Exemplary albums (that aren't musical theatre)

 The Yazbeck Challenge: go a year without listening to any musical theatre. (I'm still trying.)

POP

• Heaven & Hell, Ava Max.
• five seconds flat, Lizzy McAlpine.
• Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, Chappell Roan.

ROCK

• Bat out of Hell, Bat out of Hell II, Meat Loaf.
• Terrapin Station, Grateful Dead.
• Ghost in the Machine, The Police.
• Innuendo, Queen.
• The Black Parade, My Chemical Romance.
• HOLY FVCK, Demi Lovato.

SINGER-SONGWRITER

• Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder.
• Mingus, Joni Mitchell.
• Grace, Jeff Buckley.
• The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner, Ben Folds Five.
• Book of Travelers, Gabriel Kahane.
• Slowmotionary, Ethan Gruska.

JAZZ

• Compact Dizzy Gillespie, Dizzy Gillespie.
• Chet Baker Sings, Chet Baker.
• A Love Supreme, John Coltrane.
• Heavy Weather, Weather Report.

CLASSICAL

• Serenade for Strings, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
• Ein Heldenleben, Richard Strauss.
• Agnus Dei, Samuel Barber.
• Fratres, Arvo Pärt.
• Earbox, John Adams.

OPERA

• Don Giovanni, Mozart.
• Otello, Giuseppe Verdi.
• Iolanta, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
• Akhnaten, Philip Glass.

OTHER

• Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares: Ritual, Bulgarian State Television Female Choir.
• Scratch My Back, Peter Gabriel.
• Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor, Lupe Fiasco.
• Aluminum Overcast, Early Gray.
• Toilet, Clown Core.