 | Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £2.98 Very much the weirdo's weirdo, the Captain and his gang laid down some distinctly acid-soaked, jazz tinged eccenticity on "Trout...". Decades ahead of its time.
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 | Frizzle Fry by Primus
Buy new: £7.48 / Used from: £5.47 Primus quite literally have a genre all to themselves. Their debut album is the heaviest, the funkiest and most jaw-droppingly technical of all their releases.
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 | King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime by Faith No More
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.42 Faith No More were notorious for hopping from one genre to another throughout an album, but on "King For A Day..." they sacrificed some variety in exchange for unbelievable heaviness.
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 | Bitches Brew by Miles Davis
Buy used from: £7.17 Already a legendary jazz icon, Miles Davies gathered together the finest musicians he could find and recorded one of the first ever jazz fusion records. Surprisingly chilled psychedelic jams.
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 | Plague Soundscapes by The Locust
Buy new: £8.79 / Used from: £1.90 The Locust are effectively four art students in bug suits making one hell of a racket. "Plague..." is spazzcore par excellence, not unlike being constantly punched in the face for 23 minutes.
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 | Locust Abortion Technician by Butthole Surfers
Buy new: £6.48 If ever there was to be an accurate accusation that a band was insane this is it. Pitchshifted-to-death country/punk/blues/acid rock madness.
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 | Catch 33 by Meshuggah
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £7.11 Meshuggah are probably the most technically proficient band on the planet. "Catch 33" is one long song, brilliantly showcasing their contempt for standard time signatures.
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 | Penderecki - Orchestral Works, Vol 1
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.97 Containing both the brilliant "Fluorescences" and the nigh terrifying "Threnody For The Victims Of Hiroshima", this collection is a celebration of one of the most underrated modern composers.
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 | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles
Buy used from: £2.20 Often lauded as the Beatles best album (a title perhaps more worthy of "Revolver"), "Sgt. Pepper's..." is certainly one of their strangest. This represents the high watermark for all psychedelia.
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 | Buried Secrets/Guts of a Virgin by Painkiller
Buy used from: £22.78 Consisting of members from Naked City and Napalm Death, Painkiller were the free jazz/grindcore soundtrack to the darkest of nightmares. You could probably make someone wet the bed with track 1 alone.
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