The 33 1/3 Series
33 1/3 is a series of short books about popular music, focusing on individual albums by artists ranging from James Brown to Neutral Milk Hotel. Each album occupies a specific place in music history, so each book-length treatment takes an individualized approach. 33 1/3 is widely acclaimed by fans, musicians, and scholars alike.
The Global 33 1/3 series takes the 33 1/3 format of short, album-based books, and brings the focus to music throughout the world. Series strands focus on the music of Japan, Brazil, European and Australia/Oceania. Future strands will include volumes on the popular music of South Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and more.
Genre: A 33 1/3 Series guides the reader through musical sub-genres that have intrigued, perplexed, or provoked listeners. From vaporwave to death metal, trip-hop to dance punk, the series offers a host of new perspectives, song recommendations, little-known anecdotes, personal stories, and above all, ways of thinking about music.
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Caetano Veloso’s A Foreign Sound
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Chico Buarque’s First Chico Buarque
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Dona Ivone Lara’s Sorriso Negro
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Gilberto Gil’s Refazenda
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João Gilberto and Stan Getz's Getz/Gilberto
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Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges’s The Corner Club
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Naná Vasconcelos’s Saudades
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Racionais MCs' Sobrevivendo no Inferno
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Tim Maia Racional Vols. 1 & 2
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Amália Rodrigues’s Amália at the Olympia
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Aqua’s Aquarium
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Ardit Gjebrea’s Projekt Jon
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Bea Palya's I'll Be Your Plaything
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Persepolis
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Various Artists' DJs do Guetto
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Czeslaw Niemen's Niemen Enigmatic
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Darkthrone’s A Blaze in the Northern Sky
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Édith Piaf's Récital 1961
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Ivo Papazov’s Balkanology
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Los Rodríguez's Sin Documentos
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Massada's Astaganaga
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Mercyful Fate's Don't Break the Oath
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Vopli Vidopliassova’s Tantsi
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Modeselektor’s Happy Birthday!
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Wolokolamsker Chaussee
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Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano's Bella Ciao
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Einstürzende Neubauten's Kollaps
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AKB48
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Cornelius’s Fantasma
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Joe Hisaishi’s Soundtrack for My Neighbor Totoro
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Nenes’ Koza Dabasa
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Perfume’s GAME
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Shonen Knife’s Happy Hour
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Supercell's Supercell featuring Hatsune Miku
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Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band's Kogun
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Yōko Kanno's Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack
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Yuming’s The 14th Moon
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Alastair Riddell’s Space Waltz
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Bic Runga’s Drive
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Chain’s Toward the Blues
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The Church’s Starfish
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The Dead C’s Clyma est mort
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Ed Kuepper’s Honey Steel’s Gold
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The Front Lawn's Songs from the Front Lawn
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Hilltop Hoods’ The Calling
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Kylie Minogue's Kylie
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John Farnham's Whispering Jack
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Regurgitator’s Unit
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Screamfeeder’s Kitten Licks
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Soundtrack from Saturday Night Fever
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Dil Chahta Hai Soundtrack
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’70s Teen Pop
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Dance-Punk
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Death Metal
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Krautrock
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Math Rock
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Neue Deutsche Welle
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Shoegaze
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Soul-Folk
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South African Popular Music
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Trip-Hop
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24-Carat Black's Ghetto: Misfortune’s Wealth
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Abba's Abba Gold
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AC/DC’s Highway to Hell
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The Afghan Whigs' Gentlemen
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Andrew W.K.’s I Get Wet
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Angelo Badalamenti's Soundtrack from Twin Peaks
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Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II
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Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs
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Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace
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Babes in Toyland’s Fontanelle
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The Band's Music from Big Pink
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BBC Radiophonic Workshop: A Retrospective
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The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds
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The Beach Boys' Smile
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The Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique
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Beat Happening's Beat Happening
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The Beatles' Let It Be
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Belle & Sebastian's If You’re Feeling Sinister
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Big Star's Radio City
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Björk's Homogenic
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Black Sabbath's Master of Reality
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Blondie's Parallel Lines
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Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited
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Body Count’s Body Count
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Bob Mould's Workbook
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Bobbie Gentry's Ode to Billie Joe
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Brian Eno's Another Green World
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Britney Spears' Blackout
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Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A.
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The Byrds' The Notorious Byrd Brothers
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Camp Lo's Uptown Saturday Night
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Can's Tago Mago
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Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica
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Cardi B's Invasion of Privacy
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Carole King's Tapestry
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Cat Power's Moon Pix
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Celine Dion's Let’s Talk About Love
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The Clash's Sandinista!
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Danger Mouse's The Grey Album
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David Bowie's Diamond Dogs
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David Bowie's Low
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dc Talk’s Jesus Freak
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Dead Kennedys' Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
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Depeche Mode's 101
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Devo's Freedom of Choice
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Dinosaur Jr.'s You’re Living All Over Me
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DJ Shadow's Endtroducing…
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Dolly Parton's White Limozeen
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Donna Summer's Once Upon a Time
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Donny Hathaway's Donny Hathaway Live
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Drive-By Truckers' Southern Rock Opera
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Duran Duran's Rio
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Dusty Springfield's Dusty in Memphis
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D’Angelo’s Voodoo
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Earth, Wind & Fire's That’s the Way of the World
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Elliott Smith's XO
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Elton John's Blue Moves
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Elvis Costello's Armed Forces
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Elvis Presley's From Elvis in Memphis
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ESG's Come Away with ESG
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Flaming Lips’ Zaireeka
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Fleetwood Mac's Tusk
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Flying Burrito Brothers' The Gilded Palace of Sin
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Fugazi's In on the Kill Taker
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Gang of Four's Entertainment!
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Garth Brooks in … the Life of Chris Gaines
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George Michael's Faith
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Geto Boys' The Geto Boys
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The Go-Go’s Beauty and the Beat
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Grateful Dead's Workingman’s Dead
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Guided By Voices' Bee Thousand
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Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I and II
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Little Richard’s Here’s Little Richard
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Hole's Live Through This
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I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen
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The Isley Brothers' 3+3
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Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's Facing Future
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J Dilla's Donuts
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James Brown's Live at the Apollo
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Janelle Monáe’s The ArchAndroid
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Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope
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Jawbreaker's 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
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Jeff Buckley's Grace
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The Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy
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Jethro Tull's Aqualung
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Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland
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John Prine's John Prine
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Johnny Cash's American Recordings
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Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark
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Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures
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Judy Garland's Judy at Carnegie Hall
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Kate Bush's Hounds of Love
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Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
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k.d. lang’ s Ingénue
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Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly
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Koji Kondo's Super Mario Bros. Soundtrack
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Kraftwerk’s Computer World
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LCD Soundsystem’s Sound Of Silver
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Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin IV
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Living Colour's Time’s Up
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Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville
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Lou Reed's Transformer
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Love's Forever Changes
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Madness’s One Step Beyond …
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Madonna’s Erotica
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Madvillain's Madvillainy
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The Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs
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Manic Street Preachers’ The Holy Bible
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Maria Callas's Lyric and Coloratura Arias
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Massive Attack’s Blue Lines
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MC5's Kick Out the Jams
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Merle Haggard's Okie from Muskogee
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Metallica's Metallica
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Michael Jackson's Dangerous
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Miles Davis' Bitches Brew
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Minnie Riperton’s Come to My Garden
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The Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime
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The Modern Lovers' The Modern Lovers
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Modest Mouse's The Moon & Antarctica
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My Bloody Valentine's Loveless
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Nas's Illmatic
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The National's Boxer
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Neil Young's Harvest
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Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
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New Kids on the Block's Hangin’ Tough
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' Murder Ballads
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Nick Drake's Pink Moon
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Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine
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Nirvana's In Utero
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Oasis' Definitely Maybe
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Odetta’s One Grain of Sand
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Patti Smith's Horses
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Pavement's Wowee Zowee
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Pearl Jam's Vs.
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The Pharcyde's Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
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Phish's A Live One
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Pink Floyd's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
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The Pixies' Doolittle
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PJ Harvey's Rid of Me
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The Pogues' Rum, Sodomy & The Lash
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Portishead's Dummy
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Prince's Sign ‘O’ the Times
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Pulp's This Is Hardcore
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Radiohead's Kid A
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Radiohead's OK Computer
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The Raincoats' The Raincoats
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The Ramones' Ramones
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R.E.M.'s Murmur
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The Replacements' Let It Be
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Richard and Linda Thompson's Shoot Out the Lights
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Richard Hell and the Voidoids' Blank Generation
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The Rolling Stones' Exile On Main St
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The Rolling Stones' Some Girls
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Roxy Music’s Avalon
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Sam Cooke’s Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963
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Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson
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The Shangri-Las’ Golden Hits of the Shangri-Las
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Sigur Rós’s ( )
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Siouxsie and the Banshees' Peepshow
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Slayer's Reign in Blood
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Sleater-Kinney's Dig Me Out
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Slint's Spiderland
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Sly and the Family Stone's There’s A Riot Goin’ On
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The Smiths' Meat is Murder
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Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation
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Steely Dan's Aja
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Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life
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The Stone Roses' The Stone Roses
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Suicide's Suicide
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Talking Heads' Fear of Music
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Television's Marquee Moon
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They Might Be Giants’ Flood
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Throbbing Gristle's Twenty Jazz Funk Greats
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Tom Petty’s Southern Accents
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Tom Waits' Swordfishtrombones
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Tori Amos's Boys for Pele
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U2's Achtung Baby
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Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle
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Various Artists' Red Hot + Blue
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Ween's Chocolate and Cheese
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Wendy Carlos's Switched-On Bach
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The Who's The Who Sell Out
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The Wild Tchoupitoulas’ The Wild Tchoupitoulas
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Wire's Pink Flag
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Young Marble Giants' Colossal Youth
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