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Ry Cooder - Mambo Sinuendo

The Budos Band - Self Titled

High & Mighty - Home Field Advantage

Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu Of Ethiopia

Booker T - Green Onions

Daktaris - Soul Explosion

Mighty Imperials - Thunder Chicken

Toumani Diabate & Ballake Sissoko - New Ancient Strings

Boubacar Traore - Kongo Magni

Baaba Maal & Mansour Seck - Djam Leelii

Youssou N'Dour & Fathy Salama - Egypte

Zakir Hussain & Charles Lloyd - Sangam

Dick Dale - Best Of

Dirty Boys - Gutta Wayz 2 Get Paid

Brotha Lynch - Appearances Vol 1

Tha Alkaholiks

Paco DeLucia, John Mclaughlin & Al DiMeola - Passion, Grace and Fire

DJ Shadow - Funky Skunk

Latin:
Paco de Lucia - Entre Dos Aguas
Afro Cuban All Stars
Buena Vista Social Club
Compay Segundo
The Conga Kings
Os Mutantes
Giovanni Hidalgo
Ibrahim Ferrer
The Exciters
Los Silvertones
Ruben Gonzalez
Tito Puente
Willie Bobo
Sabu Martinez

Have to stop

The Clash - "The Clash"
Hank Mobley - "No Room For Squares"
Spiritualized - "Laser Guided Melodies"
Ramones - "Leave Home"
Saint Etienne - "Good Humor"

puch comes to shove, fave reggae record...
Vivian Jackson Meet King Tubby!
(ask me next week for my NEW current fave!)
great lists, nice topic - thanks!

marky dread

1) Basically anything by bob dylan
2) Genius - Liquid swords
3) Madvillain - Madvillain
4) Boogie Down productions - Eduatainment,etc.
5) sex pistols - nevermind the bullocks
6) a lot of stuff by the clash
7) cant forget Funkadelic, early stuff
8) basically anything by slick rick the ruler

Im obviously forgetting some because im just that burnt.
sorry for not sticking to the format

Not albums per se;

1. Parliament Funkadelic
2. Charlie Parker
3. Billie Holiday
4. The Beatles
5. Bob Dylan

Lee Morgan , Hank Mobley , Charlie Parker are all well worth mentioning.

The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Sounds of The Suburbs - The Members
KRS One - A Retrospective (Best of)
Joe's Garage - Frank Zappa
Starlight - Willie Nelson

My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
Slowdive - Just For A Day
Pavement - Slanted And Enchanted
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Dashiell Hedayat - Obsolete

wow... only 5 is impossible, but I'll give it a try:

1. Basically anything by the great Tom Waits!
2. The complete string quartets of Beethoven performed by Alban Berg Quartett
3. Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Született
4. Fanfare Ciocarlia - Radio Pascani
5. Metallica - Master of Puppets

and SO MUCH more....

Art Laboe's "Oldies but Goodies" series
Art Laboe's "Dedicated to You" Series
Brenton Wood's "18 best"
Marvin Gaye "the Master 1961-1984"
Sam Cooke " A Man & His Music"

Brian Eno - Another Green World

Pere Ubu - Dub Housing

Morton Feldman - For Philip Guston

Low - If I Could Live in Hope

Christian Fennesz - Venice

i now like plenty of gary numan, nuff goldfrapp, plus bryan ferry and roxy music. also i listen to taiwanese music, which i think is tremendous, just like taiwan itself...bless !!!!!