Generic '65- '17 List
I have nothing groundbreaking here, but I'm doing it because I thought that it would be fun. |
| 1 |  | Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home
'65
Honorable mentions:
The Beatles- Rubber Soul
Bob Dylan- Highway 61 Revisited |
| 2 |  | The Beatles
Revolver
'66
Honorable mentions:
Cream- Fresh Cream |
| 3 |  | The Beatles
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
'67
Honorable mentions:
Cream- Disraeli Gears |
| 4 |  | Johnny Cash
At Folsom Prison
'68
Honorable mentions:
The Beatles- The White Album
Cream- Wheels of Fire
The Mothers of Invention- We're Only in It for the Money |
| 5 |  | King Crimson
In the Court of the Crimson King
'69
Honorable mentions:
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band- Trout Mask Replica
The Beatles- Abbey Road
Frank Zappa- Hot Rats
Pharoah Sanders- Karma |
| 6 |  | Black Sabbath
Paranoid
'70
Honorable mentions:
Black Sabbath- Black Sabbath
Neil Young- After the Gold Rush
Atomic Rooster- Death Walks Behind You |
| 7 |  | Black Sabbath
Master of Reality
'71
Honorable mentions:
David Bowie- Hunky Dory
Yes- Fragile
Pink Floyd- Meddle
Jethro Tull- Aqualung |
| 8 |  | David Bowie
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
'72
Honorable mentions:
Yes- Close to the Edge
Neil Young- Harvest
Jethro Tull- Thick as a Brick |
| 9 |  | Pink Floyd
The Dark Side of the Moon
'73
Honorable Mentions:
Black Sabbath- Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Genesis- Selling England by the Pound |
| 10 |  | King Crimson
Red
'74
Honorable Mentions:
Neil Young- On the Beach
Frank Zappa- Apostrophe
Camel- Mirage |
| 11 |  | Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here
'75
Honorable Mentions:
Black Sabbath- Sabotage
Harmonium- Si on Avait Besoin d'une 5ième Saison |
| 12 |  | Rush
2112
'76
Honorable Mentions:
Judas Priest- Sad Wings of Destiny
David Bowie- Station to Station
Harmonium- L'Heptade |
| 13 |  | Pink Floyd
Animals
'77
Honorable Mentions:
David Bowie- Low and Heroes
Rush- A Farewell to Kings
Ramones- Rocket to Russia |
| 14 |  | Rush
Hemispheres
'78
Honorable Mentions:
Black Flag- Nervous Breakdown
Judas Priest- Stained Class |
| 15 |  | Pink Floyd
The Wall
'79
Honorable Mentions:
Joy Division- Unknown Pleasures
Motorhead- Overkill and Bomber |
| 16 |  | Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
'80
Honorable Mentions:
Motorhead- Ace of Spades
Diamond Head-Lightning to the Nations
Dead Kennedys- Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Black Sabbath- Heaven and Hell |
| 17 |  | Minor Threat
Minor Threat
'81
Honorable Mentions:
Rush- Moving Pictures
Iron Maiden- Killers
Discharge- Why
Minor Threat- In my Eyes |
| 18 |  | Discharge
Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
'82
Honorable Mentions:
Misfits- Walk Among Us
Mercyful Fate- Mercyful Fate
Motorhead- Iron Fist
Dead Kennedys- Plastic Surgery Disasters |
| 19 |  | Slayer
Show No Mercy
'83
Honorable Mentions:
Mercyful Fate- Melissa
Misfits- Earth A.D./Wolf's Blood
Metallica- Kill 'Em All
Satan- Court in the Act
Minor Threat- Out of Step |
| 20 |  | Mercyful Fate
Don't Break the Oath
'84
Honorable Mentions:
Bathory- Bathory
Slayer- Haunting the Chapel
Metallica- Ride the Lightning
Iron Maiden- Powerslave
Celtic Frost- Morbid Tales |
| 21 |  | Slayer
Hell Awaits
'85
Honorable Mentions:
Celtic Frost- To Mega Therion
Bathory- The Return of the Darkness and Evil
Exodus- Bonded by Blood
Possessed- Seven Churches
Amebix- Arise! |
| 22 |  | Slayer
Reign in Blood
'86
Honorable Mentions:
Iron Maiden- Somewhere in Time
Saint Vitus- Born Too Late
Dark Angel- Darkness Descends
Candlemass- Epicus Doomicus Metallicu
Sepultura- Morbid Visions |
| 23 |  | Dead Can Dance
Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
'87
Honorable Mentions:
Swans- Children of God
Death- Scream Bloody Gore
Bathory- Under the Sign of the Black Mark
Sarcofago- I.N.R.I.
King Diamond- Abigail |
| 24 |  | Bathory
Blood Fire Death
'88
Honorable Mentions:
Slayer- South of Heaven
Voivod- Dimension Hatross
Death- Leprosy
Coroner- Punishment for Decadence
Bad Religion- Suffer |
| 25 |  | Morbid Angel
Altars of Madness
'89
Honorable Mentions:
Repulsion- Horrified
Terrorizer- World Downfall
Pestilence- Consuming Impulse
Carcass- Symphonies of Sickness
Sepultura- Beneath the Remains |
| 26 |  | Megadeth
Rust in Peace
'90
Honorable Mentions:
Deicide-Deicide
Death- Spiritual Healing
Judas Priest- Painkiller
Massacra- Final Holocaust
Blasphemy- Fallen Angel of Doom |
| 27 |  | Atheist
Unquestionable Presence
'91
Honorable Mentions:
Suffocation- Effigy of the Forgotten
Morbid Angel- Blessed Are the Sick
Dismember- Like an Ever Flowing Stream
Slint- Spiderland
Massacra- Enjoy the Violence |
| 28 |  | Alice in Chains
Dirt
'92
Honorable Mentions:
Incantation- Onward to Golgotha
At the Gates- The Red in the Sky Is Ours
Darkthrone- A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Burzum- Burzum
Demolition Hammer- Epidemic of Violence |
| 29 |  | Demilich
Nespithe
'93
Honorable Mentions:
diSEMBOWELMENT- Transcendence into the Peripheral
Wu-Tang Clan- Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Blood- O Agios Pethane
Darkthrone- Under a Funeral Moon
Beherit- Drawing Down the Moon |
| 30 |  | Burzum
Hvis lyset tar oss
'94
Honorable Mentions:
Emperor- In The Nightside Eclipse
Darkthrone- Transilvanian Hunger
The Notorious B.I.G.- Ready to Die
Enslaved- Vikingligr Veldi
Soundgarden- Superunknown |
| 31 |  | Suffocation
Pierced from Within
'95
Honorable Mentions:
Summoning- Minas Morgul
Death- Symbolic
Ancient- Trolltaar
Ulver- Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler
Varathron- Walpurgisnacht |
| 32 |  | Summoning
Dol Guldur
'96
Honorable Mentions:
Burzum- Filosofem
Immolation- Here in After
Swans- Soundtracks for the Blind
Alice in Chains- MTV Unplugged
Cryptopsy- None So Vile |
| 33 |  | Misfits
Static Age
'97
Honorable Mentions:
Radiohead- OK Computer
Godspeed You! Black Emperor- F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| 34 |  | Gorguts
Obscura
'98
Honorable Mentions:
Neutral Milk Hotel- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Swans- Swans Are Dead
Incantation- Diabolical Conquest |
| 35 |  | Summoning
Stronghold
'99
Honorable Mentions:
Godspeed You! Black Emperor- Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Nine Inch Nails- The Fragile
MF DOOM- Operation: Doomsday
Immolation- Failures for Gods
Opeth- Still Life |
| 36 |  | Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
'00
Honorable Mentions:
Immolation- Close to a World Below
At the Drive-In- Relationship of Command
Radiohead- Kid A |
| 37 |  | Mastodon
Slick Leg
'01
Honorable Mentions:
Gorguts- From Wisdom to Hate
Opeth- Blackwater Park
Grotesque-In the Embrace of Evil |
| 38 |  | Agalloch
The Mantle
'02
Honorable Mentions:
Immolation- Unholy Cult
Spoon- Kill the Moonlight |
| 39 |  | Opeth
Damnation
'03
Honorable Mentions:
Nujabes- Metaphorical Music |
| 40 |  | Madvillain
Madvillainy
'04
Honorable Mentions:
Kanye West- The College Dropout
Motorhead- Inferno |
| 41 |  | Kanye West
Late Registration
'05
Honorable Mentions:
Opeth- Ghost Reveries |
| 42 |  | Summoning
Oath Bound
'06
Honorable Mentions:
Sammath- Dodengang
Agalloch- Ashes Against the Grain
Celtic Frost- Monotheist |
| 43 |  | AJJ
People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest People
'07
Honorable Mentions:
Radiohead- In Rainbows
Ulver- Shadows of the Sun
Blaspherian- Allegiance to the Will of Damnation |
| 44 |  | Opeth
Watershed
'08
Honorable Mentions:
Dead Congregation- Graves of the Archangels
AJJ- Only God Can Judge Me |
| 45 |  | AJJ
Can't Maintain
'09
Honorable Mentions:
Sammath- Triumph in hatred
Beherit- Engram |
| 46 |  | Kanye West
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
'10
Honorable Mentions:
Profanatica- Disgusting Blasphemies Against God
Overkill- Ironbound |
| 47 |  | Blaspherian
Infernal Warriors of Death
'11
Honorable Mentions:
AJJ- Knife Man
Blotted Science- The Animation of Entomology
Vektor- Outer Isolation |
| 48 |  | Kendrick Lamar
good kid, m.A.A.d city
'12
Honorable Mentions:
Desecresy- The Doom Skeptron
Godspeed You! Black Emperor- 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
Swans- The Seer |
| 49 |  | Gorguts
Colored Sands
'13
Honorable Mentions:
Burzum- Sol austan, Mani vestan
Ulver- Messe I.X-VI.X
Summoning- Old Mornings Dawn
Black Sabbath- 13 |
| 50 |  | Sammath
Godless Arrogance
'14
Honorable Mentions:
Blood Urn- ...Of Gory Sorcery and Death
Dead Congregation- Promulgation of the Fall |
| 51 |  | Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp a Butterfly
'15
Honorable Mentions:
Kaeck- Stormkult
Desecresy- Stoic Death
Jeff Rosenstock- We Cool? |
| 52 |  | Jeff Rosenstock
Worry.
'16
Honorable Mentions:
Danny Brown- Atrocity Exhibition
David Bowie- Blackstar
Radiohead- A Moon Shaped Pool
Vektor- Terminal Redux
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds- Skeleton Tree |
| 53 |  | Tyler, the Creator
Flower Boy
'17
Honorable Mentions:
Kendrick Lamar- DAMN.
Ulver- The Assassination of Julius Caesar |
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