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    • TripleterrorT
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      Tough choice, initial salvo
      1. All Mod Cons - The Jam
      2. Head Hunters - Herbie Hancock
      3. Never Mind the Bollocks - Sex Pistols
      4. Ethiopian Knights - Donald Byrd
      5. Germ Free Adolescents - X-ray Spex

      just wear - don´t compare - what matters is that one loves what one is wearing…

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      • Alex_24A
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        Music Albums (Top 5 is impossible to pick and subject to change but here’s a good go at it):

        1. TOOL - AEnima
        2. Pearl Jam - Vs.
        3. OutKast - ATLiens
        4. Dave Matthews Band - Remember Two Things
        5. The Allman Brothers - Eat a Peach [emoji527]

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        • TripleterrorT
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          @Alex_24:

          Music Albums (Top 5 is impossible to pick and subject to change but here’s a good go at it):

          1. TOOL - AEnima
          2. Pearl Jam - Vs.
          3. OutKast - ATLiens
          4. Dave Matthews Band - Remember Two Things
          5. The Allman Brothers - Eat a Peach [emoji527]

          Big fan of Idlewild South by The Allan Brothers

          just wear - don´t compare - what matters is that one loves what one is wearing…

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          • mclaincauseyM
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            Great list, @goosehd ; I am re-reading Kool-Aid now.

            There was such a fundamental disjoint between the Pranksters and just about everything else that had come before, even if Cassady managed to bridge the gap between the Beats and the Hippies. All bets were off, anything was possible, and there were some genuine polymaths in and around the group (I am particularly gobsmacked by the brilliance, breadth, and depth of people like Bear Owlsley–what couldn't he do??), it was not just a bunch of drug-addled idiots (although of course there were also those).

            A second of 5 albums to slot next to NOMEANSNO WRONG might be Joe's Garage by Zappa, and a lot of that on the strength of a young Vinnie Colaiuta's incredible drumming and drum sound. I would love a multitrack recording so I could just tune into the rhythm section on that thing.

            I will also add Waiting for Columbus by Little Feat.

            @Paul9221 I was trying to fine Snowy's sales post so you could see the bag, but I found ANOTHER Gibson Porter bag he sold–check out my response, you may get a kick out of it.

            Think it, be it.

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            • Alex_24A
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              Books:

              1. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
              2. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
              3. A Feast of Snakes - Harry Crews
              4. Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski
              5. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

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              • goosehdG
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                My tattooist knew Owlsley personally and would tell me stories about the scene during that time.  He was a biker, but during that time everything was interconnected.

                "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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                • NikN
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                  Nils Frahm - Screws
                  Frank Ocean - Endless
                  The National - High Violet
                  Kendrick Lamar - Damn
                  Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

                  Karl Ove Knausgaard - My Struggle 1
                  Phillip Hoare - Leviathan, or the Whale
                  David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
                  Henri Bergson - Time and Free Will
                  Timothy Morton - Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People

                  Tehching Hsieh
                  Agnes Martin
                  Janez Janša, Janez Janša, and Janez Janša
                  Jerome Bel
                  Anselm Kiefer

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                  • jerkulesJ
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                    @Alex_24:

                    4. Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski

                    Good shout! I re-read this year, for the first time since I was a teenager. A real gut-punch. I loved it even more the second time round.

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                    • mclaincauseyM
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                      very very cool @goosehd … a wild time in history that won't come around again

                      Think it, be it.

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                      • Alex_24A
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                        @Tripleterror:

                        Big fan of Idlewild South by The Allman Brothers

                        Another classic [emoji119]

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                        • Alex_24A
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                          @jerkules:

                          …I re-read this year, for the first time since I was a teenager. A real gut-punch…

                          I read it for the first time this year, and it is definitely a gut punch…
                          Then I read “Post Office”, “Factotum”and “Women” right after…

                          Bukowski was one of the Greatest [emoji119]

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                          • scooterS
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                            Top 5 Albums:

                            Alice In Chains - Jar of Flies
                            Incubus - Make Yourself
                            NIN - The Downward Spiral
                            Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
                            Rush - A Farewell to Kings

                            Honorables :

                            Fear Factory - Obsolete
                            Local H - As Good as Dead
                            Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
                            Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare
                            The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land

                            Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

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                            • Alex_24A
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                              @scooter:

                              Alice In Chains - Jar of Flies
                              Incubus - Make Yourself
                              NIN - The Downward Spiral
                              Pantera - Cowboys from Hell

                              All arguably part of my ever-changing Top 5 as well [emoji119][emoji106]

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                              • neph93N
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                                @Alex_24:

                                Bukowski was one of the Greatest [emoji119]

                                I thought that when I read them as an 18 year old. When I read them as a grown up I found him to be a miserable hack.  Different strokes.

                                «Stevie Heighway on the wing!
                                We had dreams, and songs to sing…»

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                                • ARNCA
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                                  Like everyone else I’m finding just 5 albums tough and my answer would probably be different next week but in rough order of discovery I’m going for:

                                  The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & the Lash
                                  Herbie Hancock- Head Hunters
                                  The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
                                  Efterklang - Piramida
                                  Jakub Józef Orliński - Facce d’amore

                                  “Every day that you survive you get a free sunset“

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                                  • JoberwockyJ
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                                    @Alex_24 I would have included "make yourself" in an honorable mention
                                    @ARNC I used to BLAST "Yoshima" when I worked alone in the furniture making studio after midnight in University.  I had keys to the woodshop as a TA, would go in there late, night owl as I've always been, throw on some tunes and get cracking  😉
                                    @scooter Fat of the Land is a solid left field mention, I remember wanting that album so bad when everything on the radio in my area was everclear and 3eb

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                                    • neph93N
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                                      Top 5 albums:

                                      Pink Floyd - Animals
                                      Lifter Puller - Fiestas and Fiasco’s
                                      Fields of the Nephilim - The Nephilim
                                      The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
                                      Kate Bush - The Dreaming

                                      Honorable mentions:
                                      Led Zep - Physical Graffiti
                                      The White Stripes - Elephant
                                      GZA - Liquid Swords
                                      The Charlatans - Tellin’ Stories
                                      Indigo Girls - Rites of Passage
                                      Most Clutch albums

                                      Books:

                                      Zero History - William Gibson
                                      Neuromancer - William Gibson
                                      Southern Reach Trilogy - Jeff Van der Meer
                                      Vurt - Jeff Noon
                                      Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegutt

                                      «Stevie Heighway on the wing!
                                      We had dreams, and songs to sing…»

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                                      • JoberwockyJ
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                                        Great lists @neph93
                                        Man, I almost included Animals over WYWH, 70's Pink Floyd is really something else

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                                        • ARNCA
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                                          @Joberwocky I was introduced to Yoshimi by my uncle who really knows his music. He probably has more records than bricks in his house  🙂

                                          “Every day that you survive you get a free sunset“

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                                          • neph93N
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                                            @Joberwocky:

                                            Great lists @neph93
                                            Man, I almost included Animals over WYWH, 70's Pink Floyd is really something else

                                            Animals is the most underrated album in the history of rock music imho. Not a note wasted. Tight, lean and very, very mean. Add to that the incredible thematic execution and you’ve got a winner.

                                            While I’m thinking about this, it occurs to me that my top 5 tracks would contain very different artists. I will have to consider that some more.

                                            «Stevie Heighway on the wing!
                                            We had dreams, and songs to sing…»

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