Top Twenty All Time Desert Island Must Have Albums Recorded Sometime in the Last Twenty Years
(in no particular order; * best if heard whilst driving very quickly, windows down; on hip hop records, Beastie Boys exclusive, degree of imposed blackness during play is discretionary)
U2, The Joshua Tree
Public Enemy, Fear of a Black Planet
De La Soul, 3 Feet High and Rising
De La Soul, Buhloone Mindstate*
Beastie Boys, Ill Communication
Jurasssic 5, Quality Control
Radiohead, The Bends*
Soundgarden, Superunknown
Smashing Pumpkins, Gish
Pogues, The, Rum Sodomy & the Lash*
G. Love and Special Sauce, self titled* (speed of car may vary)
New Order, Substance (technically a double album, but disk two is forgettable)
Sade, Love Deluxe
Nine Inch Nails, Broken
Cypress Hill, Black Sunday
Paul Simon, Graceland*
Fugees (Refugee Camp), The Score
REM, Automatic for the People
The Roots, Things Fall Apart
The Feelies, Only Life*
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