Sigur Ros - Ágætis byrjun (1999)

Ágætis byrjun - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ORIVMY7A

Ágætis byrjun has a distinct minimal slightly electronic feel. Highlighted by Jonsi Borgensson's falsetto, Sigur Ros, makes beautiful music. Iceland must be proud.

Favorite Tracks: Svefn-g-englar, Avalon

Amy Winehouse - Back to Black (2006)

Back to Black - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9BFBGLFR

Back to Black is simultaneously retro and current. Amy's soulful voice is complemented by the brilliant production of Mark Ronson. A great album to relax to.

Favorite Tracks: Back to Black, You Know I'm No Good

Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet (1968)

Beggars Banquet - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZNASDFF9

One of the greatest rock albums from the 1960s. The Stones at the top of their game playing the signature blues tinged Rock 'n' Roll. Brian Jones's last full album with the group before his untimely death.

Favorite Tracks: Sympathy for the Devil, Street Fightin' Man

Royksopp - Melody A.M. (2001)

Melody A.M. - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5LXGM9KM

Meolody A.M. is a chilled out flight of electronic grooves. You've probably heard the song Eple in various TV commercials. A great album from the Norwegian duo.

Favorite Tracks: Eple, Remind Me

Sublime - 40oz. to Freedom (1992)

40oz. To Freedom - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=C1HO5UWA

40oz. to Freedom is the debut album from Sublime. The reggae and ska vibe is in full force. A great album for a summer day.

Favorite Tracks: Badfish, Smoke Two Joints

Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears - The Flight of the Knife (2008)

The Flight of the Knife - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CVF41QO6

Bryan Scary 's Flight of the knife is a fun funky upbeat album chock full of fun pop psychedelica. Sounds like a mix between David Bowie and The Beatles... but also unique. Definitely a fun album.

The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin (1999)

The Soft Bulletin - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QDH2VP62

This album is full of lush, multi-layered psychedelic arrangements and spacey lyrics. A masterpiece of studio engineering.

Favorite Tracks: Waitin' for a Superman (Is It Gettin' Heavy?), Race for the Prize (Sacrifice of the New Scientists)

Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister (1996)

If You're Feeling Sinister - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LX3MCDIZ

A lush blend of folk-pop and 80s indie pop sensibilities, this album is full of whimsical characters and sweet melodies.

Favorite Tracks: Stars of Track and Field, Me and the Major

Air - Moon Safari (1998)

Moon Safari - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B68P6UFD

The debut album of the Parisian chill-out superstars, Moon Safari, is aptly named. It features chilled out textures that make you feel like you are taking a relaxing ride on the moon. This is a great album to throw on after a rough night.

Favorite Tracks: Kelley Watch the Stars, Remember

A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory (1991)

The Low End Theory - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LME5TNDJ

The jazz-based beats are melodic but hard, and all the upright bass gives the front half of the album an intimate feel. But it's Q-Tip and Phife's deft rhymes that make each track sound like an interview, a confessional, or a career advice seminar, and make this album truly magical.

Favorite Tracks: Check the Rhime, Jazz (We've Got)

Eminem - The Slim Shady LP (1999)

The Slim Shady LP - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HPEIYU38

Eminem's major label debut is nothing short of a breakthrough record. His deeply personal and at times hilarious lyrics are not only amazingly sharp but raw and introspective. Songs vary from his love of drugs to his resentment of his mother and drama with his girlfriend. Laced with dope beats from Dre and others this album is a true hip-hop masterpiece.

Favorite Tracks: Cum on Everybody, I Just Don't Give a Fuck

Radiohead - Hail to the Theif (2003)

Hail to the Thief - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V5YFZF89

Featuring drum machines and distorted synths, HTTT is a step in the continued evolution of Radiohead. But, HTTT is also a step back from the complete and utter technological wizardry of Kid A and Amnesiac, and sounds a little more like the straight forward rock sounds of earlier Radiohead.

Favorite Tracks: 2+2=5, A Punch-Up at a Wedding

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=pbewjdcf

I first listened to this album a couple years back and liked it immediately. I had forgot about it as of late, but randomly came across it very recently. The low-fi psychedelic sound is unnervingly good. It's a shame that this band literally went nuts and called it quits because they made beautiful music.

Zero 7 - The Garden (2006)

The Garden - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XEYNTXG5

This album is real chill. Real Chill. This album exudes a vibe that is so down to earth. Put this on and fade away to a spot of mental euphoria.

Favorite Tracks- Start at Track 1 and let it play.

Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future (2007)

Myths of the Near Future - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TRAQKLXY

Myths of the Near Future is an album full of great electro rock songs. A refreshing new direction in rock music, these songs are just as home in the club as they are at a rock show.

Favorite Tracks: Golden Skans, Gravity's Rainbow

Marilyn Manson - Smells Like Children (1996)

Smells Like Children - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IOYEVEHG

Marilyn Manson is a weird dude. This album is pretty sinister. Features a great cover of the Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams"

Favorite Tracks: Sweet Dreams (are made of this), Kiddie Grinder (remix)

Spank Rock - YoYoYoYoYo (2006)

YoYoYoYoYo - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9MVEH9G3

Spank Rock rock is putting Baltimore Club on the map. YoYoYoYoYo is not an album to put on when you are taking it easy. This is one for da club.

Favorite Tracks: Rick Rubin, Bump

Daft Punk - Homework (1997)

Homework - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=jmckhiay

Daft Punk truly are legends. They make electronic music like no one else. They dress up like robots and melt peoples faces off. This is the album that started it all.

Favorite Tracks: Da Funk, Around the World

The Roots - Do You Want More?!!!??! (1995)

Do You Want More?!!!??! - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XUIRGPSL (*password=311)

The Roots are not your typical Hip-Hop group. Their albums are recorded live and not composed mainly of samples. This album has great bass, drums, and lyrics.

Favorite Tracks: Mellow My Man, Essaywhuman?!!!??!

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (1973)

Dark Side of The Moon - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TP0NLMOF

Probably one of the most epic albums of all time. If you have never sat alone, turned out the lights, and blasted DSOTM, then you haven't really lived.

Favorite Tracks: Breathe, Eclipse

Outkast - ATLiens (1996)

ATLiens -http://www.megaupload.com/?d=L1JGVXBS (*password= 311)

Outkast is the Beatles of hip-hop. This album is chock full of tight beats, great rhymes, and trippy shit. Chew shrooms to this one. (holler JT)

Favorite Tracks: Elevators (Me & You), Two Dope Boys (in a Cadillac)

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (1993)

Siamese Dream - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PMDLHGY0

Siamese Dream is a a beautifully layered rock album accentuated by Billy Corgan's shrill voice.

Favorite Tracks: Disarm, Today, Cherub Rock

David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1974)

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A3VTC8JY

David Bowie is a conceptual genius. Ziggy Stardust is an album full of imaginative tracks that tell the story of Ziggy- a Martian who comes to earth to save us from banality. Ultimately, the rock star-like Ziggy falls a victim to his excesses of sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

Favorite Tracks: Starman, Ziggy Stardust

Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets (1998)

Before These Crowded Streets - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=045FXEWL

Probably DMB's best album, BTCS is a great combination of folk, rock, and world rhythms. Probably the album to play if you are trying to score with a drunk sorority chick.

Favorite Tracks: Crush, The Stone, The Dreaming Tree, Pig

Moby - Play (1999)

Play - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8Y2SPQ9E

Moby's Play is a wonderful combination of old gospel and folk music rhythms with modern house sensibilities

Favorite Tracks: Porcelain, Southside

Rancid - ...And Out Come the Wolves (1995)

... And Out Come the Wolves - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZMY5CN81

This is a Punk tour-de-force. An aggressive explosion of in your face tunes.

Favorite Tracks: Timebomb, Ruby Soho

Green Day - Dookie (1994)

Dookie - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LKD6PMVC

Dookie is an album full of jagged guitar riffs and catchy hooks. No album better expresses the teen aged slacker.

Favorite Tracks : Basket Case. When I Come Around, She

Radiohead - Kid A (2000)

Kid A - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=mp4klhxb

Kid A is probably the strangest album to debut at #1 on the US Charts. Influenced by glitch and ambient music, Kid A is pretty much a totally electronic album. Kid A, refers to the Earth's first cloned human. It deals with isolation and depression. The album is pretty dark and abstract- but, features moments of pure symphonic bliss. This album may be a little difficult to "get" on first listen... but if you stick with it and give it a try it is one of the most brilliantly deep and engaging albums you will ever hear. The first four songs are without a doubt, breathtaking.

Favorite Tracks: Everything In It's Right Place, How to Disappear Completely (my favorite song of all time), Idioteque, Optimistic

Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993)

Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6JS97002

Laced with heavy, eerie beats, largely based on martial-arts movie clips and soul music samples, Wu's debut album is hardcore hip hop at it's finest.

Favorite Tracks: Bring da Ruckus, Method Man

Tupac - All Eyez on Me (1996)

All Eyez on Me - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MR1XTAMX

Tupac is arguably the greatest rapper of all time. All Eyez on Me is a celebration of the thug lifestyle. Club bangers are mixed alongside more thought provoking ballads.

Favorite Tracks: Ambitionz As a Rydah, How Do You Want it?

Paul Simon - Graceland (1986)

Graceland - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=42DB0TOE

Paul Simon is a great American songwriter and Graceland features an eclectic mixture of musical styles including African rhythms and American roots music.

Favorite Tracks: Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes, Under African Skies

The Streets -A Grand Don't Come For Free (2004)

A Grand Don't Come For Free - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=N3JCDQSK

The second album from Mike Skinner aka The Streets is a concept album about a man losing a £1000 and his resulting quest to get it back. Skinner is a master storyteller and the album is as a result hypnotic in its dirty beats and vivid imagery.

Favorite Tracks: Not Addicted, Fit But You Know it

The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die (1994)

Ready to Die - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VAFJGB15

Awesome rhymes and great beats, Ready to Die is a must have Rap Album.

Favorite Tracks: Juicy, Who Shot Ya

Nirvana - In Utero (1993)

In Utero - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7EXQD5T8

The final album from Nirvana, In Utero, is not a happy album. It features sterotypical "grunge" rock and is a window into the soul of Cobain, who obviously was a tortured soul, unhappy with his newly found fame. Nonetheless, the album is beautiful and full of great rock 'n roll.

Favorite Tracks: Rape Me, Dumb

Radiohead - In Rainbows [Disc 2] (2007)

In Rainbows - [Disc 2] - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SBT1G3J8

This album was only officially released by Radiohead with the In Rainbows vinyl bundle. Featuring a bunch of tracks that have the same general mood as In Rainbows, these songs are no less great and compliment the first disc greatly. I'm not sure why Thom, Jonny, and the guys decided not to release these gems with the rest of In Rainbows.

Favorite Tracks: Down is the New Up, Go Slowly

M.I.A. - Arular (2005)

Arular - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NEGAIK4Q

M.I.A.'s Arular is a mix of hip-hop, grime, baile funk, dancehall, and reggaeton and is truly a great party album. This album was mailed to hipsters with samples of Tide a little while back.

Favorite Tracks: Bucky Done Gun, Sunshowers

The Postal Service - Give Up (2003)

Give Up - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=79ES4GAX

A mellow mix of electronica and pop, Give Up is about as chill as an album as there is. Good to put on late at night when you are taking it easy.

Favorite Tracks: Sleeping In, Nothing Better

Bush - Sixteen Stone (1994)

Sixteen Stone - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PGPO0M1D

This album was the shit when I was in middle school.

Favorite Tracks: Comedown, Machinehead

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DE8EZBL8

Admittedly, I don't know all that much about Wilco aside from YHF and seeing them once or twice live. But, YHF is a really chill album that has a little bit of an alt-country vibe to it. Sounds to me like a good album for a road trip through the country.

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing (1996)

Endtroducing - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6LL7YX1C

This album is samples mixed and mashed together to create a sonic masterpiece. Billed as the first album completely composed of samples it truly is a musical breakthrough.

Favorite Tracks: Building Steam With a Grain of Salt, Organ Donor

The Beatles - Abbey Road (1969)

Abbey Road - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9I94RN8Y

This is the first of the Beatles albums that I really fell in love with. It is such an amazingly complete album from start to finish. The medley from "Mean Mr. Mustard" to "The End" is probably my favorite of the Beatles entire catalog.

Favorite Tracks - I Want You (She's So Heavy), She Came in Through the Bathroom Window

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (1970)

Bitches Brew - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4HKEA1U6

This is Miles Davis's most accessible album. Less jazzy, more like a rock album. Electric organ and electric guitar are featured prominently. This album was like no other jazz album when it came out in 1970.

Favorite Tracks: Pharaoh's Dance, Bitches Brew

Weezer - Weezer (1994)

Weezer - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=98X0UCVY

Often referred to as "The Blue Album" this album is good time garage rock. Straight forward guitar driven songs anchored by vocal harmonies. This album is full of songs about happy things like love- very different from the often darker grunge rock of the early nineties.

Favorite Tracks: No One Else, Say it Ain't So

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (1994)

The Downward Spiral - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9OW453AE

The Downward Spiral is a concept album about the destruction of an unnamed man. The album is often very edgy and dark. Reznor is a master of low tech futurism.

Favorite Tracks: Closer, Hurt

Peter Bjorn and John - Writer's Block (2006)

Writer's Block - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6ITSH6G0

Peter Bjorn and John are three guys from Sweden who make catchy indie rock. You've heard the song "Young Folks" everywhere. The rest of the album is good as well.

Favorite Tracks: Young Folks, Amsterdam, Let's Call it Off

Fiona Apple - Tidal (1996)

Tidal- http://www.megaupload.com/?d=29FIVIO5

Fiona Apple's sultry Tidal is a window into her soul. Deeply introspective, the album is an antidote to packaged pop the likes of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera.

Favorite Tracks: Criminal, Sleep to Dream

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Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995)

(What's the Story) Morning Glory? - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=76J9LDTO

Liam and Noel Gallagher are two pompous assholes. But, they did make a great album. Here it is.

Favorite Tracks: Wonderwall, Champagne Supernova

The Strokes - Is This It (2001)

Is This It - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GBZ8QY2G

The eleven songs on Is This It speed by in just slightly more than half an hour, each one so tightly constructed and urgently delivered that even the ballads seem fast. The Strokes are obsessed with rhythm, and at times their approach is more like that of a soul or funk band than a rock band.

Favorite Tracks: The Modern Age, Last Nite

The Cure - Disintegration (1989)

Disintegration - http://rapidshare.com/files/60741038/TCd.rar

Robert Smith is the poster child of despair and gloom. This album is dark and moody. It features great grooves and wonderful melodies. It makes feeling sad sound good.

Favorite Tracks: Lovesong, Lullaby

A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders (1993)

Midnight Marauders - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MGG2WU9P

This album is a great fusion of jazzy rhythms and intellectual lyrics. Definitely an album to play at night.

Favorite Tracks: Award Tour, Electric Relaxation