Memento's Top 200 Albums, Part 3: 160-141
Summer holidays have rolled around, whence I had time to significantly revise my ratings and assemble this provisional top 200. This will be the third of ten installments across which I will present this ranking on Sputnik, a convulsing website that no longer allows me to edit the favorite bands section on my page, so hopefully this top 200 will set the record straight. All the usual caveats included (this top 200 is just my opinion, consequently heavily biased toward certain styles of music, a mere snapshot in time, has a somewhat arbitrary ranking that could easily change, etc.). If you can guess any of the albums on the following iterations of the top 200 (without looking at my ratings, that is, of course) I will be impressed. LPs, EPs and live albums are eligible for inclusion. This part breaches the top 150. |
| 20 |  | Stargazer (AUS)
The Scream That Tore the Sky
160.
Genre(s): technical death metal, progressive death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 19 |  | Korekyojinn
Korekyojinn
159.
Genre(s): brutal prog, math rock.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 18 |  | Ruins
Tzomborgha
158.
Genre(s): brutal prog, math rock.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 17 |  | Present
Triskaidekaphobie
157.
Genre(s): avant prog, chamber music.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 16 |  | Aranis
Aranis II
156.
Genre(s): avant prog, chamber music, modern classical.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 15 |  | Rational Diet
At Work
155.
Genre(s): avant prog, chamber music.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 14 |  | Thinking Plague
In Extremis
154.
Genre(s): avant prog.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 13 |  | John Zorn
Baphomet
153.
Genre(s): avant-garde metal, brutal prog, avant-garde jazz, avant prog.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 12 |  | Amenra
Mass VI
152.
Genre(s): post metal, atmospheric sludge metal.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 11 |  | Vektor
Outer Isolation
151.
Genre(s): technical thrash metal, progressive metal.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 10 |  | Wayne Shorter
Juju
150.
Genre(s): modal jazz, post-bop.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 9 |  | Wayne Shorter
Speak No Evil
149.
Genre(s): post-bop.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 8 |  | Thelonious Monk
Straight, No Chaser
148.
Genre(s): post-bop.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 7 |  | Charles Mingus
Let My Children Hear Music
147.
Genre(s): third stream, experimental big band.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 6 |  | Max Roach
It's Time
146.
Genre(s): avant-garde jazz, post bob, hard bob.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 5 |  | SUMAC
The Healer
145.
Genre(s): post metal, atmospheric sludge metal.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 4 |  | Intronaut
Valley Of Smoke
144.
Genre(s): post metal, sludge metal, progressive metal.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 3 |  | Intronaut
Prehistoricisms
143.
Genre(s): post metal, sludge metal, progressive metal.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 2 |  | Sam Rivers
Crystals
142.
Genre(s): free jazz, experimental big band.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 1 |  | John Coltrane
Meditations
141.
Genre(s): free jazz, spiritual jazz.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
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