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Soul Assassins: Muggs Presents The Soul Assassins II

Because few beatsmiths have the personality to make their albums sound like more than a collection of songs with similar beats, hip-hop producer compilations tend to be iffy. Last year, Prince Paul he
Scarface: Last Of A Dying Breed

One of the most disturbing aspects of the furor over violent rap lyrics is the tendency of moral watchdogs and puritan busybodies to see gangsta rap as a homogenous entity, a vast collection of interc
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven

The large Montreal collective Godspeed You Black Emperor! does an awful lot to appear indigestible, from its album titles to the sprawling length of its songs, and the four-song, 87-minute Lift Your S
Johnny Cash: American III: Solitary Man

Many forces conspire to make Johnny Cash's Solitary Man good instead of great: The tame, toothless arrangements are neither as viscerally spare as those on 1994's brilliant American Recordings nor as
Everlast: Eat At Whitey's

After earning a spot in the one-hit-wonder hall of fame as the frontman for House Of Pain, Everlast surprised critics and audiences by reinventing himself as an introspective, socially conscious troub
Ludacris: Back For The First Time

As the first artist on Def Jam South, the label's belated concession to the region's commercial dominance, Ludacris arrives on the national hip-hop scene burdened with the task of establishing New Yor
PJ Harvey: Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

Though her critical reputation hasn't lost momentum, Polly Jean Harvey hasn't made an especially compelling album since 1995's gutsy, bluesy breakthrough, To Bring You My Love. A virtually forgotten c
Nelly Furtado: Whoa, Nelly!

As the music world gets smaller, the typically evocative word "cosmopolitan" loses some of its exotic connotations. After all, much contemporary music can be categorized as some sort of hybrid, and th
U2: All That You Can't Leave Behind

U2 is known for being unabashedly earnest, but that hasn't kept the Dubliners from making brilliantly savvy career moves: Rather than stay rooted in the familiar guitar-rock epicry that made it arguab
Jay-Z: The Dynasty: Roc La Familia

With last year's disappointing Vol. 3: Life And Times Of S. Carter, Jay-Z seemed to be making a serious run at Nas' title as the biggest waste of talent in hip-hop. The genre's quintessential Rolex-fl
Outkast: Stankonia

The past few years have ushered in a golden age for hip-hop, with a new breed of visionaries taking the music in a thousand new and exciting directions. But where most of these acts come from a creati
Fatboy Slim: Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars

Like The KLF before him, Norman Cook knows the value of a good gimmick, and his work as Fatboy Slim can be gleefully stupid, eagerly using borrowed hooks to get to the top of the charts at almost any
Los Lobos: El Cancionero: Mas Y Mas

Box sets frequently do a disservice to artists and audiences alike. Few acts can support a four-disc collection, and the catalogs of those who can are often worth owning in their entirety. By an almos
Marilyn Manson: Holy Wood (In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death)

Marilyn Manson posits himself as the walking id disguised as the walking dead, the horrifying subconscious unleashed to terrify prudes and politicians. But therein lies the paradox: Shock entails an e
Sade: Lovers Rock

Nothing foreshadows commercial disinterest like an interminable wait between albums: Just ask Don Henley, or Elastica, or Paul Simon, or just about any other slow-moving act who has forced fans to mov
The Offspring: Conspiracy Of One

The Offspring makes three kinds of songs, in ascending order of toxicity: There's the two-and-a-half-minute speedball spit out so quickly it leaves little effect beyond making your knee reflexively bo
Wu-Tang Clan: The W

Wu-Tang Clan mastermind RZA has long been a vocal supporter of the conspiracy-minded Nation Of Islam offshoot Five Percent Nation. Like most proponents of conspiracy theories, the group attempts to fi
Electric Light Orchestra: Flashback

On paper, Electric Light Orchestra reads like one of the worst ideas in music history: Combine brazenly copped Beatles-esque pop with bombastic orchestration, then unify the concept with a science-fic
Enya: A Day Without Rain

It takes a while for Irish composer and singer Enya to craft her lush, layered New Age soundscapes: A Day Without Rain's 34 minutes were five years in the making. Chalk it up to the painstaking precis
Nine Inch Nails: Things Falling Apart

The only phenomenon more surprising than the five years it took Trent Reznor to finish The Fragile, his follow-up to The Downward Spiral, was the highly anticipated album's commercial failure. Maybe i

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