Makoto Matsushita - First Light

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong - Psychology, Presto

Dogs in a Pile - Bloom, Not Your Average Beagle

Nautilus - Refrain

Teako Onuki - Mignonne, Sunshower

Grateful Dead - Cornell 5/8/77, American Beauty

Anthrax - Spreading the Disease

Bad Religion - No Control, The Empire Strikes First

Led Zeppelin - II, IV

Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien

War Bringer - Woe to the Vanquished

Havok - Conformicide

Loudness - Thunder in the East

Thank You Scientist - Maps of Non-Existent Places

Rainbow - Difficult to Cure, Straight Between the Eyes

Casiopea - CASIOPEA, Asian Dreamer, Material

Phish - Farmhouse, Hoist

Gloryhammer - Tales from the Kingdom of Fife

Might’ve went a bit overboard lol

Ok, now that more people have posted long lists, I don’t feel so bad about mine ;)

• Arcade Fire – Funeral
• Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today
• At The Drive-In – Relationship of Command (also their EPs Vaya and In/Casino/Out)
• Kae Tempest – Let Them Eat Chaos
• Mercury Rev – Deserter’s Songs
• My Morning Jacket – Z
• Public Service Broadcasting – Every Valley
• Radiohead – OK Computer
• Radiohead – In Rainbows
• The Decemberists – Picaresque
• The Diggs – Commute
• The Dismemberment Plan – Emergency & I
• The Libertines – s/t
• The Mars Volta – Deloused in the Comatorium
• The Notwist – Shrink
• Tokyo Police Club – A Lesson in Crime (just a fantastic debut; barely an album though)

German:

• Deichkind – Niveau Weshalb Warum

Some may be an acquired taste (PSB?, also I know that The Libertines’ is not everyone’s favorite – but it’s mine :). The Arcade Fire, even though I don’t listen to them these days that much, is decade-defining for me, as is Radiohead’s OK Computer (together with Nevermind, although for some reason it didn’t make this list).

• The Foo Fighters - The Foo Fighters
• The Foo Fighters - The Color & The Shape
• 65daysofstatic - Wild Light
• Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones
• The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving

There isn’t a note I’d change on any of those albums.

Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie - Jazz At Massey Hall

John Coltrane - My Favorite Things

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue, In A Silent Way

Jimi Hendrix - Electric Lady Land

Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection

Talking Heads - Remain In Light, Speaking In Tongues

Aretha Franklin - Live At Fillmore West

Deodato - Prelude

Antonio Carlos Jobim - Wave

Earth Wind & Fire - Head To The Sky

Dave Brubeck - Take Five

Fishbone - Truth And Soul, The Reality Of My Surroundings

Esperanza Spalding - Emily’s D-Evolution

Nina Simone - Black Gold

The Roots - Things Fall Apart

Sons Of Kemet - Your Queen Is A Reptile

A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory

Paul Simon - Graceland

Funkadelic - Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On

Chick Corea - Light As A Feather

Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters

Wu Tang Clan - Enter The Wu Tang

That’s probably enough for now…

The Black Crowes - Southern Harmony Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

Honorable mention

The Black Keys - Thickfreakness The White Stripes - Icky Thump CeeLo Green - The Lady Killer

I have very little concept of what songs are from which albums anymore thanks to modern streaming subscriptions.

Blackwater Park - Opeth

Reading through these posts I’m totally blown away by the diversity of some of the posters’ selections. Also…a LOT of albums I need to check out!!

This will probably get buried in the comments, but Lohio by Ass Ponys is a really solid album. Just banger after banger.

A few of my favorite classics:

• Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
• Opeth - Blackwater Park
• Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
• Yes - Close To The Edge
• Supertramp - Crime of the Century
• Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
• Genesis - Duke
• Nektar - Remember The Future
• Camel - Moonmadness

And for newer stuff, I’d go with Anno Domini High Definition by Riverside and English Electric by Big Big Train

I agree with a lot of what people have already mentioned, so I’ll add a few I haven’t seen yet

• Turnstile - Step 2 Rhythm
• Signs of the Swarm - The Disfigurement of Existence
• Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
• Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
• Meshuggah - Obzen
• Panic at the Disco - Pretty Odd
• Fall Out Boy - Take This to Your Grave
• Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated
• Oso Oso - Sore Thumb
• Polyphia - New Levels New Devils

This is going to be a random list but:

Tool - Lateralus

Green Day - American Idiot

Power Trip - Nightmare Logic

Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory and Meteora

Basically anything by Animals As Leaders

Iron Maiden - Number of the beast

Sepultura - Arise and Chaos AD

Nirvana - Bleach and Nevermind

Elder - Lore and Reflections of a floating world

Blood Incantation - Starspawn

Killswitch Engage - Alive or just breathing

Bongripper - Satan Worshipping Doom

Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell

Architects - LF/LT

Dr Dre - 2001

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the aeroplane over the sea

It’s cliche, but Dark Side of the Moon. There’s a reason it’s on every list of all time best albums. The whole thing just flows so well together.

Discovery by Daft Punk is a no skip for me. Also food and liquor by lupe fiasco.

Tool - Aenima

Sky Cries Mary - A Return to the Inner Experience

Dead Can Dance - Spirit chaser

Depeche Mode - Violator

Faith No More - The Real Thing.