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146. ILYA - Poise Is the Greater Architect (2003)

By far my greatest find when purchasing an album simply because i loved the cover

What we have here is an emotional and haunting post rock album with amazing aspects of shoegaze and trip hop

right from the get go the listener is completely enthrall and seduced by Blanca Rojas haunting yet sensual vocals....the music itself is mainly warming and despondent (yes...perfectly at the same time )with wonderful interludes of jarring noise

i'm not sure why this short liver band has not received more attention both here and on other sites.....this is really sooooo up so many peoples alleys


147. Nurse With Wound - Merzbild Schwet (1980)

this is....in my most humble opinion.....the true opus of Nurse With Wound

2 tracks which create amazing audio representations of their titles....exploring the feelings, politics, main players and general reception of two major art movements

this is early Nurse With Wound so i'm not sure if the term "music" can even be applied here.....instead we get sound in motion....

Dada X...follows the format...or rather lack of format...perfectly....starting in an almost giddy fashions...with reversed sax and slowed down drum beats....and slowing moving into a happy yet discontent of all things....the perfect soundtrack for a late night walk

Futurismo.....seems to do the exact opposite....start slowly and unknowingly....and attacking the listener when they least expect it....forcing you to accept the pure neo fascist dystopia we have all created for ourselves....and then gently tell you....its all going to be ok?

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147) Natural Snow Buildings - The Dance Of The Moon And Sun (2006)



Natural Snow Buildings are a French expiremental music duo whose music reaches out of corners of ambient, drone, folk, and electronic while maintaining their style, their 2006 effort Dance Of The Moon And Sun is atwo-and-a-half hour long double album extravaganza with each album pertaining to the Sun and Moon. The band weaves in and out of its songs seamlessly having small folk songs flow together with longer 20-40 minute drone numbers without fail. A truly great album, and one i'm surprised I haven't heard mentioned that much.

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149. Thee Headcoatees - "Girlsville" - 1991



I have an infatuation with strange retro Garage Rock, and occasionally I check out modern revivalists, however the more recent bands in the Garage scene tend to fall into a variety of traps. For starters, they usually have a very predictable and homogeneous sound, and are usually difficult to differentiate between. And while they do have a habit of releasing good (or at least fun) songs, they often release them on flawed albums that are either full of similar-sounding material, or scattered numbers that don't really complement each other.

That being said, there is only one Garage Rock Revival album from the 1990's that truly managed to surprise and excite me; "Girlsville" by Thee Headcoatees. The reason why it's such a fresh and memorable album is that they have a very raw core sound that gives their songs that Garage-y feeling, while also experimenting with different styles to keep a sense of variety throughout their songs. As you listen to it, you find yourself wondering what they'll throw at you next, never knowing if they're going to ease into things with clean vocal harmonies or simply attack you with screams, slamming drums, and dirty guitar riffs. They go from Freakbeat ("Wild Man", "Melvin") to the Blues ("Boysville", "Round Every Corner"), dipping into Kinks' style Riff Rock ("Dirty Old Man""), Pop-Punk ("Last Plane Home") and the trademark Vocal-Pop style of the 1960's ("When the Night Comes", "Stolen Love"), all without missing a beat.

"Girlsville" is an intriguing album. It's sloppy as hell, while also having a definite refinement and precision beneath the oddity, and this strange quality makes it one of the best examples of the Garage Revival movement, if not the entirety of the Garage Rock genre. If you've ever wondered what Garage Rock is all about, this is a great place to start.

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150. My life With the Thrill Kill Kult - Confessions of a Knife (1990)

"I live for drugs" is how this amazing album starts....incorporating super fun dance beats with good by the numbers second wave industrial and great aspects of 1950s b-movie horror flicks.....and that ever present feeling of something truly Satanic

this album is as fun as it is a warning to your parents that you've started down a path of pure unadulterated darkness and will likely never return....studying themes of pure indulgence....possibly my favorite output from the infamous Wax Trax days of industrial music....this album is infectious and can still stand up to anything near this being put out today....the perfect mixture of drugs, sex and Satan.


151. The Ornette Coleman Double Quartet - Free Jazz (1961)

i'm not 100 percent sure but....i think this album is the only time something quite like this has ever been done

basically what you have is two bands....one in the left channel and one in the right channel....playing to completely different and completely improvised songs

what happens is a unique listening experience that changes every time you listen to it.....and ultimately will sound different on different formats....ie stereo headphones verses stereo sound system and very different in mono

this is also the first use of the term "free jazz"

needless to say this is unlike anything else out there....and should be heard by everyone at least once...personally every time i go to a new city i like to take public transportation and walk around getting lost while listening to this album over and over

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^Free Jazz is stellar.


152. Boom Bip & Doseone - Circle (2000)

One of the strangest hip hop releases to date, so much so that I almost hesitate to call it hip hop. I've seen this album described as being like someone who read a definition of hip hop and decided to make an album in the genre without listening to it first, and that's totally fitting. Doseone delivers surreal stream of conscious lines over Boom Bip's variety of beats that range from ambient to heavy to...just fucking weird dude. This is one of the albums that won me over from my close-minded view of hip hop and it's still one of my favourites. Everyone should listen to this album, hip hop fan or otherwise.

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153. Delia Derbyshire - Electro Sonic (1972)

do you like electronic music?....if so you owe a great debt to this amazing woman

apart from being a key member of The BBC Radiophonic Workshop....most famous for composing the original theme for Doctor Who....Delia was an important pioneer of electronic music and sound scape

what we have here are archived "projects" from her days at Manchester University....most of these were used in some form in Tv and movies....all of them are wonderful examples of the roots of electronic music.....many are very much ahead of their time

these clips are mainly under two minutes and are a document of something truly historical....not just a new genre of music but rather an entire new concept of what is music and how it is created

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154. The Residents - Meet the Residents (1974)

The Residents are a secretive group of weird motherfuckers who put a stamp on the avant-garde world with their debut album, Meet the Residents. There's such a wide array of influences like classical, rock 'n' roll, jazz, and musique concrete meshed in with the out-there ideas of The Residents. The vocals are incredibly unique as well, few bands really took such a strange approach to vocals before The Residents but now their influence has been made clear with bands like Primus copycating them. It's hard to tell if somebody is going to like this album or not, because there's no real group out there to compare them to, unless you've heard...


155. Renaldo and the Loaf - Songs for Swinging Larvae (1981)

Really the only band that comes to mind with such a striking similarity to The Residents, but here's the thing: Songs for Swinging Larvae is better than anything that The Residents released. Quit shouting and flipping off your computer screen and calm down, it was hard for me to accept at first too. This album is just so goddamned fun. Two professional weirdos come together and construct strange and complex songs using mainly acoustic instruments and tape. It's a glimpse into the mind of weird guy mumbling to himself at the bus station. The melodies are relatively simple, almost as if they were written by a 5-year-old, but the way that they're presented is bizarre and other-worldly (a world I would love to live on). Lyrically the album touches on the hilarious, bizarre, disturbing, and apocalyptic (Spratt's Medium is made up entirely of quotes from Samuel Beckett's Endgame). This album is highly recommended to everyone, even you Trollheart.

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156. Kas product - Black & Noir (1990)


Kas product is an 80's cold wave group consisting of Spatsz doing the rhythm section and Mona Soyoc on Vocals

The songs on the album consist of conceptual ditties, spoken poems and songs like 'in need' which idk exactly how to explain other than it's just f*cking awesome.

Black & Noir was released in 1990 and it was recorded really well
It has lots background noise on some of their more conceptual songs that add a modern ambient vibe to them.

What i really like about this album (and the band) is that, it is not for everybody.

they don't have a single with pop appeal or anything like that, they're an acquired taste.
The other i thing i luv Mona Soyoc's distinct vocals. she has an incredible voice that goes from soulful to satirical at any moment and add to that she is very charismatic performer.

If you're a fan of cold wave or new wave, i recommend you give it a listen.

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Delia Derbyshire and Kas Product are good picks.

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Loved your post, Bob!