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. 

Lady Gaga -- Born This Way

  Yeah Yeah I totally get that she's doing this Warholian Madonna-esque thing but the teeny-bop party time crapioca pudding she's serving the masses is just killing whatever artistic integrity she had gained with her weirdness.  It's too bad she isn't making viable Synthpop and being the real fringe character she could have been rather than this commercialized corporate monster with the sh*ttiest craptastic front cover ever put out, c'mon who'd they hire a twelve year old with photoshop fantasizing Gaga born as a sick messed up transformer ... oh well ... f*ck it ... what do I care !

Johnny Thunders -- So Alone

  What would have happened if Keith Richards were a Punk Rocker, you guessed it and could it really have been anyone else, Johnny Thunders!  So Alone is the sound of a man who is beautiful destroyed and heavily influenced by early Rock 'n' Roll.  The junk stricken Punk casualty had a massive amount luminaries play on this album, and could you blame them for jumping in, they got to hang with the original Punk! 

Iggy Pop -- The Idiot

  Dark, bleak, Kraut infused debut solo effort by the man himself with co-host David Bowie.  The Idiot sounds like a huge intellectual come down on copious amounts of narcotics, like a retelling of a coke frenzied bender that lasted weeks, but my question is did Pop out Bowie, Bowie?

The Modern Lovers

  So ahead of their time that the album was only released four years after it was recorded.  The Modern Lovers have a lazy 70's Rock feel with Doorsy keyboard and 60's Velvets Punk esthetic ... Richman went on to record many more albums but he never reached the brilliance of his initial effort!

The Magnetic Feilds -- 69 Love Songs

  I just ordered this, I've heard some of it before but have never done a full siting, which for god sakes will take three hours, not too sure if I can take that much of anything, but who knows I'm a sucker for love songs and this one has 69 of them, I can safely summarize that I will laugh, cry, be overwhelmed, get annoyed, feel astounded and probably want to turn it off when it's finally over.  This is an album for the ages!  Anyone putting this much effort into doing something must be heard ... for sure!