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. 

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!