Oddly enough, I have #1 if only because I thought "Picture Book" from the HP commercial was pretty catchy.
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I've got 1 through 9, plus some Pixies stuff (#10) but not that particular record. The Nick Drake album at #4 is just wonderful, as is the followup, "Bryter Later." That's the only one of the ten I'd classify as a must-own. I like the Wire and Velvet Underground records, though I prefer other VU albums. Most of them, though-- Thompsons, Stooges, Johnson, Kinks, MBV-- are way overrated. The critics are often reacting as much to the stories behind the records as the actual sounds emanating from them. The Miles Davis CD did nothing for me, but in terms of critical consensus it's the Sgt. Pepper of jazz records, so perhaps that one's my fault... even so, I just haven't cared enough about "getting it" to lift my own bootstraps on that one.
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I've got 1 through 9, plus some Pixies stuff (#10) but not that particular record. The Nick Drake album at #4 is just wonderful, as is the followup, "Bryter Later." That's the only one of the ten I'd classify as a must-own. I like the Wire and Velvet Underground records, though I prefer other VU albums. Most of them, though-- Thompsons, Stooges, Johnson, Kinks, MBV-- are way overrated. The critics are often reacting as much to the stories behind the records as the actual sounds emanating from them. The Miles Davis CD did nothing for me, but in terms of critical consensus it's the Sgt. Pepper of jazz records, so perhaps that one's my fault... even so, I just haven't cared enough about "getting it" to lift my own bootstraps on that one.
But get Nick Drake.
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