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I read somewhere that his was the band’s transitional, apocalyptic 1979 album.  This was a band on the verge of leaving the New York scene and blowing up and this was their brilliant response…adding players, instruments and Byrne and Brian Eno collaborating like never before.  They created an album that brought all of 1979 together, the punk, the disco, the aggression….with our current end times, this might be the right record for now.

One of THE most important records in Seattle music history.  A tribute to their fallen brother Andrew Wood, Pearl Jam playing with Soundgarden members RIGHT before Pearl Jam was a thing…and of course Eddie Vedder on vocals being introduced to the world paying tribute to the man who died and created this amazing situation for him.  The songs, the energy, the flannel…its just incredible.

People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm is one of the finest albums in hip-hop. It’s easy to argue that a Tribe Called Quest reached their zenith on this, their debut album: though they went on to produce other world-class discs. Q-Tip and Phife’s delivery is deceptively simple, flowing like wine and tasting like candy, and Jairobi adds some contrast. The music, so self-assured that it never raises it’s voice to make a spectacle, follows suit. Four albums later, on their last tour, songs from Paths of Rhythm still were at the top of the set list. – Randy Silver.

Double 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Achtung Baby is the seventh studio album by U2. It was produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, and was released on 18 November 1991. Thematically, Achtung Baby is darker, more introspective, and at times more flippant than their previous work. The album and the subsequent multimedia-intensive Zoo TV Tour were central to the group’s 1990s reinvention, by which they abandoned their earnest public image for a more lighthearted and self-deprecating one.  You can have your Joshua Tree but Achtung Baby is the best.

U2’s Rattle and Hum the film was a bit of a mess, the album is incredible and often overlooked. It has aged VERY well.  Six songs were recorded live in concert, nine new studio tracks, Rattle and Hum was U2’s exploration of America throughout The Joshua Tree tour. At one point the working name for the movie was “U2 in the Americas”. The live material captures here was filmed and recorded during The Joshua Tree tour.  This was a band at the peak of their powers.

Double vinyl LP pressing. 2020 collection, the first-ever official anthology of recordings from the iconic rock duo, Jack and Meg White, is an essential career-spanning collection highlighting 26 previously released songs. From late ’90s flashes of brilliance through early 2000s underground anthems, masterful MTV Moon Man moments, Grammy-grabbing greatness, and worldwide stadium chants, the songs here are as wide-ranging as you can imagine.  A large part of Third Man Records and The White Stripes’ successes have been built on zigging when the rest of the music business is zagging. Thus, for a great band with great fans, a greatest hits compilation for The White Stripes is not only appropriate, but absolutely necessary.