What's essential will depend on every individual, but these are some albums that are very informative to my taste:
* Exmilitary - Death Grips
* Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
* Plastic Surgery Disasters / In God We Trust, Inc. - Dead Kennedys
* Black on Both Sides - Mos Def
* Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
* The Clown - Charles Mingus
* If I Had a Hammer - Pete Seeger
* Master of Reality - Black Sabbath
I could probably list a hundred more, but that's the skinny.
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Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin
Invitation to Her’s - Her’s
Insomniac - Green Day
Flaunt the Imperfection - China Crisis
Bookends - Simon and Garfunkel
Evil Empire - Rage Against The Machine
Meat is Murder - The Smiths
Dec 1, 2024
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armed forces — elvis costello
ii — meat puppets
combat rock — the clash
time skiffs — animal collective
the mollusk— ween
karma — pharoah sanders
the raincoats — the raincoats
yousef lateef’s detroit — yousef lateef
last splash— the breeders
black messiah — d’angelo
lonesome crowded west — modest mouse
the cars — the cars (perfect album…)
country life— roxy music
a tabua de esmeralda — jorge ben jor
ida con snock — michael hurley
Dec 1, 2024
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some of my favorite albums
#1 Star - Big Star
Never Hungover Again - Joyce Manor
Bachelor No. 2 - Aimee Mann
Night Falls Over Kortedala - Jens Lekman
Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
The Glow Pt 2 - The Microphones
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
Either/Or - Elliot Smith
Telephone - noname
Run the Jewels 2 - Run the Jewels
Whack World - Tierra Whack
In Rainbows - Radiohead
Teens of Denial - Carseat Headrest
Nov 30, 2024
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It's far too easy for me to burn a few hours digging through Wikipedia hyperlinks and trawling through yards of text. It's a very fun way to gain cursory knowledge about possibly obscure topics, and you can find some pretty bizarre stuff if you know where to look.
Nov 29, 2024
I'm admittedly a sucker for a local paper, and that increases tenfold when it shines light on otherwise underreported stories through a progressive lens. In Gainesville, this manifests in The Gainesville Iguana. You can find them at pretty much any record store, library, etc... for free!!!! The ads also expose you to local establishments and groups you might otherwise not have known about. There's a sense of community that emanates from the paper that you don't get in any of your other standard publications.
Nov 27, 2024
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It can give new perspective on what's actually around you. A lot of the time, the veil of the windshield and fiberglass can keep the outside world as more of a backdrop instead of a lived-in space.
Dec 2, 2024