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mac_arthur_park asks: Tell me five albums I shouldn't continue to live without.

I'm on it:

1) World of Monsters, The Drovers I've been throwing this one at anyone who doesn't duck fast enough for the past...gads, has it really been fifteen years? The Drovers were the best live band I have ever seen, bar none; more miraculously, they managed to carry over that energy to disc format. Best of all, they're now offering it for free right over here. Go listen. No, I mean right now. We'll wait.

2) Recovery, Runrig Early 80's stadium anthem rock in Scots Gaelic. Yeah, exactly. For eons, it was only available in the UK, and not even very widely so there. Thank God for the Intarwebs!

3) Unhalfbricking,, Fairport Convention Greatest Album Ever Recorded. Full stop.

4) The Old Kit Bag, Richard Thompson Well, really, anything by Richard Thompson will do, but this album's the one that allowed him to break free of his overproduction addiction, and the stripped-down sounds does him a world of wonder. (One minor gripe: His guitar solos are mildly less incendiary here than usual. Hell with it: buy the whole back catalog.)

5) To Bring You My Love, PJ Harvey The finest bad-day, car-moshing-and-screaming-along CD I've encountered. I think I'll be cranking this up around 4 a.m.


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