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1	Oxygene (1977) more music like this by Jean Michel Jarre Jean Michel Jarre, son of film composer Maurice Jarre, is one of the true pioneers of electronic music. Oxygene is one of the original e-music albums. It has withstood the test of time and the evolution of digital electronica. Jarre's compositional style and his rhythmic instincts were his strong points in 1976. While his popularity has ... see all copies from $4.98! new only from $6.61!
2	The Third Reich 'N Roll (1976) more music like this by The Residents Technically the third album from the group, though released as a follow-up to Meet the Residents, this 40-minute assault on the music of the '60s follows Picasso's dictum of all artists killing their (aesthetic) fathers. Two side-long medleys of songs both classic ("Papa's Got a Brand New Bag") and obscure ("Telstar") are destroyed, deconstructed, ... see all copies from $15.79! new only from $17.79!
3	Zippo Songs (2004) more music like this by Phil Kline see all copies from $7.95! new only from $17.03!
4	Wormwood: Curious Stories from the Bible (1998) more music like this by The Residents Like the Resident's 1988 CD God in Three Persons, which is formally an opera of the new narrative type with lots of rhythmic speaking and chorus responses somewhat in the style of the classic Southern talking blues, this wonderful new piece in 20 parts is also a commentary on the more bizarre imagery and smarmy, truly uneasy emotions from the ... see all copies from $21.50! new only from $38.94!
5	Eskimo (1979) more music like this by The Residents The most rewarding, the most difficult, and the most accomplished of all the Residents' albums, this was their departure into the field of imaginary ethno-musicography that they had begun on "Six Things to a Cycle" on Fingerprince. Ostensibly a musical documentary on the Eskimo, this is an album of icy atmospheres, poetic electronics, and ... see all copies from $11.27! new only from $17.98!
6	Persepolis + Remixes [Edition 1] (2002) more music like this by Iannis Xenakis This unusual two-disc set takes as its basis Iannis Xenakis' "Persepolis," the sound portion of a massive multimedia extravaganza staged by Xenakis in 1971 on behalf of the Shah of Iran. The original performance featured a laser light show, spotlights, children carrying torches, and 59 speakers positioned in an enormous natural amphitheater. ... see all copies from $14.04! new only from $14.04!
7	Mirror Man (1999) more music like this by David Thomas and Two Pale Boys This solo effort from the Pere Ubu front man is about as off-kilter and compelling as fans of the band might expect from this unique character. Like a radio picking up several stations at once, this "first act" of a cosmic rock-opera weaves the recitation of impressionistic poetry with twanging, ethereal instrumentation. The disc is also notable ... see all copies from $12.56! new only from $14.19!
8	Rip Through the Hawk Black Night (2005) more music like this by Make a Rising Coming out of the same Philadelphia underground music scene that spawned such bands as Man Man, Need New Body, and An Albatross, Make a Rising is certainly not your average, run-of-the-mill rock act. Although it's tempting to categorize the group as "experimental" (especially since their songwriting is completely unpredictable, where random ... see all copies from $2.15! new only from $13.66!
9	Bay City (2000) more music like this by David Thomas & Foreigners Pere Ubu frontman David Thomas has built a parallel solo career for himself by heading off periodically with varying collections of sidemen -- who have gone on record under such various names as the Wooden Birds, the Pedestrians, and the Two Pale Boys -- and creating music that is, if anything, more abstruse and difficult than even that of his ... see all copies from $12.56! new only from $14.19!
10	What Is It Like to Be a Bat (2003) more music like this by Brazelton/Naphtali While not knowing what it's like to be a bat, it should become fairly obvious within a few minutes what it's like to listen to a recording so unbelievably complex, organized, and chaotically funny that one can forget all one knows about contemporary music and its various genres. This is punk rock without punk rock and free jazz transformed by a ... see all copies from $5.51! new only from $14.22!
11 view cover	Oh by the Way (2007) more music like this by Pink Floyd Oh by the Way is a bit too flippant of a title for a release so heavy. This is no minor compilation; this is a 16-CD set containing all of Pink Floyd's albums -- from The Piper at the Gates of Dawn to The Division Bell -- packaged as mini-LPs with all the original artwork, right down to replicas of the inner sleeves. This does contain extras, but ... see all copies from $173.38! new only from $238.12!
12 view cover	Talk Normal: The Laurie Anderson Anthology (2000) more music like this by Laurie Anderson Talk Normal: The Laurie Anderson Anthology gathers 35 career highlights that range from Anderson's most performance art-oriented material to her poppiest moments. Leading off with "O Superman (For Massenet)," her unlikely 1981 hit, the first disc pares down Big Science -- itself a distillation of her four-hour piece United States -- to its ... see all copies from $22.87! new only from $33.62!
13 view cover	Song Drapes (1999) more music like this by Jerry Hunt This intriguing release presents some of innovator Jerry Hunt's SongDrapes and Strings. "Strings" refers to Hunt's linear bits of transitional music that are open-ended and include an onomatopoeic influence. "SongDrapes" are the settings for vocal performance he created for his collaboration with performance artist Karen Finley, the Finley-Hunt ... see all copies from $11.59! new only from $14.22!
14 view cover	18 Monkeys on a Dead Man's Chest (2004) more music like this by David Thomas and Two Pale Boys see all copies from $9.96! new only from $12.75!
15 view cover	Inside Pink Floyd: A Critical Review 1975-1996 (2005) more music like this by Pink Floyd see all copies from $10.33! new only from $12.55!
16 view cover	The Action Packed Mentallist Brings You the Fucking Jams (2002) more music like this by Kid606 Does the future of music reside in remixing and splicing the past? If so, Kid606's The Action Packed Mentallist Brings You the Fucking Jams might position the artist as the burgeoning scene's most prominent practitioner. Like Freelance Hellraiser's underground hit that saw an unauthorized, unholy union of Christina Aguilera and the Strokes, Kid606 ... see all copies from $5.36! new only from $8.02!
17 view cover	Meet the Residents (1974) more music like this by The Residents The Residents are true avant-garde crazies. Their earliest albums (of which this is the first) have precedents in Captain Beefheart's experimental albums, Frank Zappa's conceptual numbers from Freak Out!, the work of Steve Reich, and the compositions of chance music tonemeister John Cage -- yet the Residents' work of this time really sounds like ... see all copies from $20.00!
18 view cover	Live at Federal Hall National Memorial (2006) more music like this by Arnold Dreyblatt and the Orchestra of Excited Strings see all copies from $15.58! new only from $17.62!
19 view cover	People Hold On: The Best of Coldcut (2004) more music like this by Coldcut see all copies from $13.70! new only from $13.70!
20 view cover	Roadworms: The Berlin Sessions (2000) more music like this by The Residents An intriguing attempt to capture a section of the Residents' Wormwood tour without actually recording live shows. Instead, they set up in a Berlin studio and recorded the live arrangements, aiming to get each song in a single take, later adding some overdubs. The result is typically quirky, having a mix of rawness and polish that makes it quite ... see all copies from $11.78! new only from $14.25!
21 view cover	Freak Show [CD/DVD] (2007) more music like this by The Residents see all copies from $16.95! new only from $20.28!
22 view cover	Golem (1995) more music like this by Richard Teitelbaum see all copies from $11.64! new only from $14.78!
23 view cover	The Tunes of Two Cities (1982) more music like this by The Residents Seen by the group as a "prequel" to the conflicts between the fictional Moles and Chubs as outlined in the Mark of the Mole album, Tunes of Two Cities continues the "Mole Trilogy" by providing "source material" from both cultures. It also marked a new stage in the group's sound, as a majority was performed on the E-Mulator, one of the first ... see all copies from $7.99!
24 view cover	Surf's Up! (2001) more music like this by David Thomas & Two Pale Boys Though he's made his home in London for years, Pere Ubu frontman David Thomas has built the better part of his songwriting career exploring American themes that seem to hold a special fascination for him -- open spaces, the industrial Midwest, cars, and surf culture (he's written a song called "Beach Boys," covers "Surf's Up" here, and has covered ... see all copies from $14.47! new only from $14.47!
25 view cover	Disseminate Ostrava/Kontradictionaries/Disseminate Q-02 (2004) more music like this by Phill Niblock/Kontra-Trio/Q-O2 Ensemble/Ensemble Ocnm/Peter Kotik This disc -- good to see Phill Niblock's music appearing on a predominantly contemporary classical imprint -- contains two versions of "Disseminate," an orchestral work originally commissioned in 1998 by Petr Kotik for his S.E.M. Ensemble, in recordings made in Ostrava by Kotik and the Ensemble OCNM (with members of the Janácek Philharmonic) and ... see all copies from $13.14! new only from $16.21!

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