| 5.0 classic |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory |
| 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 |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... |
| 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. |
| Nas Illmatic |
| 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. |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| 'Yesterday I woke up sucking on lemon.' Nonsensical lyrics, twisted arrangements and bizarre beats. Genius |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Air Moon Safari |
| 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 |
| Bonobo Animal Magic |
| Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club |
| Burial Kindred |
| 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 |
| Daft Punk Discovery |
| 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 |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma |
| Four Tet There is Love in You |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city |
| Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise |
| Nicolas Jaar Don't Break My Love |
| 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 Animals |
| Portishead Dummy |
| R.E.M. Automatic For the People |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Dubbed Kid B so unfairly. This is every bit as good as the 2000 masterpiece below. The transition from 'Pyramid Song' to 'Pulk / Pull' to 'You and Whose Army' is the best 3 song segment Radiohead ever put together. Delve into this gem, and you'll be thrown in opposite directions simultaneously. Not easy to bare, 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 |
| Smoke Room Vol. 2 |
| Whoa. thanks washboardsuds for the awesome rec =] |
| Soundtrack 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 Orbs Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld |
| Trentemoller The Last Resort |
| 4.0 excellent |
| A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow |
| 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 |
| Beck Odelay! |
| Beck Midnite Vultures |
| Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot |
| Boards of Canada Music Has The Right To Children |
| Bonobo Black Sands |
| Broken Bells Meyrin Fields |
| Burial Burial |
| Burial and Four Tet Moth/Wolf Club |
| 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 Marshall Mathers LP |
| Exoplanet Nothing Divides Us Here |
| 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 Protection |
| 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 |
| Mylo Destroy Rock And Roll |
| 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 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| 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 |
| ScHoolboy Q Habits and Contradictions |
| 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 Chutes Too Narrow |
| 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 xx xx |
| Thievery Corporation The Mirror Conspiracy |
| Thom Yorke The Eraser |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Tool Aenima |
| Trentemoller Reworked / Remixed |
| Tricky Pre-Millenium Tension |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother |
| Xploding Plastix Amateur Girlfriends Go Proskirt Agents |
| Zero 7 Simple Things |
| Zomby Dedication |
