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Rabbit Hole

Deep cuts and essential listening

ABC

The Lexicon of Love

1982

Al Bowlly (with Ray Noble and His Orchestra)

Single Release

1934

Midnight, the Stars and You

Alice Cooper

Billion Dollar Babies

1973

Amon Düül II

Tanz der Lemminge

1971

Amon Düül II

Made in Germany

1975

Animal Collective

Strawberry Jam

2007

Art Blakey

A Night at Birdland, Vol. 1

1954

Art Tatum

Various Recordings

Stardust

The Avalanches

Since I Left You

2000

The Beach Boys

Pet Sounds

1966

The Beach Boys

Wild Honey

1967

The Beach Boys

20/20

1969

The Beach Boys

Sunflower

1970

The Beach Boys

Smile

1967/2011

The Beatles

Magical Mystery Tour

1967

The Beatles

Anthology II

1996

Bee Gees

Bee Gees' 1st

1967

Benny Goodman

The Complete RCA Victor Recordings

1997

Bill Evans

Various Recordings

Billie Holiday

Various Recordings

Bix Beiderbecke

Various Recordings

Black Sabbath

Heaven & Hell

1980

Blondie

1976

Blur

Parklife

1994

Bob Dylan

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

1963

Bob Dylan

Blonde on Blonde

1966

Visions of Johanna

Bob Dylan

Blonde on Blonde

1966

Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again

Bob Dylan

Blonde on Blonde

1966

Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands

Bob Dylan

The Complete Basement Tapes

2014

Bob Dylan

The Cutting Edge

2015

Bob Dylan

Live 1966

1998

Bob Dylan

Various Recordings

Tombstone Blues

Boards of Canada

Old Tunes Vol. 1 (Early Sketches)

Brian Eno

Here Come the Warm Jets

1974

Cindy Tells Me

Brian Eno

Before and After Science

1977

King's Lead Hat

Buffalo Springfield

Buffalo Springfield Again

1967

C.A. Quintet

Trip Thru Hell

1969

Cactus

1970

Camel

The Snow Goose

1975

Candy Claws

Ceres & Calypso in the Deep Time

2013

Captain Beefheart

Trout Mask Replica

1969

Caravan

Various Recordings

Cat Stevens

Mona Bone Jakon

1970

Charles Mingus

Pithecanthropus Erectus

1956

Charles Mingus

Mingus Ah Um

1959

Charles Mingus

Blues & Roots

1960

Charles Mingus

The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

1963

Charles Mingus

Mingus at Bohemia

1956

Charlie Parker

1945

Charlie Parker

1945

Charlie Parker

Charlie Parker with Strings

1950

My Melancholy Baby

Charlie Parker

Bird and Diz

1952

Bloomdido

Charlie Parker

1945 Town Hall Concert

2005

Charly García

Clics Modernos

1983

Chopin

14 Waltzes

The Clash

Sandinista!

1980

Cockney Rebel

Various Recordings

Coleman Hawkins

Various Recordings

Woody 'n You

Colosseum

Valentyne Suite

1969

Country Joe & the Fish

I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die

1967

Cream

Fresh Cream

1966

Crowded House

Temple of Low Men

1988

The Cure

Various Recordings

Curtis Mayfield

Roots

1971

David Bowie

Low

1977

Warszawa

David Bowie

The Berlin Trilogy

1977-1979

Derek and the Dominos

Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

1970

Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad

Dizzy Gillespie

1962

Dizzy Gillespie

1962

Dizzy Gillespie

1962

In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town

Donald Fagen

The Nightfly

1982

Donovan

Various Recordings

The Doors

1967

The Doors

1967

Dr. John

1973

Duran Duran

1981

Duke Ellington

Various Recordings

Echo & the Bunnymen

Ocean Rain

1984

Eiichi Ohtaki

A Long Vacation

1981

Electric Light Orchestra

Face the Music

1975

Eloy

Power and the Passion

1975

Elvis Costello

Various Recordings

Eric Clapton

From the Cradle

1994

ESG

Come Away with ESG

1983

ESG

Step Off (EP)

2002

Fairport Convention

Unhalfbricking

1969

Fire Engines

Codex Teenage Premonition

The Flaming Lips

The Soft Bulletin

1999

The Flaming Lips

Transmissions from the Satellite Heart

1993

The Flaming Lips

Telepathic Surgery

1989

The Flaming Lips

Feels

2006

Fleetwood Mac

Kiln House

1970

Fleetwood Mac

Mystery to Me

1973

Fleetwood Mac

Rumours

1977

You Make Loving Fun

Fleetwood Mac

Tusk

1979

Frank Zappa

Absolutely Free

1967

Frank Zappa

Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar

1981

Frank Zappa

Guitar

1988

Free

Fire and Water

1970

Fruupp

Future Legends

1973

Funkadelic

Cosmic Slop

1973

Gal Costa & Caetano Veloso

Domingo

1967

Genesis

Selling England by the Pound

1973

Genesis

Foxtrot

1972

Supper's Ready

George Michael

Various Recordings

Gong

Flying Teapot

1973

Gong

You

1974

I've Bin Stone Before

Gotan Project

La Revancha del Tango

2001

Gottschling

Dream & Desire

1991

Grand Funk Railroad

On Time

1969

Grateful Dead

American Beauty

1970

Grateful Dead

Ladies & Gentlemen... The Grateful Dead

2000

Harmonia

Deluxe

1975

Harmonia & Brian Eno

Tracks and Traces

1997

Ian Dury & The Blockheads

Single Release

1978

Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick

The Incredible String Band

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

1968

J.J. Cale

Troubadour

1976

Jazz at the Philharmonic

Live Performance

1946

Drum Boogie

Jerry Lee Lewis

Live at the Star-Club, Hamburg

1964

John Cale

Vintage Violence

1970

John Cale

Paris 1919

1973

John Cale

Fear

1974

John Mayall

A Hard Road

1967

John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers

Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton

1966

Joni Mitchell

For the Roses

1972

Keith Jarrett

The Köln Concert

1975

King Crimson

Discipline

1981

King Crimson

Beat

1982

King Crimson

Three of a Perfect Pair

1984

King Crimson

Absent Lovers

1998

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Flying Microtonal Banana

2017

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Paper Mâché Dream Balloon

2015

The Kinks

Face to Face

1966

The Kinks

Kinda Kinks

1965

The Kinks

The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society

1968

Kraftwerk

Radio-Activity

1975

Kraftwerk

Autobahn

1974

Laura Nyro

New York Tendaberry

1969

Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin I

1969

I Can't Quit You Baby

Led Zeppelin

1973

Led Zeppelin

1973

Led Zeppelin

1997

Led Zeppelin

How the West Was Won

2003

Louis Jordan

Single Release

1944

Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby

Louis Armstrong

Various Recordings

I Cover the Waterfront

Louis Armstrong

Various Recordings

Dinah

Louis Armstrong

Various Recordings

Tiger Rag

Love

Da Capo

1966

Madonna

True Blue

1986

Mahavishnu Orchestra

The Lost Trident Sessions

1999

Manuel Göttschling

Dream & Desire

1991

Massive Attack

Blue Lines

1991

Mike Oldfield

Hergest Ridge

1974

Mike Oldfield

Ommadawn

1975

Miles Davis

The Birth of the Cool

1957

Why Do I Love You?

Miles Davis

Live at the Hi-Hat

Mott the Hoople

The Hoople

1974

Mountain

Nantucket Sleighride

1971

My Morning Jacket

At Dawn

2001

My Morning Jacket

It Still Moves

2003

Nazz

1968

Nazz

Nazz Nazz

1969

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

The Good Son

1990

Nick Lowe

Jesus of Cool

1978

Nick Lowe

Labour of Lust

1979

Nick Lowe

Nick the Knife

1982

Oneohtrix Point Never

Magic Oneohtrix Point Never

2020

Original Dixieland Jass Band

Single Release

1917

Dixie Jass Band One-Step

Paul McCartney & Wings

London Town

1978

Paul Simon

There Goes Rhymin' Simon

1973

Paul Simon

Still Crazy After All These Years

1975

Pavement

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

1994

Pere Ubu

Dub Housing

1978

Peter Gabriel

1980

Peter Gabriel

1980

Peter Gabriel

1986

Peter Hammill

Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night

1973

Peterson/Grapelli Quartet

1973

Pink Floyd

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

1967

Bike

Pink Floyd

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

1967

Interstellar Overdrive

Pink Floyd

The Dark Side of the Moon

1973

The Police

Zenyatta Mondatta

1980

The Police

Ghost in the Machine

1981

Premiata Forneria Marconi

Storia di un Minuto

1972

Queen

A Night at the Opera

1975

Bohemian Rhapsody

Radiohead

The King of Limbs

2011

Ramones

1976

Renaissance

Seven Secrets

The Replacements

Hootenanny

1983

The Residents

Various Recordings

Robert Johnson

Various Recordings

The Rolling Stones

Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!

1970

Rory Gallagher

Various Recordings

Roxy Music

For Your Pleasure

1973

The Bogus Man

Rush

Fly by Night

1975

Sam Cooke

Encore

1958

Sam Cooke

Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963

1985

Santana

Abraxas

1970

Scritti Politti

Cupid & Psyche 85

1985

Seatrain

1970

The Slickers

Stick Around for Joy

Slint

Spiderland

1991

Sparks

Various Recordings

The Specials

1979

Spiritualized

Pure Phase

1995

Split Enz

True Colours

1980

Stan Getz & João Gilberto

Getz/Gilberto

1964

The Girl from Ipanema

Stan Getz & João Gilberto

1964

Steely Dan

1972

Steely Dan

1974

Steppenwolf

At Your Birthday Party

1969

Stereolab

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

1996

Sting

The Soul Cages

1991

The Stone Roses

1989

Swans

Young God (EP)

1984

T. Rex

A Beard of Stars

1970

Talk Talk

The Colour of Spring

1986

Talk Talk

Spirit of Eden

1988

Talking Heads

More Songs About Buildings and Food

1978

Talking Heads

1979

Talking Heads

1979

Talking Heads

1980

Television

Adventure

1978

Thelonious Monk

Genius of Modern Music

1951/1952

Thelonious Monk

Various Recordings

Blue Monk

The The

Soul Mining

1983

Tim Buckley

Goodbye and Hello

1967

Tim Buckley

Starsailor

1970

Todd Rundgren

Something/Anything?

1972

Todd Rundgren

A Wizard, a True Star

1973

Todd Rundgren

Todd

1974

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Damn the Torpedoes

1979

Van Morrison

Saint Dominic's Preview

1972

Van Morrison

Veedon Fleece

1974

War

The World Is a Ghetto

1972

War

Platinum Jazz

1976

Ween

The Pod

1991

The Who

1973

The Who

1975

Wilco

2011

Wilco

Alpha Mike Foxtrot: Rare Tracks 1994–2014

2014

Wilco

Live at Solid Sound 2024

XTC

Go 2

1978

XTC

Drums and Wires

1979

Helicopter

XTC

Drums and Wires

1979

Making Plans for Nigel

XTC

Drums and Wires

1979

When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty

XTC

English Settlement

1982

Senses Working Overtime

XTC

Skylarking

1986

Yes

Close to the Edge

1972

Yes

Relayer

1974