Robert Wyatt – Rock Bottom (1974)

When people pressure me into stating what my ‘favorite album of all time is’, I always tell them it is this (well, not always; it alternates between this and White Light/White Heat, and I might add Metal Machine Music to the list). I don’t like to answer that question because I find it extremely arbitrary, [...]

Henry Cow – Unrest (1974)

Max asked for some Henry Cow, and I think this is the best place to begin. It is their second album (Leg End is the first, and has another awesome painting of a sock for its cover; this my favorite from the ‘sock trilogy’), and it is a bit more interesting than its predecessor because [...]

Fred Frith – Guitar Solos (1974-1988)

I said I was going to post a folk album in the thread about this. I changed my mind, but I will upload what I initially intended to if anybody wants to hear some great French folk music from the early 1970s. I linked Vitor to this recently and I think everybody else needs to [...]