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I picked up a book from the library with a lost of 1001 albums to listen to. I went through it marking things that sounded interesting, and this is what I'm left with.

1950's

  • Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours
  • Fats Domino - This is Fats
  • The Crickets - The Chirping Crickets
  • Count Basie- The Atomic Mr. Basie
  • Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
  • Jimmy Smith - Back at the Chicken Shack

1960's

  • Muddy Waters - Muddy Waters at Newport
  • Solomon Burke - Rock 'n' Soul
  • Buck Owens and His Buckeroos - I've Got A Tiger By the Tail
  • Bert Jansch - Bert Jansch
  • Fred Neil - Fred Neil
  • Merle Haggard - I'm A Lonesome Fugitive
  • Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
  • Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country
  • The Pentangle - Basket of Light
  • Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
  • Alexander Spence - Oar [written during his stay at a mental hospital]

1970's

  • Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die
  • Flamin' Groovies - Teenage Head
  • Gene Clark - White Light
  • David Bowie - Hunky Dory
  • Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything?
  • David Ackles - American Gothic
  • Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
  • Waylon Jennings - Honky Tonk Heroes
  • Gil Scott-Heron - Winter In America
  • The Dictators - Go Girl Crazy
  • Emmylou Harris - Pieces of the Sky
  • Parliament - Mothership Connection
  • Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
  • The Residents - Duck Stab/Buster and Glen [disguised weird band]
  • Throbbing Gistle - DOA Third and Final Report

1980's

  • The Cramps - Songs The Lord Taught Us
  • Dead Kenndys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
  • Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
  • Black Flag - Damaged
  • X - Wild Gift
  • The Gun Club - Fire of Love
  • Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - The Message
  • Kevin Rowland and Dexy's Midnight Runners - Too-Rye-Ay
  • Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II
  • Minor Threat - Out of Step
  • Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
  • The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy and the Lash
  • Billy Bragg - Talking with the Taxman About Poetry
  • XTC - Skylarking
  • Bad Brains - I Against I
  • The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
  • Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff
  • American Music Club - California
  • Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
  • Faith No More - The Real Thing
  • Barry Adamson - Moss Side Story
  • Pixies - Dolittle

1990's

  • Ride - Nowhere
  • Sepultura - Arise
  • Slint - Spiderland
  • Ministry - Psalm 69
  • Frank Black - Teenager of the Year
  • Suede - Dog Man Star
  • Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
  • The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
  • Rocket from the Crypt - Scream, Dracula, Scream!
  • Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst
  • Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
  • Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
  • Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
  • Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age
  • The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin

2000's

  • Giant Sand - Chore of Enchantment
  • Outkast - Stankonia
  • Gorillaz - Gorillaz
  • Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
  • Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera
  • Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands
dec 6 2010 ∞
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