Herbie Hancock - Headhunters

classic.

Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967)

My favorite Stones hands down, at their psychedelic zenith. Lennon & McCa even laid down choruses on it. Compulsory listening.

If we close all our eyes together then we will see where we all come from.

Keith Hudson - Pick a Dub

Seminal album by "The Dark Prince of Reggae". It's one of the first dub albums ever released and it features the incredible rhythm section of Aston "Family Man" Barrett and Carlton Barrett from The Wailers. Augustus Pablo also plays on a few tracks and it has cut up vocals by the likes of Horace Andy of Massive Attack fame.

"The late Keith Hudson's 1976 Pick A Dub was one of the first dub albums. Stuttering melodica, squelching keyboard and guitar chops and a mix which dropped instruments in and out of the sound picture every few bars made this one a must-have." -The Wire-

Michael Talbot Affair

Magazine - Real Life

One of the first (and best) post-punk albums ever by Howard Devoto's Magazine, which he formed after he left The Buzzcocks. It's full of classics from top to bottom with songs such as "Shot by Both Sides" and "Definitive Gaze" which you've probably heard somewhere without even knowing it. Magazine aren't the gloomy Joy Division-esque post-punk or the dancy PIL/Gang of Four post punk, they remind me more of Roxy Music with a certain theatrical grandeur(at times), catchy piano/synth riffs and vocal melodies.

Parade

Swans - Love of Life

One of Swans' most beautiful, shimmering albums. Also quite disturbing. Includes perhaps the most heartbreaking song ever written, "Her".

The golden boy awaits

Suicide - A Way of Life

Their third album, includes perhaps their most beautiful song, "Surrender", that sounds like doo-wop's ghost trapped in a web of old transistors.

I Surrender

Suicide - Half Alive

The legendary ROIR cassette, remastered with bonus tracks.

A pounding reminder of industrial dance music's early beginnings. They produced a unique obsessively American electronic music of enormous energy and enduring influence - throbbing sequencers and "Morrisonesque" vocals: Awesome. -Trouser Press Record Guide

Haaarleeemm

Suicide - Suicide

The sound of broken dreams and exhilarating drug rushes in dirty NYC alleys. Suicide WERE New York. The importance of this album cannot be overstated.

Ghost Ride

The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace

What's a music blog worth without a Fall album? Yarbles.

Kick in the...

Frank Zappa - Roxy and Elsewhere (1974)

So I have this memory of being wasted out of my mind on magic shrooms and listening to this album with my buddies Javi and Marisa wondering whether or not I had BBQ sauce inside my sneakers. That was my introduction to the wonderful musical world of Zappa and I may never forget it. Frank Zappa needs no introduction and this album (among many others) is a testament as to why. Released in 1974, this live album features Frank Zappa & the Mothers in one of their most acclaimed incarnations performing tracks which remained unreleased on any other Zappa album. Features highly complex instrumental sections with challenging synchronization among the musicians and their respective instruments. These guys speak in another language. You'll wonder how the fuck they managed to pull off these dazzling arrangements. A great Zappa experience nobody should miss out on.

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