[face of glass]

• Boulders, Roy Wood (EMI, 1973): Slapping a fishbowl for percussion, speeding up the tape for high-pitched voices, playing every damn instrument on the album -> mad genius.
  
  
• Jordan: The Comeback, Prefab Sprout (CBS, 1990): A huge song cycle with everything from bolero to cheeky synthesisers thrown in the mix.
  
  
• Love You, the Beach Boys (Capitol, 1977): Fits this guy's description of avant-pop far better than Pet Sounds does.
  
  
• Paradise, Inner City (10 Records, 1989): Detroit techno goes commercial while retaining its trickiness, this is what most Euro techno acts missed.
  
  
• Power, Corruption & Lies, New Order (Factory, 1983): Summarises the confusion between the dark past and the uplifting future perfectly.
  
  
• Scott 4, Scott Walker (Philips, 1969): Not totally far-out yet, but getting there.
  
  
• The United States Of America, the United States Of America (Columbia, 1968): Hippie music made with ring oscillators instead of guitars.
  
  
• A Walk Across The Rooftops, the Blue Nile (Linn, 1983): The one Fairlight album that actually doesn't sound dated these days.
  
  
• Watertown, Frank Sinatra (Capitol, 1970): Sinatra does a complex POP song cycle with the Four Seasons songwriter and actually makes it work.
  
  
• Yip/Jump Music, Daniel Johnston (home-made tape, 1983): Self-explanatory.

Your turn, Gerald!