The Mighty Upsetter -- Kung Fu Meets The Dragon

  A classic in the Lee 'Scratch' Perry, OCD riddled, cult film obsessed, dub reggae style.  Perry's Jamaican space-psych pre-trip hop music is pure mad scientist genius in technique, form and sound, recorded in his studio/ dub-experiment lab, Black Ark studios, which he cheaply built in his back yard to gain more control and isolation, and eventually burned down in a fit of paranoia due to 'unclean spirits' ... I suspect that the super ape had escaped and was totally pissed!

The Dave Brubeck Quartet -- Time Out

  I may not, yet, be a jazz aficionado, and don't get me wrong Time Out is a great album, but I somehow find it has a white naïveté sound to it.

J Mascis -- Tied To A Star

  The album I always wanted to hear from J Mascis, striped down and flailing away from the Dinosaur Jr. Marshall stacked power rock, instead it's a neo-folk-psych-gazer record reminiscent of Led Zepplin III.  I'm so glad my local dude was playing this in-store when I had some money to burn!

Ty Segall -- Goodbye Bread

  I wrote off Segall way too soon, Goodbye Bread is a brilliant Indie-psych masterpeice.  Funny thing is when I picked this up, the owner's buddy was manning the store with his all too friendly sticky dog, while I'm getting an album that is rittled with pooch pictures, coincidence, I don't believe in them, just another mini-epic moment of the fateadlyesque hobby of collecting.

The Stooges

  Super stoned, raw and primitive, The Stooges, John Cale produced, opening album was and is an instant classic.  I had no idea how tough these guys actually were until I read Please Kill Me ... squatting in a house at war with bikers over heroin, they meant and were every sound they made, the real deal all the way ... f*ck you!

Echo & The Bunnymen -- Porcupine

  For the most part I don't like Echo & The Bunnymen, Heaven's Up Here is super rad, but Porcupine is loud, hyper and way too new waveish, like not so sucky U2, but U2 nonetheless.

Beck -- Odelay

  There are some great grooves on this album but Mellow Gold's gritty weirdness still takes top spot, even if dumb top 40's radio stations still play Loser.