Borrowing a page from Piero Scaruffi, here is a relatively exhaustive list of records I like. Updated often.
| Year | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 1949 | Miles Davis | Birth Of The Cool |
| 1956 | Thelonious Monk | Brilliant Corners |
| 1958 | Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers | Moanin' |
| 1958 | Cannonball Adderley | Somethin' Else |
| 1959 | Miles Davis | Kind Of Blue |
| 1960 | John Coltrane | Giant Steps |
| 1960 | The Louvin Brothers | Satan Is Real |
| 1961 | John Coltrane | My Favorite Things |
| 1963 | John Fahey | Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes |
| 1964 | Bob Dylan | Another Side of Bob Dylan |
| 1964 | Lee Morgan | The Sidewinder |
| 1965 | Albert Ayler | Spiritual Unity |
| 1965 | Bob Dylan | Bringing It All Back Home |
| 1965 | Bob Dylan | Highway 61 Revisited |
| 1965 | John Coltrane | A Love Supreme |
| 1966 | Otis Redding | The Otis Redding Dictionary Of Soul: Complete & Unbelievable |
| 1966 | The Beach Boys | Pet Sounds |
| 1967 | Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band | Safe As Milk |
| 1967 | Leonard Cohen | Songs Of Leonard Cohen |
| 1967 | Nina Simone | Nina Simone Sings The Blues |
| 1967 | The Rolling Stones | Their Satanic Majesties Request |
| 1967 | The Velvet Underground | The Velvet Underground & Nico |
| 1967 | The Who | The Who Sell Out |
| 1968 | Albert Ayler | New Grass |
| 1968 | The Byrds | Sweetheart of the Rodeo |
| 1968 | Johnny Cash | At Folsom Prison |
| 1968 | The Kinks | The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society |
| 1968 | Miles Davis | Nefertiti |
| 1968 | The Rolling Stones | Beggars Banquet |
| 1968 | Townes Van Zandt | For the Sake of the Song |
| 1968 | Van Morrison | Astral Weeks |
| 1968 | The Velvet Underground | White Light/White Heat |
| 1968 | Miles Davis | Filles de Kilimanjaro |
| 1969 | Can | Monster Movie |
| 1969 | Creedence Clearwater Revival | Green River |
| 1969 | Creedence Clearwater Revival | Willy And The Poor Boys |
| 1969 | Gal Costa | Gal Costa |
| 1969 | The Kinks | Arthur: Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire |
| 1969 | Kris Kristofferson | 16 Biggest Hits |
| 1969 | Leonard Cohen | Songs From A Room |
| 1969 | Neil Young | Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere |
| 1969 | Nick Drake | Five Leaves Left |
| 1969 | Pharoah Sanders | Karma |
| 1969 | The Rolling Stones | Let It Bleed |
| 1969 | Sir Douglas Quintet | The Mono Singles |
| 1969 | Skip Spence | Oar |
| 1969 | Townes Van Zandt | Townes Van Zandt |
| 1969 | The Velvet Underground | The Velvet Underground |
| 1970 | Bob Dylan | New Morning |
| 1970 | Can | Soundtracks |
| 1970 | Creedence Clearwater Revival | Cosmo's Factory |
| 1970 | George Harrison | All Things Must Pass |
| 1970 | Harry Nilsson | Nilsson Sings Newman |
| 1970 | John Cale | Vintage Violence |
| 1970 | John Lennon | John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band |
| 1970 | The Kinks | Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround |
| 1970 | Neil Young | After The Goldrush |
| 1970 | Nick Drake | Bryter Layter |
| 1970 | The Stooges | Fun House |
| 1970 | The Velvet Underground | Loaded |
| 1970 | Miles Davis | Bitches Brew |
| 1971 | Alice Coltrane | Journey in Satchidananda |
| 1971 | Can | Tago Mago |
| 1971 | David Bowie | Hunky Dory |
| 1971 | Harry Nilsson | Nilsson Schmilsson |
| 1971 | John Prine | John Prine |
| 1971 | The Kinks | Muswell Hillbillies |
| 1971 | Led Zeppelin | IV |
| 1971 | Leonard Cohen | Songs Of Love And Hate |
| 1971 | Loretta Lynn | All Time Greatest Hits |
| 1971 | The Rolling Stones | Sticky Fingers |
| 1971 | T. Rex | Electric Warrior |
| 1971 | Townes Van Zandt | Delta Momma Blues |
| 1971 | Willie Nelson | Yesterday's Wine |
| 1971 | Link Wray | Link Wray |
| 1972 | Can | Ege Bamyası |
| 1972 | David Bowie | The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars |
| 1972 | The Flatlanders | More A Legend Than A Band |
| 1972 | Iggy & The Stooges | Raw Power |
| 1972 | Lô Borges | Lô Borges |
| 1972 | Lou Reed | Transformer |
| 1972 | McCoy Tyner | Sahara |
| 1972 | Nick Drake | Pink Moon |
| 1972 | Randy Newman | Sail Away |
| 1972 | The Rolling Stones | Exile On Main Street |
| 1972 | Stevie Wonder | Talking Book |
| 1972 | Townes Van Zandt | High, Low And In Between / The Late Great Townes Van Zandt |
| 1972 | Sparks | A Woofer in Tweeter's Clothing |
| 1973 | Brian Eno | Here Come the Warm Jets |
| 1973 | Can | Future Days |
| 1973 | Doug Sahm | Doug Sahm And Band |
| 1973 | Faces | Ooh La La |
| 1973 | George Jones | Nothing Ever Hurt Me (Half As Bad As Losing You) |
| 1973 | Gram Parsons | G.P. / Grievous Angel |
| 1973 | John Cale | Paris 1919 |
| 1973 | Roxy Music | For Your Pleasure |
| 1973 | Townes Van Zandt | Live At The Old Quarter Houston Texas |
| 1973 | Willie Nelson | Shotgun Willie |
| 1973 | Loudon Wainwright III | Attempted Mustache |
| 1973 | Fripp & Eno | (No Pussyfooting) |
| 1974 | Bennie Maupin | The Jewel in the Lotus |
| 1974 | Leonard Cohen | New Skin for the Old Ceremony |
| 1974 | Neil Young | On The Beach |
| 1974 | Tom Waits | The Heart Of Saturday Night |
| 1974 | Willie Nelson | Phases And Stages |
| 1974 | Richard & Linda Thompson | I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight |
| 1974 | Joe Henderson | The Elements |
| 1974 | John Cale | Fear |
| 1974 | Sparks | Kimono My House |
| 1975 | Brian Eno | Another Green World |
| 1975 | Dion | Born to Be with You |
| 1975 | Don Cherry | Brown Rice |
| 1975 | Guy Clark | Old No. 1 |
| 1975 | Neil Young | Tonight's The Night |
| 1975 | Neil Young | Zuma |
| 1975 | Terry Allen | Juarez |
| 1975 | Fela Kuti | Expensive Shit |
| 1975 | Bruce Springsteen | Born to Run |
| 1976 | David Bowie | Station to Station |
| 1976 | The Flamin' Groovies | Shake Some Action |
| 1976 | Jorge Ben | Africa Brasil |
| 1976 | The Modern Lovers | The Modern Lovers |
| 1976 | The Ramones | Ramones |
| 1976 | Willie Nelson | The Trouble Maker |
| 1977 | Brian Eno | Before and After Science |
| 1977 | David Bowie | Heroes |
| 1977 | David Bowie | Low |
| 1977 | Dennis Wilson | Pacific Ocean Blue |
| 1977 | Elvis Costello | My Aim Is True |
| 1977 | Iggy Pop | The Idiot |
| 1977 | The Kinks | Sleepwalker |
| 1977 | Leonard Cohen | Death Of A Ladies' Man |
| 1977 | The Ramones | Rocket To Russia |
| 1977 | Suicide | First Album |
| 1977 | Television | Marquee Moon |
| 1977 | Willie Nelson | To Lefty from Willie |
| 1977 | Wire | Pink Flag |
| 1977 | Cluster & Eno | Cluster & Eno |
| 1977 | Jon Hassell | Vernal Equinox |
| 1978 | Big Star | Third |
| 1978 | Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band | Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) |
| 1978 | David Peel | King of Punk |
| 1978 | Elvis Costello | This Year's Model |
| 1978 | Elvis Costello | Armed Forces |
| 1978 | Joe Ely | Honky Tonk Masquerade |
| 1978 | Nick Lowe | Jesus of Cool |
| 1978 | The Rolling Stones | Some Girls |
| 1978 | Talking Heads | More Songs About Buildings and Food |
| 1978 | Townes Van Zandt | Flyin' Shoes |
| 1978 | Brian Eno | Ambient 1: Music for Airports |
| 1979 | The Buzzcocks | Singles Going Steady |
| 1979 | The Clash | London Calling |
| 1979 | David Bowie | Lodger |
| 1979 | Neil Young | Rust Never Sleeps |
| 1979 | The Roches | The Roches |
| 1979 | Suicide | Second Album |
| 1979 | Talking Heads | Fear Of Music |
| 1979 | Terry Allen | Lubbock (on everything) |
| 1979 | John Surman | Upon Reflection |
| 1979 | Sparks | No. 1 in Heaven |
| 1979 | The Undertones | The Undertones |
| 1980 | Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band | Doc At the Radar Station |
| 1980 | Laraaji & Brian Eno | Ambient 3: Day Of Radiance |
| 1980 | The Ramones | End Of The Century |
| 1981 | Girls At Our Best! | Pleasure |
| 1982 | Bruce Springsteen | Nebraska |
| 1982 | Laurie Anderson | Big Science |
| 1982 | Sister Nancy | One Two |
| 1982 | Sparks | Angst in My Pants |
| 1982 | Lou Reed | The Blue Mask |
| 1983 | Brian Eno | Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks |
| 1983 | Tom Waits | Swordfishtrombones |
| 1984 | Lloyd Cole & The Commotions | Rattlesnakes |
| 1984 | Minutemen | Double Nickels On the Dime |
| 1984 | The Replacements | Let It Be |
| 1984 | Steve Roach | Structures from Silence |
| 1984 | Bruce Springsteen | Born in the U.S.A. |
| 1985 | Meat Puppets | Up On The Sun |
| 1985 | The Replacements | Tim |
| 1985 | Sam Cooke | Live At the Harlem Square Club, 1963 |
| 1985 | Tom Waits | Rain Dogs |
| 1986 | Arthur Russell | World of Echo |
| 1986 | The Feelies | The Good Earth |
| 1986 | Nick Cave | Kicking Against The Pricks |
| 1986 | Hiroshi Yoshimura | Surround |
| 1987 | Dinosaur Jr. | You're Living All Over Me |
| 1987 | The Replacements | Pleased To Meet Me |
| 1987 | Tom Waits | Franks Wild Years |
| 1987 | Spacemen 3 | The Perfect Prescription |
| 1988 | Cowboy Junkies | The Trinity Session |
| 1988 | Dead Moon | In the Graveyard |
| 1988 | The Go-Betweens | 16 Lovers Lane |
| 1988 | Lucinda Williams | Lucinda Williams |
| 1988 | Sonic Youth | Daydream Nation |
| 1988 | Souled American | Fe |
| 1988 | Talk Talk | Spirit Of Eden |
| 1989 | De La Soul | 3 Feet High And Rising |
| 1989 | Galaxie 500 | On Fire |
| 1989 | Lou Reed | New York |
| 1989 | Souled American | Flubber |
| 1990 | Fugazi | 13 Songs |
| 1990 | Fugazi | Repeater |
| 1990 | John Cale & Brian Eno | Wrong Way Up |
| 1990 | John Cale & Lou Reed | Songs for Drella |
| 1990 | Public Enemy | Fear of a Black Planet |
| 1990 | The Replacements | All Shook Down |
| 1990 | Sonic Youth | Goo |
| 1990 | Souled American | Around The Horn |
| 1990 | Texas Tornados | Texas Tornados |
| 1990 | Uncle Tupelo | No Depression |
| 1990 | A Tribe Called Quest | People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm |
| 1991 | Dinosaur Jr. | Green Mind |
| 1991 | Dinosaur Jr. | Whatever's Cool With Me |
| 1991 | fIREHOSE | Flyin' The Flannel |
| 1991 | My Bloody Valentine | Loveless |
| 1991 | Sonny Sharrock | Ask the Ages |
| 1991 | Superchunk | No Pocky For Kitty |
| 1991 | Talk Talk | Laughing Stock |
| 1991 | A Tribe Called Quest | The Low End Theory |
| 1992 | fIREHOSE | Live Totem Pole |
| 1992 | Jonathan Richman | I, Jonathan |
| 1992 | Lyle Lovett | Joshua Judges Ruth |
| 1992 | Neil Young | Harvest Moon |
| 1992 | Pavement | Slanted & Enchanted |
| 1992 | Lou Reed | Magic and Loss |
| 1992 | Sonic Youth | Dirty |
| 1992 | Souled American | Sonny |
| 1992 | Sugar | Copper Blue |
| 1992 | Th' Faith Healers | Lido |
| 1992 | Tom Waits | Bone Machine |
| 1992 | Uncle Tupelo | March 16-20, 1992 |
| 1992 | Pavement | Watery, Domestic |
| 1993 | Daniel Johnston | 1990 |
| 1993 | Dwight Yoakam | This Time |
| 1993 | The Flaming Lips | Transmissions From The Satellite Heart |
| 1993 | The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion | Extra Width |
| 1993 | Liz Phair | Exile in Guyville |
| 1993 | Mazzy Star | So Tonight That I Might See |
| 1993 | Morphine | Cure For Pain |
| 1993 | Palace Brothers | There Is No-One What Will Take Care Of You |
| 1993 | Sugar | Beaster |
| 1993 | Superchunk | On The Mouth |
| 1993 | Tindersticks | Tindersticks |
| 1993 | Uncle Tupelo | Anodyne |
| 1993 | Wu-Tang Clan | Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| 1993 | Yo La Tengo | Painful |
| 1993 | A Tribe Called Quest | Midnight Marauders |
| 1994 | Daniel Johnston | Fun |
| 1994 | The Grifters | Crappin' You Negative |
| 1994 | Guided By Voices | Bee Thousand |
| 1994 | Jawbox | For Your Own Special Sweetheart |
| 1994 | John Frusciante | Niandra LaDes And Usually Just a T-Shirt |
| 1994 | Johnny Cash | American Recordings |
| 1994 | The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion | Orange |
| 1994 | Luna | Bewitched |
| 1994 | Lyle Lovett | I Love Everybody |
| 1994 | The Magnetic Fields | The Charm Of The Highway Strip |
| 1994 | Ryo Fukui | My Favorite Tune |
| 1994 | Palace Brothers | Days In The Wake |
| 1994 | Pavement | Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain |
| 1994 | Silver Jews | Starlite Walker |
| 1994 | Superchunk | Foolish |
| 1994 | Th' Faith Healers | Imaginary Friend |
| 1994 | Aphex Twin | Selected Ambient Works Volume II |
| 1995 | Emmylou Harris | Wrecking Ball |
| 1995 | Freakwater | Old Paint |
| 1995 | The Grifters | The Eureka EP |
| 1995 | Guided By Voices | Alien Lanes |
| 1995 | The Jayhawks | Tomorrow The Green Grass |
| 1995 | Lilys | Eccsame the Photon Band |
| 1995 | Luna | Penthouse |
| 1995 | Mike Watt | Ball-Hog or Tugboat? |
| 1995 | Palace Music | Viva Last Blues |
| 1995 | Pavement | Wowee Zowee |
| 1995 | Portastatic | Slow Note from a Sinking Ship |
| 1995 | Slowdive | Pygmalion |
| 1995 | Son Volt | Trace |
| 1995 | Sonic Youth | Washing Machine |
| 1995 | Superchunk | Here's Where The Strings Come In |
| 1995 | Tindersticks | Tindersticks [II] |
| 1995 | Yo La Tengo | Electr-O-Pura |
| 1995 | GZA | Liquid Swords |
| 1995 | Pulp | Different Class |
| 1996 | American Analog Set | The Fun of Watching Fireworks |
| 1996 | Dr. Octagon | Dr. Octagonecologyst |
| 1996 | The Grifters | Ain't My Lookout |
| 1996 | Guided By Voices | Under The Bushes Under The Stars |
| 1996 | Imperial Teen | Seasick |
| 1996 | Joe Henry | Trampoline |
| 1996 | Lyle Lovett | The Road To Ensenada |
| 1996 | Mojave 3 | Ask Me Tomorrow |
| 1996 | Neil Young | Dead Man |
| 1996 | Robert Pollard | Not In My Airforce |
| 1996 | The Shangri-Las | The Best of the Shangri-Las |
| 1996 | Silver Jews | The Natural Bridge |
| 1996 | Steve Earle | I Feel Alright |
| 1996 | Wilco | Being There |
| 1996 | Willie Nelson | Spirit |
| 1996 | Tobin Sprout | Carnival Boy |
| 1997 | Bob Dylan | Time Out of Mind |
| 1997 | Built to Spill | Perfect From Now On |
| 1997 | Godspeed You! Black Emperor | F# A# ∞ |
| 1997 | Jim O'Rourke | Bad Timing |
| 1997 | Mike Watt | Contemplating The Engine Room |
| 1997 | Nick Cave | The Boatman's Call |
| 1997 | Pavement | Brighten The Corners |
| 1997 | Radiohead | OK Computer |
| 1997 | Rex | 3 |
| 1997 | Richard Buckner | Devotion & Doubt |
| 1997 | Robert Wyatt | Shleep |
| 1997 | Spiritualized | Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space |
| 1997 | Tindersticks | Curtains |
| 1997 | Whiskeytown | Strangers Almanac |
| 1997 | Yo La Tengo | I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One |
| 1998 | Bedhead | Transaction de Novo |
| 1998 | Bill Fox | Shelter from the Smoke |
| 1998 | Boards of Canada | Music Has The Right To Children |
| 1998 | Dirty Three | Ocean Songs |
| 1998 | The Lounge Lizards | Queen Of All Ears |
| 1998 | Lucinda Williams | Car Wheels On A Gravel Road |
| 1998 | Lyle Lovett | Step Inside This House |
| 1998 | Mark Hollis | Mark Hollis |
| 1998 | Mercury Rev | Deserter's Songs |
| 1998 | Neutral Milk Hotel | In The Aeroplane Over The Sea |
| 1998 | Richard Buckner | Since |
| 1998 | Robert Pollard | Waved Out |
| 1998 | Rufus Wainwright | Rufus Wainwright |
| 1998 | Sam Cooke | Greatest Hits |
| 1998 | Silver Jews | American Water |
| 1999 | Beulah | When Your Heartstrings Break |
| 1999 | Bonnie "Prince" Billy | I See a Darkness |
| 1999 | The Flaming Lips | The Soft Bulletin |
| 1999 | Freakwater | End Time |
| 1999 | Jim O'Rourke | Eureka |
| 1999 | Jim O'Rourke | Halfway To A Threeway |
| 1999 | Lilys | The 3 Way |
| 1999 | Low | Secret Name |
| 1999 | Macha | See It Another Way |
| 1999 | Mark Lanegan | I'll Take Care Of You |
| 1999 | Radar Bros. | The Singing Hatchet |
| 1999 | Robert Pollard | Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department |
| 1999 | Sam Prekop | Sam Prekop |
| 1999 | Smog | Knock Knock |
| 1999 | Those Bastard Souls | Debt And Departure |
| 1999 | Tom Waits | Mule Variations |
| 1999 | Wilco | Summerteeth |
| 2000 | Cat Power | The Covers Record |
| 2000 | Chris Whitley | Perfect Day |
| 2000 | Clinic | Internal Wrangler |
| 2000 | Compulsive Gamblers | Crystal Gazing Luck Amazing |
| 2000 | Crooked Fingers | Crooked Fingers |
| 2000 | The Delgados | The Great Eastern |
| 2000 | Ghostface Killah | Supreme Clientele |
| 2000 | Giant Sand | Chore Of Enchantment |
| 2000 | The Glands | The Glands |
| 2000 | The Kingsbury Manx | The Kingsbury Manx |
| 2000 | Macha & Bedhead | Bedhead Loved Macha |
| 2000 | The Magnetic Fields | 69 Love Songs |
| 2000 | The New Pornographers | Mass Romantic |
| 2000 | Quasimoto | The Unseen |
| 2000 | Radiohead | Kid A |
| 2000 | Richard Buckner | The Hill |
| 2000 | Ryan Adams | Heartbreaker |
| 2000 | Spoon | Girls Can Tell |
| 2000 | The Strokes | Is This It? |
| 2000 | Windy & Carl | Consciousness |
| 2000 | Yo La Tengo | And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out |
| 2000 | Beachwood Sparks | Beachwood Sparks |
| 2000 | Broadcast | The Noise Made By People |
| 2001 | American Analog Set | Know By Heart |
| 2001 | Bob Dylan | Love and Theft |
| 2001 | Bonnie "Prince" Billy | Ease Down the Road |
| 2001 | Destroyer | Streethawk: A Seduction |
| 2001 | Explosions In The Sky | Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever |
| 2001 | Fugazi | The Argument |
| 2001 | Gillian Welch | Time (The Revelator) |
| 2001 | Jim O'Rourke | Insignificance |
| 2001 | The Kingsbury Manx | Let You Down |
| 2001 | Liliput | Kleenex / Liliput |
| 2001 | Low | Things We Lost In the Fire |
| 2001 | Lucinda Williams | Essence |
| 2001 | McLusky | McLusky Do Dallas |
| 2001 | The New Year | Newness Ends |
| 2001 | Nick Cave | No More Shall We Part |
| 2001 | The Shins | Oh, Inverted World |
| 2001 | Silver Jews | Bright Flight |
| 2001 | Stars Of The Lid | The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid |
| 2001 | Stephen Malkmus | Stephen Malkmus |
| 2001 | Whiskeytown | Pneumonia |
| 2001 | The White Stripes | White Blood Cells |
| 2002 | American Death Ray | Smash Radio Hits |
| 2002 | The Books | Thought for Food |
| 2002 | Clinic | 3 EPs |
| 2002 | Luna | Romantica |
| 2002 | Mr. Lif | I Phantom |
| 2002 | Nina Nastasia | The Blackened Air |
| 2002 | Paul Westerberg | Mono |
| 2002 | Paul Westerberg | Stereo |
| 2002 | Radar Bros. | And The Surrounding Mountains |
| 2002 | Reigning Sound | Time Bomb High School |
| 2002 | Richard Buckner | Impasse |
| 2002 | Songs: Ohia | Didn’t It Rain |
| 2002 | Sonic Youth | Murray Street |
| 2002 | Spoon | Kill The Moonlight |
| 2002 | Wilco | Yankee Hotel Foxtrot |
| 2002 | William Basinski | The Disintegration Loops |
| 2002 | Various | Let's Do Rocksteady: The Story of Rocksteady 1966-68 |
| 2003 | Califone | Quicksand / Cradlesnakes |
| 2003 | The Exploding Hearts | Guitar Romantic |
| 2003 | Explosions In The Sky | The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place |
| 2003 | The Fiery Furnaces | Gallowsbird's Bark |
| 2003 | Four Tet | Rounds |
| 2003 | Gillian Welch | Soul Journey |
| 2003 | M. Ward | Transfiguration Of Vincent |
| 2003 | Manitoba | Up In Flames |
| 2003 | The New Pornographers | Electric Version |
| 2003 | The Shins | Chutes Too Narrow |
| 2003 | Silkworm | You Are Dignified |
| 2003 | Stephen Malkmus | Pig Lib |
| 2003 | Yo La Tengo | Summer Sun |
| 2003 | John Zorn | Masada Guitars |
| 2003 | Deerhoof | Apple O' |
| 2003 | Broadcast | Haha Sound |
| 2004 | Arthur Russell | Calling Out of Context |
| 2004 | David Kilgour | Frozen Orange |
| 2004 | The Dead Texan | The Dead Texan |
| 2004 | The Fall | 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong: 39 Golden Greats |
| 2004 | The Fiery Furnaces | Blueberry Boat |
| 2004 | The Hold Steady | Almost Killed Me |
| 2004 | Juana Molina | Tres Cosas |
| 2004 | Madvillain | Madvillainy |
| 2004 | Mekons | Fear & Whisky |
| 2004 | The New Year | End Is Near |
| 2004 | Nick Cave | Abattoir Blues / Lyre of Orpheus |
| 2004 | The Olivia Tremor Control | Music From The Unrealized Film Script: Dusk At Cubist Castle |
| 2004 | The Secret Machines | Now Here Is Nowhere |
| 2004 | Tom Waits | Real Gone |
| 2004 | The Walkmen | Bows + Arrows |
| 2005 | Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou | Ethiopiques, Vol. 21: Piano Solo |
| 2005 | Bonnie "Prince" Billy | Superwolf |
| 2005 | Brian McBride | When the Detail Lost Its Freedom |
| 2005 | The Clientele | Strange Geometry |
| 2005 | D.C. Snipers | Missile Sunset |
| 2005 | The Evens | The Evens |
| 2005 | The Fiery Furnaces | EP |
| 2005 | The New Pornographers | Twin Cinema |
| 2005 | Richard Hawley | Coles Corner |
| 2005 | Scott Tuma | Hard Again |
| 2005 | Silver Jews | Tanglewood Numbers |
| 2005 | Six Organs Of Admittance | School Of The Flower |
| 2005 | Smog | A River Ain't Too Much To Love |
| 2005 | Spoon | Gimme Fiction |
| 2005 | Broadcast | Tender Buttons |
| 2006 | Brightblack Morning Light | Brightblack Morning Light |
| 2006 | Cat Power | The Greatest |
| 2006 | Explosions In The Sky | All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone |
| 2006 | Howe Gelb | Sno Angel Like You |
| 2006 | Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan | Ballad Of The Broken Seas |
| 2006 | Nina Nastasia | On Leaving |
| 2006 | The Thermals | The Body, The Blood, The Machine |
| 2007 | Dinosaur Jr. | Beyond |
| 2007 | Grinderman | Grinderman |
| 2007 | Harlan T. Bobo | I'm Your Man |
| 2007 | Joe Henry | Civilians |
| 2007 | The National | Boxer |
| 2007 | Nina Nastasia | You Follow Me |
| 2007 | No Age | Weirdo Rippers |
| 2007 | Panda Bear | Person Pitch |
| 2007 | Radiohead | In Rainbows |
| 2007 | Richard Hawley | Lady's Bridge |
| 2007 | Spider Bags | A Celebration of Hunger |
| 2007 | Spoon | Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga |
| 2007 | Stars Of The Lid | and Their Refinement of the Decline |
| 2007 | Vic Chesnutt | North Star Deserter |
| 2008 | Arthur Russell | Love Is Overtaking Me |
| 2008 | Jay Reatard | Matador Singles '08 |
| 2008 | The New Year | The New Year |
| 2008 | Nick Cave | Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! |
| 2008 | Portishead | Third |
| 2008 | Robert Forster | The Evangelist |
| 2008 | Sigur Rós | Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust |
| 2008 | Sonic Youth | SYR 7: J'accuse Ted Hughes |
| 2008 | Spiritualized | Songs In A & E |
| 2008 | Stephen Malkmus | Real Emotional Trash |
| 2008 | Vampire Weekend | Vampire Weekend |
| 2008 | The Walkmen | You & Me |
| 2009 | Cass McCombs | Catacombs |
| 2009 | Heartless Bastards | The Mountain |
| 2009 | Mos Def | The Ecstatic |
| 2009 | Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics | Inspiration Information 3 |
| 2009 | Reigning Sound | Love and Curses |
| 2009 | Richard Hawley | Truelove's Gutter |
| 2009 | Spider Bags | Goodbye Cruel World, Hello Crueler World |
| 2009 | Summer Hymns | A Celebratory Arm Gesture |
| 2010 | Deerhunter | Halcyon Digest |
| 2010 | Gil Scott-Heron | I'm New Here |
| 2010 | Gunn - Truscinski Duo | Sand City |
| 2010 | Last Year's Men | Sunny Down Snuff |
| 2010 | LCD Soundsystem | This Is Happening |
| 2010 | MGMT | Congratulations |
| 2010 | Neil Young | Le Noise |
| 2010 | The Parting Gifts | Strychnine Dandelions |
| 2010 | Sharon Van Etten | Epic |
| 2010 | The Strange Boys | Be Brave |
| 2010 | Superchunk | Majesty Shredding |
| 2010 | Swans | My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky |
| 2010 | Vampire Weekend | Contra |
| 2010 | The Walkmen | Lisbon |
| 2011 | Bonnie "Prince" Billy | Wolfroy Goes to Town |
| 2011 | Cave | Neverendless |
| 2011 | Destroyer | Kaputt |
| 2011 | The Feelies | Here Before |
| 2011 | Grandaddy | The Sophtware Slump |
| 2011 | Kurt Vile | Smoke Ring For My Halo |
| 2011 | Les Rallizes Denudes | Heavier Than A Death In The Family |
| 2011 | Psychic Ills | Hazed Dream |
| 2011 | Reigning Sound | Abdication... For Your Love |
| 2011 | Ty Segall | Goodbye Bread |
| 2011 | The War On Drugs | Slave Ambient |
| 2011 | White Fence | Is Growing Faith |
| 2011 | The Wooden Birds | Two Matchsticks |
| 2011 | 200 Years | 200 Years |
| 2011 | EMA | Past Life Martyred Saints |
| 2011 | The Ettes | Wicked Will |
| 2012 | Allah-Las | Allah-Las |
| 2012 | Deep Time | Deep Time |
| 2012 | Divine Fits | A Thing Called Divine Fits |
| 2012 | The Fresh & Onlys | Long Slow Dance |
| 2012 | Greg Ashley | Death of a Ladies Man |
| 2012 | Gunn - Truscinski Duo | Ocean Parkway |
| 2012 | Kendrick Lamar | good kid, m.A.A.d. city |
| 2012 | Land Observations | Roman Roads IV-XI |
| 2012 | Lotus Plaza | Spooky Action At a Distance |
| 2012 | Moon Duo | Circles |
| 2012 | Mount Carmel | Real Women |
| 2012 | Parquet Courts | Light Up Gold |
| 2012 | Spacin' | Deep Thuds |
| 2012 | Spider Bags | Shake My Head |
| 2012 | Ty Segall | Twins |
| 2012 | Ty Segall | Slaughterhouse |
| 2012 | Ty Segall & White Fence | Hair |
| 2012 | The Walkmen | Heaven |
| 2012 | Woods | Bend Beyond |
| 2013 | Bob Dylan | The Bootleg Series Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait |
| 2013 | Cate Le Bon | Mug Museum |
| 2013 | Colleen Green | Sock It To Me |
| 2013 | Courtney Barnett | The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas |
| 2013 | Dead Ghosts | Can't Get No |
| 2013 | Dick Diver | Calendar Days |
| 2013 | Foxygen | We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic |
| 2013 | Fuzz | Fuzz |
| 2013 | Grant Hart | The Argument |
| 2013 | Harold Budd | Wind In Lonely Fences 1970 - 2011 |
| 2013 | Jason Isbell | Southeastern |
| 2013 | Johnny Cash | American IV: The Man Comes Around |
| 2013 | Kurt Vile | Wakin On a Pretty Daze |
| 2013 | L. Pierre | The Island Come True |
| 2013 | The Mavericks | In Time |
| 2013 | Mikal Cronin | MCII |
| 2013 | My Bloody Valentine | m b v |
| 2013 | Nick Cave | Push the Sky Away |
| 2013 | Oblivians | Desperation |
| 2013 | Phosphorescent | Muchacho |
| 2013 | Psychic Ills | One Track Mind |
| 2013 | Purling Hiss | Water on Mars |
| 2013 | Shannon and The Clams | Dreams in the Rat House |
| 2013 | Steve Gunn | Time Off |
| 2013 | Vampire Weekend | Modern Vampires Of The City |
| 2013 | Waxahatchee | Cerulean Salt |
| 2013 | Wooden Shjips | Back to Land |
| 2014 | Amen Dunes | Love |
| 2014 | Battle Trance | Blade of Love |
| 2014 | Chad VanGaalen | Shrink Dust |
| 2014 | Elisa Ambrogio | The Immoralist |
| 2014 | Ex Hex | Rips |
| 2014 | Goat | Commune |
| 2014 | The John Lurie National Orchestra | The Invention of Animals |
| 2014 | New Bums | Voices In a Rented Room |
| 2014 | Reigning Sound | Shattered |
| 2014 | Sleaford Mods | Divide and Exit |
| 2014 | Steve Gunn | Way Out Weather |
| 2014 | Sturgill Simpson | Metamodern Sounds in Country Music |
| 2014 | Ty Segall | Manipulator |
| 2014 | Ultimate Painting | Ultimate Painting |
| 2014 | Wand | Ganglion Reef |
| 2014 | The War On Drugs | Lost In The Dream |
| 2015 | Aye Aye | Aye Aye |
| 2015 | Benoit Pioulard | Sonnet |
| 2015 | Bop English | Constant Bop |
| 2015 | Destroyer | Poison Season |
| 2015 | Downtown Boys | Full Communism |
| 2015 | Kendrick Lamar | To Pimp a Butterfly |
| 2015 | Kurt Vile | B'lieve I'm Goin Down... |
| 2015 | Mac McCaughan | Non-Believers |
| 2015 | Nap Eyes | Whine of the Mystic |
| 2015 | Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas | Automaginary |
| 2015 | Salad Boys | Metalmania |
| 2015 | Sannhet | Revisionist |
| 2015 | Shannon And The Clams | Gone by the Dawn |
| 2015 | Sleaford Mods | Key Markets |
| 2015 | Sleater-Kinney | No Cities To Love |
| 2015 | Sweet Spirit | Cokomo |
| 2015 | Tame Impala | Currents |
| 2015 | Ultimate Painting | Green Lanes |
| 2015 | Vince Staples | Summertime '06 |
| 2015 | Shamir | Ratchet |
| 2015 | Shye Ben-Tzur, Jonny Greenwood & The Rajasthan Express | Junun |
| 2016 | Angel Olsen | My Woman |
| 2016 | Cate Le Bon | Crab Day |
| 2016 | The Comet Is Coming | Channel the Spirits |
| 2016 | A Giant Dog | Pile |
| 2016 | Heron Oblivion | Heron Oblivion |
| 2016 | Horse Lords | Interventions |
| 2016 | Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith | EARS |
| 2016 | KAYTRANADA | 99.90% |
| 2016 | Kevin Morby | Singing Saw |
| 2016 | Kim Gordon | No Home Record |
| 2016 | Mitski | Puberty 2 |
| 2016 | Neil Michael Hagerty & The Howling Hex | Denver |
| 2016 | Nick Cave | Skeleton Tree |
| 2016 | Parquet Courts | Human Performance |
| 2016 | Psychic Ills | Inner Journey Out |
| 2016 | Ryley Walker | Golden Sings That Have Been Sung |
| 2016 | Steve Gunn | Eyes On The Lines |
| 2016 | Thalia Zedek | Eve |
| 2016 | Xenia Rubinos | Black Terry Cat |
| 2016 | Xylouris White | Black Peak |
| 2016 | Young Thug | JEFFERY |
| 2016 | 75 Dollar Bill | Wood / Metal / Plastic / Pattern / Rhythm / Rock |
| 2016 | Cool Ghouls | Animal Races |
| 2016 | Sun Ra | Singles: The Definitive 45s Collection 1952-1991 |
| 2017 | Alice Coltrane | World Spirituality Classics |
| 2017 | Annie Hart | Impossible Accomplice |
| 2017 | Bitchin Bajas | Bitchin Bajas |
| 2017 | The Clientele | Music for the Age of Miracles |
| 2017 | Destroyer | ken |
| 2017 | Endless Boogie | Vibe Killer |
| 2017 | The Feelies | In Between |
| 2017 | Greg Ashley | Pictures of Saint Paul Street |
| 2017 | Gunn - Truscinski Duo | Bay Head |
| 2017 | Kelly Lee Owens | Kelly Lee Owens |
| 2017 | Kendrick Lamar | DAMN. |
| 2017 | Kevin Morby | City Music |
| 2017 | LCD Soundsystem | american dream |
| 2017 | Marvin Pontiac | The Asylum Tapes |
| 2017 | OCS | Memory of a Cut Off Head |
| 2017 | Open Field | O.F. II |
| 2017 | Priests | Nothing Feels Natural |
| 2017 | Sleaford Mods | English Tapas |
| 2017 | The War on Drugs | A Deeper Understanding |
| 2017 | Waxahatchee | Out in the Storm |
| 2017 | Wooden Wand | Clipper Ship |
| 2018 | Alice Coltrane | Spiritual Eternal |
| 2018 | Amen Dunes | Freedom |
| 2018 | Cave | Allways |
| 2018 | Drinks | Hippo Lite |
| 2018 | Jeff Tweedy | WARM |
| 2018 | Joey Purp | Quarterthing |
| 2018 | Leikeli47 | Acrylic |
| 2018 | Low | Double Negative |
| 2018 | Makaya McCraven | Universal Beings |
| 2018 | No Age | Snares Like a Haircut |
| 2018 | Phosphorescent | C'est La Vie |
| 2018 | Pusha T | DAYTONA |
| 2018 | Salad Boys | This Is Glue |
| 2018 | Spiritualized | And Nothing Hurt |
| 2018 | Stephen Malkmus | Sparkle Hard |
| 2018 | Steve Gunn | The Unseen In Between |
| 2018 | Superchunk | What a Time to Be Alive |
| 2018 | Tim Rutili & Craig Ross | 10 Seconds To Collapse |
| 2018 | U.S. Girls | In a Poem Unlimited |
| 2018 | Vince Staples | FM! |
| 2018 | Yo La Tengo | There's a Riot Going On |
| 2018 | Meg Baird & Mary Lattimore | Ghost Forests |
| 2019 | Arthur Russell | Iowa Dream |
| 2019 | Bill Callahan | Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest |
| 2019 | Bill MacKay & Katinka Kleijn | STIR |
| 2019 | Cate Le Bon | Reward |
| 2019 | Freddie Gibbs & Madlib | Bandana |
| 2019 | The Hold Steady | Thrashing Thru The Passion |
| 2019 | Lana Del Rey | Norman Fucking Rockwell! |
| 2019 | Mdou Moctar | Ilana: The Creator |
| 2019 | Mike Krol | Power Chords |
| 2019 | Moon Duo | Stars Are the Light |
| 2019 | Nick Cave | Ghosteen |
| 2019 | Purple Mountains | Purple Mountains |
| 2019 | Thurston Moore | Spirit Counsel |
| 2019 | Vampire Weekend | Father Of The Bride |
| 2019 | Wilco | Ode to Joy |
| 2019 | A Winged Victory For The Sullen | The Undivided Five |
| 2019 | 75 Dollar Bill | I Was Real |
| 2019 | Thom Yorke | Anima |
| 2019 | Tyler, The Creator | IGOR |
| 2019 | Jake Xerxes Fussell | Out of Sight |
| 2019 | Modern Nature | How to Live |
| 2020 | Gil Scott-Heron & Makaya McCraven | We're New Again |
| 2020 | Sunwatchers | Oh Yeah? |
| 2020 | Melenas | Dias Raros |
| 2020 | Six Organs of Admittance | Companion Rises |
| 2020 | Perfume Genius | Set My Heart on Fire Immediately |
| 2020 | Rose City Band | Summerlong |
| 2020 | Coriky | Coriky |
| 2020 | Brigid Dawson and The Mothers Network | Ballet of Apes |
| 2020 | William Tyler | New Vanitas |
| 2020 | Sault | UNTITLED (Black Is) |
| 2020 | Stephen Malkmus | Traditional Techniques |
| 2020 | Terry Allen & the Panhandle Mystery Band | Just Like Moby Dick |
| 2020 | Ana Roxanne | Because of a Flower |
| 2020 | Nathan Salsburg | Landwerk |
| 2021 | Madlib | Sound Ancestors |
| 2021 | Yasmin Williams | Urban Driftwood |
| 2021 | Chuck Johnson | The Cinder Grove |
| 2021 | Wau Wau Collectif | Yaral Sa Doom |
| 2021 | Nick Cave & Warren Ellis | CARNAGE |
| 2021 | Katy Kirby | Cool Dry Place |
| 2021 | DJINN | Transmission |
| 2021 | Hailu Mergia | Tezeta |
| 2021 | Anna Fox Rochinski | Cherry |
| 2021 | Claire Rousay | a softer focus |
| 2021 | Dean Wareham | I Have Nothing to Say to the Mayor of LA |
| 2021 | La Luz | La Luz |
| 2021 | Leanne Betasamohsake Simpson | Theory of Ice |
| 2021 | Low | Hey What |
| 2021 | Mary Lattimore | Collected Pieces: 2015-2020 |
| 2021 | Tim Cohen | You Are Still Here |
| 2021 | Tonstartssbandht | Petunia |
| 2022 | Animal Collective | Time Skiffs |
| 2022 | Beach House | Once Twice Melody |
| 2022 | Hurray for the Riff Raff | Life on Earth |
| 2022 | Modern Nature | Island Of Noise |
| 2022 | Aldous Harding | Warm Chris |
| 2022 | Pusha T | It’s Almost Dry |
| 2022 | Cate Le Bon | Pompeii |
| 2022 | The Smile | A Light for Attracting Attention |
| 2022 | Spiritualized | Everything Was Beautiful |
| 2022 | Perfume Genius | Ugly Season |
| 2022 | Panda Bear & Sonic Boom | Reset |
| 2022 | Nina Nastasia | Riderless Horse |
| 2022 | Oren Ambarchi | Shebang |
| 2022 | Horse Lords | Comradely Objects |
| 2022 | Lucrecia Dalt | ¡Ay! |
| 2022 | Mabe Fratti | Se Ve Desde Aquí |
| 2022 | Anteloper | Pink Dolphins |
| 2022 | Wasted Cathedral | Retreat Into Fantasy/Soundtracks |
| 2022 | London Odense Ensemble | Jaiyede Sessions Vol. 1 |
| 2023 | Yo La Tengo | This Stupid World |
| 2023 | Purling Hiss | Drag On Girard |
| 2023 | Rose City Band | Garden Party |
| 2023 | Natural Information Society | Since Time Is Gravity |
| 2023 | Billy Woods & Kenny Segal | Maps |
| 2023 | Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru | Jerusalem |
| 2023 | Blue Lake | Sun Arcs |
| 2023 | Arthur Russell | Picture of Bunny Rabbit |
| 2023 | Lonnie Holley | Oh Me Oh My |
| 2023 | Califone | Villagers |
| 2023 | Kali Malone | Does Spring Hide Its Joy |
| 2023 | Gunn Truscinski Nace | Glass Band |
| 2023 | Jaimie Branch | Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) |
| 2023 | Animal Collective | Isn’t It Now? |
| 2023 | Woods | Perennial |
| 2023 | Melenas | Ahora |
| 2023 | American Analog Set | For Forever |
| 2023 | Mary Lattimore | Goodbye, Hotel Arkada |
| 2023 | Laurel Halo | Atlas |
| 2023 | Titanic | Vidrio |
| 2023 | Hotline TNT | Cartwheel |
| 2023 | Lael Neale | Star Eaters Delight |
| 2023 | Jonathan Rado | For Who The Bell Tolls For |
| 2023 | Scott McMicken and THE EVER-EXPANDING | Shabang |
| 2024 | The Smile | Wall Of Eyes |
| 2024 | Mary Timony | Untame the Tiger |
| 2024 | Hurray For The Riff Raff | The Past is Still Alive |
| 2024 | The Hypos | The Hypos |
| 2024 | Kim Gordon | The Collective |
| 2024 | The Messthetics | The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis |