XTC, Boards of Canada, DJ Shadow, Van Halen (the David Lee Roth years), Stereolab, Stereo Total, "Exile on Main Street", Gary Numan, Dead Can Dance, David Bowie, Death from Above 1979, Jurassic 5, Spacemen 3, 999, The B-52s, Deltron 3000, Kid 606, L7, Gang of Four, Prefuse 73, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Devo, Interpol, Supergrass, MF Doom, Handsome Boy Modeling School, "Rubber Soul", Ozomatli, Mr. Mixel Pixel, Dresden Dolls, Bjork, Robyn Hitchc**k, Alice in Chains, New Order, Ella Fitzgerald, Modest Mouse, "Bleach", Husker Du, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Pixies, Maximo Park, The Chameleons UK, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Dinosaur Jr., The Damned, PiL, Talking Heads, Black Sabbath, Jelly Roll Morton, The Game, Handel, Underworld, Bad Brains, Air, Translator, Cat Power, Wire, Celebration, TV On The Radio, Spore, Elliot Smith, Fantomas, "The Uplift Mofo Party Plan", Cibo Matto, "In Through The Out Door", The Futureheads, A Tribe Called Quest, "Obscured by Clouds", Wu Tang Clan, APB, Sonic Youth, Ofra Haza, "Smile", "Nothing's Shocking", Radiohead, Brian Eno, Midnight Oil, Guided By Voices, Built To Spill, Mission of Burma, Suzanne Vega, "Check Your Head", "Outlandos D'Amour", Split Enz, "Imperial Bedroom", The Clash, Echo and the Bunnymen, Tad, The Fluid, Stevie Ray Vaughn, "The Gift"- (twice, in fact, and in both cases, respectively, Mudhoney's and The Jam's best album{s} Everybody got that?), Tool, "Swordfishtrombone", Flatt and Scruggs, Helmet, Frank Sinatra (especially the albums he did with Nelson Riddle, same goes for Ella), "Nebraska", "Ultramega OK", Throwing Muses, The Bags (from Boston, not L.A.), Dogs Die In Hot Cars, Public Enemy, Laurie Anderson, British Sea Power, Biosphere,"Uncle Meat", Kraftwerk, "Boy", The Flaming Lips, The Flaming Lights, Flogging Molly, Badly Drawn Boy, Blackstar (Mos Def and Talib Kweli), The Arcade Fire, Stevie Wonder, "The Gray Album", "Tommy" (original album), X, Wilco, Left Nut, Peter Gabriel, Cypress Hill, Elf Power, Loveage, Miles Davis, The Polyphonic Spree, The Mekons, "Cool For Cats", "White Blood Cells", Mastodon, Roxy Music, The Psychedelic Furs, Doves, Thomas Dolby, "Trout Mask Replica", Swell Maps, "1999", Joy Division, Fatima Mansions, Louis Armstrong, James, The Smiths, Pizzicato Five, "Nashville Skyline", El P, "Harvest", Anal c**t, The Barnies, Eric B and Rakim, At The Drive In, "The Top", The Magnetic Fields, Butthole Surfers, Crooked Fingers, "Brandenburg concertos", Waylon Jennings, The Shins, Lets Active, Fela Kuti, Fila Brazilia, Lali Puna, Broadcast, Fly Pan Am, Of Montreal, The Beta Band, Yo La Tengo, Mazzy Star, Rainy Day, "Marquee Moon", Lee "Scratch" Perry, Belle and Sebastian, "Double Nickels on a Dime", The Darkness, Burning Airlines, Negativland, The Pretenders, Mint Royale, The Avalanches, Outkast, This Mortal Coil, Tipsy, The Jazz Butcher, Gorillaz, Kyuss, Lush, Edith Piaf, The Decemberists, Deerhoof, That Petrol Emotion, "Chronic Town", "The Chronic", Fugazi, Pharcyde, Solex, RJD2, "Appetite for Destruction", Sigur Ros, Julian Cope, The International Noise Conspiracy, Ultravox, The Ventures, The Libertines, Peter Murphy, Cocteau Twins, King Tubby, Neutral Milk Hotel, "Sea Change", The Breeders, "Lust for Life", Cheap Trick, Jay Z, The New p**nographers