53. Marillion - Afraid Of Sunlight (1995)
I'll throw this classic into the list since it's been on my mind a bit lately. It's the Hogarth-era of this band's undisputed masterpiece, right up there with
OK Computer or your favorite Brit-pop records. There's an inspired blending of a lot of the stuff that was going on musically in the mid 90's: college alt. rock jangliness, the aforementioned Brit-pop, shoegaze...and, of course, the progressive rockisms that most people associated with these guys to begin with. Brilliant and occasionally bizarre sounding material abounds, especially the strangely subversive ode to
The Beach Boys in 'Cannibal Surf Babe' and the soaring title track.