The Flying Lizards -- S/T

  Initially I assumed The Flying Lizards were just a typical 80's Electro band, and they are for the most part, but then I played the flipside which has four Electro-Clash'd Dub styled Trip Hop numbers, not a type of music I am always partial to, but when you discover things like these, you feel like a chisel wielding rock and roll archeologist who just found something deep in the ground.

Nirvana -- Nevermind

You know what??  Fuck this album, fuck this band, I can't stand nerdvana, I have no clue how this angsty juvenile garbage has made it to such classic status ... if you want the real, so called, "grunge" it's called Mudhoney!  Oh and this is by far their best album!

Public Enemy -- Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos 12"

  Black Steel is, well in my mind, the best Rap song of all-time, no one has nailed it so cold, hard and serious.  In case you didn't know, the premise is, a dude gets a draft letter, he doesn't believe in his country and his country doesn't believe in him, so he dodges not really thinking too much of it, the government goes after him, they toss him in a cell, turns out it's a work-camp a la legal politically run new style slavery ring, so in the end he plans an escape, in which he participates in many violent acts due to being in jail's mental malaise, meaning the government took a seemingly normal person, crammed  him in with a bunch of criminals, junkies and other dodgers, which eventually turned him into a cold blooded killer!!  I realize the song is charged with the racial issues of the time, but I'm sure there were multicultural draft dodgers dealing with the same problem, giving Black Steel universal theme.

P.S. I don't really like or know too much about hip hop!

Screeching Weasel -- Boogadaboogadaboogada!

  First things first, let's not talk about the punch a girl in the face incident!  What a f*ckin' jerk-bag!  Instead let's talk about how these guys made Punk fun again, who didn't love to play this album as a teenager, smoke weed with your friends and act like total goofballs; as oppose to most of the bummer political Punk, or mega serious Hardcore, or the even worse Straight Edge -- f*ck that sh*t we wanna have a good time!!  I have to say I wasn't too crazy about the 90's Punk that was inspired by these guys, and my only real beef with Boogadaboogadaboogada! is that there is just way too many songs, half the songs are well written, well produced, the other half is too much of the same old with half the effort ... it would have been great if they'd done it like the Circle Jerks's Group Sex, I realize some people are cheesed because that album was too short, but it was perfect, which is what this album could have been!

Simply Saucer -- Cyborgs Revisited

  One of Canada's best hidden secrets, Simply Saucer, and if you are a Proto-Punk geek snob then this one should go right to the top of your list!  Saucer has a wide span of influences from early Electronic music to Kraut style psychedelia, making a kinda Garage dystopian Punk hybrid with what sounds like Lou Reed on vocals.  So spread the word ... and Dance The Mutation!

The Valadiers -- I Found A Girl/ You'll Be Sorry Someday 45'

  The first official all-white vocal group recorded by the Motown think tank.  Story goes ... these boys waltz into the Soul city studio to audition for Berry Gordy, he must have been pretty impressed because he signed four whities!  Now do these pale riders compare to their colored Soul struttin' contemporaries, not even close!!  The Valadiers are a cute Doo Wop vocal act, but they aren't really Motown material, maybe Gordy was trying to diversify, widen or whiten his audience.  I like how the numbers seem to have a theme, first it's I Found A Girl and by the time it came to record the B-side it's You'll Be Sorry Someday, he was already bitter as hell, all I kept thinking was, "gee that was fast."  But I can't judge too harshly, I've had a couple of those myself!  

The Damned -- Damned Damned Damned

  Motherf*ckin' shotgun blast of the best Brit Punk there is!!  From start to finish it goddamn-ed kills!