Eminem -- The Slim Shady LP

  This definitely proves that sometimes disenfranchised youth should not be heard or understood.  I went to a music festival a few years back and to my unfortunate displeasure Eminem was somehow the headliner, all day I had to deal with his robot clone fans, and for Christ sakes I've never seen so many teenagers pushing baby carriages at a concert in my life!  I wonder how many atrocities were committed with this album as the soundtrack ... anyway would the real Slim Shady, please shut up!    

Crab's Biggest Hits

  Man I woke up this morning with the biggest mortal fear of going to work, couldn't deal with co-workers and unable to cope with the thought of dealing with customers ... so I stayed in bed moaning and crying at the fact that I eventually have to rise and face the day.  As I finally rose to make coffee and breakfast, I needed some mellow tunes to soothe my tortured soul.  I grab Crab's Biggest Hits knowing that it's smooth Reggae sounds were just what the doctor ordered ... and damn sometimes the best medicine is going to work late, making grub, listening to killer Rocksteady that exercises your chill muscles and helps the day work out fine!

The Kinks -- Something Else By ...

  The Kinks are like the weirdo first cousins of the British Invasion movement, they had the same genetic code but with a different style.  The album is a mishmash of what was going on in Rock 'n' Roll music at the time, except they Kinks-ified it, from Baroque to Psych to Americana to everything else ... like they were trying to sum up the scene all on one album.  In the end the record is a little uneven, but who cares, it's a f*ckin' classic!

T. Rex -- Electric Warrior

  Without a doubt T. Rex's greatest release while inadvertently inventing his own genre of Glamabilly, although I've never admired his whimsical flaky hippie bullsh*t lyrics, but I can't say I care too much about what he's saying, I'm more into what he's playing and goddamn Electric Warrior has one of the greatest front covers of all-time!  

Tycho -- Dive

  Tycho's Dive seems to fall in two camps, killer Ambient Electronica or annoying Techno-ish garbage, overall it's pretty good, not really mega original or mind blowing, but for what it is I mostly like it.

Tame Impala -- Lonerism

  Man at first I thought that their sophomore release was weaker than their debut record, maybe because it was less poppy and not as in your face, but as I got more and more into Lonerism's modernized Indie Beatles-esque sound, the more that it's subtleties became it's apparent brilliance.  The first record was just a gaggle of songs, where the seconds was made as an album, each song complimenting the other. 

The Flaming Lips -- The Soft Bulletin

  The multi-layered, smooth, cool, lush, beautifully arranged masterwork by the psychedelic zealots The Flaming Lips.  This record really marked the pinnacle plateau of their career by brilliantly mixing various musical elements while making it sound freshly complete and all Lips. The Soft Bulletin is the perfect closer to the 1990's, which it inadvertently opened the floodgates for the 2000's, creating dozens of copycat bands for the decade to come, it has taken music ten years to recover from this album's mammoth hangover and become original again. 

Lady Gaga -- Born This Way

  Yeah Yeah I totally get that she's doing this Warholian Madonna-esque thing but the teeny-bop party time crapioca pudding she's serving the masses is just killing whatever artistic integrity she had gained with her weirdness.  It's too bad she isn't making viable Synthpop and being the real fringe character she could have been rather than this commercialized corporate monster with the sh*ttiest craptastic front cover ever put out, c'mon who'd they hire a twelve year old with photoshop fantasizing Gaga born as a sick messed up transformer ... oh well ... f*ck it ... what do I care !

Johnny Thunders -- So Alone

  What would have happened if Keith Richards were a Punk Rocker, you guessed it and could it really have been anyone else, Johnny Thunders!  So Alone is the sound of a man who is beautiful destroyed and heavily influenced by early Rock 'n' Roll.  The junk stricken Punk casualty had a massive amount luminaries play on this album, and could you blame them for jumping in, they got to hang with the original Punk! 

Iggy Pop -- The Idiot

  Dark, bleak, Kraut infused debut solo effort by the man himself with co-host David Bowie.  The Idiot sounds like a huge intellectual come down on copious amounts of narcotics, like a retelling of a coke frenzied bender that lasted weeks, but my question is did Pop out Bowie, Bowie?

The Modern Lovers

  So ahead of their time that the album was only released four years after it was recorded.  The Modern Lovers have a lazy 70's Rock feel with Doorsy keyboard and 60's Velvets Punk esthetic ... Richman went on to record many more albums but he never reached the brilliance of his initial effort!

The Magnetic Feilds -- 69 Love Songs

  I just ordered this, I've heard some of it before but have never done a full siting, which for god sakes will take three hours, not too sure if I can take that much of anything, but who knows I'm a sucker for love songs and this one has 69 of them, I can safely summarize that I will laugh, cry, be overwhelmed, get annoyed, feel astounded and probably want to turn it off when it's finally over.  This is an album for the ages!  Anyone putting this much effort into doing something must be heard ... for sure!

Siouxsie And The Banshees -- Once Upon A Time: The Singles

  What started off as a Artsy Punk Rock band quickly turned into a Cure-esque Goth Rock outfit.  You know I can't help but remember getting a ride with two record store owners at the end of a night, my friend and I jumped in the back seat, on comes Hong Kong Garden, we were so sh*tfaced wasted we started screaming along to the song with the windows wide open, I'll always have fond memories of my Montreal punk club days and some tunes just take me right back when life was more carefree without any responsibilities!

Coldplay -- A Rush Of Blood To The Head

  Man I never could get into this band, they've got an unhealthy mix of jock-rock and shitty updated U2, which just makes my stomach cringe!  In their defense the shoegazed number A Whisper kicks some serious ass, but its too little too late! 

The Cotton Jones Basket Ride -- Paranoid Cocoon

  These guys are like a Doorsy Indie Americanaed version of She And Him, but you have to think of them as if She And Him didn't majorly suck and both singers actually compliment each other, which The Cotton Jones Basket Ride pulls off beautifully.

Sly And The Family Stone -- Fresh

  After clawing his way out of dark death dirge of There's A Riot Goin' On, Sly came back to life making a group efforted uplifting Funk tour de force that sounded like a Fresh start! 

Eddie Vedder -- Into The Wild

    Eddie Vedder is the poster boy for alternative jock rock, also the film is about an idiotic rich kid who goes on a Kerouac brohemian type journe — perfect mashup!  Point is this hipster Folk sucks and you should read the book to get the real scoop, you'll see how the hero is framed in another light. 

Love -- Forever Changes

  This Flamenco driven Baroque Folk Rock masterpiece is often tossed aside for what I theorize is two reasons, one the hardcore Love fans usually find this album too mellow and then the Folk Rockers find the record too weird, meaning that this great album will always fall short of finding an audience.  Personally I find it innovative how they tossed in so many musical elements and made it sound flawless and flowing ... if you're either a major Love fan or a die hard Folkster I'd give this another whirl with different ears in mind!    

Dr. Dog -- Fate

  I like this stuff but I don't love it, reminds me of a hipster Indie Folk version of the Flaming Lips ... anyway maybe I should give it a second shot ... ha ha, get it!??

The Beatles -- Let It Be

  This album was a complete mess from the start, what you've got is a crumbling band who've turned into individuals rather than members in a solid unit.  All the issues, politics and bullsh*t aside I think if you break the album up in parts, you can see the group's past, present and future in the record, for example; you've got a couple skiffle/ rock 'n' roll numbers (Maggie Mae and One After 909) from their past, some Lennon/ McCartney (Two Of Us and I've Got A Feeling) classics for their present, and the individually written tracks foreshadowing each of their future solo careers (Lennon, Dig A Pony and Across The Universe, McCartney, Let It Be & The Long And Winding Road and Harrison's I Me Mine and For You Blue).  In conclusion Let It Be may not be The Beatles at their best but they did perfect the art of a band wrapping it up.

The Doors

  The only album that truly exemplifies the brilliance that The Doors were supposed to have!  With the exception of The End, I found that their sound is more of a gothic surfer Blues rather than a psychedelic freakout.