 | The Soft Bulletin by The Flaming Lips
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.19 Perfection.
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 | Art of Life by X Japan
Buy used from: $17.49 A structurally brilliant fantasia that sways from galloping metallic wunderlust and an Ode-to-Joy-like heroic theme to dreamy interludes of hypnosis and avant guard madness, Art of Life is unquestionably the most ambitious single movement work that I have ever heard.
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 | Bloodflowers by The Cure
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $1.91 Rather than checking for pulse, doctors ought to just play this and check for tears.
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 | Alive in an Ultra World by Steve Vai
Buy new: $15.93 / Used from: $4.50 It's always between this or The Ultra Zone as my favorite Vai album, and I usually choose this on the basis of its variety, impressive live performances, honesty, humor, and Brandos Costumes (Gentle Ways).
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 | Tischenko - Yaroslavna, Symphony No. 3 - Alexander Dmitriev, Igor Blazhkov (2 CD Set)
Though I was familiar with Tishchenko when I bought this CD, I did so impulsively as a birthday present to myself a couple of years ago. Not only has dodecaphony never sounded so good (especially in contrast to the Shostakovichian, yet Zen-like lines that comprise so much of the rest of the ballet), but this is still my best impulse purchase.
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 | Dialogue by Bobby Hutcherson
Buy new: $8.94 / Used from: $5.99 Catta is always playing in my head.
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 | In the Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.99 I bought this the first week of my first semester in college. Shortly after getting on a bus that was heading back to a metro station in NoVa, some guy overheard mention of my recent purchase and asked to see it, seeming so surprised that anyone of such youth would have an interest in anything made during the last century.
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 | Civilization Phaze III by Frank Zappa
Buy used from: $45.99 One could only be so lucky as to have his last work be such a tour de force.
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 | Crystal Ball by Prince
Buy used from: $46.99 All four vomit creativity.
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 | It's Not Funny by David Cross
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.93 A floatation device during the first four of the last eight, for the first eight of the last eight.
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 | Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart (2 CD) by Rachael Yamagata
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $6.85 Honorable mention. Which says a lot considering that you have a better chance of winning the lottery than selling me on a singer songwriter.
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