 | 40 Oz. to Freedom (Guitar Recorded Version) by Sublime
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $14.95 Sublime. My intro into quality music in early junior high. Interest in reaggea and punk music stems from this. Beautiful album, from start to finish. Bradley Nowell is amazing. One of those ones where people dislike it cause they don't get it and it doesn't have the same catchy feel as the self titled. But if the time is taken it blows you away.
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 | A Collection of Pop Classics by Reagan Youth
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $8.00 The first half is some fantastic hardcore punk rock. Probably one of my favorite punk albums and bands. They're songs are insightful and thoughtful, but full of the angst and aggression that makes hardcore so great.
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 | The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $4.27 Bob DYLAN. Any fan of music REQUIRES a selection of his albums. His music and influence on it are amazing. You can't go wrong with Bob if you check out his early stuff and most famous albums.
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 | The First Four Years by Black Flag
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $7.19 Black Flag, pre-Henry Rollins. This band had it all, intensity, charisma, a kick-a** symbol! Have you seen it! All it is is four black bars but its such a powerful image. It's fitting. Any fan of punk rock should check these guys out, or you probably already own this album.
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 | The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $7.37 Awesomeness, Bowie Madness.
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 | Double Nickels on the Dime by Minutemen
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $8.63 This is the big one. This album changed everything i thought about what an album could be. D. Boon is a master, as well as the magnificent Mike Watt and George Hurley. This in it's entirity never ceases to amaze me in it's complexity and incredible instrementation. This album has a permanant fix on my top favorite albums of all time.
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 | The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators by 13th Floor Elevators
Buy used from: $2.76 My first favorite Psychadelic band...Pink Floyd is didn't appreciate much until after i got into this band. Roky Ericson is a great vocalist and the band rocks.
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 | (MIA): The Complete Anthology by The Germs
Two words. Darby Crash.
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 | Spiderland by Slint
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $6.78 Recently got into this band but they have quickly become a favorite, the singer ranges from speaking his lyrics to screaming them backed by stop on a dime volume drops and rises and screeching chaotic guitar riffs. Check this out.
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 | Inside My Brain by Angry Samoans
Buy new: $12.98 / Used from: $5.46 The Angry Samoans are one of the coolest bands to come out of the L.A. punk scene, not only are they awesome their songs are fun and rockin'.
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 | Death Rides a Pale Cow: The Ultimate Collection by The Dead Milkmen
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $5.00 This album's the bees knees, if your not like the other people, here in the trailer park.
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 | Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.37 Miles Davis is a near god-like for making this.
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 | A Love Supreme by John Coltrane
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.10 Definitive, mind-blowing, this and the above album are responsible for when jazz "clicked" i guess.
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 | Meat Puppets II by Meat Puppets
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $7.79 Put punk rock, some acoustic guitars and a cowboy hat, some desert sand and some LSD in a blender and your results may be close to this band.
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 | Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.44 sweeeeeeeeet
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 | Fun House by The Stooges
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $2.46 Iggy Pop is the man
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 | The Velvet Underground by The Velvet Underground
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.99 I love this album, VU is fantastic, i think this is a good intro, get into the more popuar stuff with nico later.
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 | Rain Dogs by Tom Waits
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.97 Put an old jazz crooner, some crazy instruments, some gin and whiskey and a musical genius all in one. Tom Waits is one of the greatest singer/songwriters ever.
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 | 1990
Buy used from: $14.60 All i can say is, he's not for everyone. But those of you who are up for it Daniel Johnston can change your life. His songs are beautiful and amazing on some of the most basic levels of musicianship, but their raw emotionality are gut wrenching. Listen to everything you can, and don't let it slide past, open yourself up to it.
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 | Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $7.95 Wilco is so far ahead of their time. This is a good intro, you can't really go wrong with any of them.
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 | Z by My Morning Jacket
Buy used from: $2.98 Such a great band, Jim James has such a unique voice, i feel like live is probably the best way to hear them.
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 | The Score by Fugees (Refugee Camp)
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.46 Once again a great rap album from the fugees, goes so far beyond any of the crap on the radio. Good old fashioned intelligent and meaningful rap.
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 | Entertainment by Gang of Four
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $7.22 "Hey i guess they sound kind of funky. Oh, heres the all the lyrics" Slap in face.
GREAT. GREAT. GREAT
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 | Machine Gun Etiquette by The Damned
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $13.05 Ohhhhh...my stomache can't handle the pimpa**edness of this album.
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 | Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! by Devo
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $4.50 Duuude, these are like that band that played whip it. lol
F you, listen to this music dummy!
Don't let that one song let you miss out on this.
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 | Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables by Dead Kennedys
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $8.99 Biafra for president '12.
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 | I See a Darkness by Bonnie Prince Billy
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $9.99 Will Oldham is a musician in so many ways that other people are not.
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 | In the Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.99 Great album, in the right mindset, you'll get it.
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 | No Depression by Uncle Tupelo
Buy used from: $2.58 Great album, influence on alt. country. Really well done, carried by the great songs, some songs lack the musical greatness of others, but over all a great album.
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 | Bad Brains by Bad Brains
Buy new: $12.98 / Used from: $19.47 BAD BRAINS!!! The punk powerhouses, these guys used to play punk now their rastafarian reggea musicians. Each member is a great talent, their musical styles are much more complex and intense than your average 80's hardcore band.
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 | Inside Dave Van Ronk by Dave Van Ronk
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $7.94 Influenced Bob Dylan, great folk singer, such a powerful voice.
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 | Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $5.99 All i can say about this is, if you define music with melodies and singing and stuff like that then whoa, WTF is this. Just cause it don't sound like it, don't mean it ain't it.
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 | Music from Big Pink by The Band
Buy used from: $3.56 I love the band, so should you.
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 | The Adolescents/Welcome to Reality/All by Myself by The Adolescents
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $10.49 For the longest time i couldn't get past how awesome "kids of the black hole" was, but this entire album is great punk rock.
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 | Thank God for Mental Illness by The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $6.42 BJM is undefinable, but some of the best music out there right now.
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 | Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys
Buy used from: $2.44 You don't like this?! Know why, its your lack of a defrost setting on your cold unhappy heart.
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 | Christ the Album by Crass
Buy used from: $19.95 Learn from them. Listen to the lyrics, critical of authority, religious and government alike. These are an enlightened bunch, angry at the decline of the world around them.
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 | First Demo Tape by Minor Threat
Buy new: $4.98 / Used from: $1.18 This is really cool, Minor Threat is a great band, and Ian Mackaye is a very interesting and talented individual.
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