While I clear my head for future posts, I figure it would be fun to put out some lists of my all-time favorite music, categorized by genre. This is, of course, highly subject to change. One item per artist. Some less-explored sub-genres not included, explaining the absence of all-time favorite works (Dead Can Dance or Death In June, for example).
Rock:
Rubber Soul - The Beatles
Seventeen Seconds - The Cure
Nevermind - Nirvana
Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
Red - King Crimson
Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing - Discharge
Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
Souvlaki - Slowdive
Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
Killing Joke - Killing Joke
Metal:
Hell Awaits - Slayer
Stormcrowfleet - Skepticism
Sad Wings Of Destiny - Judas Priest
Onward To Golgotha - Incantation
Pure Holocaust - Immortal
Kill 'Em All - Metallica
Altars Of Madness - Morbid Angel
De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas - Mayhem
Don't Break The Oath - Mercyful Fate
Awaken The Guardian - Fates Warning
Electronic:
So Red The Rose - Arcadia
Trans-Europe Express - Kraftwerk
Pretty Hate Machine - Nine Inch Nails
Music For The Masses - Depeche Mode
Electric Doom Synthesis - Beherit
Dummy - Portishead
Selected Ambient Works 85-92 - Aphex Twin
Evening Star - Fripp & Eno
Phaedra - Tangerine Dream
Frequencies - LFO
Classical:
The Well-Tempered Clavier (Andras Schiff) - Johann Sebastian Bach
Symphonie Nr. 5 (Carlos Kleiber) - Ludwig Van Beethoven
Nocturnes (Maurizio Pollini) - Frederic Chopin
12 Concerti Grossi Op. 6 (Neville Marriner) - Arcangelo Corelli
Symphonien No. 40 & 41 "Jupiter" (Leonard Bernstein) - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Prélude à L'après-Midi D'un Faune; Images; Printemps (Pierre Boulez) - Claude Debussy
Má Vlast (Antoni Wit) - Bedrich Smetana
Tabula Rasa - Arvo Part
The Two Piano Concertos / The Piano Sonata (Sviatoslav Richter) - Franz Liszt
Symphonie No. 5 (Leonard Bernstein) - Gustav Mahler
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