NORTH-AMERICA/ USA
1955
Julie London – Julie Is Her Name (vocal jazz)
1958
Chuck Berry – After School Session (rock’n’roll)
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – At Home With Screamin’ Jay Hawkins (r&b)
1959
Hank Thompson – Songs For Rounders (western swing, honky tonk)
1960
Joan Baez – Joan Baez (contemporary folk)
1961
Judy Garland – Judy At Carnegia Hall (vocal pop, jazz)
1963
Phil Spector – A Christmas Gift For You (pop)
Lively Ones – Surf City (intro-surf)
Sandy Bull – Fantasias For Guitar and Banjo (american primitivism, free-impro)
James Brown – Live At The Apollo (ryhthm’n’blues, soul) nota: live del 1962
1965
Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited (folk-rock)
Sonics – Here Are The Sonics (garage-rock)
Nina Simone – Pastel Blues (vocal-jazz, blues)
1966
Beach Boys – Pet Sounds (pop)
Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde (folk-rock)
Frank Zappa – Freak Out! (rock? psych)
Simon & Garfunkel – Sounds of Silence (folk-rock-pop)
Jean & Dean – Save For A Rainy Day (sunshine pop, psych)
Monks – Black Monk Time (Garage-rock) note: formati in Germania
13th Floor Elevators – The Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators (psych rock, garage rock)
Fred Neil – Fred Neil (folk rock, psych-folk)
1967
Byrds – Younger Than Yesterday (folk rock, psych-rock)
Leonard Cohen – Songs Of Leonard Cohen (songwriter, contemporary folk)
Doors – Doors (psych)
Jimi Hendrix – Are You Experienced? (psych-rock)
Jefferson Airplane – After Bathing At Baxter’s (psych-rock)
Love – Forever Changes (psych-pop, psych-rock, baroque-pop)
Red Crayola – The Parable of Arable Land (psych-rock)
Velvet Underground – Velvet Underground and Nico (Psych-rock)
Beach Boys – Smile (psych-pop)
Frank Zappa – Absolutely Free (avant-rock)
Burt Bacharach – Reach Out (Baroque Pop)
Doors – Strange Days (Psych-rock)
Buffalo Springfield – Buffalo Springfield Again (folk-rock, psych-rock)
Aretha Franklin – I Never Loved a Man The Way I Love You (soul)
1968
Band – Music From Big Pink (folk-rock, country-folk)
Tim Buckley – Happy Sad (psych-folk, folk)
Jimi Hendrix – Electric Ladyland (psych-rock)
Laura Nyro – Eli and The Thirteenth Confession (Pop Soul)
United States of America – Usa (psych-rock)
Velvet Underground – White Light/ White Heat (psych-rock)
Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison (country)
Wendy Carlos – Switched-On Bach (progressive electronic)
Silver Apples – Silver Apples (psych-rock-electronic)
Pearls Before Swine – Balaklava (psych-folk)
Kim Fowley – Outrageous (psych-rock, garage-rock)
Kaleidoscope – A Beacon From Mars (psych rock, folk rock)
The Millennium – Begin (Sunshine-pop, Psych-pop)
Blue Cheer – Vincebus Eruptum (Heavy-psych, Acid rock, blues-rock)
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Nancy & Lee (baroque pop)
1969
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica (blues-rock)
The Grateful Dead – Live/Dead (live, psichedelic rock, jam)
Jefferson Airplane – Volunteers (psych-rock)
MC5 – Kick Out The Jams (garage-rock, hard rock, proto-punk)
Stooges – The Stooges (garage rock, proto-punk)
Frank Zappa – Hot Rats (jazz-rock, fusion)
Isaac Hayes – Hot Buttered Soul (soul, funk, psichedelia)
Quicksilver Messenger Service – Happy Trails (live- nota: 1968, acid rock, psych-rock, jam)
Buffy Sainte-Marie – Illuminations (psych-folk)
Terry Riley – A Rainbow In Curved Air (minimalismo)
Townes Van Zandt - Townes Van Zandt (progressive country)
1970
Tim Buckley – Starsailor (psych-rock)
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Cosmo’s Factory (southern-rock)
Spirit – Twelwe Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus (psych-rock)
Stooges – Fun House (proto-punk, hard-rock)
Neil Young – After The Gold Rush (country-rock) / nota: Canada
Last Poets – The Last Poets (black poetry)
Judee Sill – Judee Sill (folk-baroque)
Linda Perhacs – Parallelograms (psych-folk)
Crosby, Still, Nash & Young – Dejà vu (folk-rock)
Santana – Abraxas (latin-rock, fusion, psych-blues-rock)
1971
Allman Brothers – The Fillmore Concerts (southern rock, live)
David Crosby – If I Could Only Remember My Name (country-rock)
John Fahey – America (American primitivism)
Janis Joplin – Pearl (blues-rock)
Carole King – Tapestry (soft-rock songwriting)
Joni Mitchell – Blue (folk contemporaneo, songwriting, Canada)
Bruce Palmer – The Cycle Is Complete (psych, Canada)
Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On (soul, smooth soul and philly soul)
Sly & The Family Stone – There’s A Riot Goin’ On (psych soul funk)
Funkadelic – Maggot Brain (p-funk, psych)
Gil Scott-Heron – Pieces Of A Man (funk-soul, spoken world)
Isaac Hayes – Black Moses (smooth soul)
1972
Lou Reed – Transformer (glam-rock)
Todd Rundgren – Something/ Anything?
Neil Young – Harvest (country-rock)
Big Star - #1 Record (power-pop)
Anette Peacock – I’m The One (jazz-rock)
Curtis Mayfield – Superfly (soul, funk)
Bobby Womack & J.J. Johnson – Across 110th Street (blk soundtrack, blax soul)
Terry Callier – What Colour Is Love (soul)
Stevie Wonder – Talking Book (soul)
1973
John Fahey – Fare Forward Voyagers (american primitivism)
Lou Reed – Berlin (glam-writer)
New York Dolls – New York Dolls (proto-punk glam)
Lynyrd Skynyrd - (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd) (southern rock)
Herbie Hancock – Head Hunters (jazz-funk, fusion)
1974
Jackson Browne – Late For The Sky
Residents – Meet the Residents (avant)
Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic (soft-pop)
Sparks – Kimono My House (glam)
Willie Nelson – Phases and Stages (outlaw country)
Chicago – Chicago VII (jazz-rock)
1975
Bob Dylan – Blood On The Tracks (contemporary folk)
Patti Smith – Horses (proto-punk wave)
Neil Young – Tonight’s The Night (country-rock folk)
Tubes – The Tubes (glam-prog)
Parliament – Mothership Connection (funk, r&b)
1976
Eagles – Hotel California (country-pop)
Flamin Groovies – Shake Some Action (power-pop, garage revival)
Kansas – Leftoverture (prog-arena rock)
Boston – Boston (hard-arena rock)
Runaways – The Runaways (hard-glam proto-punk)
1977
Jon Hassell – Vernal Equinox (fourth)
Richard Hell & The Voidoids – Blank Generation (art-punk, punk-blues)
Ramones – Rocket to Russia (punk!)
Suicide – Suicide (no wave)
Television – Marquee Moon (new wave)
Fleetwood Mac – Rumours (pop, soft-rock)
Iggy Pop – The Idiot (new wave songwriter)
Dead Boys – Young, Loud and Snotty (punk!)
Billy Joel – The Stranger (piano-rock)
Styx – The Grand Illusion (arena hard rock, prog-rock)
Steely Dan – Aja (soft-rock/ jazz-pop)
AA. VV - The Original Movie Sound Track: Saturday Night Fever (disco soundtrack)
1978
AA. VV – No New York (no wave)
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo (new wave, post-punk)
Pere Ubu – The Modern Dance (new wave, post-punk)
Residents – Not Available (avant-wave)
Van Halen – Van Halen (hard-rock)
Blondie – Parallel Lines (new wave, disco-pop)
Steve Reich – Music For 18 Musicians (minimalismo)
Harold Budd – The Pavillon Of Dreams (ambient, post-minimalismo)
Chic – C’est Chic (disco)
Talking Heads – More Songs About Buildings And Food (new wave, post-punk, funk)
1979
Chrome – Half Machine Lip Moves (new wave, industrial-art)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Rust Never Sleeps (country-rock)
Germs – (GI) (Hardcore)
Philip Glass Ensemble – Einstein On The Beach (avant-minimalismo)
1980
Cramps – Songs The Lord Taught Us (voodobilly, psichobilly)
Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (hardcore)
Feelies – Crazy Rhythms (new wave)
Gun Club – Fire Of Love (blues-punk)
½ Japanese – ½ Gentlemen/ Not Beasts (avant-no wave-noise)
MX-80 Sound – Out Of Tunnel (art-punk, new wave)
Bruce Springsteen – The River (songwriter, heartland)
Talking Heads – Remain In Light (new wave)
Tuxedomoon – Half-Mute (new wave)
Laurie Spiegel – The Expanding Universe (progressive elettronica)
X – Los Angeles (hardcore, beach-punk)
Barbra Streisand – Guilty (soft-rock disco)
1981
Black Flag – Damaged (hardcore)
Glenn Branca – The Ascension (no wave, avantgarde, minimalismo)
Lounge Lizards – The Lounge Lizards (no wave avant-jazz, post-bop)
Tuxedomoon – Desire (new wave)
John Carpenter & Alan Howarth – Escape From New York (soundtrack, horror synth)
Rick James – Street Songs (synth-funk, r&b contemporaneo)
Rush – Moving Pictures (prog-hard rock, arena rock, new wave, CANADA)
1982
Christian Death – Only Theatre Of Pain (gothic-punk)
Donald Fagen – The Nightfly (jazz-pop)
Laurie Anderson – Big Science (avant-pop)
Flipper – Album: Generic Album (noise-punk)
Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska (americanana)
Savage Republic – Tragic Figures (post-punk industrial tribal)
Mission Of Burma – Vs (punk-hardcore)
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five – The Message (hip-hop, disco funky)
Suzanne Ciani – Seves Waves (progressive elettronica, new age)
Toto – Toto IV (arena rock, yacht rock)
Michael Jackson – Thriller (pop, synth-funk)
John Cale – Music For A New Society (art rock)
Fear – The Record (hardcore)
Vangelis – Blade Runner (film score, progressive elettronica)
1983
REM – Murmur (college-rock)
Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes (folk-punk)
Tom Waits – Swordfishtrombones (songwriting)
Cyndi Lauper – She’s So Unusual (synth-pop, new wave)
Pointer Sisters – Break Out (dance-pop, contemporary r&b)
1984
Dream Syndicate – Medicine Show (paisley underground)
Husker Du – Zen Arcade (hardcore)
Minutemen – Double Nickels On The Dime (alt-americana)
Cars – Heartbeat City (synth-pop-rock)
Replacements – Let It Be (hardcore-pop)
1985
Butthole Surfers – Psychic...Powerless… Another Mac’s Sac (noise-rock)
Suzanne Vega – Suzanne Vega (songwriter, folk-rock)
Ry Cooder – Paris, Texas (country-folk soundtrack)
Sonic Youth – Bad Moon Rising (noise-rock)
Emmylou Harris - The Ballad Of Sally Rose (progressive-country)
1986
Big Black – Atomizer (post-hc, noise, industrial)
Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force Planet Rock: The Album (old school rap, electro-funk)
Metallica – Master of Puppets (heavy-metal, trash metal)
Stan Ridgway – The Big Heat (new wave songwriting)
Prince and the Revolution – Parade (synth-funk)
Paul Simon – Graceland (world-fusion)
Beastie Boys – Licensed To Ill (rap-rock)
Run DMC – Raising Hell (hip-hop)
Slayer – Reign in Blood (trash-metal)
1987
Blind Idiot God – Blind Idiot God (noise-rock)
Henry Rollins – Hot Animal Machine (hard-psych)
Swans – Children of God (gothic-rock)
Dinosaur Jr – You’re Living All Over Me (alt-noise-rock)
Eric B. & Rakim – Paid In Full (hip-hop)
Husker Du – Warehouse: Songs and Stories (alt-rock)
Prince – Sign O’ The Times (funk, soul, rnb, psych-pop)
Terence Trent D'Arby - Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby (soul, funk)
Guns N Roses – Appetite For Destruction (hard rock revival)
1988
Ministry – The Land Of Rape and Honey (industrial)
Pixies – Surfer Rosa (indie-rock)
Red Temple Spirits – Dancing To Restore An Eclipsed Moon (gothic-psychedelia)
Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation (noise-rock)
American Music Club – California (slowcore, folk-rock)
Steve Roach – Dreamtime Return (ambient)
Public Enemy – It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back (hip-hop)
NWA – Straight Outta Compton (gangsta rap)
Ultramagnetic Mc’s – Critical Beatdown (hip-hop)
EPMD – Strictly Business (hip-hop)
Beat Happening – Jamboree (twee pop, indie)
Tracy Chapman – Tracy Chapman (folk-blues)
Jane’s Addiction – Nothing’s Shocking (alternative rock, hard rock)
Voivod – Dimension Hatross (technical-progressive trash-metal, canada)
1989
Bitch Magnet – Umber (hardcore, post-hardcore)
Galaxie 500 – On Fire (dream pop, slowcore)
Tom Petty – Full Moon Fever (heartland songwriting)
Bad Religion – No Control (melodic hardcore)
De La Soul – 3 Feet High And Rising (alt-rap, psychedelic rap)
Julee Cruise – Floating Into The Night (dream pop, dark-jazz)
Flaming Lips - Telepathic Surgery (neo-psichedelia, noise-garage rock, indie rock)
John Zorn - Naked City (avant-jazz grindcore)
1990
Fugazi – Repeater (hardcore)
Royal Trux – Twin Infinitives (noise)
Angelo Badalamenti – Soundtrack from Twin Peaks (dark-jazz)
Codeine – Frigid Stars Lp (slowcore)
Megadeth – Rust In Peace (trash metal)
Mother Love Bone – Apple (glam-hard-rock revival, proto grunge)
1991
A Tribe Called Quest – The Low End Theory (hip hop jazz)
Jesus Lizard – Goat (noise-rock)
Nirvana – Nevermind (grunge)
Pearl Jam – Ten (grunge)
Slint – Spiderland (post-rock)
Type O Negative – Slow, Deep And Hard (trash-gothic metal)
Unsane – Unsane (noise-rock)
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magic (funk-rock, alt-rock)
Temple Of The Dog – Temple Of The Dog (proto-grunge)
Atheist – Unquestionable Presence (technical jazz caos metal)
Dowbowl – Cyclops Nuclear Submarine Captain (psychedelic-pop, neo-psych)
Mercury Rev – Yerself Is Steam (neo-psychedelia, noise-pop)
1992
Kyuss – Blues For The Red Sun (stoner-rock)
Red House Painters – Down Colorful Hill (slowcore)
Phish – A Picture Of Nectar (psychedelia jazz)
Babes in Toyland – Fontanelle (grunge)
Rage Against The Machine – Rage Against The Machine (crossover, rap-metal)
REM – Automatic For The People (americana pop-rock)
Dream Theater – Images and World (prog-metal)
Faith No More – Angel Dust (crossover, alternative metal)
Alice in Chains – Dirt (grunge)
1993
Vampire Rodents – Lullaby Land (industriale)
Mazzy Star – So Tonight That I Might See (psych-pop dream pop)
Cop Shoot Cop – Ask Questions Later (industrial)
Morphine – Cure For Pain (slowcore jazz)
Gastr Del Sol – The Serpentine Similar (post-rock)
Six Fingers Satellite – The Pigeon Is The Most Popular Bird (post-hardcore, noise)
Nirvana – In Utero (grunge)
Grant Lee Buffalo – Fuzzy (alt-country, americana)
Afghan Whigs – Gentlemen (grunge, soul, art-rock)
Bikini Kill – Pussy Whipped (riot grrrrl)
Death – Individual Thought Patterns (technical progressive metal)
Cynic – Focus (technical progressive metal)
The Breeders – Last Splash (alternative rock, slacker rock, indie pop-rock)
Counting Crows - August And Everything After (alternative rock, folk rock)
1994
Beck – Mellow Gold (lo-fi art rock hip hop)
Lisa Germano – Geek the Girl (slowcore singer)
Low – I Could Live in Hope (slowcore)
Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral (industrial rock)
Rodan – Rusty (post-hardcore)
Soundgarden – Superunknown (grunge)
Von Lmo – Cosmic Interception (space-post-punk)
Jeff Buckley – Grace (songwriting pop)
Jon Spencer Blues Explosions – Orange (garage blues)
Korn – Korn (nu metal, crossover)
Shellac – At Action Park (noise rock, post-hardcore)
Lambchop – I Hope You’re Sitting Down (alt-country)
Loreena McKennit – The Mask And Mirror (etno-folk, celtic, CANADA)
Tori Amos – Under The Pink (piano songwriting)
Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (lo-fi, slacker indie rock)
Black Crowes – Amorica (alt-country)
Weezer – Weezer (blue album) (indie-punk, power-pop)
NOFX – Punk in Drublic (pop-punk)
Nas – Illmatic (east coast hip hop)
Notorious B.I.G. – Ready to Die (east coast hip hop, gangsta rap)
1995
Hash Jar Tempo – Well Oiled (free psychedelic space rock)
Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie And Infinite Sadness (alternative rock)
Smog – Wild Love (indie rock)
Scott Walker – Tilt (experimental post-industrial songwriting)
Bardo Pond - Bufo alvarius, amen 29:15 (psichedelia rock)
Sparklehorse - Vivadixie submarine transmissionplot (slacker rock, indie)
Spain – The Blue Moods of Spain (slowcore, americana)
Blind Melon – Soup (alternative rock)
Fear Factory – Demanufacture (industrial metal, post-trash)
Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill (alt-rock, singer-songwriter, canadese)
Mad Season – Above (grunge, alternative rock)
1996
Black Tape For A Blue Girl – Remnants Of a Deeper Purity (gothic)
Labradford – Labradford (post-rock, elettronica)
Supreme Dicks – The Emotional Plague (psichedelia)
Tortoise – Millions Now Living Will Never Die (post-rock)
Rachel’s – The Sea and The Bells (modern classical, post-rock)
DJ Shadow – Endtroducing… (instrumental hip-hop)
Vic Chesnutt – About to Choke (alt-country, americana)
Lycia – Cold (darkwave)
Neurosis – Through Silver in Blood (Sludge metal)
Fiona Apple – Tidal (art-pop, jazz-pop, songwriter)
Romanthony – Romanthony (deep house, garage house, jersey sound)
Beck – Odelay (alternative-rock, slacker rock, neo-psychedelia, alt-country, country-folk)
Brainiac Hissing Prigs In Static Couture (synth-punk, art-rock)
1997
Built To Spill – Perfect From Now On (indie-rock, alt-rock)
Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One (alternative rock)
Ween – The Mollusk (alt-rock, neo-psychedelia)
Elliott Smith – Either/ Or (songwriter, indie-folk)
Erykah Badu – Baduizm (neo-soul)
Modest Mouse – The Lonesome Crowded West (indie-rock, slacker rock)
Sleater-Kinney – Dig Me Out (alternative rock, indie girl rock, punk)
Bran Van 3000 – Glee (alternative dance, alt hip-hop, Canada)
1998
Elvis Costello, Burt Bacharach – Painted From Memory (adult contemporary)
Mercury Rev – Deserter’s Songs (neo-psichedelia chamber-pop)
Calexico – The Black Light (americana, alt-country, tex-mex)
Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (indie-rock, indie-folk)
Eels – Electro-Shock Blues (indie-pop songwriter)
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (neo soul, east coast hip hop)
Don Caballero – What Burns Never Returns (avant-rock)
June of 44 – Four Great Points (post-rock)
Duster – Stratosphere (slowcore, slacker rock)
1999
Black Heart Procession – 2 (folk rock, indie rock)
Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs (indie pop)
Dillinger Escape Plan – Calculating Infinity (mathcore)
Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin (neo-psychedelia)
Moby – Play (ambient-pop, downtempo)
American Football – American Football (midwest emo)
Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile (industrial)
2000
For Carnation – For Carnation (slowcore, post-rock)
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (post-rock, Canada)
Karate – Unsolved (slowcore, jazz-rock)
Blonde Redhead - Melody Of Certain Damaged Lemons (art rock, noise pop, indie rock)
Bowery Electric – Lushlife (trip-hop, drone)
Deftones – White Pony (alternative metal)
Outkast – Stankonia (southern hip hop, r&b)
Masters At Work The Tenth Anniversary Collection Pt. One 1990-1995, Pt. Two 1996-2000 (garage house, funky house)
2001
Tool – Lateralus (alternative metal, progressive rock)
Unwound – Leaves Turn Inside You (noise-rock, indie-rock, post-rock)
Clouddead – Clouddead (abstract hip-hop)
Cannibal Ox – The Cold Vein (abstract & experimental hip hop)
Aaliyah – Aaliyah (contemporary r&b)
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (indie-rock)
System of a Down – Toxicity (alternative metal)
Jay-Z – The Blueprint (east coast hip hop)
Strokes – Is This It (garage rock revival, indie rock)
2002
Interpol – Turn On The Bright Lights (nu new wave)
William Basinski – The Disintegration Loop (tape music)
Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf (stoner rock, hard rock)
2003
Cat Power – You Are Free (songwriter, alt-rock, indie)
Death Cab For Cutie – Transatlanticism (indie-rock, indie pop)
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium (progressive rock, post-hardcore)
2004
AA.VV - DFA Compilation #2 (alternative dance, disco-punk)
Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat (progressive pop, alt-pop)
Arcade Fire – Funeral (indie rock, chamber pop, Canada)
Pinback – Summer in Abaddon (midwest emo indie)
Isis – Panopticon (post-metal)
Madvillain – Madvillainy (abstract hip hop)
Mastodon – Leviathan (Sludge, progressive metal)
Green Day – American Idiot (pop-punk-rock, che scelta pessima)
2005
Sufjan Stevens – Illinois (chamber-pop songwriting)
Dalek – Absence (hip-hop noise, industrual hip hop)
National – Alligator (indie rock, post punk revival)
Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (indie-folk)
Low – The Great Destroyer (slow-core, indie rock)
2006
Joanna Newsom – Ys (chamber-folk, progressive folk)
Midlake – The Trials Of Van Occupanther (folk rock, indie folk)
2007
Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago (indie-folk, alt-folk)
2009
Madonna – Celebration (dance-pop, compilation)
2010
Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (hip-hop)
Janelle Monae – The ArchAndroid (r’n’b, nu funk-soul)
2012
Beach House – Bloom (dream-pop)
Mark Lanegan Band – Blues Funeral (blues-rock, electro-rock)
Kendrick Lamar – Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (west coast hip hop)