Dave Mandl’s Recommended Listening List
  1. •African Head Charge: Environmental Studies
  2. •Dick Annegarn: Anticyclone
  3. •Aqsak Maboul: Onze Danses pour Combattre la Migraine
  4. •Art Bears: The World as It Is Today
  5. •Kevin Ayers: Joy of a Toy
  6. •Albert Ayler: Spiritual Unity
  7. •Bela Bartok: String Quartets
  8. •Franco Battiato: Fetus
  9. •The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
  10. •The Beatles: All of them
  11. •Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Replica
  12. •Biota: Object Holder
  13. •Bongwater: The Power of Pussy
  14. •Jack Bruce: Songs for a Taylor
  15. •John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano
  16. •Can: Tago Mago
  17. •Charalambides: Being As Is
  18. •Ornette Coleman: Beauty Is a Rare Thing
  19. • Colleen: Colleen et les Bôites à Musiques
  20. •John Coltrane: A Love Supreme
  21. •Shirley and Dolly Collins: The Power of the True Love Knot
  22. •Shirley Collins and Davey Graham: Folk Roots, New Routes
  23. •Alice Cooper: Love It to Death
  24. •Elvis Costello: Spike
  25. •Curd Duca: Easy Listening 3
  26. •Miles Davis: Miles Smiles
  27. •Deep Purple: Machine Head
  28. •Jean Derome & Rene Lussier: Soyez Vigilants, Restez Vivants!
  29. •Die Trip Computer Die: We Are Your Friends
  30. •Tymon Dogg: Battle of the Wills
  31. •Eric Dolphy: Out to Lunch
  32. •Nick Drake: Fruit Tree
  33. •Julie Driscoll: 1969
  34. •The Durutti Column: LC
  35. •Electric Light Orchestra: No Answer
  36. •Brian Eno: Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
  37. •Espers: Espers
  38. •Essential Logic: Wake Up
  39. •Etron Fou Leloublan: Les Trois Fous Perdegagnent
  40. •The Ex and Tom Cora: Scrabbling at the Lock
  41. •John Fahey: Return of the Repressed
  42. •Fairport Convention: Liege and Lief
  43. •Marianne Faithfull: Greatest Hits
  44. •Faust: Faust
  45. •Fly Ashtray: Clumps Takes a Ride
  46. •Fred Frith: Gravity
  47. •Serge Gainsbourg: De Gainsbourg a Gainsbarre
  48. •General Strike: Danger in Paradise
  49. •Grant Green: Green Street
  50. •Jimmy Giuffre: Free Fall
  51. •Herbie Hancock: Thrust
  52. •Henry Cow: Western Culture
  53. •Michael Harrison: From Ancient Worlds
  54. •The Homosexuals: The Homosexuals Record
  55. •Honeymoon Killers: Les Tueurs de la Lune de Miel
  56. •Mary Hopkin: Postcard
  57. •Incredible String Band: The Big Huge
  58. •Bert Jansch: Rosemary Lane
  59. •Jefferson Airplane: After Bathing at Baxters
  60. •Jethro Tull: Benefit
  61. •King Crimson: Larks' Tongues in Aspic
  62. •The Kinks: Face to Face
  63. •Basil Kirchin: Charcoal Sketches
  64. •Klimperei: Tout Seul sur la Plage en Hiver
  65. •Fred Lane: From the One that Cut You
  66. •The Left Banke: There's Gonna Be a Storm
  67. •Little Annie: Short and Sweet
  68. •Lothar and the Hand People: Space Hymn
  69. •Albert Marcoeur: Album a Colorier
  70. •Marine Girls: Lazy Ways
  71. •Massacre: Killing Time
  72. •Paul McCartney: Ram
  73. •Meadow House: Tongue Under a Ton of Nine-Volters
  74. •Microstoria: microstoria_snd
  75. •Christof Migone: Hole in the Head
  76. •Piero Milesi: Modi
  77. •The Monochrome Set: "Westminister Affair" soundtrack
  78. •Thelonius Monk: The Complete Blue Note Recordings
  79. •Wes Montgomery: The Incredible Jazz Guitar of
  80. •Lee Morgan: Search for the New Land
  81. •R. Stevie Moore: Delicate Tension
  82. •The Move: Shazam
  83. •The Murphy Orchestra: Frankincense
  84. •Muzsikas: The Prisoner's Song
  85. •New Age Steppers: New Age Steppers
  86. •Nico: The Marble Index
  87. •Alva Noto: Transform
  88. •Laura Nyro: Eli and the Thirteenth Confession
  89. •Officer!: Yes Yes No No Yes No Yes
  90. •Only a Mother: Naked Songs for Contortionists
  91. •Frank Pahl & Klimperei: Music for Desserts
  92. •Andy Partridge: Take Away/The Lure of Salvage
  93. •Big John Patton: Let 'Em Roll
  94. •The Penguin Cafe Orchestra: Music from the Penguin Cafe
  95. •The Pentangle: The Pentangle
  96. •Lee Scratch Perry: Arkology
  97. •Pink Floyd: "More" soundtrack
  98. •The Pop Group: For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?
  99. •The Portsmouth Sinfonia: Plays the Popular Classics
  100. •Francis Poulenc: Piano Works
  101. •Pram: Sargasso Sea
  102. •The Pretty Things: S.F. Sorrow
  103. •Psychic TV: Dreams Less Sweet
  104. •The Raincoats: Odyshape
  105. •The Red Crayola with Art and Language: Kangaroo?
  106. •Hans Reichel: Death of the Rare Bird Ymir
  107. •John Renbourn: The Lady and the Unicorn
  108. •The Residents: The Residents' Commercial Album
  109. •Marc Ribot: Shrek
  110. •Ferdinand Richard: En Forme!
  111. •Rip Rig and Panic: I Am Cold
  112. •Arthur Russell: World of Echo
  113. •Slapp Happy: Acnalbasac Noom
  114. •The Slits: Cut
  115. •Soft Machine: Third
  116. •Bridget St. John: Songs for the Gentle Man
  117. •Strawbs: Preserves Uncanned
  118. •Sun Ra: Heliocentric Worlds, Vol. 1
  119. •Sweeney's Men: The Tracks of Sweeney
  120. •Ghedaliz Tazartes: Disaporas
  121. •Television Personalities: ...And Don't the Kids Just Love It
  122. •Third Ear Band: "Macbeth" soundtrack
  123. •This Heat: This Heat
  124. •Mayo Thompson: Corky's Debt to His Father
  125. •Throbbing Gristle: DOA
  126. •Thunderclap Newman: Hollywood Dream
  127. •Tindersticks: "Nenette et Boni" soundtrack
  128. •Trader Horne: Morning Way
  129. •Trees: On the Shore
  130. •The Turtles: Turtle Soup
  131. •Ultramarine: United Kingdoms
  132. •Various: The Fruit of the Original Sin
  133. •Various: Guitarrorists
  134. •Various: Pillows and Prayers
  135. •V-Effect: Stop Those Songs
  136. •The Vitamin B-12: Box Set
  137. •Stephen Vitiello: Chairs Not Stairs
  138. •L. Voag: The Way Out
  139. •Tom Waits: Raindogs
  140. •Lal and Mike Waterson: Bright Phoebus
  141. •Ben Watt: Summer into Winter
  142. •Wha Wha Ha: Wha Ha Ha
  143. •The Who: The Who Sell Out
  144. •Wire: Chairs Missing
  145. •The Wilde Flowers: The Wilde Flowers
  146. •W.O.O.: Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are Going Wrong
  147. •Robert Wyatt: Old Rottenhat
  148. •XTC: English Settlement
  149. •Larry Young: Into Somethin'
  150. •Young Marble Giants: Colossal Youth
  151. •Frank Zappa/The Mothers: The Grand Wazoo
  152. •Zion Train: Natural Wonders of the World in Dub
  153. •ZNR: Barricades 3
  154. •The Zombies: Odessey and Oracle
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