I’m unable to write anything and I love lists, so here’s a list of some records that have been, and continue to be, essential to my existence (in no real order, like my existence): 

Rain Dogs – Tom Waits

Disco Volante – Mr. Bungle

The Definitive Otis Redding

Streetcleaner - Godflesh

Chocolate Synthesizer – Boredoms

Super Ae – Boredoms

The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society – The Kinks

Face to Face (especially for the bonus tracks) – The Kinks

It’s Understood – Estradasphere

Live at Leeds (1995 rerelease) – The Who

Quadrophenia – The Who

Low – David Bowie

Hunky Dory – David Bowie

Stag – Melvins

Bullhead – Melvins

Eggnog – Melvins

Torture Garden – Naked City

Reign in Blood – Slayer

Liquid Swords – GZA

Hairway to Steven – Butthole Surfers

Red – King Crimson

Date With Elvis – The Cramps

Psychedelic Jungle/Gravest Hits – The Cramps

All Rise – Naked Raygun

The Power of Pussy – Bongwater

Second Grand Constitution and Bylaws – Secret Chiefs 3

Book M – Secret Chiefs 3

Buhloone Mindstate – De La Soul

De La Soul is Dead – De La Soul

Reggatta de Blanc – The Police

Walk Among Us – Misfits

London Calling – The Clash

Let it Be – The Replacements

Tim – The Replacements

Einstein on the Beach – Philip Glass

Of Natural History – Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

Tres Hombres – ZZ Top

On the Corner – Miles Davis

A Love Supreme – John Coltrane

Mingus Ah Um – Charles Mingus

Absolutely Free – Mothers of Invention

Fear of a Black Planet – Public Enemy

Liveage – Descendents

I, Swinger – Combustible Edison

Two Hunters – Wolves in the Throne Room

Complete Records – The Shaggs

Twisted and Bent – Bad Boy Butch Batson

The Flat Earth – Thomas Dolby

Beelezebubba – Dead Milkmen

Plastic Surgery Disasters – Dead Kennedys

Soundtracks for the Blind – Swans

Plague Mass – Diamanda Galas

If I Should Fall From Grace With God – The Pogues

Rouge on Pockmarked Cheeks – Brazzaville

Bar Kokhba – John Zorn

Scratch or Stitch – Melt-Banana

Goodbye Cruel World – Brutal Truth

Master of Puppets – Metallica

Shut Up Little Man! – Ray & Peter

Old Lead – Boiled in Lead

Thanks for your time.