Interesting you should choose this as the definitive Mr Bungle album... I would have placed the eponymous album above it. California doesn't really cut it for me...

Essential Fripp and Eno would be Essential

also in jazz: Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, carla and Paul Bley

in classical: Messiaen, Davidosky, Stockhausen, Berio, Usschesky, John Cage,

sorry for my spelling

[quote]Originally posted by tanjello
Pink Floyd had some pretty experemental albums even by todays standards (Atom Heart Mother, ummagumma album 2, even some of their other stuff) They were actually pioneers in experementing with electronics and alternative instruments. They actually started recording an album where they used no real instruments, just thinng like toothpaste tubes, head combs and spoons.


I would make this distinction that they were ROCK pioneers in that sort of experementing, but that kind of non instrument (musique concrete from Pierre Schaeffer) and electronic experminting with electronics and orchesra (atom heart mother) (Edger Varese and otheres)

My list of essentials:

Current 93 - Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre
Coil - Musick to Play in the Dark Vol 2
Nurse with Wound - The Sylvie and Babs Hi-Fi Companion
Swans - The Great Annihilator
Einsturzende Neubauten - Drawings of Patient OT
Legendary Pink Dots - Asylum
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
The Residents - Third Reich n Roll
Clock DVA - Buried Dreams

Well, thats all I can think of at the moment.