 | One Man's Treasure by Mick Harvey
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $0.78 Another collection of songs that will get inside your head and change your life. Subtle and quiet, so you need to pay attention, but once you do, this will become essential listening
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 | Epitaph for a Tramp and Epitaph for a Dead Beat: The Harry Fannin Detective Novels by David Markson
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $0.69 The best kind of trash reading -- cool and compelling, and extremely well-written. Two novels about crime in beatnik Greenwhich Village, written and set in the early 60s, and featuring a perfect hard-nosed and cynical PI.
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 | Starker plays Kodaly
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $7.39 Skip the first track. The sad, deep, beautiful cello music on the rest of this CD will make your internal organs tremble and the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.
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 | Fun House by The Stooges
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $9.00 I played this CD extremely loudly to welcome the birth of my daughter ten years ago. Music that screams at you, but with heart.
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 | Satie: Gymnopedies Gnossiennes / Jacques Loussier Trio by Benoit Dunoyer De Segonzac
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $7.94 Perhaps the most exquisite music-for-one ever written.
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 | Offenbach - Les Contes d'Hoffman / Shicoff, Murray, Norman, Plowright, Serra, Tear, Van Dam, La Monnaie, Camblering
Buy new: $34.98 / Used from: $52.47 Can anyone ignore the magic of the Barcarolle?
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 | São Paulo Confessions by Suba
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $3.44 The Balkans meets Brazil... elevator music for those days when you want to go past the penthouse.
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 | Shallow & Profound by Yonderboi
Buy used from: $51.21 Avoid imitations. Easy to imagine Jim Morrison listening to the sampling from Riders in a Storm and smiling with admiration (Isn't there more menace here than even Mr. Morrison could muster?).
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 | The Velvet Underground & Nico by The Velvet Underground
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.18 Perfect album. As fresh today as it was when it was first released. Ask your grandfather if you can borrow his vinyl ... although if he has any taste he'll have worn it out.
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 | Black Orpheus: The Criterion Collection
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $13.89 This is what Ovid had in mind! The best film version of the Orpheus myth (apologies to Cocteau) and with the added advantage that the music is hard and fast, except where it's soft and heart-rending.
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 | Talleyrand by Duff Cooper
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $5.21 Charming and fascinating. Resurrects the reputation of the extraordinary statesman, and does so in the most disarming fashion.
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 | The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate: Two Novels by Nancy Mitford
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $2.88 The perfect companion to Catcher in the Rye for the precocious teenager.
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 | Peter Pan (100th Anniversary Edition) by J. M. Barrie
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $11.49 Such a wonderful heartless boy. If you can get over the dubious sexual politics this is much more fun than the bowdlerized Disney version would lead you to believe.
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 | A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement by Anthony Powell
Buy new: $16.32 / Used from: $3.75 How many books can make you wish you were forty years older... I know a couple whose marriage just withered away when they finished reading this to each other, because nothing they could conjour gave them quite the same degree of shared pleasure.
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 | Justine (Alexandria Quartet) by Lawrence Durrell
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.64 Forget the fakes (yes, I am thinking of Paul Bowles). This quartet is orientalism at its very best.
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 | Pink Elephants by Mick Harvey
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $5.18 Poor Serge... if only he could have given his songs this much soul.
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