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1. Mule Variations by Tom Waits Tom Waits, back after six years without a traditional album, hit a creative peak when he released Mule Variations, featuring the Grammy-nominated song "Hold On," in 1999. The album is considered by some to be his best in more than a decade. Includes: Big In Japan, Lowside Of The Road, Hold On, Get Behind The Mule, House Where Nobody Lives, Cold Water, Pony, What's He Building?, Black Market Baby, Eyeball Kid, Picture In A Frame, Chocolate Jesus, Georgia Lee, Filipino Box Spring Hog, Take It With Me, Come On Up To The House

2. Creedence Clearwater Revival by Creedence Clearwater Revival with John Fogerty. With the release of this debut Fantasy album in July 1968, Creedence Clearwater Revival launched a career that would rocket to enormous worldwide popularity. Includes: I Put A Spell On You, The Working Man, Suzie Q, Ninety-Nine And A Half, Get Down Woman, Porterville, Gloomy and Walk On The Water.

3. The Science Of Things by Bush The band has mutated into a more eclectic and spontaneous entity that feels just as comfortable raging in a three-chord punk maelstrom to applying scurrying electronic beats and other sound effects to its eclectic constructions. Includes: Warm Machine, Jesus Online, The Chemicals Between Us, English Fire, Spacetravel, 40 Miles From The Sun, Prizefighter, The Disease Of The Dancing Cats, Altered States, Dead Meat, Letting The Cables Sleep and Mindchanger.

4. Golden Years by Motorhead Fans of early Motorhead have got to get their hands on this one! "Golden Years" is classic Motorhead.
Includes: Leaving Here, White Line Fever, Louie Louie, Like A Nightmare, Bomber, Stone Dead Forever, The Hammer, Jailbait, Ace Of Spades, Dirty Love, Love Me Like A Reptile, Shoot You In The Back, We Are The Road Crew, Bastard, Motorhead (Live), Iron Horse (Live)

5. Bloodthirst by Cannibal Corpse Metal Rock includes: Pounded Into Dust, Dead Human Collection, Unleashing The Bloodthirsty, The Spine Splitter, Ecstacy In Decay, Raped By The Beast Coffinfeeder, Hacksaw Decapitation, Blowtorch Slaughter, Sickening Metamorphosis, Conemned To Agony

6. Crossing Muddy Waters by John Hiatt Recorded in less than a week at a home studio in the Tennessee countryside, the Grammy nominated Crossing Muddy Waters is the great singer-songwriter's strongest album in years. Includes: Lincoln Town, Crossing Muddy Waters, What Do We Do Now, Only The Song Survives, Lift Up Every Stone, Take It Down, Gone, Take It Back, Mr. Stanley, God's Golden Eyes and Before I Go

7. Radio City by Big Star Includes: Feel, The Ballad of El Goodo, In the Street, Thirteen, Don't Lie to Me, The India Song, When My Baby's Beside Me, My Life is Right, Give Me Another Chance, Try Again, Watch the Sunrise, ST 100/6, O My Soul, Life is White, Way Out West, What's Going Ahn, You Get What You Deserve, Mod Lang, Back of a Car, Daisy Glaze, She's a Mover, September Gurls, Morpha Too, I'm in Love with a Girl

8. Jerry Lee Lewis by Jerry Lee Lewis Includes: Great Balls Of Fire, High School Confidential, Hey Good Lookin, Brown Eyed Handsome Man, What Made Milwaukee Famous, Who's Gonna Play This Ole Piano, Lucille, Harbour Lights, Johnny B. Goode, Georgia On My Mind, Rockin My Life Away, Your Cheatin Heart, Chantilly Lace, Roll Over Beethoven Boogie Woogie Country Man, Whole Lotta Shakin

9. Hold Me Up by Goo Goo Dolls Hold Me Up was the record that introduced the Goo Goo Dolls to pre-Nirvana alternative audiences via spotty commercial radio airplay and appearances on MTV's 120 Minutes. This album also triggered comparisons to the Replacements, whose influence can definitely be heard on the catchy There You Are. Includes: Laughing, Just The Way You Are, So Outta Line, There You Are, You Know What I Mean, Out Of The Red, Never Take The Place Of Your Man, Hey, On Your Side, 22 Seconds, Kevin's Song, Know My Name, Million Miles Away, Two Days In February

10. Knockin' On Heaven's Door by Arthur Louis featuring Eric Clapton Arthur Louis, a native of Jamaica, was living in London and captured the attention of one Eric Clapton. Clapton plays on seven of this album's tracks, one of which is a Reggae Version of Bob Dylan's "Knockin' On Heaven's Door." Eric Clapton loved the track so much that he went on to record it on his next record and his version became a hit song. Includes: Come On And Love Me, The Dealer, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Go Out And Make It Happen, It Feels So Good, Been On The Road Too Long, Train 444, Someone Like You and Plum (Instrumental).

11. California Bleeding by Iggy and The Stooges Bomp's Iguana Chronicles returns with more insanely rare Stooges material. This time a selection of the best from the band's five-day 1973 stint at the Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles, plus a never-before-heard show from San Francisco in 1974. Unlike the various European releases, this album features never-released shows and drastically improved sound quality.
Includes: Search & Destroy, Need Sombody, Open Up And Bleed, Johanna, Wet My Bed, I Got Nothing, Head On, She Creatures Of The Hollywood Hills, Heavy Liquid/New Orleans

12. Blues For Elvis by Albert King Elvis Presley Traditional Blues by Albert Kings includes: Hound Dog, That's All Right, All Shook Up, Jailhouse Rock, Heartbreak Hotel, Don't Be Cruel, One Night, Blue Suede Shoes, Love Me Tender