Your 10 favorite albums of all time which you very rarely see on any other favorite albums of all time lists.

What are your favorite under-the-radar albums that could use more play in 'best of' music discussions?

Here are some which I love and would really like to see more often popping up on best-of lists. Sorted by chronological order.

1. Charles Mingus - Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963)
2. The Sonics - Here are the Sonics (1965)
3. Anthony Braxton - For Alto (1971)
4. Luciano Cilio - Dialoghi del Presente (1977)
5. Ground Zero - Revolutionary Pekinese Opera Ver.1.28 (1996)
6. Sun City Girls - Dante's Disneyland Inferno (1996)
7. Fridge - Happiness (2001)
8. Keith Rowe & John Tilbury - Duos for Doris (2004)
9. Paavoharju - Yha Hamaraa (2005)
10. Li Jianhong - 三生石 (San Sheng Shi) (2008)

Off the top of my head:

1. Tones on Tail - Pop
2. Geraldine Fibbers - Lost Somewhere Between the Earth and My Home
3. Morgoth - Odium
4. Alice Donut - Pure Acid Park
5. Univers Zero - Heresy
6. Raging Slab - The Dealer
7. Gary Burton & Carla Bley - A Genuine Tong Funeral
8. Wendy Carlos - Beauty in the Beast
9. Basil Poledouris - Conan OST
10. Ashra - Correlations

the tuss - rushup edge
bobby conn - the golden age
frank black - teenager of the year
mike watt - contemplating the engine room
stephan mathieu/janek schaefer - hidden name
boards of canada - the campfire headphase
black nasty - AIDS can't stop me
graham lambkin - salmon run
us maple - acre thrills

Goddamnit I forgot RKL - Rock & Roll Nightmare

Charles Mingus - Blues & Roots
Johnny Hartman & John Coltrane
Sam Cooke - Night Beat
Ray Charles - Crying Time
William Bell - The Soul of a Bell
Otis Redding - The Immortal Otis Redding
The Beach Boys - Sunflower
The Meters - Rejuvenation
The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action
Al Green - The Belle Album

Tones on Tail seconded.

Donovan - Sunshine Superman (1966)
Yoko Ono - Fly (1971)
Bruce Haack - Haackula (1978)
The Passions - Thirty Thousand Feet Over China (1981)
Trio - Trio (1981)
The Bevis Frond - Triptych (1988)
Von LMO - Red Resistor (1996)
Cloudland Canyon - Lie in Light (2008)
The Black Angels - Directions to See A Ghost (2008)

1. Charles Mingus - Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963)

I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but BS&SL appears on many critics and magazines "greatest-album-ever" lists (especially those focusing on jazz).

I've seen a ton of lists that focus on jazz that conspicuously leave out Mingus. It's bizarre, but gradually being corrected. George Russell is another, but it's understandable as there's many to choose from. I'd say any reggae that isn't Marley or the Harder They Come Soundtrack usually gets left out.

The Congos - Heart Of The Congo (1977)
Fela Kuti - Zombie (1977)
Toots & the Maytals - Funky Kingston (1973)
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Lick My Decals Off Baby (1970)
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Doc At The Radar Station (1980)
Tim Buckley - Starsailor (1971)
Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever (1982)
Lee Perry & The Upsetters - Super Ape (1976)
Rico - Man From Wareika (1976)
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes - Jezebel (1976)

1. Scritti Politti - Provision
2. Blue Oyster Cult - Spectres
3. 16b - Sounds From Another Room
4. World Domination Enterprises - Let's Play Domination
5. Squeeze - Argybargy
6. Soul Family Sensation - New Wave
7. Plush - Fed
8. Epic Soundtracks - Rise Above
9. Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare
10. New Radicals - Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too

i've seen 'Heart of The Congos' on a few best of lists. although maybe its not as ubiquitous as Marley and THTC soundtrack.

jj cale - troubadour
stars of heaven - rain on the sea
shellac - at action park
mobb deep - the infamous
flipper - generic
the only ones - the only ones
half man half biscuit - cammell laird social lcub
giorgio moroder - from here to eternity
bark psychosis - hex
paperclip people - the secret tapes of dr. eich

i've seen 'Heart of The Congos' on a few best of lists

Definitely.

1. The Glands - The Glands
2. The Beach Boys - Wild Honey
3. Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick
4. Elvis Costello - Trust
5. Glen Campbell - Reunion
6. Jerry Garcia - Garcia
7. The Human Switchboard - Who's Landing In My Hangar?
8. Jimi Hendrix - The Cry Of Love
9. John Cale - Fear
10. Roxy Music - Stranded

1.Art Brut-Bang Bang Rock n Roll
2.Curtis Mayfield-Curtis
3.Divine Comedy-Promenade
4.Sparks-Indiscreet
5.Earl Brutus-Tonight You Are The Special One
6.Associates-The Affectionate Punch
7.Cloud One-Atmosphere Strut
8.Minnie Riperton-Come To My Garden
9.Denim-Back In Denim
10.Disco Inferno-Tecnicolour

Michael B. stole my Giorgio, but uh...

Giorgio Moroder - From Here to Eternity
Opal - Happy Nightmare Baby
Flower Travellin Band - Satori
John Fahey - Red Cross
Scratch Acid - Just Keep Eating
Buggles - The Age of Plastic
Zapp - Zapp
Yura Yura Teikoku - III
Tall Dwarfs - Fork Songs
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra

1. Robert Ashley "Private Parts"
2. Happy & Artie Traum "Double Back"
3. The Shadow Ring "Lindus"
4. Charalambides "Market Square"
5. Michael Hurley "Hi-Fi Snock Uptown"
6. Agitation Free "Malesch"
7. Alastair Galbraith "Morse"
8. Arab on Radar "Yahweh or the Highway"
9. Flying Burrito Brothers s/t (the lack of recognition for this first post-Parsons LP is astounding.)
10. Max Roach "We Insist" (maybe this gets some play on jazz lists, I know it has a decent reputation.)

Malesch-- awesome.

My favorites generally fall into the range of conventional top-10 stuff (give or take), but a couple I never see would be Black Vinyl Shoes and Dionne Warwick's Greatest Hits (that might not be the precise title; it's the collection that came out in the mid-70s and covers from "Walk on By" to "Then Came You").

Skyband - self titled
Rat At Rat R - Rock & Roll Is Dead
Larry Coryell - The Real Great Escape
Larry Coryell - Coryell
Kim Fowley - International Heroes
Kim Fowley - Sunset Boulevard
Magic Dirt - Friends In Danger
Dustdevils - Struggling Electric & Chemical
Comet Gain - Sneaky
Linda Smith - Space Between The Buildings/Do You Know The Way...?

M people - elegant slumming
Chic - real people
Gang of Four - solid gold
Miles Davis - Jack Johnson
Rolling Stones Now!
the dB's - like this

Can - Future Days
Eberhard Weber - The Colors of Chloe
Pharoah Sanders - Live At The East
Weather Report - Sweetnighter
Robin Kenyatta - The Girl From Martinique
Marcos Valle - Vento Zul
Boredoms - Super Roots 6
Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah band - Meets King Pennet
Minnie Riperton - Adventures In Paradise
John Fahey - The Yellow Princess

Spinanes - Manos
That's all I can think of right now.

Compulsive Gamblers - Gambling Days Are Over
The Roches
Yo La Tengo - Fakebook
John Oswald/Grateful Dead - Grayfolded
Naked City - Absinthe
Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Volume 2
Pauline Oliveros - Crone Music
John Fahey - Womblife
Lee Ranaldo - Ambient Loop for Vancouver
Merzbow/Pan Sonic - V

David Axelrod - Songs of Innocence
Lootpack - Soundpieces
Burnt Batch - Produce Aisle
People Under the Stairs- Question in the Form of an Answer
Bob Marley - African Herbsman
Gregory Isaacs - Mr. Isaacs
The Gladiators - Trenchtown Mix-Up
Dr. Nico - Marveilles du passe
Hallelujah Chicken Band - Chicken Run
St. Etienne - Foxbase Alpha

oh shit I forgot Presenting Larry Marshall

Coil - Time Machines
Lull - Cold Summer
Epic Soundtracks - Rise Above
Seefeel - Polyfusia
Seefeel - Quique
Lotus Eaters - Alienist on a Pale Horse
Arthur Russell - Calling Out of Context
Windy & Carl - Conciousness
Lungfish - Sound in Time
Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet

1. Me'Shell Ndegeocello - Bitter
2. Bob Neuwirth - Havana Midnight
3. The Innocence Mission - Birds of My Neighborhood
4. Carmel - The Drum Is Everything
5. Sam Cooke - Night Beat (x2 Mumbles)
6. Robin Holcomb - Robin Holcomb
7. Matthew Ryan - Concussion
8. Chuck Prophet - The Hurting Business
9. Philip Glass - Solo Piano
10. Pet Shop Boys - Disco 3

Kleenex Girl Wonder - Ponyoak
Fleshtones - Roman Gods
Soup Dragons - Hang Ten

Sam Cooke - Night Beat

What an outstanding album this is... and spot on, you very rarely see this one heralded as much as it should. I even dare say this is one of the greatest American albums ever recorded in any genre, by any popular artist.

Also not sure how popular it actually is but Tim Buckley's Blue Afternoon is yet another one I very rarely see mentioned anywhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvY-PYbXGV4&feature=PlayList&p=6C230A1832755CC7&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=34

1. unwound - fake train
2. jay reatard - blood visions
3. the fall - room to live
4. sonic youth - experimental jet-set, trash, and no star
5. queen - news of the world
6. q and not u - different damage
7. mare - mare
8. jeremy enigk - return of the frog queen
9. the birthday party - peel sessions (don't know if this counts, whatever)
10. keith fullerton whitman - playthroughs

Phil Ochs - Pleasures of the Harbour
Laura Nyro- More than a New Discovery
Lewis Furey S/T
Heartbreakers -LAMF
Van Dyke Parks- Song Cycle
Bobby Bland -2 Steps from the Blues
Ann Peebles -I Can't Stand the Rain (or From the Heart?)
Mott the Hoople -Mott
Dr. Alimantado -Best Dressed Chicken
New Riders of the Purple Sage -S/T
Everly Brothers -Roots

er, that's 11

Also cosign on Burritos S/T, and William Bell, and thanks, Michael B. : )

Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood
The Lowest of the Low - Shakespeare my Butt
Gary Wilson - You Think You Really Know Me
The Dictators - Go Girl Crazy
Cybotron - Clear
The Cure - Faith
Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth - The Main Ingredient
Chico Magnetic Band - S/T
Archie Shepp - The Cry of my People (OK, I've seen people list this, but not enough)
Oval - Dok

Pizzicato Five, Happy End of the World
Whale, We Care
L.L. Cool J, Walking With a Panther
The 5th Dimension, The Magic Garden
George Clinton and the P.Funk All-Stars, How Late Do U Have 2BB4UR Absent
The Boo Radleys, C'mon Kids
Eek-A-Mouse, Eek-a-nomics
Bersuit Vergabarat, Hijos del Culo
Henry Threadgill & Make a Move, Where's Your Cup?
Heart, Dreamboat Annie

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Beatles - Revolver
Nirvana - Nevermind
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
The Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
The Clash - London Calling
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?

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starcastle s/t
citadel
fountains of light
captain beyond s/t
yezda urfa boris
hawkwind chronicle of the black sword
my bloody valentine loveless
rem "chronic town"
cerebus shoal homb
wild beasts two dancers
the studio west coast

Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
the Volebeats - Sky & the Ocean
the Clientele - A Fading Summer (ep)
Arnold - Hillside
Charlie Rich - the Smash sessions
Jesse Sykes - Reckless Burning
the Flatlanders - One Road More
Bonnie Raitt - Homeplate
Sir Douglas Quintet - The Return of Doug Saldana
Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne

charalambides- market square
coil- time machines
sibylle baier- colour green
sleater kinney- the woods
bonnie 'prince' billy- master and everyone
underworld- second toughest in the infants
haley bonar- the size of planets
sybris- sybris
mates of state- bring it back
tiffany- hold an old friend's hand (lol)

colour green is so good! i should put that on next.
also, marker square OTM.

market too.

hahaha stephen ilxor, you should've replaced "Nevermind" with "Forever Changes"!

1) Spiritualized 'Let It Come Down'
2) Of Montreal 'Hissing Fauna...'
3)65daysofstatic 'The Fall of Math'
4)Daft Punk 'Alive 2007'
5)South 'With the Tides'
6)Serena Maneesh 'Serena Maneesh'
7) The National 'Alligator'
8) Spacemen 3 'Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs To"
9) Primal Scream 'Screamadelica'
10) New Pornographers 'Twin Cinema'

I have AT LEAST a 3 page essay on every one of these albums and why they kick so much ass... I'll spare you the details.

01. I Jah Man - Haile I Hymn
02. Popol Vuh - In the Garden of Pharoahs
03. Ultramagetic MCs - Critical Beatdown
04. Chrome - Alien Soundtracks
04. Parliament - Motor Booty Affair
05. Don Blackman - s/t
06. Slowdive - Pygmalion
07. Gal Costa - s/t (1969)
08. John Coltrane - Coltrane (1962)
09. Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
10. Big Pun - Capital Punishment

seconding: Night Beat, Blue Afternoon, Future Days, Market Square, From Here to Eternity, and a slew of others upthread.

randomly adding:

Little Feat- Sailing Shoes
C.O.B.- Spirit of Love
Johan Johannsson- Englaborn
Oren Ambarchi- Grapes From the Estate
Caetano Veloso- Transa
John Duncan- Phantom Broadcast
Link Wray- s/t

Only five, but with commentary...

Blues & Roots - Mingus:
Already mentioned, so maybe disqualified, but first thing I thought of when I saw the thread title. So fierce. BS&SL always gets the love, but B&R=Most rocknroll jazz album ever.

Cattle Dick - TOK¥O $KUNX:
This album started it's own freakin genre; Rustic Stomp. Shit-hot musicians playing sloppy and wild. Drugged-out, drunken psychobilly jugband hoedown. And big fun.

Waveform - TPower:
Has anyone else heard this album? It's fucking great. DnB was all about the singles, but this thing hangs together as a document. He nails the funk in the Stoned Paranoia of Urban Alienation. So many great sounds and kickass beats, and the track to track flow just keeps dragging you deeper....

Urban Dancefloor Guerillas - PFunk Allstars:
Stone Cold Classic.
Top rank of Clinton's output, always seems to get lost in the crazy deep PFunk catalog.

Deguello - ZZTop:
So fine. Some badass cats at the top of their game. This album is perfect in a lot of ways. Such a hard act to follow they had to come with a major changeup for the next disc.....

-thanks for everyone else's lists, lots of stuff I've never heard of before, that I suspect I will dig big time. Good to see the love for Opal, Link Wray, Archie Shepp, Phil Ochs, etc, etc... drainCosmo, bring the details, let's beef up this listfest. This thread is a goldmine.....

Nuno Canavarro "Plux Quba"
Mouse on Mars "Glam"
The Gist "Embrace the Herd"
The Apartments "The Evening Visits... and Stays for Years"

B! Machine - The Evening Bell
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
Dubstar - Disgraceful
Haujobb - Ninetynine
Kitchens of Distinction - The Death of Cool
My Computer - Vulnerabilia
Oval - 94 Diskont
Prefab Sprout - Jordan: The Comeback
Various Artists - Wipeout XL (Astralwerks)

MX-80 Sound - Hard Attack
Hampton Grease Band - Music to Eat
Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come
Butthole Surfers - Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac
Debris - Static Disposal
Funkadelic - America Eats Its Young
Led Zeppelin - Presence
Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
The Byrds - Fifth Dimension
The Knack - Get The Knack

First five are too (relatively) obscure to make anyone's list; next five are well-known but unappreciated, even by fans.

Wait isn't that THE Knack record, though? The one Knack album a non-fan would appreciate if not own?

Still cannot stand that Hampton Grease Band album but I still won't sell it....

Hmm, yeah I phrased it poorly...I meant "some", not all.

(Glad you liked my joek on the most recent Dave Marsh poll btw, thanks!)

fine young cannibals - s/t
yes - close to the edge
modest mouse - the lonesome crowded west
built to spill - there's nothing wrong with love
pink floyd - animals
indigo girls - s/t
koop - waltz for koop
cap'n jazz - analphabetapolothology
palace - viva last blues
cat power - what would the community think

White Noise (or anything, for that matter) by Cop Shoot Cop
NightTime by Killing Joke
If I Die, I Die... by The Virgin Prunes
Fantastic Spikes Through Balloon by Skeleton Key
Spirit of Eden by Talk Talk (this might not be ripe for inclusion here, actually -- they get an awful lot of ILX love)

i love all these albums. posted this list somewhere else, but what the hell i'm bored. you get ten plus many bonus albums! not a lot of people listen to these and in some cases if you google them you will just get me raving about them. oh and the occasional freak on rateyourmusic will rave about some of them.

Allesi – s/t (a&m – 1976)
curved air – phantasmagoria (wb – 1972)
curtiss maldoon – s/t (capitol – 1971)
jackson heights – king progress (mercury – 1970)
howard werth & the moonbeams – king brilliant (mca – 1975)
vance or towers – s/t (a&m – 1975)
gary farr – addressed to the censors of love (atco – 1973)
danny o’keefe – breezy stories (atlantic – 1973)
string driven thing – the machine that cried (charisma – 1973)
east of eden – s/t (harvest – 1971)
molkie cole – s/t (janus – 1977)
bloomsbury people – s/t (mgm – 1970)
redeye – s/t (pentagram – 1970)
danny o’keefe – american roulette (wb – 1977)
trefethen – am I stupid or am I great?/it’s all mom’s fault (1980)
gallagher & lyle – the last cowboy (a&m – 1974)
john randolph marr – s/t (wb – 1970)
country joe mcdonald – hold on it’s coming (vanguard – 1970)
song – album (mgm – 1970)
cowboy – s/t (Capricorn – 1977)
boxer – s/t (virgin – 1975)
george geddes – obituary (ua – 1971)
thomas jefferson kaye – s/t (dunhill – 1973)
mckendree spring – s/t (decca – 1969)
facedancers – s/t (paramount – 1972)
barnaby bye – room to grow (atlantic – 1973)
dane donohue – s/t (Columbia – 1978)
tim hardin – painted head (Columbia – 1972)
tim hollier – message to a harlequin (imperial – 1968)
dave morgan - morgan (ampex – 1971)
mick greenwood – living game (mca – 1971)

I don't think I've ever seen these on other lists, but correct me if I'm wrong because I want to see those lists:

Sesame Street cast--Bert and Ernie Singalong (Sesame Street, 1975) (Honestly, I could listen to this all day long, and I don't think it's because of nostalgia.)
Weird Al Yankovic-s/t (Scotti Bros 1983)
King's X-s/t (Atlatic 1992) (others are better but I'm pretty sure they've been on lists)
various-Get Crunk! (Tommy Boy 1999) (I'm sort of amazed that this exists.)
Miles Davis-Filles de Kilimanjaro (Columbia 1968)
Sylvester-All I Need aka Do You Wanna Funk (Megatone 1982)
David Meece-Candle in the Rain (Myrrh 1987)
77s-Drowning With Land in Sight (Ocean 1995)
Schoenberg Ensemble plays Louis Andriessen's "De Staat" (Elektra 1991)
Sun Ra & his Omniverse Arkestra-Destination Unknown (Enja 1992)

Hmmmm, those didn't sound as dorky in my head.

Epic Soundtracks - Rise Above
YES. This is one of my favorite albums ever. Someone needs to do a big re-evaluation/reissue of this guy, he is so good.

Butthole Surfers - Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac

that and Rembrandt and Locust, any time I listen they seem like the greatest things ever. Somewhere I read that they were just trying to make records that made them laugh. Albums like that seem to be at a disadvantage with these canonical lists. The Who Sell Out is the only one I can think of that shows up frequently. What others are there?

Along the same lines, I really love The Full Custom Gospel Sounds of the Reverend Horton Heat. "Bales of Cocaine" is my favorite novelty number ever. But the whole record hit the exact centerpoint between Nashville corny and punkrock foaming, session man tightness and hardcore band tightness.

Les Rallizes Denudes - Heavier Than A Death In The Family
The Index - s/t
John Fahey - The Yellow Princess
Burzum - Filosofem
Rockers All Stars - Chanting Dub
Sort Sol - Under En Sort Sol
The Fall - Grotesque
Townes Van Zandt - For The Sake Of The Song
Ulver - Kveldssanger
Gas - Pop

Miles Davis-Filles de Kilimanjaro (Columbia 1968)

Sometimes my favorite Miles record for how it exists so delightfully in between the early hot crazy shit of the second great quintet and the long dark funk of the fusion period. It sounds positively pulled apart by these two forces.

Scott,

Jackson Heights - is King Progress, much different, kinda different, not different at all from their later records (in particular Ragamuffin Fool? which in some moods I like ..... but it's not a desert island item)

I forgot Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan Song of the Second Moon. The title track is well known but the whole album is really that awesome and ahead of its time and sounds like the inside of my fukkin head:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSoAzONw-a4

xpost. rly digging King Progress! Haven't gotten past the first three songs tho yet coz they're so awesome.

I don't have a Top Ten to hand, but these are some albums that I would certainly cull from:

Low - The Curtain Hits The Cast
Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Volcano! - Paperwork
Dan Deacon - Spiderman Of The Rings
Tin Hat - The Sad Machinery Of Spring
The Mountain Goats - Tallahasse
Gisnt Sand - Chore Of Enchantment
Tindersticks - Tindersticks II and Curtains
Tom Waits - Blood Money/Alice

From other people's lists on this thread, I would second the following:

The Beach Boys - Sunflower
Al Green - The Belle Album
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Doc At The Radar Station
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
Associates - The Affectionate Punch
Flying Burrito Brothers - s/t
Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle
Mott the Hoople - Mott
The Dictators - Go Girl Crazy
The 5th Dimension - The Magic Garden
Chrome - Alien Soundtracks
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
The Fall - Grotesque

And add:

Alice Cooper - Love It to Death
John Cale - Music For a New Society
John Cale - Paris 1919
Harmonia - Deluxe
Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun
The Residents - Not Available

... and no doubt many others I can't think of right now!

Fibonaccis- Civilization And Its Discotheques
Trip Shakespeare- Across The Universe
Thin White Rope- Moonhead

These are perhaps not so obscure - mostly underrated albums by well-known acts:

Gilberto Gil - Gilberto Gil (1968)
The Kinks - Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey
Big Mama Thornton with the Muddy Waters Blues Band (1966)
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness' First Finale
Kevin Ayers - Bananamour
Frank Sinatra - Come Fly With Me

Phil Ochs - Gunfight At Carnegie Hall
Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Masters
The Figgs - Banda Macho
Marc Ribot - Rootless Cosmopolitans
Latin Playboys
Hank Garland And His Sugar Footers
The Flesheaters - A Hard Road To Follow
Don Cherry - Art Deco
The Kinks - Kinda Kinks
The Wailing Ultimate!

Not a definitive list of favorite albums...but here are a few that I don't see mentioned as often as they deserve to be:

Roland Kayn - Tektra
Mnemonists - Horde
P16.D4 - Kühe In 1/2 Trauer
Li Jianhong - 三生石 (San Sheng Shi)
Eliane Radigue - Trilogie de la Mort
Taj Mahal Travelers - July 15, 1972
Pärson Sound – Pärson Sound

Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
Syreeta - Stevie Wonder Presents Stevie Wonder
Denim - Back in Denim
Minnie Riperton - Adventures in Paradise
Divine Comedy - Promenade
Luther Vandross - Never Too Much
Sebastien Tellier - Sexuality
Earl Brutus - Tonight You Are The Special One
Kim Wilde - Kim Wilde
Cameo - Word Up!

Should have checked this thread before posting, I posted a list years ago. Only three overlaps though.