| 5.0 classic |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited |
| Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde |
| Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Simultaneously a classic and a breath of fresh air, Bon Iver's first effort is a record that keeps on giving many, many listens later, and can adapt to an equal number of situations. Essential. |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver |
| Very strong sophomore effort. No more needs to be said. |
| Bruce Springsteen Born to Run |
| Dave Matthews Band The Central Park Concert |
| Whilst it's not got their best performances of every song on here, The Central Park Concert is the most exuberantly perfect example of the power of DMB that a new listener could hope for. |
| Dave Matthews Band Before These Crowded Streets |
| Destroyer Kaputt |
| Joanna Newsom Have One on Me |
| A sprawling tapestry of captivating stories and sounds, Have One On Me is endlessly inviting, and infuriatingly undecipherable, and it is, most importantly, a complete success. |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme |
| John Mayer Continuum |
| John Mayer Heavier Things |
| John Mayer Where the Light Is |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| One of the most self-indulgent, over the top albums of recent times; it's really the kind of thing that only West, prone to douchebaggery as he is, could pull off with such style. |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue |
| Nizlopi Half These Songs Are About You |
| Paul Simon Graceland |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Shpongle Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost |
| Astonishingly accomplished IDM, this album would probably be a 5 if I was an ent. |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird |
| It might only be 5 songs long, but every single second here is perfect. |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Tool Ænima |
| A murky, intimidating maze of an album, but once you uncover its secrets it reveals itself as probably one of the most fascinating, furious and fundamentally brilliant albums of its genre, and music as a whole. |
| Tosca Tango Orchestra Waking Life OST |
| 4.5 superb |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Quintessential indie listening, a truly emotional album with only a few weak moments. |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not |
| Art Blakey Moanin' |
| Bersarin Quartett Bersarin Quartett |
| Bill Evans Waltz for Debby |
| Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan |
| Bob Dylan Street Legal |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Sunset Mission |
| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy I See a Darkness |
| Brian Eno Another Green World |
| Brian Eno Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People |
| Bruce Springsteen Live 1975-1985 |
| Burial Untrue |
| Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady |
| CunninLynguists Oneirology |
| CunninLynguists A Piece Of Strange |
| Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds Live at Radio City |
| Dave Matthews Band Live in Chicago |
| Dave Matthews Band Live Trax Vol. 8 |
| Dave Matthews Band Crash |
| Dave Matthews Band Under The Table And Dreaming |
| Dave Matthews Band Live Trax Vol. 2 |
| Dave Matthews Band Away From The World |
| Destroyer Destroyer's Rubies |
| Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction |
| Disney A Musical History of Disneyland |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory |
| Dream Theater Images and Words |
| Duke Ellington The Far East Suite |
| Fat Freddy's Drop Dr. Boondigga & The Big BW |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues |
| A glorious, earthy album that really sees Fleet Foxes ascending into the upper echelon of their fiercely competitive genre. |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Tracks 1, 2 and 3 are some of the most wonderful pieces of music ever composed, whereas the final track falls a bit short of the preceding greatness. |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World |
| The most energetic, impassioned and apocalyptic sounding album I've heard in a long time, based on the way in which the members of Gospel throw themselves into their music you'd think they had only minutes left to live. |
| Green Day American Idiot |
| Guru Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness |
| James Blake James Blake |
| James Blake Klavierwerke |
| Jeff Buckley Grace |
| Joanna Newsom Ys |
| John Coltrane Giant Steps |
| John Frusciante The Empyrean |
| John Mayer Battle Studies |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I |
| Keith Jarrett The Köln Concert |
| Laura Stevenson Sit Resist |
| LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver |
| A masterclass in modern electronic music; it might not offer much that's new, but it manages to use all of the best ideas from various genres throughout the decade, and combines them into one glorious whole. |
| Metal Gear Solid Metal Gear Solid Soundtrack |
| Metallica Load |
| Metallica Death Magnetic |
| Metallica Master of Puppets |
| Metallica S&M |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew |
| Miles Davis The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions |
| Miles Davis In a Silent Way |
| Nas Illmatic |
| Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Norah Jones Feels Like Home |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Oscar Peterson Night Train |
| Paul Simon Paul Simon |
| Pearl Jam Ten |
| Screw Nirvana and Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam's Ten was the perfect marriage of classic rock sensibilities with the emerging grunge trends, and remains a classic to this day. |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Nigh-on perfect modern prog, it only just misses the perfect mark. |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing |
| Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Scott Walker The Drift |
| I have absolutely no idea what to make of this yet. Will report back later... |
| She and Him Volume One |
| Shpongle Tales of the Inexpressible |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians |
| Steven Wilson Insurgentes |
| Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan |
| Susanne Sundfor The Brothel |
| Sweet Trip Velocity : Design : Comfort |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| The Chicks Home |
| The Chicks Taking the Long Way |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection) |
| The Knife Silent Shout |
| A disturbing, eerie beast of an electronic album, but without enough musical and lyrical depth to make you want to return to it again, and again, and again. |
| The Mountain Goats Tallahassee |
| The National High Violet |
| A stunning continuation of form from The National, but it just loses out to Boxer due to having a couple of tracks that start to feel worryingly like filler. |
| The National Boxer |
| The Rolling Stones Exile on Main St. |
| The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave |
| Thomas Dybdahl ...That Great October Sound |
| Thomas Dybdahl One Day You'll Dance for Me, New York City |
| A gorgeous blend of minimalistic folk with some breathtaking atmospheric, almost poppy moments, this is Dybdahl's most cohesive release to date, if not his best. |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| tUnE-yArDs w h o k i l l |
| Ulver Perdition City |
| Van Morrison Astral Weeks |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183/173dB |
| WU LYF Go Tell Fire to the Mountain |
