Thoughts: Pessimistic, misanthropic, and apathetic? Sounds like MB-core.

Release info: Released on vinyl 7" in 1980 (n/a / 245-T-1, USA)

Thoughts: Someone plucking something out on the piano to comfort me while I get a root canal. My consciousness pulls back from the event, only to snap back with full force. Like this, I oscillate through the guts of the machine.

Oh fuck! The dentist is German, and his lovely assistant is singing to me, "He who lays down with dogs gets up with fleas!" I want to correct her, but I have a mouth full of sharp metal.

Release info: Released on vinyl in 1985 (Frux / FruxLP 01, UK).

Thoughts: Aliens, refugees from nuclear war on their own planet, land on Earth and, like all immigrants, bring their degenerate music with them, which they teach to us. When they see that Earthlings do it better than they do, they return to their irradiated, barren world, willing to take their chances there than among a species who can make music like this.

Release info: Released as a box set on CD in 1994 (Ecstatic Peace! / E#47, USA) and the re-issued on CD in 2009 (Compound Annex / Compound Annex #17, #18, #19, USA).

Thoughts: Collecting and racking abandoned shopping carts scattered across an empty parking lot near a droning highway.

Release info: Released on a limited edition single-side 7" vinyl in 1996 (Aeroplane ‎– AR20, UK).

Thoughts: Brody's gf who cries in the bathroom while he plays video games because she's got nothing better to do than fuck him. I wonder if some elevator sex will sort her out.

Release info: Released on vinyl 7" in 1978 (IDBI / EEEE1, USA) and then across the pond on a colored vinyl 7" in 1979 (Cherry Red / CHERRY 3, UK).

Thoughts: The perfect soundtrack to a shitty morning where you get a flat tire and all the trains are delayed. Feel worse, man!

Release info: Released as a numbered edition vinyl in 1986 (Touch / T33:5, UK).

Thoughts: Like most things on this list, the music ain't my thing, but the album cover fascinates me. It's like a painting of a sonogram, where the baby is safe in the womb, protected from all the noise of the world.

Release info: Released on colored vinyl in 1981 (United Dairies / UD010, UK) and then re-issued on CD in 2004 (Fractal / Fractal 026, France).

Thoughts: I had no idea a rose could be the terror of terrors and the horror of horrors. Battery low. Battery low.

Release info: Released on vinyl in 1980 (United Dairies / UD07, UK).

Thoughts: The Deaf Club was a tiny place in San Francisco for actually deaf people started in the 1930s. I wonder if the people in the audience were actually the regular deaf patrons. I like to think so, as these punk rockers make their statements, but I know that the place was just a music venue like many others. This is an incredible live album and a must-listen for any punk fan (which isn't me).

Release info: Released on vinyl in 1980 (Optional / OPT-LP-001, USA).

Thoughts: Not painful enough! UGH.

Release info: Released originally on vinyl in 1984 (L'Invitation au Suicide / SD 5, France) and then re-issued on CD and vinyl at various times around the world.