1951 Thelonious Monk - Genius of Modern Music
1952 Thelonious Monk - Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 2
1953 Duke Ellington - Ellington Uptown
1954 Louis Armstrong - Louis Armstrong Plays W. C. Handy
1955 Erroll Garner - Contrasts
1956 Charlie Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus
1957 Duke Ellington - Such Sweet Thunder
1958 Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
1959 Sun Ra - Jazz in Silhouette

1960 John Coltrane - Giant Steps
1961 John Coltrane - Olé Coltrane
1962 John Coltrane - Coltrane Plays the Blues
1963 Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
1964 John Coltrane -…

1. Parliament - Mothership Connection

2. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

3. Parliament - Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome

4. Funkadelic - Cosmic Slop

5. Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove

6. Parliament - The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein

7. Funkadelic - Uncle Jam Wants You

8. Funkadelic - Funkadelic

9. Parliament - Motor Booty Affair

10. Parliament - Chocolate City

1. D'Angelo - Voodoo
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2. D'Angelo - Brown Sugar
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3. Jill Scott - Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1
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4. Erykah Badu - Baduizm
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/b783de9ee9ea1953590b72ae15fb7464/22002.jpg

5. Jill Scott - Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2
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6. Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun
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7. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
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8. Meshell Ndegeocello - Peace Beyond Passion
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9. Georgia Anne Muldrow - Umsindo
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10. Dwele - Subject
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Meth hasn't recorded any solo album which i can call as one of my favorites but his featurings are among the dopest in hip hop. The list shows only his guest appearances on other artists' albums (so not on collective Wu-Tang records or his collaboratation with Redman).

1. GZA/Genius - Shadowboxin' (Liquid Swords)

2. Pete Rock - Half Man, Half Amazin (Soul Survivor)

3. D'Angelo - Left & Right (Voodoo)

4. Heltah Skeltah - Gunz 'n Onez (Iz U Wit Me) (Magnum Force)

5. Notorious B.I.G. – The What (Ready To Die)

6. Mobb Deep - Extortion (Hell On Earth)…

I'm still just a beginner when comes to this subgenre.

1. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
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2. Dr. Octagon -Dr. Octagonecologyst
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3. Madvillain - Madvillainy
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4. MF Doom - Mmm.. Food
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5. Edan - Beauty and the Beat
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6. Uncut Raw - First Toke
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7. MF DOOM - Operation: Doomsday
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8. Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
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9. King Geedorah - Take Me to Your Leader
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10. Quasimoto - The Unseen
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This selection is based on my attitude to their political messages and not on the quality of their music. But i can't deny that i love all of them also from the musical point of view. It would be useless to choose "a favourite one" so i put them in chronological order.

Charles Mingus
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Fela Kuti
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Watts Prophets
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The Last Poets
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/107378/The+Last+Poets.jpg

Gil Scott-Heron
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/11864271/Gil+ScottHeron+gil.jpg

Peter Tosh
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/2331424/Peter+Tosh+pt_lee_116_lj.jpg

Linton Kwesi Johnson
http://chronicleworld.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/linton-kwesi-johnson-pix-1.jpg

Public Enemy
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/68596/Public+Enemy.jpg

KRS-One
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/35071345/KRSOne.jpg

The Coup
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/53553315/The+Coup++in+93.jpg

Immortal Technique
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/26235115/Immortal+Technique+l_94c075dfc97b44b9a06d82517043.jpg

1. The Coup - Kill My Landlord
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2.Souls of Mischief - 93 'Til Infinity
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3. Zion I - Mind Over Matter
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4. Dred Scott - Breakin' Combs
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5. The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
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6. The Coup - Steal This Album
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7. The D.O.C. - No One Can Do It Better
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8. Dr. Dre - The Chronic
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9. Ras Kass - Soul on Ice
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10. Blu & Exile - Below the Heavens
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Similar to my previous funk chart i used here only classic soul albums from 60's and 70's. No neo-soul and other similar genres then. The only problem is Gil Scott-Heron whose magnificent music usually can't be classified just as soul. I made an exception for Pieces Of A Man because in many ways it still can be named a soul album.

1. Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces of a Man
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2. Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
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3. Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
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4. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
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5. Sam Cooke - Night Beat
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6. Al Green…

The chart is made of classic funk albums from 60's-80's. It doesn't consist funk-related genres like afrobeat or jazz-funk because they would easily dominate it.

1. James Brown - The Payback
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2. Parliament - Mothership Connection
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3. Sly & the Family Stone - Fresh
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4. Cymande - Cymande
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5. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
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6. Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On
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7. The Meters - The Meters
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8. Parliament - Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome
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9. Prince - Dirty Mind
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10. Betty Davis - Betty Davis
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Recently i was listening to reggae intensively and here are the results (as usually this chart can change after some time):

1. Lee "Scratch Perry" & The Upsetters - Super Ape
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2. Gregory Isaacs - Cool Ruler
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3. Dennis Brown - Visions Of Dennis Brown
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4. The Abyssinians - Satta Massagana
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5. Hugh Mundell - Africa Must Be Free by 1983
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6. Toots and the Maytals - Funky Kingston (1975 version)
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7. The Congos - Heart of the Congos
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8. Scientist - Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires…