THE HOLD STEADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lifter Puller's entire catalogue.
The four original studio LPs of The Velvet Underground.
Everything recorded by The Beatles following Rubber Soul.
Things Fall Apart and Phrenology by The Roots.
The Bowie albums with Eno (Low, Heroes, and The Lodger) in addition to Hunky Dory and Station to Station.
A Grand Don't Come for Free by The Streets.
Everything OutKast recorded up to Stankonia.
Secaucus and (especially) The Meadowlands by The Wrens.
The Strokes' Is This It?.
Everything released by Depeche Mode between 1986 and 1995.
Disintegration, Pornography, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, and Wish, by The Cure.
Anything the Talking Heads put out up to and including Stop Making Sense.
Dizzee Rascal's Boy in da Corner.
Every solo album (and collaborations with Lanois, Harold Budd, et al.) Brian Eno ever turned out.
Broken Social Scene's You Forgot it in People.
Super Furry Animals. All of it.
The first Mercury Rev album, Yerself Is Steam.
Literally every album Sleater-Kinney every produced.
The first three Pavement records--Slanted and Enchanted, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, and Wowee Zowee.
Speaking of "Wowee Zowee," why not some Frank Zappa? There's too much to list, so just randomly pick shit and you're bound to stumble upon a dozen or so masterpieces even if you pick the worst of the worst.
None of the albums are actually good, in spite of indie protesters the world over, but Pulp has released some of the finest singles of the past thirty years. Listen to them.
Wilco's (aka, Jay Bennett's) Summerteeth and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.
Clipse's newest, Hell Hath No Fury.
Deltron's Deltron 3030.
Blonde on Blonde, by one Robert Dylan.
Beck's Odelay!, Midnite Vultures, One Foot in the Grave, Mellow Gold, and Stereopathetic Soulmanure.
The Wild, The Innocent, and The E Street Shuffle and Nebraska.
...and a million other albums which I can't list, right now, for lack of proper motivation.