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Blue Cheer
Vincebus Eruptum (1968)
Named after a particularly potent brand of street acid, Blue Cheer were the 60s progenitors of Heavy Metal. A group who played so hard and loud that, so rumour persists, they inadvertently caused the early demise of a dog which strayed on stage while they were improvising. Vincebus Eruptum, their seminal debut, snarled rabidly in the face of hippy innocence and soon became a Hell's Angels party stomper. 30 years later, the record would inspire a horde of suitably impressed Japanese noise trios to pay mutated homage to the group. Vincebus Eruptum may have failed to impress the Woodstock generation with its full on sonic rock attack and textured silver sleeve, but without its raw power both High Rise and Musica Transonic would have remained mere twinkles in Nanjo Asahito's eye.
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I'll judge whether or not I think this is a big list of pretentiousness when I've actually heard the stuff they're talking about. It would be easier for me to write it off as self-serving garbage and justify not listening, but I'd rather not. Perhaps there's a reason these albums are on this list.
