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Here's 200 of my favorite albums, as of whenever I last fussed with it.
Official rules as follows:
Unranked. Default-sorted to alphabetical by artist, chronological within each artist; the numbered leftmost column is strictly so I can double-check the total count
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The top 30—also unranked—are [starred ]
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Rock Bottom Robert Wyatt is [the single greatest album of all time ]
+Limit to three releases per artist (thereby nerfing such artists as Miles Davis & Neil Young)
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Indefinitely subject to revision/expansion
Title
Year
Artist
Airport Music for Black Folk 2016
Chino Amobi
Paradiso 2017
Fall Be Kind 2009
Animal Collective
Selected Ambient Works 85–92 1992
Aphex Twin
Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy 1954
Louis Armstrong
Love Cry 1968
Albert Ayler
Colour Green 2006
Sibylle Baier
Career 1952–1988 2005
Chet Baker
BCD-2 2008
Basic Channel
Pet Sounds 1966
The Beach Boys
Once Twice Melody 2022
Beach House
Paul's Boutique 1989
Beastie Boys
Black Candy 1989
Beat Happening
You Turn Me On 1992
The Beatles 1968
The Beatles
Abbey Road 1969
Anthology 2 1996
If You're Feeling Sinister 1996
Belle and Sebastian
Space Gallery Jan. 27, 2007 / Sahara Club Jan. 28, 2007
2007
Big Blood
Radio City 1974
Big Star
I See a Darkness 1999
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Post 1995
Björk
Homogenic 1997
Music Has the Right to Children 1998
Boards of Canada
Super æ 1998
Boredoms
Perfect from Now On 1997
Built to Spill
Untrue 2007
Burial
Hounds of Love 1985
Kate Bush
Paris 1919 1973
John Cale
Apocalypse 2011
Bill Callahan
Tago Mago 1971
Can
Ege Bamyası 1972
Haitian Dances 1954
Frantz Casseus
Moon Pix 1998
Cat Power
Pop 2 2017
Charli XCX
The Cherry Blossoms 2000
The Cherry Blossoms
London Calling 1979
The Clash
Hell Hath No Fury 2006
Clipse
Attack on Memory 2012
Cloud Nothings
Songs of Leonard Cohen 1967
Leonard Cohen
Jane Doe 2001
Converge
Skies of America 1972
Ornette Coleman
Journey in Satchidananda 1971
Alice Coltrane
Turiya Sings 1982
A Love Supreme 1965
John Coltrane
Ascension 1966
Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 1985
Sam Cooke
In Bern 1999
Loren Mazzacane Connors & Jim O'Rourke
Get Olde 2013
Crying
Floating into the Night 1989
Julee Cruise
Kind of Blue 1959
Miles Davis
Jack Johnson 1971
Get Up With It 1974
We'll Have a Time 2001
Dear Nora
Three States: Rarities 1997–2007 2008
New Ancient Strings 1999
Toumani Diabaté & Ballaké Sissoko
Da Trak Genious 2010
DJ Nate
Double Cup 2013
DJ Rashad
Bigtyme Recordz, Vol. II: All Screwed Up 1995
DJ Screw
Endtroducing..... 1996
DJ Shadow
Out to Lunch! 1964
Eric Dolphy
Pink Moon 1972
Nick Drake
Bringing It All Back Home 1965
Bob Dylan
Blonde on Blonde 1966
Blood on the Tracks 1975
Unjust Malaise 2005
Julius Eastman
Ambient 1: Music for Airports 1978
Brian Eno
Fare Forward Voyagers (Soldier's Choice) 1973
John Fahey
Slates 1981
The Fall
Hex Enduction Hour 1982
This Nation's Saving Grace 1985
Forever Breathes the Lonely Word 1986
Felt
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 2002
The Flaming Lips
Entertainment! 1979
Gang of Four
Pop 2000
Gas
Ma délire – Songs of Love, Lost & Found 2021
Myriam Gendron
Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! 2000
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Liquid Swords 1995
GZA
Workingman's Dead 1970
Grateful Dead
Europe '72 1972
Revolutionary Pekinese Opera, Ver. 1.28 1996
Ground Zero
Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill 2008
Grouper
A I A: Alien Observer 2011
Big Gucci Sosa 2014
Gucci Mane & Chief Keef
Bee Thousand 1994
Guided by Voices
Alien Lanes 1995
One Pig 2011
Matthew Herbert
Playing It Cool and Playing It Right 1981
Keith Hudson
1928 Sessions 1979
Mississippi John Hurt
Donuts 2006
J Dilla
2015
Carly Rae Jepsen
Blues & Ballads 1960
Lonnie Johnson & Elmer Snowden
The Complete Recordings 1990
Robert Johnson
Bonito Generation 2016
Kero Kero Bonito
Red 1974
King Crimson
The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society 1968
The Kinks
Roforofo Fight 1972
Fela Kuti & the Africa '70
good kid, m.A.A.d city 2012
Kendrick Lamar
Photographs 2013
Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescalleet
Latin Playboys 1994
Latin Playboys
Any Other City 2001
Life Without Buildings
Fatigue 2021
L'Rain
Madvillainy 2004
Madvillain
The Glow Pt. 2 2001
The Microphones
Blues & Roots 1960
Charles Mingus
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady 1963
The Modern Lovers 1976
The Modern Lovers
Into the Music 1979
Van Morrison
Cross Paths
2008
The Motifs
Timothy's Monster 1994
Motorpsycho
A Crow Looked at Me 2017
Mount Eerie
Golden Hour 2018
Kacey Musgraves
Loveless 1991
My Bloody Valentine
Illmatic 1994
Nas
The Dance of the Moon and the Sun 2006
Natural Snow Buildings
Ys 2006
Joanna Newsom
Divers 2015
In Utero 1993
Nirvana
Replica 2011
Oneohtrix Point Never
Insignificance 2001
Jim O'Rourke
Person Pitch 2007
Panda Bear
Slanted and Enchanted 1992
Pavement
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain 1994
Wowee Zowee 1995
Ayahuasca 2001
Pelt
Parallelograms 1970
Linda Perhacs
Exile in Guyville 1993
Liz Phair
The Wall 1979
Pink Floyd
Dummy 1994
Portishead
Steve McQueen 1985
Prefab Sprout
Jordan: The Comeback 1990
I Trawl the Megahertz 2003
Sign "☮" the Times 1987
Prince
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back 1988
Public Enemy
Space Is the Place 1973
Sun Ra
OK Computer 1997
Radiohead
Kid A 2000
'77 Live 1991
Les Rallizes Dénudés
Reckoning 1984
R.E.M.
Monster 1994
Let It Be 1984
The Replacements
Modern Lovers 88 1987
Jonathan Richman
I, Jonathan 1992
Kalk Samen Kuri no Hana [『加爾基 精液 栗ノ花』]
2003
Ringo Sheena
Motomami 2022
Rosalía
It's Time 1962
Max Roach
Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres 2011
Matana Roberts
Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis 2019
The Roches 1979
The Roches
Good Morning Good Night 2004
Secrets 1978
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson
Philosophy of the World 1969
The Shaggs
Ask the Ages 1991
Sonny Sharrock
Terraform 1998
Shellac
American Water 1998
Silver Jews
Dopesmoker 2003
Sleep
Spiderland 1991
Slint
Souvlaki 1993
Slowdive
There's a Riot Goin' On 1971
Sly and the Family Stone
Daydream Nation 1988
Sonic Youth
Aja 1977
Steely Dan
Gaucho 1980
Emperor Tomato Ketchup 1996
Stereolab
Illinois 2005
Sufjan Stevens
The Stone Roses 1989
The Stone Roses
Raw Power 1973
The Stooges
Opposite 1998
Taku Sugimoto
330,003 Crossdressers from Beyond the Rig Veda 1996
Sun City Girls
velocity : design : comfort. 2003
Sweet Trip
The Colour of Spring 1986
Talk Talk
Spirit of Eden 1988
Laughing Stock 1991
Remain in Light 1980
Talking Heads
Marquee Moon 1977
Television
Deceit 1981
This Heat
20 Jazz Funk Greats 1979
Throbbing Gristle
Half Free 2015
U.S. Girls
Townes Van Zandt 1969
Townes Van Zandt
The Velvet Underground & Nico 1967
The Velvet Underground and Nico
White Light/White Heat 1968
The Velvet Underground
Violent Femmes 1983
Violent Femmes
Rain Dogs 1985
Tom Waits
The Mollusk 1997
Ween
Pinkerton 1996
Weezer
Playthroughs 2002
Keith Fullerton Whitman
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 2002
Wilco
Brian Wilson Presents Smile 2004
Brian Wilson
Back to Black 2006
Amy Winehouse
Pink Flag 1977
Wire
Songs in the Key of Life 1976
Stevie Wonder
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) 1993
Wu-Tang Clan
Rock Bottom 1974
Robert Wyatt
Skylarking 1986
XTC
Going Places 2010
Yellow Swans
I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One 1997
Yo La Tengo
And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out 2000
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere 1969
Neil Young (w/ or w/o Crazy Horse )
On the Beach 1974
Rust Never Sleeps 1979
Odessey and Oracle 1968
The Zombies
[starred]+
[the single greatest album of all time]+
