Guest List: The Best Albums of 2014 – John Macintosh
1. The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream
2. D’Angelo and the Vanguard – Black Messiah
3. Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 2
4. Spoon – They Want My Soul
5. Aphex Twin – Syro
6. FKA twigs – LP1
7. Swans – To Be Kind
8. Ty Segall – Manipulator
9. Amen Dunes – Love
10. Flying Lotus – You’re Dead!
11. Iceage – Plowing Into the Field of Love
12. Ought – More Than Any Other Day
13. Ben Frost – A U R O R A
14. Sun Kil Moon – Benji
15. Perfect Pussy – Say Yes To Love
16. Caribou – Our Love
17. Clark – Clark
18. Mac DeMarco – Salad Days
19. Sharon Van Etten – Are We There
20. Shabazz Palaces – Lese Majesty
21. Todd Terje – It’s Album Time
22. Vince Staples – Hell Can Wait
23. Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness
24. St. Vincent – St. Vincent
25. Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal
The Best Albums of 1969
1. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin
2. Frank Zappa – Hot Rats
3. Miles Davis – In a Silent Way
4. Captain Beefheart – Trout Mask Replica
5. The Beatles – Abbey Road
6. The Band – The Band
7. Scott Walker – Scott 4
8. King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King
9. The Who – Tommy
10. Sly & the Family Stone – Stand!
11. Neil Young – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
12. Townes Van Zandt – Townes Van Zandt
13. The Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed
14. Can – Monster Movie
15. The Stooges – The Stooges
16. Moondog – Moondog
17. Creedence Clearwater Revival – Willy and the Poor Boys
18. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II
19. The Allman Brothers Band – The Allman Brothers Band
20. Bob Dylan – Nashville Skyline
21. MC5 – Kick Out the Jams
22. Santana – Santana
23. Leonard Cohen – Songs From a Room
24. The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground
25. Nick Drake – Five Leaves Left
The Best Albums of 1968
1. The Beatles – The White Album
2. Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
3. The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland
4. The Velvet Underground – White Light / White Heat
5. The Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet
6. The Mothers of Invention – We’re Only in It for the Money
7. Dillard & Clark – The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark
8. The Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo
9. Tropicália – Ou Panis et Circensis
10. Nico – The Marble Index
11. The Band – Music From Big Pink
12. Simon & Garfunkel – Bookends
13. The Zombies – Odessey & Oracle
14. Os Mutantes – Os Mutantes
15. Harry Nilsson – Aerial Ballet
16. Bloomfield, Kooper & Stills – Super Session
17. Big Brother & The Holding Company – Cheap Thrills
18. The Millennium – Begin
19. Taj Mahal – Taj Mahal
20. Dr. John – Gris-Gris
21. Miles Davis – Nefertiti
22. Peter Brötzmann – Machine Gun
23. Gilberto Gil – Gilberto Gil
24. Rahsaan Roland Kirk – The Inflated Tear
25. Silver Apples – Silver Apples
The Best Albums of 2013
1. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away
2. Carcass – Surgical Steel
3. Gorguts – Colored Sands
4. David Bowie – The Next Day
5. Stomach Earth – Stomach Earth
6. Kurt Vile – Wakin on a Pretty Daze
7. Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks
8. Boards of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest
9. Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels
10. Oneohtrix Point Never – R Plus Seven
11. Scale the Summit – The Migration
12. Amorphis – Circle
13. Cass McCombs – Big Wheel and Others
14. Pryapisme – Hyperblast Super-Collider
15. Ghostface Killah – Twelve Reasons to Die
16. Fallujah – Nomadic
17. Janelle Monáe – The Electric Lady
18. Tim Hecker – Virgins
19. Kanye West – Yeezus
20. My Bloody Valentine – m b v
21. Melt-Banana – Fetch
22. The Haxan Cloak – Excavation
23. Chelsea Wolfe – Pain Is Beauty
24. Portal – Vexovoid
25. Tedeschi Trucks Band – Made Up Mind
Guest List: The Best Albums of 2013 – John Macintosh
1. Deafheaven – Sunbather
2. Tim Hecker – Virgins
3. Burial – Rival Dealer
4. Kanye West – Yeezus
5. Jai Paul – Jai Paul
6. Oneohtrix Point Never – R Plus Seven
7. Blood Orange – Cupid Deluxe
8. Autre Ne Veut – Anxiety
9. The Knife – Shaking the Habitual
10. Julia Holter – Loud City Song
11. The National – Trouble Will Find Me
12. Forest Swords – Engravings
13. Yellow Eyes – Hammer of Night
14. Jon Hopkins – Immunity
15. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City
16. Majical Cloudz – Impersonator
17. Boards of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest
18. Danny Brown – Old
19. Fuck Buttons – Slow Focus
20. My Bloody Valentine – m b v
21. Pusha T – My Name Is My Name
22. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away
23. The Range – Nonfiction
24. Ty Segall – Sleeper
25. Phosphorescent – Muchacho