2. The Stooges—The Stooges (Elektra, 1969)
3. The Velvet Underground & Nico—The Velvet Underground & Nico (Verve, 1967)
4. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band—Trout Mask Replica (Straight, 1969)
5. The Flying Burrito Brothers—The Gilded Palace of Sin (A&M, 1969)
6. Various Artists—Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era (Elektra, 1972)
7. Ornette Coleman—Free Jazz (Atlantic, 1960)
8. Terry Riley—In C (Columbia, 1968)
9. Sun Ra—The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 1 & 2 (ESP-Disk, 1965)
10. Can—Monster Movie (United Artists, 1969)
11. Various Artists—Tropicália Ou panis et circensis (Philips, 1968)
12. The 13th Floor Elevators—The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators (International Artists, 1966)
13. Karlheinz Stockhausen—Kontakte (WERGO, 1964)
14. Nico—The Marble Index (Elektra, 1968)
15. Leonard Cohen—Songs of Leonard Cohen (Columbia, 1967)
16. The Shaggs—Philosophy of the World (Third World, 1969)
17. MC5—Kick out the Jams (Elektra, 1969)
18. The Zombies—Odessey and Oracle (CBS, 1968)
19. Albert Ayler Trio—Spiritual Unity (ESP-Disk, 1964)
20. The Mothers of Invention—Freak out! (1966)
21. Pink Floyd—The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Columbia, 1967)
22. The Velvet Underground—The Velvet Underground (MGM, 1969)
23. Van Dyke Parks—Song Cycle (Warner Bros., 1968)
24. The Fugs—The Fugs First Album (Folkways, 1965)
25. Silver Apples—Silver Apples (Kapp, 1968)
26. Love—Forever Changes (Elektra, 1967)
27. Nick Drake—Five Leaves Left (Island, 1969)
28. John Fahey—The Dance of Death & Other Plantation Favorites (Takoma, 1964)
29. Blue Cheer—Vincebus Eruptum (Philips, 1968)
30. Steve Reich—Early Works (Nonesuch, 1987)