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[SuedeSwede]

Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Banished - an album about extradition
Danee Manatee - a concept album about a manatee called Danee, he really wants to be with all the other manatees and feels lonely
Hollanndagain - an album about when Avey went on a family holiday to the Netherlands for the 5th time and he screamed "Holland? Again?"... the misspelling of Holland is supposed to be QUIRKY
Campfire Bongs - you can guess what this one is about
Here Comes the Indiana - about how Harrison Ford saves the day... again
Sung Bongs - god they really do love bongs
Eels - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AckvdGbk4w
Strawberry Ham - you know when you have a really nice ham joint and it just has loads of bits of strawberry in it and it's like ew
Merriweather Past Pavilion - it's just like the MPP you know but done all on a honkytonk
Centipede Ha - Panda Bear finally watched Human Centipede, and kinda went "Centipede, ha!" and it just stuck
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[Satie]

David Bowie:

Space Oddits - an album about interstellar taxation that surprisingly made such matters very exciting and inspired George Lucas to make an entire film about such issues to far lesser effect; Oddits instead of Audits because, idk, Brits have been butchering the language since they had that little tiff with the French

The Fan Who Sold the World - a tribute album to the superfan of Bowie's initial album who confused reality and fiction and became famous in British tabloids for his naive attempts at making such a transaction. this is a concept album telling the parallel universe story of his success in doing so.

Hunky Tory - Bowie, famous shapeshifter that he is, leaves behind the world of outer space and comes back down to earth. after all, if you're not a conservative by 30, you don't have a brain!

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mao's - an admittedly oblique and difficult to interpret concept album that has something to do with synthesizing Bowie's early space phase and his own wish to see the fall of Maoism in his lifetime

Aladdin Lane - the final of Bowie's conservative efforts, this one taking its name from the lead single, where Bowie muses on the potential for exotic Arabian cultures should they adopt British industrial road networks

Diamond Cogs - Bowie's encounters with Dark Side of the Moon inspire him to chat politics with the progressive rock legends, resulting in his own, earlier attempt at their vague political ramblings, conjuring provocative imagery of machine parts and the destruction of individuality without ever pointing the finger of responsibility at someone or something more specific than a teenager could

DOW - Bowie's concept album about the evils of the American stock exchange; the first of his "China Trilogy," where, after becoming addicted to Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and retreating from public view for some time, he re-emerged as a fierce critic of Dengism

"Zeroes" - a schmaltzily-titled but no less dialectically sound follow-up to DOW, the second part of the China Trilogy had a lead single bemoaning the inflated wealth of the ruling classes

Dodger - the last of the China Trilogy, Bowie chose to draft (no pun intended) an impressionistic portrait of the young radical soldier conscripted into military service for the imperialist bloodthirsty state violence machines of France and the United States in their never-ending war against the international workers' movements in the Third World

Scary Mobsters (And Super Creeps) - as the eighties began and neoliberal policies began to strangle the life from international workers' movements, Bowie, in typical bourgeois flightiness, abandoned the people and retreated to the comforts of higher-class life. the eighties would see a series of impressionistic portraits of specific historical moments, but without the political fangs of Dodger.

Let's Lance - the most cartoonish of the eighties albums, Let's Lance featured Bowie singing about medieval knight culture and included re-workings of several of the musical numbers from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. this period of Bowie's stage persona was notable for the laborious attention to detail taken with weaponry. at one show, this attention to detail had disastrous consequences - a backup dancer accidentally was gutted by a coked out Bowie who was jokingly emulating Lancelot from the film mentioned above. he would comment later that he would die for his art, too.

To Light - one of the driest of Bowie's historical period, this concept album about the Enlightenment still has an inexplicably large and passionate following in American and British circles, though the French and German press were much more critical of it upon release and regularly revisit it as one of the lowlights of his career in retrospective publications.

Ever Let Me Down? - Bowie's concept album about the failures of twentieth century communism with a thinly veiled provocation in the title.

[Hayden]

Joanna Newsom - Yo (Joanna's hip-hop debut)

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Her (their album about badly auto-corrected texts)

Beach Boys - Jet Sounds (The Beach Boys cover Glenn Branca)

The Smiths - The Queen Is Deaf (an album everyone but the Queen of England has the ability to listen to)
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[sp4cetiger]

Bob Dylan XXX Limited Edition Box Set

Contains:

Another Ride of Bob Dylan
Blonde in Blonde
Highway 69 Revisited
John Wesley Hardning
The Basement Rapes
Blow Train Coming
Down on the Groove
New Moaning
Shaved
Shit of Love
World Gone Wong

Comes with bonus tracks, including alternate versions of "Song to Woody" and "The Man in Me".

[SquishypuffDave]

Sun Kil Moon - Hosts of the Great Highway

An album about Kozelek's attempt to run a guided tour of his favourite highway. Although the business venture was unsuccessful, he still claims that the highway is "really great".

Talk Talk - Laughing Sock

The band try their hand at children's puppetry.

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 8-92

Richard D James reveals that he is in fact Child Emperor Pu Yi in his current form.

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Ico

The band attempted to record a let's play video for a puzzle-platformer, but the footage was corrupted. Andy Warhol convinced them to publish the audio. History was made.

Charles Mingus - The Back Saint and the Sinner Lady

A wacky concept album about a saint that's parasitically reincarnated on the back of a sex worker. Business plummets.

Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moo

Roger Waters' infamous anti-cow manifesto.

[videoheadcleaner]

The Cure - Three Imaginary Buoys - a nautical themed punk odyssey

Foetus - Fail - outtakes of JG Thirlwell attempting to play different instruments

David Bowie - Lol - The Thin White Duke takes popular memes and turns them into pop classics

Big Black - Songs About Sucking - <insert your own joke here>

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It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Beast ~ Karen Dalton sings melancholy tunes from the perspective of the beast from Beauty and the Beast

The ick Inside ~ Kate Bush catches stomach flu

good kid, A.A.d city ~ Kdot takes on schoolhouse rock with his own math lessons for inner city youth

Techno Poe ~ Kraftwerk collaborate with Polly Bradfield

[alelsupreme]

Giant Stepps - Coltrane's misspelled ode to the great leaders of history who arose from the steppes, a particular highlight being the groundbreaking title track, a tribute to 14th century leader Tamerlane.

My Favourite THings - Coltrane learns good, proper english, the way the Queen intended.

Blu Train - Collab with rapper of "Below The Heavens" fame, several years before said rappers birth.

Beditations - He plays the sax in bed lol

Live At The Village Van Guard - Coltrane plays for the entertainment of the brave Van Guards, protecting their four-wheeled chariot from rural savages.

Africa/Bras - Coltrane goes to the home of his ancestors, and totally scores bros.

Nascension - same as Blue Train really, just with a more famous bloke who's not been born yet.

A Glove Supreme - Coltrane's ode to the Freddie Krueger glove, which he won in an auction and won't shut up about.
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[WindowAbove]

2014 Forest Hills Dive: Forest hills go for a swim, adapted for the preppy rich suburban kids who make up J Cole's fanbase
The D-pic: Kamasi's lesson on the consequences wih sexting

[HazeyTwilight]

Belle & Sebastian edition:

Tagermilk ~ Stuart Murdoch shows off his manhood

If You're Feeling Siister ~ Discussing the feeling of incest, the misspelling of sister gives it more pleasure

The Toy With The Arab Strap ~ Going off on a daily excursion in their favourite sex shop

Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Pheasant ~ The prejudice towards all birds

Lazy Line Painter Jake ~ Jake can do nothing right

Torytelling ~ B&S become members of the Tories and tells the public why you should join too

Dead Catastrophe Waitress ~ About a waitress who gets killed

Push Batman To Open Old Wounds ~ Stuart Murdoch decides it'd be fun to push Batman to find out who killed his parents

The Lyfe Pursuit ~ B&S's first rap album

Belle & Sebastian Rite About Love ~ They kidnap a virgin to sacrifice to the God of Love

Girls In Peacetime Want To Dunce ~ B&S refuse to learn from their past mistakes
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