 | Kid A by Radiohead
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.00 The only melding of electronica and rock that breathes.
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 | Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $4.69 The quintessential recording for dreamers of every sort.
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 | Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.83 The most intense and enigmatic statement by a punk band to date.
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 | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $3.31 The most ambitious and successful of the Beatles's later albums.
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 | Louder Than Love by Soundgarden
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.02 Contains all the seeds of the great things to come from the best thing from Seattle since Hendrix.
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 | Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.08 Contains lyrical contributions from many of the all-time greats of jazz.
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 | Skylarking by XTC
Buy used from: $1.15 XTC was one of the few bands on the "new wave" side of things to make an opus of this range.
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 | Holst: The Planets
Buy used from: $0.90 One of the mightiest and richest pieces of music ever recorded.
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 | Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart by Camper Van Beethoven
Buy new: $8.94 / Used from: $3.47 Think that you're "alternative"? Listen to these "acid country" pioneers and discover the true meaning of the word.
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 | A Love Supreme by John Coltrane
Buy used from: $1.95 More spiritual than anything I've heard in any church.
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 | Copland conducts Copland - Appalachian Spring, etc
Buy used from: $2.23 How does the spirit of America sound? Aaron Copland has some answers.
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 | XO by Elliott Smith
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $5.86 Elliot is the premiere unknown lyricist of our generation.
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 | Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan
Buy used from: $1.95 Dylan's poetry is at its most voluminous, pointed, and potent on this one.
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 | Moving Pictures by Rush
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.83 You can hear songs from this one on classic rock radio for the millionth time and still pump your fist.
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 | Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition - Tomita
Buy used from: $5.08 The perfect expression of the visible in a musical form does exist.
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 | Electric Ladyland by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $5.90 Jimi Hendrix--rock's most complex mind--has his finest hour here.
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 | The Best of the Doors by The Doors
Buy used from: $1.34 This compilation sums up everything that made Morrison and his band the visionaries of rock.
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 | Who's Next by The Who
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $4.99 "Won't Get Fooled Again" alone encapsulates the meaning of teenage rage. The rest of the album merely reinforces what it means to be young.
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 | Songs: The Art of the Trio, Vol. 3 by Brad Mehldau
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $5.43 When they get going you wonder how they think out the songs much less play them.
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 | Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $4.92 Zeppelin's true masterpiece despite the attention given to ZOSO.
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 | Paranoid by Black Sabbath
Buy new: $8.97 / Used from: $3.29 Plain and simple, the first true metal disc that actually mattered.
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 | Sister by Sonic Youth
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.25 Sonic Youth's "other" masterpiece . . . this one is all things to all people: fast, slow, beautiful, ugly, intellectual, stupid.
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 | Bleach by Nirvana
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $2.74 This is the one where Kurt Cobain reinvented metal and punk in one fell swoop--their true classic.
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 | OK Computer by Radiohead
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.99 This album has so many layers that it is truly maddening: they show that madness may be the truest route to inspiration.
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 | Discipline by King Crimson
Buy used from: $7.95 The musicians do feats on this one that will be analyzed by musicologists long after you are gone--an underappreciated gem.
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