cab driver 1996 (top 20)

We actually enjoy a lot of these movies. Thanks S&E:


sooooooooooooooo tapped out.

"It's like meeting the girl of your dreams and then finding out she's five."

#20 Weezer "Tired Of Sex"

This fuckin guy Rivers. He's just a regular Don Johnson, isn't he? Whippin' off the towel every chance he gets. Matt Sharp & Pat Wilson achieve murderous tendencies throughout the final minute of this.

#19 Spacehog "In The Meantime"

"All The Young Dude Kids" Not inspired by the movie Kids, although some of the kids from that movie hang out in video and all of them are now probably singin' a tune to the name of 20 million dollars worth of death because they're dead.

#18 Local H "Bound For The Floor"

Scott Lucas and Joe D did the hot/cold peekaboo game with us when we were learning division tables on flashcards n shit. We looked up over the table and there they were with 45/3 ready to jam it.

#17 Dr. Octagon "Blue Flowers"

Kool Keith cut my place in line for license plates at the DMV, but it's ok. Later on we got 5 name changes all at once.

#16 Ginuwine "Pony"

Ginuwine is in that classification where you wer.e. Ginuwine's world tour requires TWO tourbuses. One for Ginuwine and one for his infinite throbbing boner, all snug and pleasant and comfy. He gets to play with teddy's and sleek salamanders searching for whatever it is that turns him on. Timbaland's burp noise is actually Timbo's dick waking up the mourning. He's pissed off and needs his coffee. "Mourning wood" can't get this man down.

#15 Weezer "I Just Threw Out The Love Of My Dreams"

Glancing often, 12 or 14 times within an hour-long period. This means equals mad DTF but all parties involved are just straight-up cleva. No words exchnaged. Try again tomorrow when lots of discovery at Bradlee's can make it alright. David Bowie's Earthling. I mean, it was there, it was right in my hand. I totally wasnt expecting to steal it but they just made it to easy for me. And then the next day in class i placed in on her desk without telling anyone who put it there. Driving away sad. (Editor's note: This never happened.)

#14 Outkast "Elevators"

slidin' up and dow. baritone saxophone section's part sounds a little silly, i dunno, maybe i'm out of my league here. (Editor's note: there's no bari sax in this song lol.)

#13 Modest Mouse "Whenever You Breathe Out I Breathe In"

Been having some breathing problems attacked to anxiousness; it makes me breathe deep. i've been tld that someone breathing in will harken the youth back into my lung. Haven't see you aroud not going to bed until flash carsd.lllll

#12 Local H "High Fivin' MF"

Massive unmovable guitar riff. "Riff of the year" and arguably of the decade and don't let the man get you down otherwise with any of that claptrap which might suggest Page & Plant or Eric Clapton Unplugged which can both suck the eggs out of the roosters cow wing.

#11 Aaliyah "If Your Girl Only Knew"

Untainted and pure. It slipped our minds that princess Aaliyah was once married to a man who appears in this list who sang about "keepin in the down low," and apparently he didn't because everyone knew about it. 'If Your Girl" is an understanding and unheralded subdued Timbo banger. Don't mess with the best.

#10 Cannibal Corpse "Devoured By Vermin"

No fear for George Corpsegrinder. He just took right over, in charger after Chris Barnes found better luck in Sex Feet Under. This should have been #1 We fucked up. Top 10 isn't bad though..

#9 Ghostface Killah "Winter Warz"

Drivin' up with Dad. Cappadonna comes up and son starts wondering about the meaning of it all. Dad made a wrong turn and stopped short to turn around. No matter to him.

#8 Failure "Smoking Umbrellas"

Yes, Doorknob was glowing. I was there, I saw it. It as great.

#7 Beck "Jack-Ass"

Havin some trouble finding the Youtube video with Willie Nelson. It's one of our favorite videos, but unfortunately not included on Beck's account. "Lose ends tying a noose in the back of my mind."

#6 Weezer "Falling For You"

Moments in life sometimes can feel as extreme as this song suggests, those extremities are often soaked in hope and nervousness and uncertainty. Just about to start learning about someone who might be amazing and the enormity of that moment. "I'm shaking at your touch." God, that bridge, and the outro. Starting to doubt self-worth the instant she doesn't immediately respond to a text or email. It's the end of the fucking world.

#5 Mark Morrison "Return Of The Mack"

Optimism is large tonight. This dude's head is slightly enormous. The Mack is the guy who busts down the double-doors and walks into the bar like "yeah, fuck you," and he's the hypothetical awesomest guy ever, and nothing can bring this guy down, so don't even fucking try. The heartache is still persistent, and sometimes he requires a scream of "OH MY GOD."

#4 Radiohead "Exit Music (For A Film)"

This very obscure hidden gem plays during the credits after Leo and Claire Danes do themselves in. Months later it was thrown in the middle of some weird album that no one's ever heard. (This is not cheating. YOURE cheating.)

#3 Jay-Z and Notorious B.I.G. "Brooklyn's Finest"

"If Faye have twins, she'd probably have two Pacs. Get it? Tupac's?" Ignore the lame Scarface intro, obviously. By the time we're 45 seconds in, Jay and Big Smalls unlocked their first trade-off. This song had no ambition of receiving radio airplay but turned into a classic of the era anyway, despite the fecal-pants chorus inspiring a young Nicki Minaj 14 years later with "Did It On 'Em."

#2 Ghost Town DJ's "My Boo"

First time around: There's definitely something distinctively "classic 90's" about a song whose drums are encouraging grind-dancing, but whose innocent lyrics, playful keyboards, and simplistic vocal melody paint images of 7th graders dreaming about their crushes while they're supposed to be workin' on their studies. Two years later we like it even better. We're actually straight up bummed we considered it a guilty pleasure as opposed to a straight up 90s jam.

#1 Aaliyah "One In A Million"

The greatest jam of all time. What more can really be said about it? Her particular style of "teen-girl subtly hinting at promiscuity" predates everyone else, albeit much more tastefully than what followed. With this song, Missy & Timbo kicked off their trippy futuristic sci-fi party. "One In A Million" is a perfect jam for the stars...

tiny classified ads 1996

We probably knew that Don Lapre killed himself about 1 year ago. But we probably forgot. His infomercial lives on, some of which we still have memorized:

The following portion of "Sick Mix '96" has been funded by weekly checks, every single week.

#35 Charles Bronson "Let's Start A Revolution So I Can Go Break Some Shit"

It's the 3rd song on this. I'll show you what, youth. They only wanted to sing.

#34 Jay-Z "Dead Presidents"

Tragedy today, as former President Gerald Ford was eaten by wolves. He was delicious.

#33 Failure "Blank"

Downtune the high-E to a D and you're good to go.

#32 Stereolab "The Noise Of Carpet"

The noise of mark.

#31 Sloan "The Good In Everyone"

The intro of the video is as long as the song which has an intro longer than the "song" part of the song.

#30 Elliott Smith "Angeles"

16 months later, Elliott was opening for Celine Dion on live television. How do these things happen?

#29 Chavez "Flight '96"

Bottle rocket flight?

#28 Weezer "El Scorcho"

weerez (WEER-ez) n. A variation on the name of alternative rock band "weezer." Originally seen in the "El Scorcho" music video. "Dude, I totally got some pussy at the weerez concert." http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=weerez

#27 Nada Surf "Icebox"

Bury me in sorrow, Johnny Football-hero.

#26 Junior Mafia "Get Money"

Disrespect my click, my shit's imperial.

#25 Aphex Twin "Girl/Boy Song"

G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGggggggggggggg (these are some of the lyrics to "Girl/Boy Song"... or at least that's what we sang/screamed the first time we heard it)

#24 Beck "Where It's At"

That was a good drum break! We forgot how awesome this video is.

#23 764-Hero "Obviously Awful"

Obscure B-Side... hasn't made it onto Youtube just yet. (Fuck.) Here's the A-Side, which should've been in this list anyway. But it's no "Obviously Awful."

#22 Dr. Octagon "I'm Destructive"

Smearing green lightning bugs. Copulating having sex. Tickets for Van Halen.

#21 Smashing Pumpkins "Mouths Of Babes"

Video doesn't have the whole song. :( Perhaps unnecessary band-movie-novel connections will make up for this: In 1996, Fountains Of Wayne toured with Smashing Pumpkins, not long after contributing the song "That Thing You Do" to the movie of the same name, which Tom Hanks wrote and directed, who also acted with recently deceased actor Michael Clarke Duncan in The Green Mile which was a book originally written by Stephen King in 1996, which was the year Smashing Pumpkins released "Mouths Of Babes" on the Zero EP. Full circle.

rock the vote 1996

we're huge clinton supporters. in fact, we all would have voted for him if any of us were US citizens. (die amerikaner sind schweine.)*


*not technically a joke from TV in 1996 but it fits.

#73 Failure "Stuck On You"

mellow drone. summer tic. slow mo sledgehammer

#72 Stone Temple Pilots "Ride The Cliche"

bowiezepeplennon trifecta culmination. pulling all the packages together. Bag the baggies. Trash the grungies.

#71 Aphex Twin "4"

Crack is positive when it leads to neck comfort. "richard d james is my antidrug" The very deep meaningful lyrics of "4" sound like the guy is saying "yep" except whoever's getting sampled was too lazy to close their mouth and so it ends up sounding like "yet."

#70 Lil Kim "Crush On You"

ok on the version posted here Lil Kim actually contributes raps. The one we're familiar with has no Lil Kim even though it's supposed to be her song. Happy to see this worked out for everyone.

#69 Spazz "Donger"

Skate through bees, nothing to see here people.

#68 Sneaker Pimps "6 Underground (Nellee Hooper Edit)"

creepy mischievous vague. if you like girls and a girl bones you to this song you should buy her a dinner and flowers so that she can bone you to this song again.

#67 The Olivia Tremor Control "Jumping Fences"

stars are sinking. everybody's a suspect.

#66 Turbonegro "I Got Erection"

may or may not result in an exit on gigantic penis motorcycles.

#65 BlackSTREET featurning Dr. Dre "No Diggity"

Overalls were still hip in '96. Not-so-fun fanfic: Imagining Dr. Dre being a huge dick to BlackSTREET in the studio while asking them to sing the chorus for the 89th time. Fun outcome: No Diggity is fucking classic, so turns out he was right.

#64 Jon Spencer Blues Explosion "Wail"

The blues = #1

#63 Dr Octagon "Earth People"

We could probably write 10 paragraphs only analyzing the lyric "My 7XL is not yet invented" but this is neither the time nor the place. My number's 7097556EL3 computer file 93. Five colors: yellow black and red and green purple. (We were planning on saving this entry for "Real Raw" but we realized at the last minute it's only on the Dreamworks version of this album which wasn't released until '97! That was close.)

#62 Unwound "Unauthorized Biography"

"Bob Dole doesn't need this." - Unwound

#61 Failure "Pitiful"

We never actually timed it before, but turns out the fade-out on this is actually 9 minutes long.

#60 Atari Teenage Riot "Deutschland (Has Gotta Die)"

fuck all

#59 The Pharcyde "Drop"

'96 must have been the pinnacle of psychedelic hiphop. if you'd like to learn more about "Drop" why not check out the making of "drop"

#58 The Cardigans "Lovefool"

bipolar heartbreak tears disguised as giant smile. the last chord of this is still an alltime gut-stabber. (claire danes agrees, lol.) has anyone else noticed the tape warp on the US-version of this? strange that it was never fixed. also we never knew this song had two videos; we would've opted for the lesser known UK version but god it's so fucking awkward... whoever made them reshoot this made an excellent call.

#57 Chemical Brothers "Setting Sun"

X. as in E. you know like, MDMA?

true stories about n64 in 1996

True story: This really weird girl at church was sitting on the ground next to the priest while he was giving his sermon. The priest was kinda walking around with his microphone and he went up to the girl and he asks "So what do YOU want for Christmas?" and she said "Nintendo 64." And then everyone in the church was like gasping because they couldn't believe such innocence could produce such a vulgar response. The child was condemned into exile moments later. A week later she made this video...

Not drunk enough??

#131 Guided By Voices “Cut-Out Witch” (Peel Session)

drunk doesn't even cover it with these guys

#130 Bongzilla "Lighten Up"

huge rips / monster riffs. This is what you listen to while you pig out on buckets of junk food for 6 hours straight. "Light'em up." Get it?

#129 OMC “How Bizarre”

OMC liked to chill while driving in his convertible firehawk camero thundereagle and he used to pick up hitchhikers but only if they were asian and he made them sit in the backseat and listen to "How Bizarre" while he lipsynched and that's what this song was written about. It charted state-side in 1997, but hit #1 in the UK in '96 SO THIS SONG COUNTS FOR 96 OKAY?? Also, this guy is now dead. Wanna learn the rest? HEY! Buy the rights.

#128 Jay-Z “Cashmere Thoughts”

For about 3 months in late 1995 Jay-Z had an obsession with mullets and mullet culture and he wrote 3 albums worth of songs only about mullets. "Cashmere Thoughts" is the only one that made it onto Reasonable Doubt. Around this time, he ended up ghost-writing the third verse of "Cut The Mullet" by Wesley Willis.

#127 Pulp “Mile End”

Rent Boy's bein' responsible. Caught a job & no more methadon. (purposely spelled wrong because in Trainspotting the mom says "METH-ah-din")

#126 Ghostface Killah “All That I Got Is You”

featuring Mary J. On the bus on the way to school, this song would play while kids were filling up their bowls of fruit loops with tap water.

#125 Pearl Jam “Habit”

Vedder wrote the song "Lukin" while he was hiding in Matt Lukin's house, after a bunch of fans were running up and down the street and were looking for Vedder. We don't really like "Lukin" that much, but "Habit" is cool, but it doesn't have as good of a story.

#124 Harry Pussy “Ride A Dove”

"I have GOT to get me one of these." - Harry Pussy while starting up the alien spacecraft in Independence Day

#123 The Posies “Grant Hart”

Unfortunate: the 2 most important movies of the 90s (The Net [1995] and Speed 2: Cruise Control [1997]) just narrowly missed out from ass document consideration. The Posies would later go on to form the band Big Star.

#122 Aphex Twin “Cornish Acid”

Richard D James reprised his role as the lead singer of C+C Music Factory only once in 1992 at a one-off concert, which was the first ever public performance of "Cornish Acid." That's his real face. It was not manipulated by Chris Cunningham.

#121 Soundgarden “Ty Cobb”

FUCK

#120 Space Needle “Before I Lose My Style”

This one is kinda cheating... We're counting this as a 1996 single released from a 1995 album, and Space Needle didn't receive any significant press until 1996 anyway. (They have a 1996 7-inch but neither song is as good as "Before I Lose My Style.")

#119 Outkast “Wheelz Of Steel”

"If this bitch friend of yours doesn't get here soon I'm gonna have to shave again." - Big Boi speaking to Andre 3000 while they wait for bitches.

#118 The Swirlies “San Cristobal De Las Casas”

We could be totally wrong here, but are The Swirlies currently more popular than ever? "90s resurgence" in 2012? This is really actually happening.

#117 Ash “Oh Yeah”

Ash is 15. Or maybe they're like 16 or 17. But they're high school age. And they were just like "whatever, we're 15" and it wasn't a big deal. But like, when Britney and Taylor Swift and Jordy had their first songs out, they were all like "I can't wait to grow up, life is so unfair, I need to masturbate in my videos more often so that I can feel like I'm older." But Ash never worried about that bullshit. They just did their thing.

#116 Nada Surf “Deeper Well”

The song "Popular" is not very popular with us HEH. Actually it's ok but it's lower than #253 on this list, and so is "Sucked Out" by Superdrag. SORRY KIDS. "Deeper Well" 4 life.

#115 Beck “High 5 (Rock The Catskills)”

YEAH! (yeah.)

#114 Mr. Dibbs "B-Boys Revenge '96 (Porkopolis Turntable Jazz)"

"They call me Mr. Dibbs." - Mr. Dibbs.

#113 Dr. Octagon “halfsharkalligatorhalfman”

You have bees flying around your rectum.

#112 Brendan Benson “Emma J”

The kids used to call him "Bendin' Brenson" and he'd be all like "FUCK YOU GUYS" and his reaction made the kids laugh even more. And when we say "used to" we mean this happened two weeks ago when a bunch of 12-year-olds saw him at Applebee's and walked up to him just for the fun of tormenting.

jenny jones night stand 1996

Tonight we'll be taking a look into mothers and their daughters.. *long pause* oh come on now people. Let's get our minds out of the gutter. Can we be adults here please? My first guest tonight is a daughter thinks her mother is restraining her. I'd sure let her put some restraint on me.

Don't pay attention to the next section.

#171 Garbage "Stupid Girl"

#171 The Cardigans "Losers"

This is the first tie because they are kind of the same song and also we forgot #185.
This song foreshadows Gran Turismo the Cardigans next album after this one.

#170 Aphex Twin “Milkman”

Aphex exudes disingenuous attitude. When the milkman delivers the milk in the mornning but also the milkman's wife's giant tata's, which are sung in a manner that expresses preoccupation with something other than milk delivery itself. Richard just wants dem nice tata cans.

#169 Ginuwine "When Doves Cry"

"What do you say we cut the chit-chat a-hole?" - Ginuwine, 1996. PRINCE cover made it to the list.

#168 The Wesley Willis Fiasco "Jesus Is The Answer"

This is the most Rock & Roll song of the entire year. That man can sing great. That was the tone of his voice.

#167 Sleater-Kinney “I Wanna Be Your joey Ramone”

"I heard of dreadlocks, but shitlocks? That ain’t no hair man, take that pile of shit off yo head." - Sleater-Kinney, 1996

#166 Spice Girls "Say You'll Be There"

They invented the "staring into the camera individually" thing. They invented the "one bad singer who has to sing because she's under contract and must sing at least one line." They invited the "strong female = loud obnoxious female" thing. Paradoxical elements... there's some really weak spots, but some really ok spots that aren't hugely offensive. Fuck this song is boring. Sorry.

$165 They Might Be Giants "XTC Vs. Adam ANT"

Even the guys from Sha-na-na can't make up their mind on this one

#164 Rammstein “Das Alte Leid”

these guys REALLY love white people

#163 Nas "Take It In Blood"

This is what them feelins sound like.

#162 Sloan “Everything You’ve done Wrong”

Would you either "Lick the cow's ass" OR "Make out with your mom?" Those are some tough choices.

#161 Tupac Shakur "California Love"

This video was a big jump for Tupac. As soon as he steps on the scene wearing them chucks other proof no slow jam.

#160 RL Burnside “Goin’ Down South”

Blues isn't pretty; blues is all pain. Blues Explosion is agony combustion.

#159 The Cure “Mint Car”

Bob Smith hates "Friday I'm In Love" so much that he wrote and recorded a sequel. Fans aren't really into this one, although how could anyone dislike the nonsense at 1:45: "Ohhh Sumdi kumja hozinawum." Little known fact: Singing along with nonsense can actually earn bonus points.

#158 Dr. Octagon “Girl Let Me touch You there”

lemme take a look

#157 Sublime "Same In The End"

Kentucky Fried Chicken is all i see.

#156 Pavement "Painted Soldiers

Fuck you malkmus I helped out my frinds and gave them cut up chunks of my prescription medication. What the fuck did you ever di????

#155 Big Shug "Crush"

the gang slams more drugs

#154 Butthole Surfers "The Lord Is A Monkey"

bad drugs

IMPORTANT 1996 POST

People are sick of this shit but whatever

Real quick.
TOP 844 SONGS FROM 1996

It's ok we're gonna continue with this real quick, it'll be good.

INTRO: 1996 was quite a time. Fuckin douchebags throwin around devil-sticks and t-shirts that say "NO FEAR" it was not cool. Don't let anyone try to tell you it was cool because it ate the pile of shit. Fuck this fucking year.

This week we're up to #233...

#233: Pist-On "Grey Flap"

"Thank you for being so bold!" And then the girl enters the shot lookin' sad and super fucking 90s. Peter Steele did a better job but that's ok.

#232: R.Kelly "Down Low"

I think this one might actually suck. R Kelly fucked up and The Isley Brother kicks his ass and he's like "Father forgive me."

#231: Local H "Fritz's Corner"

Joe D murdering the kit

#230: Ghostface Killah "Daytona 500"

Speedy racer got all the workd done for these guys. Straight up hype

#229: Akinyele "Put In In My Mouth"

fuck theres no fucking video for this

#228: Toni Braxton "Youre Making Me High"

The 90's had a lot of videos where girls are sitting in a room and talking about really annoying loud bullshit. This video responds excellently by cutting out the audio of that convversatino.

#227: Death Lurks "Some Days It's Dark

The 90s had a lot of scenes from movies where they would put kids in the middle of an alt-rock or metal concert like The Bosstones in Clueless or Sugar Ray in that fucking Chevy Chase movie Fathers Day or some shit, and of course Cannibal Corpse in Ace Ventura and the Death Lurks scene is not relaly anything like any of these.

#226: Tom Petty "Asshole"

Ok this is bullshit, there's no video for Tom Petty singing "Asshole." Really uncool guys.

#225: Replicants "Destination Unknown"

Ken Andrews being all serious. the old guy next to him hangs out at the mall

#224: Tupac "I ain't Mad At Cha"

Tupac got shot in this one. He did all his own stunts but this one cost him a tune to the sum of 40 million dollars worth of death because he's dead.

#223: Tracy Chapman "Give Me One Reason To Stay Here"

Nothin beats the originality and unpredictably of the 12-bar-blues. This was up for like grammy awards n shit sounds like jokes. good kareoke song.

#222: Marilyn Manson "The Beautiful People"

This song has a fat head-nodding groove and you want to dance around fuck you. Manson just wanted the kids to dance. nothing wrong with that.

#221: Tuscadero "Hollywood Handsome"

Oh cool I did'nt know they had more than 1 song.

#220: Spooky Ruben "Running Away"

oh shit he's running away

#219: Donna Lewis "I Love You Always Forever"

Is this song any good?

#218: Toadies "Away"

totally not ashamed that we still listen to this album A LOT
Let's keep this the fuck goin on

#217: Dr Octagon "No Awareness"

foodoos is battle ytou end up in the body

#216: Radiohead "Talk show host"

Look at these fucking guys they love the movie so much they made a video for the song fucknow im sleeping

Sick Vids Brah 2011 (HM): Kool Keith, Azealia Banks, The Weeknd & Tyler

Here's the rest of our Honorable Mentions... All but one of them have already been posted throughout the past year...

Kool Keith's "Bushman" represented his long-awaited return to WTF-level awesomeness...


If there was a single video from the past year when we fell in love at first sight, here's the one...


The Weeknd's reign of raunch...


And of course, "Yonkers"...

"BUSHMAN"

90s Jams #45: Dr. Octagon "Blue Flowers" (1996)

Nothing else that's ever happened in the great big world of music has ever combined brilliant hiphop with such bizarre otherworldliness as Dr. Octagon. Try Beans, Biz Markie, ODB, MF Doom, various other Kool Keith projects, or maybe even some newer stuff from Odd Future.. But searching will do you no good. Keith has put out some wacky shit, but it just ends up sounding like trying to recreate that first amazing pot binge.. It's never as good as the first time. Dan The Automator and QBert have put out decent shit as well, but Dr. Octagonecologyst is still their masterwork. Its legend has only grown as the years pass, quickly getting discovered by more and more kids. Years from now, its cult status may reach otherworldly proportions. The Dali of hiphop?

Mid-way through the acid trip, we find "Blue Flowers," our moment of clarity. Concise (single length) with two classic Keith verses and QBert's inventive scratching (not as common at the time), it turns out to be the centerpiece of one of the rare hiphop releases where every song and skit is amazing. Back in the 60's when bands like Small Faces, The Moody Blues and Zappa were all about "blowing people's minds" with their "concept albums," Dr. Octagonecologyst is really what they should have been shooting for. And also at least once per verse, Keith throws in something that's just straight up fuckin LMAO.. "Your insurance is high but my price is cheap!"

Dr. Octagon

I found a link to the Dr. Octagon album, and I decided this was definitely something I should share as soon as possible. It's possibly my favorite hiphop album of alltime..


Visit this link or visit Cosmic Hearse which I finally got to peruse last night.. I spent about 2 hours digging through their album collection, and I ended up grabbing at least 10 of them before I decided I was too tired to stay awake any longer.

I've been considering a new direction for Taste My Kids as of late, and album-blogging, or mix-blogging, might be something worthy.

I think what makes Cosmic Hearse my favorite website/blog/internet-thing of the moment is that their collection is made up of probably 85% blackmetal and deathmetal albums, so you know that when you find anything other than those 2 genres, it's gonna be severely badass. Here's a few more that I would highly recommend..

Wicked Witch "Satanic Cocaine Funk"
Look no further than this record's outstanding album art to understand its power.

Boredoms "Soul Discharge"
Their first record from 1989..

DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist "Brainfreeze"
The perfect 7-11 soundtrack album. They even shot the cover photo in front of a Slurpee machine.

Lord Hitler (Rehearsal Tape)
Some good insight..

Straight Outta Compton (Explicit Lyrics Only Version)
Probably the most important album ever made.. referring specifically to THIS version, of course.. If you listen to nothing else all day, just make this the one. Do it for me. Please.