Black Flag -- What The ...

  More like What The ... f*ck were you thinking!!!  C'mon Ginn are you that much of a pansy assed sh*thead that you can't just bury the hatchet and join the rest of the band in Flag?  And further, do you think I listened to this piece of crap, don't f*ckin' think so, this waste of talent is up there with The Clash's Cut The Crap and The Velvet Underground's Squeeze, waitta go losers you made one of Rock 'n' Rolls biggest embarrassments!  I'm going to buy the OFF! album right now!

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young -- 4 Way Street

  Ya this album is pretty good ... but lets face the facts it's really just a one way street, if you catch my drift!

The Velvet Underground -- Loaded

  Loaded is as if the Velvets saw where Dylan and The Band were going with Rock 'n' Roll and thought, "wow this is great, lets do our own brand of Americana" ... and dammit that's just what they did a smooth, cool, New Yorked version of pure American music!

Mudhoney -- Superfuzz Bigmuff

  Definitely the undisputed kings of the Seattle sound, these guys should have been the one's to put the scene on the map, and in certain snob circles they were, their mix of loud don't give a sh*t American Hardcore and 70's stoner Blues makes most of their "grunge" contemporaries look like a bunch of ninnies!    

Elton John -- Madman Across The Water

  You know I always had this aversion to liking Elton John, there's just something about his cheesy, "my parents love his music," that I sometimes can't get past.  But you know what, f*ck that sh*t, there might be some corny as hell moments but for the most part this is great example of 70's Classic Rock and c'mon with an opening track like Tiny Dancer how can you go wrong!

David Bowie -- The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars

  I have had this weird Bowie obsession since I was a boy, I always wished he was my dad and I used to call random phone numbers hoping I would get the right one and Bowie would pick up and we'd become best friends.  Ziggy Stardust is the album I relate to the most, when I was 20 I thought I wouldn't last 5 years just like the song and to be honest some of these songs still make me cry like a little teenage girl because I love them so much.

Joy Division -- Closer

  Seriously this album could be used to diagnose depression, just take a patient play them the record if the album makes them feel less alone and understood you've got another unhappy customer on suicide watch ... all joking aside Closer is one of music's timeless masterpieces and totally untouchable.

The Black Keys -- Brothers

  F*ck this jock rock lame ass poser wanna be the White Stripes piece of sh*t band The Black Keys.  Do I need to say more!? 

John Martyn -- Solid Air

  John Martyn sits right between James Taylor and Nick Drake (whom the title track was written for), part cheesy folk with hints of dark awesomeness.  Although Martyn's real contribution to music history is his effects drenched psychedelic folk finger tap palming jazz technique (sounds like a rad kung fu move), I'm still not sure how he does it, at first I wanted him to have done the whole album in that style, but lets face it that would be way too overwhelming.  Solid Air is a great well rounded album showcasing Martyn's multifaceted talents as an artist.

Fear -- The Record

  Lead by troubadour weirdo Lee Ving, Fear were the outlaws of the artsy-fartsy LA scene, but let's face it, this band is a basic one trick pony, with some legendarily hilarious Saturday Night Live footage, destroying the studio set with a mosh pit of hardcore luminaries and John Belushi, otherwise the one album would have been enough.

Neil Young -- Comes A Time

  Another Country Folk masterpiece by the legendary Neil Young.  Man this album brings me back to a happier or even happiest time in my life, when things felt certain and I somewhat had my sh*t together.  I had a beautiful almost wife and she had two kids that I adored, this music (except for the song Mortorcycle Mama it's a piece of crap and doesn't belong on the record at all) represents our golden times, when life was filled with love and there was no fear of the unknown.

Prince And The Revolution -- Around The World In A Day

  Ok yeah I sometimes have a soft spot for Prince, but it's either hit or miss ... and to be honest I didn't even listen to this album at all, I tried, not very hard mind you, but I couldn't get past the first five seconds of the putrid 80's funk stink of track one side one, and let's face it if you goof that the chances that I'm going to listen to the rest are slim to none!

The Allah-Las

  What was a seemingly impressive Surfy Animals-esque Garage Revival outfit turned out to be way more of a powerful and interesting band than I expected ... what I found was not only their 60's influence but they've got also a sort of lazy day Jangly Shoegaze kick to their sound, making this album a must hear!

Bonnie Prince Billy -- I See A Darkness

  This is the ultimate in sad bastard music and became the soundtrack for my decent into holiday depression.  This year was a mega rough one, I won't go into the gory detail but this mellow, finely produced piece of Indie Folk was perfect for a person writhing in daily mental malaise.  As much of a bummer as I make it sound there is a glimmer of hope in his dark writing, and no it's not a light at the end of the tunnel, it's a sense of acceptance of who and what he is ... which like me ... is a depressed weirdo ... if you don't like it, big deal, neither do I and I'm ok with that!