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Nonagon Infinity
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
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Jun 27 2024
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A1A
Jimmy Buffett
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Jun 28 2024
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Fuzz
Chucklehead
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Jun 29 2024
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The Lion's Roar
First Aid Kit
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Jun 30 2024
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I And Love And You
The Avett Brothers
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Jul 01 2024
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"Awaken, My Love!"
Childish Gambino
3
Jul 02 2024
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The Animal Years
Josh Ritter
4
Jul 03 2024
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Stranger In Town
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
4
Jul 04 2024
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Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
Arctic Monkeys
3
Jul 05 2024
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Gotcha! Gotcha! Gotcha!
Gotcha!
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Jul 06 2024
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Spilt Milk
Jellyfish
3
Jul 07 2024
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Silence Yourself
Savages
2
Jul 08 2024
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Funeral Dress
Wussy
5
Jul 09 2024
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Racine carrée
Stromae
2
Jul 10 2024
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Gemstones
Adam Green
2
Jul 11 2024
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Carolina Confessions
The Marcus King Band
3
Jul 12 2024
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Silent Alarm
Bloc Party
5
Jul 13 2024
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Currents
Tame Impala
3
Jul 14 2024
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Don't Say No
Billy Squier
2
Jul 15 2024
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Sublime
Sublime
2
Jul 16 2024
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Because the Internet
Childish Gambino
2
Jul 17 2024
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F♯ A♯ ∞
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
1
Jul 18 2024
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Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
SOPHIE
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Jul 19 2024
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The Hazards of Love
The Decemberists
3
Jul 20 2024
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Continuum
John Mayer
3
Jul 21 2024
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Ænima
TOOL
2
Jul 22 2024
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Misplaced Childhood
Marillion
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Jul 23 2024
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The Black Parade
My Chemical Romance
2
Jul 24 2024
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I Need to Start a Garden
Haley Heynderickx
2
Jul 25 2024
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Poesía Básica
Extrechinato y Tu
2
Jul 26 2024
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Emotional Mugger
Ty Segall
2
Jul 27 2024
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1, 2, Kung Fu!
Boy Azooga
2
Jul 28 2024
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After Hours
The Weeknd
2
Jul 29 2024
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Peasant
Richard Dawson
2
Jul 30 2024
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Relatives in Descent
Protomartyr
2
Jul 31 2024
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I Am
Earth, Wind & Fire
4
Aug 01 2024
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No.1 In Heaven
Sparks
3
Aug 02 2024
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Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera
Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera
2
Aug 03 2024
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Join Us
They Might Be Giants
3
Aug 04 2024
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St. Jude
Courteeners
2
Aug 05 2024
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In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Neutral Milk Hotel
2
Aug 06 2024
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Give Up
The Postal Service
2
Aug 07 2024
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Blink-182
blink-182
2
Aug 08 2024
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Watch Out!
Alexisonfire
2
Aug 09 2024
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Weezer
Weezer
4
Aug 10 2024
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Come And Get It
Rachel Stevens
2
Aug 11 2024
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Sailing The Seas Of Cheese
Primus
3
Aug 12 2024
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Kick
INXS
4
Aug 13 2024
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Discosis
Bran Van 3000
2
Aug 14 2024
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The Beautiful Letdown
Switchfoot
2
Aug 15 2024
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Goat
The Jesus Lizard
2
Aug 16 2024
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Wild Planet
The B-52's
2
Aug 17 2024
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The Best of The Hot 5 & Hot 7 Recordings
Louis Armstrong
2
Aug 18 2024
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Control
Pedro The Lion
2
Aug 19 2024
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Daisies Of The Galaxy
Eels
2
Aug 20 2024
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McDonald and Giles
Ian McDonald
2
Aug 21 2024
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Boys And Girls in America
The Hold Steady
2
Aug 22 2024
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Nuyorican Soul
Nuyorican Soul
2
Aug 23 2024
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Tomb
Angelo De Augustine
2
Aug 24 2024
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When Smoke Rises
Mustafa
2
Aug 25 2024
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Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum
Tally Hall
2
Aug 26 2024
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The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking
Roger Waters
2
Aug 27 2024
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Lahai
Sampha
2
Aug 28 2024
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Afraid Of Sunlight
Marillion
In the days before the internet, anyone wishing to access pornography generally had to walk into their local newsagent and acquire a hard-copy publication from the top shelf (usually purchased with a newspaper so you could hide the glossy mag inside it so that no-one would mark you out as a user on the walk home. Although if they did the standard response was to claim you bought it for the articles…). Clearly this was relatively tame stuff compared to the sort of thing available on the internet today. For a start it didn’t “move”. Yet it served some sort of social purpose; many a teenager’s first encounter with pornography was via a countryside hedgerow, which is where users would toss (pun absolutely intended given how the pages used to stick together) their magazines once they were “finished”. In fact the demise of hedgerow pornography is one very notable benefit from the rise of the internet; on the downside teenagers today have the altogether more daunting task of accessing their first glimpses of red hot action via Dad’s laptop, which does have the potential to leave one scarred for life.
However I digress. One curiosity of Playboy or Penthouse or whichever publication took your fancy was the section entitled Readers’ Wives. To anyone who has grown up in the internet age, this is probably going to sound “just plain weird”, but the Readers’ Wives sections in these magazines was literally just that: photos taken by husbands of their wives in various states of undress (including complete) and sent to the magazine for publication. With probably a £10 reward for all those published. What motivated anyone to even contemplate sending photos of their beloved in (other than the £10) is hard to fathom, but presumably these men regarded their other halves in the buff as the loveliest thing on earth and therefore felt compelled to share that loveliness with other men.
The problem of course is that none of the Readers’ Wives ever matched up to the standards of the glistening lovelies who posed for a living. A problem that wasn’t just down to the poor standards of photography being employed. Beauty is always in the eye of the beholder, but quality requires an objective view. Which brings us to the music and the whole reason for this preamble. Once you have completed the 1,001 album challenge, you can nominate one album which does not appear on the list and you can elect to listen to all the other nominations which other users have put forward once they have finished the original list. Now the original list does have its faults and not everything is a certified banger. However it does cover a wide range of musical styles and you always get the feeling that whatever the style, this is the best that style has to offer (however crap the style might be). It has also been decided on by a panel of experts who do this kind of thing for a living. In short, the original list is your genuine pornography. The nominated list however is very much the Readers’ Wives section: in short, fan favourites filtered through adoring ears. I can understand why all these albums might be someone’s favourite, but let’s be honest here, none of them really stand up to any scrutiny, something the piss-taker who put forward “Come And Get It” by Rachel Stevens presumably understood straight away. And I include my own nomination in this.
This isn’t a particular dig at Afraid of Sunlight. It just isn’t essential listening and I’ll be honest I kind of wish I’d stopped at the end of the original list, because of the 63 albums that have come later there is nothing worth going back to. Although the memory of the looks on the faces of my younger colleagues when I explained the Readers’ Wives concept will stay with me forever, so maybe something good has come of it after all…
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Korn
Korn
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Aug 30 2024
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Hand. Cannot. Erase.
Steven Wilson
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Aug 31 2024
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Hammersmith Odeon, London '75
Bruce Springsteen
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Sep 01 2024
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Oncle Jazz
Men I Trust
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Sep 02 2024
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A Live One
Phish
2
Sep 03 2024
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A Salty Dog
Procol Harum
2
Sep 04 2024
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22, A Million
Bon Iver
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Sep 05 2024
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Rêver mieux
Daniel Bélanger
2
Sep 06 2024
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Apostrophe(')
Frank Zappa
2
Sep 07 2024
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Live in San Francisco
Thee Oh Sees
2
Sep 08 2024
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Home Sweet Home
Kano
2
Sep 09 2024
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Dead Man's Party
Oingo Boingo
2
Sep 10 2024
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Re
Café Tacvba
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Sep 11 2024
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Whipped Cream & Other Delights
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
2
Sep 12 2024
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We Like It Here
Snarky Puppy
2
Sep 13 2024
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Go Farther In Lightness
Gang of Youths
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Sep 14 2024
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Ultra Blue
Hikaru Utada
2
Sep 15 2024
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Vedergällningen
Garmarna
2
Sep 16 2024
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Tales Of Mystery And Imagination
The Alan Parsons Project
2
Sep 17 2024
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Nurture
Porter Robinson
2
Sep 18 2024
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La cagaste... Burt Lancaster
Hombres G
2
Sep 19 2024
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Frosting On The Beater
The Posies
2
Sep 20 2024
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Super Ape
The Upsetters
2
Sep 21 2024
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Forced Witness
Alex Cameron
2
Sep 22 2024
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10,000 gecs
100 gecs
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Sep 23 2024
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Yeti
Amon Düül II
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Sep 24 2024
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Englabörn
Jóhann Jóhannsson
2
Sep 25 2024
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Enema Of The State
blink-182
2
Sep 26 2024
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Night Drive
Chromatics
2
Sep 27 2024
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Pushin' Against a Stone
Valerie June
2
Sep 28 2024
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A City Dressed In Dynamite
That Handsome Devil
2
Sep 29 2024
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King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown
King Tubby
2
Sep 30 2024
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Bloody Kisses
Type O Negative
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Oct 01 2024
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Carrie & Lowell
Sufjan Stevens
2
Oct 02 2024
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Game of Fools
Koritni
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Oct 03 2024
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Piledriver
Status Quo
2
Oct 04 2024
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Squeezing Out Sparks
Graham Parker
2
Oct 05 2024
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Loss
Mull Historical Society
2
Oct 06 2024
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Don't Throw Stones
THE SPORTS
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Oct 07 2024
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Human Racing
Nik Kershaw
2
Oct 08 2024
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Phantom Power
The Tragically Hip
2
Oct 09 2024
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Nail
Scraping Foetus off the Wheel
2
Oct 10 2024
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We Rock Hard
Freestylers
2
Oct 11 2024
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Zuckerzeit
Cluster
2
Oct 12 2024
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Dogrel
Fontaines D.C.
2
Oct 13 2024
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Transatlanticism
Death Cab for Cutie
2
Oct 14 2024
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Contra
Vampire Weekend
2
Oct 15 2024
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Dilate
Ani DiFranco
2
Oct 16 2024
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Out of the Blue
Debbie Gibson
2
Oct 17 2024
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Before These Crowded Streets
Dave Matthews Band
5
Oct 18 2024
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Madvillainy
Madvillain
2
Oct 19 2024
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Piñata
Freddie Gibbs
2
Oct 20 2024
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Dimanche à Bamako
Amadou & Mariam
2
Oct 21 2024
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A Deeper Understanding
The War On Drugs
2
Oct 22 2024
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Blue Is The Colour
The Beautiful South
2
Oct 23 2024
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Eye
Robyn Hitchcock
2
Oct 24 2024
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All Hail West Texas
The Mountain Goats
2
Oct 25 2024
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You'd Prefer an Astronaut
Hum
2
Oct 26 2024
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Recipe for Hate
Bad Religion
2
Oct 27 2024
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Music For People In Trouble
Susanne Sundfør
2
Oct 28 2024
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Mm..Food
MF DOOM
2
Oct 29 2024
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O
Damien Rice
5
Oct 30 2024
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El Circo
Maldita Vecindad Y Los Hijos Del 5to. Patio
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Oct 31 2024
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Pop
GAS
2
Nov 01 2024
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Chet
Chet Baker
2
Nov 02 2024
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Moffou
Salif Keita
2
Nov 03 2024
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Maestro
Kaizers Orchestra
2
Nov 04 2024
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Nightbirds
LaBelle
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Nov 05 2024
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Ruin
The Amazing Devil
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Nov 06 2024
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Savage Sinusoid
Igorrr
2
Nov 07 2024
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Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
Big Thief
2
Nov 08 2024
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Young Team
Mogwai
2
Nov 09 2024
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Version 2.0
Garbage
2
Nov 10 2024
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Djarimirri
Gurrumul
2
Nov 11 2024
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World Of Echo
Arthur Russell
2
Nov 12 2024
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People
The Burning Hell
2
Nov 13 2024
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Cleopatra
The Lumineers
2
Nov 14 2024
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Real Life
Joan As Police Woman
2
Nov 15 2024
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Diary
Sunny Day Real Estate
2
Nov 16 2024
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Alive Or Just Breathing
Killswitch Engage
2
Nov 17 2024
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Come On Come On
Mary Chapin Carpenter
2
Nov 18 2024
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The Universe Smiles Upon You
Khruangbin
2
Nov 19 2024
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Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones)
Jai Paul
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Nov 20 2024
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Set Yourself On Fire
Stars
2
Nov 21 2024
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Somewhere In The Between
Streetlight Manifesto
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Nov 22 2024
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Boys And Girls In America
The Hold Steady
2
Nov 23 2024
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Bleed American
Jimmy Eat World
2
Nov 29 2024
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Stage Four
Touché Amoré
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Nov 30 2024
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God Shuffled His Feet
Crash Test Dummies
2
Dec 13 2024
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Things We Lost In The Fire
Low
2
Dec 14 2024
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Come On Over
Shania Twain
3
Dec 15 2024
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Animals
Pink Floyd
5
Dec 16 2024
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Hadestown
Anaïs Mitchell
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