I've added the constraint that I can list each artist only once. 1955 is as far back as I can go... I like jazz but I'm not a huuuuge fan and mainly stick to the big guns (so that constraint ruins me). And my knowledge of any other kind of music around that period is appalling.
2009: Fat Freddy's Drop - Dr Boondigga & The Big BW
2008: Meshuggah - obZen
2007: Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In Glorious Times
2006: Jakob - Solace
2005: Red Sparowes - At the Soundless Dawn
2004: Ataxia - Automatic Writing
2003: Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
2002: Isis - Oceanic
2001: Tool - Lateralus
2000: Radiohead - Kid A
1999: Windir - Arntor
1998: Elliott Smith - XO
1997: Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale
1996: Opeth - Morningrise
1995: D'Angelo - Brown Sugar
1994: Suede - Dog Man Star
1993: Polvo - Today's Active Lifestyles
1992: Tom Waits - Bone Machine
1991: Primal Scream - Screamadelica
1990: Ozric Tentacles - Erpland
1989: RHCP - Mother's Milk
1988: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Tender Prey
1987: Prince - Sign O' The Times
1986: The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
1985: The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
1984: Iron Maiden - Powerslave
1983: R.E.M. - Murmur
1982: Kate Bush - The Dreaming
1981: Wipers - Youth of America
1980: XTC - Black Sea
1979: The Clash - London Calling
1978: Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove
1977: David Bowie - Low
1976: Camel - Moonmadness
1975: Neu! - Neu! '75
1974: King Crimson - Red
1973: Gong - Angel's Egg
1972: Wishbone Ash - Argus
1971: Can - Tago Mago
1970: Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
1969: The Beatles - Abbey Road
1968: The Kinks - The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
1967: The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
1966: The Byrds - Fifth Dimension
1965: Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
1964: John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
1963: Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
1962: Françoise Hardy - Tous les Garçons et les Filles
1961: Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
1960: Art Blakey - The Big Beat
1959: Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz To Come
1958: Bo Diddley - S/T
1957: Coleman Hawkins - The Hawk Flies High
1956: Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
1955: Louis Armstrong - Ambassador Satch
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