Paul's Boutique

What can you say about the Beastie Boy's at their peak: made when sampling was still acceptable, it reamins one of the most creative, and listenable hip-hop albums of all time.

Rating: Grapes of Wrath

Neko Case: Fox Confessor Brings the Flood

Case's beautiful voice are a perfect match to her haunting lyrics; absolutely amazing from start to finish.

Rating: Grapes of Wrath

U2: October

The only U2 album worth owning, and the one you've probably never heard - makes you feel like you just spent a year in Dublin...the rough part.

Rating: Barley...I mean "Grapes" of Wrath

London Calling, the Clash

Too bad the greatest album of the 1980s arrived at the beginning of the decade; way too damned eclectic (reggae, horns, straight ahead rock) to be labeled "punk," true power pop at its finest.

Rating: Grapes of Wrath