![]() | Venus in Cancer by Robbie Basho
Buy used from: $17.72 other worldly. completely different sound from a man who traveled the globe studying with talented musicians from all over the place, great for meditation
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![]() | Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 / Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.99 i dont really know if this is the best recording of this symphony. Im not going to claim to be a classical expert, but this symphony is about the most important moment in music history in my opinion. IT ROCKS
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![]() | Buffalo Springfield Again by Buffalo Springfield
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.53 i personally love this cd. it grows on you with each listen. note the almost shameful similarities to sgt. peppers. i love sgt. peppers but these guys almost copy the whole format, but still awesome
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![]() | Tago Mago by Can
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $8.74 Can is intense. a very bizaar and unique sound. these guys used to just jam for hours on end. the story in the jacket makes it more interesting. very cool cd
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![]() | Safe as Milk by Captain Beefheart
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.98 his later stuff is really bizaar. almost too bizarr, but this cd has more of normal structure. purely, a stompin rompin kick "butt" blues sound from a bunch of white kids imitating blues great Howlin Wolf
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![]() | Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia by The Dandy Warhols
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $1.91 this cd along with The Dandy Warhols Come Down is remarkable. how these guys werent the biggest thing in the late 90's i have trouble grasping. my third favorite band or all time. HIGHly recommeneded lol
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![]() | Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.48 i hate to use the most common jazz cd as my only jazz cd, but it really is the best i have, perfectly crafted, chill, and nothing really to complain about, this cd is essential
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![]() | Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.99 i used to be a HUGE dylan fan so i cant leave him out. this along with blood on the tracks are two very essential cds. but almost all his cds are worth having
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![]() | Desperado by Eagles
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $3.49 i confess, i absolutely hate hotel california. but the eagles first two cds are actually quite nice. i reccomend both. the first has a really hard desert feel, while this one tells a story and has a little bit of a country twang to it
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![]() | Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes by John Fahey
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.87 this, Transfiguration, America, and the Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick are amazing. a solo guitarist and one of the pioneers of "Indie" music. this guy makes some bone chilling and down right cool music
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![]() | Fire on the Mountain: Reggae Celebrates the Grateful Dead by Various Artists
Buy used from: $6.09 i love the grateful dead, and i love reggae. here is an often overlooked BEAUTIFUL combination of the two. the first 6 songs are like my top 6 reggae songs no joke
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![]() | Alice's Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.50 i have this and washington country. this is a really good place to start, fun, unique, and while many look at him as a one hit wonder, i believe he is wildly talented and misunderstood
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![]() | Electric Ladyland by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.25 obviosly hendrix's first three cds are essential, each one better than the last, this one being the last studio album completed in his sadly short lifetime. and man does it rock. hendrix doesnt waste one second of this nearly 80 minute cd showing everyone he is the best
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![]() | The Very Best of John Lee Hooker by John Lee Hooker
Buy used from: $4.16 fun, rockin, bluesy, and boogy-licious. this man knew how to make some fun music. one of my favorite blues musicians
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![]() | Horowitz in Moscow
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $1.87 chillingly beautiful. read the jacked to fully understand how amazing of a concert this would have been to attend. a must listen. a pianist at his peak
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![]() | Today! by Mississippi John Hurt
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $5.99 a blues artist who briefly recorded in the 1928. he gave up and became a farmer. during the 60's revival someone found him and got him recording again. my favorite thing about him is he heard little to no other music before adapting his own style of playing. he simply played the guitar "how it looked it should be played"
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![]() | Befriended by The Innocence Mission
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $7.44 i dont have any other of their cds, but i can tell you this one is magnificent. it is endlessly beautiful
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![]() | The Shepherd's Dog by Iron & Wine
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.19 this cd just wont quit, song after song is good. everytime i listen to (cause ive only listened to this casually) i find a new song i love
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![]() | The Sky Is Crying: The History of Elmore James by Elmore James
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.99 one of my other favorite blues musicians. this man is king of the electric slide guitar in my opinion. and what a sound!
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![]() | The Complete Recordings by Robert Johnson
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $9.78 not gonna lie the mysteriousness of this man causes him to be vastly overrated. he did not invent the blues in any manner, but he was remarkably talented. still very much worth having. i have the "martin scorsese presents" version, i think it might actually be the best
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![]() | Forever Changes by Love
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $1.19 the lead singer truly believed his death was approaching. causing him to make some deep lyrics dealing with human nature in general and the inner workings of the mind, each listen grows on you more and more
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![]() | Kala
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.25 ELECTRIFYING. this girl is as cool as her music. every track has your pulse racing. favorite track- an unfairly overlooked trippy song called "20$"
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![]() | Solid Air by John Martyn
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $6.12 extremely overlooked. this is quite possibly my favorite cd of all time. please check it out. you wont be disapointed. brit folk singer mixed with blues and a little jazz in the one of the most mellow cds ever
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![]() | In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.38 amazing cd. i believe its "indie". i could be mistaken, this guy is really good and knows how to make some interesting songs
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![]() | The Best of Charlie Patton by Charlie Patton
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $11.50 if you must know, THIS man is considered the grandfather of rock and roll.Charlie (as rolling stone magazine states) "jumps out of the speaker and grabs the listener by the throat". john fahey basically dedicated his life to this man
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![]() | OK Computer by Radiohead
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.29 i still believe its the best starting place. amazing cd. Every major cd theve made besides pablo honey is worth having. in order from best to least best: Kid A, In Rainbows, Ok Computer, Hail to the theif, Amnesiac, and In Bends and the airbag/how am i driving? one
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![]() | Kid A by Radiohead
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.50 probably my most listened to CD ever, this one trancends time and space. might be my favorite CD ever
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![]() | In Rainbows by Radiohead
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $6.39 one word: Beautiful. if the human race perished and i had but one artifact to leave behind to show that we were here, it would be this cd
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![]() | Transformer by Lou Reed
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.82 this and New York are my favorite Lou Reed Cds. this one is more along the lines of ziggy starduse while New York has him talking in a low and diry voice. just about the coolest sound i ever heard
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![]() | Let It Bleed by The Rolling Stones
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $9.86 rolling stones at their absolute peak. just the right amount of rock, country, blues, and fun rolled into one. i could be just fine only owning this Rolling stone cd. but beggers banquet is also very good
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![]() | Tour de Force by The Bola Sete Trios
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $5.99 bola sete is sweet. i have another one of his cds, ocean memories. i think its even better but both are essential. a brazilian guitarist who wants nothing but to touch your soul. theres this other latin cd by "getz/gilberto" i havent gotten it yet but it sounds amazing
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![]() | ( ) by Sigur Rós
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $5.49 i only recently got this, but it seems worth having. puts me in a trance everytime
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![]() | This Heat by This Heat
Buy new: $22.00 / Used from: $6.80 very f@$ked up sound. it works PERFECTLY with what its trying to succeed. these guys loved to just destroy everything you thought you knew about the conventions of music
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![]() | The Velvet Underground & Nico by The Velvet Underground
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.94 my second favorite band ever. these guys made music ten times cooler than it already was. along with White Light/White Heat, the Velvet Underground, Loaded, and the Velvet Undergound Live 1969 vol. 1
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![]() | The Velvet Underground by The Velvet Underground
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.98 yeah. their first cd was a mix of very soft and very hard. their second is VERY hard, about as hard as a cd gets actually, and this, their third, is Very soft, beautiful songs throughout, this cd never gets old
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![]() | Blackheart Man by Bunny Wailer
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $7.48 looking for good reggae outside Bob Marley? theres plenty of it, this one being a good place to start. other great reggae artists include the Wailing Souls, Joe Higgs, and Culture among others
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![]() | 20 of Hank Williams' Greatest Hits by Hank Williams
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $4.98 im not a big fan of the newer country but the origin of country is outstanding. i cant get enough of this cd, its just plain fun. hes the best in country for a reason
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![]() | His Best by Sonny Boy Williamson
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.99 very fun blues musician, not extremely different from any other musician, nor does he have any mysteriousness around him or an increble influence on other artists, this guys just plain old great. i love him
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![]() | His Best :(Little Walter)The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection by Little Walter
Buy new: $7.97 / Used from: $6.38 what i like about this cd that separates if from other blues cds is he avoids repition very well, something that almost all other blues musicians get stuck in
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![]() | The Eraser by Thom Yorke
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.88 dont look at as a radiohead cd, itll just ruin the experience. this is just a side project by a very very talented man who needed to make something completely his own, and it is pretty good. his voice is more intimate than whats found on Kid A and Amnsiac
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