Music

Discovery by Daft Punk is a no skip for me. Also food and liquor by lupe fiasco.

Nirvana - Nevermind

• Bat out of Hell - Meat Loaf
• Appetite for Destruction - Guns N Roses
• Good Kid, MAAD CIty - Kendrick Lamar
• When the Kite String Pops - Acid Bath
• Crimes of Passion - Pat Benatar
• Metropolis Part II - Dream Theater
• Master of Puppets - Metallica
• Rust in Peace - Megadeth
• A Boat on the Sea - Moron Police
• Painted from Memory - Evlis Costello & Burt Bacharach
• Operation Mindcrime - Queensrÿche
• American Idiot - Green Day
• Ten - Pearl Jam

• Good News For People Who Love Bad News, Modest Mouse
• Sgt Pepper, The Beatles
• The Fame Monster, Lady Gaga
• Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, Elton John
• Folie a Deux, Fall Out Boy

The Black Crowes - Southern Harmony Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

Honorable mention

The Black Keys - Thickfreakness The White Stripes - Icky Thump CeeLo Green - The Lady Killer

I have very little concept of what songs are from which albums anymore thanks to modern streaming subscriptions.

Blackwater Park - Opeth

Tool - Aenima

Sky Cries Mary - A Return to the Inner Experience

Dead Can Dance - Spirit chaser

Depeche Mode - Violator

Faith No More - The Real Thing.

Ok, now that more people have posted long lists, I don’t feel so bad about mine ;)

• Arcade Fire – Funeral
• Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti – Before Today
• At The Drive-In – Relationship of Command (also their EPs Vaya and In/Casino/Out)
• Kae Tempest – Let Them Eat Chaos
• Mercury Rev – Deserter's Songs
• My Morning Jacket – Z
• Public Service Broadcasting – Every Valley
• Radiohead – OK Computer
• Radiohead – In Rainbows
• The Decemberists – Picaresque
• The Diggs – Commute
• The Dismemberment Plan – Emergency & I
• The Libertines – s/t
• The Mars Volta – Deloused in the Comatorium
• The Notwist – Shrink
• Tokyo Police Club – A Lesson in Crime (just a fantastic debut; barely an album though)

German:

• Deichkind – Niveau Weshalb Warum

Some may be an acquired taste (PSB?, also I know that The Libertines’ is not everyone’s favorite – but it’s mine :). The Arcade Fire, even though I don’t listen to them these days that much, is decade-defining for me, as is Radiohead’s OK Computer (together with Nevermind, although for some reason it didn’t make this list).

To pimp a butterfly

Going by music genre:

Hip Hop: To Pimp A Butterfly (by Kendrick Lamar), The Forever Story (JID), Madvillainy (MF DOOM), Hell on Earth (Mobb Deep)

Electronic: Selected Ambient Works (Aphex Twin), Exai (Autechre), Duntisbourne Abbots Soulmate Devastation Technique (μ-Ziq)

Black Metal: Filosofem (Burzum), Panzerfaust (Darkthrone), Pure Holocaust (Immortal), Exuvia (The Ruins of Beverast)

Death Metal: Scream Bloody Gore (Death), Realm of Chaos (Bolt Thrower), Under the Sign of the Black Mark (Bathory)

Country: Southbound (Doc Watson), Poor David's Almanack (David Rawlings)

I'm just breaking into country and jazz. If anyone has some classic must-listen albums, I'd be all ears.