Top 50 Albums
Updated Sun May 18 2025
Actually, this list is complete. I will no longer edit this list. If you disagree with me, you're wrong. See also my Top Films List.
| # | Artist | Album | Year |
| 1. | Neutral Milk Hotel | In the Aeroplane over the Sea | 1998 |
| 2. | Swans | Soundtracks for the Blind | 1996 |
| 3. | Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band | Trout Mask Replica | 1969 |
| 4. | Flotation Toy Warning | Bluffer's Guide to the Flight Deck | 2004 |
| 5. | Cerberus Shoal | The Land We All Believe In | 2005 |
| 6. | The Residents | Not Available | 1978 |
| 7. | Kendrick Lamar | good kid, m.A.A.d. city | 2012 |
| 8. | Carla Bley & Paul Haines | Escalator over the Hill | 1971 |
| 9. | The Microphones | Mount Eerie | 2003 |
| 10. | The Olivia Tremor Control | Black Foliage: Animation Music, Volume 1 | 1999 |
| 11. | Xiu Xiu | A Promise | 2003 |
| 12. | Charles Mingus | The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady | 1963 |
| 13. | The Velvet Underground | The Velvet Underground & Nico | 1967 |
| 14. | Royal Trux | Twin Infinitives | 1990 |
| 15. | Red House Painters | Down Colorful Hill | 1991 |
| 16. | Slint | Spiderland | 1991 |
| 17. | Janelle Monáe | The ArchAndroid | 2010 |
| 18. | Faust | Faust | 1971 |
| 19. | Sun City Girls | 330,003 Crossdressers from Beyond the Rig Veda | 1996 |
| 20. | Talk Talk | Laughing Stock | 1991 |
| 21. | Godspeed You! Black Emperor | Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 2000 |
| 22. | Cannibal Ox | The Cold Vein | 2001 |
| 23. | The Mothers of Invention | We're Only in It for the Money | 1968 |
| 24. | The Microphones | The Glow, Pt. 2 | 2001 |
| 25. | Billy Woods | GOLLIWOG | 2025 |
| 26. | Aphrodite's Child | 666 | 1972 |
| 27. | Lil Ugly Mane | Volcanic Bird Enemy and the Voiced Concern | 2021 |
| 28. | Jordaan Mason & the Horse Museum | Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head | 2009 |
| 29. | Spiritualized | Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space | 1997 |
| 30. | Avey Tare & Panda Bear | Spirit They're Gone Spirit They've Vanished | 2000 |
| 31. | Joanna Newsom | Ys | 2006 |
| 32. | The Angelic Process | Weighing Souls with Sand | 2007 |
| 33. | Have a Nice Life | Deathconsciousness | 2008 |
| 34. | Coil | The Ape of Naples | 2005 |
| 35. | Primal Scream | Screamadelica | 1990 |
| 36. | The Red Crayola | The Parable of Arable Land | 1967 |
| 37. | The Avalanches | Since I Left You | 2000 |
| 38. | Current 93 | Invocations of Almost | 2019 |
| 39. | Boredoms | Vision Creation Newsun | 1999 |
| 40. | Albert Ayler | Live in Greenwich Village | 1967 |
| 41. | dälek | From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots | 2002 |
| 42. | Black Tape for a Blue Girl | Remnants of a Deeper Purity | 1996 |
| 43. | Foetus Interruptus | Thaw | 1988 |
| 44. | Divine Styler | Spiral Walls Containing Autumns of Light | 1992 |
| 45. | Nurse with Wound | The Sylvie and Babs Hi-Fi Companion | 1985 |
| 46. | Astrobrite | Pinkshinyultrablast | 2005 |
| 47. | Scott Walker | The Drift | 2006 |
| 48. | Sunn O))) & Boris | Altar | 2006 |
| 49. | Mercury Rev | Boces | 1993 |
| 50. | The Music Tapes | Mary's Voice | 2012 |