One thing you could do is get the red and blue albums, 'Best of' the Beatles really, but they have all the good singles.
who's better, badfinger or klaatu?
Badfinger never got covered by The Carpenters.
keiji haino, flower travelling band, vtheoretical girls, sun city girls, amebix, GOD, Hella, lard, lard free, las rallizes denudes, loop, les fleurs de lys, scorn, shuggie otis, techno animal, third ear band etc etc etc
going back to the original question...a couple of years ago i copied about 10 gb of albums from a friend with fairly experimental tastes. all artists who id been meaning to check out for a while. 2 years later and 90% of it is still languishing on my hd unlistened to. turns out i just cant be arsed with:
keiji haino, flower travelling band, vtheoretical girls, sun city girls, amebix, GOD, Hella, lard, lard free, las rallizes denudes, loop, les fleurs de lys, scorn, shuggie otis, techno animal, third ear band etc etc etc
Weren't Lard one of these seemingly endless late-80s/early-90s Ministry side-projects? I've heard/got most of those but this one passed me by.