possibly Speak for Yourself by Imogen Heap but I’m not sure

Just a few old ones…

Art of Noise - The Best Of … but all are good Yellow - Pocket Universe … but also The Essential Moloko - ? Kosheen - Kokopelli (I think)

I wanted to add some of my faves!

• Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra

• William Onyeabor - Who is William Onyeabor? - An enigmatic and reclusive Nigerian funk jazz wildman who was prolific and fairly popular in Nigeria in the 1970s. Let’s Fall in Love is so innovative!

• Miles Okazaki - The Sky Below - Just brilliantly innovative avante-garde jazz and guitar. I was struck when I first heard this album

• Smoke - Everything - A group of friends and musicians quietly got together in the heart of San Francisco to record this mysterious, challenging and psychedelic jazz trip. The whole album is a journey and should be heard at once, but if you just want a taste try this timestamp

• The Flying Luttenbachers - Destroy All Music - The song Fist Through Glass is the song that got me into jazz! I heard it on a late night radio show called Brave New Waves while coming down from mushrooms lol

Daft Punk

Discovery

The Hissing of Summer Lawns by Joni Mitchell. I like JM well enough, but don’t really listen to many other albums of hers. But HoSL just has this unique vibe that keeps bringing me back, especially on those slightly delirious hot days of summer.

A Grand Don’t Come For Free by The Streets. I love this album start to finish and it’s got a great story right through it.

First time I heard it I’d gotten an email from Vice promoting it and I clicked the link thinking it would just be the first 20 seconds of each song but it was the whole album! Was just starting a movie but I never watched it, just listened to the album straight through. So good.

KLF - the White Room . It is a quite unique combination of a early 90s dance album (with a few bangers that still sound good) and road movie soundtrack.

Also, excellent tread!

Prince - Sign O the Times

One of the few albums I listen to beginning to end.

Also, Pink Floyd. Pretty much any album, but specifically Dark Side of the Moon or Wish You Were Here.

I’m loving these comments, so many great albums! And a ton I’ve never hear of and will need to check out.

I have a few of these, but two that really jump out at me are

• The Inevitable Rise And Liberation Of Niggy Tardust - Saul Williams
• Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By - Lovage
• Common People - William Shatner

These are albums that you’ve just gotta let play.

e: can’t believe I forgot Shatner!

My Life In The Bush of Ghosts by David Byrne and Brian Eno.

2112 by Rush

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly

I’m the only person I know that’s heard side 2

• CocoRosie - Grey Oceans
• Cornelius - Point
• Opeth - Pale Communion

Here is mine.

https://youtu.be/J2WP-55FLNk

Such a unique time when it came out. Electronic music was at peak experimental stage in the late 90’s. Kind of like B**ches Brew was the peak 60’s psychedelic experiment. This album was the perfect culmination of two masters of world music, psychedelic trance, and ambient music. Simon Posford is the absolute genius sound engineer at the peak of his game and Raja Ram was the old hippie wizard guiding him through realms unknown.

The band[s] that jumps out at me when I think unique/original is anything that Les Claypool touches. It’s never just him but he has a knack for finding people with unusual talent to make something different. Even when they are doing covers. For example the Frog Brigade doing Pink Floyd’s Animals.

Tom Waits*

The Pixies*

Portishead*

Kruder & Dorfmeister the K&D Sessions

Massive Attack*

But maybe the most uniquely gifted musician on my list would be Richard David James.

Future Shock by Herbie Hancock. Dude released like 25 jazz and funk albums over two decades, then in '83 just drops a hip hop bomb

Rockit

Also, Dr. John - The Night Tripper. 60s psychedelic New Orleans perfection