Here's a concise list of what I know by heart in my short music career:
Captain Beefheart & His/The Magic Band - Safe As Milk, Safe As Milk, Trout Mask Replica, Lick My Decals Off, Baby, The Mirror Man Sessions, and Ice Cream For Crow
Frank Zappa - Apostrophe ('), Hot Rats, Bongo Fury (to be fair this is a Zappa/Beefheart album, but I'll just put it here), Burnt Weenie Sandwich, and One Size Fits All
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Zu - Igneo and Carboniferous
Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans, Close to the Edge, and Fragile
Mr. Bungle - S/T and Disco Volante
Fantomas - S/T
John Zorn - Spy vs. Spy
Ornette Coleman - This is Our Music and Dancing In Your Head
John Coltrane - Ascension
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico and White Light/White Heat
Marc Ribot - Saints and Asmodeous
Pink Floyd - The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon, Meddle, Wish You Were Here, Animals, Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Atom Heart Mother, and Saucerful of Secrets
Sonny Sharrock - Ask the Ages
Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs
Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food
This Heat - Deceit
The United States of America - S/T
The Who - Tommy
miRthkon - Vehicle
Jandek - Blue Corpse and Interstellar Discussion
John Fahey - The Voice of the Turtle
I'll just stop there, I didn't expect there to be so many. I'm quite pleased about this, actually.
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