The Animals -- The Best Of ...

  The Animals sit right inbetween the Stones and Them, it's not that I want to demean their carreer, it just them's the breaks!!

Apples In Stereo -- Fun Trick Noisemaker

  Their debut and best release.  The modernized super produced Beatlesesque sound is done so well that bands are still trying to mimic it today!

Sebadoh --The Freed Weed

  This compilation, of sorts, features early Sebadoh, while Barlow was still in Dinosaur Jr.   The Freed Weed is reminiscent of early pure and raw folk music while sounding modern and inavertently inventing lo-fi indie rock all at once!  Thanks Lou, you're the best! 

Seu Jorge -- The Life Aquatic

  The life aquatic is hands down my favourite Wes Anderson movie and part of it's charm is the perfect musical background of Portuguese classic era Bowie covers all acoustically done by Seu Jorge and let's face it, if the mainman himself says that these versions show, "a new level of beauty," to his songs, you know that the album is nothing short of being great!

Pink Fairies -- Kings Of Oblivion

  What can I say about the Pink Fairies, other than just state the obvious?  They are the UK's answer or version of the MC5!

The Barbarians

  You know I somehow expected this record to be way awesomer than it is.  The album is a quickly thrown together version of The Kingsmen who take the lyrics 'hey' and 'yeah' way too seriously ... I get it, they are a ragtag band of swashbuckling early punk rockers, a great find for 60's freaks!

Os Mutantes

  Heavily influential Brazilian psych-pop band Os Mutantes does not only feature some great fuzz'd out weirdness but has some killer bubbly space'd out futura that would inspire groups to this day still!

Curtis Mayfield -- Superfly

  Almost like a poor man's version of Marvin Gaye's What's Going On, but don't let that statement, or the fact that it's a soundtrack for basically a piece of crap movie, deter you from the fact that it's a brilliant album and a Soul masterpiece!