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Pre-1950

1. Hank Williams: I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (1949) || country-blues
2. Woody Guthrie: This Land Is Your Land (1944) || folk
3. Lead Belly: Where Did You Sleep Last Night (1944) || delta blues
4. Ink Spots: I Don't Want to Set the World On Fire (1946) || traditional pop
5. Ink Spots: Maybe (1940) || traditional pop

1951

Howlin' Wolf: Smokestack Lightnin' || Chicago blues

1954

Chordettes: Mr. Sandman || doo-wop, traditional pop
Bill Haley: Rock Around the Clock || rock
Elvis Presley: That's All Right Mama || rockabilly
Penguins: Earth Angel || doo-wop, R&B

1955

1. Johnny Cash: Folsom Prison Blues || country-blues, rockabilly
2. Little Richard: Tutti Frutti || rock
3. Carl Perkins: Blue Suede Shoes || rockabilly
4. Elvis Presley: Mystery Train || rockabilly
5. Chuck Berry: Maybellene || rock
6. Fats Domino: Ain't That a Shame || New Orleans R&B, rock
7. Bo Diddley: Bo Diddley || rock
8. Bo Diddley: Pretty Thing || rock

1956

1. Screamin Jay Hawkins: I Put a Spell On You || R&B
2. Chuck Berry: Roll Over Beethoven || rock
3. Johnny Cash: I Walk the Line || country
4. Elvis Presley: Heartbreak Hotel || rockabilly
5. Chuck Berry: You Can't Catch Me || rock
6. Elvis Presley: Hound Dog || rock
7. Fats Domino: Blueberry Hill || New Orleans R&B, rock
8. Harry Belafonte: Hey-O (Banana Boat) || calypso, mento
9. Del-Vikings: Come Go with Me || doo-wop
10. Little Richard: Long Tall Sally || rock

1957

1. Coasters: Searchin || doo-wop, R&B
2. Elvis Presley: Jailhouse Rock || rock
3. Dale Hawkins: Susie-Q || blues-rock
4. Buddy Holly: Not Fade Away || rockabilly, pop
5. Elvis Presley: All Shook Up || rock
6. Perry Como: Magic Moments || jazz pop
7. Buddy Holly: Everyday || traditional pop
8. Buddy Holly: Peggy Sue || rockabilly, pop
9. Jerry Lee Lewis: Great Balls of Fire || rock
10. Jerry Lee Lewis: Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On || rock
11. Everly Brothers: Bye Bye Love || rockabilly
12. Chuck Berry: Rock and Roll Music || rock
13. Buddy Holly: That'll Be the Day || rock

1958

1. Link Wray: Rumble || instrumental surf rock
2. Chuck Berry: Johnny B Goode || rock
3. Champs: Tequila || Latin rock
4. Duane Eddy: Rebel Rouser || instrumental surf rock
5. David Seville: Witch Doctor || pop, novelty
6. Coasters: Yakety Yak || doo-wop
7. Ritchie Valens: La Bamba || rock, Tex-Mex
8. Eddie Cochran: Summertime Blues || rock

1959

1. Ray Charles: What'd I Say || R&B, soul
2. Isley Brothers: Shout || R&B, gospel
3. Barret Strong: Money || R&B, soul
4. Guy Mitchell: Heartaches by the Number || country
5. Marty Robbins: Big Iron || country

1960

1. Ventures: Walk Don't Run || instrumental surf rock
2. Johnny Kidd & the Pirates: Shakin' All Over || surf rock
3. Shadows: Apache || instrumental surf rock
4. Charlie Rich: Lonely Weekends || rockabilly
5. Roy Orbison: Only the Lonely || traditional pop
6. Howlin' Wolf: Spoonful || Chicago blues

1961

1. Tokens: The Lion Sleeps Tonight || doo-wop
2. Marcels: Blue Moon || doo-wop
3. Wanda Jackson: Funnel of Love || rockabilly
4. Roy Orbison: Running Scared || traditional pop
5. Ray Charles: Hit the Road Jack || R&B, soul
6. Del Shannon: Runaway || traditional pop
7. Elvis Presley: Can't Help Falling in Love || traditional pop

1962

1. Dick Dale: Miserlou || surf rock, instrumental
2. Booker T: Green Onions || R&B, soul, instrumental
3. Tornados: Telstar || space age pop, instrumental
4. Bobby Pickett: Monster Mash || novelty, pop
5. Surfaris: Wipe Out || instrumental surf rock
6. Bobby Vinton: Mr. Lonely || traditional pop
7. Chris Montez: Let's Dance || rock

1963

1. Trashmen: Surfin' Bird || garage rock
2. Bob Dylan: Don't Think Twice, It's All Right || folk
3. Kingsmen: Louie Louie || doo-wop, pop-rock
4. Johnny Cash: Ring of Fire || rockabilly
5. Beatles: I Want To Hold Your Hand || pop-rock
6. Beatles: She Loves You || pop-rock
7. Bob Dylan: Blowin' In the Wind || folk
8. Bob Dylan: A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall || folk
9. Beach Boys: Surfin' USA || pop, surf rock
10. Roy Orbison: In Dreams || traditional pop
11. Elvis Presley: Devil in Disguise || rock
12. Beatles: Twist and Shout || pop-rock, British R&B

1964

1. Kinks: You Really Got Me || garage rock
2. Roy Orbison: Pretty Woman || pop-rock
3. Bob Dylan: The Times They Are a-Changin' || folk
4. Chuck Berry: You Never Can Tell || rock
5. Bob Dylan: It Ain't Me Babe || folk
6. Them (Van Morrison): Gloria || garage rock, British R&B
7. Johnny Cash: I Walk the Line || rockabilly/country
8. Beatles: And I Love Her || folk-pop
9. Bob Dylan: My Back Pages || folk
10. Beatles: Eight Days a Week || pop-rock
11. Elvis Presley: Viva Las Vegas || rock

1965

1. Simon & Garfunkel: Sounds of Silence || folk-pop
2. Bob Dylan: Desolation Row || folk
3. Castaways: Liar Liar || garage rock, psychedelic
4. Rolling Stones: Satisfaction || blues-rock, garage rock
5. Who: My Generation || garage rock/mod
6. Sonics: Have Love Will Travel || garage rock
7. Bob Dylan: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues || folk-rock
8. Nancy Sinatra: These Boots Are Made For Walkin' || rockabilly
9. Beatles: Day Tripper || pop-rock
10. Bob Dylan: Mr. Tambourine Man || folk
11. Rolling Stones: The Last Time || rock, British R&B
12. Bob Dylan: It's All Over Now, Baby Blue || folk
13. Beatles: Norwegian Wood || folk-pop
14. Who: The Kids Are Alright || garage rock/mod
15. Beatles: In My Life || folk-pop
16. Beatles: You've Got to Hide Your Love Away || folk-pop
17. Standells: Dirty Water || garage rock
18. Bob Dylan: It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry || folk
19. Bob Dylan: Maggie's Farm || folk-rock
20. Beach Boys: Help Me Rhonda || pop-rock
21. Bob Dylan: Subterranean Homesick Blues || folk-rock
22. Bob Dylan: Positively 4th Street || folk-rock

1966

1. Jefferson Airplane: White Rabbit || psych-rock
2. Rolling Stones: Paint It Black || garage rock, psych-rock
3. Jefferson Airplane: Somebody to Love || psych-rock
4. Beach Boys: Good Vibrations || baroque/psych-pop
5. Beach Boys: Wouldn't It Be Nice || baroque pop, doo-wop
6. Buffalo Springfield: For What It's Worth || folk-rock
7. Rolling Stones: Under My Thumb || R&B, pop-rock
8. Love: Orange Skies || baroque pop
9. Monkees: I'm a Believer || pop-rock
10. Beach Boys: Sloop John B || baroque pop
11. Count Five: Psychotic Reaction || garage rock
12. Rolling Stones: Mother's Little Helper || rock/mod
13. Troggs: Kitty Cat Song || pop-rock
14. Left Banke: Pretty Ballerina || baroque pop
15. Napoleon XIV: They're Coming To Take Me Away || novelty, psych-pop
16. 13th Floor Elevators: You're Gonna Miss Me || garage/acid rock
17. Bob Dylan: Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again || folk-rock
18. Mothers of Invention (Frank Zappa): Anyway the Wind Blows || pop-rock
19. Bob Dylan: Absolutely Sweet Marie || folk-rock
20. Bob Dylan: Visions of Johanna || folk-rock
21. Bob Dylan: I Want You || folk-rock
22. Byrds: Eight Miles High || psych-rock, folk-rock
23. Frank Sinatra: That's Life || traditional pop
24. Beatles: Eleanor Rigby || baroque/psych-pop

1967

1. Velvet Underground: Heroin || psych-rock, garage rock, folk-rock, avant-garde
2. Velvet Underground: I'm Waiting For the Man || garage rock
3. Pierre Henry: Psyche Rock || musique concrete/experimental, surf rock
4. Doors: The End || psych-rock, experimental
5. Pink Floyd: Interstellar Overdrive || psych-rock, prog-rock, garage rock
6. Jimi Hendrix: Purple Haze || psych-rock, hard rock
7. Doors: Light My Fire || psych-rock
8. Doors: Break On Through || psych-rock, blues-rock
9. Jimi Hendrix: Third Stone From the Sun || psych-rock, jazz-rock
10. Velvet Underground: Sunday Morning || chamber pop
11. Velvet Underground: Venus In Furs || art rock, psychedelic
12. Leonard Cohen: So Long Marianne || chamber/folk-pop
13. Beatles: A Day in the Life || baroque/psych-pop
14. Pink Floyd: Lucifer Sam || psych-rock, pop-rock, garage rock
15. Cream: Strange Brew || hard rock
16. Arlo Guthrie: Alice's Restaurant Massacree || folk
17. Beach Boys: Vega-Tables (2011 version) || baroque pop
18. Love: Alone Again Or || baroque pop
19. Leonard Cohen: Suzanne || chamber folk
20. Zombies: Time of the Season || psych-pop
21. Tim Buckley: Once I Was || folk-rock, pyschedelic
22. Leonard Cohen: Sisters of Mercy || chamber folk
23. Jimi Hendrix: Little Wing || psych-rock, blues-rock
24. Aretha Franklin: Respect || southern soul, R&B
25. Human Beinz: Nobody But Me || garage rock, R&B
26. Beatles: Penny Lane || baroque pop
27. Van Morrison: Brown-Eyed Girl || pop-rock, blue-eyed soul
28. Beatles: Hello Goodbye || baroque pop

1968

1. Velvet Underground: Sister Ray || garage/experimental/noise-rock, psychedelic, jam band
2. Van Morrison: Ballerina || jazz-folk
3. Velvet Underground: White Light/White Heat || garage/noise-rock, psychedelic
4. Jimi Hendrix: All Along the Watchtower || hard rock
5. Van Morrison: The Way That Young Lovers Do || jazz-folk/pop
6. Rolling Stones: Jumpin' Jack Flash || garage rock, R&B
7. Grateful Dead: Dark Star (live) || psych-folk
8. Van Morrison: Sweet Thing || jazz-folk
9. Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child - Slight Return || hard rock, psych-rock
10. Kinks: Picture Book || pop-rock
11. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Proud Mary || blues-rock
12. Beatles: Helter Skelter || hard rock
13. Deep Purple: Hush || hard rock, psychedelic
14. Beatles: While My Guitar Gently Weeps || hard rock
15. Beatles: Happiness Is a Warm Gun || hard rock
16. Tiny Tim: Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight || novelty, chamber pop
17. Beatles: Martha My Dear || baroque pop
18. Velvet Underground: The Gift || garage rock, jam band, experimental/psychedelic
19. Elvis Presley: A Little Less Conversation || rock

1969

1. Stooges: I Wanna Be Your Dog || garage rock, psych-rock
2. King Crimson: 21st Century Schizoid Man || psych-rock, jazz-rock, prog-rock
3. Led Zeppelin: Dazed and Confused || hard rock
4. Led Zeppelin: Heartbreaker || hard rock
5. Norman Greenbaum: Spirit in the Sky || psych-rock, hard rock
6. Neil Young: Down by the River || folk-rock, jam band
7. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Fortunate Son || blues-rock
8. Stooges: 1969 || garage rock, psych-rock
9. King Crimson: The Court of the Crimson King || prog-rock
10. Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter || blues-rock
11. Stooges: No Fun || garage rock
12. Mothers of Invention (Frank Zappa): Dog Breath in the Year of the Plague || experimental rock
13. Guess Who: American Woman || blues-rock, psych-rock
14. Jackson 5: I Want You Back || pop-soul
15. Frank Zappa: Peaches En Regalia || experimental rock, jazz fusion
16. Tim Buckley: Driftin' || jazz-folk, psychedelic
17. Neil Young: Cinnamon Girl || hard rock, country-rock
18. Frank Zappa: Willie the Pimp || experimental rock, jazz fusion, blues
19. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Bad Moon Rising || blues-rock
20. Led Zeppelin: Whole Lotta Love || hard rock, psych-rock
21. Velvet Underground: What Goes On || folk-rock, psych-pop
22. Beatles: Here Comes the Sun || folk/baroque pop
23. Rolling Stones: You Got the Silver || country-rock
24. Beatles: Hey Bulldog || hard rock
25. Led Zeppelin: Good Times Bad Times || hard rock
26. Archies: Sugar, Sugar || sunshine pop
27. Bob Dylan: Lay Lady Lay || country-rock

1970

1. Stooges: 1970 || garage/hard rock, proto-punk/noise rock
2. Rolling Stones: Can't You Hear Me Knockin' ||garage/hard rock, soul, psychedelic/jazz
3. Led Zeppelin: Since I've Been Loving You || blues/hard rock
4. Rolling Stones: Brown Sugar || garage rock, blues-rock, jazz-rock
5. Black Sabbath: The Wizard || stoner rock, goth/doom metal
6. Led Zeppelin: Immigrant Song || hard rock
7. Black Sabbath: War Pigs || stoner rock, goth/doom metal
8. Leonard Cohen: Dress Rehearsal Rag || chamber folk
9. Rolling Stones: Wild Horses || country-rock
10. Black Sabbath: Paranoid || stoner rock, goth/doom metal
11. Van Morrison: Into the Mystic || jazz-folk
12. Santana: Black Magic Woman || hard rock
13. Neil Young: After the Gold Rush || country-blues
14. Van Morrison: Caravan || country-rock, blue-eyed soul, jazz-pop
15. Velvet Underground: Sweet Jane || pop-rock
16. Black Sabbath: Iron Man || stoner rock, goth/doom metal
17. Van Morrison: These Dreams of You || country-rock, blue-eyed soul, jazz-pop
18. Curtis Mayfield: Move On Up || Chicago soul
19. Van Morrison: Everyone || jazz-folk/pop
20. Mothers of Invention (Frank Zappa): Directly From My Heart To You || blues-rock
21. Van Morrison: Glad Tidings || jazz-folk/pop
22. Bob Dylan: The Man in Me || blue-eyed soul, folk-rock
23. Derek & the Dominos: Layla || hard rock
24. Edwin Starr: War || funk, soul
25. Bob Marley: Soul Rebel || reggae
26. Kinks: Lola || garage rock

1971

1. Yes: Roundabout || prog-rock
2. Can: Halleluhwah || krautrock
3. Led Zeppelin: Stairway to Heaven || hard rock
4. Neil Young: The Needle and the Damage Done || folk
5. Who: Baba O'Riley || hard rock
6. Bill Withers: Ain't No Sunshine || soul
7. T Rex: Cosmic Dancer || baroque pop
8. Neil Young: Heart of Gold || country-rock
9. Doors: Riders on the Storm || psych-rock
10. Led Zeppelin: Black Dog || hard rock
11. Doors: L.A. Woman || hard rock, psychedelic
12. T Rex: Bang a Gong || glam rock
13. Don McLean: American Pie || folk-rock
14. Bob Dylan: You Ain't Goin' Nowhere || country-rock
15. Bob Dylan: I Shall Be Released || folk
16. Led Zeppelin: Rock and Roll || hard rock
17. Bob Dylan: When I Paint My Masterpiece || country-rock
18. John Lennon: Imagine || pop/piano rock
19. Joni Mitchell: All I Want || folk
20. John Denver: Take Me Home Country Roads || country pop
21. Marvin Gaye: What's Goin' On || soul
22. Black Sabbath: Sweet Leaf || stoner rock, goth/doom metal
23. Carole King: I Feel the Earth Move || pop/soft-rock

1972

1. Neu!: Negativland || instrumental krautrock
2. Popol Vuh: Kyrie || neoclassical new age
3. Deep Purple: Highway Star || stoner/hard rock
4. Todd Rundgren: I Saw the Light || pop-rock
5. Joni Mitchell: Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire || folk, jazz pop
6. Todd Rundgren: It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference || pop-rock
7. Aphrodite's Child: The Four Horseman || prog-rock
8. Deep Purple: Smoke On the Water || stoner/hard rock
9. Nick Drake: Pink Moon || chamber folk
10. Roxy Music: Virginia Plain || glam rock
11. Neil Young: Heart of Gold || country-rock
12. Rolling Stones: Tumbling Dice || blues-rock
13. Rolling Stones: Rocks Off || blues-rock
14. Neil Young: Harvest || country-rock
15. David Bowie: Starman || glam rock
16. David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust || glam rock
17. Rolling Stones: Sweet Virginia || country-rock
18. Elton John: Tiny Dancer|| glam/pop rock
19. Steely Dan: Reelin' In the Years || pop rock
20. Curtis Mayfield: Pusherman || funk, Chicago soul
21. Lou Reed: Perfect Day || glam/pop rock
22. Steely Dan: Do It Again || soft/pop rock
23. Elvis Presley: Burning Love || rock, southern soul

1973

1. Faust: Krautrock || krautrock
2. New York Dolls: Personality Crisis || garage/glam rock, proto-punk
3. Lynyrd Skynyrd: Free Bird || blues/hard rock
4. Led Zeppelin: The Rain Song || hard rock, psychedelic folk
5. Can: Moonshake || krautrock
6. Bob Dylan: Knockin' On Heaven's Door || folk-rock
7. ZZ Top: La Grange || blues/hard rock
8. Stooges: Search and Destroy || garage rock/proto-punk
9. Bruce Springsteen: Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) || heartland rock
10. Pink Floyd: Time || prog/psych-rock
11. Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road || glam/pop rock
12. Elton John: Bennie and the Jets || glam/pop rock
13. Led Zeppelin: D'yer Mak'er || pop reggae, hard rock
14. Bruce Springsteen: Blinded by the Light || heartland rock

1974

John Cale: Buffalo Ballet || glam rock
David Bowie: Rebel Rebel || glam rock
Richard & Linda Thompson: I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight || folk-rock
John Cale: Barracuda || glam/art rock
Bobby Bland: Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City || deep soul, blues
King Crimson: Starless || psych-rock, prog-rock
John Cale: Gun || glam/hard rock
Robin Trower: Bridge of Sighs || hard rock, psychedelic
Can: Come Sta, La Luna || krautrock
Dadawah: Zion Land || nyahbinghi
Kiss: Strutter || glam rock
Tom Waits: Drunk On the Moon || piano blues

1975

1. Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody || glam rock
2. Neil Young: Cortez the Killer || country-rock, hard rock
3. Neil Young: Albuquerque || country-rock
4. Neu: Isi || krautrock, instrumental
5. Aerosmith: Sweet Emotion || glam metal/hard rock
6. Bob Dylan: Tangled Up in Blue || folk-rock
7. Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here || art rock
8. Bob Dylan: Simple Twist of Fate || folk-rock
9. Bruce Springsteen: Born To Run || heartland rock
10. Led Zeppelin: Kashmir || hard rock, psychedelic
11. Led Zeppelin: In My Time of Dying || hard rock, psychedelic
12. David Bowie: Young Americans || pop-rock/soul
13. Led Zeppelin: Boogie With Stu|| boogie rock, acoustic blues
14. Neil Young: Like a Hurricane || hard rock, country-rock, jam band

1976

1. Television: Marquee Moon || post-punk/new wave
2. Ramones: Blitzkrieg Bop || punk
3. Sex Pistols: Anarchy in the UK || punk
4. Tom Petty: Hometown Blues || pop-rock
5. Blue Oyster Cult: Don't Fear the Reaper || hard rock, goth
6. Aerosmith: Last Child || hard rock/glam metal
7. Tom Waits: The Piano Has Been Drinking || piano blues
8. Eagles: Hotel California || folk-rock
9. Thin Lizzy: The Boys Are Back in Town || glam/hard rock
10. Aerosmith: Back in the Saddle || hard rock/glam metal
11. Bob Dylan: Romance in Durango ||

1977

1. Suicide: Frankie Teardrop || synth-punk, industrial, avant-garde
2. Suicide: Ghost Rider || synth-punk, industrial
3. David Bowie: Heroes || art rock
4. Queen: We Will Rock You || glam rock
5. Warren Zevon: Werewolves of London || pop-rock
6. Talking Heads: Psycho Killer || post-punk/new wave
7. Heart: Barracuda || new wave, hard rock
8. Billy Joel: Movin' Out || pop-rock
9. Queen: We Are the Champions || glam rock
10. Elvis Costello: Watching the Detectives || new wave, reggae-rock
11. Ramones: Sheena Is a Punk Rocker || punk-pop
12. Talking Heads: Don't Worry About the Government || new wave/post-punk
13. Leonard Cohen: Death of a Ladies' Man || chamber folk

1978

1. Pere Ubu: The Modern Dance || post-punk/new wave
2. Throbbing Gristle: Hamburger Lady || industrial
3. Pere Ubu: Non-Alignment Pact || post-punk/new wave
4. Cars: Just What I Needed || pop-rock, new wave
5. Dire Straits: Sultans of Swing || blues-rock
6. Talking Heads: Take Me To the River || new wave, funk-rock
7. Blondie: One Way Or Another || new wave, pop-rock
8. Joe Walsh: Life's Been Good || pop-rock
9. Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive || disco
10. Pere Ubu: Street Waves || post-punk/new wave
11. Devo: Uncontrollable Urge|| new wave
12. Village People: YMCA || disco
13. Chic: I Want Your Love || disco, funk
14. Chic: Le Freak || disco, funk
15. Rolling Stones: Miss You || pop-rock, funk
16. DNA: Egomaniac's Kiss || no wave/noise rock

1979

1. Pop Group: We Are All Prostitutes || post-punk, avant-garde/no wave, funk-rock
2. Sugarhill Gang: Rapper's Delight || disco, hip-hop
3. Chrome: Half Machine Lip Moves || post-punk/noise-rock, psychedelic, industrial
4. Pop Group: Thief of Fire || post-punk/no wave, funk-rock, dub
5. Bauhaus: Bela Lugosi's Dead || goth rock, post-punk
6. Chrome: Zombie Warfare || post-punk/noise-rock, psychedelic, industrial
7. Dead Kennedys: California Uber Alles || punk
8. Germs: Lexicon Devil || punk
9. Buggles: Video Killed the Radio Star || new wave/synth-pop
10. Tom Petty: Don't Do Me Like That || pop-rock
11. Clash: London Calling || new wave/punk-pop
12. Pink Floyd: Another Brick in the Wall Pt 2 || pop-rock, disco/funk-rock

1980

1. Cramps: Sunglasses After Dark || surf punk/psychobilly
2. Cramps: I Was a Teenage Werewolf || surf punk/psychobilly
3. Dead Kennedys: Holiday In Cambodia || surf punk
4. Joy Division: Love Will Tear Us Apart || post-punk, goth
5. Bruce Springsteen: Hungry Heart || heartland rock
6. Talking Heads: Once In a Lifetime || post-punk/new wave
7. X: Los Angeles || punk
8. Love of Life Orchestra: Extended Niceties || new wave, prog-pop
9. Dead Kennedys: Police Truck || punk/post-hardcore
10. Generation X: Dancing With Myself || new wave
11. U2: I Will Follow || post-punk, pop-rock
12. Dead Kennedys: Let's Lynch the Landlord || surf punk
13. Joan Jett: Bad Reputation || new wave, pop-rock
14. Killing Joke: Requiem || industrial rock/post-punk, goth
15. Motorhead: Ace of Spades || metal
16. AC/DC: Back In Black || hard rock
17. Killing Joke: Wardance || industrial rock/post-punk, goth
18. Talking Heads: Born Under Punches || post-punk/new wave
19. Ramones: Rock n Roll High School || punk-pop
20. Psychedelic Furs: Sister Europe || post-punk, neo-psychedelic
21. David Bowie: Ashes to Ashes || art pop

1981

1. Flipper: Sex Bomb || punk, jazz-rock
2. Trio: Da Da Da || new wave/post-punk
3. Gun Club: She's Like Heroin to Me || punk-blues
4. Tom Tom Club: Genius of Love || new wave, synth-funk
5. Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five: The Message || hip-hop
6. Fear: I Love Livin' In the City || punk
7. Bad Brains: Banned in DC || punk
8. Kim Carnes: Bette Davis Eyes || pop
9. Bad Brains: Pay to Cum || punk
10. Rush: YYZ || hard/prog-rock
11. Joan Jett: I Love Rock n Roll || hard rock
12. Rolling Stones: Start Me Up || hard rock
13. Black Flag: Rise Above || punk
14. Survivor: Eye of the Tiger || hard rock/AOR
15. Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft: Der Mussolini || synth punk/new wave

1982

1. Violent Femmes: Blister In the Sun|| folk-punk
2. Violent Femmes: Add It Up || folk-punk
3. Bruce Springsteen: Nebraska || folk
4. Michael Jackson: Billie Jean|| pop, R&B, dance/disco
5. Thomas Dolby: She Blinded Me with Science || new wave/synth-pop
6. Descendents: Suburban Home || punk
7. Eurythmics: Sweet Dreams || synth-pop
8. ZZ Top: Sharp Dressed Man || blues-rock
9. Roxy Music: More Than This || sophisti-pop, new romantic
10. Roxy Music: Take a Chance With Me || sophisti-pop, new romantic
11. Van Morrison: Dweller on the Threshold || blue-eyed soul, soft rock
12. Def Leppard: Rock of Ages || hard rock
13. U2: Sunday Bloody Sunday || pop-rock

1983

1. REM: Radio Free Europe || alt-pop
2. Cocteau Twins: Sugar Hiccup || goth rock/post-punk, dream pop
3. Pretenders: Middle of the Road || new wave, pop-rock
4. Cyndi Lauper: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun || synth-pop
5. Metallica: Jump in the Fire || thrash metal
6. Talking Heads: Burning Down the House || new wave
7. Madonna: Lucky Star || synth-pop
8. Talking Heads: This Must Be the Place || new wave
9. Metallica: The Four Horsemen || thrash metal
10. David Bowie: Let's Dance || dance-pop, new wave
11. Police: Every Breath You Take || pop-rock

1984

1. a-ha: Take On Me || synth-pop
2. Foetus: I'll Meet You in Poland Baby || industrial
3. Foetus: Satan Place || industrial rock, surf parody
4. Minutemen: Corona || cowpunk, ranchera
5. Butthole Surfers: Lady Sniff || art punk/noise-rock
6. Replacements: I Will Dare || punk-pop
7. Bruce Springsteen: Working on the Highway || heartland/pop-rock
8. Bruce Springsteen: Dancing in the Dark || heartland/pop-rock
9. U2: Pride || pop-rock, post-punk
10. Madonna: Like a Virgin || dance-pop
11. Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah || sophisti-pop, gospel
12. Dalis Car: His Box|| art-pop, goth/post-punk

1985

1. Foetus: Pigswill || industrial rock
2. Foetus: Anything || industrial rock
3. Dire Straits: Money For Nothing || pop-rock, blues-rock
4. Jesus & Mary Chain: Just Like Honey || dream pop/shoegaze
5. Tom Waits: Tango 'Til They're Sore || piano blues
6. Nick Cave: Tupelo || punk-blues, post-punk/goth
7. Talking Heads: And She Was || new wave, pop-rock
8. Prince: Raspberry Beret || pop-rock
9. Kate Bush: Running Up that Hill || art pop
10. Meat Puppets: Up on the Sun || alt-country, indie rock
11. Camper Van Beethoven: Take the Skinheads Bowling || indie rock
12. Rites of Spring: Deeper Than Inside || post-hardcore/punk
13. Tears for Fears: Shout || synth-pop, big music
14. Tears for Fears: Everybody Wants to Rule the World || synth-pop
15. Replacements: Swinging Party || jangle pop
16. Flaming Lips: With You || psych-rock, folk-rock
17. Nick Cave: Wanted Man|| punk-blues, post-punk/goth
18. Rites of Spring: Theme || post-hardcore/punk
19. Cure: Close to Me || new wave

1986

1. David Thomas: Monster Walks the Winter Lake || chamber folk, experimental/avant-garde
2. High Rise: Pop Sicle || garage rock, jam band, heavy psych
3. Big Black: Kerosene || industrial, post-hardcore
4. Butthole Surfers: Creep in the Cellar || art rock
5. Talking Heads: Wild Wild Life || new wave, pop-rock
6. Metallica: The Thing That Should Not Be || thrash metal
7. Run DMC: It's Tricky || hip-hop
8. Megadeth: Peace Sells || thrash metal
9. Peter Gabriel: Sledgehammer || art pop

1987

1. Nick Cave: The Mercy Seat || punk-blues, post-punk/goth-rock
2. Sinead O'Connor: Mandinka || pop-rock
3. Suzanne Vega: Tom's Diner || a capella, folk-pop
4. Tom Waits: Innocent When You Dream || piano blues
5. Butthole Surfers: Graveyard [2:47 version] || art punk, grunge
6. Guns N Roses: Sweet Child o' Mine || hard rock
7. Big Black: The Model || industrial rock, post-hardcore
8. Sugarcubes: Birthday || post-punk, dream pop
9. Guns N Roses: Welcome to the Jungle || glam metal/hard rock
10. U2: Where the Streets Have No Name || pop-rock, big music
11. Rick Astley: Never Gonna Give You Up || dance-pop
12. U2: With or Without You || pop-rock, big music
13. U2: I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For || pop-rock, big music
14. REM: The One I Love || alt-pop
15. Echo & the Bunnymen: Lips Like Sugar || big music, new wave

1988

1. Fugazi: Waiting Room || punk/post-hardcore
2. Pixies: Where Is My Mind || alt-rock
3. Enya: Orinoco Flow || new age/ambient pop
4. Jane's Addiction: Jane Says || folk-rock, grunge, psych-rock
5. NWA: Fuck tha Police || hip-hop
6. Pixies: Gigantic || alt-rock
7. Danzig: Mother || glam metal/hard rock, goth
8. Queensryche: I Don't Believe In Love || hard rock/glam metal
9. Rapeman: Monobrow || noise-rock/post-hardcore
10. Ministry: Stigmata || electro-industrial metal
11. Metallica: One || thrash metal
12. Soundgarden: Mood For Trouble || grunge/alt-metal

1989

Cows: Part My Konk || noise-rock, cowpunk
Eric Johnson: Cliffs of Dover|| instrumental guitar
Flaming Lips: Hell's Angel's Cracker Factory || avant-garde, sound collage, psych-rock
Stone Roses: She Bangs the Drums || jangle pop
Nine Inch Nails: Head Like a Hole || electro-industrial
Cure: Pictures of You || goth-rock/post-punk
Tom Petty: Free Fallin' || pop-rock
Public Enemy: Fight the Power || hip-hop
Galaxie 500: Strange || indie folk-rock, dream pop/psych-rock
Laughing Hyenas: Seven Come Eleven || post-hardcore, punk-blues
Bats: Time to Get Ready || jangle pop
Bob Dylan: Most of the Time || folk-rock
Camper Van Beethoven: Pictures of Matchstick Men || alt-rock

1990

1. Nick Cave: The Weeping Song || dark cabaret, goth-rock
2. Daniel Johnston: Some Things Last a Long Time || indie pop
3. Cocteau Twins: Heaven Or Las Vegas || dream pop
4. Royal Trux: Jet Pet || noise-rock, experimental/no wave, garage rock
5. Alice In Chains: Man in the Box || hard rock/grunge
6. Fugazi: Repeater || post-hardcore
7. Helmet: Bad Mood || post-hardcore, alt-metal, noise-rock
8. Primus: John the Fisherman || funk-metal
9. Slint: Breadcrumb Trail || emo/post-hardcore
10. C+C Music Factory: Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) || hip-house, dance-pop
11. Sinead O'Connor: Nothing Compares 2 U || pop-rock
12. Black Crowes: Twice As Hard || hard/blues rock
13. AC/DC: Thunderstruck || hard rock
14. KMFDM: Achtung || electro-industrial

1991

1. Oxbow: Angel || experimental/noise-rock, punk-blues
2. Slint: Good Morning Captain || emo/post-hardcore
3. My Bloody Valentine: Sometimes || shoegaze
4. My Bloody Valentine: To Here Knows When || shoegaze
5. Nirvana: Lithium || grunge/alt-rock
6. Jesus Lizard: Seasick || post-hardcore
7. PJ Harvey: Dress || punk-blues, alt-rock
8. Pearl Jam: Jeremy || alt-rock/grunge
9. Pearl Jam: Black || alt-rock/grunge
10. Daniel Johnston: Honey I Sure Miss You || indie pop/rock
11. Primus: Jerry Was a Race Car Driver || funk-metal
12. Soundgarden: Outshined || grunge/alt-metal
13. Jesus Lizard: Mouth Breather || post-hardcore
14. Lisa Germano: Cry Baby || alt-country, dream pop/chamber folk
15. Metallica: Enter Sandman || thrash metal
16. Pearl Jam: Even Flow || alt-rock/grunge
17. Jesus Lizard: Nub || post-hardcore
18. Lida Husik: Hateful Hippy Girls || indie folk/rock
19. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Under the Bridge || pop-rock
20. Nirvana: Come As You Are || grunge/alt-rock
21. Mudhoney: Good Enough || garage rock

1992

1. Red House Painters: Medicine Bottle || slowcore
2. Red House Painters: 24 || slowcore
3. Ice Cube: It Was a Good Day || hip-hop/gangsta funk
4. L7: Pretend We're Dead || pop-rock, grunge
5. Tom Waits: Goin Out West || blues-rock, grunge
6. Rage Against the Machine: Killing in the Name || rap/nu metal
7. Cypress Hill: Insane in the Brain || hip-hop
8. Alice In Chains: Them Bones || grunge/alt-metal
9. Magnetic Fields: Love Goes Home to Paris in the Spring || indie/dream pop
10. Damon & Naomi: E.T.A. || dream pop
11. Slowdive: Souvlaki Space Station || dream pop/shoegaze
12. Slowdive: When the Sun Hits|| dream pop/shoegaze
13. Screaming Trees: Nearly Lost You || grunge/alt-rock
14. Babes In Toyland: Bluebell || grunge/alt-rock
15. Neil Young: Harvest Moon || country
16. Cows: Heave Ho || cowpunk, noise-rock
17. Magnetic Fields: When You Were My Baby || indie/synth-pop
18. R.E.M: Everybody Hurts || alt-rock

1993

Red House Painters: Katy Song || folk-rock, slowcore
Frank Black: I Heard Ramona Sing|| alt-rock
Liz Phair: Fuck and Run || alt-rock
Mazzy Star: Fade Into You || dream pop, country-rock
Morphine: Cure For Pain || jazz-pop, blues-rock
Bjork: Venus As a Boy || art pop
Morphine: Buena|| jazz-pop, blues-rock
Vampire Rodents: Grace || experimental rock, industrial metal
Radiohead: Creep || alt-rock
Unwound: Kantina || emo/post-hardcore, noise-rock
Smashing Pumpkins: Mayonnaise || alt-rock/grunge, dream pop
Smashing Pumpkins: Today || alt-rock/grunge, dream pop
Wu Tang Clan: C.R.E.A.M. || hip-hop
PJ Harvey: Rub 'Til It Bleeds || alt-rock/grunge
Green Day: Longview || alt-rock/pop-punk
Crash Test Dummies: Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm|| alt-country
Nirvana: Heart-Shaped Box || grunge/alt-rock
Green Day: When I Come Around || alt-rock/pop-punk
Unrest: Make Out Club || indie rock
Soundgarden: Black Hole Sun || grunge/alt-metal
Stone Temple Pilots: Sex Type Thing || grunge/alt-metal
Lida Husik: Bustop || indie folk/rock
Flaming Lips: She Don't Use Jelly || indie/alt-rock
Unwound: Dragnalus || emo/post-hardcore, noise-rock
Lisa Germano: Bad Attitude [4AD version] || dream pop, slowcore
Red House Painters: I Am a Rock || slowcore, indie folk/rock

1994

1. Nine Inch Nails: Closer || industrial metal
2. Mark Lanegan: Borracho|| blues-rock, alternative
3. Magnetic Fields: Sunset City || indie/chamber pop, goth/alt-country
4. Magnetic Fields: When the Open Road Is Closing In || indie/chamber pop, goth/alt-country
5. Lisa Germano: Cry Wolf || slowcore, indie/dream pop
6. Lisa Germano: Cancer of Everything || slowcore, indie/dream pop
7. Beck: Loser|| indie rock, hip-hop
8. Korn: Blind || nu metal
9. Hole: Asking For It || grunge/alt-rock
10. Cranberries: Zombie || alt-rock
11. Today Is the Day: My First Knife || noise-rock/post-hardcore
12. Magnetic Fields: Two Characters in Search of a Country Song || indie/chamber pop, alt-country
13. Magnetic Fields: Born On a Train || indie/chamber pop, goth/alt-country
14. Offspring: Gotta Get Away || punk/alt-rock
15. Magnetic Fields: Swinging London || indie/synth-pop
16. Blur: Girls & Boys || alternative dance, Britpop
17. Magnetic Fields: Strange Powers || indie/synth-pop
18. To Live & Shave in LA: Pull Chains of Memphis || experimental/noise
19. Mark Lanegan: El Sol || blues/folk-rock
20. REM: Crush with Eyeliner || alt-rock

1995

1. 6ths: Movies In My Head || indie pop
2. PJ Harvey: Send His Love to Me || alt-rock, blues
3. Radiohead: Fake Plastic Trees || alt-rock
4. Alanis Morissette: You Oughta Know || alt-rock/pop
5. Radiohead: High and Dry || alt-rock
6. Morphine: Honey White|| jazz-rock, blues-rock
7. Foetus: Slung || post-punk, jazz/big band
8. Smashing Pumpkins: Bullet with Butterfly Wings || alt-rock
9. Magnetic Fields: Save a Secret for the Moon || indie/dream pop
10. Magnetic Fields: The Dreaming Moon || indie/dream pop
11. Sonic Youth: The Diamond Sea || indie/noise-rock
12. Fear Factory: H-K || industrial/groove metal
13. Smashing Pumpkins: 1979 || dream pop, alt-rock
14. Smashing Pumpkins: Zero || alt-rock

1996

1. Tortoise: Djed || post-rock, krautrock/progressive, minimalism, instrumental
2. Lisa Germano: Victoria's Secret || chamber folk, dream pop
3. Verve: Bitter Sweet Symphony || indie pop
4. Lisa Germano: Small Heads || indie/dream pop
5. Dissolve: Presume Too Far || shoegaze
6. Red House Painters: All Mixed Up || slowcore, indie folk/rock
7. Sepultura: Roots Bloody Roots || groove/nu metal
8. Polvo: Fast Canoe || post-hardcore/math rock
9. Red House Painters: Make Like Paper || slowcore, hard rock, jam band
10. Mazzy Star: Look On Down From the Bridge || dream pop, country-blues
11. Harvey Danger: Flagpole Sitta || power pop, alt-rock
12. Lemonheads: If I Could Talk I'd Tell You || acoustic/alt-rock, power pop
13. Robert Miles: Children || dream trance
14. Tool: Stinkfist || alt-metal
15. Beck: Sissyneck || indie rock, hip-hop
16. Sixteen Horsepower: I Seen What I Saw || gothic/alt-country
17. Modest Mouse: Dramamine || midwest emo/indie rock
18. Belle & Sebastian: Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying || chamber folk, twee pop
19. Nada Surf: Popular || alt-rock, power pop
20. Unwound: Corpse Pose || emo/post-hardcore, noise-rock
21. Red House Painters: Song For a Blue Guitar || slowcore, alt-country
22. Jon Spencer: Wail || punk-blues, alt-rock

1997

1. Radiohead: No Surprises || indie/alt-rock
2. Geraldine Fibbers: Butch || alt-country, slowcore
3. Aqua: Barbie Girl || dance-pop
4. Third Eye Blind: Semi-Charmed Life || pop-rock
5. Dandy Warhols: Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth || alt-rock, power pop, neo-psychedelic
6. Radiohead: Paranoid Android || indie/alt-rock
7. Chumbawumba: Tubthumping || pop-rock
8. Blur: Song 2 || alt-rock, Britpop
9. Bob Dylan: Not Dark Yet || folk-rock
10. Gothic Archies: Ever Falls the Twilight || indie pop, goth
11. Daft Punk: Da Funk || French house
12. Smash Mouth: Walkin' On the Sun || power pop
13. Bardo Pond: Pick My Brain || heavy psych

1998

1. Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea|| indie folk/rock
2. Massive Attack: Teardrop || trip hop
3. Lisa Germano: If I Think of Love || indie/dream pop, slowcore
4. Jay-Z: Hard Knock Life || hip-hop
5. Duster: Gold Dust || instrumental, slowcore/indie rock
6. Neutral Milk Hotel: King of Carrot Flowers, Pt 1 || indie folk/rock
7. Tortoise: Swung From the Gutters || post-rock, jazz fusion
8. Six Organs of Admittance: Sum of All Heaven || psychedelic folk
9. Unsane: Committed || sludge metal, noise-rock/post-hardcore
10. Rob Zombie: Dragula || industrial metal
11. Eels: Last Stop, This Town || indie pop, alternative dance
12. Hole: Awful || alt-rock/grunge
13. Boards of Canada: Roygbiv || electronic/IDM, downtempo/trip-hop
14. Fear Factory: Shock || industrial/groove metal
15. Lauryn Hill: Doo Wop (That Thing) || neo-soul/R&B, hip-hop
16. Hole: Celebrity Skin || alt-rock/grunge

1999

1. Dr. Dre: Still D.R.E. || hip-hop
2. Magnetic Fields: No One Will Ever Love You || indie/dream pop
3. Magnetic Fields: I Don't Believe in the Sun || indie pop, alt-country
4. Eminem: Guilty Conscience || hip-hop
5. Eminem: My Name Is || hip-hop
6. Blink-182: All the Small Things || pop-punk
7. Smash Mouth: All Star || power pop, ska
8. Magnetic Fields: All My Little Words || indie pop
9. Lou Bega: Mambo No. 5 || dance-pop
10. Jay Z: Big Pimpin' || hip-hop
11. Tom Waits: Come On Up to the House || piano blues
12. Slipknot: Surfacing || nu metal
13. Limp Bizkit: Break Stuff || nu metal
14. Darude: Sandstorm || trance

2000

1. Eminem: Stan || hip-hop
2. Eminem: The Real Slim Shady || hip-hop
3. Enya: Only Time || new age pop
4. Broadcast: Come On Let's Go || indietronica, dream pop/neo-psychedelia
5. Animal Collective: Alvin Row || experimental/noise-pop, neo-psychedelia
6. Radiohead: Like Spinning Plates || art rock
7. Radiohead: How To Disappear Completely || chamber folk, art pop
8. Avalanches: Frontier Psychiatrist || plunderphonics, dance
9. Evanescence: My Immortal || piano rock, goth
10. Arab On Radar: #3 9-19-98 || noise rock/no wave
11. Arab On Radar: #5 10-7-98 || noise rock/no wave
12. Hives: Hate to Say I Told You So || garage rock revival
13. Deftones: Back to School || nu metal
14. Marilyn Manson: The Fight Song || alt-metal
15. Morphine: The Night || jazz-rock/alternative
16. Radiohead: Pyramid Song || art rock
17. 6ths: Just Like a Movie Star || chamber pop

2001

1. Wilco: Jesus, Etc. || indie/chamber folk
2. Wilco: Heavy Metal Drummer || folk-rock, indie pop
3. Strokes: The Modern Age || garage rock revival, pop-rock
4. White Stripes: We're Going To Be Friends || folk-pop
5. Daft Punk: Harder Better Faster Stronger || French house, dance-pop
6. Angels of Light: Untitled Love Song || folk-rock, gothic country
7. Tool: Schism || prog/alt-metal
8. System of a Down: Chop Suey! || alternative/nu metal
9. Red House Painters: Cruiser || slowcore, indie folk/rock
10. Slipknot: Iowa || nu metal
11. Strokes: Hard to Explain || garage rock revival, pop-rock
12. Strokes: Last Nite || garage rock revival, pop-rock
13. Strokes: Someday || garage rock revival, pop-rock
14. Arling & Cameron: Dirty Robot || alternative dance
15. Gorillaz: Latin Simone || trip-hop, Afro-Cuban jazz, Latin soul
16. Cornelius: Drop || art pop, indietronica, neo-psychedelia
17. Solex: Have You No Shame, Girl? || art pop, indietronica
18. Nickelback: This Is How You Remind Me || post-grunge/alt-rock

2002

1. Xiu Xiu: Suha || art pop/experimental
2. Xiu Xiu: Luber || art pop/experimental
3. To Live & Shave in LA: Nor Swollen-Bellied Comet Blown || noise/experimental
4. Black Dice: Things Will Never Be the Same || experimental/neo-psychedelic, electronic
5. Queens of the Stone Age: Song For the Dead || stoner/alt-rock
6. Coldplay: The Scientist || brit-pop
7. Tom Waits: All the World Is Green || dark cabaret, vocal jazz
8. Acid Mothers Temple: Loved and Confused || heavy psych, noise rock
9. Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt 2 || neo-psychedelia, electronic, noise pop
10. Queens of the Stone Age: God Is In the Radio || stoner/alt-rock
11. Low: That's How You Sing Amazing Grace || slowcore
12. Interpol: NYC || post-punk, indie rock
13. Eminem: Without Me || hip-hop
14. To Live & Shave in LA: New Poem Dramatized for Lux Cudgel || noise/experimental
15. Interpol: Obstacle 1 || post-punk, indie rock
16. To Live & Shave in LA: Ideas Make Men Hard || noise/experimental
17. To Live & Shave in LA: To Backstab, To Schism || noise/experimental
18. Hunches: Explosion || noise-rock/lo-fi, punk blues
19. Múm: Don't Be Afraid, You Have Just Got Your Eyes Closed || indietronica, ambient pop
20. Neko Case: Deep Red Bells || alt-country
21. Coldplay: Clocks || brit-pop
22. Eminem: Lose Yourself || hip-hop
23. Red Hot Chili Peppers: By the Way || alt-rock

2003

1. Sun Kil Moon: Duk Koo Kim || slowcore, folk-rock
2. Xiu Xiu: Sad Pony Guerilla Girl || indie folk, experimental
3. Sun Kil Moon: Carry Me Ohio || folk-rock, slowcore
4. Broadcast: Before We Begin || dream pop
5. Radiohead: There There || art rock
6. White Stripes: Seven Nation Army || garage rock
7. Cat Power: Names || indie folk, slowcore
8. Dizzee Rascal: I Luv U || hip-hop/grime
9. Franz Ferdinand: Take Me Out || garage rock
10. Sweet Trip: Dsco || glitch-pop, shoegaze
11. 50 Cent: In da Club || hip-hop/pop-rap
12. Evanescence: Bring Me Back to Life || alt-metal
13. Jay Z: 99 Problems || hip-hop
14. Fiery Furnaces: Bow Wow || indie rock, art pop
15. Fiery Furnaces: Two Fat Feet || indie rock, art pop
16. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Pin || garage rock revival, noise pop
17. Type O Negative: I Don't Wanna Be Me || alt-metal, goth
18. Strokes: 12:51 || garage rock revival, pop-rock
19. Lisa Germano: Candy || dream pop
20. Strokes: What Ever Happened || garage rock revival, pop-rock
21. White Stripes: Black Math || garage rock revival
22. Nick Cave: She Passed By My Window || piano rock
23. Black Eyed Peas: Let's Get It Started || pop-rap, dance
24. Britney Spears: Toxic || pop

2004

1. Fiery Furnaces: Blueberry Boat || progressive/art pop, indie
2. Green Day: Jesus of Suburbia || punk-pop, rock opera
3. Arcade Fire: In the Backseat || chamber pop, indie rock
4. Das Oath: Awesome Rape || thrashcore/punk
5. cLOUUDDEAD: Dead Dogs Two || experimental hip-hop, indietronica
6. Tom Waits: Hoist that Rag || Latin/blues-rock
7. Green Day: Boulevard of Broken Dreams || punk-pop
8. Jesu: Heart Ache || post-metal, industrial, sludge
9. cLOUUDDEAD: Physics of a Unicycle || experimental hip-hop, indietronica
10. TV On the Radio: Staring at the Sun || indie/art rock, psychedelic soul
11. Go! Team: Get It Together || indietronica
12. Green Day: Wake Me Up When September Ends || pop-rock
13. Animal Collective: Leaf House || indie/folktronica, neo-psychedelic
14. Animal Collective: Sweet Road || indie/folktonica, neo-psychedelic
15. Madvillain: Raid || lo-fi hip-hop
16. Mastodon: Blood and Thunder || thrash-metal
17. Ponys: Let's Kill Ourselves || garage rock revival, indie rock
18. DJ Krush: Song 2 || instrumental hip-hop, lo-fi
19. Franz Ferdinand: This Fire || post-punk revival, indie rock
20. Franz Ferdinand: Take Me Out || post-punk revival, indie rock
21. Killers: Somebody Told Me || pop-rock, post-punk revival
22. Killers: Mr. Brightside || pop-rock, post-punk revival
23. Nick Cave: Nature Boy || piano rock

2005

1. Sufjan Stevens: Come On Feel the Illinoise || chamber pop, indie
2. Gorillaz: Feel Good Inc || indie pop, hip-hop
3. Kanye West: Gold Digger || hip-hop
4. System of a Down: B.Y.O.B. || nu metal
5. Sufjan Stevens: John Wayne Gacy Jr || indie folk
6. Coldplay: Speed of Sound || Brit-pop, art rock
7. Eels: Suicide Life || indie pop
8. Mindless Self Indulgence: Shut Me Up || industrial rock, digital hardcore/alt-dance
9. Dalek: Asylum || industrial/experimental hip-hop
10. Rihanna: Pon De Replay || dance-pop
11. Avenged Sevenfold: Bat Country || melodic metalcore
12. Avenged Sevenfold: The Beast and the Harlot || melodic metalcore
13. Coheed & Cambria: Welcome Home || prog-rock
14. Carrie Underwood: Before He Cheats || country-pop
15. Strokes: You Only Live Once || garage rock revival, pop-rock

2006

1. Joanna Newsom: Emily || chamber folk
2. Fiery Furnaces: Benton Harbor Blues Again || indie pop
3. Amy Winehouse: You Know That I'm No Good || R&B, pop-soul, jazz-pop
4. Amy Winehouse: Back To Black || R&B, pop-soul, jazz-pop
5. Amy Winehouse: Rehab || R&B, pop-soul
6. Gnarls Barkley: Crazy || neo-soul
7. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Dani California || alt-rock, funk
8. TV on the Radio: Playhouses || indie rock, psychedelic soul
9. My Chemical Romance: Teenagers || emo-pop/alt-rock
10. Fratellis: Chelsea Dagger || garage rock revival
11. Gothic Archies: We Are the Gothic Archies || indie pop
12. Xiu Xiu: Boy Soprano || art pop, experimental rock
13. Arctic Monkeys: I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor || garage rock revival

2007

1. LCD Soundsystem: Someone Great || alternative dance
2. Battles: Atlas || math rock, industrial-rock
3. M.I.A: Paper Planes || hip-hop
4. Dinosaur Jr: Almost Ready || indie/alt-rock
5. Panda Bear: Bros || neo-psychedelia/hypnagogic pop
6. Holy Fuck: Lovely Allen || indietronica, neo-psychedelia/krautrock
7. LSD and the Search for God: Starting Over || shoegaze/dream pop
8. Shit & Shine: The Rabbit Song || post-industrial, sludge metal, tribal psych
9. Justice: Genesis || electro house
10. Nine Inch Nails: Vessel || industrial metal
11. To Live & Shave in LA: Bursts Sedate || noise/experimental, drone
12. Grinderman (Nick Cave): Electric Alice || garage rock, psychedelic
13. Arcade Fire: Intervention || chamber pop, indie rock
14. Radiohead: Bodysnatchers || indie/art rock
15. Avril Lavigne: Girlfriend || pop-rock

2008

1. Have a Nice Life: I Don't Love || post-punk, goth, noise-rock/shoegaze
2. Vivian Girls: Where Do You Run To || garage rock/punk-pop, dream pop
3. Vampire Weekend: M79 || indie pop
4. Taylor Swift: You Belong with Me || country-pop
5. Vivian Girls: Tell the World || garage rock/punk-pop
6. Taylor Swift: Love Story || country-pop
7. Coldplay: Viva La Vida || chamber/art pop
8. MGMT: Kids || indietronica, electropop
9. Passion Pit: Little Secrets || indietronica
10. MGMT: Electric Feel || indietronica, electropop
11. P!nk: So What || pop-rock

2009

Purling Hiss: Montage Mountain || lofi/indie, heavy psych/noise-rock
Lady Gaga: Alejandro || dance-pop
Black Meteoric Star: World Eater || acid techno
Vivian Girls: I Have No Fun || garage rock, pop-punk
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone: Killers || indie pop
La Roux: Bulletproof || electro/synth-pop
Eels: That Look You Gave That Guy || indie rock
Animal Collective: What I Want Sky || art pop, neo-psychedelic, indietronica
Kid Cudi: Day 'n' Nite || pop-rap, club music
Animal Collective: Summertime Clothes || art pop, neo-psychedelic, indietronica

2010

1. Joanna Newsom: Have One On Me || chamber folk
2. Joanna Newsom: Good Intentions Paving Company || chamber folk
3. Joanna Newsom: '81 || chamber folk
4. Sun Kil Moon: Alesund || indie folk
5. Daughters: The Hit || noise-rock/post-hardcore
6. Deerhunter: Desire Lines || indie rock, dream pop
7. Soft Moon: When It's Over || industrial/synth-punk, goth
8. Arcade Fire: The Suburbs || indie pop
9. Kanye West: Hell of a Life || pop-rap
10. Kanye West: Power || pop-rap
11. M.I.A.: Teqkilla || industrial hip-hop, electropop, deconstructed club
12. Foster the People: Pumped Up Kicks || indie pop
13. Gorillaz: Stylo || electropop, neo-soul
14. Taylor Swift: Back to December || country-pop

2011

1. Adele: Rolling in the Deep || pop-soul, adult contemporary
2. Giles Corey: Blackest Bile || dark/avant-folk, slowcore, goth
3. Macintosh Plus: Lisa Frank 420/Modern Computing || vaporwave
4. John Maus: Hey Moon || indie/synth-pop, goth
5. Death Grips: Guillotine || industrial hip-hop
6. Death Grips: Takyon || industrial hip-hop
7. Nicolas Jaar: Space Is Only Noise If You Can See || ambient house/electronic, downtempo
8. War On Drugs: Best Night || folk-rock, indie/dream pop
9. Unknown Mortal Orchestra: Ffunny Ffrends || indie rock, neo-psych

2012

1. Andy Stott: Lost and Found || dub/ambient techno
2. Death Grips: The Fever || industrial hip-hop
3. Sun Kil Moon: Among the Leaves|| indie folk/rock
4. Converge: Sadness Comes Home || metalcore
5. Flaming Lips: Try To Explain || neo-psychedelia/hypnagogic pop
6. Neil Young: Ramada Inn || jam band
7. Bob Dylan: Tempest || country-rock
8. Mac DeMarco: Baby Wearing Blue Jeans || indie/lo-fi rock
9. Magnetic Fields: Andrew In Drag || indie pop
10. Death Grips: Hustle Bones || hip-hop, industrial
11. Cigarettes After Sex: Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby || slowcore, dream pop
12. Goat: Let It Bleed || psych-rock
13. Deftones: Romantic Dreams || nu metal

2013

1. Mark Kozelek: You Missed My Heart (live version) || folk
2. War On Drugs: Red Eyes || heartland rock, indie
3. Mark Kozelek & Jimmy LaValle: Gustavo || folktronica
4. Preoccupations: Unconscious Melody || post-punk
5. Kanye West: Black Skinhead || industrial hip-hop
6. War On Drugs: An Ocean In Between the Waves || heartland rock, indie
7. Mark Kozelek & Jimmy LaValle: What Happened To My Brother || folktronica, art pop
8. Mark Kozelek & Jimmy LaValle: Ceiling Gazing || folktronica, bedroom/dream pop

2014

1. Sun Kil Moon: Dogs || indie folk-rock
2. Lana Del Rey: Shades of Cool || dream/alt-pop
3. Lana Del Rey: Brooklyn Baby || dream/alt-pop
4. Pyrrhon: White Flag || technical death-metal
5. Lana Del Rey: Sad Girl || dream/alt-pop
6. Sylvan Esso: Wolf || electropop
7. Pyrrhon: The Mother of Virtues || technical death-metal
8. Frankie Cosmos: Fireman || indie pop
9. Sylvan Esso: Coffee || electropop
10. Frankie Cosmos: Buses Splash With Rain || indie pop
11. Mark Lanegan: Harvest Home || indie/alt-rock
12. Weezer: Da Vinci || alt-rock, power pop
13. Xiu Xiu: Stupid in the Dark || art pop, industrial
14. Sun Kil Moon: Truck Driver || indie folk
15. Sun Kil Moon: I Can't Live Without My Mother's Love || indie folk

2015

Joanna Newsom: Goose Eggs || chamber folk
Sufjan Stevens: Fourth of July || indie folk
Girl Band: Paul || post-punk/noise-rock, industrial
Kendrick Lamar: King Kunta || hip-hop, funk
Lil Peep: Five Degrees || emo-rap/alternative R&B
Girl Band: Baloo || post-punk/noise-rock, industrial
Kendrick Lamar: How Much a Dollar Cost || hip-hop/jazz-rap
Sun Kil Moon: Birds of Flims || indie folk-rock
Earl Sweatshirt: Faucet || lo-fi hip-hop
Wilco: More || indie rock, neo-psychedelic
Girl Band: Fucking Butter || post-punk/noise-rock, industrial
Death Grips: Inanimate Sensation || industrial hip-hop
Vince Staples: Dopeman || hip-hop
chipmunkson16speed: Walk Like An Egyptian || novelty/plunderphonics

2016

1. Caretaker: It's Just a Burning Memory || plunderphonics/vaporwave
2. Stabscotch: Tanic || experimental rock, brutal prog, neo-psych
3. Cigarettes After Sex: K || slowcore, dream pop
4. Animal Collective: FloriDada || art pop, indietronica, neo-psychedelic
5. Impossible Nothing: M || plunderphonics, instrumental hip-hop
6. Impossible Nothing: B || plunderphonics, instrumental hip-hop
7. Jpegmafia: Digital Blackface || industrial hip-hop
8. Jpegmafia: ALL CAPS NO SPACES || industrial hip-hop
9. Xiu Xiu: Into the Night || experimental, art pop
10. Badbadnotgood: Time Moves Slow || soul jazz
11. Kendrick Lamar: Untitled 06 || jazz-rap, neo-soul
12. Andy Shauf: Martha Sways || indie folk

2017

Lingua Ignota: Suffer Forever || neoclassical darkwave, goth
Jpegmafia: Baby I'm Bleeding || industrial hip-hop
Machine Girl: Dumbass!! || digital hardcore, gabber/breakcore
Impossible Nothing: Nn || plunderphonics, instrumental hip-hop
Jpegmafia: Man Purse || industrial hip-hop
Jpegmafia: Curb Stomp || industrial/hardcore hip-hop
Jack Stauber: Buttercup || lo-fi/indie pop, new wave
Slowdive: Sugar For the Pill || dream pop/shoegaze
Billie Eilish: My Boy || alternative R&B, alt-pop
Cigarettes After Sex: Sunsetz || slowcore, dream pop
Magnetic Fields: Surfin' || indie pop
Xiu Xiu: Wondering || art pop, experimental
Brockhampton: Swamp || hip-hop
Guerilla Toss: TV Do Tell || dance/post-punk, indie pop

2018

1. Daughters: The Reason They Hate Me || industrial/noise-rock
2. Daughters: Long Road No Turns || industrial/noise-rock
3. Daughters: City Song || industrial/noise-rock
4. Kids See Ghosts: 4th Dimension || hip-hop
5. Dizayga: Here and There || industrial
6. Earl Sweatshirt: Riot! || plunderphonics
7. Childish Gambino: This Is America || hip-hop/trap
8. Joji: Slow Dancing In the Dark || alternative R&B
9. Kacey Musgraves: Slow Burn || country-pop
10. Cardi B: I Like It || Latin rap, pop-rap/trap
11. Playboi Carti: R.I.P. || trap, neo-psychedelic/cloud rap

2019

Lana Del Rey: Mariners Apartment Complex || indie rock, alt-pop
Injury Reserve: Rap Song Tutorial || experimental hip-hop
Thom Yorke: The Axe || art pop, indietronica
Billie Eilish: When the Party's Over || alternative R&B, alt-pop
Weeknd: Blinding Lights || synthwave/pop, alternative R&B
Lana Del Rey: Venice Bitch || indie rock, neo-psychedelia, alt-pop
Lingua Ignota: Do You Doubt Me Traitor || neoclassical darkwave, avant-garde/experimental
100 Gecs: Stupid Horse || hyperpop
Earl Sweatshirt: East || lo-fi hip-hop

2020

1. Ono: I Dream of Sodomy || industrial/experimental rock/post-punk, dub
2. Jpegmafia: Bald! || experimental hip-hop
3. Strokes: The Adults Are Talking || new wave/indie pop, garage rock
4. Stabscotch: Gravity || experimental rock, brutal prog
5. Chappell Roan: Pink Pony Club || dance/synth-pop

2021

Lil Ugly Mane: Porcelain Slightly || lofi/indie pop
Tyler the Creator: Lumberjack || hip-hop
Squid: Narrator || post-punk revival
Tyler the Creator: Juggernaut || hip-hop
Injury Reserve: Footwork In a Forest Fire || experimental hip-hop
Injury Reserve: Smoke Don't Clear || experimental hip-hop
Billie Eilish: Therefore I Am || electro/alt-pop, alternative R&B
Jpegmafia: Fix Urself || alternative R&B, experimental hip-hop
Ghais Guevara: Kidnap Mark Cuban Then Hide Away In Cuba || hardcore hip-hop

2022

Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul: Hey || art/synth-pop, tech-house
Wet Leg: Ur Mom || garage rock, indie pop
Animal Collective: Prester John || neo-psychedelia, art pop
Wet Leg: Supermarket || garage rock, indie pop
Denzel Curry: Walkin' || hip-hop
Soul Glo: We Wants Revenge || hardcore punk
Ethel Cain: Family Tree || alt-pop
Crippling Alcoholism: Group Home || noise-rock, post-punk, goth
Denzel Curry: John Wayne || hip-hop
Kendrick Lamar: We Cry Together || hip-hop
Earl Sweatshirt: 2010 || hip-hop

2023

Geese: 3D Country || alt-country, blues-rock
Teezo Touchdown: Familiarity || alternative R&B, pop rap
Model/Actriz: Mosquito || industrial/experimental rock
Christine & the Queens: A Day in the Water || alt-pop/art pop
PJ Harvey & John Parish: August || chamber folk
Billie Eilish: What Was I Made For? || adult contemporary, alt-pop
Magdalena Bay: Top Dog || synth-pop
100 Gecs: Hollywood Baby|| hyperpop
Jpegmafia & Danny Brown: Fentanyl Tester || experimental hip-hop

2024

Chappell Roan: Good Luck Babe || synth-pop
Magdalena Bay: Image || neo-psychedelia, synthpop/alt-dance
Jpegmafia: Either On Or Off the Drugs || hip-hop, alternative R&B
Crippling Alcoholism: Featherweight Kid || goth-rock, dark cabaret
MJ Lenderman: She's Leaving You || alt-country
Chat Pile: Shame || noise-rock, sludge metal
Billie Eilish: Lunch || alt-pop
Charli XCX: Von Dutch || electropop
Vampire Weekend: Classical || chamber pop
Chat Pile: Tape || noise-rock, sludge metal
Fontaines DC: Starburster || post-punk
Future, Metro Boomin & Kendrick Lamar: Like That || trap/rage, hip-hop

2025

Sh!tomato: Sink Your Teeth
YHWH Nailgun: Castrato Raw (Fullback)
Crippling Alcoholism: Bedrot
Honningbarna: Amor Fati
Alan Sparhawk: Princess Road Surgery
Earl Sweatshirt: Tourmaline
Crizin da ZO: Repeticao Um
Ninajirachi: iPod Touch

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