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3 Essential Albums I’d Recommend to an Alien Who’s Getting Into Earth Music

If an alien asked you for Earth music recommendations, what would you give them? I’d start with these three essential albums.

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If an alien showed up and was looking to get into Earth music for the first time, I have the perfect recommendations ready. Obviously, this is just a primer. A few options to get the alien interested. But these albums also represent a decent range of human emotion, making them perfect for an introduction to Earth music.

‘Highway 61 Revisited’ by Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan’s sixth album, Highway 61 Revisited, released in 1965, continuing his divisive shift to electric guitar. Essentially, this album proved that wasn’t a phase, but fans and journalists were still outraged at the departure from his acoustic-based folk. Highway 61 Revisited is a masterpiece, however. It charted high in its time, and is still highly regarded as an essential album to this........

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