Vinyl By Genre

Ranked from best to good within each genre

Classic Pop Rock

• Neil Young “Weld” (1991)
• Sade “Promise” (1985)
• Kurt Vile “B’lieve I’m Going Down” (2015)
• Sade “Diamond Life” (1984)

Dark & Goth Rock

• The Cure “Disintegration” (1989)
• Nine Inch Nails “Broken EP” (1992)
• Nine Inch Nails “With Teeth” (2005)
• Christian Death “Only Theater Of Pain” (1982)
• The Cure “Pornography” (1982)
• Nine Inch Nails “The Downward Spiral” (1994)
• The Smashing Pumpkins “Machina / The Machines Of God” (2000)
• The Soft Moon “Deeper” (2015)
• The Cure “Faith” (1981)
• The Cure “Seventeen Seconds” (1980)
• Prolapse “Pointless Walks To Dismal Places” (1994)
• Ministry “The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste” (1989)
• Nine Inch Nails “The Fragile” (1999)
• The Cure “Wish” (1992)
• The Cure “The Head On The Door” (1985)
• Witch Fever “Congregation” (2022)
• Lydia Lunch & Rowland S. Howard “Shotgun Wedding” (1991)
• Joy Division “Closer” (1980)

Dub

• Lee “Scratch” Perry + Subatomic Sound System “Super Ape Returns To Conquer” (2017)

Electro

• Essaie Pas “Demain Est Une Autre Nuit” (2016)
• Bicep “Bicep” (2017)
• Roisin Murphy “Crooked Machine” (2021)
• Patricia “Maxyboy” (2020)
• Daft Punk “Alive 1997” (2001)

French

• Diabologum “#3” (1996)
• Miossec “Boire” (1995)
• Daniel Darc “Creve Coeur” (2004)
• Miossec “Baiser”(1997)
• Les Thugs “IABF” (1991)
• Jessica 93 “S/T” (2012)

Grunge

• Nirvana “Nevermind” (1991)
• L7 “Bricks Are Heavy” (1992)
• Swervedriver “Raise” (1991)
• Swervedriver “Future Ruins” (2019)
• Nothing “Tired Of Tomorrow” (2016)
• Chastity “Home Made Satan” (2019)

Indie Rock

• The Cure “Boys Don’t Cry” (1980)
• Blink-182 “Enema Of The State” (1999)
• Blink 182 “Blink 182” (2003)
• Ned’s Atomic Dustbin “God Fodder” (1991)
• PJ Harvey “Dry” (1992)
• Swell “41” (1994)
• Moaning “Moaning” (2018)
• The Men “Devil Music” (2016)
• Metz “Metz” (2012)
• Metz “II” (2015)
• Have a Nice Life “The Unnatural World” (2014)
• Drahla “Useless Coordinates” (2019)
• Blur “Leisure” (1991)
• The Charlatans “Some Friendly” (1990)
• Dinosaur Jr “Green Mind”(1991)
• The House Of Love “Babe Rainbow” (1992)
• Radiohead “Kid A Mnesia” (2000 & 2001)
• Dry Cleaning “New Long Leg” (2021)
• Muna “Muna” (2022)
• Pale Waves “Who Am I?” (2021)
• The Lemonheads “It’s a Shame About Ray” (1992)
• Moaning “Uneasy Laughter” (2020)
• Fontaines D.C. “A Hero’s Death” (2020)
• Sleaford Mods “Key Markets” (2015)
• The Pixies “Trompe Le Monde” (1991)
• Sufjan Stevens “Carrie & Lowell” (2015)
• Prolapse “I Wonder When They’re Going To Destroy Your Face” (2025)
• Chain And The Gang “Best Of Crime Rock” (2017)
• Morrissey “Low In High School” (2017)
• Brian Jonestown Massacre “Something Else” (2018)
• Dream Wife “Dream Wife” (2018)
• Day Wave “The Days We Had” (2017)
• Hatchie “Keepsake” (2019)
• Snail Mail “Lush” (2018)
• Soccer Mommy “Clean” (2018)
• The Stone Roses “Turns Into Stones” (1992)
• Happy Mondays “Pills ‘N’ Thrills And Bellyaches” (1990)
• Ex:Re “Ex:Re” (2019)
• Shopping “Why Choose” (2015)
• Honeyblood “Honeyblood” (2014)
• Fews “Means” (2016)
• Help She Can’t Swim “Fashionista Super Dance Groupe” (2004)
• Wet Leg “Wet Leg” (2022)
• Radiohead “Ok Computer” (1997)
• Muse “Showbiz” (1999)

Jazz

• Frank Sinatra “The Great American Songbook” (2016)

Post-rock

• Godspeed You Black Emperor “Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress” (2015)

Psych-rock

• The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Electric Ladyland”
• Jimi Hendrix “Band Of Gypsys” (1970)
• Jimi Hendrix “Are You Experienced” (1967)
• The Doors “The Doors” (1967)
• Mazzy Star “So Tonight That I Might See” (1993)
• The Myrrors “Borderland” (2018)
• The Doors “Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine” (1972)
• The 13th Floor Elevators “The Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elelevators” (1966)
• Muddy Waters “Electric Mud” (1968)
• L.A. Witch “L.A. Witch” (2017)
• Jimi Hendrix “Monterey Festival” (1970)
• The Doors “Absolutely live” (1970)
• Fuzz “II” (2015)
• Led Zeppelin “III” (1970)
• Wand “Golem” (2015)
• Bazooka “Bazooka” (2013)

Rap

• Nas “Illmatic” (1994)

Shoegaze

• Slowdive “Blue Day” (1992)
• My Bloody Valentine “Isn’t Anything” (1988)
• The Jesus And Mary Chain “Psychocandy” (1986)
• Ride “Nowhere” (1990)
• Lush “Spooky” (1992)
• Ride “4eps” (2022)
• My Bloody Valentine “Loveless” (1991)
• Chapterhouse “Whirlpool” (1991)
• Chapterhouse “Rownderbowt” (1996)
• Catherine Wheel “Ferment” (1992)
• Slowdive “Outside Your Room” EP (1993)
• Belong “Common Era” 2011
• DIIV “Frog In Boiling Water” (2024)
• Slowdive “In Mind” (1993)
• The Boo Radleys “Everything’s Alright Forever” (1991)
• Slowdive “Slowdive” (2017)
• They Are Gutting a Body of Water “Lotto” (2025)
• Slowdive “Everything Is Alive” (2023)

Slowcore

• Red House Painters “II” (1993)
• Hum “Inlet” (2020)
• True Widow “Avvolgere” (2016)
• Duster “Duster” (2019)

Synth-pop

• Martial Canterel “Austerton” (2007)
• Linea Aspera “Linea Aspera” (2012)
• Crystal Castles “II” (2010)
• Martial Canterel “Gyors, Lassu” (2014)
• Martial Canterel “Sister Age” (2004)
• Martial Canterel “Drilling Backwards” (2006)
• Black Marble “A Different Arrangement” (2012)
• Depeche Mode “Violator” (1990)
• Chvrches “Every Open Eye” (2015)

Trip-hop

• Massive Attack “Mezzanine” (1998)
• Portishead “Dummy” (1994)
• Portishead “Portishead” (1997)