Yukun's Definitive 300 Albums List 💽

I took a retrospective review of all the albums I've listened to. Reted some and put together this simple website. This is the embodiment of my musical personality. As described, this list is highly personal and therefore, personally biased — I must have overrated or underrated some but who the f* cares. I intentionally left out some because I only put the ones I can confidently rate.

The enlisted 300+ albums are selected by an arbitrary cutoff of 8.2 (You know, the "Best New Music"...) and they fall into 5 groups. The rankings wihtin groups, as shown in the page, usually doesn't mean anything. The cover art and metadata are retrived from Last Fm & MusicBrainz API; some info might be wrong. Compilation albums are generally excluded unless the aritist's the best album is literally their singles collection.

Updated 03/22: I had a minor update: adding new albums in 2021 and 2022. Also, there is a new section for visualizing the summary statistics of the data. Please take a look at the bottom of the page.

You can hover on the album covers to see more information.

Perfect Albums (10/10)

Ten for Ten. Albums that makes you feel in heaven... or Las Vegas? Just Perfect.

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

6/30/98

Blue

Joni Mitchell

6/22/71

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

1975

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

6/16/86

Either/Or

Elliott Smith

2/25/97

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

8/21/90

Fear and Whiskey

The Mekons

1985

Have One on Me

Joanna Newsom

2/3/10

Floating Into the Night

Julee Cruise

9/12/89

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

9/13/82

Near Perfection (9.6+/10)

Albums that show long-lasting artistry or have strong personal bonds with me. Enchantingly beautiful pieces of work. My desert island albums list ends here.

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

2/4/77

Automatic for the People

R.E.M.

10/6/92

Vulnicura

Björk

1/20/15

Ask Me Tomorrow

Mojave 3

10/16/95

After the Gold Rush

Neil Young

9/19/70

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

9/7/99

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

6/22/93

#1 Record

Big Star

1972

The Facts of Life

Black Box Recorder

5/1/00

Red House Painters I

Red House Painters

10/18/93

Souvlaki

Slowdive

6/1/93

Colfax

The Delines

4/27/14

Another Green World

Brian Eno

1975-09

Father Son Holy Ghost

Girls

9/7/11

Closing Time

Tom Waits

1973-05

I Could Live in Hope

Low

2/18/94

Parallel Lines

Blondie

9/23/78

No One Waved Goodbye

Tacoma Radar

4/12/04

Forever Changes

Love

11/1/67

Marshall Crenshaw

4/28/82

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

2/21/88

You Will Never Know Why

Sweet Trip

6/30/09

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

2/25/72

Legendary (9.2-9.5/10)

Serving legacy. Albums that age like wine, not milk.

Vespertine

Björk

8/18/01

The Best of New Order

New Order

11/21/94

Running On Empty

Jackson Browne

1977

The Stranger

Billy Joel

9/29/77

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

8/3/73

THE PROMISE: THE DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN STORY

Bruce Springsteen

11/16/10

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

1976-11

Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill

Grouper

6/16/08

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

9/20/82

Paul Simon

1972-03

Are We There

Sharon Van Etten

5/26/14

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle and Sebastian

11/18/96

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

7/25/70

I See a Darkness

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy

1/19/99

Blonde on Blonde

Bob Dylan

5/16/66

Hounds of Love

Kate Bush

9/16/85

Everything Harmony

The Lemon Twigs

5/5/23

Computer World

Kraftwerk

1981

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

2/1/05

Alvvays

2013

Born in the U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

6/4/84

Bloom

Beach House

5/14/12

Aja

Steely Dan

9/23/77

channel ORANGE

Frank Ocean

7/10/12

The Kick Inside

Kate Bush

2/17/78

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

1969-09

The Natural Bridge

Silver Jews

10/1/96

Within the Depths of a Darkened Forest

Autumn's Grey Solace

Liz Phair

6/24/03

Tapestry

Carole King

1/30/71

The Immaculate Collection

Madonna

11/12/90

Harvest

Neil Young

2/14/72

Moondance

Van Morrison

1970-03

Home Plate

Bonnie Raitt

1975

Visions

Grimes

2/20/12

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

11/22/10

Diamond Life

Sade

7/28/84

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

6/6/72

Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek and the Dominos

1970-11

The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

11/22/68

Homogenic

Björk

9/22/97

Parallelograms

Linda Perhacs

5/23/05

The Beatles' Second Album

The Beatles

5/11/64

Bad Girls

Donna Summer

4/25/79

Purple Rain

Prince

6/25/84

Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me

The Cure

5/5/87

Santigold

4/21/12

Satellite Rides

Old 97's

3/20/01

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

9/28/87

Exceptional Albums (9-9.1/10)

Very very good albums in my opinion. I must be obbsessed with those ones at least for a period time.

Greatest Hits

The Pretenders

9/18/00

The Greater Wings

Julie Byrne

7/7/23

Carrie & Lowell

Sufjan Stevens

3/30/15

Tigers Blood

Waxahatchee

3/22/24

Boygenius

Julien Baker

10/26/18

Wit's End

Cass McCombs

4/11/11

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg & Wilco

6/23/98

Brighter Than Creations Dark

Drive-By Truckers

1/22/08

Transformer

Lou Reed

1972

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/16/66

Rio

Duran Duran

5/21/82

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

1970-11

330,003 Crossdressers From Beyond The Rig Veda

Sun City Girls

1996

La Question

Françoise Hardy

1971

Glitch

Cryogeyser

How Sad, How Lovely

Connie Converse

3/5/09

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

10/22/90

Very

Pet Shop Boys

9/27/93

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You

Big Thief

2/11/22

Body Talk

Robyn

11/22/10

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

1974-01

Art Angels

Grimes

11/6/15

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You

Big Thief

2/11/22

Static & Silence

The Sundays

9/22/97

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

10/14/83

Ladies of the Canyon

Joni Mitchell

1970-04

Land

Patti Smith

3/19/02

Divers

Joanna Newsom

10/23/15

Guppy

Charly Bliss

4/21/17

Fleetwood Mac

7/11/75

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/22/02

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

1/26/70

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

12/17/71

Parklife

Blur

4/25/94

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

1985

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

1972-10

Lost in the Dream

The War on Drugs

3/18/14

Out of Time

R.E.M.

3/8/91

2

Mac DeMarco

10/16/12

Genius: The Best of Warren Zevon

Warren Zevon

10/15/02

Modern Times

Bob Dylan

8/6/06

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

7/4/05

Stardust

Willie Nelson

1978-04

Avalon

Roxy Music

1982

Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits

Patsy Cline

3/13/67

The Tide's Magnificence: Songs and Poems of Molly Drake

Molly Drake

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

1971

Willy and the Poor Boys

Creedence Clearwater Revival

11/2/69

Have You In My Wilderness

Julia Holter

9/25/15

Pup Tent

Luna

7/29/97

Madonna

7/26/83

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

Pavement

2/14/94

Night Time, My Time

Sky Ferreira

10/29/13

Submarine Bells

The Chills

9/1/90

The Ballad Of Mott: A Retrospective

Mott the Hoople

1993

Colour Green

Sibylle Baier

2/7/06

Odessey and Oracle

The Zombies

4/19/68

Late Registration

Kanye West

2005-03

Post

Björk

6/9/95

Here In The Pitch

Jessica Pratt

Trans-Europe Express

Kraftwerk

1977

Ambient, Vol. 2: The Plateaux Of Mirror

Harold Budd

6/2/05

Weezer

1/1/08

A I A: Alien Observer

Grouper

4/11/11

Songs of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

11/6/09

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears for Fears

2/17/85

Just for a Day

Slowdive

9/2/91

MELTING MOMENT

POiSON GiRLFRiEND

5/21/92

So Close to Nine (8.8-8.9/10)

Albums with superior aesthetic values. Usually you can only pick out very few fillers from them.

Norman Fucking Rockwell!

Lana Del Rey

8/30/19

Bright Future

Adrianne Lenker

3/22/24

E•MO•TION

Carly Rae Jepsen

6/23/15

MAGDALENE

FKA twigs

11/8/19

Labour of Lust

Nick Lowe

1979-06

John Prine

1971

The Moldy Peaches

5/7/01

El Corazon

Steve Earle

1997

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

9/15/89

Live Through This

Hole

4/8/94

Never for Ever

Kate Bush

9/8/80

How Will the Wolf Survive?

Los Lobos

10/17/84

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

10/2/07

Timespace: The Best of Stevie Nicks

Stevie Nicks

9/3/91

Graceland

Paul Simon

8/29/86

Penthouse

Luna

8/8/95

Need To Feel Your Love

Sheer Mag

7/14/17

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

1967-03

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

9/24/71

beautiful reasons

The Cry

1990

Moon Pix

Cat Power

9/22/98

Suburban Light

The Clientele

2000-11

The Fashion Focus

Starflyer 59

1/1/98

Black Metal

Dean Blunt

11/3/14

TRST

TR/ST

2/28/12

BRAT

Charli xcx

6/7/24

Stories from the City - Stories from the Sea

PJ Harvey

10/22/00

Tracy Chapman

4/1/88

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

4/6/10

Titanic Rising

Weyes Blood

4/5/19

Faith

George Michael

10/30/87

And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow

Weyes Blood

11/18/22

Best Of Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton

1975-07

Javelin

Sufjan Stevens

10/6/23

Dancer With Bruised Knees

Kate & Anna McGarrigle

1977

Interiors

Rosanne Cash

1990

East Nashville Skyline

Todd Snider

2004

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

12/13/13

Ray of Light

Madonna

4/27/98

Blue Is The Colour

The Beautiful South

10/21/96

Rum, Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

6/7/05

Modern Vampires of the City

Vampire Weekend

5/6/13

I Got Heaven

Mannequin Pussy

Reading, Writing & Arithmetic

The Sundays

1/15/90

At Least For Now

Benjamin Clementine

Blondshell

London Calling

The Clash

12/14/79

The Boy with the Arab Strap

Belle and Sebastian

9/7/98

BRAT

Charli XCX

6/7/24

Giving the World Away

Hatchie

4/22/22

Fleet Foxes

6/3/08

Attack on Memory

Cloud Nothings

1/24/12

Dedicated To Bobby Jameson

Ariel Pink

9/15/17

Mundo Civilizado

Arto Lindsay

7/19/96

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/2/74

Early Music

Voxtrot

Oceans Apart

The Go-Betweens

4/25/05

Calm Before...

The Rising Storm

1967

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

10/1/84

Yhä hämärää

Paavoharju

7/27/05

Violator

Depeche Mode

2/5/90

Songs of Love and Hate

Leonard Cohen

1971

Twin Fantasy

Car Seat Headrest

11/2/11

WhatFunLifeWas

Bedhead

4/4/94

Starfish

The Church

2/16/88

On Any Normal Monday

Cleaners From Venus

1982-04

Glycerine

Allison Lorenzen

Midnight Cleaners

Cleaners From Venus

1982-12

Giles Corey

3/1/11

"Heroes"

David Bowie

10/14/77

Thriller

Michael Jackson

11/30/82

The Bones of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

9/20/13

Mind Palace Music

Patterns in Repeat

Laura Marling

Imaginal Disk

Magdalena Bay

8/23/24

Not Like The Others (8.4-8.7/10)

Albums I would begin to use the word "great" to describe. Just great albums generally or albums I was more interested in them previously or new albums that needs the test of time.

Luck of the Draw

Bonnie Raitt

6/25/91

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

10/30/06

The Velvet Rope

Janet Jackson

10/4/97

Currents

Tame Impala

7/15/15

Saint Cloud

Waxahatchee

3/27/20

What's Your Pleasure?

Jessie Ware

6/26/20

On The Line

Jenny Lewis

3/22/19

The Friends of Rachel Worth

The Go-Betweens

9/23/00

Salad Days

Mac DeMarco

4/1/14

Catacombs

Cass McCombs

6/1/09

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

2/15/72

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

1970-02

MY WOMAN

Angel Olsen

9/2/16

Harvest Moon

Neil Young

10/27/92

Blue Rev

Alvvays

The Boy With The Arab Strap

Belle and Sebastian

9/7/98

Shoot Out the Lights

Richard & Linda Thompson

1982

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

1969-03

Punisher

Phoebe Bridgers

2/16/20

Fetch the Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

4/17/20

Poses

Rufus Wainwright

6/4/01

Freetown Sound

Blood Orange

6/28/16

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

3/5/86

Funeral

Arcade Fire

9/14/04

So Tonight That I Might See

Mazzy Star

9/27/93

The Best of OMD

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

1988

A Crow Looked At Me

Mount Eerie

3/24/17

Just Another Diamond Day

Vashti Bunyan

1970

Tropical Brainstorm

Kirsty MacColl

3/27/00

Tender Buttons

Broadcast

9/19/05

Give It Up

Bonnie Raitt

1972-09

Songs from a Room

Leonard Cohen

1969-04

Once Twice Melody

Beach House

2/18/22

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

3/2/07

Original Pirate Material

The Streets

3/25/02

Nashville Skyline

Bob Dylan

4/9/69

Maxinquaye

Tricky

2/20/95

Songs About Leaving

Carissa's Wierd

8/6/02

The Lion's Roar

First Aid Kit

12/5/11

At Last!

Etta James

11/15/60

The Hissing of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

1975-11

Urban Hymns

The Verve

9/29/97

Arca

4/7/17

Days

Real Estate

10/17/11

Acetone

10/7/97

Rifts

Oneohtrix Point Never

10/20/09

Le Tigre

11/8/99

Before and After Science

Brian Eno

1977-12

Give It Up

Bonnie Raitt

1972-09

Centrifics

Marina Allen

9/16/22

Seed of a Seed

Haley Heynderickx

Good Morning Spider

Sparklehorse

7/20/98

Tiny Cities

Sun Kil Moon

10/31/05

Whitechocolatespaceegg

Liz Phair

8/7/98

Luck Of The Draw

Bonnie Raitt

6/25/91

Remind Me Tomorrow

Sharon Van Etten

1/18/19

Diary of a Mod Housewife

Amy Rigby

8/20/96

Two Hands

Big Thief

10/11/19

My Life

Iris DeMent

4/12/94

U.F.O.F.

Big Thief

5/3/19

Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit

Courtney Barnett

3/15/15

Natalie Prass

1/27/15

Light Upon the Lake

Whitney

6/3/16

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

10/17/89

July

Marissa Nadler

2/4/14

Platinum

Miranda Lambert

6/3/14

Kala

M.I.A.

8/8/07

On the Line

Jenny Lewis

3/22/19

Women In Music Pt. III

HAIM

6/26/20

Christine and the Queens

5/27/14

My Back Was a Bridge For You To Cross

ANOHNI

7/7/23

The Dirty South

Drive-By Truckers

8/24/04

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

6/22/79

Little Fugitive

Amy Rigby

2005

Teen Dream

Beach House

1/16/10

Benji

Sun Kil Moon

2/11/14

XO

Elliott Smith

8/24/98

Set My Heart On Fire Immediately

Perfume Genius

5/15/20

Hadestown

Anaïs Mitchell

3/9/10

It'll End in Tears

This Mortal Coil

10/1/84

Star Lore

Aindulmedir

2/17/23

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

1978

It's A Wonderful Life

Sparklehorse

6/11/01

Jackson C. Frank

1965

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

6/15/79

A Promise

Xiu Xiu

2/18/03

Loud City Song

Julia Holter

8/19/13

Down Colorful Hill

Red House Painters

9/14/92

Stratosphere

Duster

2/24/98

American Water

Silver Jews

10/20/98

Odelay

Beck

6/17/96

From a Basement on the Hill

Elliott Smith

10/18/04

Did You Know that There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd

Lana Del Rey

3/24/23

Ill

Makthaverskan

10/13/17

First Aid Kit

Big Blood

6/9/23

Old Ramon

Red House Painters

4/10/01

No Depression In Heaven

Midwife

9/6/24

Songs For A Blue Guitar

Red House Painters

7/23/96

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Miranda Lambert

5/1/07

For The Roses

Joni Mitchell

1972-10

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

1/13/92

Lucinda Williams

1988

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

Blonde

Frank Ocean

8/20/16

Shore

Fleet Foxes

9/22/20

The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We

Mitski

9/15/23

All Mirrors

Angel Olsen

10/4/19

Impermanence

Peter Silberman

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

5/27/63

Welder

Elizabeth Cook

5/10/10

On Fire

Galaxie 500

1989

In A Poem Unlimited

U.S. Girls

2/16/18

And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out

Yo La Tengo

2/22/00

Lemonade

Beyoncé

4/23/16

Front Row Seat To Earth

Weyes Blood

10/21/16

Grace

Jeff Buckley

8/15/94

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

3/30/18

Hell On Heels

Pistol Annies

8/23/11

Peter Gabriel 3: Melt

Peter Gabriel

6/22/78

And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow

Weyes Blood

11/18/22

Late For The Sky

Jackson Browne

1974-09

Something More Than Free

Jason Isbell

7/17/15

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

9/13/99

Atlanta Millionaires Club

Faye Webster

5/24/19

Loveless

my bloody valentine

11/4/91

Kaputt

Destroyer

1/25/11

Antisocialites

Alvvays

9/8/17

Originalitos

Frankie Reyes

False Lankum

Lankum

3/24/23

Because I Was in Love

Sharon Van Etten

5/26/09

Ys

Joanna Newsom

11/14/06

Love & Hate

Michael Kiwanuka

7/15/16

This Time

Dwight Yoakam

3/23/93

Mule Variations

Tom Waits

4/14/99

Countless Branches

Bill Fay

1/17/20

Song Cycle

Van Dyke Parks

5/21/05

Knock Knock

Smog

1/12/99

Acopia

Narrowing Type

Good Night & Good Morning

4/25/12

Hex

Bark Psychosis

2/14/94

Sometimes Always

Hatchie

6/5/20

Musick to Play in the Dark²

Coil

2000-09

Apollo

Brian Eno

1983-07

Secrets of the Beehive

David Sylvian

6/9/05

The Venus Trail

3Ds

1993

The Blade

Ashley Monroe

Geidi Primes

Grimes

1/10/10

Fly

Dixie Chicks

8/27/99

Come On Over

Shania Twain

11/4/97

The Loveliest Time

Carly Rae Jepsen

7/28/23

Be the Cowboy

Mitski

8/17/18

Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd

Lana Del Rey

3/24/23

ANTI

Rihanna

1/28/16

songs

Adrianne Lenker

10/23/20

Introspective

Pet Shop Boys

1988-04

Case / Lang / Veirs

case/lang/veirs

6/14/16

Erotica

Madonna

10/13/92

Song For Our Daughter

Laura Marling

4/10/20

Miss Universe

Nilüfer Yanya

3/22/19

Court and Spark

Joni Mitchell

1974-04

PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE

Christine and the Queens

6/9/23

Prioritise Pleasure

Self Esteem

10/22/21

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/11/83

Long Is The Tunnel

Daneshevskaya

Quiet Signs

Jessica Pratt

2/8/19

I Love You, Honeybear

Father John Misty

2/9/15

Something in the Room She Moves

Julia Holter

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/17/00

If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears

The Mamas & the Papas

2/28/66

Slowdive

5/5/17

A Little Touch of Schleicher in the Night

Katie Von Schleicher

Time 'n' Place

Kero Kero Bonito

10/1/18

Out in the Storm

Waxahatchee

7/14/17

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

4/8/97

Mouth by Mouth

His Name Is Alive

4/13/93

Mixing Colours

Roger Eno

3/20/20

Haven

Svaneborg Kardyb

10/23/20

Apocalypse

Bill Callahan

4/5/11

When

Vincent Gallo

10/1/01

Discovery

Daft Punk

2/26/01

Let Me Go, Let Me Go, Let Me Go

Jason Molina

8/22/06

Architect

C Duncan

Mystère

La Femme

8/26/16

Superficies de Placer

Virus

1987

Jump Rope Gazers

The Beths

7/10/20

Let's Get Out Of This Country

Camera Obscura

5/29/06

Excuses For Travellers

Mojave 3

5/15/00

Gala

Lush

11/13/90

Debut

Björk

7/12/93

Tin Drum

Japan

11/28/81

Velocity: Design: Comfort.

Sweet Trip

6/10/03

Lonerism

Tame Impala

10/5/12

Aerial

Kate Bush

11/2/05

Love the Stranger

Friendship

7/29/22

Gate Keepers (8.2-8.3/10)

Good album that show respesctable effort. Maybe some guilty pleasures but I personally enjoy them a lot. It seems like there are a lot of pop albums here.