上个周末，我看了一部关于一家独立唱片店的纪录片。Other Music Record，是曾位于纽约东村的唱片店，以售卖前卫的实验性的小众唱片而被广大乐迷视为“圣地”。开业于1995的 Other Music，在持续了二十年的经营后，于2016年结束营业，这部纪录片就是关于它的生平传记。
上世纪九十年代，数字音乐浪潮来临的前夕，正是实体唱片的黄金时代。彼时的唱片业零售巨头 Tower Records 如日中天，它家位于百老汇大街、占据整整四层楼的旗舰店就是唱片时代最辉煌的印证。就是在这样的背景下，Other Music 不怕死地把店面选在了 Tower Records 旗舰店的正对面，颇有小矮人大战巨龙的勇气。就连店名也充满挑衅意味，言外之意，这里出售一切 Tower Records 没有的唱片。事实证明，这个策略非常正确。
那时，如果你想寻找一些不一样（更具挑战性，更复杂，更深奥）的音乐，那么 Other Music 就是你该去的地方。很长一段时间，这里都是纽约仅有的可以淘到一些伟大但是商业上不成功的唱片。从自由爵士、某些世界音乐，到德国酸菜摇滚、被遗忘很久的民谣，纽约有趣的年轻人在这里贪婪地汲取独立音乐的滋养。
除此之外，Other Music 还以与独立音乐人和厂牌的亲密关系闻名。它从很早就开始支持纽约当地的乐队，帮助他们销售自制专辑并举办店内表演。有些乐队在日后获得了很大的成功，比如 Vampire Weekend, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol 等等。
2016年，连年下降的营业额和日益上涨的房租压力，迫使 Other Music 关闭了实体店，仅保留线上邮购服务。实体唱片业的衰落是不可抵挡的浪潮，没有谁能抵挡。尽管如此，我们还是要给 Other Music 献上足够的敬意，因为要知道，曾经的唱片业巨无霸 Tower Records 早在2006年就宣告破产。某种程度上说，小矮人最终战胜了巨龙。
作为一个独立音乐爱好者，我对 Other Music 在这二十年时间的销售榜单非常感兴趣，而店主也非常懂大家的心思，在官网放出了下面这份「Other Music 最畅销一百张唱片」名单。可以这么说，这是一份过去二十年纽约最酷的最前卫的年轻人的歌单，希望能给你的歌单加点新鲜的不一样的声音。
1. Belle and Sebastian - If You’re Feeling Sinister
2. Air - Moon Safari
3. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
4. Kruder and Dorfmeister - K&D Sessions
5. Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
6. Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes
7. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
8. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
9. Arcade Fire - Funeral
10. Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
11. Belle and Sebastian - Boy with the Arab Strap
12. Cat Power - Moon Pix
13. The Strokes - Is This It
14. Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One
15. Talvin Singh Presents Anokha: Sounds of the Asian Underground
16. Joanna Newsom - Milk-Eyed Mender
17. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
18. Cat Power - Covers Record
19. Cornelius - Fantasma
20. Serge Gainsbourg - Comic Strip
21. Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk
22. Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists
23. Amon Tobin - Permutation
24. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
25. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
26. Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt
27. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
28. Belle and Sebastian - Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant
29. Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah - S/T
30. ESG - South Bronx Story
31. Cat Power - You Are Free
32. Broadcast - Noise Made by People
33. The Notwist - Neon Golden
34. Animal Collective - Feels
35. Mum - Finally We Are No One
36. Elliott Smith - Either/Or
37. White Stripes - White Blood Cells
38. Bjorn Olsson - Instrumental Music
39. Boards of Canada - In a Beautiful Place
40. Tortoise - TNT
41. Handsome Boy Modeling School - So How’s Your Girl?
42. Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
43. Zero 7 - Simple Things
44. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People
45. Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin
46. Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands
47. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
48. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
49. Kiki and Herb - Do You Hear What I Hear?
50. Thievery Corporation - DJ Kicks
51. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
52. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - S/T EP
53. TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth
54. Yo La Tengo - Sounds of the Sounds of Science
55. Sufjan Stevens - Greetings from Michigan
56. Stereolab - Dots and Loops
57. Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
58. Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island
59. Le Tigre - S/T
60. ADULT. - Resuscitation
61. Langley Schools Music Project - Innocence and Despair
62. The Shins - Oh Inverted World
63. Slint - Spiderland
64. Air - Premiers Symptomes
65. Roni Size - New Forms
66. Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information
67. Nite Jewel - Good Evening
68. Fennesz - Endless Summer
69. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See a Darkness
70. Radiohead - Kid A
71. Stereolab - Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
72. Franz Ferdinand - S/T
73. Amon Tobin - Supermodified
74. Fischerspooner - S/T
75. Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
76. Cat Power - What Would the Community Think?
77. Elliott Smith - XO
78. TV on the Radio - Young Liars
79. UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
80. The Clientele - Suburban Light
81. Clinic - Walking with Thee
82. The xx - xx
83. Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson
84. Vampire Weekend - S/T
85. J Dilla - Donuts
86. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
87. Joanna Newsom - Ys
88. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
89. Portishead - S/T
90. Jim O’Rourke - Eureka
91. Pavement - Terror Twilight
92. Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West
93. Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out
94. Tortoise - Standards
95. Sam Prekop - S/T
96. Blonde Redhead - Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
97. Arthur Russell - Calling Out of Context
98. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2
99. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
100. Avalanches - Since I Left You
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