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

"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>)

(found at: http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/thewire.html#onfire)

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1. Ives: Symphony No. 4 / Three Places in New England / Central Park in the Dark  
2. Dark Was the Night
by Blind Willie Johnson
 
3. City of Glass: Stan Kenton Plays Bob Graettinger
by Stan Kenton
 
4. Forbidden Planet: Original MGM Soundtrack
by Louis Barron
 
5. Other Worlds Other Sounds  
6. I Hear a New World: An Outer Space Music Fantasy
by Joe Meek & the Blue Men
 
7. Abstract
by Joe Harriott
 
8. The Original Delta Blues
by Son House
 
9. Call Me Burroughs
by William S. Burroughs
 
10. Early Works  
11. Live In Greenwich Village: The Complete Impulse Recordings
by Albert Ayler
 
12.
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Intents And Purposes
by Bill Dixon Orchestra
 
13.
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Terminus II/Funktion Grun
by Gottfried Michael Koenig
 
14. Strange Strings
by Sun Ra
 
15. Vincebus Eruptum
by Blue Cheer
 
16. Gris-Gris
by Dr. John
 
17.
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Balaklava
by Pearls Before Swine
 
18. Karyobin Are the Imaginary Birds Said to Live in Paradise  
19. The United States of America
by The United States of America
 
20. El Camaron de la Isla Con la Colaboracion Especial de Paco de Lucia
by Camaron DeLaIsla
 
21.
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Black London Blues
by Ram John Holder
 
22. Rehearsals for Retirement/Gunfight at Carnegie Hall
by Phil Ochs
 
23. Illuminations
by Buffy Sainte-Marie
 
24. Black Woman
by Sonny Sharrock
 
25. Contact
by Silver Apples
 
26. Oar
by Alexander "Skip" Spence
 
27. Shooting at the Moon
by Kevin Ayers & the Whole World
 
28. First Utterance
by Comus
 
29.
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Michael Gibbs
by Michael Gibbs
 
30. I Am Sitting in a Room  
31. Cluster 71
by Cluster
 
32. The Last Poets
by The Last Poets
 
33. Brian Jones Presents: The Pipes of Pan at Jajouka
by The Master Musicians of Jajouka
 
34. Paris 1919
by John Cale
 
35. Universal Consciousness
by Alice Coltrane
 
36. On the Corner
by Miles Davis
 
37. 1984
by Hugh Hopper
 
38. The Original Modern Lovers
by Modern Lovers
 
39.
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I'm The One
by Annette Peacock
 
40. Nandipo/Afrika Obota
by Pierre Akendengue
 
41.
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The Faust Tapes
by Faust
 
42. Sextant
by Herbie Hancock
 
43. Lawrence Of Newark
by Larry Young
 
44. They Say I'm Different
by Betty Davis
 
45. Lewis Furey
by Lewis Furey
 
46. Terminal Tower: An Archival Collection
by Pere Ubu
 
47. Revolution Dub
by Lee "Scratch" Perry
 
48. Metal Machine Music
by Lou Reed
 
49. The Eyeball of Hell
by The Electric Eels
 
50. Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
by Captain Beefheart
 
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