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Is this guy an ecletic uber-hipster or just a demented obscurantist?

1. Funk-n-Trip III -- Simply Jeff and Omar Santana
2. Jazzy Grooves Vol. 6 -- Beat Junkies
3. Free Hand -- Gentle Giant
4. Billion Dollar Babies -- Alice Cooper
5. Time Out -- Dave Brubeck
6. Winter Songs -- Art Bears
7. Concerts -- Henry Cow
8. Pulse Demon -- Merzbow
9. 1/2 Gentlemen/Not Beasts -- Half Japanese
10. The Residents Present The 3rd Reich 'n' Roll -- The Residents
11. Black Is The Colour -- Patty Waters
12. Plague Mass -- Diamanda Galas
13. Renaissance I & II -- Sasha & John Digweed
14. The B-52's -- The B-52's
15. Live In New York -- James Chance & The Contortions
16. We're Only In It For The Money -- The Mothers Of Invention
17. King Of The Jungle -- Impulse compilation
18. Disco Death Race 2000 -- Keoki
19. Zen Arcade -- Husker Du
20. Islands -- King Crimson
21. Atlantis -- Sun Ra
22. Angels & Demons At Play / Nubians Of Plutonia -- Sun Ra
23. Live 93 -- The Orb
24. Azure D'or -- Renaissance
25. Logical Progression -- LTJ Bukem, et. al.
26. Brain Salad Surgery -- Emerson Lake & Palmer
27. Greasy Truckers Live At Dingwall's Dance Hall
28. Forbidden Planet -- Jem 77
29. Da EP -- Freakazoid
30. Motor Booty Affair -- Parliament
31. Magnetic Flip -- Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic
32. Trout Mask Replica -- Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
33. Lick My Decals Off Baby -- Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
34. Hated In The Nation -- GG Allin
35. Scratch & Stitch -- Melt Banana
36. U2 (the ep) -- Negativland
37. Bop Girl -- Pat Wilson
38. Concord Sonata -- Charles Ives
39. Faust -- Faust
40. Faust IV -- Faust
41. Atrocities -- Ron D Core & Demigod
42. Industrial Fucking Strength -- Industrial Strength Compilation
43. Trance Injection -- Rising High Collective
44. Delusions Of Grandeur -- Hardkiss
45. History Of Hardcore -- Moonshine Music
46. Speed Limit 140 BPM Plus Vol. 1-8 -- Moonshine Music / Planet Earth
47. National Health -- Complete
48. Soft Machine Vol. 1 & 2 -- Soft Machine
49. Third -- Soft Machine
50. Close To The Edge -- Yes
51. Damaged -- Black Flag
52. Album -- Flipper
53. Hit To Death In The Future Head -- Flaming Lips
54. Variations On A Theme Of Absence (bootleg) -- Pink Floyd
55. a tape of a Pink Floyd show in San Diego, 1971 that I have
56. Magma -- Magma
57. 2001 Centigrade -- Magma
58. Mekanik Destructiw Kommandoh (1973 version) -- Magma
59. Halber Mensch -- Einsturzende Neubauten
60. Nail -- Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel
61. Male -- Foetus In Excelsis Corruptus
62. The Tubes -- The Tubes
63. Initiation -- Todd Rundgren
64. Todd Rundgren's Utopia
65. Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables -- Dead Kennedys
66. Half Mute -- Tuxedomoon
67. Chewing Hides The Sound -- Snakefinger
68. Songs For Swinging Larvae -- Renaldo & The Loaf
69. The Beatles (white album)
70. Tubular Bells -- Mike Oldfield
71. Live At Fillmore East -- Allman Brothers
72. You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol 1-6 Frank Zappa
73. Flood -- They Might Be Giants
74. Escape From Noise -- Negativland
75. A Trip To Moonville -- DJ Liquid
76. Into Outer Space With Lucia Pamela
77. 74-76 -- Destroy All Monsters
78. Minor Threat -- Minor Threat
79. A Wizard, A True Star -- Todd Rundgren
80. Two Virgins -- John & Yoko
81. Fly -- Yoko Ono
82. House Anthems -- Chad (private release)
83. Rastafari Dub -- Ras Michael & The Sons Of Negus
84. 21st Century Dub -- Pecker
85. 1st Symphony -- Glenn Branca
86. Blue Man Group (seen live last week)
87. United States -- Laurie Anderson
88. Masque Of The Red Death -- Diamanda Galas
89. The Age Of Reasoning -- Bronksi Beat
90. Love Chronicles -- Al Stewart
91. Before Singing Lessons -- Pete Brown
92. J-Sonik (private release)
93. In Your Piece -- Rodney Waschka
94. Scores! -- Erik Lindgren
95. Dancing On Aa -- Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic
96. Subterranea -- Ken Field
97. Kickin' Mental Detergent Vol. 2 -- Kickin' compilation
98. Simply Jeff Live At Countdown
99. Fax Compilation
100. Blue Room (single) -- The Orb

Begin your attack run....nnnnnnOWWWW!

― Lord Custos Alpha (Lord Custos Alpha), Friday, 20 September 2002 21:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know, I'd rather be at his listening party than a lot of magazine editors'. Besides, as "obscurantist" lists go, a lot of that stuff *is* canonical.

― dleone (dleone), Friday, 20 September 2002 21:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Fucking hell. Who does this list come from?

― Siegbran Hetteson (eofor), Friday, 20 September 2002 21:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I have doubts as to trust someone who sandwiches Yes between The Soft Machine and Black Flag. Though Dave Bruback between Alice Cooper and The Art Bears may restore my faith...go RIO...If you buy the drinks I'd come to the party

― brg30 (brg30), Friday, 20 September 2002 21:45 (twenty-three years ago)

gentle giant number 3?????

― geeg, Friday, 20 September 2002 21:52 (twenty-three years ago)

This list is kind of silly. Who is that at no.1? I have both Patty Waters LPs, btw. Autographed!!

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 20 September 2002 22:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm always kinda puzzled when people only put one Merzbow (high) in their lists, (without mentioning some kind of "2 album max per artist" rule). I mean, if you like one of them so much, you're pretty likely to find ten, twenty or thirty other Merzbow/related albums that will also make your top 100. In which case the list will become slightly boring.

― Siegbran Hetteson (eofor), Friday, 20 September 2002 22:08 (twenty-three years ago)

i have never heard albums #1-68 and 70-100, but i'm interested in quite a few...

― willem (willem), Friday, 20 September 2002 22:16 (twenty-three years ago)

The presence of Yes, ELP and Mike Oldfield suggests this man is not a hipster or a demented obscuranist. Perhaps he just made a list of his favourite albums...which is cool by me. Who wrote it? Is it your own, Custos?

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 20 September 2002 22:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Quite a lot of do-you-see records.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 20 September 2002 22:29 (twenty-three years ago)

The presence of Yes, ELP and Mike Oldfield suggests this man is not a hipster or a demented obscuranist.

Prog Rock revival = v. v. hipstery indeed. So hipstery, in fact, that hipsters tired of it before any non hipsters like me even realised it existed!

― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 20 September 2002 22:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Who is this person? And what are they doing with half my record collection?

― Marinaorgan (Marina Organ), Friday, 20 September 2002 22:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmmm...perhaps. This would seem to be just a genuine list of the albums this person enjoys the most, though. Wouldn't have much in common with my own list, but I like its quirks,and the lack of a coherent thread running through the choices. Custos - who be the creator, I asks ye? Is it yourself?

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 20 September 2002 22:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Three Todd Rundgren albums. Wow.

The presense of Keoki makes me dislike this list intensely.

― My name is Kenny, Friday, 20 September 2002 23:04 (twenty-three years ago)

This seems to be quite obviously the list of a healthy fringe music collector (fringe incorporating prog, electronic, avant-garde, noise, et al). I'm actually surprised by what I don't see: Amon Duul II, This Heat, Wakhevitch, Faust, Lard Free. Wouldn't anyone's list of *fave* records look as "strange"?

― dleone (dleone), Friday, 20 September 2002 23:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm actually surprised by what I don't see: ... Faust ...

Abracadabra!

― gazuga, Friday, 20 September 2002 23:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Plague Mass higher than Masque of the Red Death? 72 whole places higher? What utter nonsense.

― J0hn "It's Masque, Masque, and only Masque" Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Saturday, 21 September 2002 00:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Abracadabra!

Oh yeah! That was a good trick.

― dleone (dleone), Saturday, 21 September 2002 00:47 (twenty-three years ago)

He likes Moonshine records, so this guy obviously is not a true hipster.

― mt, Saturday, 21 September 2002 01:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Mike would it be better if they were the Moving Shadow/Suburban Base versions of the same albums? Ya can't really blame a man for living in the wrong country.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 21 September 2002 02:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I like it, because it's his own list...one of the patty waters alb is being reissued (as it says in the new wire) so I'll finally get to hear her.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 21 September 2002 09:51 (twenty-three years ago)

i like this list, although i don't know most of it (i have the flaming lips one, and possibly the fax compilation, he doesn't say which fax comp). at first i thought this list might have been siegbrans

― gareth (gareth), Saturday, 21 September 2002 10:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Wow. I thought liking both Yes and Minor Threat was against the law or something. Anyways, I vote for "hipster" because an obscurantist would probably vote for Plastic Surgery Disasters or Frankenchrist instead of the Dead Kennedys album everybody in the known universe always picks without fail.

― Nate Patrin, Saturday, 21 September 2002 15:44 (twenty-three years ago)

at first i thought this list might have been siegbrans
This guy must be at least fifteen years older than me, and possess a record collection ten times bigger than mine. Fuck, a list with Renaldo & The Loaf AND DJ Liquid? Laurie Anderson AND Snakefinger? Alice Cooper AND a Fax comp? There's just nothing wrong with this list - for each artist he picks exactly the right album. But, o mystery guest, is this yours, Custos?

― Siegbran Hetteson (eofor), Saturday, 21 September 2002 16:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Who wrote it? Is it your own, Custos?
Nope. Out of this list:
only 2 of these do I currently own
only 6 have I ever owned
70 of them, I've never heard
20 of them, I've never heard *of*
Thats why I posted it. It's so alien and obscure (to me, at least), I didn't know how to proceed.

― Lord Custos Alpha (Lord Custos Alpha), Saturday, 21 September 2002 18:53 (twenty-three years ago)

OK, let's see if I can guess some personalia:

The person this list comes from is a white American male, born in 1958. Spent at least a part of his life in New York, probably as a journalist. Favours dark but not black non-button down shirts. Jeans occasionally.

― Siegbran Hetteson (eofor), Saturday, 21 September 2002 20:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Dear god, you mean this is Robert Christgau's list?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 September 2002 20:21 (twenty-three years ago)

This is a strangely un-sexy list, even though a lot of the records are "amazing."

― Clarke B., Saturday, 21 September 2002 20:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I like yes and Minor Threat (tho' I don't like Husker Du, or the 0rb, ptui) I like thee entry that is a pink fl0yd concert boot that he's got. I probably 0wn abt 1/4 of these rekords, FWIW. I wish some magazine writ0rz wd have such k-rad tastes!

― Norm4n Ph4y, Saturday, 21 September 2002 20:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, and he has a dog he calls "Nico".

― Siegbran Hetteson (eofor), Saturday, 21 September 2002 20:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I kinda imagined him as:
* inscrutable indie posuer of unknowable ethnicity
* works during the day as a mail-room clerk in a brokerage firm, but spends most of his day in the back store-room smoking something suspicious.
* works at night as dj (and Exstasy mule) for a Goth/EBM club.
* lives in a studio apartment near Singapore, where he writes audio codecs for an asian Linux distro in his spare time.
* His apartment has only five things in it:
    A bean bag chair
    A stolen server
    a large, humorously obscene bong (not used in months)
    A jury-rigged, barely functional record player
    And 60 orange crates full of obscure records.

― Lord Custos Alpha (Lord Custos Alpha), Saturday, 21 September 2002 21:18 (twenty-three years ago)

What's wrong w/that, like? Sounds perfektly r34s0n4bl3 to me!@#

― N0RM4N PH4Y, Saturday, 21 September 2002 21:22 (twenty-three years ago)

and His CAT is named Nico.

― Lord Custos Alpha (Lord Custos Alpha), Saturday, 21 September 2002 21:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, and he has a dog he calls "Nico".

this made me laugh out loud (i'm alone in my room, with "Lifted" on the headphones, fwiw)

― willem (willem), Saturday, 21 September 2002 21:47 (twenty-three years ago)

simply jeff and omar santana!! simply jeff and omar santana made this individual's favorite album of all time!!!

― woj, Saturday, 21 September 2002 22:40 (twenty-three years ago)

If this had more jewish music I would think it was John Zorn's list, but I definately think it's someone from NYC.

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 23 September 2002 17:33 (twenty-three years ago)

too much straight-up dance for the proper new york city hipster. the bay area is my bet.

― w, Monday, 23 September 2002 21:07 (twenty-three years ago)

looks like someone picked whatever was in front of them/on the shelf/near the desk at the time and typed them in "in order." a GREAT way to make such a list, sez I! (oh, an Rob't Xgau was born in '42)

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 00:12 (twenty-three years ago)

seven months pass...

lets let the new people attack this one...

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 12 May 2003 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Well there's way too much Prog Rock for a start but three hearty cheers for:

Billion Dollar Babies/ The Third Reich 'n' Roll/ We're Only In It For The Money/ Atlantis/ Motor Booty Affair/ Trout Mask Replica/ Lick My Decals Off Baby/ Faust/ Faust IV/ Soft Machine Vol. 1 & 2/ A Wizard, A True Star

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 12 May 2003 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

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