Jimi Hendrix -- More Experience
The first album I ever bought (at Rasputin Records on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley):
Built to Spill -- There's Nothing Wrong With Love
Aimee Mann -- I'm with Stupid
The Breeders -- Last Splash/Pod
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 -- Lovelyville/Hope It Lands/Strangers from the Universe
Sam Cooke -- All of it, but especially Night Beat and Live at the Harlem Square
De La Soul -- Buhloone Mindstate (add the song Stakes Is High and it would probably be the best hip-hop album ever)
The Feelies -- Crazy Rhythms
Parliament -- Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome
Little Peggy March -- Ultimate Compilation
Blondie -- Parallel Lines
The Go-Gos -- Beauty and the Beat
Can -- Ege Bamyasi
Talking Heads -- Almost everything. Particularly Remain in Light/More Songs About Buildings and Food/The Name of This Band Is....
Violent Femmes -- Violent Femmes
Pixies -- Surfer Rosa/Bossanova
Big Star -- 1 Record/Radio City
Bill Withers -- Just as I Am/Still Bill
Harry Nilsson -- Pandemonium Shadow Show/Nilsson Schmilsson
Miles Davis -- Bitches Brew