Sitting Here in Limbo: West Coast Kid
Sep 19th, 2007 by Brinson
Your selectionist (nope, I’m not sure if it’s real either; selectioneer maybe?) today comes straight from the Bay Area, brah. He is the primary author of 100% Injury Rate and a member of Epic Carnival. He also gained notoriety recently as 100%IR became the only member of the blogosphere to ever pull off the Blog Show Triple Lindy. He may also be the finest purveyor of Japanese game show vids that we have ever seen. Please welcome the West Coast Kid, with his selections after the jump.
1. Wu-Tang Clan, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers): This is a seminal rap album, but aside from that, it contains in my opinion the greatest rap song ever written – C.R.E.A.M. Far too many rappers today rap about their Vitamin Water product or some other stupid shit. 36 Chambers is rap at its best – just the straight truth and no BS.
2. The Clash, London Calling: Just an awesome fucking album. This was The Clash at their absolute peak.
3. Weezer, The Blue Album: You can listen to it from beginning to end and the quality remains incredibly high the whole time. Just a great piece of work and the album that made nerd rock popular. They should have saved some of their stuff for Pinkerton though.
4. Tupac, All Eyes on Me: You knew this was coming because I grew up in California. Tupac’s a little tough, because his best stuff was spread out over a bunch of albums. Since Picture Me Rollin’ and How Do You Want It are two of my all time favorite rap songs, I’ll go with this album before even Makaveli.
5. The Killers, Hot Fuss: I don’t care if I get grief for this. It’s a great album, even if it’s been played to death by now.
6. The Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols: The definitive punk band in music history. I actually wrote a research paper on the Sex Pistols for a history class in college. There’s more to them than you think. Plus they managed to say the word “cunt” repeatedly in the song “Pretty Vacant” without the British censors picking it up. That never gets old to me.
7. Sublime, Sublime: If I can’t be in California, this album’s the next best thing.
8. The Who, Who’s Next: Arguably their greatest album, and nothing would be better than waking up every morning to Baba O’Riley, you know, until I realize I’m stranded on an island.
9. Rage Against the Machine, Evil Empire: You’re bound to get mad being stuck on an island. This’ll be therapeutic.
10. Beastie Boys, Hello Nasty: Their best work to date. Plus it has the most hilarious rhyme in history. “Dogs love me cuz I’m crazy sniffable / I betcha never knew I got the ill peripheral.”
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hello nasty could be interchangeable with licensed to ill….so hard to say which is better. otherwise, i’d say you picked the cream of the crop