Your Top 5

[Tripleterror]

Tough choice, initial salvo
1. All Mod Cons - The Jam
2. Head Hunters - Herbie Hancock
3. Never Mind the Bollocks - Sex Pistols
4. Ethiopian Knights - Donald Byrd
5. Germ Free Adolescents - X-ray Spex

[Alex_24]

Music Albums (Top 5 is impossible to pick and subject to change but here’s a good go at it):

1. TOOL - AEnima
2. Pearl Jam - Vs.
3. OutKast - ATLiens
4. Dave Matthews Band - Remember Two Things
5. The Allman Brothers - Eat a Peach [emoji527]

[Tripleterror]

@Alex_24:

Music Albums (Top 5 is impossible to pick and subject to change but here’s a good go at it):

1. TOOL - AEnima
2. Pearl Jam - Vs.
3. OutKast - ATLiens
4. Dave Matthews Band - Remember Two Things
5. The Allman Brothers - Eat a Peach [emoji527]

Big fan of Idlewild South by The Allan Brothers

[mclaincausey]

Great list, @goosehd ; I am re-reading Kool-Aid now.

There was such a fundamental disjoint between the Pranksters and just about everything else that had come before, even if Cassady managed to bridge the gap between the Beats and the Hippies. All bets were off, anything was possible, and there were some genuine polymaths in and around the group (I am particularly gobsmacked by the brilliance, breadth, and depth of people like Bear Owlsley–what couldn't he do??), it was not just a bunch of drug-addled idiots (although of course there were also those).

A second of 5 albums to slot next to NOMEANSNO WRONG might be Joe's Garage by Zappa, and a lot of that on the strength of a young Vinnie Colaiuta's incredible drumming and drum sound. I would love a multitrack recording so I could just tune into the rhythm section on that thing.

I will also add Waiting for Columbus by Little Feat.

@Paul9221 I was trying to fine Snowy's sales post so you could see the bag, but I found ANOTHER Gibson Porter bag he sold–check out my response, you may get a kick out of it.

[Alex_24]

Books:

1. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
3. A Feast of Snakes - Harry Crews
4. Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski
5. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

[goosehd]

My tattooist knew Owlsley personally and would tell me stories about the scene during that time.  He was a biker, but during that time everything was interconnected.

[Nik]

Nils Frahm - Screws
Frank Ocean - Endless
The National - High Violet
Kendrick Lamar - Damn
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

Karl Ove Knausgaard - My Struggle 1
Phillip Hoare - Leviathan, or the Whale
David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
Henri Bergson - Time and Free Will
Timothy Morton - Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People

Tehching Hsieh
Agnes Martin
Janez Janša, Janez Janša, and Janez Janša
Jerome Bel
Anselm Kiefer

[jerkules]

@Alex_24:

4. Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski

Good shout! I re-read this year, for the first time since I was a teenager. A real gut-punch. I loved it even more the second time round.

[mclaincausey]

very very cool @goosehd … a wild time in history that won't come around again

[Alex_24]

@Tripleterror:

Big fan of Idlewild South by The Allman Brothers

Another classic [emoji119]

[Alex_24]

@jerkules:

…I re-read this year, for the first time since I was a teenager. A real gut-punch…

I read it for the first time this year, and it is definitely a gut punch…
Then I read “Post Office”, “Factotum”and “Women” right after…

Bukowski was one of the Greatest [emoji119]

[scooter]

Top 5 Albums:

Alice In Chains - Jar of Flies
Incubus - Make Yourself
NIN - The Downward Spiral
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Rush - A Farewell to Kings

Honorables :

Fear Factory - Obsolete
Local H - As Good as Dead
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare
The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land

[Alex_24]

@scooter:

Alice In Chains - Jar of Flies
Incubus - Make Yourself
NIN - The Downward Spiral
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell

All arguably part of my ever-changing Top 5 as well [emoji119][emoji106]

[neph93]

@Alex_24:

Bukowski was one of the Greatest [emoji119]

I thought that when I read them as an 18 year old. When I read them as a grown up I found him to be a miserable hack.  Different strokes.

[ARNC]

Like everyone else I’m finding just 5 albums tough and my answer would probably be different next week but in rough order of discovery I’m going for:

The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & the Lash
Herbie Hancock- Head Hunters
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Efterklang - Piramida
Jakub Józef Orliński - Facce d’amore

[Joberwocky]

@Alex_24 I would have included "make yourself" in an honorable mention
@ARNC I used to BLAST "Yoshima" when I worked alone in the furniture making studio after midnight in University.  I had keys to the woodshop as a TA, would go in there late, night owl as I've always been, throw on some tunes and get cracking 
@scooter Fat of the Land is a solid left field mention, I remember wanting that album so bad when everything on the radio in my area was everclear and 3eb

[neph93]

Top 5 albums:

Pink Floyd - Animals
Lifter Puller - Fiestas and Fiasco’s
Fields of the Nephilim - The Nephilim
The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
Kate Bush - The Dreaming

Honorable mentions:
Led Zep - Physical Graffiti
The White Stripes - Elephant
GZA - Liquid Swords
The Charlatans - Tellin’ Stories
Indigo Girls - Rites of Passage
Most Clutch albums

Books:

Zero History - William Gibson
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Southern Reach Trilogy - Jeff Van der Meer
Vurt - Jeff Noon
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegutt

[Joberwocky]

Great lists @neph93
Man, I almost included Animals over WYWH, 70's Pink Floyd is really something else

[ARNC]

@Joberwocky I was introduced to Yoshimi by my uncle who really knows his music. He probably has more records than bricks in his house 

[neph93]

@Joberwocky:

Great lists @neph93
Man, I almost included Animals over WYWH, 70's Pink Floyd is really something else

Animals is the most underrated album in the history of rock music imho. Not a note wasted. Tight, lean and very, very mean. Add to that the incredible thematic execution and you’ve got a winner.

While I’m thinking about this, it occurs to me that my top 5 tracks would contain very different artists. I will have to consider that some more.