All Time Favorites
Faust: Faust (1971) || krautrock, progressive, experimental
Velvet Underground: Velvet Underground & Nico (1967) || experimental/art rock, psych-rock, garage rock, chamber pop
Mothers of Invention (Frank Zappa): We're Only In It For the Money (1968) || psych-pop, experimental
Residents: Not Available (1978) || experimental, minimal wave, operetta/cabaret
Foetus: Nail (1985) || industrial, experimental rock
Pere Ubu: The Modern Dance (1978) || post-punk/new wave, experimental/no wave
Velvet Underground: White Light/White Heat (1968) || experimental/art rock, psych-rock, garage rock
Red Krayola: Parable of Arable Land (1967) || experimental, psych-rock, proto-punk
Suicide: Suicide (1977) || synth-punk, industrial
Residents: Meet the Residents (1974) || experimental, zolo
My Bloody Valentine: Loveless (1991) || shoegaze/dream pop, noise rock
Leonard Cohen: Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967) || chamber folk
Chrome: Half Machine Lip Moves (1978) || art punk/noise-rock, psych-rock, industrial
King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King (1969) || prog-rock, psych-pop
Royal Trux: Twin Infinitives (1990) || noise-rock/no wave/experimental, post-industrial, garage rock
Nine Inch Nails: The Downward Spiral (1994) || industrial metal
Gong: Flying Teapot (1973) || Canterbury scene/prog-rock, psychedelic, jazz fusion
Nick Cave: From Her To Eternity (1984) || post-punk, goth, punk-blues
Joanna Newsom: Have One On Me (2010) || chamber folk
Van Morrison: Astral Weeks (1968) || chamber/jazz-folk
To Live and Shave in L.A: The Wigmaker in Eighteenth Century Williamsburg (2002) || noise/experimental, sound collage
Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Replica (1969) || experimental/jazz-rock, blues
Slint: Spiderland (1991) || post-rock, emo/post-hardcore
Dogbowl: Cyclops Nuclear Submarine Captain (1991) || psychedelic pop, indie rock
Doors: Doors (1967) || psych-rock
Runner-Ups
(All 8/10's)
Aphrodite's Child: 666 (1971) || prog-rock
Big Black: Atomizer (1986) || industrial-rock, post-hardcore
Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited (1965) || folk-rock
Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde (1966) || folk-rock
Boredoms: Vision Creation Newsun (1999) || psych-rock, jam band, prog-rock
Brian Eno: Taking Tiger Mountain (1974) || new wave, synth-pop
Brian Eno: Music For Airports (1978) || ambient, new age
Built To Spill: Perfect From Now On (1997) || indie rock/midwest emo, post-rock
Burning Star Core: Operator Dead Post Abandoned (2005) || drone, psych-rock, jam band
Butthole Surfers: Butthole Surfers (EP, 1983) || noise rock/art punk, psychedelic
Butthole Surfers: Psychic Powerless (1984) || noise rock/art punk, psychedelic
Can: Tago Mago (1971) || prog-rock, psych-rock, avant-garde
Captain Beefheart: Mirror Man (1971) || blues-rock, jam band, psych-rock
Clash: Clash (US, 1977) || punk rock
cLOUDDEAD: cLOUDDEAD (2001) || experimental hip-hop, ambient
Colosseum: Valentyne Suite (1969) || prog-rock
Cows: Daddy Has a Tail (1989) || cow-punk
David Thomas: Monster Walks the Winter Lake (1986) || chamber-folk, avant-garde
Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (1980) || hardcore/surf-punk
Diamanda Galas: Diamanda Galas (1984) || experimental/no wave
Diamanda Galas: Litanies of Satan (1982) || experimental/no wave
Doors: Strange Days (1967) || psych-rock
Eels: Electro-Shock Blues (1998) || indie pop
Faust: IV (1974) || krautrock
Fear Factory: Demanufacture (1994) || industrial metal
Fiery Furnaces: Rehearsing My Choir (2005) || art pop/indie, rock opera
Flipper: Generic (1981) || art punk/garage rock
Foetus: Hole (1984) || industrial, experimental rock
Fugazi: Fugazi (EP, 1988) || post-hardcore/punk
Fugazi: Red Medicine (1995) || post-hardcore/punk
Galaxie 500: On Fire (1989) || slowcore, dream pop/psych-rock
Germs: (GI) (1979) || punk
Grateful Dead: Anthem of the Sun (1968) || experimental/psych-rock, jam band
Gun Club: Fire of Love (1981) || punk-blues
Impossible Nothing: Phonemonicon (2016) || instrumental hip-hop, plunderphonics, glitch, sound collage
Jefferson Airplane: After Bathing at Baxter's (1967) || psych-rock
Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced (1967) || hard/blues-rock, psychedelic
Lingua Ignota: Let the Evil of His Own Lips Cover Him (2017) || neoclassical darkwave, death industrial
Lisa Germano: Geek the Girl (1994) || dream pop, goth
Lisa Germano: Excerpts From a Love Circus (1996) || dream pop, indie folk, art rock
Liz Phair: Exile In Guyville (1993) || indie rock
Magnetic Fields: Charm of the Highway Strip (1994) || indie/chamber pop, goth-country
Metallica: Kill 'Em All (1983) || thrash-metal
Metallica: Master of Puppets (1985) || thrash-metal
Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells (1973) || prog-rock, new age
Ministry: The Land of Rape and Honey (1988) || industrial metal
Minutemen: Double Nickels On the Dime (1984) || post-hardcore, funk-rock
Morphine: Cure For Pain (1993) || jazz-rock, blues-rock
Mothers of Invention (Frank Zappa): Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970) || experimental rock
My Bloody Valentine: Isn't Anything (1988) || emo/post-punk, shoegaze, noise-rock, dream pop
Neil Young: Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969) || folk-rock, jam band
Neu: Neu! (1971) || prog-rock, psych-rock, jam band
Neurosis: Through Silver In Blood (1996) || prog-metal, sludge, industrial, ambient
Nico: Desertshore (1970) || chamber folk, goth
Oxbow: King of the Jews (1991) || post-hardcore/noise-rock, experimental
Pere Ubu: The Art of Walking (1980) || experimental/no wave, post-punk/new wave
Pere Ubu: New Picnic Time (1979) || post-punk/new wave, experimental/no wave
Pere Ubu: Dub Housing (1978) || post-punk/new wave, experimental/no wave
Pink Floyd: Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967) || psych-rock, experimental pop
Pixies: Surfer Rosa (1988) || alt-rock, indie, post-hardcore
Pixies: Doolittle (1989) || alt-rock, indie, post-hardcore
Pop Group: For How Much Longer (1980) || post-punk, funk-rock, experimental/no wave, dub
Pop Group: Y (1979) || post-punk, funk-rock, experimental/no wave, dub
Popol Vuh: Hosianna Mantra (1972) || neoclassical, prog-rock, new age
Primus: Frizzle Fry (1989) || funk-metal
Red House Painters: Down Colorful Hill (1992) || slowcore, folk-rock
Red House Painters: Rollercoaster (1993) || slowcore, folk-rock
Robert Wyatt: Rock Bottom (1974) || Canterbury scene/prog-rock, jazz fusion, psychedelic
Rolling Stones: Exile On Main Street (1972) || blues-rock, country-rock
Rollins Band: The End of Silence (1991) || alt-metal, post-hardcore
Sadaf: History of Heat (2019) || epic collage/program music, experimental, deconstructed club
Sinead O'Connor: The Lion and the Cobra (1987) || art pop
Smog: Julius Caesar (1993) || lo-fi, indie folk
Sonic Youth: Bad Moon Rising (1985) || no wave/noise rock, drone
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation (1988) || noise rock, indie
Stabscotch: Uncanny Valley (2017) || art metal/brutal prog, experimental rock
Swans: Children of God (1987) || goth rock
Swans: Filth (1983) || industrial, no wave, sludge metal
Swans: Soundtracks For the Blind (1996) || post-rock, goth, ambient/drone, experimental
Talking Heads: More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978) || new wave
Talking Heads: 77 (1977) || new wave
Throbbing Gristle: Second Annual Report (1977) || ambient, industrial
Today Is the Day: Willpower (1994) || noise rock, sludge metal
Tom Waits: Rain Dogs (1985) || experimental rock/dark cabaret, piano blues
Tom Waits: Swordfishtrombones (1983) || experimental rock, dark cabaret, piano blues
Tortoise: TNT (1998) || post-rock, progressive, jazz fusion, electronic, instrumental
Tortoise: Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1996) || post-rock, progressive, minimalism, electronic, instrumental
Type O Negative: Slow Deep and Hard (1991) || prog-metal, goth/doom
United States of America: United States of America (1968) || experimental/progressive/psychedelic rock
Van Morrison: Moondance (1969) || jazz-pop, country-rock
Violent Femmes: Violent Femmes (1982) || folk-punk