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The Electric Lucifer

Bruce Haack ·1970

"Bruce Haack, The Electric Lucifer, he was a late '60s through '70s experimental electronic artist from Canada. Made a lot of his own instruments... A very well-trained artist who also made some of the weirdest electronic music."

Gorillaz

Gorillaz ·2001

"Starting with this, the first Gorillas record. I think it's like maybe one of the first concerts I ever went to... I fell in love with the whole idea that the face of a project can be something different than just like dudes in a band or whatever. But it's also like I feel like this has aged really well weirdly."

Corazón De Poeta

Jeanette ·1988

"Corazón De Poeta is amazing, just hit after hit."

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

Pavement ·1994

"Feel like there's no bad music to have come out of the Pavement universe with Steven Malchemist and David Berman. RIP a lot of the adlibs on our new record."

Music for Egon Schiele

Rachel's ·1996

"I can't speak highly enough for this and the entire Rachel's discography. This one was an album written for a stage production."

Dare to Be Stupid

"Weird Al" Yankovic ·1985

"Weird Al is still killing it. He just sold out MSG. It was amazing."

Ravedeath, 1972

Tim Hecker ·2011

"Ravedeath, 1972 by Tim Hecker. Our Canadian party boy. Mean Canadian electronic music, I guess. I love Tim Hecker. I like when someone has a style that applies itself to different moods."

The Very Best of The Beach Boys: Sounds of Summer

The Beach Boys ·2003

"Every child should start with the Beach Boys. I feel like that still hits... it has all the bangers on it."

Operation Ivy

Operation Ivy ·2007

"Yeah, it's 26 songs. They're all good."

Punk in Drublic

NOFX ·1994

"We were all raised on No Effects and I got to actually see them more recently on their farewell tour and they still got it. It's pretty awesome."

Stations of the Crass

Crass ·1979

"Crass is a band that definitely shaped me as a young punk. One of the first bands that I can think about that scared the shit out of me. But this one I think strikes a really good balance between a lot of their experimental side and their dirty ass punk side."

Word of Mouth

Jaco Pastorius ·1981

"I picked this Jaco Pastorius record, Word of Mouth. I picked it up because I was just having breakfast with my dad and he played on this record and toured Japan with them and all that and that was a big gateway for that."

Entertainment!

Gang of Four ·1979

"Entertainment! is very much responsible for the reason why I play bass today. I think John Allen and Andy Roer, the Smiths are like two heavy hitters in my bass dumb."

songs

Adrianne Lenker ·2020

"Instrumentals by Adrianne Lenker knocked me on my ass mid lockdown. So heartbreaking. I really enjoy Big Thief, but this record in particular hits the Elliot Smithy side of things and it's so deeply personal."

Disintegration

The Cure ·1989

"I know this is a vinyl record, but for me, The Cure have always been a cassette band. I have this on cassette and I've listened to the cassette rips for a long time. I've never heard a vinyl of Disintegration, and I feel like I probably owe it to myself to hear this record on vinyl."

Something to Write Home About

The Get Up Kids ·1999

"In my top five pop punk albums of all time, Something to Write Home About by The Get Up Kids... if you didn't get your heart all messed up at a Get Up Kids show in the 2000s, you missed out on something very real."