Hedvig Mollestad Trio – Enfant Terrible (2014)
Smoking a random pinecone in the middle of the woods and finding out while eating breakfast the next morning that you can bend spoons with your mind, even when you’re not trying to.
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King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)
A hippie having a nightmare after reading a sentence that starts with, “Pendragon is more officially an RPG of Arthurian Britain and not as feudal as I’d like, BUT . . .” in a letter to the editor near the back of an old Downbeat magazine.
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The Lee Harvey Oswald Band – A Taste Of Prison (1994)
A motor oil stain on your shirt that says “I’M WITH STUPID” with an arrow pointing to the tattoo of Dracula smoking a blunt that covers up your track marks.
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Drunken Boat – See Ruby Falls (1992)
The communication between your brain and your stomach as you over-think all the things that could happen before your appearance on a game show where you could win a date with the ghost of Catfish Hunter.
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UFO – Phenomenon (1974)
You get kicked out of the laser light show for fist-fighting with a kid you accuse of stealing one of the beers you snuck in.
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Agassiz – Pulse1A (2018)
A Bricklin SV-1 trying to pick up speed on a twenty-mile patch of tundra in an attempt to time travel.
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Monroe Mustang – Plain Sweeping Themes For the Unprepared (1998)
You and watch both die and get revived at the same time right after you explain to everyone at your class reunion that you haven’t been up to much in the past twenty years.
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Madonna – Madonna (1983)
You get so overheated and disoriented while dancing that you try to take your temperature with a pregnancy test.
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Dump – That Skinny Motherfucker With the High Voice (2001)
Field recordings from the panic room in Paisley Park.
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Philip Lynott – Philip Lynott Album (1982)
You’re disappointed to find out that the guy who works out at the gym in a leather jacket is listening to Toto in his headphones.
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Crowsdell – Within the Curve of an Arm (1997)
Starting fires until you love yourself.
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Low-Pass – Trimurti (2012)
A watercolor painting of a party being launched into the sun.