Let's see if I can limit one per artist...even though it's not a true best-of list if I did that.
Man some years are tough!
1976 - Invisible - El jardín de los presentes
1977 - The Blue Effect - Svitanie
1978 - Rush - Hemispheres
1979 - Medina Azahara - Paseando por la Mezquita
1980 - Yes - Drama
1981 - Dün - Eros
1982 - Misfits - Walk Among Us
1983 - Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Tendencies
1984 - Metallica - Ride the Lightning
1985 - Descendents - I Don't Want to Grow Up
1986 - Skinny Puppy - Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse
1987 - The Tear Garden - Tired Eyes Slowly Burning
1988 - Pixies - Surfer Rosa
1989 - Faith No More - The Real Thing
1990 - Megadeth - Rust in Peace
1991 - Dead Horse - Peaceful Death and Pretty Flowers
1992 - Meat Beat Manifesto - Satyricon
1993 - Tool - Undertow
1994 - Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
1995 - Blind Melon - Soup
1996 - Download - The Eyes of Stanley Pain
1997 - Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
1998 - Knapsack - This Conversation Is Ending...Starting Right Now
1999 - Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret
2000 - At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
2001 - Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives
2002 - Eight Frozen Modules - Thought Process Disorder
2003 - The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
2004 - Sixtoo - Chewing On Glass & Other Miracle Cures
2005 - Venetian Snares - Rossz csillag alatt született
2006 - Cougar - Law
2007 - Hot Cross - Risk Revival
2008 - Dillinger Four - C I V I L W A R
2009 - ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - The Century of Self