Love: Love - “As a kid during the ‘60s my brother played this album all the time and it became one of my favorites. As a teenager during the ‘70s I was amazed that no one I knew ever even heard of Love. They were like my own private band. The perfect marriage of all the right elements…tough street punk attitudes, trippy thought-provoking lyrics, soaring pop melodies, powerful blasts of rock mixed with deep cutting ballads…borrowing fromeverywhere, but sounding unlike anyone else, Love is perhaps the quintessential ‘60s band.

Spirit: Eventide - “If any ‘60s band was born to create instrumental movie scores, it was Spirit, whose gleaming blend of rock, jazz and folk would have fit equally well in fog-shrouded evening scenes or the noontime glare of the big city. This LP reminds me of the soundtracks for all those French and Italian New Wave films I saw as a kid.”

Booker T. & The MG’s: Hip Hug-Her - “There’s no greater joy in life than spending a night watching Charles Bukowski’s 1987 cinematic masterpiece Barfly—booze in hand. Then, immediately as the movie ends, throwing on this smooth-sippin’, groove-grippin’ slab of wax. An undisputed masterpiece itself, I wish I could have these songs playing as my soundtrack as I stumble thru this ignoble life…”

The Ides of March: Ideology - “I love those pop tunes with a solid dance beat and jangly guitar sounds, and they don’t come much better than the Ides of March! Ideology is all their mid-’60s recordings, with songs so catchy that you can’t listen to just one. My fave is ‘Hole In My Soul,’ but all the songs here are winners!”

MC5: High Time - “Simply put, this is hands down the greatest rock’n’roll album ever made by the best band that will ever exist. Don’t even try! I don’t know why anyone has bothered making an album since this one.”

The Remains: The Remains - “The truth is the light… The light is the way…The Remains lead the way to straight-ahead ‘60s rock ’n’ roll. Every track is a classic. The Remains should have been BIG!”

The Shadows of Knight: Raw ‘n’ Alive At The Cellar Club ‘66! - “To me, there are few records quite as right as the Shadows of Knight, Raw ‘n’ Alive at the Cellar. There are better two 'n' a half minute garage singles from the same era but no other recording delivers frantic rock, obnoxiousness, chaos and 1966 amplification quite like this one. The between-song banter is worth the price alone. If Eric Clapton had been blessed with a punk attitude, his ‘66 soloing might’ve sounded as good as Joe Kelley on this action-packed longplayer.”

Gonn: The Loudest Band In Town - “If I was a teenager back in 1966 (instead of the hatchling that I was), GONN would have been my gods, and my turntable would have been the altar that I knelt before to worship them. The Loudest Band In Town remains in my stable of oft-played vinyl for one simple fact: it rocks righteously! And after all, isn’t rocking righteously what life is all about?”

The Young Rascals: Groovin’ - “I love this release because it reminds me of the summer of 1967 in Coxsackie, N.Y.—when this music was all over the AM radio. There were three garage bands in our small town that played all of the Coxsackie-Athens School and American Legion Hall dances—the Rascals were always covered…It was a great summer, and listening to this album brings it all back.”

The Meters: Kickback - “I like the funky beat and the smooth rhythm and blues sound. It makes me feel cool when I listen to it. I feel my feet starting to move and it makes me want to get up and dance.”