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Synthencia · Curation · Academy collection 02

Required Listening
at the Academy

Performances worth hearing closely. Music that stays with you long after the final note.

Albums, songs and artists on Doc’s listening list. These are placeholders for now; specific YouTube performances and listening notes will be added later.

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The listening list

Classic
  • Diesel and Dust — Midnight Oil
  • Wild Planet — The B-52’s
  • Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band — The Beatles
  • Green River — Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Diamond Dogs — David Bowie
  • Sinner — Drowning Pool
  • Live Album — Grand Funk Railroad
  • Dark Passion Play — Nightwish
  • Come Clean — Puddle of Mudd
  • Lifes Rich Pageant — R.E.M.
  • Scars — SOiL
  • The Joshua Tree — U2
  • Close to the Edge — Yes
  • The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars — David Bowie
  • Pin Ups — David Bowie
  • Aladdin Sane — David Bowie
  • Bodies — Drowning Pool
  • The Sickness — Disturbed
Modern
  • …Was Right All Along — John-Allison Weiss
  • The Quantum Enigma — Epica
  • Catching a Tiger — Lissie
  • Be Here — Rachel Platten
  • Celabrasion — Sleeper Agent
  • Steely Dan & Donald Fagen
  • Bess Rogers
  • Wolf Alice
  • The Preatures
More Recommended Listening
  • Desire — Bob Dylan
  • Taller Children — Elizabeth & the Catapult
  • The Dreaming — Kate Bush
  • Once — Nightwish
  • Heartthrob — Tegan and Sara
Details to confirm later
  • Erica Glynn — Static
  • The Preatures — Blue xxx
  • Dear Georgina