Uncle Phil

Phil Collins - No Jacket Required

This is my favourite solo Phil album. All The rad jams are here: Sussudio, One More Night, Don't Lose My Number and Take Me Home. I bet there were at least a couple children conceived while One More Night played in the background, that is one smooth jam. This dude really had no business being a pop star in the 80's: He is four feet tall with a mullet, I mean the dude could have played Bilbo Baggins in LOTR and they wouldn't have needed any CGI, but God damn can he sing. Homeboy also played at both Live Aid concerts, rocking the shit out of Wembley Stadium in England before taking the concorde jet to play JFK Stadium in Philly (where he also drummed for Led Zeppelin). Throw this on the next time you want to get a chick pregnant.

Sepultura

Sepultura - Beneath The Remains

Sepultura - Arise

Sepultura are perhaps the greatest thing to have ever come out of Brazil (besides Pele and butt implants, natch). They had two rad albums before these and two after, but these two albums are their only truly essential releases. Sepultura seamlessly blend hardcore, death metal and thrash into one pissed-off assault on your eardrums. The band will always be loved and remembered because of these two albums and their radicalness. Max Cavalera has the perfect voice for heavy music, so in your face and aggressive, and on top of that guitarist Andreas Kisser just fucking shreds all over the place. Legendary Florida death metal producer Scott Burns recorded both of these albums (although only Arise was done at his Florida studio, Morrisound) and unlike a lot of his work the drums here don't sound like someone banging away at a typewriter in the least.