Animal Collective Strawberry Jam (2 Lp's)

Animal Collective Strawberry Jam (2 Lp's)With six albums and two certifiable classics (HERE COMES THE INDIAN and SUNG TONGS), Animal Collective easily took the crown for the best and most creative band to emerge from the fertile Brooklyn underground of the early 2000s. Whereas their previous effort, FEELS, bordered on sonic wallpaper at times, with a lushness of voices, loops, and nature sounds, STRAWBERRY JAM the band's 2007 Domino Records debut returns the quartet to form with a song cycle

Though the group and its team generally do a fine job with ballads

Bon Jovi penned a pair of songs that would eventually define their career -- "Living on a Prayer" and "You Give Love a Bad Name" -- two teenage anthems that mixed Springsteen's blue-collar narratives with straightforward

with 16 tracks

allowing the band to leap anywhere from its minimalist-riff launching pad and its two verses of T

The album is heavier than anything the band had recorded in years

Metallica turned the metal world on its ear with their debut album

The 1971 single "Spoon

The masked men known as Los Straitjackets have tuned in to put their signature surf rock twist on some of television's greatest theme songs on their forthcoming EP

one of Marshall's most focused and impressive efforts

Fans of Bon Scott-era AC/DC should check out this short-but-solid collection of nearly forgotten songs

The sisters

Mike Campbell (guitar)