The most critically acclaimed albums from the charts of RYM, AOTY and sites such as Rolling Stone, that I haven't heard.
This has taken forever to compile, and will be a constant work in progress. When I listen to an album on this list, I will indicate that fact and provide a rating in purple.
1. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality || Heavy Metal || 1971 || UK || (Listened) RATING: 8/10
2. Pharoah Sanders - Karma || Spiritual Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz || 1969 || USA
3. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders || East Coast Hip Hop, Jazz Rap, Boom Bap || 1993 || USA
4. Metallica - Master of Puppets || Thrash Metal || 1986 || USA
5. Sweet Trip - Velocity : Design : Comfort || Glitch Pop, IDM, Shoegaze || 2003 || USA || (Listened) RATING: 9/10
6. John Coltrane - My Favorite Things || Modal Jazz, Post-Bop || 1961 || USA
7. Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home || Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Contemporary Folk || 1965 || USA
8. Parannoul - After the Night || Shoegaze, Emo, Indie Rock || 2023 || South Korea
9. Mobb Deep - The Infamous || East Coast Hip Hop, Boom Bap, Gangsta Rap || 1995 || USA
10. Freddie Gibbs - Piñata || Gangsta Rap || 2014 || USA
11. Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians || Minimalism || 1978 || USA
12. Various Artists - The Fire This Time || Spoken Word, IDM, Sound Collage, Field Recordings || 2002 || n/a
13. OutKast - ATLiens || Southern Hip Hop || 1996 || USA
14. The Notorious B.I.G - Read to Die || East Coast Hip Hop, Gangsta Rap, Boom Bap || 1994 || USA
15. The Beach Boys - The Smile Sessions || Baroque Pop, Psychedelic Pop, Progressive Pop || 2011 (released) || USA
16. Sweet Trip - You Will Never Know Why || Indie Pop, Dream Pop, Indie Rock || 2009 || USA || (Listened) RATING: 10/10
17. Megadeth - Rust in Peace || Thrash Metal || 1990 || USA
18. Iggy and The Stooges || Proto-Punk, Garage Rock, Hard Rock || 1973 || USA
19. Art Blakely - Art Blakely and The Jazz Messengers [Moanin'] || Hard Bop Jazz || 1959 || USA
20. Novos Baianos - Acabou chorare || MPB, Samba Rock || 1972 || Brazil
21. Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine || Rap Metal, Alternative Metal || 1992 || USA
22. Fela Kuti & The Africa '70 - Expensive Shit || Afrobeat || 1975 || Nigeria || (Listened) RATING: 9/10
23. Juan Gabriel - Juan Gabriel en el Palacio de Bellas Artes || Canción melódica, Mariachi || 1990 || Mexico
24. The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society || Pop Rock || 1968 || UK
25. Mos Def - Black on Both Sides || East Coast Hip Hop, Conscious Hip Hop || 1999 || USA
26. Magnolia Electric Co. - The Magnolia Electric Co. || Alt-Country, Country Rock || 2003 || USA
27. Curtis Mayfield - Curtis || Chicago Soul || 1970 || USA
28. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses || Baggy, Alternative Rock || 1989 || UK
29. Judas Priest - Painkiller || Heavy Metal || 1990 || UK
30. John Coltrane - Blue Train || Hard Bop Jazz || 1958 || USA
31. Love - Forever Changes || Psychedelic Pop, Psychedelic Rock, Baroque Pop || 1967 || USA || (Listened) RATING: 6.5/10
32. Boris - Feedbacker || Post-Metal, Drone Metal, Drone || 2003 || Japan
33. Jorge Ben - A Tábua de Esmeralda || MPB, Samba Rock || 1974 || Brazil
34. Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York || Alternative Rock, Acoustic Rock || 1994 || USA
35. Boris - Flood || Post-Rock, Drone || 2000 || Japan
36. Jorge Ben - Fôrça bruta || Samba Rock, Samba Soul, MPB || 1970 || Brazil
37. Fela Kuti - Zombie || Afrobeat || 1977 || Nigeria
38. Deftones - White Pony || Alternative Metal || 2000 || USA
39. Slayer - Reign in Blood || Thrash Metal || 1986 || USA
40. Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters || Jazz-Funk, Jazz Fusion || 1973 || USA
41. Invisible - El jardín de los presentes || Progressive Rock, Art Rock || 1976 || Argentina
42. Buarque - Construção || MPB, Singer/Songwriter || 1971 || Brazil
43. Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain || Abstract Hip Hop, East Coast Hip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop || 2003 || USA || (Listened) RATING: 9/10
44. Sade - Love Deluxe || 1992 || Smooth Soul, Sophisti-Pop, Downtempo || 1992 || UK
45. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables || Hardcore Punk, Punk Rock || 1980 || USA
46. Steely Dan - Aja || Jazz-Rock, Pop Rock, Yacht Rock || 1977 || USA || (Listened) RATING: 9/10
47. Death - Human || Technical Death Metal, Death Metal || 1991 || USA || (Listened) RATING: 8.5/10
48. billy woods & Kenny Segal - Maps || Abstract Hip Hop, Jazz Rap, Conscious Hip Hop || 2023 || USA
49. The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour || Psychedelic Pop, Pop Rock || 1967 || UK
50. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill || Neo-Soul, Contemporary R&B, East Coast Hip Hop || 1998 || USA
51. Sterolab - Dots and Loops || Art Pop, Indietronica, Ambient Pop || 1997 || UK
52. Elliott Smith - XO || Singer/Songwriter. Indie Pop || 1998 || USA
53. Gang Starr - Moment of Truth || Boom Bap, East Coast Hip Hop || 1998 || USA
54. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti || Hard Rock || 1975 || UK || (Listened) RATING: 7.5/10
55. Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs || Abstract Hip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop || 2018 || USA
56. Stan Getz & João Gilberto || Bossa Nova, Samba-Jazz || 1964 || USA
57. Ram - Paul McCartney / Linda McCartney || Pop Rock || 1971 || UK
58. Yes - Fragile || Progressive Rock || 1971 || UK
59. Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison || Country || 1968 || USA || (Listened) RATING: 7/10
60. C418 - Minecraft: Volume Alpha || Ambient, Video Gam Music || 2011 || Germany
61. Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith || Singer/Songwriter, Indie Folk || 1995 || USA
62. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son || Heavy Metal || 1988 || UK
63. John Coltrane - Ascension [Edition I] || Free Jazz, Spiritual Jazz || 1966 || USA
64. Genesis - Foxtrot || Progressive Rock, Symphonic Prog || 1972 || UK
65. Camel - Mirage || Symphonic Prog, Progressive Rock || 1974 || UK
66. Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come || Avant-Garde Jazz || 1959 || USA
67. The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed || Blues Rock || 1969 || UK
68. Sun Ra - Lanquidity || Jazz Fusion || 1978 || USA
69. Nujabes - Modal Soul || Jazz Rap, Instrumental Hip Hop || 2005 || Japan
70. The Roots - Things Fall Apart || East Coast Hip Hop, Jazz Rap || 1999 || USA || (Listened) RATING: 10/10
71. The Doors - Strange Days || Psychedelic Rock || 1967 || USA
72. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run || Heartland Rock || 1975 || USA
73. John Coltrane - The John Coltrane Quartet || Modal Jazz, Post-Bop || 1961 || USA
74. Cryptopsy - None So Vile || Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal || 1996 || Canada
75. John Coltrane - Ole Coltrane || Modal Jazz || 1961 || USA
76. Otis Redding - Otis Blue || Deep Soul, Southern Soul || 1965 || USA
77. Susumu Hirasawa - 救済の技法 (Kyuusai no gihou) || Art Pop, Progressive Pop, Electronic || 1998 || Japan
78. Kyuss - Kyuss [Welcome to Sky Valley] || Stoner Rock, Stoner Metal || 1994 || USA
79. Ryota Kozuka - 真・女神転生 IV (Shin Megami Tensei IV) || Video Game Music, Post-Industrial || 2014 || Japan
80. Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul || Soul || 1969 || USA
81. Arvo Pärt - Tabula rasa || Minimalism, Holy Minimalism || 1984 || Estonia
82. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath Vol. 4 || Heavy Metal, Hard Rock || 1972 || UK
83. Rush - Moving Pictures || Progressive Rock, Hard Rock || 1981 || Canada
84. Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians || Minimalism || 1998 || USA
85. Opeth - Still Life || Progressive Metal || 1999 || Sweden
86. Pharoah Sanders - Black Unity || Spiritual Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz || 1972 || USA
87. Fela Kuti - Roforofo Fight || Afrobeat || 1972 || Nigeria
88. Organized Konfusion - Stress: The Extinction Agenda || East Coast Hip Hop, Boom Bap, Jazz Rap || 1994 || USA
89. Jeff Rosenstock - Thanks, Sorry! || Pop Punk, Power Pop, Indie Rock || 2019 || USA
90. NoMeansNo - Wrong || Post-Hardcore || 1989 || Canada
91. Jeromes Dream - The Gray in Between || Screamo, Noise Rock || 2023 || USA
92. Lil Ugly Mane - Mista Thug Isolation || Memphis Rap, Southern Hip Hop || 2012 || USA || (Listened) RATING: 9/10
93. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... || East Coast Hip Hop, Gangsta Rap, Boom Bap || 1995 || USA
94. Neil Young - Tonight's the Night || Country Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Folk Rock || 1975 || Canada
95. Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters || Hardcore Punk || 1982 || USA
96. Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame || Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Rock || 1971 || USA
97. Natural Snow Buildings - Daughter of Darkness || Drone, Free Folk, Ritual Ambient || 2009 || France
98. Death - The Sound of Preseverance || Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal || 1998 || USA
99. Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE || Alternative R&B, Contemporary R&B || 2012 || USA
100. Three-6 Mafia - Mystic Stylez || Memphis Rap, Horrorcore, Southern Hip Hop || 1995 || USA
101. Miles Davis - On the Corner || Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Funk, Avant-Garde Jazz || 1972 || USA
102. Led Zeppelin - House of the Holy || Hard Rock || 1973 || UK
103. Van Morrison - Moondance || Singer/Songwriter, Folk Rock || 1970 || UK
104. Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane || Melodic Black Metal || 1995 || Sweden
105. Charles Mingus - Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus || Post-Bop Jazz || 1964 || USA
106. The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness || Alterative Rock || 1995 || USA
107. Kraftwerk - Computerwelt || Synthpop, Electronic || 1981 || Germany
108. Gorguts - Obscura || Technical Death Metal, Avant-Garde Metal, Dissonant Death Metal || 1998 || Canada
109. J.I.D - The Forever Story || Southern Hip Hop, Conscious Hip Hop || 2022 || USA
110. Mach-Hommy - The G.A.T... || Jazz Rap, East Coast Hip Hop, Conscious Hip Hop || 2017 || USA
111. Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces of a Man || Soul || 1971 || USA
112. Art Blakely - Free for All || Hard Bop Jazz || 1965 || USA
113. Robbie Basho - Visions of the Country || American Primitivism || 1978 || USA
114. Deep Purple - Machine Head || Hard Rock || 1972 || UK
115. Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret || Indie Rock || 1999 || USA
116. Charly Garcia - Clics modernos || New Wave, Pop Rock || 1983 || Argentina
117. The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I || Indie Rock || 1999 || USA
118. Wipers - Youth of America || Post-Punk, Punk Rock || 1981 || USA
119. Opeth - Ghost Reveries || Progressive Metal || 2005 || Sweden
120. Immolation - Close to a World Below || Death Metal || 2000 || USA
121. Jorge Ben - Africa Brasil || Samba-rock, MPB, Funk || 1976 || Brazil
122. King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity || Psychedelic Rock, Garage Rock || 2016 || Australia
123. Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky || Black Metal || 1992 || Norway
124. Curtis Mayfield - Superfly || Film Soundtrack, Chicago Soul, Funk || 1972 || USA
125. Rush - Hemispheres || Progressive Rock, Hard Rock || 1978 || Canada || (Listened) RATING: 7/10
126. Shiro Sagisu - The End of Evangelion || Film Score, Orchestral, Modern Classical || 1997 || Japan
127. Rainbow - Rising || Hard Rock, Heavy Metal || 1976 || USA
128. Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk || Symphonic Black Metal || 1997 || Norway
129. John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band || Singer/Songwriter, Pop Rock || 1970 || UK
130. The Brave Little Abacus - Just Got Back From the Discomfort - We're Alright || Midwest Emo, Experimental Rock || 2010 || USA
131. Black Star - Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star || East Coast Hip Hop, Conscious Hip Hop, Boom Bap || 1998 || USA
132. Astor Piazzolla and The New Tango Quintet - Tango: Zero Hour / Nuevo Tango: Hora Zero || Tango nuevo || Argentina
133. Mr. Bungle - California || Experimental Rock, Art Rock || 1999 || USA
134. Shibusashirazu - 渋星 (Shibuboshi) || Experimental Big Band, Jazz Fusion || 2004 || Japan
135. Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town || Heartland Rock, Singer/Songwriter || 1978 || USA
136. Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else || Hard Bop Jazz || 1958 || USA
137. Pharoah Sanders - Love in Us All || Free Jazz, Spiritual Jazz || 1974 || USA
138. Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt || East Coast Hip Hop, Boom Bap, Gangsta Rap || 1996 || USA
139. Big L - Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous || East Coast Hip Hop, Boom Bap, Hardcore Hip Hop || 1995 || USA
140. Soft Machine - Third || Canterbury Scene, Jazz-Rock, Jazz Fusion || 1970 || UK
141. The Brave Little Abacus - Masked Dancers || Midwest Emo, Math Rock || 2009 || USA
142. Komeda Quintet - Astigmatic || Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop || 1966 || Poland
143. The Horace Silver Quintet - Song for My Father (Cantiga para meu pai) || Hard Bop Jazz || 1965 || USA
144. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma || IDM, Glitch Hop, Wonky || 2010 || USA
145. The Replacements - Let It Be || Alternative Rock || 1984 || USA
146. Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom || Canterbury Scene, Art Rock || 1974 || UK
147. Deep Purple - Deep Purple in Rock || Hard Rock || 1970 || UK || (Listened) RATING: 7/10
148. Gojira - From Mars to Sirius || Progressive Metal, Death Metal || 2005 || France
149. John Fahey - Fare Forward Voyagers (Soldier's Choice) || American Primitivism || 1973 || USA
150. R.E.M. - Automatic for the People || Alternative Rock, Pop Rock || 1992 || USA
151. Sun Ra and His Arkestra - Sleeping Beauty || Jazz Fusion, Spiritual Jazz || 1979 || USA
152. Prince - 1999 || Synth Funk, Minneapolis Sound || 1982 || USA
153. Stevie Wonder - Talking Book || Soul || 1972 || USA
154. Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul || Southern Soul || 1968 || USA
155. Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade || Post-Hardcore, Hardcore Punk || 1984 || USA
156. Unwound - New Plastic Ideas || Post-Hardcore, Noise Rock || 1994 || USA
157. The Doors - L.A. Woman || Blues Rock, Psychedelic Rock || 1971 || USA
158. Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime || Post-Hardcore, Math Rock, Noise Rock || 1994 || USA
159. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury || Southern Hip Hop, Gangsta Rap || 2006 || USA
160. Sly & The Family Stone - Stand! || Funk, Psychedelic Soul || 1969 || USA
161. Herbie Hancock - Sextant || Jazz Fusion, Avant-Garde Jazz || 1973 || USA
162. Fela Kuti - Sorrow Tears and Blood || Afrobeat || 1977 || Nigeria
163. Common - Be || Conscious Hip Hop || 2005 || USA
164. John Coltrane - Meditations || Free Jazz, Spiritual Jazz || 1966 || USA
165. Weakling - Dead as Dreams || Atmospheric Black Metal, Black Metal || 2000 || USA
166. Aphex Twin - drukqs || IDM, Drill and Bass || 2001 || Ireland
167. Frank Ocean - Endless || Alternative R&B, Ambient Pop, Art Pop || 2018 || USA
168. Philip Glass - Glassworks || Minimalism || 1982 || USA
169. Racionais MC's - Nada como um dia após o outro dia || Hardcore Hip Hop, Conscious Hip Hop || 2002 || Brazil
170. Isis - Panopticon || Atmospheric Sludge Metal, Post-Metal || 2004 || USA
171. Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink || Canterbury Scene || 1971 || UK
172. Serú Girán - Grasa de las capitales || Progressive Rock, Jazz-Rock || 1979 || Brazil
173. Neil Young / Crazy Horse - Zuma || Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter || 1975 || Canada
174. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & London Symphony Orchestra - Promises || Post-Minimalism, Third Stream || 2021 || UK
175. Shoji Meguro 目黒将司 - Persona5 The Royal Straight Flush Edition || Video Game Music, Acid Jazz || 2019 || Japan
176. Soundgarden - Superunknown || Grunge || 1994 || USA || (Listened) RATING: 9/10
177. Tim Hecker - Virgins || Ambient, Drone, Electroacoustic || 2013 || Canada
178. T. Rex - Electric Warrior || Glam Rock || 1971 || UK
179. Silvio Rodríguez - "Al final de este viaje..." || Nueva trova || 1978 || Cuba
180. Death - Leprosy || Death Metal || 1988 || USA
181. Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time || Heavy Metal || 1986 || UK
182. Townes Van Zandt - Our Mother the Mountain || Singer/Songwriter, Country, Contemporary Folk || 1969 || USA
183. John Coltrane - Sun Ship || Spiritual Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz || 1971 || USA
184. Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness || Death Metal || 1989 || USA
185. Pharaoh Sanders - Dead Dumb Blind (Summun bukmun umyun) || Spiritual Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz || 1970 || USA
186. NEU! '75 - NEU! || Krautrock || 1975 || Germany
187. The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde || West Coast Hip Hop, Boom Bap, Jazz Rap || 1992 || USA
188. Ghostface Killah - Ironman || East Coast Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop, Boom Bap || 1996 || USA
189. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele || East Coast Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop, Abstract Hip Hop || 2000 || USA
190. Baden Powell & Vinicius de Moraes - Os afro-sambas de Baden e Vinícius || Samba || 1966 || Brazil
191. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déjà vu || Folk Rock || 1970 || Canada
192. Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All || Jazz-Rock, Progressive Rock || 1975 || USA
193. Lil Ugly Mane - Volcanic Bird Enemy and the Voiced Concern || Neo-Psychedelia, Indietronica || 2021 || USA
194. Gene Clark - No Other || Country Rock, Singer/Songwriter || 1974 || USA
195. Michael Jackson - Off the Wall || Disco, Dance-Pop || 1979 || USA
196. Steely Dan - The Royal Scam || Pop Rock || 1976 || USA
197. Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Safe as Milk || Blues Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Experimental Rock || 1967 || USA || (Listened) RATING: 7.5/10
198. Jeff Rosenstock - WORRY. || Power Pop, Pop Punk, Indie Rock || 2016 || USA
199. Sonny Sharrock - Ask the Ages || Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop || 1991 || USA
200. Yasunori Mitsuda - Chrono Trigger || Video Game Music, 16-bit || 1995 || Japan
201. Dadawah - Peace and Love || Nyahbinghi, Roots Reggae || 1974 || Jamaica
202. Bob Dylan - Desire || Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Progressive Country, Contemporary Folk || 1976 || USA
203. Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance || Heavy Metal || 1982 || UK
204. Van der Graaf Generator - Godbluff || Progressive Rock || 1975 || UK
205. JPEGMAFIA - Veteran || Experimental Hip Hop, Glitch Hop, Industrial Hip Hop || 2018 || USA
206. Yes - The Yes Album || Progressive Rock || 1971 || UK
207. Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss || Thrash Metal || 1990 || USA
208. Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi || Minimalism || 1998 || USA
209. Travis Scott - Rodeo || Trap, Southern Hip Hop || 2015 || USA
210. Deftones - Koi no yokan || Alternative Metal || 2012 || USA
211. De La Soul - Buhloone Mind State || East Coast Hip Hop, Jazz Rap, Conscious Hip Hop || 1993 || USA
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