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Maybe flavor of the month, but @Discographies has its moments: 

Big Star/Nick Drake: 1 Immortal songs about hope; 2 and girls; 3 and loss, time-traveling forward to a future that would someday hear them.

And it's NOT Xgau. Oh, can we make requests? Captain Beefheart, Velvet Underground, Beach Boys, Byrds. 
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