"The man that hath no music in himself…Let no such man be trusted." –Shakespeare .

1. Raymond Scott– Powerhouse. The Raymond Scott Project, Vol. 1
2. Swell Maps– Collision Time Revisited or Train Out of It
3. Lucinda Williams– Lucinda Williams
4. Smog– Sewn to the Sky
5. Wynonie Harris– Good Rocking Tonight
6. A.R. Kane– Up Home! or 69
7. The Chills– Kaleidoscope World
8. The Embarrassment– Retrospective or LP or Heyday
9. Halo of Flies– Four From the Bottom or Singles Going Nowhere
10. Randy Holden– Population II
11. Sun City Girls– Torch of the Mystics
12. Martin Newell– The Greatest Living Englishmen
13. Antipop Consortium– Arrhythmia
14. Biz Markie– Goin’ Off
15. Freestyle Fellowship– Inner City Griots
16. Boogie Down Productions– By All Means Necessary
17. Brand Nubian– One For All
18. Company Flow– Funcrusher Plus
19. The Coup– Steal This Album
20. Das EFX– Dead Serious
21. The D.O.C.– No One Can Do It Better
22. Ed O.G. & The Bulldogs– Life of a Kid in the Ghetto
23. Edan– Primitive Plus
24. The Egyptian Lover– On The Nile
25. The Herbaliser– Blow Your Headphones
26. Jungle Brothers– Straight Out the Jungle
27. Kid Koala– Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
28. Leaders Of The New School– A Future Without the Past
29. Main Source– Breaking Atoms
30. Organized Konfusion– Organized Konfusion
31. Restiform Bodies– Restiform Bodies
32. Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth– Mecca and the Soul Brother
33. 7L & Esoteric– Soul Purpose
34. Stetsasonic– In Full Gear
35. I-Roy– Ten Commandments
36. Four Tet– Dialogue
37. Animal Collective– Spirit They're Gone Spirit They've Vanished/Danse Manatee or Hear Comes the Indian
38. Dangerdoom– The Mouse and the Mask
39. Princess Superstar– My Machine
40. Plastic Bertrand– Ça Plane Pour Moi
41. Wolfmother– Wolfmother
42. The Fags– Light ‘Em Up
43. Yeah Yeah Yeahs– Show Your Bones
44. Ratatat– Classics
45. Teenage Fanclub– Grand Prix or Songs From Northern Britain
46. Soup Dragons– Hang-Ten!
47. Inspiral Carpets– Life
48. The Goodnight Loving– Cemetery Trails
49. Girl Talk– Night Ripper
50. Mannequin Men– Showbiz Witch
51. Man Man– Six Demon Bag
52. …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of the Dead– So Divided
    

And on, and on, and on….

There is no particular order to this list. This is my third, known list, and probably my last one. It is in a quality notebook, it isn’t full of impossible wants, and it isn’t too, too long. As I find things, I’ll come back and cross them off.