One of the best releases from the legendary Revolutionaries (aka the backing band for everything coming out of Channel One). Includes the Kunte Kinte Dub, one of the most recognizable dub plates of all time.
No. 2 is the second studio album by Serge Gainsbourg, originally released in 1959. It features Gainsbourg backed by the Alain Goraguer Orchestra. Definitely a mutant jazz-pop album with a strong chansonnier feel and a touch of French literature.
Though it's an album rooted in themes of depression and loneliness, I Got Too Sad For My Friends is far from downcast. Instead, it stays fully present in it's feelings and plunges it's fingers into the earth - even when it can be painful to do so.