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1	Low (1977) more music like this by David Bowie Following through with the avant-garde inclinations of Station to Station, yet explicitly breaking with David Bowie's past, Low is a dense, challenging album that confirmed his place at rock's cutting edge. Driven by dissonant synthesizers and electronics, Low is divided between brief, angular songs and atmospheric instrumentals. Throughout the ... see all copies from $11.95! new only from $14.97!
2	Heroes (1977) more music like this by David Bowie Repeating the formula of Low's half-vocal/half-instrumental structure, Heroes develops and strengthens the sonic innovations David Bowie and Brian Eno explored on their first collaboration. The vocal songs are fuller, boasting harder rhythms and deeper layers of sound. Much of the harder-edged sound of Heroes is due to Robert Fripp's guitar, which ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $14.52!
3	The Complex (2003) more music like this by Blue Man Group After devoting more than 15 years to building their unique fusion of edgy performance and advanced yet home-brewed technologies, the Blue Man Group moves aggressively toward the mainstream with The Complex. "Mainstream" is, of course, a flexible notion, so what passes as commercial for these guys is a lot more adventurous than most of the era's ... see all copies from $8.80! new only from $8.80!
4	Another Green World (1975) more music like this by Eno A universally acknowledged masterpiece, Another Green World represents a departure from song structure and toward a more ethereal, minimalistic approach to sound. Despite the stripped-down arrangements, the album's sumptuous tone quality reflects Eno's growing virtuosity at handling the recording studio as an instrument in itself (à la Brian ... see all copies from $11.64! new only from $11.64!
5	Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978) more music like this by Brian Eno Four subtle, slowly evolving pieces grace Eno's first conscious effort at creating ambient music. The composer was in part striving to create music that approximated the effect of visual art. Like a fine painting, these evolving soundscapes don't require constant involvement on the part of the listener. They can hang in the background and add to ... see all copies from $14.52! new only from $14.52!
6	Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks (1983) more music like this by Brian Eno An exquisite experiment, Apollo takes Brian Eno's spacescapes from albums like Another Green World and arranges them with some heavenly pedal steel guitar by Daniel Lanois. The recording engulfs the listener and captures the feel of space travel, weightlessness, and other sensations vividly. It's also perhaps Eno's warmest record ever. In the end, ... see all copies from $8.93! new only from $15.11!
7	We're Only in It for the Money (1968) more music like this by The Mothers of Invention From the beginning, Frank Zappa cultivated a role as voice of the freaks -- imaginative outsiders who didn't fit comfortably into any group. We're Only in It for the Money is the ultimate expression of that sensibility, a satirical masterpiece that simultaneously skewered the hippies and the straights as prisoners of the same narrow-minded, ... see all copies from $14.87! new only from $14.87!
8	Audio (1999) more music like this by Blue Man Group Blue Man Group's debut album, Audio, reflects over a decade's worth of musical and theatrical innovation. While its whimsical, visually involving stage performances have been popular since the early '90s, the group waited to make an album until it could find a recording space large enough to house its unique instruments, which include walls of ... see all copies from $15.81! new only from $15.81!
9	In Absentia (2002) more music like this by Porcupine Tree Continuing in the growing commercial vein of their previous releases, Porcupine Tree's In Absentia may be the most accessible release to ever spew forth from the group. Rolling electronic percussion blends with simple and solid live drumming to provide an understated backbeat as perennial Tree leader Steven Wilson pastes his complicated pop over ... see all copies from $10.82! new only from $10.82!
10	Trout Mask Replica (1969) more music like this by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band Trout Mask Replica is Captain Beefheart's masterpiece, a fascinating, stunningly imaginative work that still sounds like little else in the rock & roll canon. Given total creative control by producer and friend Frank Zappa, Beefheart and his Magic Band rehearsed the material for this 28-song double album for over a year, wedding minimalistic R&B, ... see all copies from $10.10! new only from $10.10!
11 view cover	The Soft Bulletin (1999) more music like this by The Flaming Lips So where does a band go after releasing the most defiantly experimental record of its career? If you're the Flaming Lips, you keep rushing headlong into the unknown -- The Soft Bulletin, their follow-up to the four-disc gambit Zaireeka, is in many ways their most daring work yet, a plaintively emotional, lushly symphonic pop masterpiece eons ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $11.04!
12 view cover	Daydream Nation (1988) more music like this by Sonic Youth By refining the song-oriented breakthroughs of Sister and developing their fascination with noise and alternate tunings, Sonic Youth created a masterpiece of post-punk art rock with the double-album Daydream Nation. Though the self-conscious sprawl of the album might appear self-indulgent on the surface, Daydream Nation is powered by a sustained ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $8.66!
13 view cover	Ambient 4: On Land (1982) more music like this by Brian Eno On Land represented a significant move away from the strategies Brian Eno had employed in earlier ambient releases such as Discreet Music and Music for Airports. Instead of using a specific process to generate music with minimal interference from the composer, he here opts for a more gestural and intuitive approach, creating dreamy pictures of ... see all copies from $15.11! new only from $15.11!
14 view cover	Fear of a Blank Planet (2007) more music like this by Porcupine Tree Porcupine Tree makes a triumphant return to experimental, non-linear style with 2007's Fear of a Blank Planet. Maybe Steve Wilson was afraid that the comparatively poppy Deadwing and In Absentia were edging too close to the mainstream, because he seems far less concerned with overtly accessible songwriting on Blank Planet. Even still, the cerebral ... see all copies from $12.58! new only from $12.58!
15 view cover	Colma (1998) more music like this by Buckethead For a guy who takes his sartorial cues from teenage horror flicks (he plays onstage with a weird sort of hockey mask on his face), Buckethead sure does make pretty music. It was not always thus -- his work with Praxis, for example, has often been pretty challenging. But on this solo project, on which he plays both guitar and bass and is helped out ... see all copies from $8.71! new only from $9.00!
16 view cover	Deadwing (2005) more music like this by Porcupine Tree Porcupine Tree have always been pigeonholed with the modern prog movement, but the reality is that they're both a riff-addicted metal band and a troupe obsessed with rich harmonies and memorable refrains. Take the grinding guitar work of "Shallow" which dukes it out with frontman Steve Wilson's undeniably melodic chorus before easing into the ... see all copies from $12.85! new only from $12.85!
17 view cover	Big Science (1982) more music like this by Laurie Anderson There was a backlash against Laurie Anderson in "serious" musical and artistic circles after the completely unexpected mainstream commercial success of her debut album, Big Science. (The eight-plus-minute single "O Superman" was a chart hit in England, unbelievably enough.) A fair listen to Big Science leaves the impression that jealousy must have ... see all copies from $7.00!
18 view cover	Beyond Even (1992-2006) (2007) more music like this by Robert Fripp & Brian Eno Just when you thought they've ceased for good, they come up with something like this. Beyond Even (1992-2006) is yet another collaborative project by guitarist Robert Fripp and "ist" Brian Eno. It's true that the pair's No Pussyfooting and Evening Star, recorded in the '70s, were groundbreaking recordings in the treatment of atmospheres, the ... see all copies from $14.83! new only from $14.83!
19 view cover	Monsters & Robots (1999) more music like this by Buckethead Mixing metallic guitar heroics with funk, hip-hop, electronica, and a cinematic soundtrack feel, Buckethead's Monsters and Robots is yet another eclectic opus inspired in large part by low-budget monster/horror, martial arts, and science fiction movies, especially those of Japan. Like any Buckethead album, the music does meander in spots, but this ... see all copies from $14.97! new only from $14.97!
20 view cover	Music for Films (1978) more music like this by Brian Eno Recorded intermittently between 1975 and 1978, Music for Films compiles moody, instrumental electronic pieces intended as soundtrack material for imaginary motion pictures; the songs are brief and fragmentary, ranging from the haunting "Sparrowfall" to the luminous, densely layered "Quartz." Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide see all copies from $7.95! new only from $15.11!
21 view cover	Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror (1980) more music like this by Harold Budd & Brian Eno The second in Brian Eno's ambient series, The Plateaux of Mirrors fuses the fragile piano melodies of Harold Budd and the atmospheric electronics of Eno to create a lovely, evocative work. In sharp contrast to the exaggerated pieces found on his debut, The Pavilion of Dreams, this record finds Budd delivering sharp shards of piano notes pregnant ... see all copies from $14.00! new only from $14.97!
22 view cover	Mr. Bungle (1991) more music like this by Mr. Bungle To say that Mr. Bungle is unfocused is like criticizing a rapper for not being able to sing -- it may be true, but it misses the point of the music. Mr. Bungle is a dizzying, disconcerting, schizophrenic tour through just about any rock style the group can think of, hopping from genre to genre without any apparent rhyme or reason, and sometimes ... see all copies from $9.55! new only from $9.55!
23 view cover	Pure Moods, Vol. 3 (2001) more music like this by Various Artists see all copies from $6.23! new only from $16.84!
24 view cover	Ambient Collection (1990) more music like this by The Art of Noise Discovery Records, just before its demise, did a great and wondrous thing by putting out four, count them, four Art of Noise CDs in one fell swoop. Art of Noise began in the mid-'80s and is now a touchstone to which all electronic music should be compared. While compiling their own collections, Discovery Records was able to take advantage of a ... see all copies from $8.23! new only from $8.23!
25 view cover	Passages (1990) more music like this by Ravi Shankar and Phillip Glass A collaboration between an avant-garde modern classical composer and a traditional Indian/Hindi composer/performer seems as unlikely as ice hockey on the River Styx. However, Passages is a collaboration between Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar and it works quite well. Shankar's smooth style fits nicely with Glass' dissonant orchestrations. There is a ... see all copies from $10.67! new only from $11.06!

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