The 'Five Years Music Game' ILM Version

1965 France Gall - Poupée de cire, poupée de son

1960 Terry Snyder And The All Stars - Persuasive Percussion Volume 2
1955 Peggy Lee And Ella Fitzgerald ‎– Songs From Pete Kelly's Blues
1950 The Complete Works of Edgard Varèse, Vol. 1

1970 The Free Design ‎– Stars / Time / Bubbles / Love
1975 Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
1980 Yes - Drama
1985 Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche '85
1990 Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet <--unoriginal, but what else was there?
1995 f*ck knows, blimey the mid 90s were rubbish weren't they? (Wu Tang records aside)
2000 Señor Coconut y su conjunto - El Baile Alemán
2005 Kate Bush - Aerial
2010 Gemma Ray — It's a Shame About Gemma Ray

1974 Neil Young - On the Beach

1959 Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
1964 The Ronettes - Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes
1969 Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis

1979 Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
1984 Prince - Purple Rain
1989 New Order - Technique
1994 Portishead - Dummy
1999 Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
2004 Kanye West - The College Dropout
2009 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

1992 Nirvana - Incesticide

1987 Prince - Sign O' the Times
1982 Missing Persons - Spring Session M
1977 Steely Dan - Aja
1972 Van Dyke Parks - Discover America

1997 Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
2002 Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
2007 Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings
2012 Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes

1971 pink floyd - meddle

1946 duke ellington - black, brown & beige
1956 sonny rollins - saxophone colossus
1961 john coltrane - my favorite things
1966 cannonball adderley - mercy, mercy, mercy

1976 david bowie - station to station
1981 rush - moving pictures
1986 rem - lifes rich pageant
1991 superchunk - no pocky for kitty
1996 afghan whigs - black love
2001 fugazi - the argument
2006 the hold steady - boys and girls in america
2011 wye oak - civilian

i went as far forward as i could and then i had to go back symmetrically ugh

1962 howlin' wolf - howlin' wolf
1967 the jimi hendrix experience - are you experienced?
1972 randy newman - sail away
1977 talking heads - talking heads: 77
1982 laurie anderson - big science
1987 bruce springsteen - tunnel of love
1992 madonna - erotica
1997 modest mouse - the lonesome crowded west
2002 the mountain goats - tallahassee
2007 britney spears - blackout
2012 my dick - my dick's double full-length release

1978 Talking Heads - More Songs about Buildings and Food

1973 Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
1968 Nara Leão - Nara Leão
1963 Jorge Ben - Samba Esquema Nova
1958 Sun Ra - Jazz in Silhouette

1983 The Fall - Perverted by Language
1988 Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
1993 Pet Shop Boys - Very
1998 Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves
2003 Coachwhips - Bangers vs. Fuckers
2008 The Kills - Midnight Boom
2013 Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

I'm terrible at knowing the exact years things came out (or indeed happened), so this will have to rely on itunes (and I'll have to hope that I haven't forgotten to rip any really important albums);

1983 Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels (a really, really tough choice; Bauhaus' Burning from the Inside, Scott Walker's Climate of Hunter, and Yello's Claro Que Si almost made it)
1978 Wire - Chairs Missing
1973 Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
1968 Serge Gainsbourg - Initials BB
1988 Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
1993 Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
1998 Massive Attack - Mezzanine
2003 Broadcast - Haha Sound
2008 The Tough Alliance - A New Chance
2013 The Knife - Shaking the Habitual

^never heard of The Tough Alliance but those are great picks otherwise

I just realised I do have a 1995 candidate to add to my list upthread, Charles Long & Stereolab's Music For The Amorphous Body Study Center.

1990 They Might Be Giants - Flood

1985 The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & the Lash (this was the hardest choice, beating Tim, Rain Dogs, Low-Life and This Nation's Saving Grace)
1980 Talking Heads - Remain in Light
1975 Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
1970 The Stooges - Fun House
1965 The Beatles - Rubber Soul

1995 Pulp - Different Class
2000 Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
2005 The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
2010 Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

1964 Dixie Cups - Chapel of Love

1949 ??
1954 Theolonious Monk - Piano Solo
1959 John Lee Hooker - I'm John Lee Hooker

1969 The Velvet Underground - s/t
1974 Van Morrison - Veedon Fleece
1979 The Clash - London Calling
1984 REM - Reckoning
1989 The Stone Roses - s/t