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“This shelf of 788 records is a wild beast of a collection, balancing massive rock institutions with some serious genre detours. You have got Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers dominating the space with forty-three records, sitting right next to twenty-eight King Gizzard records and twenty-two Grateful Dead albums. That is a serious commitment to long-form guitar journeys and psych-rock madness. The 1990s is your absolute sweet spot with 201 records, followed closely by the 2010s at 125, which explains why the heavy, anthemic energy of Metallica's 1991 self-titled feels so at home here. But then you look closer and find thirty-two Georges Brassens records. It is absolutely savage. You have built this massive, roaring rock vault but there is a deep, poetic French channel running right through the middle of it. The connections across your 195 labels are dense, with guys like Chris Bellman and Bob Ludwig acting as the quiet architects of your entire listening experience. It is a massive, loud, occasionally eccentric shelf that knows exactly what it wants to be, even if it takes a detour through 1950s French acoustic folk to get there.”