The 10 Greatest JAZZ FUSION albums | Ranked 

When The Inner Mounting Flame exploded off the turntables of countless first time listeners, unlike many other albums, there was no formative undeveloped version of this music that prepared you for what was coming. The white hot intensity of the playing combined with the uniquely original jazz, Indian, classical and rock elements in the compositions seemed to have emerged fully formed from somewhere beyond the know musical universe!

I bought The Inner Mounting Flame as an 18 year old in 2001, without hearing a single note. It's still my favorite album of all time.

I worked in record stores during my college days and I had a reputation for playing everything and anything when it was my turn to play an album. I remember groans from my fellow employees when I told them I was going to play some jazz. I put on the Mahavishnu Orchestra 's Birds of Fire, and everyone was stunned by the incredible musicianship of these guys.

In a way I think Jimi's Electric Ladyland is the greatest 'everything' album there is. It has jazz, rock, blues, boogie, pop, pseudo-classical, gospel, sci-fi and fusion on it. It is pure genius. The only weakness is the 1968 recording techniques that were available to Jimi in the day. Jimi was way ahead of the technology. It is extraordinary Andy and it would be lovely for you to make a complete video on this album alone. Thank you, appreciate it. Not forgetting ground-breaking electric guitar work either.

I guessed Birds Of Fire would be #1…more well known, commercially successful, better recorded than the debut (debatable)…but I can live with your choice. Another fascinating video..all great choices…you are on a roll!

An honorable mention for Hymn of the seventh galaxy.

I am driving for 8 hours to see the eclipse on April 8 and am making a Spotify playlist of high-energy tracks to keep me going! Luckily, I recognize many of these albums...I bought them in the 70s!! Fusion is my favorite genre. Thanks for reminding me about all this fantastic music!

Tony Williams Lifetime. Holdsworth is on fire. Proto-Cosmos, Red Alert, Mr Spock. Pure genius. Just my thoughts..

I like your selection ! Anyway there are like 10 more maybe waiting for the next time

Great post, thanks. I'm smiling here, as l have every one of those. Most LPs bought when released. And a couple on cd. You nailed the Greats, yes.

I'm impressed! Frankly I didn't think you'd hit the sweet ones, and you did! I might quibble and say Blow by Blow over Wired, but it is close. So pleased to see Ponty included. Nailed that one too! And love that you included Jaco's debut record, which still blows me away to this day.

my favorites.. 1, Birds of Fire 2. Steve Morese the Introduction 3. Tony Williams - Believe it 4. Allan Holdsworth - Road Games 5. Jean Luc Ponty Fables 6. Jeff Beck Wired 7. Bill Connors - Step it 8. Weather Report - Heavy Weather 9. Return to Forerver - Romantic Warrior 10 Stanley Clark - school days..

Wow this was great! I've been searching for an alternative genre and your video came up. I love your explanations and ranking. I've ordered Elegant Gypsy and Inner Mounting Flame. Can't wait. Thanks Andy!

why does no one seem to get caravanserai!!!? a monumental masterpiece of the genre

Jeff Lorber Fusion, 'Wizard Island'. Great album with a young Kenny Gorelick.

Awesome channel and list. I think I’ll make my top 10. Big fusion fan for over 40 years. Thx. I love prog too. But it all comes back to fusion for me

I have always felt that one of the things that Miles Davis was really great at was finding talented musicians to be in his bands and getting the most out of them. When I look at your list, I notice the top five are made by artists or groups led by people that were on Miles Davis's records in the 60s and early 70s. You may have not put a Miles Davis record on this list but his presence is definitely there. As always, great video.

This is a great list… probably we could get another 10 albums in here, but I love your picks! And your rationales are very solid.

Another great list, Andy! As others have said, it’s hard to hear these as they were first heard. Completely revolutionary when they first came out. I think Colosseum were probably my first (more gentle) introduction to the genre.

Nice list Andy - you've cited several of my favorites. My first exposure to Mahavishnu Orchestra was hearing Dance of Maya on college radio in 1972. The transition between jazz chaos and boogie woogie fully caught my attention. I'll add one more lesser known album that's a personal favorite: Infinity Machine by Passport (1976). This cohesive album defines space jazz imho.

after seeing mahavishnu at winterland san francisco 1972, i was gobsmacked by the musicianship. the tight complex changes and ground breaking progressions, an assault on the senses but in a most wonderful way. jerry goodman deserves mention, i had seen him in the band "flock" earlier at sky river lighter than air fair, an incredible violinist which so compliments the guitar, keys, bass, and drums, i feel incredibly fortunate to have heard them live.

1 Jaco - Jaco Pastorius 2- Between nothingness and eternity-Mahavishnu orchestra 3- 8.30 - Weather Report 4- Offramp- Pat Metheny Group 5- Return to Forever-Chick Corea 6- Golden wings-Opa 7- Odissey- Terje Rypdal 8- Land of the midnight sun-Al diMeola 9- Shamal- Gong 10- VSOP- Herbie Hancock

I would be interested in hearing you work through a list of fusion albums of jazz with non-Western music. This is a genre I find particularly intersting. Examples would be "Jazz Now Ramwong" by Albert Mangelsdorff, "Malak" by Dhafer Youssef, "Thimar" by Anouar Brahem, "The European Jazz Ensemble Meets the Khan Family," Pierre Favre's collaborations with pipa player Yang Jing, etc. Maybe too obscure for much of your audience, but some really fascinating stuff.

Fine job Andy! I appreciate that you take it back to Bitches Brew. To me no question ‘it’ starts with IASWay. For sure nothing on it or Brew sounds like Inner Mounting Flame. It just seems obvious to me, as a musician/listener who knew IASWay and Brew backwards and forwards and inside out - saw Miles and Co open for Santana at Tanglewood August 1970, a little more than a year from when Miles recorded Brew …. So when Inner Mounting Flame dropped me and my pals were right on it. Blew us away of course. And the progression from the Miles stuff to Flame seemed quite seamless. The leap they made seemed exactly the right and perfect leap. And we took it in inside out and backwards etc easily. It’s like what John McLaughlin learned from being with Miles grew into what seemed to us a perfectly understandable new path. John ‘had’ to have played with Miles for there to have been a MO. Maybe you can snag an interview with him and rap about those times, that music. That would be a Treat for all time, wouldn’t it! p.s. we had seen Jerry Goodman w The Flock and that first Flock record was in our ears, so when Jerry showed up on Flame it was 'Look who is on this!' Another piece to the puzzle of the birth of fusion. pp.ss. And there would've been no Return To Forever if Chick hadn't played, with McLaughlin ;), on In A Silent Way . . . .

Inner Mounting Flame was my intro to JM and I was wasn't prepared at all, in fact at first I didn't like it! But I knew, just from the album cover and the track titles that I had to persevere, so I did and what a journey it kick-started in me! So grateful to JM for his music.

Great list. One of my favorites in the genre is Bill Bruford ‘One of a kind’.

A very good one Andy. You are 100 % correct about Inner Mounting Flame. Jazz Fusion was not clear about what it was untill that album came out. People was waiting for an album that did Rock mixed with Jazz convincingly, and that was the one. Ow and a good version of early Jazz-Funk is Ramsey Lewis's "Mother Nature's Son", done in 1968, which is a beatle covers album, but done sooo well, cos it's so funky. Great stuff Andy.

You have to consider the first Chick Corea Elektric Band LP with Dave Weckl.. blew my mind in 1986

Andy, your output is getting quite prolific. Keep going and thank you. As regards my take on jazz fusion , i would have chosen the smouldering and intense RTFs - Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy over Romantic Warrior, but that's me

Your list was (is!) absolutely awesome! I heard almost every one of these albums when I was kid, not having a clue about "jazz" or what it was, because I LOVED FUNK, JAMES BROWN, PARLIAMENT, BAR KAYS....AND FUNK!! It's all I listened to until my Dad, who was a drummer and songwriter for a local R&B band in the 70's back home, turned me onto this music. After he taught me drums at 6 years old, later on, he turned me on to the music of my life. He started with Al Jarreau, then Billy Cobham, Miles Davis, Grover Washington, Bob James....then came the funk of fusion!! this!! I have all of the LPs you have except for the Mahavisnu Orchestra, I have one of their other ones. So your list is awesome and here's my top 10, if I can share it with you. 10. Jeff Beck, 'Wired'. 9. Jean-Luc Ponty, "Cosmic Messenger, 8. Lenny White, "Big City," (tied with "Venusian Summer", 8. Klaus Doldinger Passport, "Infinity Machine", 7. Stanley Clarke, "School Days,", 6. Al Dimeola "Splendido Hotel," 5. Eric Gale, "Ginseng Woman", 4. Herbie Hancock, "Headhunters", 3. Billy Cobham, "Spectrum", 2. Return to Forever, "Romantic Warrior", 1. Weather Report, "Heavy Weather" Long live the music 💯👏🏾

Just discovered your channel. Really appreciate this drop. I grew up at a young age playing drums in the mid 60’s appreciating all these artist. I was told that I played like Cobham then. I just want to give some recognition to the 1st Pat Metheny Album. This one really hit me hard and his succeeding ones continued to capture me. He’s one artist I would definitely cry upon his passing. Thanks so much for sharing 🙏🏼😎

Jan Hammer also played synthesizer on ‘Spectrum ‘ & ‘Elegant Gypsy’. On ‘Wired’ there are two synth players : Jan Hammer & Max Middleton.

Love your list and your enthusiasm. When introducing fusion to my students, most of these albums are on my list as well (nice to have that affirmation btw). I agree with you that there are other albums to include, of course, but this is a pretty comprehensive list for any newbie. The Jan Hammer was a bit of a twist for me, but I embrace that twist, so thank you. Keep up the good work.

Interesting list, to which I would add Yes' "Relayer" and Pat Matheny's "Off Ramp.". Brilliant!!

Awesome report !! Great choices, great great music..All these albums are so important to listen to again !!

Hi Andy. I thoroughly enjoy your videos and thank you for introducing me to a genre I know nothing about but am enjoying getting to know.

I have to agree that Inner Mounting is the best. It is so crazy to hear it’s sounds. So otherworldly

Excellent list

Perfect list - I can't disagree with any of these choices or even the order of the ranking. I was surprised that Miles Davis wasn't included since he gave birth to the top 5 on this list but you explained that quite well so I get it.

Nice list. Too many to list from me, but these are up there for me (In no particular order); Bruford - Feels Good to Me, Tribal Tech - Illicit, Sixun - Nomads' Land, Terry Bozzio-Gerald Preinfalk-Alex Machacek - bpm > delete and roll, Marc Guillermont - O World, Tom Coster - Forbidden Zone, Dennis Chambers - Front Page, John Mclaughlin - Industrial Zen, Kim Plainfield + Lincoln Goines - Night and Day, Lost Tribe - Many Lifetimes, Passport - Cross-Collateral, Paul Hanson - Frolic in the Land of Plenty, Project Z - Lincoln Memorial.... That's enough :)

All superb albums. There is so much great music out there in jazz fusion world that we could do this every day for a long time. Great posting Andy.

Billy Cobham Spectrum with Tommy Bolin , thanks for talking about Tommy at length

Excellent list and a very nice tribute to fusion greats, Andy

Wel, now beeing on my pension AND kind of fit again after 4 years of trying to survive, I finally started to learn about Hard Bop, Be Bop and now.. Fusion. And thanks to you, Andy, I really learn about music. Not just listen to it and read a little bit. Thank You!

I listened to Mahavisnu Orchestra in its two incarnations, followed by some Billy Cobham, RTF, Jeff Beck , but i seem to have missed out on a load of fusion albums! Cheers for the list!

I like your enthousiastm. Bought some cd's I did'nt knew the existance of, after your reviews. Keep up the good work.

I love your videos Andy! I discovered that Jan Hammer album through your channel and I love it too! I just think a Pat Metheny record should be on here 😬

Mahavishnu Orchestra is the purest form i've discovered in Jazz Fusion. Absolutely legends! I also think Zappa is important to have on the list. The Grand Wazoo or perhaps Hot Rats are important albums...

I would have to put Herbie Hancock's Head Hunters and Sextant and Miles Davis Bitches Brew and Big Fun. .I don't have many jazz-fusion albums but I do dabble in it and have a deep appreciation of all kinds of music .

Great list! Just a few recommendations on Brazilian fusion albums: - Hermeto Pascoal (who wrote 2 songs on Miles`s Live Evil) - Slaves Mass or Live Montreux - Flora Purim - Encounter - Airto Moreira - Free

Fantastic list! I have all these in my cd collection and appreciate your thoughtful criteria. I’m a sucker for jan hammer, fortunately Jeff beck ran into him. Billy cobham’s spectrum with quadrant 4 the standout track pulled me into the world of fusion and mahavishnu et al

Great list. Some that would be on mine are: Get Up With it, Ethiopian Knights, Blue Mode.

Zawinul and Weather Report, along with Maynard Ferguson, were worshipped as gods among myself and the rest of my high school jazz band. 😍

Great list, also tony Williams Lifetime Believe It, Weather Report Black Market or eight thirty LP,, Stanley Clarke School Days.

In the seventies I dipped my toe in the fusion water with Mahavishnu, Weather Report and Chick Corea, and more recently into more mainstream (for want of a better term) jazz, with Miles Davis, Nubia Garcia, and modern jazz bands. But now I’m fully off down the fusion rabbit hole! Love your enthusiasm, and thank you for showing me the way.

Great list Andy in relation to the criteria. I got into fusion in the late 70's via Second's out & discovering where Chester Thompson came from which led me to Weather Report & Heavy Weather, then JM with Electric guitarist, Al Di Meola's Casino & Bruford's One of a kind. Fusion was so well developed by then it was so interesting tracing back & taking in these original classics & experiencing the raw intensity of Inner Mounting Flame.

Honorable Mention - BRAND X / Unorthodox Behavior... although Phil Collins does a great Billy Cobham Impression on it, I must admit!

Now I understand. I was born in '71 when "The Inner Mounting Flame" was released .My mother was and still is addicted to fusion/jazz/prog rock/free jazz. Father told me she was playing this record round the clock - so as a toddler I was soaked with their music. Good mom, I like trauma like that :)

Great job Andy, well nuanced and explained. You really know your stuff and you are a great presenter and ambassador for Jazz/Rock Fusion. Having said this Birds of Fire had to be on the list in my opinion. Peace.

Great list! While I agree with all your choices, here are a few I'd have a hard time keeping off my list: Brand X - Unorthodox Behavior Iceberg - Cosas Nostras Arti e Mesrieri - Tilt (a perfect combo of fusion and prog) Bruford - One of a Kind Holdsworth - Metal Fatigue Didier Lockwood - Surya Zao - Kawana

Ha! Wired! Jan H! Jean Luc! Al! Jaco! WR! Spectrum! Headhunters! Chick! Mahavishnu! Jan! Did I miss anyone? I love and have them all, if not all those particular records, then several others by each artist and band. I win! Did I mention Jan?! Yay!

I got all of them and i love them all. My favorite Jazz fusion is allso Visions of Emerald beyond and my altime favorite track is Lilas Dance ❤

Great to watch this. Love hearing your take on things.

I don't mind the funky "watering down" of fusion. I have and love a few of these albums but I also like the Chuck Mangiones and Deodatos. Yeah they were a little cheesy but come on. Still plenty of harmonic interest and technicality worth more... "fast food" flavor. I like disco and R&B as well so that's probably why the music in the gap resonates with me too. Heady technical fusion is fun but so is a nice visceral groove

In no particular order: 1. Jean-Luc Ponty - Enigmatic Ocean 2. Kazumi Watanabe - Mobo I 3. Bill Connors - Step It 4. Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior 5. Jeff Beck - Wired 6. Stanley Clarke - School Days 7. Lenny White - Venusian Summer 8. Brand X - Unorthodox Behaviour 9. Al Dimeola - Elegant Gypsy 10. Billy Cobham - Power Play

Andy. You cover some amazing ground and I really gravitate to your passion for music. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm. Love it. :)

Call me a heretic, but King Crimson’s “Court of the Crimson King” has early elements of fusion (as well as heavy metal and art rock). Just sayin’…… Fun list - thanks.

Great list! I have to say that Chris Poland’s “Chasing the Sun” is most worthy. He is criminally underrated!

Mahavishnu Orchestra was a Hurricane that came and went . If you saw the origional line up live it overwhelms you !!!!

I liked your top 10 very much. My first? concert that I went to was a group called Isotope ( Gary Boyle on guitar and Hugh Hopper? on bass ). That bass actually hit me hard in my stomach and the guitar......Wow. Happy Memory 👍

Since you wisely picked Weather Report’s album “Heavy Weather” as your number two choice, it’s important to recognize Joe Zawinul’s huge contribution to the seminal fusion classic “In a silent way“ which was written mostly by Zawinul on the request of Miles Davis. Regarding your first choice of the amazing Mahavishnu orchestra, they were the band I first saw saw in 1975 at the outdoor Reading festival in the UK at 20 years old. At the time, I could not wrap my head around the stunning mix of jazz, rock, classical music, Indian and blues at such a young age. Five years later, in 1980, I moved to America, bought a car in New York and drove across the continent. The car had an eight track, and included one tape by John McLaughlin called Devotion with the great Hendrix drummer, Buddy Miles. This album was the bridge between John McLaughlin‘s work with Miles Davis on In a silent way, and his Mahavishnu orchestra. It was also the album that converted me to the Mahavishnu Orchestra’s unique fusion music style. And so, while Miles Davis’s In a silent way concept album can be somewhat tedious and unstructured, it represented the true birth of fusion music, with all the members of the band going on to create their own great fusion bands. John McLaughlin, Tony Williams, Chick Corea, Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, and Miles Davis himself, (with the album Tutu) all of them becoming major fusion artists in their own right.

All of these artists are superb exponents of Jazz-rock. I remember seeing The Mahavishnu Orchestra in '72 and being completely blown away by the awesome power and precision of their playing- I was into rock and blues at the time but this was on another level. Jazz-rock is my favourite genre.

Some other really good ones are Pat Martino "Joyous Lake" , Joe Farrell "Canned Funk" Jean luc Ponty "No Absolute Time" and Freddy Hubbard , "High Energy" .

Nice list. I find it hard to disagree with any choice on here!

Still catching up with your videos. Amazing, I got all of these albums, and I do wholeheartedly agree with putting The Inner Mounting Flame first. It was like a new dawn after Hendrix passing way too early.

WOW! I totally agree with this top 10! You hit the nail on the head and drove it deep into the groove! let's talk!

1. mahavishnu orchestra - the inner mountain flame 2. miles davis - on the corner 3. return to forever - romantic warrior 4. weather report - sweetnighter 5. herbie hancock - headhunters 6. jaco pastorius - s/t 7. jeff beck - wired 8. jean luc ponty - enigmatic oceans 9. tony williams lifetime - emergency! 10. billy cobhamm - spectrum

Inner Mounting Flame !!! Yes . Saw that tour . Nothing like it . My other pics in top 10 : Discipline - King Crimson Who Else - Jeff Beck

Bravo for your #1! I saw Mahavishnu Orchestra twice from 1972-1973 and both times they were just stunning. Best fusion for sure.

Great list! I love Al Dimeola’s Elegant Gypsy and Casino, and consider both masterpieces. I would hope Birds of Fire and Letters From Home at least made your “Next 10”

These are all great albums. DiMeola's Elegant Gypsy was a big influence on my playing and probably the reason I got kicked out of a few metal bands back in the hair metal 80s Sunset Strip scene. I wanted to mix it up and add a Latin influence. They thought that was weird, and that's that. I also love Mahavishnu's Inner Mounting Flame. Amazing album.

I came to fusion as a rock guy who aspired to be a good player, just as the genre was happening. For me, up to that point, bands like Hendrix' Band of Gypsies, Cream and Deep Purple were the pinnacle of musicianship, or so I thought (in my naiveté). When Mahavishnu broke, the bar was raised past my personal abilities and the abilities of the rock guys I so admired. Billy Cobham had power and chops folks like Ginger Baker (and even John Bonham) couldn't reach; ditto for guitarists like Ritchie Blackmore, who was very, very good but whose vocabulary and speed wasn't nearly as wide as McLaughlin's. There was a new standard for musicians like me who liked to turn up and play loud and understood the power in volume and aggression. The jazz form of "play the head, take a solo, repeat" was new to us rock guys. Playing in odd time signatures was another challenge many of us could only aspire to. Another aspect of Mahavishnu's music was its dynamics; quiet acoustic passages make the loud stuff pop all the more, something, for example, Led Zeppelin understood and exploited. I do think Andy's list doesn't take into account the later fusion folks, who really didn't expand the genre but had successful careers. I enjoyed this video and agreed with most of it. Now I think I'll go back and listen to that Jan Hammer album; I never owned it but did have Jan's excellent The First Seven Days and Like Children, his collaboration with Mahavishnu's violinist Jerry Goodman. PS: I've always imagined what Hendrix would have done with a monster jazz funk bass player like Marcus Miller or as a member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, or if he was the guy on Billy Cobham's Spectrum.

it was really hard for me to watch after "there's no Miles Davis on this list, but here's Jeff Beck and Jean Luc Ponty". But honestly it was a good list aside from the glaring omission of Miles. Others I'd consider would be something from the Pat Metheny group and also from Anthony Williams/Lifetime.

"Oh Yeah" definitely belongs in there, my introduction to Fusion together with Heavy Weather.

LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN 🔥 Al Di Meola 🎸

Herbie Hancock's Headhunters would be number 1 for me it was my 13th birthday gift

Great list! So I'd probably personally replace Jan Hammer with Stanley Clarke's classic School Days, you also don't have the Crusaders - which could also be considered more funk than fusion - so I get that... But also Blow By Blow over Wired. But, I think you nailed about 80%. I would also like to add as a criteria - Staying Power - so then I'd put Return To Forever - higher up in terms of compositions - actual songs with memorable quality and genius. Romantic Warrior would probably be my number one. Jean-Luc - Enigmatic Oceans has great drumming by the drummer for Journey and Zappa no less, Steve Smith. Good Stuff!

Great picks! I feel like UK bands are quite underrepresented in these sort of lists. For instance I would definitely add the band Nucleus led by trumpeter Ian Carr on my top 10 jazz fusion list. Either Elastic Rock, Solar Plexus or Belladonna, We'll Talk About it Later, Roots etc. They had so many incredible albums!

Worth checking out are the Opening Night and Sundance albums by Kevin Eubanks as well as Life Boat by Jimmy Herring.

A very good selection. Thank you for that! A lot of it is actually on LP in my record collection and it was a pleasure to dig it out again now. My only objection is that you're only looking at the early days of Fusion, so in my opinion the title of the video is not quite right.

It's a matter of personal taste indeed. Not even a japanese or spanish (without whom there would be no elegant gypsies...) album? There were many Jazz-Rock Fusion made in the world outside US/UK mainstream. Glad to see that someone mentions Shamal.

I agree with most of the artists on your list, but have my own preferences for each group’s best, thus - RTF: Where Have I Known You Before. WR: Mysterious Traveller. Billy Cobham: Crosswinds, Jean-Luc Ponty: Cosmic Messenger

Nice. Think I have 5 of those. Other ones influenced my drumming, too.

I totally agree with you. The first time I heard that Album in the seventies I was in a daze for days afterwards. I could not believe what I just heard. It completely overthrew everything I thought about music and playing the guitar until then. And to this day I have not heard anything more powerful and enlightening. This Album is so far out that it could have come from a different planet. These guys were unbelievable inventive. For me the inner mounting flame is the best Fusion Album ever. I wouldn't even put in the category of Jazz. It is something completely unique and cannot be rational decoded. The most astonishing thing is that the Album does not age. Every time I listen to it it sounds new. I only experience that with one other album. Johann Sebastian Bach's Wohltemperierte Klavier.

Can't argue with this list. The spiritual aspect of MO was a big difference n elevated them to a higher level, especially at the time of sex, drugs n rock n roll.

Hi Andy, great list! I, myself, am a big fan of Jan Hammer. I'm a drummer & I love his aggressive rhythmic approach, and he's a great drummer as well. I just want to give you a little reminder that "Oh, Yeah?" is a question. It should be pronounced as if the next phrase uttered is "I'll show you". ✌

Joe Zawinul LIVE in concert was a force of nature on stage. If not for Genesis and Phil Collins, Weather Report would be my favorite concert. Zawinul could grab hold of you and drag you around the stage. All the musicians were brilliant, but Joe had something the was indescribable. The music just took you over. A wonderful, spiritual experience.

Great 10 jazz fusion albums no doubt

Eddie Henderson’s Realization album is IMO the holy grail of fusion 🎺🎺

I tend to avoid 70s fusion like the plague. But I bought Elegant Gypsy as a beginning guitar player in the late 80s and it's still one of my favorite albums to this day, I still listen to it regularly. I've heard of many of the albums on this list but never listened to them all the way through. I'll have to give them another try.