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1	Hail to the Thief (2003) more music like this by Radiohead add to wishlist Radiohead's admittedly assumed dilemma: how to push things forward using just the right amounts of the old and the older in order to please both sides of the divide? Taking advantage of their longest running time to date, enough space is provided to quench the thirsts of resolute Bends devotees without losing the adventurous drive or ... see all copies from $2.99! new only from $11.04!
2	The Velvet Underground & Nico (1969) more music like this by The Velvet Underground add to wishlist see all copies from $7.61! new only from $7.61!
3	Best of Bowie (2002) more music like this by David Bowie add to wishlist David Bowie has switched labels so often his catalog is cluttered with hits compilations, all purporting to be definitive. Since he is one of the few major artists with no compunction against putting all his hits on one disc, they're all excellent, and 2002's Best of Bowie is no exception, no matter which country you live in (brief explanation: ... see all copies from $5.84! new only from $8.16!
4	Amnesiac (2001) more music like this by Radiohead add to wishlist Faced with a deliberately difficult deviation into "experimentation," Radiohead and their record label promoted Kid A as just that -- a brave experiment, and that the next album, which was just around the corner, really, would be the "real" record, the one to satiate fans looking for the next OK Computer, or at least guitars. At the time, people ... see all copies from $2.38! new only from $10.99!
5	Remain in Light (1980) more music like this by Talking Heads add to wishlist The musical transition that seemed to have just begun with Fear of Music came to fruition on Talking Heads' fourth album, Remain in Light. "I Zimbra" and "Life During Wartime" from the earlier album served as the blueprints for a disc on which the group explored African polyrhythms on a series of driving groove tracks, over which David Byrne ... see all copies from $2.75! new only from $6.50!
6	Post (1995) more music like this by Björk add to wishlist After Debut's success, the pressure was on Björk to surpass that album's creative, tantalizing electronic pop. She more than delivered with 1995's Post; from the menacing, industrial-tinged opener, "Army of Me," it's clear that this album is not simply Debut redux. The songs' production and arrangements -- especially those of the epic, modern ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.75!
7	Bone Machine (1992) more music like this by Tom Waits add to wishlist Perhaps Tom Waits' most cohesive album, Bone Machine is a morbid, sinister nightmare, one that applied the quirks of his experimental '80s classics to stunningly evocative -- and often harrowing -- effect. In keeping with the title's grotesque image of the human body, Bone Machine is obsessed with decay and mortality, the ease with which earthly ... see all copies from $4.99! new only from $11.93!
8	Kid A (2000) more music like this by Radiohead add to wishlist Instead of simply adding club beats or sonic collage techniques, Radiohead strive to incorporate the unsettling "intelligent techno" sound of Autechre and Aphex Twin, characterized by its skittering beats and stylishly dark sonic surfaces, for Kid A. To their immense credit, Radiohead don't sound like carpetbaggers, because they share the same ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.78!
9	10,000 Days (2006) more music like this by Tool add to wishlist In an age where major labels dictate that new releases from bands appear on record store shelves every 18 months or so, rare is the artist given freedom and ability to reflect and stretch out to explore creative evolution and release music as an artist, rather than the prepackaged predictability of an entertainer. Thankfully, Tool has somehow ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $10.00!
10	Swordfishtrombones (1983) more music like this by Tom Waits add to wishlist Between the release of Heartattack and Vine in 1980 and Swordfishtrombones in 1983, Tom Waits got rid of his manager, his producer, and his record company. And he drastically altered a musical approach that had become as dependable as it was unexciting. Swordfishtrombones has none of the strings and much less of the piano work that Waits' previous ... see all copies from $5.95! new only from $5.95!
11	Mule Variations (1999) more music like this by Tom Waits add to wishlist Tom Waits grew steadily less prolific after redefining himself as a junkyard noise poet with Swordfishtrombones, but the five-year wait between The Black Rider and 1999's Mule Variations was the longest yet. Given the fact that Waits decided to abandon major labels for the California indie Epitaph, Mule Variations would seem like a golden ... see all copies from $9.97! new only from $9.97!
12	A Ghost Is Born (2004) more music like this by Wilco add to wishlist It's hard not to wonder if Wilco's breakthrough 2002 release, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, would have been such a critical success and so eagerly embraced by the indie rock community if it hadn't become such a cause célèbre thanks to the band being unceremoniously dropped by Reprise Records, and then signed by Nonesuch after the album had become a hot ... see all copies from $6.90! new only from $10.00!
13	My Life in the Bush of Ghosts [Bonus Tracks] (1981) more music like this by Brian Eno/David Byrne add to wishlist A pioneering work for countless styles connected to electronic, ambient, and third-world music, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts expands on the fourth-world concepts of Jon Hassell and Brian Eno's work with a whirlwind 45 minutes of worldbeat/funk-rock (with the combined talents of several percussionists and bassists including Bill Laswell, Tim ... see all copies from $14.00! new only from $15.38!
14	The Soft Bulletin (1999) more music like this by The Flaming Lips add to wishlist So where does a band go after releasing the most defiantly experimental record of its career? If you're the Flaming Lips, you keep rushing headlong into the unknown -- The Soft Bulletin, their follow-up to the four-disc gambit Zaireeka, is in many ways their most daring work yet, a plaintively emotional, lushly symphonic pop masterpiece eons ... see all copies from $2.25! new only from $8.36!
15	Mellow Gold (1994) more music like this by Beck add to wishlist From its kaleidoscopic array of junk-culture musical styles to its assured, surrealistic wordplay, Beck's debut album, Mellow Gold, is a stunner. Throughout the record, Beck plays as if there are no divisions between musical genres, freely blending rock, rap, folk, psychedelia, and country. Although his inspired sense of humor occasionally plays ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.54!
16	Another Green World (1975) more music like this by Eno add to wishlist A universally acknowledged masterpiece, Another Green World represents a departure from song structure and toward a more ethereal, minimalistic approach to sound. Despite the stripped-down arrangements, the album's sumptuous tone quality reflects Eno's growing virtuosity at handling the recording studio as an instrument in itself (à la Brian ... see all copies from $6.99! new only from $11.08!
17	Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (2006) more music like this by Tom Waits add to wishlist At this stage of the game, any new Tom Waits record is an event. Listening through the music of his entire career is daunting, to say the least, but it's a journey no one else, with the possible exception of Bob Dylan, has taken before. If one listens to the official recordings, from 1973's Closing Time, featuring the songs of an itinerant Beat ... see all copies from $12.47! new only from $30.78!
18	I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings (2001) more music like this by Radiohead add to wishlist For their third release in 13 months, Radiohead let loose a mini-album of live material culled from four European dates and slapped them together into their standard excellent packaging adorned with manic drawings, scribbles, and text excerpts. I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings, originally scheduled as a single for "I Might Be Wrong," is precisely ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.52!
19	Hit to Death in the Future Head (1992) more music like this by The Flaming Lips add to wishlist With Hit to Death in the Future Head, the Flaming Lips make the leap to major-label status as though it were the moment they've been waiting for all their lives. Though not as conceptually tight as In a Priest Driven Ambulance, the album is no less cohesive or imaginative, and in its way serves as the bridge between the band's noisier, more ... see all copies from $3.96! new only from $6.50!
20	Rain Dogs (1985) more music like this by Tom Waits add to wishlist With its jarring rhythms and unusual instrumentation -- marimba, accordion, various percussion -- as well as its frequently surreal lyrics, Rain Dogs is very much a follow-up to Swordfishtrombones, which is to say that it sounds for the most part like The Threepenny Opera being sung by Howlin' Wolf. The chief musical difference is the introduction ... see all copies from $4.90! new only from $5.96!
21	Daydream Nation (1988) more music like this by Sonic Youth add to wishlist By refining the song-oriented breakthroughs of Sister and developing their fascination with noise and alternate tunings, Sonic Youth created a masterpiece of post-punk art rock with the double-album Daydream Nation. Though the self-conscious sprawl of the album might appear self-indulgent on the surface, Daydream Nation is powered by a sustained ... see all copies from $2.99! new only from $7.65!
22	Takk... (2005) more music like this by Sigur Rós add to wishlist A strange thing happens before the two-minute mark in "Saeglopur." All the twinkling and cooing erupts, at what might seem like eight minutes earlier than normal, into a cathartic blast of tautly constructed group noise -- or, as those who prefer songs and motion over moods and atmospheres might say, "The good part comes." "Saeglopur" is ... see all copies from $11.38! new only from $11.38!
23	Trout Mask Replica (1969) more music like this by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band add to wishlist Trout Mask Replica is Captain Beefheart's masterpiece, a fascinating, stunningly imaginative work that still sounds like little else in the rock & roll canon. Given total creative control by producer and friend Frank Zappa, Beefheart and his Magic Band rehearsed the material for this 28-song double album for over a year, wedding minimalistic R&B, ... see all copies from $13.21! new only from $13.21!
24	Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years (1998) more music like this by Tom Waits add to wishlist Tom Waits' brilliance is messy -- he has so many ideas that sometimes unrealized songs are juxtaposed with moments of greatness on his albums. That may make for the occasional uneven record, but each album has its own distinct tone that makes it a unique listening experience, whether it's a masterpiece or a missed opportunity. And that's the ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $11.93!
25	Disco Volante (1995) more music like this by Mr. Bungle add to wishlist Mr. Bungle is the musical equivalent of a David Lynch movie. On its uncompromising second release, Disco Volante, the group focuses its sound a bit more than on its 1991 self-titled debut but still keeps things unruly and completely unpredictable. This is a band whose sole purpose is to break all the pre-existing rules of music and doesn't think ... see all copies from $5.95! new only from $8.71!

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