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Album Recommendations

Greetings! Here are some albums I really, really enjoy vaguely catagorized by genres. Feel free to hop on to the all time favs page to check out some of my absolute favorites. Note that I want to avoid some household-name-level classics that everybody knows and loves like the Beatles, MJ，Purple Rain, etc., since this serves as a list of recommendations. Albums in each decade / genre are in alphabetical order.

Rock

60s

I can’t really give any insightful recommendations here, my favorites are just the absolute classics like The Beatles, Bob Dylan, In the Court of the Crimson King, The Velvet Underground, Jimi Hendrix, etc.

70s

• Can - Ege Bamyasi
• Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
• Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
• Pink Floyd - Animals / Meddle

80s

• Prince & Michael Jackson
• The Replacements - Let It Be
• Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden

90s

• Belle & Sebastian - If You’re Feeling Sinister
• My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
• Nirvana - Nevermind / In Utero / MTV Unplugged
• Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain / Wowee Zowee
• Silver Jews - American Water
• Sonic Youth - Sister

00s

• Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel…
• Andrew Bird - Weather Systems
• The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
• Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
• Carsick Cars - Carsick Cars
• Deerhunter - Cryptograms
• Panda Bear - Person Pitch
• Elliott Smith - Figure 8
• The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
• Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
• Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
• Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
• 五条人 - 县城记
• 张楚 - 孤独的人是可耻的

10s

• Arcade Fire - The Suburbs / Reflektor
• Atoms for Peace - AMOK
• Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit / Tell Me How You Really Feel
• Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
• black midi - Schlagenheim
• Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
• Bon Iver - Bon Iver / 22, A Million
• Cage the Elephant - Melophobia
• 草东没有派对 - 丑奴儿
• Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up
• Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
• Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
• My Bloody Valentine - m b v
• Angel Olsen - All Mirrors
• Radiohead - The King of Limbs / Supercollider & The Butcher (singles) / A Moon Shaped Pool
• Jeff Rosenstock - WORRY.
• 宋东野 - 安和桥北
• Swans - To Be Kind
• U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited
• 五条人 - 广东姑娘

20s

• Black Country, New Road - For the first time / Ants From Up There

Electronic

• Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
• Jamie xx - In Colours

Pop/R&B

• Camila Cabello - Familia
• Ariana Grande - My Everything
• SZA - CTRL
• Kali Uchis - Isolation
• The Weeknd - Beauty Behind the Madness
• Amy Winehouse - Back to Black

Rap

• Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
• Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
• Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
• Death Grips - The Money Store
• Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered.
• Nas - Illmatic
• Isaiah Rashad - The Sun’s Tirade
• Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
• Travis Scott - Rodeo
• Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
• Earl Sweatshirt - Doris / I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside
• A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
• Tyler, the Creator - Flower Boy
• Kanye West - Complete discography (maybe except 808s and Heartbreaks)

Jazz

• John Coltrane - Blue Train / Giant Steps / A Love Supreme
• Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
• Stan Getz - Getz/Giberto
• Ahmad Jamal Trio - The Awakening
• Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
• Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
• Kamasi Washington - The Epic / Harmony of Difference