This was impossible to do, so I had to add some honorable mentions. It just didn't feel right to cut them! In no particular order: Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything? Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted Autechre - Tri repetae
Honorable mentions: Ice-T - O.G. Original Gangster Lilys - A Brief History of Amazing Letdowns Lô Borges - Nuvem Cigana Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges - Clube de Esquina Tortoise - TNT Wire - Pink Flag
Good to see Todd Rundgren on one of these lists. I usually have "A Wizard A True Star" on my short-list.
Damn good list, Pavement and Autechre are somewhere up their on my lists too. Though I'm bigger on Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain. I'd never heard of Lilys before but this is this the kind of music that I'm intensely drawn to, really glad you shared them.