Part of me wants this album to get off of my lawn. Though, another part of me knows the Arctic Monkeys are nice boys and when they mature they will make some stuff I like better. They're kind of like Radiohead that way.

This album accounts for 7 of the songs on their 20 greatest hits album.

Here's how I would rank Beastie Boys albums: 1. Ill Communication 2. Check Your Head 3. Hello Nasty 4. Paul's Boutique 5. Hot Sauce Committee Part Two 6. To the 5 Boroughs 7. Licensed to Ill 8. The Mix-Up Fun fact from Beastie Boys Book: Paul's Boutique was a real store and you hear the store's phone number on the album. However, they went out of business shortly after release. Adam Yauch had the presence of mind to acquire the number. The voicemail you hear on Check Your Head--Hey, yo, Paul, this is Al, you can kiss my ass...--comes from a message left at that number.

What if the Talking Heads had met at prep school, not art school, didn't produce any hits and broke up after two albums? This album was a mid-life discovery for me, even though I had heard of Television. I had not heard Television. But upon hearing the dueling guitars of See No Evil, I was hooked. Then I heard Tom Verlaine's singing and I said, I don't know... But the singing and the album grew on me like a barnacle. Is it perfect? Not for me, but as a first album, for its time, this is a great achievement. And I already know I would rather listen to this album than 80 - 90% of the albums on this list.

Bless their hearts.

I guess I did not have a clear sense of who Arcade Fire were prior to listening to this album. I thought I was going to be hearing a fiddle and accordion album, but was very pleasantly surprised with an album that did not feature either. In fact, The Suburbs falls somewhere between like-like and love for me.

Heroes to Zeros is an album so successful that the band broke up after making it. And I low key lurve it. Definitely dig the vibe even if no one song jumps out at me.

I assume this is a soundtrack to a non-existent movie. But one just popped into my head about a superspy named Jaime Contreras. Jaime is on vacation in Rome when the Mexican government requests he retrieve the priceless Mayan artifact El Calendario del Oro. Jaime tours the Vatican with his love interest Giuseppe. However, Giuseppe dies in a drive by poison dart attack. Jaime must take on the persona of world-renowned Tango dancer Bolo to bring the killers to justice and find the artifact.