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a pack of wolves:
Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime
The Beatles - White Album (I personally can't abide the Beatles, but they're pretty damn influential so it's a good thing to hear and make your own mind up on)
Velvet Underground And Nico - S/T
Charlie Parker - In A Soulful Mood
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Minor Threat - discography
Van Halen - 1984
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels And The Paths of Rhythm
Leadbelly - In The Evening When The Sun Goes Down

Mind you, I'd say the best thing would be to make her a few mixes with as wide a range of music as you can get hold of on, ask her what she likes and then tell her where she can get more in that vain.

Joseph:

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  I was limited to ten albums though, remember?  Come to think of it, there isn't any jazz in there either...  With 5 more options the list would look a lot more complete.

Rizzo:
A pack of wolves has the right idea I reckon. That's a good mix. I'm not sure that Wu Tang needs to be in there with Tribe as well. Replace Wu Tang with PWEI-This is this, pretty goddamn influential, behind the scenes though. Or Kraftwerk.

RUMBLEMOOSE:
Man, I'd just totally alienate the hell out of her. If you don't want to do the legwork and find good music, you can have fun with your bad music and it's no real skin off my nose.

That said, the best alienation possible:

Merzbow, Pulse Demon
Orthrelm, Ov
Plastikman, Closer
The Shaggs, s/t
Jerome's Dream, Completed 1997-2001
Crass, Do They Owe Us a Living?
The Pop Group, Y
a good recording of Luciano Berio's "Sinfonia"
Sunn O))), The Grimrobe Demos
Pharoah Sanders, Karma

Of course, if you ever want this girl to speak to you again (and if I don't want to be an asshole and make offtopic posts) maybe a different list would be in order. I also put reasons behind each of these, because rather than taking the list wholesale you'd be better off just using the rationale behind it.

Pavement, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
- exposure to the Matador catalogue, indie rock classic
The Flaming Lips, Transmissions From the Satellite Heart
- band with a large output, fairly accessible yet noisy, exposure to Restless catalogue
Slint, Spiderland
- indie rock classic, exposure to Touch & Go distro
June of '44, Anahata
- decently accessible post rock, further exposure to T&G distro
Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation
- good jumping-on point for SY, accessible yet noisy
Gang of Four, Entertainment!
- similarity to something she may have heard, if she listens to the radio; classic post-punk
Matthew Sweet, Girlfriend (or Altered Beast if you're nervous about dropping unintended hints)
- important and accessible pop
godspeed you black emperor!, F#A#[infinity] (can't find the alt code for infinity)
- gybe!'s best, exposure to Kranky/Constellation labels and the Montreal collective scene, relatively accessible and unabrasive
The New Pornographers, Mass Romantic
- accessible as hell, exposure to Mint Records and hopefully to related bands, ie. Destroyer, Zumpano, Neko Case
Built to Spill, Keep It Like a Secret
- melodic and accessible, exposure to NW scene

In short, go for accessible over best/important, because this girl might not be prepared for really difficult listening; ease her into it. Also, it's not a bad move to angle for bands that could lead her into other bands and scenes if she liked them enough to look into them. Indie labels love sending out catalogues, maybe get her a few of them to browse through.

a pack of wolves:
Actually, I reckon dropping Double Nickels On The Dime in favour of some Kraftwerk would be a better idea, even though I love that record more than any other I listed. At least something electronic really ought to be included, and there's already one much more influential hardcore record in the list.

The reason I plumped for both the Wu and ATCQ was that they're both very influential, very accessible and together to a certain degree give a starting point for most of the different areas hip-hop's gone into. Or at least as good as a starting point as you can really give when limited to only ten albums.

Actually, I think that's the problem with trying to think of only ten albums for someone new to music, there are far far more than ten genres out there and each one has a fantastic variety within it. You just can't give someone a decent starting point with so little.

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