500 Albums Approved by a Pretentious Hipster

[GruesomeTwosome]

Red House Painters, fuck yeah.

[Pretentious Hipster]

Gravediggaz - 6 Feet Deep (1994)
East Coast Horrorcore

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Portishead - Dummy (1994)
Trip Hop

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UGK (Underground Kingz) - Super Tight... (1994)
Southern Hip Hop/Dirty South

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Gorgoroth - Pentagram (1994)
Black Metal

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RRI Gamelan - Klênêngan Session of Solonese Gamelan I (1994)
Gamelan Jawa

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[Pretentious Hipster]

GCommon Sense - Resurrection (1994)
Conscious Hip Hop

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Bodychoke - Mindshaft (1994)
Noisy Post-Punk

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Leo Anibaldi - Void (1995)
IDM, Experimental Techno

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Krishna Bhatt & Zakir Hussain - Kirwani: Essence of a Raag (1995)
Hindustani Classical Music

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Brainbombs - Obey (1995)
Noise/Garage Rock

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[Pretentious Hipster]

Iannis Xenakis - Iannis Xenakis 2: La légende d'Eer (1995)
Electroacoustic, Stochastic/Tape Music

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Incapacitants - As Loud As Possible (1995)
Harsh Noise

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M.S.B.R. - Collapseland (1995)
Harsh Noise

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Swans - The Great Annihilator (1995)
Post-Punk

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PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love (1995)
Alternative Rock, Singer/Songwriter

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[Pretentious Hipster]

Scott Walker - Tilt (1995)
Singer/Songwriter, Experimental, Dark Ambient

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Arckanum - Fran Marder (1995)
Black Metal

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DJ Screw - 3 'n the Mornin': Part Two [Blue] (1995)
Chopped and Screwed

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Reinbert de Leeuw - Gnossiennes; Gymnopédies; Ogives; Trois sarabandes; Petite ouverture à danser (1995)
Impressionism

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Autechre - Tri repetae (1995)
Music to Build SimCities to

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[Pretentious Hipster]

enius/GZA - Liquid Swords (1995)
East Coast Hip Hop

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Bodychoke - Five Prostitutes (1996)
Noise/Post-Punk

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Current 93 - All the Pretty Little Horses (1996)
Medieval Bard Music

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Mainliner - Mellow Out (1996))
Noisy Psychedelic Rock

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Mo・Te - Life in a Peaceful New World (1996)
Harsh Noise Wall

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[Lakigigar]

I'm following this list.

Sad to see some of my favs are missing, but still somewhat of a good list compared to other lists i've seen.

[Pretentious Hipster]

There's the 5/5 batch after this batch so maybe some favs will be there

[blocho]

I'd never heard of the Swans before. Good stuff.

[Pretentious Hipster]

Burzum - Filosofem (1996)
Atmospheric Black Metal, Ambient

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Jeff Mills - Live at the Liquid Room, Tokyo (1996)
Detroid Techno

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Blümchen - Herzfrequenz (1996)
Happy Hardcore Trance

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Cryptopsy - None So Vile (1996)
Brutal Death Metal

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UGK - Ridin' Dirty (1996)
Gangsta Rap, Dirty South

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[Pretentious Hipster]

平沢進 [Susumu Hirasawa] - Siren (1996)
New Age/Ambient/Art/Electropop

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New Kingdom - Paradise Don't Come Cheap (1996)
Experimental East Coast Hip Hop
Sometimes this sounds like Tom Waits rapping over Black Sabbath riffs thrown down the gutter

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Failure - Fantastic Planet (1996)
Grunge, Alternative Rock

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Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind (1996)
Experimental Post-Rock

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DJ Shadow - Endtroducing..... (1996)
Plunderphonics, Instrumental Hip Hop

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[prodigalgodson]

Nice, when you had Super Tight I was afraid you were gonna exclude Ridin Dirty. One of the greats.

[Pretentious Hipster]

Arckanum - Kostogher (1997)
Black Metal

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Elliott Smith - Either / Or (1997)
Indie Folk

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Ground-Zero - Consume Red (1997)
Harsh Noise Rock, Drone, Korean Folk Music, Post-Rock

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Ground-Zero - Plays Standards (1997)
Avant-Garde Progressive Rock, Avant-Garde Jazz, Turntable Music, Noise

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Kobong - Chmury nie było (1997)
Avant-Garde Progressive Metal, Djent

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