shipping News Three-Four |
| Skinny Puppy Too Dark Park |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Such a stunning album. Unique and influential. I still remember the moment I first heard it and that was 20 years ago! It is a rare perfect album. |
| Soft Machine Third |
| SPK Leichenschrei |
| Stars of the Lid The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid |
| Suicide Suicide |
| Suicide Suicide: Alan Vega and Martin Rev |
| Swell Maps A Trip to Marineville |
| Swell Maps ....In "Jane From Occupied Europe" |
| Syd Barrett The Madcap Laughs |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden |
| The Beatles The Beatles |
| The Cure Seventeen Seconds |
| The Cure Three Imaginary Boys |
| The Fall This Nation's Saving Grace |
| The Fall Bend Sinister |
| The Fall Imperial Wax Solvent |
| The Fall Slates |
| The Fall Grotesque (After the Gramme) |
| The Fall The Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall |
| The Fall Hex Enduction Hour |
| The Fall I Am Kurious Oranj |
| The Fall Dragnet |
| The Fall Live At The Witch Trials |
| The Fall Your Future Our Clutter |
| The Fall Room To Live (Undilutable Slang Truth!) |
| The For Carnation The For Carnation |
| This album sounds like a follow-up to Slint's album "Spiderland" - and I mean this as a good thing. It is a more subdued album though with Brian whispering his ghostly stories and the band is as spooky as ever. If you like Slint, you should definitely try this out. |
| The Gordons The Gordons |
| The best album to ever come out of New Zealand. So heavy and loud. A classic Post-punk release. |
| The Modern Lovers The Modern Lovers |
| The Mothers of Invention Weasels Ripped My Flesh |
| The Mothers of Invention One Size Fits All |
| The Mothers of Invention Burnt Weeny Sandwich |
| The Raincoats Odyshape |
| The Stooges Fun House |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico |
| The Young Gods Only Heaven |
| An absolute stunner. One of the best releases from 1995. A solid album with many high points. Electronic music with drums and vocals. The Young Gods are one of the most underrated bands of all time. |
| The Young Gods Heaven Deconstruction |
| A remix ambient version of their "Only Heaven" album. This is a classic ambient release that is up there with Autechre and Aphex Twin. A must own for any ambient lover. |
| Throbbing Gristle 20 Jazz Funk Greats |
| Throbbing Gristle Heathen Earth |
| Throbbing Gristle Part 2: The Endless Not |
| Throbbing Gristle The Second Annual Report |
| William Basinski The Disintegration Loops II |
| Wipers Over the Edge |
| Wire 154 |
| One of the great new wave albums. You could call this art-punk, but that sounds a bit wanky. I love the experimental side of this release. Great synth work and the jagged guitar sound is awesome. |
| Wire Pink Flag |
