 | Fun House by The Stooges
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $10.99 At the appropriate volume, this will crush you.
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 | Double Nickels on the Dime by Minutemen
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $9.99 With 'Crooked Rain' the best California album. Album of the decade.
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 | Peel Slowly and See by The Velvet Underground
Buy new: $41.97 / Used from: $26.00 The first two albums (discs 2 & 3) are my personal favorites, but it's hard to dislike a song on this compilation. There are some great bonus tracks "Foggy Notion" "Brooker T." "Guess I'm Falling In Love" "Lisa Says" "Sad Song" "Stephanie Says" "Hey Mr. Rain" "One of These Days"... check out the great live version of "What Goes On" that leads off disc 4.
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 | Pink Flag by Wire
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $10.50 This has been my favorite punk since the first time I heard it. Only Crime's early recordings approach this album in funness. "Mannequin" would inspire the Feelies. Elastica ripped off "Three Girl Rhumba". There's a band called the "Ex Lion Tamers". This album is all over the place and for a reason.
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 | Spiderland by Slint
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $7.49 Nothing is out of place in this Louisville night.
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 | Tilt by Scott Walker
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $8.59 Bleak, austere, haunting, genius.
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 | Heart and Soul by Joy Division
Buy new: $58.49 / Used from: $47.45 Four solemn discs. You really only miss "Sister Ray" from Still.
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 | Selected Ambient Works, Vol. 2 by Aphex Twin
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $5.95 This music is immortal. "Lichen" is the loveliest song I know. Play this two disc set to go to sleep or to float in space.
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 | Mclusky Do Dallas by Mclusky
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $6.98 Okay, okay, I was wrong... this is more fun than "Pink Flag". Our first inclusion to be engineered by Steve Albini.
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 | Safe as Milk by Captain Beefheart
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.19 "I got a brand new Cadillac, got a Ferrari too, sure nuff baby, sure nuff n yes I do..." Not a bad cut on this album of the year (if we consider VU & Nico to be a '66 release). "Plastic Factory" is sonic perfection, "Autumn's Child" is a journey.
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 | Crooked Rain Crooked Rain: L.A.'s Desert Origins by Pavement
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $8.49 Perhaps Pavement's strongest album (and there is stiff competition), this expanded edition gives you such extra classics like "All My Friends" "Same Way of Saying" "Pueblo Domain [Peel]" "Stare" "Camera" etc.
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 | The Complete Recordings by Robert Johnson
Buy new: $22.99 / Used from: $11.95 |
 | The Good Earth by The Feelies
Buy used from: $34.99 Great guitar rock from 1986. The drumming is the only thing that isn't just as good as on "Crazy Rhythms".
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 | Tri Repetae++ by Autechre
Buy used from: $20.99 Buy buy buy.
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 | Astral Weeks by Van Morrison
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $4.87 Organic, romantic, human, beautiful.
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 | Another Green World by Eno
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.09 Great for a train ride, looking out the window. Tell me a better album from '75!
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 | Scott 3 by Scott Walker
Buy new: $12.98 / Used from: $9.81 "It's Raining Today" "Copenhagen" "Big Louise" "Butterfly" "Sons of" "If You Go Away"
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 | Prayers on Fire by The Birthday Party
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $4.90 Claustrophobic, dense, frightening.
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 | Liar by The Jesus Lizard
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $4.85 Druid noise rock produced by Steve Albini.
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 | At Action Park by Shellac
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $11.40 A more mature Albini (than in Big Black and Rapeman). This trio makes a lot of noise.
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 | Surfer Rosa by Pixies
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.99 Albini again.. guitars that will sting you.. songs that will make you want to sing along.. great debut LP
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 | You're Living All Over Me by Dinosaur Jr.
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.50 |
 | Sister by Sonic Youth
Buy new: $7.97 / Used from: $4.49 Everything here works together. Sonic Youth's most rocking album.
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 | Kick Out the Jams by MC5
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.99 A high energy live set from the last year of the '60s.
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 | The Day The Earth Met The... by Rocket from the Tombs
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $14.64 "Live From Punk Ground Zero, Cleveland 1975"
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 | Datapanik in the Year Zero by Pere Ubu
Buy used from: $19.99 |
 | Tago Mago by Can
Buy used from: $12.99 Grooving psychedelic masterpiece.
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 | Sung Tongs by Animal Collective
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $9.99 Album of the year 2004.
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 | The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators by 13th Floor Elevators
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $6.16 Top 10 of the decade. The album title says enough.
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 | The Modern Lovers by The Modern Lovers
Buy new: $38.99 / Used from: $12.68 Great for a road trip. Or any drive really. Every track is a highlight.
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 | Laughing Stock by Talk Talk
Buy new: $7.97 / Used from: $4.87 The other-worldly Astral Weeks of 1991.
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 | Psychocandy by The Jesus and Mary Chain
Buy used from: $6.00 Delicious noise pop.
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 | Well Oiled by Hash Jar Tempo
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $8.99 Lush and fully extended.
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 | The Complete Library of Congress Sessions, 1941-1942 by Son House
Buy new: $19.49 / Used from: $12.64 Father of the Delta Blues.
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