"Honorable mentions":

• Pink Floyd - Ummagumma (Harvest), Dark Side of the Moon (Capitol), and One of These Days (Swingin' Pig - bootleg)
• The Beatles - Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles, and Red/Blue (EMI/Apple)
• Low - The Curtain Hits the Cast (Vernon Yard)
• Weather Report - Heavy Weather (Columbia)
• Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (Columbia)
• Slowdive - Pygmalion (Creation)
• Claude Debussy - Piano Works, Pascal Rogé (London)
• American Analog Set - From Our Living Room to Yours (Emperor Jones/Trance Syndicate)
• Gong - You (Caroline)
• The Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness and Eternity (Columbia)
• Pat Metheny - Bright Size Life (ECM)
• Chick Corea and Gary Burton - Crystal Silence (ECM)
• Eberhard Weber - Works (ECM)
• The Doors - Greatest Hits, Best of the Doors, and Waiting for the Sun (Elektra)
• Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy (Atlantic)
• John Coltrane - Giant Steps (Atlantic)
• The Winter Consort - Road (A&M)
• Erik Satie - Piano Works, Daniel Varsano and Philippe Entremont (Sony Classical)
• Pizzicato Five - Happy End of the World (Matador)
• Toru Takemitsu - To the Edge of Dream, cond. Salonen/London Sinfonietta with John Williams, guitar (Sony Classical)