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1: Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

2: My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

3: Radiohead – OKComputer

4: Radiohead – KidA

5: King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King

6: Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion

7: Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Sub /mu/core

1: Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Lift Yr. Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven!

2: The Antlers - Hospice
3: Have a Nice Life – Deathconsciousness

4: Arcade Fire - Funeral

5: Weezer - Pinkerton

6: The Avalanches – Since I Left You

7: Burial - Untrue

8: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica

Pitchfork-core

A1: 

A2: Modest Mouse – The Moon & Antarctica

A3: 

A4: Daft Punk - Discovery

A5: Brian Wilson - SMiLE

A6: 

A7: Massive Attack - Mezzanine

A8: Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

A9: Kyuss – Welcome to Sky Valley

A10: Godspeed You! Black Emperor – F#A#∞

B1: The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin

B2: Weezer – Weezer

B3: Pavement – Slanted and Enchanted

B4: Aphex Twin – Richard D. James Album

B5: The Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs

B6: Boards of Canada – Music Has the Right to Children

B7: Modest Mouse – The Lonesome Crowded West

B8: Radiohead – The Bends

B9: Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

B10: Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights

C1: Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream

C2: The White Stripes – White Blood Cells

C3: Panda Bear – Person Pitch

C4: Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun

C5: DJ Shadow – Endtroducing…

C6: The Strokes – Is This It

C7: 

C8: Joanna Newsom - Ys

C9: Slint - Spiderland

C10: Animal Collective - Feels

D1: Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes

D2: Death From Above 1979 – You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine

D3: 

D4: Björk - Homogenic

D5: Gorillaz – Demon Days

D6: The Mars Volta – De-Loused in the Comatorium

D7: Jeff Buckley - Grace

D8: Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary

D9: At the Drive-in – Relationship of Command

D10: Broken Social Scene – You Forgot it in People

E1: Brand New – The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me

E2: Guided By Voices – Bee Thousand

E3: Cap’n Jazz - Analphabetapolothology

E4: Cocteau Twins – Heaven or Las Vegas

E5: Beck - Odelay

E6: Portishead - Dummy

E7: Refused – The Shape of Punk to Come

E8: Elliott Smith – Either/Or

E9: Belle and Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinister

E10: The Microphones – The Glow Pt. 2

F1: Carissa’s Weird – Songs About Leaving

F2: Built to Spill – Perfect From Now On

F3: Nirvana - Nevermind

F4: Justice - † (Cross)

F5: Spiritualized – Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating in Space

F6: Ween – The Mollusk

F7: The Olivia Tremor Control – Music from the Unrealized Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle

F8: Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One

F9: 

F10: Slowdive - Souvlaki

G1: Primal Scream - Screamadelica

G2: Talk Talk – Laughing Stock

G3: The Flaming Lips - Embryonic

G4: Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

G5: Boris - Pink

G6: Blur - Parklife

G7: Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 85-92

G8: Converge – Jane Doe

G9: The Jesus Lizard - Goat

G10: Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral

The Classics

H1: Neil Young – After the Gold Rush

H2: David Bowie - Low

H3: Talking Heads – Remain in Light

H4: The Smiths – The Queen is Dead

H5: Tom Waits – Rain Dogs

H6: Television – Marquee Moon

H7: The Who – Who’s Next

H8: Van Morrison – Astral Weeks

H9: Serge Gainsbourg – Histoire de Melody Nelson

H10: Funkadelic – Maggot Brain

I1: Kraftwerk – Trans-Europe Express

I2: Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation

I3: Pixies - Doolittle

I4: Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks

I5: Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures

I6: Miles Davis – Bitches Brew

I7: Nick Drake – Pink Moon

I8: Michael Jackson - Thriller

I9: Love – Forever Changes

I10: The Replacements – Let it Be

J1: Minute Men – Double Nickels on the Dime

J2: Sparks – Kimono My House

J3: Patti Smith - Horses

J4: Hüsker Dü – Zen Arcade

J5: The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

J6: Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes

J7: Sly & The Family Stone – There’s a Riot Goin’ On

J8: The Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo

J9: Can – Tago Mago

J10: Prince – Purple Rain

K1: The Clash – London Calling

K2: Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV

K3: The Velvet Underground - Loaded

K4: Pixies – Surfer Rosa

K5: Otis Redding – Otis Blue

K6: The Cure - Disintegration

K7: Devo – Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!

K8: The Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet

K9: Big Black – Songs About Fucking

K10: The Beatles - Revolver

L1: Creedence Clearwater Revival – Cosmo’s Factory

L2: Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

L3: Leonard Cohen – Songs of Love and Hate

L4: Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick

L5: David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars

L6: R.E.M. - Murmur

L7: Charles Mingus – The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

L8: The Rolling Stones – Exile on Main St.

L9: The Who - Tommy

L10: Pink Floyd - Animals

M1: David Bowie – Hunky Dory

M2: Ramones - Ramones

M3: Elis Costello – My Aim is True

M4: Wire – Pink Flag

M5: Pink Floy – Dark Side of the Moon

M6: Iggy Pop – Lust for Life

M7: Simon and Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water

M8: Brian Eno – Another Green World

M9: The Band – Music from Big Pink

M10: Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited

N1: Throbbing Gristle – 20 Jazz Funk Greats

N2: Bob Dylan – The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan

N3: The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds

N4: King Crimson - Red

N5: The Stooges – Fun House

N6: The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico

N7: The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced

N8: The Velvet Underground – White Light/White Heat

N9: The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses

N10: Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run

O1: The Beatles – Abbey Road

O2: The Kinks – The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society

O3: Neil Young – Everybody Knows This is Nowhere

O4: The Fall – This Nation’s Saving Grace

O5: Miles Davis – Kind of Blue

O6: Lou Reed - Transformer

O7: The Doors – The Doors

O8: 

O9: Phil Spector (Various Artists) – Back to Mono

O10: Black Sabbath - Paranoid

P1: John Coltrane – A Love Supreme

P2: Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison

P3: The Human League - Dare

P4: Joni Mitchell - Blue

P5: Steely Dan - Aja

P6: Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On

P7: Neu! – Neu!

P8: Dinosaur Jr. – You’re Living All Over Me

P9: The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland

P10: Paul Simon - Graceland

Q1: The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy

Q2: Gang of Four – Entertainment!

Q3: Frank Sinatra – In the Wee Small Hours

Q4: Derek & The Dominos – Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

Q5: Frank Zappa – Hot Rats

Q6: Stevie Wonder - Innervisions

Q7: James Brown – Live at the Apollo

Q8: T. Rex – Electric Warrior

Q9: New York Dolls – New York Dolls

Q10: Ken – By Request Only

Hipster-Hop

R1: Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

R2: Mobb Depp – The Infamous

R3: A Tribe Called Quest – The Low End Theory

R4: GZA/Genius – Liquid Swords

R5: The Pharcyde – Bizzare Ride II the Pharcyde

R6: The Wu-Tang Clan – Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

R7: Dr. Dre – The Chronic

R8: Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…

R9: Kanye West – Late Registration

R10: The Notorious B.I.G. – Ready to Die

S1: Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique

S2: De La Soul – 3 Feet High and Rising

S3: Black Star – Mos Def & Kweli are Black Star

S4: Nas - Illmatic

S5: Madvillain - Madvillainy

S6: OutKast - Aquemini

S7: Jay-Z – The Blueprint

S8: Ghostface Killah – Supreme Clientele

S9: Big L – Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous

S10: Mos Def – Black on Both Sides

T1: N.W.A. – Straight Outta Compton

T2: Eric B. & Rakim – Paid in Full

T3: Binary Star – Masters of the Universe

T4: Deltron – Deltron 3030

T5: J Dilla - Donuts

T6: Ultramagnetic MCs – Critical Beatdown

T7: The Roots – Things Fall Apart

T8: Dr. Octagon – Dr. Octagonecologyst

T9: 2Pac – All Eyez on Me

T10: Dizzee Rascal – Boy in Da Corner

Electronic

U1: Kraftwerk – The Man-Machine

U2: Air – Moon Safari

U3: Venetian Snares – Rossz Csillag Alatt Született

U4: The Orb – The Orb’s Adventure Beyond the Ultraworld

U5: The Future Sound of London - Lifeforms

U6: Tangerine Dream - Phaedra

U7: Vangelis – Blade Runner

U8: Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman

U9: Tricky - Maxinquaye

U10: UNKLE – Psyence Fiction

V1: LFO - Frequencies

V2: 

V3: Alec Empire – The Destroyer

V4: Helios - Eingya

V5: Squarepusher – Hard Normal Daddy

V6: Massive Attack – Blue Lines

V7: Brian Eno – Ambient 1: Music For Airports

V8: The Prodigy – Music for the Jilted Generation

V9: Goldie - Timeless

V10: Global Communication – 76:14

W1: Autechre – Tri Repetae

W2: The Chemical Brothers – Dig Your Own Hole

W3: Fennesz – Endless Summer

W4: Oval – 94 Diskont

W5: The KLF – The White Room

W6: Sasha & John Digweed – Northern Exposure: Expeditions

W7: Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma

W8: RJD2 - Deadringer

W9: The Knife – Silent Shout

W10: Röyksopp – Melody A.M.

Metal

X1: Metallica – Ride the Lightning

X2: Megadeth – Rust in Peace

X3: Slayer – Reign in Blood

X4: Burzum - Filosofem

X5: Mastodon - Leviathan

X6: Iron Maiden - Powerslave

X7: Black Sabbath – Master of Reality

X8: Metallica – Master of Puppets

X9: Morbid Angel – Altars of Madness

X10: Bathory - Hammerheart

Y1: Cynic - Focus

Y2: Opeth – Blackwater Park

Y3: Electric Wizard - Dopethrone

Y4: Death - Human

Y5: Blind Guardian – Nightfall in Middle Earth

Y6: Atheist – Unquestionable Presence

Y7: Candlemass – Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

Y8: Morbid Saint – Spectrum of Death

Y9: Neurosis – Through Silver in Blood

Y10: Melvins - Houdini

Z1: Darkthrone – Transilvanian Hunger

Z2: Emperor – In the Nightside Eclipse

Z3: Boris - Feedbacker

Z4: Maudlin of the Well - Bath

Z5: Pentagram - Relentless

Z6: Agalloch – The Mantle

Z7: Earth – Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version

Z8: Acid Bath – When the Kite String Pops

Z9: Sleep – Holy Mountain

Z10: Between the Buried and Me – Colors

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