"If you don't have ____, your music collection is not complete."

Danny Gatton 88 Elmira Street.

If possible, watch his performance on Austin City Limits.

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express

Maybe not my favorites but interesting because of their future influence.

Steroid Maximus (Foetus) - Quilombo and Ectopia
Should be much more well known. Instantly recognizable to any Venture Brothers fan.

Dizzy Gillespie~~Dizzy For President

Retrospective - Buffalo Springfield
Abraxas - Santana (if only for the cover art)
Gunfighter Ballads - Marty Robbins
Walk, Don’t Run - The Ventures
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Hendrix
Heart Like a Wheel - Linda Ronstadt
Heart - Heart
Boston - Boston

AFX (Aphex Twin) - Analogue Bubblebath 3
Johnny Cash’s American Recordings (all of them)
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
retrotechno / detroitdefinitive
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Prince and the Revolution - Around the world in a day