songs that literally expand your mind

Savage Republic Jamahiriya
Tim Buckley knebworth 74 set
Birthday party Bad Seed e.p. especially Sonny's Buirning and Deep iN tHe Woods. I discovered it when i was 16 years old and it really was eye opening. Other 2 tracks are pretty great too
NIck Cave & The bad Seeds The Carney heard this when iit came out and hadn't heard anything like it.

Dinosaur L Go Bang

Black Flag Marquee 84 remained my favourite live set for years after seeing it. Think it sounds pretty unique even from other sets by the band around the time. Wonder how it would have changed if Kira was coming out with her own basslines

Stooges Funhouse.
Still not sure what is parallel to this. Heard it when i wa sin my early teens and have loved it ever since. NIce to get a contemporary live set finally.

Grateful Dead in August 1968 and May 1970 which I thik are teh psychedelic peaks. Channeling things like Coltrane through electric instruemnatation as well as their own edge of teh seat intuition.

Can early days too for similar reasons, from Monster MOvie through to the end of the Damo Suzuki era at least. Very other psychedelic rock stuff that's almost otherworldly.
Gets several new dimensions added when you hear the live sets from that era too.

POp Group Y which I bought on hearing the BIrthday p[arty Compared to tehm in like 1983 , I think from an earlier 80s NME.
Still remains one of my favourite records ever Free rock in free fall. Sounds like its suspended above a great drop or something, like there's no floor they're standing on. So have been listening to this since my mid teens and not sure what else compares.

Pere Ubu who i first heard in the shape of Dub HOusing and New Picj=nic time which I got as Xmas presents in 1983. Couldn't fina Modern Dance at teh time , may have been out of Print. Very other sounding material . Seems a lot like teh landscape depicted in Eraserhead or something neurotic otherness. May be a connection I was making later but I think I saw Eraserhead at teh Scala right around then. & i think they were both pretty much reflecting teh same geographical influences opf Cleveland Ohio.
Bought up th erest of the material from around that period over the years, love the live material from around the 1st 2 lps and up to about 79. Not so hot on the Mayo Thompson era which is just a point too abstract and conscioulsy so.
Also the Rocket From The Tombs Stuff which is an archetypoe I'd love to see used more.

Skip James 1931 recordings which I think I picked up after getting into the Gun Club and looking into some of their blues influences. love the otherworldliness here too. The way thatthe intervals seem semi random etc.
I had the Yazoo lp which has so much surface noise reproduced it sounds like it might be an in fluence on JAMC too.
Do love thisi stuff, now have it as the Document cd which I think has reduced the surface noise. ,

DP MIziani and Shirati Jazz
I first heard him through a single we were given either in my childhood or very early teens.
Great percussive guitar over a hipshaking rhythm section that is not really funky per se but very very contagious .
Finally got to hear more of the same stuff in the shape of Strut's KIngs of History

Swans
got to see tehir London debut and was impressed by that early total music .
BUt I think my favourite stuff was the 1988 heavy folk rock thing that didn't get recorded properly at the time. But I think wasan influence on later stuff and teh era that has presumably just ended.
BUt them live in the UK On that tour in 1988 was really mindblowing. Haven't come across anything really thaht compares with that would love to.