Musician Mikey Hyde recently provided us with a list of his favorite albums, which you can find below. Hyde is best known as the architect behind the band Medication, which has served primarily as a home recording-project for Hyde since 2008. Following the release of Medication’s debut 7″ Don’t Die b/w Fog, Hyde recorded and released Medication’s excellent debut LP, This Town, in 2010 on HoZac Records. In its review of the album, the LA Times stated that This Town “reverberates with a brittle loneliness and melancholy that is counterbalanced by the raw emotion that informs Hyde’s painfully honest lyrics and minimalist song structures…The tones might be dark grays and browns, but there’s a lyrical and energetic life in the grooves of this record. This is only Medication’s second release, but expect great things from Hyde.” Check out the following video of Medication’s performance of the song Don’t Die (with Stefan Christensen on lead guitar – we examined Christensen’s favorite albums in a prior post: Stefan Christensen’s Favorite Albums of 2018):
Medication followed up its debut LP with the release of the EP Judgment Day in 2011 on Sacred Bones Records. Last year, Christensen’s C/Site Recordings released Medication’s most recent project, Daily Affirmations.
For more information on any of the following albums, feel free to click on the associated image (via Amazon).
MIKEY HYDE’S FAVORITE ALBUMS
13th Floor Elevators – Psychedelic Sounds
The Adverts – Crossing the Red Sea
A-Frames – A-Frames
Alice Cooper – Love it to Death
Bilderine – Split Seconds
David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars
Vashti Bunyan – Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind (Comp)
Alex Chilton – Like Flies on Sherbert
Clone Defects – Shapes of Venus
Culturcide – Tacky Souvenirs of Pre-Revolutionary America
The Damned – Machine Gun Etiquette
Davila 666 – Davila 666
Dead Moon – Strange Pray Tell
Del Shannon – The Further Adventures of Charles Westover
Devo – Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
Dutchess & The Duke – She’s the Dutchess, He’s the Duke
Ego Summit – The Room Isn’t Big Enough
Brian Eno – Here Come the Warm Jets
Estrogen Highs – Tell it to Them
Germs – (GI)
Great Plains – Born in a Barn
The Gris Gris – For the Season
Groundhogs – Split
Guided by Voices – Alien Lanes
Headroom – Head in the Clouds
Heron Oblivion – Heron Oblivion
The Homosexuals – Astral Glamour (Comp)
Iggy & The Stooges – Raw Power
J.T. IV – Cosmic Lightning (Comp)
Tommy Jay – Tall Tales of Trauma
Jerry’s Kids – Is This My World?
John Fahey – Days Have Gone By, Volume 6
Lost Sounds – Memphis is Dead
Love – Forever Changes
Low – Curtain Hits the Cast
Luxurious Bags – Frayed Knots
Michael Yonkers Band – Microminature Love
Mission of Burma – Vs.
Mountain Movers – Death Magic
Nerve City – Nerve City; Recordings 2007-2008
Red Krayola – Parable of Arabie Land
Reigning Sound – Too Much Guitar
Los Saicos – Demolición The Complete Recordings
The Saints – Eternally Yours
Elliott Smith – Elliott Smith
Tall Dwarfs – Hello Cruel World (Comp)
Urinals – Negative Capability…Check it Out (Comp)
Velvet Underground & Nico – Velvet Underground & Nico
Wire – Chairs Missing
Neil Young – After the Gold Rush
We strongly recommend checking out the following albums by Medication:
