Greatest Music since 1950

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  • These lists are entirely spurious and based on more guesswork than actual study, with jazz and modern "classical" music highly under-represented because I haven't heard them and don't know them. Just for fun, then:

  • Greatest
  • Tabula Rasa (Arvo Part, 1977, classical)
  • Trout Mask Replica (Captain Beefheart, 1969, rock)
  • Free Jazz (Ornette Coleman, 1961, jazz)
  • Faust (Faust, 1971, rock)
  • Irrlicht (Klaus Schulze, 1972, electronica)

  • Most Influential Artists
  • Chuck Berry
  • La Monte Young
  • Ornette Coleman

  • Personal Favorites
  • String Quartet #3 "Mishima" (Philip Glass, 1985, classical)
  • Master of Puppets (Metallica, 1986, rock)
  • Young Liars (TV on the Radio, 2003, rock)
  • A Love Supreme! (John Coltrane, 1964, jazz)

Author Comments: 

Pure speculation: "If I had to guess, based on the little I've heard." Who and what would get your vote?