 | Let's Stay Together by Al Green
Buy used from: $6.48 This is Al's best record. And a perfect place to start if you've never really listened to him much.
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 | Armchair Apocrypha by Andrew Bird
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.40 In an alternate, and cooler, universe Andrew Bird is an enormous rock star played on top 40 radio. This record is a classic, his new one (due in 2009) will likely be one too.
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 | I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You/Including Respect by Aretha Franklin
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.50 Aretha's best album. Respect is on it, but so are 9 or 10 other songs that are even better. Check out "don't let me lose this dream", then buy the album, then thank god for aretha franklin
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 | Swing the Heartache:BBC Sessions by Bauhaus
Buy used from: $19.99 This is probably the best record that really shows you who this band is, let's face it, their albums aren''t great all the way through, but they were a great band nonetheless. This is the best place to start with bauhaus.
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 | Today/ Summer Days (and Summer Nights) by The Beach Boys
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.65 The Beach Boys had a lot of great singles and not a whole lot of great albums. Of course pet sounds is a classic. But Today is also wonderful, and this disk also comes with summer days, which isn't half bad.
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 | Everything Went Black by Black Flag
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $8.98 A compilation of most of what Black Flag did before Henry Rollins ruined the band. Sorry Hank. But you did.
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 | Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons by Blonde Redhead
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $3.98 This record and everything they've done since is genius. Especially 23.
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 | Burnin' (Deluxe Edition) by Bob Marley & the Wailers
Buy new: $29.98 / Used from: $14.67 Bob Marley gets a bad rep because frat boys like him. That's unfortunate considering he wrote some of the most memorable and worthwhile music of the last 100 years. This record is undeniable.
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 | For Emma, Forever Ago by Bon Iver
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $10.95 Like if TV on the Radio and Elliott Smith made the most amazing record of 2008.
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 | I See a Darkness by Bonnie Prince Billy
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $9.99 Ok. Bonnie Prince Billy hasn't made a bad record. He is probably one of the most consistent and prolific artists of our time. This is his best record. Johnny Cash covered the title track, need I say more.
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 | Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.69 Most of the boss's records blow in comparison. And he recorded this one on a 4-track in his basement.
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 | Untrue by Burial
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $13.09 one of the most groundbreaking records of the past 10 years. You might not get it the first time you hear it, but it's worth your time. I swear!
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 | Suburban Light by Clientele
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $7.98 I have this record around just for when I'm walking around manhattan in the rain. It's sort of the perfect winter record.
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 | Heaven or Las Vegas by Cocteau Twins
Buy used from: $1.97 Yeah, I know what your thinking, but the Cocteau Twins made a perfect record and it's called Heaven or Las Vegas.
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 | The Top by The Cure
Buy used from: $3.33 This is my favorite cure album. Most people prefer boys don't cry or disintegration, but I'm convinced those people have never really sat down and listened to The Top. The cure at their most playful, energetic and courageous.
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 | Dusty in Memphis by Dusty Springfield
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.95 A sweet and lovely reminder that the 60s were more than just hippies.
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 | This Year's Model by Elvis Costello & the Attractions
Buy used from: $3.68 His best record. And so essential it's ridiculous.
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 | Beat This: The Best of the English Beat by The English Beat
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.00 This record just makes me happy. Save it for later should be a song you have at your disposal at all times.
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 | Live! by Fela Ransome-Kuti and the Africa '70
Buy used from: $55.58 This record kills.
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 | Red Medicine by Fugazi
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $4.00 Every Fugazi record is necessary. This one is just the most necessary.
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 | The Very Best of Daryl Hall & John Oates by Hall & Oates
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $5.56 1000% Awesome.
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 | Lust for Life by Iggy Pop
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.42 David Bowie and Iggy Pop together made one of the best records either one of them ever made.
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 | Matador Singles '08 by Jay Reatard
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $5.00 I wish I would have had this record when I was 15 instead of now when I am such an old fart and can only love it from so far away.
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 | Night Falls Over Kortedala by Jens Lekman
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $7.24 Jens is not for everyone, but if he is for you, he is SOOOO for you.
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 | Blue by Joni Mitchell
Buy new: $8.97 / Used from: $4.98 Timeless.
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 | Aha Shake Heartbreak by Kings of Leon
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $4.24 A fun and great rock record that is HUGELY UNDERATED!
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 | What's Next to the Moon by Mark Kozelek
Buy new: $10.98 / Used from: $6.39 Mark Kozelek from Red House Painters doing a cover album of AC/DC songs. On paper it sounds so terrible, but it is an extraordinary record.
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 | Fox Confessor Brings the Flood by Neko Case
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $8.47 Neko Case picked up where patsy cline left off and god bless her for it.
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 | Dry by PJ Harvey
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $4.15 A colossal record.
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 | Descended Like Vultures by Rogue Wave
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $4.65 A great record ignored by almost everyone.
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 | Histoire de Melody Nelson by Serge Gainsbourg
Buy new: $19.98 / Used from: $11.24 best record cover of all time, also a beautiful album.
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 | Shocking Pinks by Shocking Pinks
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $0.19 Everyone I play this record for loves it. No one has ever heard of it.
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 | Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain by Sparklehorse
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $2.99 I like sparklehorse. So what.
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 | Refinement of the Decline by Stars of the Lid
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $10.99 If you give this record a chance it will own you. But most people will never this record a chance.
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 | For Once in My Life by Stevie Wonder
Buy new: $7.97 / Used from: $5.77 an under the radar gem from this amazing artist. Of course you need his great records from the 70's too, talking book, innervisions and so on. this one is also pure greatness.
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 | How It Feels to Be Something On by Sunny Day Real Estate
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $3.00 I have an enormous soft spot in my heart for this record. Call me an emofag if you want. It's really good.
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 | Here's to Shutting Up by Superchunk
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $3.50 I know a lot of people who love this band but don't have this record. I sort of hate this band but love this record. I can't explain it. So I won't try.
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![Orphans [Deluxe Limited Edition -- Bound 94 page booklet]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51F78WSPECL._SL75_.jpg) | Orphans [Deluxe Limited Edition -- Bound 94 page booklet] by Tom Waits
Buy used from: $27.99 this is a comp of b sides and rarities. But somehow it's the best document he's ever put out.
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 | Leaves Turn Inside You by Unwound
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $8.99 the best record you've never heard.
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 | 21:51 by The VSS
Buy used from: $0.18 Angel Hair was good too, but you'd hate it.
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