U.K. – U.K. (1978)
The monster chasing you is wearing tap shoes and eyeliner, for better or worse.
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The Wipers – Youth Of America (1981)
A compound eye trying to read different pages of a paranoid bicycle messenger’s journal.
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Mogwai – Come On Die Young (1999)
You go to a Y2K party with delicious snacks, but the host ends up just projecting Eraserheadand the Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeiiconcert overtop of one another on the side of his garage.
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Silkworm – Developer (1997)
The person you were married to sends you yesterday’s newspaper every day.
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Guided By Voices – Alien Lanes (1995)
In a single shift while driving Uber, you pick the same guy up 43 times and he tells you a different story about getting blackout drunk during the World Series every time.
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YOB – The Unreal Never Lived (2005)
Boiling yourself so slowly that you can’t even tell when your heart stops.
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Death – Symbolic (1995)
You feel like the museum doesn’t respect your art so you sharpie a beautifully well done eye with a gangrenous spike through it on their front door after they close for the night.
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Neil Young – Zuma (1976)
You’ve been running a low-grade fever for at least a decade and have hundreds of poems about a Cigar Store Indian in your childhood hometown.
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Scott Walker – Scott 4 (1969)
A young woman on a train watching a movie about a young woman on a train.
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Scott Walker – The Drift (2006)
A young train on a woman watching a movie about a young train on a woman.
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L.A. Guns – Waking the Dead (2003)
Your leather jacket from high school still fits, but the unopened can of Red Dog in the inner pocket explodes when your bar-fight skills have aged considerably less well.
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Dokken – Lightning Strikes Again (2008)
The background music in a Harley Davidson gift shop in a suburb of Margaritaville.
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ISIS – Panopticon (2004)
You wander into an abandoned prison and find a non-sequential story about The All Seeing scratched into the interior walls.
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Mitski – Be the Cowboy (2018)
The ice cream shop is out of cones so you take one scoop in each hand, hold them high above your head, and watch them lovingly melt into your mouth.
