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What music albums are essential to you?

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Our colleagues at 89.3 The Current asked for help curating a list of 893 essential albums and you delivered. Nearly 8,000 people sent in their 14,000 picks.

The official countdown starts Thursday and continues through May 12, but we got a sneak peek of the selections from program director Jim McGuinn and Marion Hodges, DJ and music blogger at KCRW.