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.