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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 by Robert Wyatt is [the single greatest album of all time ]
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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