 | Singles Going Steady by Buzzcocks
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.99 Driving pop-punk from one of Punk's premier bands. Features the ever popular "Ever Fallen in Love?", the controversial hit "Orgasm Addict", and other gems like "Noise Annoys" and "What Do I Get?"
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 | Are You Experienced by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Buy new: $9.97 / Used from: $6.74 Jimi's gift to the Gods. The debut album of a band nothing short of an experience.
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 | After Bathing at Baxter's by Jefferson Airplane
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.59 The best Jefferson Airplane album. Hear the band at their most psychedelic and most talented. Sorry folks, no White Rabbit here.
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 | Group Sex by Circle Jerks
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $7.48 Hardcore classic from the 80's. The whole album clocks in at a little less than 30 minutes, so the album plays twice.
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 | Please Please Me by The Beatles
Buy new: $13.97 / Used from: $5.49 UK version of the first Beatles album. Not as musically solid as their later material, but a defining moment in pop.
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 | Suffer by Bad Religion
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $7.49 Everyone's favorite Bad Religion album that spawned many a 90's punk band. Not my favorite, but some great punk here.
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 | The Art of John Coltrane by John Coltrane
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $0.98 Coltrane is the man, and this was my intro to him so I've included it here as a great jazz album.
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 | Filth/Body to Body, Job to Job by Swans
Buy new: $20.98 / Used from: $12.37 early murky Swans. makes the Melvins look tame. Great avant-garde/noise band.
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 | Children of God/World of Skin by Swans
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $10.99 More Swans! Sorta mid-career not as heavy, more emphasis on musicality. Good stuff.
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 | Cop/Young God/Greed/Holy Money by Swans
Buy used from: $32.99 early Swans, contains great family favorites like "Raping a Slave".
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 | Soundtracks for the Blind by Swans
Buy new: $20.98 / Used from: $9.25 Swans's swan song. A double album that is perhaps one of the greatest albums ever made.
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 | Great Annihilator by Swans
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $8.49 More Swans!
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 | Houdini by Melvins
Buy new: $8.98 / Used from: $4.94 The rock gods. One of the few bands that matter. This is their best album. Great cover of "Going Blind" by Kiss. Basically, the whole album is flawless.
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 | Nouvelle Vague by Nouvelle Vague
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $5.99 Bossanova and lounge jazz versions of punk and post-punk standards by artists like Dead Kennedys and Joy Division. Who could ask for more?
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 | Abbey Road by The Beatles
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $6.99 Beatles towards the end of their career. Bluesy and psychedelic, but a little more straight rock.
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 | The Battle of Los Angeles by Rage Against the Machine
Buy new: $9.97 / Used from: $1.09 The final album in Rage's trilogy. More emphasis on rap here, but very good Morello riffs.
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 | The Greatest Gift by Scratch Acid
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $8.50 A noise-rock magnum opus from a band that deserves much more attention.
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 | Power to the People and the Beats: Public Enemy's Greatest Hits by Public Enemy
Buy new: $9.97 / Used from: $4.50 Public Enemy's greatest music here. PE is the best rap group period. This is a very good musical tour of their lengthy career.
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 | W.A.S.P. by W.A.S.P.
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $6.97 One of 80's metal's few standout albums for me. Blackie Lawless's voice is so raw and melodic.
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 | Washing Machine by Sonic Youth
Buy new: $7.97 / Used from: $3.99 SY's delivers another masterful and epic ode to sound. Gotta love "Junkie's Promise" and "The Diamond Sea"
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 | Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $7.00 A popular underground favorite that is ambient and elegant. Good thinking/ dreaming music.
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 | Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols by The Sex Pistols
Buy new: $14.49 / Used from: $4.09 The album that started it all. The most important album in rock. They are not underrated at all. Don't listen to detractors.
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 | MIA: The Complete Anthology by The Germs
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $9.99 The complete songs of LA's premier punk band. Their short lived career was oh so glorious. Join the cult!
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 | Goo by Sonic Youth
Buy new: $7.97 / Used from: $2.75 My favorite/ first SY album. Very cool, very avant-garde with some grooving tracks as well. Stuff like "Mildred Pierce" juxtaposes nicely with "Kool Thing".
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 | Ride the Lightning by Metallica
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.78 Metallica's ode to death. Every track is about death in some form from nuclear warfare to suicide to Biblical plagues. This album has it all and packs a punch.
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 | England's Newest Hitmakers by The Rolling Stones
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $8.45 The Stones' first album. Essentially just a collection of R&B songs covered with attitude, but hey if it ain't broken, don't fix it.
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 | Bad Music for Bad People by The Cramps
Buy new: $8.98 / Used from: $4.90 Bizarre, rockabilly-inspired proto-punk madness.
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 | Pleasant Dreams by Ramones
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.98 Though all Ramones albums are great. I picked an obscure one that is one of their best.
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 | Elephant by The White Stripes
Buy used from: $3.91 Ah, the White Stripes, lo-fi Blues-Rock. If Led Zeppelin was an epic million dollar movie, the White Stripes are a sleazy B-movie rip-off. But, they are just soooo good.
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 | Welcome to My Nightmare by Alice Cooper
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $6.47 Alice's macabre "concept" album. Be sure to play Cold Ethyl at high volume.
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 | Essence of
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $5.35 Not the best quality recordings, but hey it's Charlie Parker, so shut up and bow.
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 | Millions of Dead Cops/More Dead Cops by MDC
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $8.99 80's Hardcore. Pretty straightfoward stuff. Good though. Cobain's was listening to this when he got arrested for vandalism as a teen.
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 | Purple by Stone Temple Pilots
Buy used from: $2.23 STP's rocks hard despite what naysayers say. Did they try to commercialize on grunge? sure, but hey they're a good band.
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 | Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables by Dead Kennedys
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $8.98 What the pistols were to punk, DK is to hardcore. This album is beautiful from start to finish.
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 | Hank Williams - 40 Greatest Hits by Hank Williams
Buy new: $42.99 / Used from: $14.97 I too used to say I liked "all kinds of music except country" until this album changed everything.
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 | The Capitol Albums Vol.1 by The Beatles
The first four Beatles albums. Witness the birth of pop/ rock music as we know it.
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 | De Stijl by The White Stripes
Buy used from: $4.24 More White Stripes. To be honest, I have a tough time telling their albums apart.
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 | Rage Against the Machine by Rage Against the Machine
Buy new: $8.97 / Used from: $2.98 The first Rage. Very raw very angry. A little immature in its nature, but we'll overlook that in lieu of its amazing musical value.
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 | Reign in Blood by Slayer
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $9.08 The best thrash album ever. Don't get me wrong, I love Slayer, but they've never done anything as good as this since.
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