 | Vira Loucos: Cyro Baptista Plays the Music of Villa Lobos by Cyro Baptista
Buy used from: $39.49 Best jazz beat album ever.
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 | Sacred Island by Taj Mahal and the Hula Blues Band
Buy used from: $1.57 Admitedly, the blues isn't my strongest genre, but this album always does it for me.
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 | Into the Purple Valley by Ry Cooder
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.00 Best all-time roots album, with Ry Cooder close behind.
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 | Henryk Gorecki: Symphony 3 "Sorrowful Songs"
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $2.25 Transcendent.
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 | Slow Motion by Andy Narell
Buy used from: $19.98 Best fusion album ever. Why is this out of print?
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 | Eighteen Inches of Rain by Ian Tyson
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $8.42 Best cowboy album ever. Edges out other Tyson offerings by virtue of "Heartaches Are Stealin'," one of the best songs ever written.
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 | Sanfona by Egberto Gismonti
Buy used from: $23.99 Best Brazilian album ever.
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 | Song Cycle by Van Dyke Parks
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $4.49 Best South C salon rock album ever.
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 | The Gilded Palace of Sin by The Flying Burrito Brothers
Buy new: $24.98 / Used from: $7.98 Nude wimmen, pterodactyls, and the hottest band ever. All-time greatest country-rock album.
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 | A Meeting by the River by Ry Cooder & V.M. Bhatt
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $5.90 Greatest cross-cultural album ever. Mumtaz Mahal a close second.
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![Lone Soldier [CD on Demand]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xuRjid0vL._SL75_.jpg) | Lone Soldier [CD on Demand] by David Grier
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $5.47 Edges out Panorama and Freewheeling as best flat picking album ever.
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 | How Late'll Ya Play 'Til?, Vol. 2: Studio by David Bromberg
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $11.82 Best folk-roots-jazzy-blues-good time album ever.
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 | The Pet Sounds Sessions by The Beach Boys
Buy new: $39.47 / Used from: $23.95 A rare two-category winner: Best pop album ever and best box set ever.
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 | Architextures by Vijay Iyer
Buy used from: $47.98 Edges out Memorophilia for best ever Asia jazz album.
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 | War by U2
Buy used from: $0.25 Barely edges out London Calling for best rock album ever.
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 | Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $4.95 Best Post-Modern album ever. Also the funniest. And saddest.
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 | Do Right Man by Dan Penn
Buy new: $8.96 / Used from: $2.35 Best soul album ever.
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 | Learning to Crawl by The Pretenders
Buy used from: $1.88 Best punk rock album ever. "Back on the Chain Gang" slightly edges out New Order's "Age of Consent" for most mesmerizing rock performance ever.
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 | Avalon by Roxy Music
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.00 Best ennui rock album ever. Also, all-time best cover art.
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 | Celtic Connections Suite
Buy used from: $14.85 Best Celtic album ever.
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 | The Invisible by Peter Epstein
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $12.37 Best jazz album ever. So what if nobody's ever heard (of) it?
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 | The Ready Made Boomerang by Deep Listening Band
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $5.00 Best New Age album ever. Edges out Sanctuary by the same group.
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 | Arthur - Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire by The Kinks
Buy used from: $24.97 Best British Invasion album ever. Ray Davies at the top of his game. Hard to beat.
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 | The Mission: Original Soundtrack From The Motion Picture
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.99 Best movie soundtrack ever. Nothing else is even close.
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 | Call of the West by Wall of Voodoo
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $4.19 Best New Wave album ever. Just nips Soul Mining by The The.
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