Solid, yet diverse. Maybe someday I'd love to see why you chose them/some kind of notes on them.

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great chart - eclectic and original
and a few to check out

Wow I like this! One of the most interesting charts I've seen. Under the Western Freeway, nice! Also on my top 100, it's so good! Funny everyone seems to have the same Aphex Twin album on their list, love his stuff but for some reason that first Ambient Works is not one of my favorites of his but indeed it is still good. Bunch of people seem to like Kanye too but I haven't been able to get into him but I do like what I've heard from Kendrick Lamar.

@Anti ah fair enough man, though I think if you dig deep enough there's definitely some crazy drugged up stuff from earlier times (there were drugs before the 90s ya know!). In terms of dreamy/hazy records I think Galaxie 500's On Fire would be right up your street, and though it's a 70s pick not an 80s one definitely give Tangerine Dream's Zeit a listen; unlike a lot of TD's sequencer-inflected records that followed (that now sound a little dated to me) Zeit sounds so ahead of its time. Hope I've been helpful!

@sidneyfranklyn yeah, I've neglected the 80s for a while. I'm doing something on the side at the moment, but I've been meaning to give the 80s more attention. The biggest reason I don't have a lot of 80s albums ranked is because my favorite aesthetics are pretty much 90s-present based (more drugged up, atmospheric stuff). Not to say the 80s doesn't have any, but I just happen to like the products of the 90s+ a lot more. But I will definitely get to the 80s sometime this summer. Plus, I have a rework on this chart coming up and some more 80s albums are actually breaking into the chart, I will just update it all at once.

I do really like the number of alternative picks, but there's so much neglect of anything pre-90s. Four times as many albums from 2012 than the entire 80s? I feel like you might be missing something ...

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Hey man, if you haven't checked out The Cure I would definitely recommend them to you, seems right up your alleyway with the atmospheric and hazy vibes.

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