Over at IHM, posters have been listing 50 albums...

Over at IHM, posters have been listing 50 albums that they think are really neat from the last 50 years. Here is my list. To constrain myself, I picked one album per year. 1981 and 2007 were especially thorny.

Johann Sebastian Bach - Cello Suites (Pierre Fournier) (Archiv, 1961)
Jacques Brel - Olympia 61 (+, 1962)
The Tammys - Egyptian Shumba / What’s So Sweet About Sweet Sixteen (United Artists, 1963)
The Ronettes - Presenting The Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica (Philles, 1964)
Various Artists - Musiques du Cameroun (Ocora, 1965)
France Gall - Baby Pop (Philips, 1966)
Bill Dixon - Intents and Purposes: The Jazz Artistry of Bill Dixon (RCA, 1967)
The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo (Columbia, 1968)
Toshi Ichiyanagi - Opera Yokoo Tadanori wo utau (+, 1969)

伊東きよ子 - 23時の女―ラブ・イン― (Woman at 23 Hour Love-In) (CBS, 1970)
Arnold Schoenberg / Alban Berg / Anton Webern - Neue Wiener Schule: Die Streichquartette (LaSalle Quartett) (Deutsche Grammophon, 1971)
Kaoru Abe - 木曜日の夜 [Mokuyôbi no Yoru] (+, 1972)
John Fahey - Fare Forward Voyagers (Soldier’s Choice) (Takoma, 1973)
Jorge Ben - A Tábua de Esmeralda (Philips, 1974)
Masayuki Takayanagi - New Direction Unit: April Is the Cruellest Month (+, 1975)
Dorothy Carter - Troubadour (+, 1976)
Hans Werner Henze - Tristan – prelude for piano, tapes and orchestra (Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester/Hans Werner Henze; Homero Francesch, piano) (Deutsche Grammophon, 1977)
Ştefan Niculescu - Ison Ia / Echos / Ison II (Abramovici, violin; Ars Nova / Ţăranu; Brâncuşi) (Electrerecord, 1978)
Polly Bradfield - Solo Violin Improvisations (Parachute, 1979)

Ilitch - 10 Suicides (Scopa, 1980)
Derek Bailey - Aida (Incus, 1981)
Yoshi Wada - Lament for the Rise and Fall of the Elephantine Crocodile (India Navagation 1982)
Franz Schubert - Quintett C-dur (Schiff, cello/ Alban Berg Quartett) (His Master’s Voice, 1983)
Franz Schubert - Le Voyage d’Hiver [Jon Vickers; Geoffrey Parsons] (EMI, 1984)
Hijokaidan - King of Noise (Alchemy, 1985)
Felt - Forever Breathes the Lonely Word (Creation, 1986)
Guillaume de Machaut - The Mirror of Narcissus: Songs by Guillaume de Machaut (Gothic Voices/Christopher Page) (Hyperion, 1987)
Poul Ruders - Corpus Cum Figuris; Thus Saw St. John; Manhattan Abstraction (Ensemble InterContemporain; Danish Radio S.O./Eötvös; Knussen; Schonwandt) (Point, 1988)
John Cage - The Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1 (Arditti Quartet) (Mode, 1989)

Alfred Schnittke - Kremer plays Schnittke: Concerto grosso No.1; Quasi una sonata; Moz-Art à la Haydn; A Paganini (Gidon Kremer, Tatiana Grindenko, Yuri Smirnov; The Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Heinrich Schiff) (Deutsche Grammophon, 1990)
Anton Webern - The Complete String Trios and Quartets (Arditti String Quartet) (Montaigne, 1991)
周璇 - 百代・中国時代曲名典 (Pathe, 1992)
Carlo Gesualdo - Complete Sacred Music for Five Voices (Oxford Camerata/Jeremy Summerly) (Naxos, 1993)
Ludwig van Beethoven - The Late Beethoven Quartets, Vol. 2 (Lindsay String Quartet) (ASV, 1994)
Rev. Utah Smith & Lonnie Farris - Slide Guitar Gospel (Document, 1995)
Sun City Girls - Dante’s Disneyland Inferno (Abduction, 1996)
Franz Schubert - “Trout” Quintet; “Death and the Maiden” Quartet (Amadeus Quartet; Emil Gilels; Rainer Zepperitz) (Deutsche Grammophon, 1997)
Taku Sugimoto - Opposite (Hat Hut, 1998)
Oidupaa Vladimir Oiun - Divine Music From a Jail (+, 1999)

Guillaume Dufay - O gemma lux (Huelgas Ensemble/Paul Van Nevel) (Harmonia Mundi, 2000)
Greg Kelley & Jason Lescalleet - Forlorn Green (Erstwhile, 2001)
Morton Feldman - String Quartet No. 2 (FLUX Quartet) (Mode, 2002)
Georg Friedrich Haas - In Vain, for 24 instruments (Klangforum Wien/Sylvain Cambreling) (KAIROS, 2003)
Keith Rowe & John Tilbury - Duos for Doris (Erstwhile, 2004)
Nikos Veliotis, Taku Sugimoto, Kazushige Kinoshita & Taku Unami - Quartet (Hibari, 2005)
Nmperign & Jason Lescalleet - Love Me Two Times (Intransitive, 2006)
Big Blood - Space Gallery Jan. 27, 2007 / Sahara Club Jan. 28, 2007 (Dontrustheruin, 2007) [so much to choose from]
Antoine Beuger - A Young Person’s Guide to Antoine Beuger (Slub, 2008)
Michael Pisaro - Hearing Metal 1 (Wandelweiser, 2009)
Annette Krebs & Taku Unami - Motubachii (Erstwhile, 2010)
Taku Unami / Takahiro Kawaguchi - Teatro Assente (Erstwhile, 2011)