Best Composers (All Genres) Of All Time

Classical

Not knowledgeable enough yet, so this section can wait.

Rock

Animal Collective (Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished)
Bob Dylan (Blonde on Blonde)
Boredoms - (Vision Creation Newsun)
Can (Tago Mago)
Dirty Three (Ocean Songs)
Don Van Vliet (Trout Mask Replica)
Frank Zappa (Uncle Meat)
Glenn Branca (The Acension)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor (Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven)
Hüsker Dü - (Zen Arcade)
Joshua Davis (Endtroducing...)
Mayo Thompson (The Parable Of Arable Land)
My Bloody Valentine (Loveless)
Pere Ubu (The Modern Dance)
The Residents (Not Available)
Sigur Rós - (Ágætis Byrjun)
Simon Jeffes (Music From The Penguin Cafe)
Sonic Youth (Daydream Nation)
Robert Wyatt (Rock Bottom)
Slint (Good Morning Captain)
Swans (Soundtracks for the Blind)
Van Morrison (Astral Weeks)
The Velvet Underground (Sister Ray, Heroin, Venus In Furs etc...)

Jazz

Albert Ayler (Spiritual Unity)
Carla Bley (Hotel Overture)
Anthony Braxton (For Alto)
Peter Brötzmann (Machine Gun)
Dave Brubeck (Time Out)
Ornette Coleman (The Shape of Jazz To Come)
John Coltrane (A Love Supreme)
Miles Davis (Kind of Blue)
Andrew Hill (Point of Departure)
Charles Mingus (The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady)
Thelonious Monk (Brilliant Corners)
Lennie Tristano (Descent Into The Maelstrom)
John Zorn (Cobra)