| 5.0 classic |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory |
| Air Moon Safari |
| Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 |
| Richard D James has a way with producing such bizarre sounds that never cease to boggle the mind, and his first LP is him at his smoothest. Standout 'Green Calx' blows my mind every time I hear it, while 'Ageispolis' has the perfect amount of reverb. Every track on here is such a weird assortment of strange noises that are so original and manage to resonate each and every time I hear them. |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Legend |
| So universal. Backpacking through West Africa was proof that everyone can connect with this album. Rightfully revered around the world, Marley has put forth a standard in Reggae music that hasn't been touched and strikes a chord with everyone in the room. |
| Burial Untrue |
| Daft Punk Discovery |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP |
| James Blake James Blake |
| King Fantastic Finger Snaps And Gun Claps |
| thug life. thug life. thug life. thug life. |
| Lady Gaga The Fame |
| Madonna True Blue |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| If you've never heard the song 'Angel' you need to put it on. Right now. Just be patient with it and it will slowly blow your mind. Nothing but great tracks on here all creating such a dark brooding tone that twist and turn. Unlike anything before or after. |
| Mylo Destroy Rock And Roll |
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| Nas Illmatic |
| Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise |
| Nosaj Thing Drift |
| Brilliant in its simplicity, Nosaj Thing manages to deliver a Flying Lotus esque sound to the masses while still putting enough of himself in it to leave fans excited for his sophomore release |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| 'I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us...very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad...' Perfect composition, incredible inventiveness and precursors to an eerie yet soothing style of music that has in some ways never been matched. |
| R.E.M. Automatic for the People |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| 'Yesterday I woke up sucking on lemon.' Nonsensical lyrics, twisted arrangements and bizarre beats. Genius |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool |
| An insta classic for b-side junkies with identikit and oft performed "true love waits" with an elegant piano based studio recording. "burn the witch" and "daydreaming" being more upbeat and chipper than "bloom" and "magpie" setting it above. that video for daydreaming especially was quite nice. |
| ScHoolboy Q Habits and Contradictions |
| Simon and Garfunkel Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme |
| Tangerine Dream Phaedra |
| The Beatles 1967 – 1970 |
| The Doors The Doors |
| Philosophical, psychedelic and absolutely phenomenal. The keyboard work was so many years ahead of its time with lyrics that are so profound and hypnotizing. They just keep getting better the more you listen. |
| The Future Sound of London Lifeforms |
| I'd never given something a 5 after only 1 full listen before. But then again, I'd never heard Future Sound of London before either |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced |
| The xx xx |
| consider the VCR angle & run back to me when you realize she's wrong.rfortunately, that wasn't until the next album started. this one is complete and utter perfection. just don't listen next to somone whose only wish is to rave every moment of every day |
| Thievery Corporation The Mirror Conspiracy |
| Tricky Maxinquaye |
| If Tricky's cover of 'black steel' isn't the greatest cover of all time, it is certainly the most inventive |
| 4.5 superb |
| Ab-Soul Control System |
| A little choppy in a couple spots or it'd be a classic.r"you aint gotta love it cause the hood gon love it" |
| Ali Farka Toure Savane |
| Amon Tobin Permutation |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album |
| Aphex Twin Windowlicker |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare |
| Whatever People Say I Am was the fastest selling debut in British history for a reason. It isn't musical genius, but it put a great punk-spin on Indie comparable to what Mumford and Sons has done in the folk genre. Favourite Worst Nightmare is more punk and less Indie. Anyone who enjoyed their first album should definitely check this out. Even though it may not be quite as good, I actually enjoy this album considerably more than the original (Oh, and Humbug is a piece of garbage) |
| Beck Guero |
| This is pretty easily my favorite Beck album, and though I haven't plunged into Midnite Vultures or Mutations, I would be shocked if either overtook this gem. From start to finish, Beck unleashes every bit of his diverse influences on us and while everyone may know 'Hell Yes,' 'Girl' and 'E-Pro,' every track on this album is phenomenal and if you haven't listened to this one all the way through, you should -- right now |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children |
| Bonobo Animal Magic |
| Bonobo The North Borders |
| Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club |
| Burial and Four Tet Ego/Mirror |
| Chet Baker The Best of Chet Baker Sings |
| This jazz trumpeter, with a backing piano and a minimalist drummer, has a voice that melts my heart every time i hear him sing |
| Coil Horse Rotorvator |
| Disclosure Settle |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic |
| Exoplanet Bourbon Tape Machine |
| The Sad Demise Of R. Milhous is an absolutely phenomenal use of context for a song to have, and all 3 tracks on here are absolutely sensational.r(offered by the label for free at: http://specialfordjs.com/house/3268-exoplanet-bourbon-tape-machine-ep.html ) |
| Faithless Reverence |
| Flatbush Zombies D.R.U.G.S. |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma |
| Four Tet There is Love in You |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city |
| Massive Attack Protection |
| Nicolas Jaar Don't Break My Love |
| One Direction Midnight Memories |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Portishead Dummy |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| This here's almost as good as the 2000 masterpiece Kid A. The transition from 'Pyramid Song' to 'Pulk / Pull' to 'You and Whose Army' is one of the most fascinating 3 song segments Radiohead has ever put together. Delve into this gem, and you'll be thrown in opposite directions simultaneously. Not easy listening at first, yet once you've made your peace, the songs become so soothing and so natural that you realize your entire world has changed. |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik |
| ScHoolboy Q Oxymoron |
| Smoke Room Vol. 2 |
| Whoa. thanks washboardsuds for the awesome rec =] |
| Soundtrack (Film) Garden State |
| Susumu Yokota Sakura |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| My favorite album from my first favorite band. Cover to cover, this is the most complete Beatles album, and 'A Day in the Life' is their seminal achievement. Even the tracks on here that not everyone knows are gems that contribute to a sublime musical progression. |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland |
| The Orb Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld |
| The Shins Chutes Too Narrow |
| Trentemoller The Last Resort |
| Zomby Dedication |
| 4.0 excellent |
| A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders |
| Ab-Soul Longterm Mentality |
| Fuck Sobhi Youssef EMERITUS he doesn't know what he's talking about |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow |
| AJR OK Orchestra |
| Amon Tobin Foley Room |
| Amon Tobin ISAM |
| Anais Mitchell Young Man in America |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam |
| Animal Collective Feels |
| Animal Collective Sung Tongs |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz |
| Aphex Twin Drukqs |
| Autechre Tri Repetae |
| Ava Max Heaven and Hell |
| Best music of its kind since 1989. This here's the next Madonna at best. Tough to see this aging well though |
| Beck Odelay |
| Beck Midnite Vultures |
| Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot |
| Bonobo Black Sands |
| Broken Bells Meyrin Fields |
| Burial Burial |
| Burial Kindred |
| Burial and Four Tet Moth/Wolf Cub |
| Caribou Swim |
| Darkside Darkside |
| Deadmau5 Random Album Title |
| DJ Shadow The Private Press |
| So everyone knows Endtroducing is awesome, and everyone knows The Outsider was garbage. But The Private Press is nearly as good as Endtroducing and nobody seems to realize it. If you're a fan of Endtroducing, you gotta jump into The Private Press |
| DJ Shadow Preemptive Strike |
| DJ Shadow I Gotta Rokk |
| Dr. Dre 2001 |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP |
| Exoplanet Nothing Divides Us Here |
| Flatbush Zombies BetterOffDEAD |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles |
| Grimes Visions |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House |
| Jack Johnson In Between Dreams |
| James Zabiela Blame |
| John Talabot Fin |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 |
| Leftfield Leftism |
| Lotus Nomad |
| You probably haven't heard of these guys -- and that's a mistake. Being a kind of fusion between Phish and Aphex Twin, their music has been dubbed jamtronica (electronic jam band). Constantly touring and playing big festivals to clouds of weed, with hippies on all sorts of drugs, they are a band to watch in the coming years as well as one you have to see live if they're coming to a town near you. (sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1syZXrL9WA4) |
| Massive Attack Heligoland |
| The kings of trip-hop released an excellent album last year and it didn't even make it on Sputnik's top 100 of 2010? "Paradise Circus," "Psyche," "Rush Minute" and "Atlas Air" are all phenomenal tracks on an album that doesn't have a weak point. Is it as good as Mezzanine? No, but will a trip-hop album ever be released that is? |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines |
| An ingeniously inventive album with some tracks ('safe from harm', 'daydreaming', 'unfinished symphony', 'blue lines') that are still unfathomably good. But whereas Mezzanine and Heligoland have a cover to cover flow, some tracks on here don't quite stand the test of time |
| Massive Attack vs. Burial Four Walls/Paradise Circus |
| Michael Jackson Thriller |
| Muse Absolution |
| Nas STILLmatic |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below |
| Pantha Du Prince This Bliss |
| Phish Billy Breathes |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| Polygon Window Surfing On Sine Waves |
| Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| The optimistic tone of in rainbows, the cohesiveness of amnesiac, the experimentalism of hail to the thief taken in as new a direction as has been seen since kid a. Old timers hoping for something more like ok computer will be disappointed, but such a carefully constructed album could be the closest to true beauty that radiohead has ever come |
| Radiohead Street Spirit (Fade Out) |
| Easily the greatest Radiohead release in the pre Ok Computer era and one that goes far too unnoticed. The depth of 'Street Spirit', the brilliance of 'Talk Show Host' and 3 other solid tracks make this an excellent release and also make it perhaps the best starting point for someone looking to get into the band. |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Uplift Mofo Party Plan |
| Before he had to work his ass off to get the voice he currently has, Anthony Kiedis was afraid to sing. But he had a sick flow and rapped the truth on top of an innovative group of funk/punk badasses. This is the last album to feature Hillel Slovak on guitar before he died and Jack Irons on drums before he quit, but even with a change of personnel, this sounds more like the following LP, Mother's Milk, than the previous Freaky Styley. With tracks "Fight Like a Brave" and "Behind the Sun" leading the way, this is an album that I'm always up to listen to. |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Mother's Milk |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication |
| Simon and Garfunkel Bookends |
| Sublime Sublime |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light |
| Tangerine Dream Stratosfear |
| during the middle of invisible limits i was like omg dj shadow! |
| Tangerine Dream Rubycon |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul |
| The Beatles The Beatles |
| The Beatles 1962 - 1966 |
| The Future Sound of London Dead Cities |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 |
| The Shins Wincing the Night Away |
| A new take on their first two albums and every bit as good. Considering The Shins is one of the best pure Indie bands around, this is a crucial 3rd LP that adds so much to their repertoire. |
| The Weeknd Starboy |
| Thom Yorke The Eraser |
| Tones and I The Kids Are Coming |
| Eponymous "The Kids are Coming" seduces you the human in a way that terrifies the corrupt of yesteryear. And into hit music banger "Dance Monkey", the EP sets a rapid pace that may be difficult for a few plebs to follow. A lot of you here need to progress to professional behaviour and not violate your best principles. Go like a pro.rY'all wish you were ripple litecoin and dogecoin are immature sellouts. |
| Tones and I Welcome to the Madhouse |
| phenomenal sound, near brilliant execution. Tones and I's criminally underrated, and she has a very bright future ahead of her |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Tool Ænima |
| Trentemoller Reworked / Remixed |
| Tricky Pre-Millenium Tension |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother |
| Xploding Plastix Amateur Girlfriends Go Proskirt Agents |
| Zero 7 Simple Things |
| 3.5 great |
| .L.W.H. The Tape Hiss Hooligan |
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| AFI All Hallow's E.P. |
| Amon Tobin Supermodified |
| Arandel In D |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not |
| Autechre Amber |
| Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill |
| Beck Modern Guilt |
| Beck Sea Change |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Bonobo Dial 'M' For Monkey |
| Boston Boston |
| Boys Noize Oi Oi Oi |
| Broken Bells Broken Bells |
| Burial Street Halo |
| CunninLynguists Oneirology |
| De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising |
| Deadmau5 For Lack of a Better Name |
| Dido No Angel |
| Discomendments Tales From the Bunka |
| DJ Shadow The Less You Know, the Better |
| DJ Shadow Excessive Ephemera |
| , but http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/d/dj_shadow/midnight_in_a_perfect_world_gift_of_gab_mix.html are still are still some of the best lyrics i've ever read. |
| Dominik Eulberg Diorama |
| Feed Me Feed Me's Big Adventure |
| Four Tet Rounds |
| Four Tet Pink |
| about what i expected. cool new loops and some of his most impressive musicianship, but it doesn't establish as much of an emotional relationship with me as 'there is love in you' . dunno which one i like more between this and 'rounds' |
| Gayngs Relayted |
| Gorillaz Demon Days |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest |
| Gui Boratto Chromophobia |
| Gui Boratto III |
| Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan Hawk |
| Jack Johnson Brushfire Fairytales |
| Jurassic 5 Power in Numbers |
| Kanye West The College Dropout |
| Kendrick Lamar Overly Dedicated |
| Kendrick tells it like it is. Kendrick's always told it like it is. Kendrick always will tell it like it is. Awesome mixtape that got him his start. More raw, but at times even more passionate than his later releases |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music |
| Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express |
| Local Natives Gorilla Manor |
| Lone Lemurian |
| Lotus Hammerstrike |
| Lotus Lotus |
| Massive Attack 100th Window |
| MF DOOM MM.. Food |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| Nas and Damian Marley Distant Relatives |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| Nosaj Thing Drift Remixed |
| Seems like he's better at remixing others than they are at remixing him. borderline 3-3.5 |
| Portishead Third |
| Prefuse 73 Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead COM LAG (2plus2isfive) |
| Sepalcure Sepalcure |
| Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water |
| Slightly Stoopid Closer To The Sun |
| Sneaker Pimps Becoming X |
| Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom |
| Submotion Orchestra Finest Hour |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz |
| Swarms Old Raves End |
| An infectious album that tempers the power of dubstep with an incredibly smooth trip hop atmosphere |
| Tangerine Dream Alpha Centauri |
| Tangerine Dream The Angel from the West Window |
| As Good as a lot of vintage Tangerine Dream, which is quite an achievement sadly gone unnoticed |
| The Beatles Help! |
| The Beatles A Hard Day's Night |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Cure Disintegration |
| The Karminsky Experience Inc. Power Of Suggestion |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath |
| The Morning Benders Big Echo |
| The Shins Oh, Inverted World |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons |
| Thievery Corporation The Richest Man in Babylon |
| Thievery Corporation Culture of Fear |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Twenty One Pilots Trench |
| Tyler, the Creator Goblin |
| Wonder Bear Avalanche |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
