#50AlbumsFor50Years
42
#Voïvod
#DimensionHatröss
Pere Ubu, Hawkwind, Minutemen, Rush & Motörhead in a frenzied orgy onboard a spaceship & this erupts from the egg. Colossal psych thrash post punk prog beast is invincible. 40 odd years of wilful, brilliant, metallic madness from this crew.😎👍😉🖤
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41
#TackHead
#FriendlyAsAHandGrenade
Phenomenal industrial dub funk riot from a crew who were one of the best bands on the planet.
Groovy as hell with a knockout punch to the soul & a 10,000 volt zap to the ears.
RIP Keith LeBlanc 🖤
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40
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
#GY!BE
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
Broadcasts from the ruins of a blue remembered Earth.
First heard this when a mate lent me it not long after my dad died.
Seismic broadside to the guts, mourning & hope in sonic medicine 😎👍😉🖤
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39
#PereUbu
#DatapanikInTheYearZero
Box set cheat again from a crew who fried the DNA, served it up with a scoop of melted mind & are still doing it with style to this day. First 5 albums in this box & they all channel pure psychic wonder.
Supernatural sonics & utterly unique😎😉👍🖤
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38
#LintonKwesiJohnson
#ForcesOfVictory
#LKJInDub
These two giants are inseparable here. Stirring LKJ's unconquerable words of truth, wit, defiance, inspiration & anger with Dennis Bovell's supreme sonic skills & brewing up pure dub poetry & sound.
Listen up.
Magnificent 😎👍😉🖤
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37
#DubSyndicate
#StonedImmaculate
Supernatural On-U Sound navigator doesn't so much open the doors of perception as vaporise the damn things completely & crack open the dub universe. Phenomenal.
RIP Style Scott 🖤
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36
#Ladytron
#WitchingHour
Beguiling & ominously sensual & euphoric, there's a rawer, predatory edge to the sonics here & the tunes rip & burrow deep. One of those albums that got into the bones.
😎😉👍🖤
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35
#Swell
41
Narcotic sonics with jagged edges & sly bite that dig grooves in the heart.
Songs coated with wry mischief & seared slices of life.
Invincible tunes to get you home at night.
Potent remedy wired to the soul.
& an all time favourite here.
RIP David Freel 🖤
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34
#TheBug
#Pressure
Sonic atomic bomb & decontamination squad exploded my head & rebuilt it anew. 20 years since 1st heard & it's still a goddamn earthquake of ferocious dancehall/ragga futureworld revelation.
Phenomenal, as is all of Kevin Martin's stuff 😎👍😉
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33
#SaintEtienne
#TigerBay
Got this the day before I moved away in 94 to start a new life. Time, place, melancholy joy, thrill & boundless possibility woven into memory & mind with Tiger Bay. Has a rare power over me & I adore the thing. 😉👍😎🖤
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32
#MassiveAttack
#Mezzanine
Really, Blue Lines, Protection & No Protection could be here too. Each has its own distinct tone & feel & each is incandescent in its own way. In the years since their release they remain amongst the most listened to & loved albums under this roof😎👍😉🖤
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31
#MadProfessor
#DubMeCrazy
Another dub siren that blew down walls for me. The Dub Me Crazy series sits amongst the elect - astonishing run of albums - but this is where it began & it's a belter 👍😎😉
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30
#GraceJones
#Nightclubbing
Second of her three Compass Point albums with Sly & Robbie, but that's the only time it's second to anything.
All-conquering grooves, towering tunes, omnipotent attitude & style.
Phenomenal album.
Phenomenal woman.
Iconic in every way.
😉👍😎
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Day 29
#Sparks
#Propaganda
It's torture to pick one from a catalogue of phenomenal albums, but this is so good it's damn ridiculous. Fizzing with energy, sheer knockout joy & razor sharp tunes, it's track after track after track of near illegal pleasure.
😉😎👍
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Day 28
#BurningSpear
#MarcusGarvey
#GarveysGhost
1st Roots/dub I heard.
The source.
Marcus Garvey still one of the unconquerable greats - sufferation, defiance, hope, stellar tunes & riddims &, for me, education.
Garvey's Ghost a timeless dub masterclass.
All time favourite 🖤😎
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Day 31
#HüskerDu
#FlipYourWig
Roaring down the line between their punk ferocity & melodic instinct, this is intensely focused, brilliantly messy & a pure treat from beginning to end😎😉👍
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Day 26
#Neu!
'75
Simply beautiful. Another album that's woven thru significant events in life & wields an unsurprisingly potent emotional punch on top of its sheer sonic grace 😉😎👍🖤
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Day 25
#Wire
154
Love Pink Flag but prefer the 2nd & 3rd albums. 154 gets the nod here though - the ferment, imagination, wilfulness, wit, mess & brilliance ignited a big love for these guys that's lasted & lasted over decades.
😎😉👍🖤
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Day 24
#Specials
The bee's goddamn knees & one of the greatest fusions of black & white magic put on tape.
So good you've got to get it more than once.
😎😉👍🖤
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Day 23
#Stereolab
#MarsAudiacQuintet
Tough again to single one out, but Stereolab need to be here & this melodic explosion of motorik delight & off-kilter wonder is still a high feast of sound under this roof 😎👍😉
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Day 22
#TheSlits
#Cut
Easily one of the most inspired, inspiring & influential albums of a generation. Wild determination, joy, frustration, strength, mischief & anger distilled to a perfect spirit. The world's a better place for this record 😎😉👍🖤
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Day 21
#SteveReich
#TheDesertMusic
Coming in from dreamland...
Narcotic, hypnotic & damn near transcendental, this is pure sonic medicine.
Fair few Saturday mornings in the past saw this used as vital psychological intervention.
Never failed. 👍😎😉
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Day 20
#ThePopGroup
#Y
Game changer for me. Blew my head off, scooped out the insides & cooked up a mighty broth before putting it all back together. Visionary, explosive, ferocious, funky as hell & strangely beautiful. An all time favourite 👍😎😉
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Day 18
#Morphine
#CureForPain
...and still nothing else sounds like them. Their smoky, sinuous, striking, utterly unique sound evolved over 5 albums before Mark Sandman's tragic death onstage in Italy in 1999. Adore all their records, but this was the 1st for me 🖤👍😎😉
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Day 17
#Siouxsie&TheBanshees
#JuJu
Hard to choose one album but this shades it round these parts. The organ scrambling effect of hearing this for the 1st time has never left. The Banshees burn white hot & McGeogh's guitar is incendiary in the lush darkness. Utter class 😉👍😎
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Day 16
#MazzyStar
#SoTonightThatIMightSee
Smouldering narcotic dream of a record, every track feels like a murmur & thrum from some warm, dusk lagoon of the soul. Some very good memories attached to this 😎😉👍
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Day 15
#Parliament
#MothershipConnection
If listening to this doesn't stir some kind of euphoric frenzy then you've likely been dead for a while. Still the only parliament on the planet I've got any faith in😎😉
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Day 14
#LeeScratchPerry
#Arkology
Cheating again, & I don't care😁. Like The Fall, picking 1 Scratch album is a path to haemorrhage. This is an almighty box of vital tunes from the heyday of the Black Ark, loaded with rare pearls & unconquerable classics 👍😎
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Day 13
#MarkStewart & #Maffia
#OnUSound
#LearningToCopeWithCowardice
Ploughing the psyche & wired to the heart of the world with wild explosive dub sonics set to jolt the soul, this is an utterly crucial album & the one that was the gateway to On-U. RIP Mark 🖤
😎👍😉
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Day 12
#AsianDubFoundation #CommunityMusic
Immense album from a crew who've had a colossal impact on my life. Impossible to overstate how influential they've been. Some bands open doors, ADF blew down the walls.
All the albums are brilliant in their own way, this is perfect. 👍😉😎
