Sonic Youth Gossip - 50 "essential" albums : minimalist music

I'm not much of a "lists guy",
but I thought this could be nice to share and hear opinions on it.
It's taken from one of the few good "music magazines" (imo) released here in Berluscoland.

I'm not familiar with a lot of this stuff, but I think I'll get around listening to a good bunch of theese in the next few weeks.

So, it goes like this, it's not a proper "top 50", I'll scan the "disclaimer", perhaps porksarram could help translating this thing in proper english to let you guys understand the intentions...

there's a short, nice review for each album, but I'll just go with the list:

first "group" of 10:

Glenn Branca
The Ascension
(99, 1980)

Tony Conrad with Faust
Outside the Dream Syndicate
(Caroline, 1972)

Jon Gibson
Two Solo Pieces
(Chatham Square, 1977)

Philip Glass
Music With Changing Parts
(Chatham Square, 1973)

Meredith Monk
Dolmen Music
(ECM, 1981)

Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co.
Lika a Duck to Water
(Earthquack, 1976)

Charlemagne Palestine
Strumming Music
(Shandar, 1977)

Steve Reich
Music For 18 Musicians
(ECM, 1978)

Terry Reily
In C
(Columbia, 1968)

La Monte Young
The Well-tuned Piano 81 X 25 6:17:50-11:18:59 PM NYC
(Gramavision, 1987)

"Other" fifteen:

Maryanne Amacher
Sound Characters (Making the Third Ear)
(Tzadik, 1999)

David Behrman
On the Other Ocean
(Lovely Music, 1978)

Rhys Chatham
Factor X
(Moers Music, 1983)

Alvin Curran
Canti e Vedute del Giardino Magnetico
(Ananda, 1974)

Arnold Dreyblatt
Nodal Excitation
(India Navigation, 1982)

William Duckworth
The Time Curve Preludes
(Lovely Music, 1983)

Henry Flint
You Are my Everlovin'/Celestial Power
(Edition Hundertmark, 1986)

Jon Hassel
Vernal Equinox
(Lovely Music, 1977)

Alvin Lucier
Music On a Long Thin Wire
(Lovely Music, 1980)

Angus MacLise
The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
(Siltbreeze, 1999)

Ingram Marshall
Fog Tropes/Gradual Requiem
(New Albion, 1984)

Phill Niblock
Nothing To Look At Just A record
(Indian Navigation, 1982)

Pauline Oliveros-Stuart dempster-Panaiotis
Deep Listening
(New Albion, 1989)

Frederic Rzewski
Attica/Coming Together/Les Moutons De Panurge
(Opus One, 1974)

Yoshi Wada
Lament For The Rise And Fall Of The Elephant Crocodile
(India Navigation, 1982)

"last" twentyfive

John Adams
Shaker Loops/Phrygian Gates
(1750 Arch, 1980)

William Basinski
The Garden Of Brokenness
(2062, 2005)

Gavin Bryars
The Sinking Of The Titanic
(Obscure, 1975)

Roberto Cacciapaglia
Sei Note in Logica
(Philips, 1979)

Earth
Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version
(Sub Pop, 1993)

Terry Fox
Berlino/Rallentando
(Het Apollohuis/Apollo, 1988)

Ellen Fullman
Body Music
(Experimental Intermedia, 1993)

Michael Harrison
From Ancient Worlds - For Harmonic Piano
(New Albion, 1992)

Tom Johnson
An Hour For Piano
(Lovely Music, 1979)

Elodie Lauten
The Death Of Don Juan
(Cat Collectors, 1985)

Daniel Lentz
On the Leopard Altar
(Icon, 1984)

Lubomyr Melnyk
Lubomyr Melnyk Performs KMH
(Music Gallery, 1979)

Anthony Moore
Pieces From the Cloudland Ballroom
(Polydor, 1971)

Michael Nyman
Decay Music
(Obscure, 1976)

Jim O'Rourke
Happy Days
(Revenant, 1997)

Eliane Radigue
Trilogie de La Mort
(Experimental Intermedia, 1998)

David Rosenboom
Brainwave Music
(A.R.C., 1975)

Remko Scha
Machine Guitars
(Kremlin, 1982)

Raymond Scott
Shooting Sounds For Baby Vol.1
(Epic, 1962)

Stephen Scott
New Music For Bowed Piano
(New Albion, 1983)

Carl Stone
Mom's
(New Albion, 1992)

Rafael Toral
Wave Field
(Moneyland, 1995)

Urban Sax
Urban Sax 2
(Cobra, 1978)

Keith Fullerton Whitman
Multiples
(Kranky, 2005)

Richard Youngs
Advent
(No Fans, 1990)

List from "Il Mucchio Extra" n 34, Summer 2010, article curated by Antonio Ciarletta, with contributions by Eddy Cilià and Federico Guglielmi.