Music

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...

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

Blackwater Park - Opeth

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.

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

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!!

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

• The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There
• Fugazi - The Argument
• Slint - Spiderland
• American Football - LP1
• toe - The Book About My Idle Plot On A Vague Anxiety
• The Cure - Disintegration
• TTNG - Animals
• Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels to Be Something On
• At The Drive-in - Relationship of Command
• Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me

Mew - Frengers Architecure in Helsinki - In Case We Die of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? Tally Hall - Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum The Strokes - Is This It? The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Nightmare of You - Nightmare of You The Fiery Furnaces - EP The Apples In Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder Memory Tapes - See Magic

EPs Voxtrot - Raised by Wolves Locale A.M. - The Characters Miami Horror - Bravado

Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique is and always will be an absolute masterpiece to me. It was awesome 20 years ago and still goes hard to this day.

• Good News For People Who Love Bad News, Modest Mouse
• Sgt Pepper, The Beatles
• The Fame Monster, Lady Gaga
• Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, Elton John
• Folie a Deux, Fall Out Boy

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

how do you not have Dark Side of the Moon in that list?

Fragile - NIN Mezzanine - Massive Attack