Music is a major part of my life and I want to really create a page dedicated to explaining my favorite music, if not for the curiosity of others than simply for my own personal categorization purposes.

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I consider myself to have fairly diverse taste in music. I do not like all music, but I do enjoy something from just about every genre. However, most of my favorite music falls into the following categories: indie rock/ indie pop, alternative rock, art rock/art pop, post-punk, folk rock, new wave, synthpop, electro-industrial, various forms of electronic dance music (from early techno and house to breakbeat to UK garage), some hip hop music, some hard rock, and some classical music and modern classical. Most of my music is more recent - the 2000s are by far my favorite decade for music.

Last updated: April 14, 2013 (NOTE: This is a rough list and can by no means be considered definitive. A more comprehensive list of my favorite albums can be found below.)

1. Radiohead – Kid A (2000)
2. Portishead – Third (2008)
3. Talking Heads – Remain in Light (1980)
4. Björk – Homogenic (1997)
5. Mae – The Everglow (2005)
6. Agalloch – Marrow of the Spirit (2010)
7. The National – High Violet – (2010)
8. Stars – Set Yourself On Fire – (2004)
9. Brand New – The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me (2006)
10. Björk – Vespertine (2001)
11. Death Cab for Cutie – Transatlanticism (2003)
12. Arcade Fire – Funeral (2004)
13. Tears for Fears – The Hurting (1983)
14. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2000)
15. The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
16. Moving Mountains – Pneuma (2007)
17. The Avalanches – Since I Left You (2000)
18. The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds (1966)
19. Sigur Rós – Takk... (2005)
20. Shpongle – Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland (2009)
21. Bon Iver – Bon Iver, Bon Iver (2011)
22. The Cure – Disintegration (1989)
23. Depeche Mode – Violator (1990)
24. Porcupine Tree – In Absentia (2002)
25. Massive Attack – Mezzanine (1998)
26. Broken Social Scene – Broken Social Scene (2005)
27. Shpongle – Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost (2005)
28. Radiohead – OK Computer (1997)
29. Thrice – The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV (2008)
30. Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited (1965)

I've decided to categorize my favorite music by album instead of by band, since even great bands can release mediocre albums, and mediocre bands can release great albums. This list includes full-length original albums and EPs.

• Aesop Rock
  • Skelethon (2012)
• Agalloch
  • The Mantle (2002)
  • Ashes Against the Grain (2006)
  • The White (EP) (2008)
  • Marrow of the Spirit (2010)
• The Antlers
  • Hospice (2009)
• Anathema
  • We're Here Because We're Here (2010)
• Aphex Twin
  • Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (1992)
• Arcade Fire
  • Funeral (2004)
  • Neon Bible (2007)
• At the Drive-In
  • Relationship of Command (2000)
• The Beatles
  • Revolver (1966)
  • The White Album (1968)
• Belle & Sebastian
  • If You're Feeling Sinister (1996)
• Björk
  • Homogenic (1997)
  • Vespertine (2001)
• Bob Dylan
  • Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
  • Blood on the Tracks (1975)
• Bon Iver
  • Bon Iver, Bon Iver (2011)
• Brand New
  • The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me (2006)
• Broken Social Scene
  • Broken Social Scene (2005)
• Built to Spill
  • Perfect from Now On (1997)
  • Keep It Like a Secret (1999)
• Comus
  • First Utterance (1971)
• CunninLynguists
  • Oneirology (2011)
• The Cure
  • Pornography (1982)
  • Disintegration (1989)
  • Bloodflowers (2000)
• David Bowie
  • Low (1977)
• Dead Can Dance
  • Within the Realm of a Dying Sun (1987)
• Death Cab for Cutie
  • Transatlanticism (2003)
  • Plans (2005)
• Deftones
  • White Pony (2000)
• Depeche Mode
  • Violator (1990)
  • Songs of Faith and Devotion (1993)
  • Playing the Angel (2005)
• Destroyer
  • Destroyer's Rubies (2006)
• Elbow
  • Build a Rocket Boys! (2011)
• Fleet Foxes
  • Helplessness Blues (2011)
• Florence and the Machine
  • Lungs (2009)
• Gang Gang Dance
  • Eye Contact (2011)
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  • F♯A♯∞ (1998)
  • Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada EP (1999)
  • Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2000)
• Gorillaz
  • Demon Days (2005)
• Hurt
  • Vol. II (2007)
• Iron & Wine
  • The Shepherd's Dog (2007)
• Jens Lekman
  • Night Falls Over Kortedala (2007)
• Jethro Tull
  • Thick as a Brick (1972)
• Kanye West
  • The College Dropout (2002)
  • My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)
• Kate Bush
  • Hounds of Love (1985)
• The Knife
  • Silent Shout (2005)
• Led Zeppelin
  • Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
• Mae
  • The Everglow (2005)
• The Mars Volta
  • De-Loused in the Comatorium (2003)
• Massive Attack
  • Mezzanine (1998)
• Matthew Dear
  • Black City (2010)
  • Beams (2012)
• M83
  • Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (2011)
• Moving Mountains
  • Pneuma (2007)
• The National
  • Alligator (2005)
  • High Violet (2010)
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
  • Tender Prey (1988)
  • Henry's Dream (1992)
  • The Boatman's Call (1997)
• Nick Drake
  • Five Leaves Left (1969)
• Nicolas Jaar
  • Space Is Only Noise (2010)
• Nine Inch Nails
  • The Downward Spiral (1994)
  • The Fragile (1999)
  • Year Zero (2007)
• Opeth
  • Blackwater Park (2001)
• Orbital
  • In Sides (1996)
  • The Middle of Nowhere (1999)
• Pink Floyd
  • Animals (1977)
• Porcupine Tree
  • Up the Downstair (1993)
  • Lightbulb Sun (2000)
  • In Absentia (2002)
  • Deadwing (2005)
• Portishead
  • Third (2008)
• Queen
  • A Night at the Opera (1975)
• Queens of the Stone Age
  • Songs for the Deaf (2002)
• Radiohead
  • OK Computer (1997)
  • Kid A (2000)
  • Hail to the Thief (2003)
  • In Rainbows (2007)
• R.E.M.
  • Murmur (1983)
  • Automatic for the People (1992)
• Riverside
  • Anno Domini High Definition (2009)
• The Rolling Stones
  • Sticky Fingers (1971)
• Shpongle
  • Are You Shpongled? (1999)
  • Tales of the Inexpressible (2001)
  • Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost (2005)
  • Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland (2009)
• Sigur Rós
  • Takk... (2005)
• Sleater-Kinney
  • The Woods (2005)
• Skinny Puppy
  • Too Dark Park (1990)
  • Last Rights (1992)
• Smashing Pumpkins
  • Siamese Dream (1993)
  • Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995)
• The Smiths
  • The Queen is Dead (1986)
• Stars
  • Set Yourself on Fire (2004)
• Stromkern
  • Light It Up (2005)
• Swans
  • White Light from the Mouth of Infinity (1991)
  • The Great Annihilator (1995)
  • Soundtracks for the Blind (1996)
  • The Seer (2012)
• System of a Down
  • System of a Down (1998)
  • Toxicity (2001)
• Talking Heads
  • Fear of Music (1979)
  • Remain in Light (1980)
• Talk Talk
  • The Colour of Spring (1986)
• Tears for Fears
  • The Hurting (1983)
• Tegan and Sara
  • The Con (2007)
• Television
  • Marquee Moon (1977)
• Thrice
  • The Artist in the Ambulance (2003)
  • Vheissu (2005)
  • The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV (2008)
• Tool
  • Ænima (1996)
  • Lateralus (2001)
• TV on the Radio
  • Dear Science (2008)
• U2
  • War (1983)
• Van Morrison
  • Astral Weeks (1968)
• VAST
  • Visual Audio Sensory Theater (1998)
• The Velvet Underground
  • The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
• The Weeknd
  • Echoes of Silence (2011)
• Yeasayer
  • All Hour Cymbals (2007)
• Yndi Halda
  • Enjoy Eternal Bliss (2006)
• The Zombies
  • Odessey & Oracle (1968)