in no particular order, this is my top 50 list; i also have a low 50 list of great albums i enjoy a great deal but didn't have that special something these have. i cheated a little though:
- Celtic Frost - Monotheist
- Six Organs Of Admittance - The Sun Awakens
- Thom Yorke - The Eraser
- Keiji Haino & Sitaar Tah! - Animamima
- Elf Power - Back To The Web
- Magik Markers - Road Pussy
- Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
- Charalambides - A Vintage Burden/Charalambides - Emerald Message
- Lilly Allen - Alright Still
- Leopard Leg - The Seven Sistered Sea-Secret Of Shh Shh Shh
- Liars - Drums Not Dead
- Current 93 - Black Ships Ate The Sky
- Scott Walker - The Drift
- Gorgoroth - Ad Majorem Satanhas Gloriam
- Boris - Pink/Boris - Vein/Sunn O))) & Boris - Altar
- Decemberists - Crane Wife
- Daughters - Hell Songs
- OOIOO - Taiga
- Blood Brothers - Young Machetes
- various//California
- Hototogisu - Chimärendämmerung
- Double Leopards, Mouthus & Sunroof! - Crippled Rosebud Binding
- Xiu Xiu - The Air Force
- Jazkamer - Metal Music Machine
- Espers - II
- Mastodon - Blood Mountain
- Yo La Tengo - I'm Not Afraid Of You And Will Beat Your Ass
- Unexpect - In A Flesh Aquarium
- Ashtray Navigations - Four More Raga Moods
- Yellow Swans - Psychic Secession/Yellow Swans - Drift
- Isis - In The Absense Of Truth
- Avarus - Vesikansi
- Joanna Newsom - Ys
- Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
- Xasthur - Subliminal Genocide
- Benighted - Identisick
- Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
- Mono - You Are There
- Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
- Genghis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth
- Suishou No Fune - Where The Spirits Are
- Bardo Pond - Ticket Crystals/Bardo Pond - 4.3.06
- Be Your Own Pet
- Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO - Have You Seen The Other Side Of The Sky?/Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno - Starless & Bible Black Sabbath
- The Flying Luttenbachers - Cataclysm
- Cat Power - The Greatest
- Rose For Bohdan - Then Everybody Hugged, "Racism Is God"
- Vampire Can't - Key Cutter
- Atavist
- An Albatross - Blessphemy (Of the Peace Feast Yeastgiver And The Bear Warp Kumite)