Favorite 5 Albums by Decade

1950s
-Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (1959)
-Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959)
-Miles Davis - Jazz Track (1958)
-Miles Davis - Porgy and Bess (1959)
-Miles Davis - Miles (1956)

1960s
-Frank Zappa - Hot Rats (1969)
-King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)
-Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain (1960)
-Miles Davis - Miles Smiles (1967)
-Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica (1969)

1970s
-Queen - Queen II (1974)
-Yes - Relayer (1974)
-Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music (1972)
-Bruford - One of a Kind (1979)
-King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black (1974)

1980s
-Metallica - And Justice for All (1988)
-Metallica - Master of Puppets (1986)
-Black Flag - The Process of Weeding Out (1985)
-Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (1988)
-Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time (1986)

1990s
-Rollins Band - The End of Silence (1992)
-Alice in Chains - Alice in Chains (1995)
-Alice in Chains - Dirt (1992)
-Queen - Innuendo (1991)
-Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth (1998)

2000s
-King Crimson - The Power to Believe (2003)
-Adrian Belew - e (2009)
-Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death (2006)
-Iron Maiden - Brave New World (2000)
-Blind Guardian - A Night at the Opera (2002)

2010s
-Tigran Hamasyan - Shadow Theater (2013)
-David Bowie - Blackstar (2016)
-Lou Reed/Metallica - Lulu (2011)
-Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier (2010)
-Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls (2015)

 

1956 Gene Vincent & the Blue Caps - Bluejean Bop!
1956 Johnny Burnette & the Rock’n’Roll Trio
1957 The Dance Album of Carl Perkins
1958 Bo Diddley (first album)
1958 The Everly Brothers - Songs Our Daddy Taught Us

1962 James Brown Live at the Apollo
1965 Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
1967 The Beatles - Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
1967 The Velvet Underground & Nico
1968 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland

1971 The Flamin’ Groovies - Teenage Head
1972 The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St
1974 Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
1975 Patti Smith - Horses
1977 Television - Marquee Moon

1983 The Go-Betweens - Before Hollywood
1984 Rank & File - Long Gone Dead
1984 Womack & Womack - Love Wars
1986 Peter Case
1989 Neil Young - Freedom

1993 The Walkabouts - Satisfied Mind
1994 K McCarty - Dead Dog’s Eyeball / the Songs of Daniel Johnston
1995 Yo La Tengo - Electr-o- Pura
1996 Curtis Mayfield - New World Order
1999 Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs

2000 Laura Cantrell - Not the Tremblin’ Kind
2001 Gillian Welch - Time (The Relevator)
2002 Joni Mitchell - Travelogue
2003 Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears
2005 Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

2010 Natalie Merchant - Leave Your Sleep
2012 Goat - World Music
2015 Girlpool - Before the World was Big
2016 Loretta Lynn - Full Circle
2016 Leonard Cohen - You Want it Darker

Apart from those I have forgotten - I found it difficult to remember without checking which decades albums came in once I got past the 70s

 

1950s:
1. Songs for Swinging Lovers - Frank Sinatra
2. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
3. Something Else - Cannonball Adderly
4. Welcome to the Club - Nat King Cole
5. Little Girl Blue - Nina Simone

1960s:
1. Rubber Soul (US) - Beatles
2. Let it Bleed - Stones
3. Abby Road - Beatles
4. Beggars Banquet - Stones
5. The Beatles - Beatles

1970s:
1. Layla - Derek & the Dominoes
2. Who's Next - The Who
3. Tea for the Tillerman - Cat Stevens
4. Sticky Fingers - Rolling Stones
5. Honky Chateau - Elton John

1980s:
1. The Nightfly - Donald Fagen
2. Tattoo You - Stones
3. Full Moon Fever - Tom Petty
4. Pontiac - Lyle Lovett
5. King's Record Shop - Roseanne Cash

1990s:
1. Out of Time - REM
2. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams
3. August & Everything After - Counting Crows
4. Just Like You - Keb Mo
5. Acoustic - Everything but the Girl

2000s:
1. Nashville - Josh Rouse
2. Continuum - John Mayer
3. Highway Companion - Tom Petty
4. In Between Dreams - Jack Johnson
5. Just a Little Lovin' - Shelby Lynne

2010s:
1. Blue & Lonesome - Rolling Stones
2. Something Wicked This Way Comes - Lucinda Williams
3. Mojo - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
4. Love & Hate - Michael Kiwanuka
5. This is Where I Live - William Bell

 

50s:
Chuck Berry - Chuck Berry Is On Top
The Everly Borthers - The Everly Brothers
Buddy Holly - The Chirping Crickets
Little Richard - Little Richard
Elvis Presley - Elvis (his second album)

60s:
The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle
Elvis - From Elvis In Memphis
Wilson Pickett - The Exciting Wilson Pickett
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Beach Boys - Summer Days / Summer Nights

70s:
The Ramones - Rocket To Russia
Lou Reed - Transformer
Lee Hazlewood - Cowboy In Sweden
The Clash - London Calling
Blondie - Parallel Lines

80s:
Big Country - Big Country
Duran Duran - Rio
The Cars - Heartbeat City
Paul Simon - Graceland
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms

90s:
Weezer - Weezer (blue)
Superdrag - Headtrip In Every Key
Oasis - What's The Story Morning Glory
The Rentals - Return Of The Rentals
Green Day - Dookie

00s:
The Strokes - Is This It?
The Raveonettes - Chain Gang of Love
The White Stripes - Elephant
Rooney - Rooney
The Thrills - So Much For The City

10s:
Poolside - Pacific Standard Time
Queens of the Stone Age - Like Clockwork
Haim - Days Are Gone
The Young Veins - Take A Vacation
Green Day - Revolution Radio

Phew! That was tough. I feel like I left out a lot of great stuff that deserved to be on here, particularly from the 60s.

 

These are what I reach for today for shear audio pleasure not because of their greatness
50s
Elvis-Sun Sessions- I know it didn't exist then but the music did
Buddy-GH-mastered by our host
Frank-Swinging Lovers
Everly Brothers-GH-original Cadence releases from Rhino

60s
Stones-Hot Rocks-released in the 70s but most of its music is from the 60s
Cream-GH-vegetables cover
Beatles-Yesterday and Today
JHE-Electric ladyland
BB-Pet Sounds

70s
Who's Next
Stones-Sticky Fingers
Dylan-Blood on the Tracks
Elvis-This Years Model
Talking Heads-More Songs

80s
Pretenders debut
FM-Tusk-late 79 release
DefLeppard-Hysteria
Pete Townsend-White City
Roxy Music-Avalon

90s
U2-Actung
Beck-Odelay
Pearl Jam-Ten/Unplugged
EC-Unplugged
DMB-Crash

00s
Krauss/Plant-Raising Sand
Radiohead-Kid A
Coldplay- A Rush of Blood
Johnny Cash-American IV
Amy Winehouse-Back to Black

 

1960's
1. The Beatles - Abbey Road (1969)
2. Love - Forever Changes (1967)
3. Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland (1968)
4. The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
5. Led Zeppelin - II (1969)
6. The Moody Blues - Days of Future Past (1967)

1970's
1. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (1975)
2. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déjà Vu (1970)
3. The Who - Who's Next (1971)
4. The Doors - Morrison Hotel (1970)
5. Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick (1972)
6. Pink Floyd - Dark Side OF The Moon (1973)

1980's
1. Tears for Fears - The Seeds of Love (1989)
2. Paul Simon - Graceland (1986)
3. Tears for Fears - Songs From the Big Chair (1986)
4. Dire Straits - Love Over Gold (1982)
5. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love (1985)
6. Depeche Mode - Black Celebration (1986)

1990's
1. Pink Floyd - The Division Bell (1994)
2. Roger Waters - Amused to Death (1992)
3. Jeff Buckley - Grace (1994)
4. Suede - Suede (1993)

2000's
1. Radiohead - In Rainbows (2007)
2. Green Day - Warning (2000)
3. The XX - XX (2009)
4. Muse - Origin of Symmetry (2001)

2010's
1. Alt-J - An Awesome Wave (2012)
2. Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver (2011)
3. Kate Bush - Before the Dawn (2016)
4. Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild [OST] (2010)

 

1960s:
1. Revolver, The Beatles
2. Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys
3. Odyssey and Oracle, The Zombies
4. Rubber Soul, The Beatles
5. Forever Changes, Love

1970s:
1. Radio City, Big Star
2. Marquee Moon, Television
3. Something/Anything?, Todd Rundgren
4. A Night at the Opera, Queen
5. Innervisions, Stevie Wonder

1980s:
1. High Land, Hard Rain, Aztec Camera
2. Sound Affects, The Jam
3. Marshall Crenshaw, Marshall Crenshaw
4. Louder Than Bombs, The Smiths
5. Black Sea, XTC

1990s:
1. Radiohead, OK Computer
2. Weezer, Weezer (Blue Album)
3. Tool, Aenima
4. Blur, Parklife
5. Sloan, One Chord to Another

2000s:
1. The Strokes, Is This It?
2. The White Stripes, White Blood Cells
3. Radiohead, Kid A
4. Spoon, Gimmie Fiction
5. Queens of the Stone Age, Songs For the Deaf

2010s:
1. Tame Impala, Lonerism
2. MGMT, Congratulations
3. Deerhunter, Halcyon Digest
4. Mac DeMarco, 2
5. Janelle Monae, The ArchAndroid

 

Tough, but off the top of my head, and probably geared more towards what I would recommend to others:

'70s:
1. Raspberries - Rasberries
2. My Aim Is True - Elvis Costello
3. Jackrabbit Slim - Steve Forbert
4. The B-52's - The B-52's
5. Something/Anything? - Todd Rundgren

'80s:
1. New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) - Simple Minds
2. Reach The Beach - The Fixx
3. You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess - Yello
4. Purple Rain - Prince & The Revolution
5. Murmur - R.E.M.

'90s:
1. Nevermind - Nirvana
2. Weezer (the Blue album) - Weezer
3. Casino - Blue Rodeo
4. The Man Who - Travis
5. Songs Of Faith And Devotion - Depeche Mode

'00s
1. Let Go - Nada Surf
2. Action Pact - Sloan
3. Turn On The Bright Lights - Interpol
4. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
5. Lost Souls - Doves

'10s:
1. More Than Just A Dream - Fitz & The Tantrums
2. Friends - White Lies
3. English Electric - OMD
4. Cast In Steel - a-ha
5. AM - Arctic Monkeys

 

60s
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles - white album
Jethro Tull - Stand Up
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Beatles - Let It Be

70s
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Electric Light Orchestra - No Answer
Alice Cooper - Greatest Hits

80s
Mike Oldfield - Crises
Traveling Wilburys - Vol.1
Mike Oldfield - QE2
Eric Johnson - Tones
George Harrison - Cloud Nine

90s
Nirvana - Nevermind
Sugar - Copper Blue
Gloritone - Cup Runneth Over
The Beatles - Anthology 3
Built To Spill - Keep It Like a Secret

00s
Ringo Starr - Ringo Rama
George Harrison - Brainwashed
Gloritone - Fainter Farther Still
The Muggs - S/T
Green Day - American Idiot

10s
The Muggs - Born Ugly
Phillip Phillips - The World from the Side of the Moon
The Strypes - Snapshot
Paul McCartney - NEW

 

I listed them by year:

1964

Beach Boys: Shut Down Volume 2
Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto: Getz/Gilberto
Beatles: A Hard Day's Night
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass: South Of The Border
Beatles: Beatles For Sale

1965

Zombies: Begin Here
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass: Whipped Cream & Other Delights
Astrud Gilberto: The Astrud Gilberto Album
Beatles: Help!
Beatles: Rubber Soul

Note: Honorable Mention - Beach Boys: Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!!)

1966

Chet Atkins: Chet Atkins Picks On The Beatles
Mamas and The Papas: If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass: What Now My Love
Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
Beatles: Revolver

Note: Honorable Mention - "Frank Sinatra: Stangers In The Night"and "Supremes: I Hear A Symphony"

 

1960s
1. Led Zeppelin - LZ II
2. Beatles- Revolver
3. Rolling Stones- Let it Bleed
4. The Band- The Band
5. The Doors - The Doors

1970s
1. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
2. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
3. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmos Factory
4. Rolling Stones - Exile on Mainstreet
5. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes

1980s
1. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
2. REM - Reckoning
3. Tom Petty- Full Moon Fever
4. Prince - Purple Rain
5. The Replacements - Tim

1990s
1. Oasis - Defintley Maybe
2. Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
3. The Afghan Whigs - Black Love
4. Supergrass - In It For The Money
5. The Verve - Urban Hymns

2000s
1. Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
2. The Strokes - Is This It?
3. My Morning Jacket - Z
4. Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South
5. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl

2010s
1. The War on Drugs- Lost in the Dream
2. Drive-By Truckers - American Band
3. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
4. The Black Keys - Brothers
5. Lucero - All A Man Can Do

 

Always subject to change.

1950's
Horace Silver & The Jazz Messengers - S/T (1955)
Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners (1957)
Glenn Gould - Beethoven: Concerto No.1 In C Major / Bach: Concerto No. 5 In F Minor (1958)
Fritz Reiner - Dvorák: New World Symphony (1958)
Frank Sinatra - Only the Lonely (1959)

1960's
Josef Krips - Beethoven Symphony No. 5 In C Minor, OP. 67 (1960)
Nathan Milstein - Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Major (1961)
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (1965)
Richard "Groove" Holmes - Soul Message (1965)
The Beatles - White Album (1968)

1970's
John Lennon - Imagine (1971)
The Kinks - Kronikles (1972)
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks (1975)
Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior (1976)
The Clash - London Calling (1979)

1980's
Kate Bush - The Dreaming (1982)
The Replacements - Let It Be (1984)
The Smiths - Louder than Bombs (1987)
Slayer - South of Heaven (1988)
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988)

1990's
Sonic Youth - Goo (1990)
U2 - Achtung Baby (1991)
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers (1993)
NAS - Illmatic (1994)
The Cardigans - Gran Turismo (1998)

2000's
QOTSA - Songs for the Deaf (2002)
Madvillian - Madvillainy (2004)
Editors - The Back Room (2006)
Kanye West - Graduation (2007)
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)

2010's
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (2011)
Run The Jewels 2 (2014)
Wye Oak - Shriek (2014)
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly (2015)
Bon Iver - 22, a Million (2016)

 

Much of what I listen to / collect was recorded before I was born (and before the advent of the LP).

Based on what I play most often.....

1920s

Louis Armstrong - Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings
Jimmie Rodgers - The Complete Recordings
Various - Anthology of American Folk Music (Folkways)
Blind Willie Johnson - The Complete (Columbia)
Blind Willie McTell - The Definitive (Columbia)

1930s

The Carter Family - In The Shadow of Clinch Mountain (Bear Family)
Billie Holiday - The Complete Columbia Recordings
Robert Johnson - Complete Recordings
Gene Autry - The Essential (Columbia)
Benny Goodman - Complete RCA Victor Small Group Recordings

1940s

Hank Williams - The Complete
Bob Wills - San Antonio Rose (Bear Family)
Charlie Parker - On Dial
Judy Garland - Complete Decca Masters (Plus)
Edith Piaf - 30e Anniversaire L'Integrale

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1950s

John Coltrane - Blue Train
Elvis - Complete Sun Sessions
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Frank Sinatra - In The Wee Hours
Billie Holiday - Lady in Satin

1960s

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison

1970s

Amalia Rodrigues (with Don Byas) - Encontro
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Richard & Linda Thompson - Pour Down Like Silver
Bob Dylan - Hard Rain
Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger

 

1960s
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Beatles - Revolver
Love - Forever Changes
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

1970s
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
Jackson Browne - Late For The Sky

1980s
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
XTC - Skylarking
Joe Jackson - Night And Day
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom

1990s
Nick Lowe - The Impossible Bird
Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come On Come On
Los Lobos - Kiko
Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream
Lou Reed - Magic and Loss

2000s
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
Brian Wilson - SMiLE
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
Krista Detor - Mudshow

2010s
Laura Gibson - Empire Builder
Joe Jackson - The Duke
Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
Tedeschi Trucks Band - Revelator
Lilian Hak - Lust, Guns & Dust

 

Hi Lester, any Neil Young nut will tell you that Everybody knows is a sixties album. Someone will tell you, might as well be me. If you said Time Fades Away or On the Beach or Zuma I would be right with you

Cheers

Chris

 

50's

1. Frank Sinatra - In The Wee Small Hours
2. Billy Holiday - Body And Soul
3. Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
4. Howlin' Wolf Moanin' At The Moon
5. Muddy Waters - Sings Big Bill Broonzy

 

Nice selection!!!

 

1950s
1. In The Wee Small Hours, Frank Sinatra
2. A Swingin' Affair, Frank Sinatra
3. Sings For Only The Lonely, Frank Sinatra
4. King Creole, Elvis Presley
5. Golden Records, Elvis Presley

1960s
1. Rubber Soul (U.S. or UK) The Beatles
2. Revolver, The Beatles
3. September Of My Years, Frank Sinatra
4. Led Zeppelin
5. Led Zeppelin II

1970s
1. Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon
2. Who's Next, The Who
3. Exile On Main St. The Rolling Stones
4. Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin
5. Saturday Night Fever,
Bee Gees/Various Artist

1980s
1. Back In Black, AC/DC
2. Pyromania, Def Leppard
3. Born In The USA, Bruce Springsteen
4. Hysteria, Def Leppard
5. Faith, George Michael

1990s
1. Listen Without Prejudice,
George Michael
2. Acthung Baby, U2
3. Adrenalize, Def Leppard
4. The Bodyguard, Whitney Houston
5. Jagged Little Pill, Alantis Morissette

 

Please allow me 6 albums per decade.

1960s
Pipers at the Gates of Dawn-Pink Floyd
After Bathing at Baxters-Jefferson Airplane
We Are the Village Green Preservation Society-The Kinks
Electric Music for the Mind & Body-Country Joe & the Fish
ST-The Doors
Days of Future Passed-The Moody Blues

1970s
Quadrophenia-The Who
Gratitude-Earth, Wind & Fire
Candy-O-The Cars
Station to Station-David Bowie
Songs in the Key of Life-Stevie Wonder
Real Life-Magazine

1980s
The Name of this Band is Talking Heads-Talking Heads
Night & Day-Joe Jackson
III(Melt)-Peter Gabriel
Ocean Rain-Echo & the Bunnymen
Disintegration-The CURE
Stone Jam-Slave

1990s
OK Computer-Radiohead
Dog Man Star-Suede
The Holy Bible-The Manic Street Preachers
Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space-Spiritualized
Olympian-Gene
Blood Sugar Sex Magik-Red Hot Chili Peppers

2000s
Origin of Symmetry-MUSE
UP-Peter Gabriel
Heathen-David Bowie
The Last Broadcast-Doves
The Seldom Seen Kid-Elbow
ST-Franz Ferdinand

2010s
Halcyon Digest-Deerhunter
Luminous-The Horrors
Lonerism-Tame Impala
Hand Cannot Erase-Steven Wilson
Do to the Beast-Afghan Whigs
Before the Dawn-Kate Bush

 

The additional "don't use an artist more than once in a single decade" rule makes it easier ! (though consequently it's not really "Favorite 5 Albums by Decade" anymore)
Oh but wait it's already morphed into "Favorite 6 Albums by Decade", I gotta hurry

60's
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Doors - s/t
Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates of Dawn
Rolling Stones- Beggars Banquet

70's
The Doors - L.A. Woman
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Steely Dan - Katy Lied
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
XTC - Drums & Wires

80's
New Order - Movement
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
U2 - War
XTC - Mummer
Prince - Purple Rain

90's
Pixies - Trompe Le Monde
U2 - Achtung Baby
The High Llamas - Santa Barbara
Morrissey - Your Arsenal
Divine Comedy - Liberation

00's
Steely Dan - Two Against Nature
Róisín Murphy - Ruby Blue
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
The Corals - Roots & Echoes
Portishead - Third

10's
Lianna La Havas - Is Your Love Big Enough
Pharrell Williams - Girl
...

 

1960s
The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground & Nico
Scott Walker, Scott 3
Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde
The Kinks, Something Else by the Kinks
The Beatles, Rubber Soul

1970s
David Bowie, Diamond Dogs
Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures
Public Image Ltd., Metal Box
Lou Reed, Berlin
Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks

1980s
Joy Division, Closer
Peter Gabriel, 3
Talking Heads, Remain in Light
Kate Bush, Hounds of Love
R.E.M., Fables of the Reconstruction

1990s
Suede, Dog Man Star
Faith No More, Angel Dust
Spritualized, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream
R.E.M., Automatic for the People

2000s
The Libertines, The Libertines
Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes
Portishead, Third
Radiohead, Kid A
Arcade Fire, Funeral

2010s
PJ Harvey, Let England Shake
EMA, Past Life Martyred Saints
Suede, Night Thoughts
Marissa Nadler, July
The National, High Violet

 

1960s:
The Beatles: Abbey Road
Bee Gees: Bee Gees' 1st
King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King
The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground
Frank Zappa: Hot Rats

1970s:
Genesis: Selling England by the Pound
Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
Queen: Queen II
Sparks: Propaganda
Bruce Springsteen: The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle

1980s:
a-ha: Scoundrel Days
Kate Bush: The Dreaming
Marillion: Misplaced Childhood
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: Architecture and Morality
The Stone Roses: The Stone Roses

1990s:
Belle and Sebastian: "Tigermilk"
Depeche Mode: Songs of Faith and Devotion
Ben Folds Five: Ben Folds Five
James Iha: Let It Come Down
Teenage Fanclub: Grand Prix

2000s:
Emm Gryner: Girl Versions
PJ Harvey: White Chalk
Mark Knopfler: Shangri-La
Porcupine Tree: In Absentia
Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

2010s:
Bat for Lashes: The Haunted Man
Biffy Clyro: Opposites
Lana Del Rey: Born to Die
The National: Trouble Will Find Me
Kamasi Washington: The Epic

 

Oops... for some reason I had it in my head that it was 1970 release... my bad

 

1960s
Buffalo Springfield Again
Eli and the Thirteenth Confession - Laura Nyro
Randy Newman (first album)
Bookends - Simon and Garfunkel
We're Only In it for the Money - Mothers

1970s
If I Could Only Remember My Name - David Crosby
Jerry Garcia (first album)
A Wizard, A True Star - Todd Rundgren
Veedon Fleece - Van Morrison
Court and Spark - Joni Mitchell

1980s
Pirates - Rickie Lee Jones
Hats - Blue Nile
Cupid and Psyche 85 - Scritti Politti
The Queen is Dead - Smiths
Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint - Steve Reich

1990s
Reading, Writing and Arithmetic - The Sundays
Elpmas - Moondog
Secret Story - Pat Metheny
76:14 - Global Communication
Temperamental - Everything But the Girl

2000s - probably still these...
Politics - Sebastien Tellier
Scarlet's Walk - Tori Amos
Aerial - Kate Bush
I Trawl the Megahertz - Paddy McAloon
The Lost Album - Lewis Taylor

2010s
To Pimp a Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
The Goddess - John Zorn
Same Trailer, Different Park - Kacey Musgraves
v2.0 - GoGo Penguin
Malibu - Anderson .Paak

 

60s:
Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison
The Beatles Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Rolling Stones Got Live If You Want It
Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced?
The Doors

70s:
Aerosmith Toys in the Attic
Black Sabbath Paranoid
Journey Infinity
Boston
Fleetwood Mac Rumors

80s:
Journey Escape
Journey Frontiers
REO Speedwagon Hi Infidelity
Poison Open Up and Say....Ahh!
Toto IV

90s:
Warrant Cherry Pie
Green Day Dookie
Matchbox 20 Yourself or Someone Like You
Def Leppard Euphoria
Buckcherry

00s:
Buckcherry 15
Hinder Extreme Behavior
Shinedown The Sound of Madness
Nickelback Silver Side Up
Avenged Sevenfold