Links

• Technocracy, by Corrosion of Conformity
• Blind, by Corrosion of Conformity
• Sonic Brew, by Black Label Society
• Stronger than Death, by Black Label Society
• Pleasant Screams, by The Queers: I always loved "Generation of Swine" (and the Hunter S. Thompson book)

• "All I Really Need", by Machines of Loving Grace
• Machines of Loving Grace
• Concentration, by Machines of Loving Grace
• Metropolis, by Sister Machine Gun
• Future Unformed, by Sister Machine Gun
• Maschine Zeit, by Funker Vogt
• Machines Are Us, by Icon of Coil
• Diskonnekt, by Decoded Feedback
• Dark Passenger, by Decoded Feedback
• XX, by Rage Against the Machine

• Roxy Music
• For Your Pleasure, by Roxy Music
• The Man Who Sold the World, by David Bowie
• The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, by David Bowie
• Rio, by Duran Duran
• Notorious, by Duran Duran

• A Kind of Magic, by Queen
• The Game, by Queen
• Shades of Deep Purple, by Deep Purple
• The Book of Taliesyn, by Deep Purple

• Killer, by Alice Cooper: Really just listen to "Under My Wheels", "Desperado", and "Killer".
• School's Out
• Billion Dollar Babies
• Muscle of Love: End of the original band
• Welcome to My Nightmare: First of his solo act
• Goes to Hell, by Alice Cooper

Vincent Damon Furnier's journey from glam-pop Bowie-wannabe into the "Alice Cooper" character and Sabbath-style heavy metal is these transitional albums.

• Automatic, by VNV Nation
• 21st Century Boys, by Sigue Sigue Sputnik
• The Looks or the Lifestyle, by Pop Will Eat Itself
• Stranger than Fiction, by Bad Religion
• Tenebrae Vision, by Cyberaktif

And here's some happy reading material about the future we could've had, if Humans hadn't been such deranged warmongers, and instead spent our money & effort usefully:

• Usborne Book of the Future

• Out of the Blue, by Electric Light Orchestra
• Time, by Electric Light Orchestra
• Alone in the Universe, by Jeff Lynne's ELO
• The Grand Illusion, by Styx
• Boston
• Back to the Egg, by Wings

Feeling like some prog, spacey rock, á la Venture Bros.

Apple Music was no help today:

I'm really not "into" Michael Jackson, especially not twice. I assume it took him appearing on GotG Awesome Mix as support. So I just went thru and hit Dislike on every one of the little creep's albums, hopefully this never happens again. I keep suggesting to Apple Music to let us block an artist we don't like so they never reappear, and they've done no such thing. Somewhat ironic: His last few albums were Invincible and Immortal; not so much.

• City to City, by Gerry Rafferty
• Stealer's Wheel: Only two compilations on Apple Music, so Youtube it is.
• Ferguslie Park, by Stealer's Wheel
• Out of Nowhere, by Joe Egan
• Night Owl, by Gerry Rafferty
• Bread
• On the Waters, by Bread

• '90s Rock Essentials playlist: Skip all the Nirvana; as I've often said, the average quality of music in the world doubled the day Kurt solved his headache problem. While I like Santana, Smooth (featuring Rob Thomas) really doesn't fit in this list, nor does some of the electronica. Otherwise very nice.
• Nude & Rude: The Best of Iggy Pop: Iggy's best work was first done in the '70s, but his '90s comeback is when he finally burned away all soft kindness in himself and just rocked the fuck out.
• This is the Day… This is the Hour… This is This…, by Pop Will Eat Itself: The album that got me ready for a brave new world.
• Pretty Hate Machine, by Nine Inch Nails: How I felt about that world.
• Smells Like Children, by Marilyn Manson: Nihilistic response after a couple years living in that shit.