The Wire's "100 Records That Set The World On Fire (While No One Was Listening)" (+30)

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"In The Wire 175, we polled our writers to nominate records that should have ignited the world’s imagination – but somehow got forgotten along the way."

[ Due to out-of-print status or obscruity of several items, best available approximations are used. ]

(<a href="http://www.thewire.co.uk/archive/charts/100_records.html">source</a>)

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  1. 2.
    Dark Was the Night
    by Blind Willie Johnson

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  2. 3.
    City of Glass: Stan Kenton Plays Bob Graettinger
    by Stan Kenton

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  3. 4.
    Forbidden Planet: Original MGM Soundtrack
    by Louis Barron

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  4. 5.
    Other Worlds Other Sounds

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  5. 6.
    I Hear a New World: An Outer Space Music Fantasy
    by Joe Meek & the Blue Men

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  6. 7.
    Abstract
    by Joe Harriott

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  7. 8.
    The Original Delta Blues
    by Son House

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  8. 9.
    Call Me Burroughs
    by William S. Burroughs

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  9. 10.
    Early Works

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  11. 12.
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    Intents And Purposes
    by Bill Dixon Orchestra

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  12. 13.
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    Terminus II/Funktion Grun
    by Gottfried Michael Koenig

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  13. 14.
    Strange Strings
    by Sun Ra

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  14. 15.
    Vincebus Eruptum
    by Blue Cheer

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  15. 16.
    Gris-Gris
    by Dr. John

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  16. 17.
    Balaklava
    by Pearls Before Swine

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  17. 19.
    The United States of America
    by The United States of America

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  19. 21.
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    Black London Blues
    by Ram John Holder

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  20. 22.
    Rehearsals for Retirement/Gunfight at Carnegie Hall
    by Phil Ochs

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  21. 23.
    Illuminations
    by Buffy Sainte-Marie

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  22. 24.
    Black Woman
    by Sonny Sharrock

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  23. 25.
    Contact
    by Silver Apples

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  24. 26.
    Oar
    by Alexander "Skip" Spence

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  25. 27.
    Shooting at the Moon
    by Kevin Ayers & the Whole World

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  26. 28.
    First Utterance
    by Comus

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  27. 29.
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    Michael Gibbs
    by Michael Gibbs

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  28. 30.
    I Am Sitting in a Room

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  29. 31.
    Cluster 71
    by Cluster

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  30. 32.
    The Last Poets
    by The Last Poets

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  31. 33.
    Brian Jones Presents: The Pipes of Pan at Jajouka
    by The Master Musicians of Jajouka

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  32. 34.
    Paris 1919
    by John Cale

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  33. 35.
    Universal Consciousness
    by Alice Coltrane

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  34. 36.
    On the Corner
    by Miles Davis

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  35. 37.
    1984
    by Hugh Hopper

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  36. 38.
    The Original Modern Lovers
    by Modern Lovers

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  37. 39.
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    I'm The One
    by Annette Peacock

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  38. 40.
    Nandipo/Afrika Obota
    by Pierre Akendengue

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  39. 41.
    The Faust Tapes
    by Faust

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  40. 42.
    Sextant
    by Herbie Hancock

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  41. 43.
    Lawrence Of Newark
    by Larry Young

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  42. 44.
    They Say I'm Different
    by Betty Davis

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  43. 45.
    Lewis Furey
    by Lewis Furey

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  44. 46.
    Terminal Tower: An Archival Collection
    by Pere Ubu

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  45. 47.
    Revolution Dub
    by Lee "Scratch" Perry

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  46. 48.
    Metal Machine Music
    by Lou Reed

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  47. 49.
    The Eyeball of Hell
    by The Electric Eels

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  48. 50.
    Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
    by Captain Beefheart

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