...for those of you born since I was able to buy cigarettes, maybe... 1974 - Kraftwerk - Autobahn
1975 - Pink Floyd - Wish you were Here
1976 - Jean Michelle Jarre - Oxygene
1977 - Pink Floyd - Animals
1978 - Brian Eno - Music for Airports
1979 - Pink Floyd - The Wall
1980 - Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
1981 - Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca
1982 - Peter Gabriel - Security
1983 - New Order - Power, Corruption, Lies
1984 - Siouxsie & The Banshees - Hyaena
1985 - Skinny Puppy - Bites
1986 - Ministry - Twitch
1987 - Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
1988 - Skinny Puppy - VIVISectVI
1989 - Ministry - The Mind is a Terrible Thing To Taste
1990 - Sundays - Reading, Writing & Arithmetic
1991 - Front 242 - Tyranny For You
1992 - Orb - UFOrb
1993 - Front 242 - Fuck Off (with the numbers)
1994 - Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
1995 - Future Sound of London - ISDN
1996 - Curve - Come Clean
1997 - Juno Reactor - Bible of Dreams
1998 - Massive Attack - Mezzanine
1999 - David Sylvian - Dead Bees on a Cake
2000 - Banco De Gaia - Igezeh
2001 - Hybrid - Wider Angle
2002 - Sasha - Airdrawndagger
2003 - Bel Canto - Dorothy's Victory
2004 - Banco De Gaia - You Are Here
2005 - Stellamara - The Seven Valleys
2006 - Azam Ali - Elysium for the Brave
2007 - Deepspace - Barometric Sea/Barometric Sun
2008 - M83 - Saturdays=Youth
2009 - The Big Pink - A Brief History of Love
2010 - School of Seven Bells - Disconnect from Desire
2011 - Com Truise - Galactic Melt
2012 - School of Seven Bells - Ghostory Note that this list is generated through iTunes smart lists, and that a lot of the early shit isn't tagged properly.