Memento's Top 200 Albums, Part 7: 80-61
Summer holidays have rolled around, whence I had time to significantly revise my ratings and assemble this provisional top 200. This will be the seventh 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. Some heavy hitters here. |
| 20 |  | Koenji Hyakkei
Hundred Sights of Koenji
80.
Genre(s): zeuhl, brutal prog.
Overall rating: ~4.2. |
| 19 |  | Skin Tension
Machinic Impulses Of The Hyperreal
79.
Genre(s): avant-garde metal, dissonant black metal, mathcore, brutal prog.
Overall rating: ~4.2. |
| 18 |  | Immolation
Unholy Cult
78.
Genre(s): dissonant death metal, technical death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.2. |
| 17 |  | The Thing
Action Jazz
77.
Genre(s): (European) free jazz.
Overall rating: ~4.2. |
| 16 |  | Neurosis
A Sun That Never Sets
76.
Genre(s): post metal, atmospheric sludge metal.
Overall rating: ~4.2. |
| 15 |  | Suffocation
Pierced From Within
75.
Genre(s): brutal death metal, technical death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.2. |
| 14 |  | Defeated Sanity
Passages Into Deformity
74.
Genre(s): technical death metal, brutal death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.2. |
| 13 |  | Pyrrhon
The Mother of Virtues
73.
Genre(s): dissonant death metal, technical death metal, avant-garde metal.
Overall rating: ~4.2. |
| 12 |  | Dead and Dripping
Nefarious Scintillations
72.
Genre(s): technical death metal, brutal death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.2. |
| 11 |  | The Dillinger Escape Plan
Miss Machine
71.
Genre(s): mathcore.
Overall rating: ~4.2. |
| 10 |  | Krallice
Prelapsarian
70.
Genre(s): avant-garde black metal, progressive metal.
Overall rating: ~4.2. |
| 9 |  | Krallice
Mass Cathexis 2 - The Kinetic Infinite
69.
Genre(s): avant-garde black metal, dissonant black metal, dissonant death metal, technical death metal, progressive metal.
Overall rating: ~4.2. |
| 8 |  | Shardik
Cruelty Bacchanal
68.
Genre(s): avant-garde metal, avant prog, brutal prog.
Overall rating: ~4.2. |
| 7 |  | John Coltrane
A Love Supreme
67.
Genre(s): avant-garde jazz, spiritual jazz, post bob.
Overall rating: ~4.2. |
| 6 |  | Death
Human
66.
Genre(s): technical death metal, progressive death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.2. |
| 5 |  | Artificial Brain
Labyrinth Constellation
65.
Genre(s): technical death metal, dissonant death metal, brutal death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.2. |
| 4 |  | Aranis
Aranis I
64.
Genre(s): chamber music, avant prog, modern classical.
Overall rating: ~4.2. |
| 3 |  | Naked City
Naked City
63.
Genre(s): avant-garde jazz, brutal prog, avant prog, grindcore, free jazz, avant-garde metal.
Overall rating: ~4.2. |
| 2 |  | Cecil Taylor
Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants)
62.
Genre(s): free jazz, experimental big band, modern creative.
Overall rating: ~4.2. |
| 1 |  | Cecil Taylor
The Eighth
61.
Genre(s): free jazz.
Overall rating: ~4.2. |
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