9. Jad Fair And Daniel Johnston
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV2RI04c0tM Two of the 1980s' strangest, most individual artists come together for a single album that displays both of them at their respective peaks. While the positive reaction to either individual's musical projects is often simply criticism as a spectator sport, with so called professional reviewers pointing at the musicians as experiments rather than experimenters, the album deserves a genuine response that it is clearly trying to elicit. "It's Spooky" sees Jad Fair and Daniel Johnston trading off on colorful personal narratives such as Johnston's "I Did Acid with Caroline" and covers of songs such as The Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows." Fair and Johnston prove their case as the outsider Lennon and McCartney that the 80s deserved. It is an urgent work capturing something incredibly special between the two collaborators - a brief moment in which their visions cooperated.