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David Bowie
May 25, 1979Best Experimental Rock Albums
Explore Experimental Rock albums, classic releases, hidden gems and influential records. This page helps music lovers discover albums connected by genre, sound and musical history.
New Picnic Time
Pere Ubu
September 19, 1979
Dirty (Sonic Youth album)
Sonic Youth
July 21, 1992
The Best of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
May 11, 1998
High Life (Eno and Hyde album)
Brian Eno
June 30, 2014
The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
The Flaming Lips
April 21, 2012
13
Blur
March 15, 1999
Sol Invictus (album)
Faith No More
May 19, 2015
From the Sounds Inside
John Frusciante
August 5, 2001
Tabula Rasa
Einstürzende Neubauten
February 16, 1993
This Is PiL
Public Image Ltd
May 28, 2012
Tremolo (EP)
My Bloody Valentine
February 20, 1991
After Bathing at Baxter's
Jefferson Airplane
November 27, 1967
Chelsea Girl
Nico
October 27, 1967
Playing the Fool
Gentle Giant
January 18, 1977
Fading Frontier
Deerhunter
October 16, 2015
Green Naugahyde
Primus
September 12, 2011
Untitled (The Armed album)
The Armed
June 23, 2015
Duck Stab/Buster & Glen
The Residents
November 30, 1978
Tear the Signs Down
The Automatic
March 8, 2010
Amnesiac (album)
Radiohead
May 30, 2001
The United States of America(album)
The United States of America
March 6, 1968
Atom Heart Mother
Pink Floyd
October 2, 1970
Real Love
Swans
December 26, 1986
President Yo La Tengo
Yo La Tengo
March 21, 1989
Heaven Born and Ever Bright
Cardiacs
May 15, 1992
Object 47
Wire
July 7, 2008
Big Thing
Duran Duran
October 17, 1988
Pretties for You
Alice Cooper
June 25, 1969
Trout Mask Replica
Captain Beefheart
June 16, 1969
S. F. Sorrow
Pretty Things
December 20, 1968
End Hits
Fugazi
April 28, 1998
Ein Produkt der DAF
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft
July 18, 1979
Uncle Meat
The Mothers of Invention
April 21, 1969
Slow Dazzle
John Cale
March 25, 1975
Starless and Bible Black
King Crimson
March 29, 1974
Wowee Zowee
Pavement
April 11, 1995
Pain Is Beauty
Chelsea Wolfe
September 3, 2013
Me
The Mekons
May 19, 1998
A Thousand Suns
Linkin Park
September 8, 2010
Mellow Gold
Beck
March 1, 1994
In Camera (Peter Hammill album)
Peter Hammill
July 2, 1974
ALT
Van Der Graaf Generator
June 25, 2012
The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground
March 12, 1967
Big Time
Tom Waits
September 10, 1988
The Idler Wheel...
Fiona Apple
June 19, 2012
Third (Portishead album)
Portishead
April 28, 2008
Gore
Deftones
April 8, 2016
A Walk with Love & Death
Melvins
July 7, 2017
Quark, Strangeness and Charm
Hawkwind
June 17, 1977
Shleep
Robert Wyatt
September 26, 1997
NunSexMonkRock
Nina Hagen
April 30, 1982
Carnage
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
February 25, 2021
Worst Case Scenario
Deus
September 16, 1994
Sheik Yerbouti
Frank Zappa
March 3, 1979
Amarok (Mike Oldfield album)
Mike Oldfield
May 18, 1990
The Boatman's Call
Nick Cave
March 3, 1997
Eye II Eye
Scorpions
March 9, 1999
Rain Tree Crow
Japan
April 8, 1991
Tago Mago
Can
August 26, 1971
She Hangs Brightly
Mazzy Star
May 21, 1990
Excellent Italian Greyhound
Shellac
June 5, 2007
Hey What
Low
September 10, 2021
Lullaby and the Ceaseless Roar
Robert Plant
September 8, 2014
Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks
Modest Mouse
September 25, 2001
Spirit of Eden
Talk Talk
September 12, 1988
Gigaton
Pearl Jam
March 27, 2020
West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Kasabian
June 5, 2009
Manic Moonlight
King's X
September 25, 2001
Their Satanic Majesties Request
The Rolling Stones
December 8, 1967
Datapanik in the Year Zero
Pere Ubu
January 3, 1996
The Glowing Man
Swans
June 17, 2016
Metal Box
Public Image Ltd
November 23, 1979
Who Cares a Lot?
Faith No More
November 24, 1998
Zaireeka
The Flaming Lips
October 28, 1997
The Terror (album)
The Flaming Lips
April 1, 2013
To Be Kind
Swans
May 12, 2014
Renoise Tracks 2009–2011
John Frusciante
November 24, 2015
Primus & the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble
Primus
October 21, 2014
Why I Hate Women
Pere Ubu
September 19, 2006
Music for a New Society
John Cale
September 5, 1982
Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Brian Eno
November 18, 1974
Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt
John Frusciante
November 22, 1994
Helen of Troy
John Cale
November 11, 1975
Enclosure
John Frusciante
April 8, 2014
Murder Ballads
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
February 5, 1996
Freak Out!
The Mothers of Invention
June 27, 1966
Shadows Collide with People
John Frusciante
February 24, 2004
Hail to the Thief
Radiohead
June 9, 2003
White Light/White Heat
The Velvet Underground
January 30, 1968
The Obvious Identity
Cardiacs
June 21, 1980
Perfect Saviors
The Armed
August 25, 2023
Bad as Me
Tom Waits
October 21, 2011
In Rainbows
Radiohead
October 10, 2007
Odelay
Beck
June 18, 1996
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Brian Eno
February 25, 1981
Radiohead Box Set
Radiohead
December 10, 2007
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Pink Floyd
August 4, 1967
Swordfishtrombones
Tom Waits
September 1, 1983
Blackstar
David Bowie
January 8, 2016
Worlds in Collision (album)
Pere Ubu
May 7, 1991
Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd
September 12, 1975
The Eternal (album)
Sonic Youth
June 9, 2009
Pennsylvania
Pere Ubu
March 2, 1998
Red Barked Tree
Wire
December 20, 2010
Real Gone
Tom Waits
October 4, 2004
Rain Dogs
Tom Waits
September 30, 1985
Acquiring the Taste
Gentle Giant
July 16, 1971
Blur 21
Blur
July 30, 2012
Outside
David Bowie
September 25, 1995
Antipop
Primus
October 19, 1999
The Works (Faith No More album)
Faith No More
March 31, 2008
Alles wieder offen
Einstürzende Neubauten
October 19, 2007
Bad Moon Rising
Sonic Youth
March 29, 1985
The Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd
March 1, 1973
The Gate (Swans album)
Swans
October 1, 2015
To Record Only Water for Ten Days
John Frusciante
February 13, 2001
These Are Lights
The Armed
September 25, 2009
Low
David Bowie
January 14, 1977
Ende Neu
Einstürzende Neubauten
July 23, 1996
Swans Are Dead
Swans
January 20, 1998
Oczy Mlody
The Flaming Lips
January 13, 2017
Heroes
David Bowie
October 14, 1977
Easy Action
Alice Cooper
March 27, 1970
A Thousand Leaves
Sonic Youth
May 12, 1998
PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone
John Frusciante
September 12, 2012
The Empyrean
John Frusciante
January 20, 2009
Miscellaneous Debris
Primus
March 12, 1992
Washing Machine
Sonic Youth
September 26, 1995
Prick (Melvins album)
Melvins
August 5, 1994
A Saucerful of Secrets
Pink Floyd
June 28, 1968
The King of Limbs
Radiohead
February 18, 2011
In a Bar, Under the Sea
dEUS
September 16, 1996
Stahlmusik
Einstürzende Neubauten
October 18, 1980
Bone Machine
Tom Waits
September 8, 1992
Story of My Life (album)
Pere Ubu
April 4, 1993
Kid A Mnesia
Radiohead
November 5, 2021
Lumpy Gravy
Frank Zappa
May 13, 1968
Instrument Soundtrack
Fugazi
March 23, 1999
Blur
Blur
February 10, 1997
VU (album)
The Velvet Underground
February 15, 1985
The Very Best of The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground
March 31, 2003
Sonic Death
Sonic Youth
January 2, 1984
Kid A
Radiohead
October 2, 2000