It was announced today that 50 new records are being added to the National Recording Registry, and, in the article on Yahoo! News, particular note is made of the inclusion of the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Are You Experienced, Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life, and B.B. King’s Live at the Regal. What’s mentioned far more casually, however, is the much more interesting news that among those 50 records are Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation, We’re Only In It For The Money, by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, and the Firesign Theater’s brilliantly titled Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers.
To see the whole list and a brief description of the importance of each entry, click here.
