Album of the Year: [1950-2000 complete; subject to change]

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According to me. My opinions constantly change in regards to certain years, but this should be pretty definitive for now.

1950s:
Yma Sumac - Voice of the Xtabay (1950)
Bud Powell - The Amazing Bud Powell (1951)
Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie - Bird and Diz (1952)
Moondog - Moondog and His Friends (1953)
Dorival Caymmi - Canções Praieiras (1954)
Julie London - IJulie Is Her Name (1955)
The Modern Jazz Quartet - Fontessa (1956)
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus (1957)
Sun Ra - Jazz in Silhouette (1958)
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959)

1960s:
Link Wray - Link Wray & The Wraymen (1960)
Max Roach - We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite (1961)
Duke Ellington - Money Jungle (1962)
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963)
Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity (1964)
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (1965)
Monks - Black Monk Time (1966)
Captain Beefheart - Safe as Milk (1967)
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat (1968)
Don Cherry - Eternal Rhythm (1969)

1970s:
The Stooges - Fun House (1970)
Can - Tago Mago (1971)
Neu! - Neu! (1972)
Magma - Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh (1973)
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets (1974)
Brian Eno - Another Green World (1975)
The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers (1976)
Television - Marquee Moon (1977)
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance (1978)
James Chance & The Contortions - Buy (1979)

1980s:
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (1980)
The Gun Club - Fire of Love (1981)
Antena - Camino del Sol (1982)
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones (1983)
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime (1984)
Foetus - Nail (1985)
Big Black - Atomizer (1986)
Swans - Children of God (1987)
My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise EP (1988)
NoMeansNo - Wrong (1989)

1990s:
Cop Shoot Cop - Consumer Revolt (1990)
The Jesus Lizard - Goat (1991)
Nurse With Wound - Thunder Perfect Mind (1992)
Polvo - Today's Active Lifestyles (1993)
Shellac - At Action Park (1994)
灰野敬二 - I Said, This Is the Son of Nihilism (1995)
Black Tape for a Blue Girl - Remnants of a Deeper Purity (1996)
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space (1997)
Boredoms -Super æ (1998)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See a Darkness (1999)
Boris - Flood (2000)

NOTE: If you disagree with any of my picks, tell me why and what you might have picked instead!