There's a podcast from the British comedian James Acaster called "James Acaster's Perfect Sounds", and the premise is that he had a nervous breakdown in 2017 an

There's a podcast from the British comedian James Acaster called "James Acaster's Perfect Sounds", and the premise is that he had a nervous breakdown in 2017 and dealt with it by buying/listening to every album that he could from 2016. He gets a guest on each week and they listen to one of those albums and discuss it. If you're into music and British comedians, it's a fun podcast. IIRC, the guy now has a few hundred albums, and the range is genuinely crazy. There's obviously names like Bowie and Beyonce, but there's also random albums produced by artists in their rooms, or punk bands releasing cassettes that have found their way onto the internet, or fusions of wildly different cultures and styles, or snippets of YouTube videos set to music, or whatever else you can come up with. Themes range from Ghanaian independence or the failures of the EU, through to gender identity and parenthood. If that's not counterculture, I don't know what is.