10. Keram - Song: The Hanging Tree
9. The Walkmen - Song: Canadian Girl
8. Tapes n’ Tapes - Song: Hang Them All
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10. Wolf Eyes - Dread - For them it's pretty tame. Long songs with only occasional vocals, very sparse but with persistent electronic punches. When the cries, screams and guttural howls enter the mix, it gets ugly and it's brilliant. Perfect for hiding in a car on a dead end street.
9. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#00 - It's hard for me to listen to Godspeed when it's not winter. Their work just doesn't seem as interesting in the summer. It's fun to spin this one when you're just laying around with a bottle of downers and it's gray outside and you want to disappear for a while.
8. Can - Tago Mago - Maybe it's because we have a tendency to make music like this when we're together in a room imbibing different things (herbs, liquids, pills, compressed air, smack), but it always sounds better when your head is light and you can crawl up inside that barren space and take everything as it comes.
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10. Dead Meadow - Shivering King and Others - They've got these heavy riffs that bore their way into your head and sound huge all the time. They took a page from Sabbath and Zeppelin and cranked it up louder and made it even dirtier. It makes this big, wide open "brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr" meets a "wooooooooooooooooh" sound that totally gives you a headache if it's on too long. A good headache. In fact, it demands that the word "headache" be replaced by something more along the lines of, "headbliss!"
9. Prince - Purple Rain - Although I never admit to owning this record in public, I've got it. Prince has been called an "underrated guitarist" often enough that he's probably not that underrated anymore. He IS, still, under five-and-a-half feet tall.
8. The Stooges - Raw Power - I think Funhouse is a better album, but James Williams's guitar skills dwarfed those of Ron Asheton. Asheton, as it is well documented, got shoved over to the bass guitar on this album, and only occasionally picked up an axe to lay down a second guitar line.
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10. Gza, "Pro Tools"
9. Lil Wayne, "The Carter III"
8. Kanye West, "808's & Heartbreak"
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10. Chris Cornell - Ave Maria
9. Dean Martin - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
8. Josh Groban - Oh Holy Night
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10. Charlie Quintana (Plugz, Cruzados, Social Distortion)
9. Topper Headon (The Clash)
8. Tommy Ramone (The Ramones)
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10. Chester Arthur Burnett - Howlin’ Wolf (along with Muddy Waters) introduced me to the blues. Moanin’ In The Moonlight and …Sings The Blues are incredible, even if he wasn’t as technically proficient or lyrically brilliant as fellow Delta Bluesmen Robert Johnson. What he had that Johnson and many others lacked was his simple ability to rock out. His voice, undeniably, is one of the most amazing voices in the history of recorded music. This Is Howlin’ Wolf’s New Album and his London Sessions are both mildly overrated by many, but I still listen to and enjoy both.
9. Junior Wells - I think “Hoodoo Blues Man” is another one of those hyperbolic “best blues songs of all time,” but — then again — what the fuck do I know? Wells was a Chicago bluesman, which stands in stark contrast to the majority of this list, which includes mostly Delta and one or two Texas bluesmen. He played with everyone from Muddy Waters to Buddy Guy to the Rolling Stones. His vocal style kicked ass, he played a mean harmonica, and he looked like a genuine bad ass. What more do you want?
8. Skip James - Again, an immense talent with a voice that could bring you to tears or scare the shit out of you. In fact, I think “Devil Got My Woman” might be my favorite blues song of all time. That might just be a bold declaration without my having given it too much thought, but it definitely stands out as one of my favorite songs. The blues in general have a tendency to reach for your guts, but I implore you to find a more gut-wrenching musician and singer than James.
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10. Three Times One Minus One
9. DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
8. Hall & Oates
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10. Dr. Dirty
9. Leibya Rogers
8. Adam Sandler
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10. Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
9. Killing Zoe (1994)
8. Rushmore (1998)
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