Favorite Albums by Decade

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1950s

  1. Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
  2. The David Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
  3. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
  4. John Coltrane - Blue Train

1960s

  1. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
  2. The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
  3. Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
  4. Antonio Carlos Jobim - Wave
  5. Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
  6. Sonny Shamrock - Black Woman

1970s

  1. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
  2. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
  3. Iggy Pop & The Stooges - Raw Power
  4. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
  5. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
  6. Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians
  7. Television - Marquee Moon
  8. Joni Mitchell - Blue
  9. Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine
  10. Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports
  11. Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food
  12. Peter Jolly - Seasons

1980s

  1. The Smiths - Queen Is Dead
  2. The Replacements - Let It Be
  3. Joy Division - Closer
  4. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
  5. NWA - Straight Outta Compton
  6. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
  7. Hiroshi Sato - Awakening
  8. The Smiths - The Smiths
  9. Talking Heads - Remain in Light
  10. New Order - Brotherhood
  11. My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
  12. New Order - Technique
  13. New Order - Low-Life
  14. New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
  15. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
  16. The Cure - Disintegration
  17. Slowdive - Souvlaki
  18. Galaxie 500 - Today
  19. Lewis - L'Amour

1990s

  1. Radiohead - OK Computer
  2. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
  3. Weezer - Weezer (Blue Album)
  4. Cat Power - Moon Pix
  5. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
  6. American Football - Never Meant
  7. Nirvana - Nevermind
  8. Weezer - Pinkerton
  9. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
  10. The Jesus Lizard - Goat
  11. Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?

2000s

  1. Radiohead - Kid A
  2. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
  3. Smog - A River Ain't Too Much To Love
  4. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
  5. Sigur Ros - ( )
  6. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
  7. Burial - Untrue
  8. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
  9. Radiohead - In Rainbows
  10. Radiohead - Amnesiac
  11. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
  12. Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline
  13. Susumu Yokota - Sakura
  14. Bjork - Vespertine
  15. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
  16. Joanna Newsom - Ys
  17. Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
  18. Algernon Cadwallader - Some Kind Of Cadwallader
  19. Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Contd.
  20. American Analog Set - Know By Heart
  21. The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
  22. The Microphones - The Glow, Pt.2
  23. Death Cab For Cutie - We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes
  24. Stereolab - Margerine Eclipse
  25. The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
  26. Converge - Jane Doe/You Fail Me?
  27. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
  28. Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
  29. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
  30. Sonic Youth - Murray St.

2010s

  1. Frank Ocean - Blonde
  2. Kanye West - Yeezus
  3. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
  4. Destroyer - Kaputt
  5. D'Angelo - Black Messiah
  6. Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
  7. Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book
  8. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
  9. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me
  10. Bjork - Vulnicura
  11. Drake - Take Care
  12. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
  13. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
  14. Cloud Nothings - Here And Nowhere Else
  15. Grouper - Alien Observer/Dream Loss
  16. Real Estate - Days
  17. Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
  18. SOPHIE - OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES