H.C. McEntire – Lionheart (2018)
A strange woman with dust on her boots and blood on her shirt touches your arm and you’re grateful to finally either see god or that there is no god.
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Swervedriver – Raise (1991)
Having a dream about the sun rising while also having a dream about the sun setting.
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Bad Wizard – #1 Tonite! (2004)
You and someone on a MOPAR hat simultaneously break into a USA chant while banging behind a different liquor store than the one you met at 45 minutes ago.
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Terry Riley/Don Cherry – Köln, February 23, 1975 (1975)
A used wooden match rebuilding itself from its own vibrations.
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Mitski – Be the Cowboy (2018)
You hold all the stars in the sky in your arms and declare the place you plant your feet is heaven.
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Richard and Linda Thompson – I Want To See the Bright Lights Tonight (1974)
A Sussex transient in the afterlife tells you about his final meal in great detail.
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Celtic Frost – To Mega Therion (1985)
Nobody comes to your birthday party when you turn fifteen because the invitations were just a date and a drawing you made of a hellhound impaling a nun on his comically oversized boner.
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Aviator – Head In the Clouds, Hands In the Dirt (2014)
You have an anxiety attack when the strap that holds your glasses to your head catches on the headrest of your Prius and breaks.
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Lifter Puller – Half Dead and Dynamite (1997)
A cautionary tale about something you can’t remember because you snorted a crushed-up prenatal vitamin you found in a discarded bra outside a party.
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UFO – Strangers In the Night (1979)
German Hendrix going wild while security escorts busty girls in baseball tees backstage.
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Hard Stuff – Bolex Dementia (1973)
You get hired by NASA on sheer moxie and then almost immediately get fired for hotboxing an aeroblimp.
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The Books – The Lemon of Pink (2003)
You’ve entered a dimension where sound is tangible and piled everywhere like a landfill, and to speak or hear your heart you must dig through it all and find what you need.
