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apple music's 100 best albums: the top 12
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- 01The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill
- 02Thriller - Michael Jackson
- 03Abbey Road - The Beatles
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馃捒bowie's 25 favorite albums, per bowie
vanity fair asked him in 2003 what was in his record collection that mattered. this is what he said, more or less in the order he said it. argue with the list, not me
01
The Last Poets - The Last Poets
proto rap, 1970. if you like anything built on a beat and a message this is the ancestor
02
Shipbuilding - Robert Wyatt
03
The Fabulous Little Richard - Little Richard
04
Music for 18 Musicians - Steve Reich
minimalism, not background music no matter what a playlist algorithm tells you
05
The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground
obviously. side two is the part people skip and shouldn't
06
Tupelo Blues - John Lee Hooker
07
Blues, Rags and Hollers - Koerner, Ray & Glover
08
The Apollo Theatre Presents: In Person! The James Brown Show
recorded live in 1962. you can hear the room lose it in real time
09
Forces of Victory - Linton Kwesi Johnson
dub poetry, spoken over a riddim. not what you'd guess was in bowie's crate
10
The Red Flower of Tachai Blossoms Everywhere - Various Artists
chinese revolutionary-era music on traditional instruments. deep cut even for this list
11
Banana Moon - Daevid Allen
12
Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
13
The Electrosoniks: Electronic Music - Tom Dissevelt
early electronic music, dutch, mostly forgotten now
14
The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion - The Incredible String Band
15
Ten Songs by Tucker Zimmerman
nobody's heard of this one, which is sort of the whole exercise
16
Four Last Songs - Richard Strauss (Gundula Janowitz)
17
The Ascension - Glenn Branca
18
The Madcap Laughs - Syd Barrett
syd barrett post-pink floyd. the sound of someone coming apart on tape
19
Black Angels - George Crumb
20
Funky Kingston - Toots & the Maytals
reportedly the record that put the word reggae in a title track for the first time
21
Delusion of the Fury - Harry Partch
22
Oh Yeah - Charles Mingus
mingus singing, which is its own thing entirely
23
Le Sacre du Printemps - Igor Stravinsky
the ballet that caused a riot at its 1913 premiere
24
The Fugs
25
The Glory of the Human Voice - Florence Foster Jenkins
her singing wildly off pitch on purpose, or not on purpose, that's the whole legend. side two if you want the encore energy