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Calexico:
Spoke |
their 1st (and finest) album |
dar |
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Joy
Division: Heart & Soul |
4-cd box set (has everything!) |
dar |
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David
Sylvian: Everything and Nothing |
3-cd retrospective (from Japan's "Ghost"
through 2000) |
dar |
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Isotope
217: Who Stole The I Walkman |
latest from Tortoise side-project |
dar |
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Beach
Boys: Pet Sounds |
history! |
dar |
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T.
Rex: Electric Warrior |
from 1969 (with the essential "Jeepster") |
dar |
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The
Sea and Cake: Oui |
their latest and it's SMOOV! |
dar |
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Stereolab:
Dots & Loops |
the beeps, the bloops, the… french! |
dar |
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The Pastels: Illumination |
a delightfully wonderful album by these kids
from glascow |
dar |
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The
Pastels: Illuminati |
the above album remixed by the ilk of stereolab,
john mcentire, mouse on mars, my bloody valentine, john
o'rourke, to rococo rot and other geniuses! |
dar |
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Buzzcocks:
Singles Going Steady |
just about all of it is pure gold |
dar |
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Bob
Log III: School Bus |
I saw this guy live and he managed to stop
in the middle of a song, tune his guitar, and start back
up, and somehow it all seemed right. God bless the suspicious
heritage of Bob Log III |
mz |
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Bob
Log III: Trike |
More speed blues that's exploding my head,
this time featuring pornographic "clapping"
sounds |
mz |
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Salvage
Vanguard Theater: The Intergalactic Nemesis |
6 episodes on 2 CDs of the best olde-tymey
science-fiction radio show ever. from the friendly folks
at SVT with packaging design by TSP! |
tsp! |
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Afghan
Whigs: Congregation |
their last on Sub Pop, before they went soul
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st/dar |
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Redd
Kross: Third Eye |
this album and its resulting tour changed
my life |
st |
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Big
Black (everything) |
essential angst from the pre-grunge era |
st |
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Grandaddy:
Under the Western Freeway |
folk? electronic? rock? Yup. |
st |
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The
Jesus Lizard: Show,
Bang |
they're all great (except Blue). Show
is the next best thing to seeing them live and Bang
is an excellent coda from a band who had the good sense
to call it quits before they sucked |
st |
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Thee
Milkshakes: 19th Nervous Shakedown! |
pre-Headcoats Billy Childish (c.1980) |
dar |
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Mark
Robinson: Tiger Banana |
of Unrest, Air Miami, Flin Flon |
dar |
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Beastie
Boys: The In Sound From Way Out |
all their instrumentals on one cd |
dar/st |
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Uncle
Tupelo: No Depression |
any album that has a "movement"
named after it has to be great, right? |
st |
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Friends
of Dean Martinez: Atardecer |
swanky, smokey desert instrumentals (thanks,
derkl!) |
st/dar |
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Spoon:
Telefono |
one of the most interesting rock bands of
the late 90s, early Naughties. What's matador know, anyway?
(Aw buck up, Matador,
we can't stay mad at you!) |
st/dar |
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The
Flaming Lips: Hit
to Death in the Future Head, Transmissions
from the Satellite Heart, Providing
Needles for Your Baloons, Clouds
Taste Metallic |
all from the good old days when they were
a real band. |
st/dar |
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The
Chemical Brothers: Exit Planet Dust |
get on the floor and move it, sucka |
st |
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Liz
Phair: Exile in Guyvillle |
take THAT, Mick! |
st |
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Wire:
Pink Flag, 154 and Chairs Missing |
all the alternative music you think you like
is because of these 3 albums from 1977-1979. and here
they are in one package for you! |
dar |
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The
Fall: This Nation's Saving Grace |
one of their (many) classics |
dar |
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The
Wolfgang Press: Birdwood Cage |
not just anybody puts an old toilet on the
cover of their album and gets away with it! |
dar |
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Cocteau
Twins: BBC Sessions |
a nice 2-cd collection of CT's radio and uk
tv appearances |
dar |
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Tortoise
(everything they've done) |
the finest music ever recorded! |
dar/st |
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Pavement:
Wowie Zowie! |
3rd album on Matador |
dar/st |
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Mudhoney:
March To Fuzz |
a 2cd collection of greatest hits and rarities.
includes my favorite b-sides "paperback life"
and "you stupid asshole" |
dar |
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Blast
Off Country Style: In My Arms |
sweet kids from VA make good on the teenbeat
label |
dar |
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Cheap
Trick: Heaven Tonight |
their third album digitally re-mastered so you
can tell how much they really loved ELO! |
dar |
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Combustible
Edison: I, Swinger |
this is where it all started for CE. the second
cd don't do it for me but the 3rd one is pretty swingin'
|
dar |
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Television:
Marquee Moon |
essential music from the CBGB school circa
1977 |
dar |
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The
Monkeywrench: Clean as a Broke-Dick Dog |
members of mudhoney and tim kerr do the blues
the only way they know how: LOUD |
dar |
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Os
Mutantes: Everything Is Possible |
psychedelic music from the late 60s on david
byrne's luaka bop label. they're from brazil but you'd
swear they were from outer-space |
dar |
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The
Grifters: Ain't My Lookout |
i have to thank scotty for this one. they
sound more new wavey than i would have thought possible
for a band from memphis! |
dar |
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The
Sir Dougls Quintet: The Sir Douglas Quintet Is Back |
Doug Sahm's San Antonio band from 1964 that
was put together to compete with The Beatles (?) |
dar |
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Handsome
Boy Modeling School: So… How's Your Girl? |
about 70 minutes of genius from Prince Paul.
(lots and lots of samples from Chris Elliot's Get A
Life tv show) |
dar |
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