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10 Best Albums of various years


In the past, the newsgroups rec.music.misc and alt.music had a poll each year to vote for the top 100 albums of the year. Here's the results for 1997 to 1988, as compiled by Joe Geigel.

This page has my current choices for the 10 best of each year.
Note: I go by copyright date, so some albums may not be in the year you expect.

I've been trying to indicate the musical genre of these albums. Where I've listed more than one genre, they're in decreasing order of influence. A lot of these albums are hard to describe, so I may change their categories as time goes on.

(Please let me know if any of these links are wrong, or if you have a link I should know about, or if you disagree with the category I've chosen for an album.)

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2009

Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown (Punk)(Pop)
Gustavo Cerati - Fuerza Natural (Rock)(Latin)
AFI - Crash Love (Rock)
Biosphere - Wireless (Ambient)
Waveform Transmissions 2 (Electronic)
Silversun Pickups - Swoon (Rock)(Noise)


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2008

The Verve -- Forth (Rock)
Aterciopelados -- Río (Rock)(Latin)
Alkaline Trio -- Agony & Irony (Rock)
Jaguares -- 45 (Rock)(Latin)
Nortec Collective -- Tijuana Sound Machine (Techno)(Latin)
Radiohead -- In Rainbows (Rock)
Julieta Venegas -- MTV Unplugged (Pop)(Latin)

I'm lagging again.

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2007

Fountains of Wayne -- Traffic and Weather (Rock)
Rabbit in the Moon -- Decade (Techno)
Tom Middleton -- Lifetracks (Chillout)
Linkin Park -- Minutes to Midnight (Rock)
Flogging Molly -- Float (Rock)(Irish)
Foo Fighters -- Echoes, Silence, Patience, & Grace (Rock)
Zero One -- Ozone (Electronic)
Biosphere -- Insomnia (Ambient)
Cafe Tacuba -- Sino (Rock)(Latin)
Waveform Transmissions Vol 1 (Electronic)


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2006

AFI -- Decemberunderground (Rock)
Loop Guru -- Elderberry Driftglass (Psychedelia)(Pop)
Silversun Pickups -- Carnavas (Rock)(Noise)
Gustavo Cerati -- Ahi Vamos (Rock)(Latin)
Sounds from the Ground -- High Rising (Electronic)
The Appleseed Cast -- Peregrine (Rock)(Noise)
The Burning Paris -- Half-Truths and Indiscretions (Rock)
Julieta Venegas -- Limón y Sal (Pop)(Latin)
Mojave 3 -- Puzzles Like You (Pop)(Rock)
Muse -- Black Holes and Revelations (Prog)


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2005

Alkaline Trio -- Crimson (Rock)
Nortec Collective -- Tijuana Sessions vol 3 (Techno)(Latin)
Jaguares -- Cronicas de un Laberinto (Rock)(Latin)
Mirror System (Techno)
Thievery Corporation -- The Cosmic Game (Dub)(World)
Fobia -- Rosa Venus (Rock)(Latin)
Pitch Black -- Ape to Angel (Electronic)
Shakira -- Fijacion Oral vol 1 (Pop)(Latin)
Move D / Namlook -- Let the Circle Not Be Broken (Ambient)
Ambient Lounge 4 (Chillout)


Is it just me, or was 2005 the lamest music year since 1979?

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2004

Green Day -- American Idiot (Punk)(Pop)
Elefante (Latin)(Pop)
Flogging Molly -- Within a Mile of Home (Rock)(Irish)
Momma Gravy -- Adios (Chillout)
The Go! Team -- Thunder Lightning Strike (Psychedelia)(Pop)
Bill Laswell -- Version 2 Version (Dub)
Jah Wobble -- Elevator Music vol 1a (Ambient)(Rock)
Leggo Beast -- Thunk (Chillout)
Sounds from the Ground -- Luminal (Electronic)
Phutureprimitive -- Sub Conscious (Electronic)


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2003

Djam Karet -- A Night for Baku (Prog)
Front 242 -- Pulse (Techno)
Fountains of Wayne -- Welcome Interstate Managers (Rock)(Pop)
Cafe Tacuba -- Cuatro Caminos (Rock)(Latin)
The Sea and Cake -- Glass (Rock)(Techno)
Mojave 3 -- Spoon & Rafter (Pop)
Julieta Venegas - Sí (Pop)(Latin)
Laika -- Wherever I Am, I Am What Is Missing (Rock)(Hip-Hop)
King Crimson -- The Power to Believe (Prog)(Rock)
The Appleseed Cast -- Two Conversations (Rock)


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2002

Thievery Corporation -- The Richest Man in Babylon (World)
Chemical Brothers -- Come with Us (Techno)(Rock)
Inspector -- Alma en Fuego (Ska)(Latin)
Moss -- Corporation Pop (Chillout)
Jah Wobble -- Fly (Ambient)(Rock)
Los Lobos -- Good Morning Aztlán (Rock)(Latin)
Elefante -- Lo Que Andábamos Buscando (Rock)(Latin)
Moodswings -- Horizontal (Ambient)
My Friend the Chocolate Cake -- Curious (Pop)(World)
Vibravoid -- Void Vibration (Rock)


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2001

The Appleseed Cast -- Low Level Owl: Volumes I and II (Rock)
Momma Gravy -- Dribble It On (Chillout)
Nortec Collective -- The Tijuana Sessions vol 1 (Techno)(Latin)
Moss -- Stone Soup (Chillout)
Jumbo -- D D y Ponle Play (Rock)(Pop)(Latin)
Djam Karet -- New Dark Age (Prog)
Jaguares -- Cuando la Sangre Galopa (Rock)(Latin)
Leggo Beast -- Sines and Cymbals (Chillout)
Jah Wobble / Bill Laswell -- A Dub Transmission (Dub)
Quarkspace -- Spacefolds 7 (Electronic)(Prog)


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2000

Jumbo -- Restaurant (Rock-n-Roll)(Latin)
Black Star Liner -- Twelve Inch Confrontation Mix (Dub)(Techno)(World)
Julieta Venegas -- Bueninvento (Rock)(Latin)
La Gusana Ciega -- Correspondencia Interna (Rock)(Latin)
Jah Wobble -- Beach Fervour Spare (World)(Dub)(Rock)
Sounds from the Ground -- Terra Firma (Techno)(Ambient)
Leggo Beast -- From Here to G (Chillout)
ProjeKCt X -- Heaven and Hell (Rock-n-Roll)(Prog)
Jeff Beck -- You Had It Coming (Fusion)(Techno)
Biosphere -- Cirque (Ambient)


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1999

Joi -- One and One is One (Techno)(World)
Cafe Tacuba -- Reves / Yosoy (Rock)(Latin)(Weird)
Spacetime Continuum -- Double Fine Zone (Techno)(Jazz)(Ambient)
Daddylonglegs -- Horse (Techno)(Ambient)
Gustavo Cerati -- Bocanada (Rock)(Latin)
Fountains of Wayne -- Utopia Parkway (Rock)(Pop)
Tadpoles -- Whirlaway (Rock)(Noise)(Psychedelia)
Sonic Youth -- Goodbye 20th Century (Noise)
Mojave 3 -- Out of Tune (Rock)(Pop)
June of 44 -- Anahata (Rock?)


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1998

Jah Wobble -- Umbra Sumus (World)(Rock)
The Irresistable Force -- It's Tomorrow Already (Ambient)(Techno)
Bullitnuts -- A Different Ball Game (Chillout)
Jets to Brazil -- Orange Rhyming Dictionary (Rock)
Future Loop Foundation -- Conditions for Living (Dub)(Techno)
Groove Collective -- Dance of the Drunken Master (Jazz)(World)(Hip-Hop)
Shakira -- Dónde Están las Ladrones? (Rock)(Pop)(Latin)
Fatboy Slim -- You've Come a Long Way, Baby (Hip-Hop)
June of 44 -- Four Great Points (Rock?)
Mickey Hart & Planet Drum -- Supralingua (World)


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1997

Banco de Gaia -- Big Men Cry (Ambient)(Techno)(World)
Loop Guru -- Loop Bites Dog (Techno)(World)(Ambient)
various artists -- Gong -- You Remixed (Techno)
Swervedriver -- 99th Dream (Rock-n-Roll)(Noise)
Bullitnuts -- Nut Roast (Chillout)
The Verve -- Urban Hymns (Rock)
Faceless (Dub)(Ambient)
Purple Penguin -- De-Tuned (Chillout)
Feverdream -- You Don't Know Us, But We Know Who You Are (Rock)
System 7 -- Golden Section (Prog)(Techno)


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1996

Aterciopelados -- La Pipa de la Paz (Rock)(Latin)
Screaming Trees -- Dust (Rock-n-Roll)
Maldita Vecindad -- Baile de Mascaras (Rock-n-Roll)(Latin)
The Egg -- Albumen (Prog)
Fountains of Wayne (Rock)(Pop)
Baby Mammoth -- Bridging Two Worlds (Chillout)
Loop Guru -- Amrita (Techno)(World)(Ambient)
Bullitnuts -- 1st of the Day (Chillout)
Unitone HiFi -- Boomshot (Dub)
Sounds from the Ground -- Kin (Ambient)(Techno)


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1995

For Squirrels -- Example (Rock-n-Roll)
Banco de Gaia -- Last Train to Lhasa (Ambient)(Techno)(World)
Orbital -- In Sides (Techno)(Ambient)
Swervedriver -- Ejector Seat Reservation (Rock-n-Roll)(Noise)
Laika -- Silver Apples of the Moon (Rock)(Hip-Hop)
Radiohead -- The Bends (Rock)
23 Degrees -- Born of Earth's Torments (Ambient)(Dub)
Smashing Pumpkins -- Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (Rock)
Children of Dub -- The Silent Pool (Dub)(Ambient)
Chemical Brothers -- Exit Planet Dust (Techno)


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1994

Banco de Gaia -- Maya (Ambient)(Techno)(World)
Jah Wobble -- Take Me to God (Rock)(World)
Drum Club -- Drums are Dangerous (Dance)
Orbital -- Snivilisation (Techno)
23 Degrees -- ... an Endless Searching for Substance (Ambient)(Dub)
Young American Primitive (Techno)(Ambient)
Cafe Tacuba -- Re (Rock)(Latin)
Strangelove -- Time for the Rest of Your Life (Rock)
Underworld -- Dubnobasswithmyheadman (Dance)
Global Communication -- 76:14 (Ambient)


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1993

Swervedriver -- Mezcalhead (Rock-n-Roll)(Noise)
Orbital -- Orbital 2 (Techno)
Pearl Jam -- Vs (Rock-n-Roll)
The Boo Radleys -- Giant Steps (Pop)(Noise)
Not Drowning, Waving -- Circus (Rock)(World)
Soda Stereo -- Dynamo (Rock)(Latin)
Verve -- A Storm in Heaven (Rock)(Psychedelia)
Human Mesh Dance -- Hyaline (Ambient)(Techno)
Seefeel -- Quique (Ambient)(Rock)
The Pogues -- Waiting for Herb (Rock)(Irish)


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1992

Julian Cope & Donald Ross Skinner -- Rite (Ambient)(Rock)
Caifanes -- El Silencio (Rock)(Latin)
Levitation -- Need for Not (Rock-n-Roll)(Psychedelia)
Curve -- Pubic Fruit (Rock-n-Roll)(Noise)
Julian Cope -- Jehovahkill (Rock)
Aphex Twin -- Selected Ambient Works 85 - 92 (Ambient)
Hunters and Collectors -- Cut (Rock)
Los Lobos -- Kiko (Rock)(Latin)
Future Sound of London -- Accelerator (Techno)
Inspiral Carpets -- Revenge of the Goldfish (Rock)(Psychedelia)


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1991

The Orb -- The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld (Ambient)(Techno)
Kirsty MacColl -- Electric Landlady (Rock)
Pearl Jam -- Ten (Rock-n-Roll)
Smashing Pumpkins -- Gish (Rock-n-Roll)
Swervedriver -- Raise (Rock-n-Roll)(Noise)
Toad the Wet Sprocket -- Fear (Rock)
O Yuki Conjugate -- Peyote (Ambient)(World)
System 7 (Techno)(Prog)
Pulnoc -- City of Hysteria (Rock)
The Meat Puppets -- Forbidden Places (Rock)(Humor)


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1990

Sonic Youth -- Goo (Rock-n-Roll)(Noise)
Charlatans UK -- Some Friendly (Rock)(Pop)
Not Drowning, Waving -- Claim (Rock)(World)
Dead Can Dance -- Aion (Medieval)
The Pogues -- Hell's Ditch (Rock)(Irish)
Schnell Fenster -- The Sound of Trees (Rock)(Pop)
Héroes del Silencio -- Senderos de Traición (Rock-n-Roll)(Latin)
Jah Wobble -- Rising Above Bedlam (Rock)(World)
Bakra Bata' -- Steel Drums and Percussion (World)
House of Love (Rock)(Pop)


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1989

The Stone Roses (Rock)
Hunters and Collectors -- Ghost Nation (Rock)
Kirsty MacColl -- Kite (Rock)
Mary My Hope -- Museum (Rock-n-Roll)
The Pogues -- Peace and Love (Rock)(Irish)
The Wonder Stuff -- Hup (Rock)(Pop)
Thomas Mapfumo -- Corruption (World)
Jesus Jones -- Liquidizer (Rock)(Techno)
Miles Davis -- Aura (Jazz)
Public Image Ltd -- 9 (Rock)


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1988

The Pogues -- If I Should Fall from Grace with God (Rock)(Irish)
Hunters and Collectors -- Fate (Rock)
Sonic Youth -- Daydream Nation (Rock-n-Roll)(Noise)
Caifanes (Rock)(Latin)
U2 -- Rattle and Hum (Rock)
The Sugarcubes -- Life's Too Good (Pop)(Weird)(Rock)
The Mighty Lemon Drops -- World Without End (Rock)
The Church -- Starfish (Rock)
Joy Division -- Substance (Goth)
William Orbit -- Strange Cargo (Rock)(Ambient)(Jazz)


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1987

New Order -- Substance (Dance)
Game Theory -- Lolita Nation (Rock)(Weird)
The Replacements -- Pleased to Meet Me (Rock)
David Torn -- Cloud About Mercury (Jazz)(Rock)
Public Image Ltd -- Happy? (Rock)
REM -- Document (Rock)
Milky Way (Jazz)
Screaming Trees -- Even If and Especially When (Rock-n-Roll)
Yello -- One Second (New Wave)
The Plastic People of the Universe -- Pulnocni Mys (Prog)(Rock)


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1986

Love and Rockets -- Express (Rock-n-Roll)
REM -- Life's Rich Pageant (Rock)
Love and Rockets -- Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven (Rock)
Sonic Youth -- EVOL (Rock-n-Roll)(Noise)
Concrete Blonde (Rock-n-Roll)
Steve Roach -- Empetus (Electronic)
Yo La Tengo -- Ride the Tiger (Rock)
Cactus World News -- Urban Beaches (Rock-n-Roll)
The Smiths -- The Queen is Dead (Rock)
The Cocteau Twins -- Victorialand (Ambient)(Pop)


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1985

New Order -- Low-Life (Dance)
Tones on Tail (Goth)(Noise)(Weird)
REM -- Fables of the Reconstruction (Rock)
Kazumi Watanabe -- Mobo Club (Fusion)
The Church -- Heyday (Rock)
Dead Can Dance -- Spleen and Ideal (Medieval)
Public Image Ltd -- generic album (Rock-n-Roll)
Jean Michel Jarre -- Zoolook (Electronic)(World)(Weird)
Tears for Fears -- Songs from the Big Chair (New Wave)
Oingo Boingo -- Dead Man's Party (Rock)


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1984

Tones on Tail -- Pop (Rock)(Goth)
Big Country -- Steeltown (Rock-n-Roll)
REM -- Reckoning (Rock)
Simple Minds -- Sparkle in the Rain (New Wave)(Pop)
U2 -- The Unforgettable Fire (Rock)
Ultravox -- Lament (New Wave)
Section 25 -- From the Hip (New Wave)(Electronic)
Group 87 -- A Career in Dada Processing (Jazz)(Prog)
Violent Femmes (Rock)
Dead Can Dance (Medieval)(Rock)


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1983

New Order -- Power Corruption and Lies (New Wave)(Dance)
U2 -- War (Rock)
Oingo Boingo -- Good for Your Soul (Rock)
REM -- Murmur (Rock)
Tears for Fears -- The Hurting (New Wave)
Tangerine Dream -- Poland (Electronic)
Kazumi Watanabe -- Mobo II (Fusion)
X -- More Fun in the New World (Rock-n-Roll)(Punk)
The The -- Soul Mining (Rock)
The Pretenders -- Learning to Crawl (Rock)


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1982

Oingo Boingo -- Nothing to Fear (Rock)
Psychedelic Furs -- Forever Now (Rock)
The Church -- The Blurred Crusade (Rock)
Phil Manzanera -- Primitive Guitars (Prog)
Simple Minds -- New Gold Dream (New Wave)
REM -- Chronic Town (Rock)
Czukay, Wobble, Liebezeit -- Full Circle (World)(Ambient)(Prog)
Section 25 -- The Key of Dreams (New Wave)(Electronic)
King Crimson -- Beat (Rock)
Tangerine Dream -- Logos Live (Electronic)


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1981

New Order -- Movement (New Wave)
King Crimson -- Discipline (Rock)(Prog)
The Pretenders -- Pretenders II (Rock)
Twelfth Night -- Live at the Target (Prog)
The Teardrop Explodes -- Wilder (Rock)
Simple Minds -- Sons and Fascination (New Wave)(Rock)
U2 -- October (Rock)
Psychedelic Furs -- Talk Talk Talk (Rock)
Ultravox -- Rage in Eden (New Wave)
X -- Wild Gift (Rock-n-Roll)(Punk)


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1980

Random Hold -- The View from Here (Rock)(Weird)
Zamla Mammaz Manna -- Familjesprikor (Prog)(Humor)(Weird)
The Psychedelic Furs (Rock)
Michael Mantler -- More Movies (Jazz)
U2 -- Boy (Rock)
Group 87 (Prog)(Jazz)
X -- Los Angeles (Punk)(Rock-n-Roll)
Ultravox -- Vienna (New Wave)
Simple Minds -- Empires and Dance (New Wave)(Rock)
Visage (New Wave)


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1979

Bill Bruford -- One of a Kind (Fusion)
Random Hold (Rock)(Weird)
Simple Minds -- Reel to Real Cacophony (Rock)(New Wave)
Robert Fripp -- Exposure (Rock)(Weird)(Pop)(Prog)
Eloy -- Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes (Prog)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse -- Rust Never Sleeps (Rock)
Planxty -- After the Break (Irish)(Folk)
Space Art -- Play-Back (Prog)(Space)
Joy Division -- Unknown Pleasures (Goth)
Jethro Tull -- Stormwatch (Prog)


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1978

Andrew Lloyd Webber -- Variations (everything)
FM -- Black Noise (Prog)(Electronic)
National Health (Prog)
Michael Mantler -- Movies (Jazz)
UK (Prog)
Michael Giles -- Progress (Prog)
Steve Reich -- Music for 18 Musicians (Ambient)
Brian Eno -- Music for Airports (Ambient)
Happy the Man -- Crafty Hands (Prog)
Jean Michel Jarre -- Equinoxe (Electronic)


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1977

Tangerine Dream -- Encore (Electronic)
Bill Bruford -- Feels Good to Me (Fusion)
Brand X -- Livestock (Fusion)
Happy the Man (Prog)
Al Dimeola -- Elegant Gypsy (Fusion)
Brand X -- Moroccan Roll (Fusion)
Bo Hansson -- Music Inspired by Watership Down (Prog)(Pop)
SFF -- Sunburst (Prog)(Electronic)(Pop)
Brian Eno -- Before and After Science (Prog)(Pop)(Ambient)(Weird)
David Bowie -- Low (Pop)(Rock)(Ambient)(Weird)


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1976

801 Live (Prog)
Brand X -- Unorthodox Behaviour (Fusion)
Stomu Yamashta -- Go (Space)(Prog)
Jeff Beck -- Wired (Fusion)
Steve Hackett -- Voyage of the Acolyte (Prog)
The Enid -- In the Region of Summer Stars (Prog)
Be-Bop Deluxe -- Sunburst Finish (Rock)(Pop)
Jean Michel Jarre -- Oxygene (Electronic)
Joachim Kuhn -- Hip Elegy (Jazz)
Lancaster & Lumley -- Marscape (Prog)(Ambient)


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1975

Tangerine Dream -- Rubycon (Electronic)
Camel -- The Snow Goose (Prog)(Pop)
Jeff Beck -- Blow by Blow (Fusion)
Phil Manzanera -- Diamond Head (Prog)
Larry Coryell -- Planet End (Fusion)
Hawkwind -- Warrior on the Edge of Time (Psychedelia)(Rock-n-Roll)(Electronic)
Tony Williams Lifetime -- Believe It (Fusion)
Quiet Sun -- Mainstream (Prog)(Weird)
Gong -- Shamal (Prog)(Jazz)
Passport -- Cross-Collateral (Fusion)


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1974

King Crimson -- Starless and Bible Black (Prog)(Rock)
Miles Davis -- Get Up With It (Jazz)(Rock)(Ambient)
Gentle Giant -- The Power and the Glory (Prog)
King Crimson -- Red (Rock-n-Roll)(Prog)
Yes -- Relayer (Prog)(Rock-n-Roll)
Gryphon -- Red Queen to Gryphon Three (Prog)(Medieval)
Genesis -- The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (Prog)
Blue Oyster Cult -- Secret Treaties (Rock)
Golden Earring -- Moontan (Rock)(Prog)
Return to Forever -- Where Have I Known You Before (Fusion)


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1973

Gentle Giant -- In A Glass House (Prog)
King Crimson -- Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Prog)(Rock)
Hatfield and the North (Prog)(Humor)(Jazz)
Gong -- You (Psychedelia)(Electronic)(Jazz)(Humor)
Pink Floyd -- Dark Side of the Moon (Rock)(Prog)
Can -- Future Days (Prog)(Ambient)
Fripp & Eno -- No Pussyfooting (Ambient)
Yes -- Tales from Topographic Oceans (Prog)
Genesis -- Selling England by the Pound (Prog)
The Who -- Tommy (Rock)


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1972

Santana -- Caravanserai (Latin)(Rock)(Jazz)
War -- The World is a Ghetto (R&B)(Jazz)(Latin)
Brian Auger's Oblivion Express -- Second Wind (Jazz)(Pop)
Yes -- Close to the Edge (Prog)
Embryo -- Steig Aus (Prog)(World)
Blue Oyster Cult (Rock)
Gentle Giant -- Octopus (Prog)(Medieval)
Gong -- Flying Teapot (Psychedelia)(Humor)(Electronic)
Bo Hansson -- Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings (Prog)(Jazz)
Kraan (Prog)


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1971

Yes -- The Yes Album (Prog)(Rock)
War (R&B)(Jazz)(Latin)
Larry Coryell -- Barefoot Boy (Fusion)
The Who -- Who's Next (Rock)
Caravan -- In the Land of Grey and Pink (Prog)(Pop)
Gentle Giant -- Acquiring the Taste (Prog)(Weird)
Traffic -- Low Spark of High Heel Boys (Rock)(Pop)
Led Zeppelin -- IV (Rock-n-Roll)
Brian Auger's Oblivion Express (Rock)(Jazz)
Nektar -- Journey to the Centre of the Eye (Prog)(Psychedelia)


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1970

Miles Davis -- A Tribute to Jack Johnson (Jazz)(Rock-n-Roll)
Caravan -- If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You (Prog)(Jazz)(Pop)
Donald Byrd -- Electric Byrd (Jazz)(Rock)
If -- If 2 (Pop)(Jazz)
Soft Machine -- Third (Jazz)(Prog)(Weird)
Jefferson Starship -- Blows Against the Empire (Rock)(Prog)
Gentle Giant (Prog)
Alice Cooper -- Easy Action (Rock)(Weird)(Pop)
Wayne Shorter -- Moto Grosso Feio (Jazz)(World)
Egg (Prog)


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1969

Miles Davis -- Bitches Brew (Jazz)(Rock)(Ambient)
Miles Davis -- In A Silent Way (Jazz)(Rock)
The Beatles -- Abbey Road (Rock)(Pop)
The Soft Machine -- Volume Two (Psychedelia)(Jazz)(Humor)
Alice Cooper -- Pretties For You (Rock)(Weird)
King Crimson -- In the Court of the Crimson King (Prog)(Rock)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse -- Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere (Rock)
Pink Floyd -- More (Psychedelia)
Yes (Pop)(Prog)
Santana (Latin)(Rock)(Jazz)


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1968

Miles Davis -- Filles de Kilimanjaro (Jazz)
The Beatles (Rock)(Pop)
Steppenwolf -- the Second (Rock)
Big Brother and the Holding Company -- Cheap Thrills (Rock-n-Roll)(Blues)
The Soft Machine (Psychedelia)(Prog)
Family -- Music in a Doll's House (Rock)(Psychedelia)
Chicago Transit Authority (Rock)(Jazz)
Chick Corea -- Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (Jazz)
Nazz (Rock)(Pop)
Pink Floyd -- A Saucerful of Secrets (Psychedelia)


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1967

The Beatles -- Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Pop)(Rock)
Miles Davis -- Nefertiti (Jazz)
The Thirteenth Floor Elevators -- Easter Everywhere (Psychedelia)
The Beatles -- Magical Mystery Tour (Pop)
Pink Floyd -- The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Psychedelia)
Big Brother and the Holding Company (Rock)(Blues)
The Byrds -- The Notorious Byrd Brothers (Rock)
Thelonious Monk -- Straight No Chaser (Jazz)
Cream -- Disraeli Gears (Rock)
Jefferson Airplane -- Surrealistic Pillow (Rock)


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1966

The Beatles -- Revolver (Rock)(Pop)
Love (Rock)
Miles Davis -- Miles Smiles (Jazz)
Duke Ellington -- The Far East Suite (Jazz)
Wynton Kelly -- Full View (Jazz)
The Thirteenth Floor Elevators -- Psychedelic Sounds (Psychedelia)
Dave Brubeck -- Time In (Jazz)
Lee Morgan -- Charisma (Jazz)
Spanky and Our Gang -- Without Rhyme or Reason (Pop)
Cannonball Adderley -- Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (Jazz)


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1965

The Beatles -- Rubber Soul (Pop)
The Beatles -- Help! (Pop)
Miles Davis -- E S P (Jazz)
Larry Young -- Unity (Jazz)
Bill Evans -- Trio '65 (Jazz)
Wayne Shorter -- The Soothsayer (Jazz)
Herbie Hancock -- Maiden Voyage (Jazz)
Horace Silver -- The Cape Verdean Blues (Jazz)
Hampton Hawes -- Here and Now (Jazz)
Miles Davis -- Live at the Plugged Nickel (Jazz)


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1964

The Beatles -- A Hard Day's Night (Pop)
Herbie Hancock -- Empyrean Isles (Jazz)
John Coltrane -- A Love Supreme (Jazz)
Lee Morgan -- Tom Cat (Jazz)
Miles Davis -- Miles in Berlin (Jazz)
Dexter Gordon -- One Flight Up (Jazz)
John Coltrane -- Crescent (Jazz)
Bill Evans -- Trio '64 (Jazz)
Dave Brubeck -- Jazz Impressions of Japan (Jazz)
Miles Davis -- The Complete Concert 1964 (Jazz)


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1963

Miles Davis -- Seven Steps to Heaven (Jazz)
Charles Mingus -- Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (Jazz)
The Beatles -- Please Please Me (Pop)
Donald Byrd -- A New Perspective (Jazz)
Thelonious Monk -- Criss-Cross (Jazz)
Herbie Hancock -- My Point of View (Jazz)
Kenny Dorham -- Una Mas (Jazz)
Dexter Gordon -- Our Man in Paris (Jazz)
Miles Davis -- Miles in Antibes (Jazz)
Lee Morgan -- The Sidewinder (Jazz)


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1962

Duke Ellington -- Money Jungle (Jazz)
Stan Getz -- Focus (Jazz)
Bill Evans -- Interplay (Jazz)
Oscar Peterson -- Night Train (Jazz)
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers -- Caravan (Jazz)
Freddie Hubbard -- Hub-Tones (Jazz)
Red Garland -- When There are Grey Skies (Jazz)
Dexter Gordon -- Go! (Jazz)
Herbie Hancock -- Takin' Off (Jazz)
Horace Silver -- The Tokyo Blues (Jazz)


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1961

Red Garland -- Bright and Breezy (Jazz)
Miles Davis -- Someday My Prince Will Come (Jazz)
Duke Ellington -- Piano in the Foreground (Jazz)
Miles Davis -- In Person at the Blackhawk (Jazz)
Wynton Kelly -- Wynton Kelly! (Jazz)
Dexter Gordon -- Dexter Calling... (Jazz)
Bobby Timmons -- Easy Does It (Jazz)
Cannonball Adderley -- Know What I Mean? (Jazz)
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers -- Mosaic (Jazz)
Miles Davis -- Live at Carnegie Hall (Jazz)


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1960

Miles Davis -- Sketches of Spain (Jazz)(Classical)
Donald Byrd -- Byrd in Flight (Jazz)
John Coltrane -- My Favorite Things (Jazz)
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers -- A Night in Tunisia (Jazz)
Bobby Timmons -- This Here is Bobby Timmons (Jazz)
Horace Silver -- Horace-Scope (Jazz)
Wynton Kelly -- Kelly Great (Jazz)
Bobby Timmons -- Soul Time (Jazz)
Sun Ra -- Angels and Demons at Play (Jazz)
Red Garland -- Blues in the Night (Jazz)


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before 1960

Miles Davis -- Kind of Blue (1959) (Jazz)
Igor Stravinsky -- The Rite of Spring (1913) (Classical)(Punk)
Charles Mingus -- Mingus Ah Um (1959) (Jazz)
Cannonball Adderley -- Somethin' Else (1958) (Jazz)
Dave Brubeck -- Time Out (1959) (Jazz)
Miles Davis -- Birth of the Cool (1950) (Jazz)
Charles Mingus -- Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956) (Jazz)
Miles Davis -- Relaxin' (1956) (Jazz)
Antonin Dvorak -- Symphony #9 "From the New World" (1893) (Classical)(World)
Charles Mingus -- Tijuana Moods (1957) (Jazz)


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