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in terms of innovation and genius
I'll start the ball rolling with ......

SOUL MINING - THE THE

Agree Ivan! Here's another (obvious) one: Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle ...

This thread is in need of some serious additions!

Let's start with two from the same era and the same city, in this case Liverpool:

Dalek I Love You - Compass Kum'pas
OMD - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

Then let's move on to Sheffield for the next two:

Cabaret Voltaire - Mix Up
The Human League - Reproduction

Other notables from other places:

Wire - Pink Flag
Vangelis - Albedo 0.39
Vini Reilly - The Return Of The Durutti Column
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene

OK, I'll leave the rest for somebody else, my brain hurts now!

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Going back to 1980 (or just about), here's a few that for me were just as unique as Metamatic:

Magazine: Secondhand Daylight (with its gothic-art-pop of Cut Out Shapes, and the atmospheric The Thin Air)

The Human League: Reproduction (with the B-movie spectacle of Circus Of Death, and the synthpop of Empire State human)

Garry Numan: The Pleasure Principle (with every track a robotic winner)

OMD: Organisation (with the sublime Stanlow, and Statues)

For me it has to be OMD's first album, Depeche Mode's "Speak & Spell, The Human Leagues "Travelogue, Gary Numan's "Telekon, Tubeway Army's "Replicas", Yazoo's "Upstairs At Eric's", Pet Shop Boys "Please", Talk Talk's "The Party's Over" and "Vienna" by Ultravox.

Gary

And lest we forget, I think we should include The Golden Age Of Wireless by our old friend Thomas Morgan Dolby Robertson. Great combination of electronics and conventional instruments and superb songwriting.

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kraftwerk - computer world

In terms of innovation and genius, I would have nominated Autobahn rather than Computer World. To me, Computer World was the refinement of their years of experimenting and is, even by Kraftwerk standards, a bit 'sterile' in my opinion, too polished and precise. Autobahn, on the other hand, combined their home-made electronics with recorded sounds of car engines and horns which, for 1975, was something few people, if any, had previously done. At least it still had some rough edges.

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sort of "the ones you could never be without", or "the ones you keep coming bak to" categories..
.. many already mentioned but I'll add:

ELO - Out of the Blue
OMD - Architecture & Morality / Dazzle Ships
Depeche Mode - A Broken Frame / Some Great Reward / Violator
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells I & II
Japan - Tin Drum
China Crisis - Flaunt he Imperfection
ABC - Lexicon of Love
JMJ -Equinoxe

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Jean Michel Jarre – Oxygene & Oxygene 7-11
Gary Numan – The Pleasure Principle & Telekon
Kraftwerk – The Man Machine
The Human League – Dare!
Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells 7 Tubular Bells II
Peter Gabriel – "3", So and Us
David Bowie – Station to Station & 1.Outside