Ry Cooder - Paradise And Lunch

  What you got here is laid back experimental Americana, with the never ending guitar chops of Ry Cooder, sorta sounds like if James Taylor were mega awesome!

The Allah Las -- Worship The Sun

  Keeping true to their surfy garage revival form while mixing in more elements of lush indie rock making the album feel more like a whole rather than just seperate hit entities, with the exception of the closing country number which could have been a good b-side for a single and not the last thing you should of heard.

The Left Banke -- Walk Away Renee/ Pretty Ballerina

  The album that put baroque pop on the map, this underrated classic finds itself right in between Pet Sounds and Sgt. Pepper.

New Riders Of The Purple Sage -- The Adventures Of Panama Red

  Originally an offshoot of The Grateful Dead, exploring burnout 70's hippie city-boy country music, usually I like this kind of Americana, but Panama Red is easily forgettable.

The Stranglers -- Black And White

  Holy frig, what a piece of shit ... the worst part is the album starts off strong, but by the time you've made it to the end of the second side, you wish you had ripped your eardrums out.  I don't know what the fuck happened while making the album other than maybe the band had gotten so deep into drugs that when it came time to finish the record they no longer gave a shit and rushed whatever garbage out to get it over with ...

Neil Young -- Time Fades Away

  Although Young is embarrassed of this loose jam sounding live LP, most likely due to the memories of the 90 day bender/tour these tracks were recorded from, other than that, who cares, it has that pre-Brian Jonestown Massacre raw one take sound, and seems to be the missing links from the Harvest album, which to me always sounded too short and unfinished ... so frig off Neil, it's awesome!

Big Star -- Sister Lovers/ Third

  Forget the stereotypical Big Star power popped classic rock numbers, the brilliance of this album lies in the 70s style gothic baroque pop songs, which are so good they are genius!