Music: What are your top dozen albums in the last half century?

[Say Hey Kid]

What are your top dozen albums in the last half century? In no order I'll take:

Pearl Jam - Ten
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Radiohead - Kid A
Pixies - Doolittle
The Cure - Disintegration
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
Prince - Purple Rain
The Clash - London Calling
Nirvana - Nevermind
Radiohead - OK Computer

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[Teemu]

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea
Gram Parsons – Grevious Angel
Nirvana - Nevermind
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Nirvana - In Utero
Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Television - Marquee Moon
Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

 

[WetcoastOrca]

Wow! Just realized that many of my top choices are now more than 50 years old so I cheated a bit and included any that were close. Can’t narrow it down any further as depends on my mood:
Neil Young: After the Goldrush/ On the Beach
Eagles: Hotel California
Amy Winehouse: Back to Black
Dylan: Blood on the Tracks
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: Déjà Vu
George Harrison: All Things Must Pass
Fleetwood Mac: Rumours
Pink Floyd: Dark Side/Wish You Were Here
Supertramp: Crime of the Century
Van Morrison: Astral Weeks

 

[Saturated Fats]

BOGIE! Too many of these!!

 

[kihei]

BOGIE! Too many of these!!

I think they are fun. And they make me reconsider some long-held assumptions.

 

[kihei]

Baker's Dozen

Loveless--My Bloody Valentine--1991
Blackstar--David Bowie--2016
A Moon-Shaped Pool--Radiohead--2016
Reckoning--REM--1984
London Calling--The Clash--1979
In Rainbows--Radiohead--2007
Laughing Stock--Talk Talk--1991
Love Rust--Neil Toung--1978
Kid "A"--Radiohead--1997
Exodus--Bob Marley--1977
In the Falling Dark--Bruce Cockburn--1976
Roseland NYC live--Portishead 1998
Music for Airports--Brian Eno--1978

HM: Animals, Pink Floyd: Sailing, Rod Stewart; Houses of the Holy, Led Zeppelin

 

[Shareefruck]

1. Here Come the Warm Jets by Brian Eno
2. Rock Bottom by Robert Wyatt
3. Spirit of Eden by Talk Talk
4. Metal Box by Public Image Ltd.
5. Future Days by Can
6. Closer by Joy Division
7. Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
8. Konigsforst by Gas
9. Interstellar Space by John Coltrane
10. Fourth World 1: Possible Musics by Jon Hassell
11. Faust IV by Faust
12. Selected Ambient Works II by Aphex Twin

 

[Hippasus]

Brian Eno/Laraaji: Ambient 1-4
Darkthrone: A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Discharge: Realities of War
Bad Brains: Bad Brains
Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Burzum: Burzum
Incantation: Onward to Golgotha
Hellhammer: Satanic Rites
Summoning: Stronghold

 

[Skip Bayless]

John Mayer - Continuum
John Mayer - Born and Raised
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Daft Punk - Discovery
Justice - Cross
Todd Terje - It's album time...
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the head
The Verve - Urban Hymns
Bon Iver - Bon Iver
Tame Impala - Currents
Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

1974 and later...

Mr. Bungle – Disco Volante (1995)
Dreamies – Auralgraphic Entertainment (1974)
Fantômas – The Director's Cut (2000)
Serge Gainsbourg – L'homme à tête de chou (1976)
John Frusciante - Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt (1994)
The Residents – Meet the Residents (1974)
John Zorn – Locus Solus (1983)
The Books – Thought for Food (2002)
Annie Gosfield – Burnt Ivory and Loose Wires (1998)
Sun Ra Arkestra – Swirling (2020)
Secret Chiefs 3 – First Constitution And Bylaws (1996)
Igorrr – Hallelujah (2012)

 

[Stylizer1]

Illmatic
Thriller

And nothing else matters.

1974 and later...

Mr. Bungle – Disco Volante (1995)
Dreamies – Auralgraphic Entertainment (1974)
Fantômas – The Director's Cut (2000)
Serge Gainsbourg – L'homme à tête de chou (1976)
John Frusciante - Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt (1994)
The Residents – Meet the Residents (1974)
John Zorn – Locus Solus (1983)
The Books – Thought for Food (2002)
Annie Gosfield – Burnt Ivory and Loose Wires (1998)
Sun Ra Arkestra – Swirling (2020)
Secret Chiefs 3 – First Constitution And Bylaws (1996)
Igorrr – Hallelujah (2012)

 

[The Marquis]

Not in any particular order:

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peepshow
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Sonic Youth - Dirty
Roxy Music - Avalon
Bjork - Homogenic
American Football - American Football
Slint - Spiderland
Lowercase - The Going Away Present
Various Artists (Angelo Badalamenti) - Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Soundtrack)
Savages - Silence Yourself
The Black Heart Procession - 1
KARP - Self Titled LP

 

[Say Hey Kid]

I edited my list in the OP. In no order I'll take: @kihei

Pearl Jam - Ten
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Radiohead - Kid A
Pixies - Doolittle
The Cure - Disintegration
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
Prince - Purple Rain
The Clash - London Calling
Nirvana - Nevermind
Radiohead - OK Computer

 

[Gordon Lightfoot]

The Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk at Cubist Castle
Life Without Buildings - Any Other City
Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix
The Dentists - Dressed
Belle and Sebastian - If You’re Feeling Sinister
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Public Image Ltd - Second Edition
Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly
Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour

Followed a one release per artist rule. Hard to choose between the two main OTC albums and five Fall albums.

 

[Unholy Diver]

Traveling Wilburys - Vol 1
George Harrison - Cloud 9
Dio - Killing the Dragon
Donnie Iris - Back on the Streets
Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
AC/DC - Stiff Upper Lip
Tenacious D - The Pick of Destiny
Mark Knopfler - Shangri-La
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Spinal Tap - Break Like the Wind
Warren Zevon - Life'll Kill Ya
ZZ Top - Eliminator

 

[The Marquis]

The Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk at Cubist Castle
Life Without Buildings - Any Other City
Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix
The Dentists - Dressed
Belle and Sebastian - If You’re Feeling Sinister
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Public Image Ltd - Second Edition
Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly
Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour

Followed a one release per artist rule. Hard to choose between the two main OTC albums and five Fall albums.

Unwound is so fantastic and underrated. Glad to see them on here. Going to throw that record on right now.

 

[Gordon Lightfoot]

Unwound is so fantastic and underrated. Glad to see them on here. Going to throw that record on right now.

Agreed, special band.

 

[Howe Elbows 9]

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Patti Smith - Horses
The Clash - London Calling
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Pixies - Doolittle
Nirvana - In Utero
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Tool - Ænima
Radiohead - OK Computer
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
The National - Boxer

Edit: Replacing Slint with The Mars Volta.