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I see a darkness
The 70s!
The 90s!
The 80s!
Strictly Roots & Culture
Metal Militia
I see a darkness
The melancholic muse resides here.
It's dark all right and country-folk tinged. Good for crying in your beer, or walking the dog down a dark alley when you're in the proverbial doghouse. Only gets better with age.
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See A Darkness
The 70s!
The "classic rock" era
Stone cold classic! Bowie's most iconic moment. You gotta hang on to yourself.
The rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spider From Mars (1972) : r/DavidBowie
Elvis' debut is a stunt cold classic: punk rock attitude looking forward to new wave. Fun fact: the band in this album, Clover, later became Huey Lewis' The News. (Don't worry -- the music is not the same!)
My Aim Is True - Album by Elvis Costello
Van singing songs about Edith Piaf's soul! In San Francisco in the 70s. Check the swell bell bottoms.
Saint Dominic's Preview - Album by Van Morrison
The most famous album by the only band that mattered. Every track is a banger.
London Calling - The Clash
Awhoo! But that's not even the best song in the album. One of the greatest songwriters of his generation.
Excitable Boy: CDs & Vinyl
One of the great live albums. When the price of admission for Powderfinger alone
Live Rust - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
The 90s!
Intelligent poppy rock music that got me through a particularly eventful summer. At turns yearning and sunny. A perfect August evening.
Sleepy Eyed - Buffalo Tom
What else is there to say about Wilco? Summerteeth marks the change from country-tinged rock to Beatlesesque slightly experimental pop. Chicago vibes! And my favorite Jeff Tweedy joint.
Summerteeth - Wilco
The 80s!
Groundbreaking album! Funk, afrobeat, and a lot of weird looping and insane guitar work by Adrien Belew. One of the very best. TOP TEN ALBUM!
Talking Heads - Remain in Light (1980) : r/LetsTalkMusic
Quite possibly the beginning of pop-punk, ten years before pop-punk was a thing.
Short sweet sing-alongs.
Milo Goes To College (Punk Note Edition)
Is this the first punk rock concept album? Maybe. The first double record to melt hardcore music with pop-inflected melody? Probably. In any case, you should buy it.
Hüsker Dü – Zen Arcade
The band (and album) that looms over the entire alternative rock scene of the 1990s. Without Surfer Rosa, hair metal would probably still be a thing. Produced with loving brutality by Steve Albini, Surfer Rosa started something that's never been tota...
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
A "Greatest Hits" collection of Kate's 70s and 80s work.
Unimpeachable. Brilliant. Weird. The original female pop genius: writer, producer, singer, dancer, director, multi-instrumentalist.
The Mary Shelley of British Pop music. Just as classic, ju...
The Whole Story - Kate Bush
Strictly Roots & Culture
My first reggae album! Still on my playlist 35 years later.
Legalize It - song and lyrics by Peter Tosh
Metal Militia
Come on! Classic. A contender for the best thrash metal album of all time. Relentless!
Master Of Puppets (Remastered) - Album by Metallica
The 21st Century!
No, it's not two guys named Belle & Sebastian. It's a Scottish collective of guts and gals making some of the finest pop music of this (and the last) century.
Featured on the cult TV show Resident Alien 👽!
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