| Skotoseme Diamanda Galas & John Paul Jones - The Sporting Life - 1994 - Mute |
| Scarily excellent LP from the terrifyingly enchanting Diamanda Galas. Ex-Led Zeppliner fills in the low end for a range of (fill in the blank) music. |
| Here Come the Philistines T-Bone Burnett - Tooth of Crime - 2008 - Nonesuch |
| Grandmixer Cuts It Up D.ST & Infinity - Rap It! - 198? - Celluloid |
| Odd yet badass LP from NYC's sometimes shady Celluloid label. Kind of a compilation and also a label sampler of sorts, this early 80s music dishes the future electro. Head nodding drums, synths and a touch of outer space combines with rapping in french, a song about dancing the Smurf and Futura 2000 laying down the straight goods about graffiti. I am really glad this exists.
ps. The Clash somehow supply an instrumental for rhyming over as well. |
| World War III Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five - S/T - 1984 - Sugarhill |
| Let's not forget that Flash was not the only Grandmaster to chill on the ave. with the Furious Five. |
| Wake Up Run-DMC - Run-DMC - 1984 - Profile |
| Wordy Rappinghood Tom Tom Club - S/T - 1981 - Sire |
| If A Girl Answers (Don't Hang Up) Vanity 6 - S/T - 1982 - Warner |
| Butter Richard "Dimples" Fields - Give Everybody Some - 1982 - Boardwalk |
| Nothing says smooth like Dimples. True entertainment. Working the 80s funk/soul to a maximum. |
| Cubano Chant Cal Tjader - [from a] Best of - 1965 - Fantasy |
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