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My top ten favorite audio albums (so far):

• Albert Ayler Trio – Spiritual Unity (Jazz, 1964)
• Ornette Coleman – The Shape of Jazz to Come (Jazz, 1959)
• Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (Rock, 1980)
• Charlie Haden – Liberation Music Orchestra (Jazz, 1969)
• Charles Mingus – The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (Jazz, 1963)
• Pere Ubu – The Modern Dance (Rock, 1978)
• The Residents – Not Available (Rock, 1978)
• Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel – Nail (Rock, 1985)
• Igor Stravinsky – Le Sacre du Printemps; 100th Anniversary – A History of Le Sacre du Printemps (Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire – Pierre Monteux, 1956; Detroit Symphony Orchestra – Antal Dorati, 1981; The Cleveland Orchestra – Riccardo Chailly, 1985; The Cleveland Orchestra – Pierre Boulez, 1991; Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre – Valery Gergiev, 1999; Los Angeles Philharmonic – Esa-Pekka Salonen, 2006)
• Suicide – Suicide (Rock, 1977)

Here is my second ten:

• Albert Ayler Quartet – Ghosts (aka Vibrations) (Jazz, 1964)
• Johann Sebastian Bach – St. Matthew Passion (aka Matthäus–Passion) (The Monteverdi Choir; The London Oratory Junior Choir; The English Baroque Soloists – John Eliot Gardiner, 1988)
• Georges Bizet – Carmen (Teresa Berganza; London Symphony Orchestra – Claudio Abbado, 1977)
• Dirty Three – Ocean Songs (Rock, 1998)
• Faust – Faust (Rock, 1971)
• Lisa Germano – Geek the Girl (Rock, 1994)
• Gong – Flying Teapot (aka Radio Gnome Invisible Part 1) (Rock, 1973)
• Arvo Pärt – Fratres; Tabula Rasa; Symphony No. 3 (Various Artists; Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra – Neeme Järvi, 1997)
• Bruce Springsteen – The River (Rock, 1980)
• Swans – Soundtracks for the Blind (Rock, 1996)

Here is my third ten:

• Béla Bartók – Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Hungarian Sketches (Chicago Symphony Orchestra – Fritz Reiner, 1955–1958)
• Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica (Rock, 1969)
• John Coltrane – Ascension (Jazz, 1965)
• György Ligeti – Hamburg Concerto; Double Concerto; Ramifications; Requiem – The Ligeti Project IV (Various Artists, 2001–2002)
• The Mars Volta – Frances the Mute (Rock, 2005)
• Olivier Messiaen – Quartet for the End of Time; Theme and Variations (Amici Ensemble, 1999)
• Lawrence Butch Morris – Dust to Dust (Jazz, 1990)
• Sun Ra – Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One (Jazz, 1965)
• Cecil Taylor – Unit Structures (Jazz, 1966)
• Edgard Varèse – The Complete Works (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; Asko Ensemble – Riccardo Chailly, 1992–1998)

Here is my fourth ten:

• Syd Barrett – Barrett (Rock, 1970)
• Carla Bley, Paul Haines – Escalator Over the Hill (Jazz, 1971)
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – The Good Son (Rock, 1990)
• Miles Davis – In a Silent Way (Jazz, 1969)
• Claude Debussy – Préludes (Krystian Zimerman, 1991)
• Brian Eno – Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (Rock, 1974)
• George Frideric Handel – Messiah (The English Concert and Choir – Trevor Pinnock, 1988)
• Pink Floyd – The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Rock, 1967)
• The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground and Nico (Deluxe Edition; Mono Version) (Rock, 1967)
• Giuseppe Verdi – Requiem (Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala – Claudio Abbado, 1980)

Here is my fifth ten:

• Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band – Safe as Milk (Rock, 1967)
• Don Cherry – “Mu” First Part; “Mu” Second Part (Jazz, 1969)
• The Clash – The Clash (Rock, 1977)
• Miles Davis – Sketches of Spain (Jazz, 1960)
• The Doors – The Doors (Rock, 1967)
• Morphine – Good (Rock, 1992)
• The Red Crayola With the Familiar Ugly – The Parable of Arable Land (Rock, 1967)
• Steve Reich – Drumming (Steve Reich and Musicians, 1974)
• Alfred Schnittke – Concerti Grossi Nos. 1 & 5; Quasi Una Sonata (Various Artists, 1988–1991)
• Antonio Vivaldi – Stabat Mater; Various Works (Andreas Sholl; Ensemble 415 – Chiara Banchini, 1995)

And so on...

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If I should choose just one disc it would be a CD-ROM with all audio albums from my top ten list in MP3 format. In fact I already prepared such a disc – just in a case...

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And here is the illustrated version of my top fifty list published on RYM (Rate Your Music):
My top fifty favorite audio albums which I listened ever (so far)