Joan Baez -- 5

  Well to tell the truth I don't really like Joan Baez her voice drives me batty, the vibrato, the tone, the sound, all of it I file under yucky.  But she's so acclaimed, so there must be a good album in her entire catalogue, and it's definitely not this one!  I gave it the old college try, I only paid a buck for it, so I wasn't too sore that it sucked.  Honestly I couldn't even listen to it, the needle only touched a few seconds of each song, but alas I over came, turned it off, and gave up.

Sonic Youth -- Goo

  This might not be Sonic Youth's best album, but it's definitely their coolest.  These tastemakers not only have unique killer guitar riffs, but their own brand of tuning and their own style of guitar chord progression -- can it get better than that, answer, NO!  Goo has some of that Indie Rock sweetness with the punch-drunk love for Punk Rock, even going as far as getting their cover done by the man himself Raymond Petitbon.  Let's put on our Dirty Boots and go visit My Friend Goo who's a real Kool Thing!

The Stooges -- Fun House

  The Stooges second album is in my opinion their best, totally raw, totally loud and totally awesome.  Fun House is the symbiotic mix of the MC5 and the Doors with the beat down street primitivism of the Velvets.  What else can I say, but "welcome to the Fun House, Yow!!!!!"

The Temptations -- With a Lot o' Soul

  Pumpin' Motown Classic, man this album is a power house of hits and devotion!  Their sound is mostly taken from Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, whom was very involved with the Temptations early career and this record, but where the Miracles are more the smooth Soul, The Temptations are more of that hard edge thumpin' bass Soul.  The sound on this record is so big you'd think they had everyone at Motown working on it, a gang of producers/songwriters (Holland-Dozier-Whitfield-Robinson-Ivy Joe Hunter ... etc), full orchestrations and The Temptations.  What an effort it musta been, and wuz made With a Lot o' Soul!!!!!

America -- S/T

  Folk Rockin' hybrid love child of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.  Even though they could be considered a rip off band, c'mon you never thought that Horse With No Name was a Neil Young tune at some time or other, they can sometimes out do their contemporaries that they are ripping off.  

The Electric Chairs -- Blatantly Offenzive

  Punk Rock classic Blatantly Offenzive has such hits as F*** Off and Toilet Love, but the wonders of offensiveness don't end there, no no no!  Wayne, now Jayne, County the front man/woman is the hybrid between Joey Ramone and Jackie Curtis.  County used to wear outfits entirely made of garbage on stage, he took what the Dolls did and turned it right up to eleven, maybe even twelve.  This album is drenched in Rock 'n' Roll, grunts included, even covering Garage Rock classic Night Time by the Strangeloves.  The record is a great example of New York Punk, maybe less talked about than the Ramones or the Voidoids, but still important part of the scene, keeping the Warholian feel.  To quote the closing track, Rock 'n' Roll Resurrection, "Rock me Jesus, Roll me Lord, soaking in the blood of Rock 'n' Roll!"

The Detroit Cobras -- Mink, Rat or Rabbit

  The original sultry soul singer revival, forget those pop star imitators, the Cobras are the real deal.  These guys musta been diggin' deep in their 45' collections to find all these obscure tunes to cover.  But these aren't mere cover songs, like some wanna-be bar band, they made these tracks their own, and if you listen to this record there's no disputing it -- that's sure as sh*t!  You've got a good range of  ol', Country, R&B, and Soul, all Bluesely Garage Punkified to the up most perfection.  I'm so confident of their greatness that I once told a friend, right before I put the album on, "if you don't like this we're not friends anymore."  But I knew there wasn't a chance that anybody wouldn't like this record.  Mink, Rat or Rabbit, sure, but I'll take Cobra istead!