 | Laughing Stock by Talk Talk
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.66 The greatest post-rock album ever, IMO. After the Flood is an epic masterpiece.
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 | Spirit of Eden by Talk Talk
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.00 Another post-rock masterpiece, very minimal but very etheral. Mark Hollis' vocals are stunning.
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 | Dummy by Portishead
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $3.96 Dark and mysterious, drenched in dub and smooth funk. One of the best trip-hop albums ever.
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 | Maxinquaye by Tricky
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.94 Sinister beats accompanied by Tricky's rough and heavy vocal delivery.
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 | Mezzanine by Massive Attack
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.75 One of my top 5 records, Mezzanine is a masterwork, an amalgamation of hip-hop, dub and ambient music, and never boring.
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 | Camembert Electrique by Gong
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $9.94 Wonderfully demented space rock, fueled by Daevid Allen's avant-garde vocals.
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 | Angel's Egg (Radio Gnome Invisible, Pt. 2) by Gong
Buy new: $9.93 / Used from: $6.23 Gong's masterpiece, full of spacey jams and incoherent babbling, and Daevid Allen's omnipresence.
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 | Tago Mago by Can
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $8.74 More trippy and spaced-out than any Grateful Dead album, and far more "jammy" and improvisational. Paperhouse is a wonder to behold.
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 | Ege Bamyasi by Can
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.88 One of Can's more accessible albums, Ege Bamyasi is laced with endless grooves and Damo Sazuki's unorthodox lyricism.
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 | One Nation Underground by Pearls Before Swine
Buy used from: $29.49 Psychedelic folk far ahead of its time. Tom Rapp's vocal delivery is unlike anything else I've heard, lisp or no lisp.
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 | Heaven Up Here by Echo & the Bunnymen
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $6.73 Brooding and melancholy, but a joy for the senses, Heaven Up Here is Echo & the Bunnymen's most inaccessible album, but far more consistent than most other music around that time.
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 | Space Ritual by Hawkwind
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $9.00 The most spaced-out rock record ever made, Hawkwind's excellent live double LP is a massive behemoth, aided by Lemmy's thundering bass and Dave Brock's killer vocals.
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 | Baraka: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Buy used from: $3.86 Almost as mind-blowing and transcendental as the film itself.
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 | Ágætis Byrjun by Sigur Rós
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $7.00 Simply magical, for lack of a better word. Jonsi Birgisson's voice is one of the most haunting and effective I've ever heard.
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 | Oxygene by Jean Michel Jarre
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.98 A landmark album of electronic music, driven by Jarre's excellent use of analog synthesizers.
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 | Second Edition by Public Image Ltd.
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $3.89 An album seemingly made for headphones, Second Edition is one of the most rewarding listens ever, if you can get through it all.
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 | 100th Window by Massive Attack
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $2.44 Very much the sister album to 1998's Mezzanine, 100th Window is complemented by Horace Andy and Sinead O' Conner's vocal contributions. One of the best headphone albums.
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 | Hot Shots II by The Beta Band
Buy used from: $0.87 Almost unclassifiable by any genre, great for a dark and rainy night.
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 | Cinq Saisons by Harmonium
Buy new: $22.99 / Used from: $20.00 Great melodies and chemistry highlight my favorite album by this progressive folk quintet from Quebec.
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 | Silver Apples/Contact by Silver Apples
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $6.09 One of the most influential electronic duos, ranging from Suicide to Daft Punk, these two albums are too tripped-out for their own good.
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