I picked up a book from the library with a lost of 1001 albums to listen to. I went through it marking things that sounded interesting, and this is what I'm left with.
1950's
- Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours
- Fats Domino - This is Fats
- The Crickets - The Chirping Crickets
- Count Basie- The Atomic Mr. Basie
- Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
- Jimmy Smith - Back at the Chicken Shack
1960's
- Muddy Waters - Muddy Waters at Newport
- Solomon Burke - Rock 'n' Soul
- Buck Owens and His Buckeroos - I've Got A Tiger By the Tail
- Bert Jansch - Bert Jansch
- Fred Neil - Fred Neil
- Merle Haggard - I'm A Lonesome Fugitive
- Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
- Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country
- The Pentangle - Basket of Light
- Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
- Alexander Spence - Oar [written during his stay at a mental hospital]
1970's
- Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die
- Flamin' Groovies - Teenage Head
- Gene Clark - White Light
- David Bowie - Hunky Dory
- Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything?
- David Ackles - American Gothic
- Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
- Waylon Jennings - Honky Tonk Heroes
- Gil Scott-Heron - Winter In America
- The Dictators - Go Girl Crazy
- Emmylou Harris - Pieces of the Sky
- Parliament - Mothership Connection
- Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
- The Residents - Duck Stab/Buster and Glen [disguised weird band]
- Throbbing Gistle - DOA Third and Final Report
1980's
- The Cramps - Songs The Lord Taught Us
- Dead Kenndys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
- Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
- Black Flag - Damaged
- X - Wild Gift
- The Gun Club - Fire of Love
- Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - The Message
- Kevin Rowland and Dexy's Midnight Runners - Too-Rye-Ay
- Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II
- Minor Threat - Out of Step
- Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
- The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy and the Lash
- Billy Bragg - Talking with the Taxman About Poetry
- XTC - Skylarking
- Bad Brains - I Against I
- The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
- Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff
- American Music Club - California
- Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
- Faith No More - The Real Thing
- Barry Adamson - Moss Side Story
- Pixies - Dolittle
1990's
- Ride - Nowhere
- Sepultura - Arise
- Slint - Spiderland
- Ministry - Psalm 69
- Frank Black - Teenager of the Year
- Suede - Dog Man Star
- Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
- The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
- Rocket from the Crypt - Scream, Dracula, Scream!
- Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst
- Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
- Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
- Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age
- The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
2000's
- Giant Sand - Chore of Enchantment
- Outkast - Stankonia
- Gorillaz - Gorillaz
- ✔ Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
- Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera
- Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands