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My only guess is that there is a difference between "best" and "coolest". Either way, they must've hired a bunch of young staffers. Even Silk Degrees by Boz Scaggs is cooler than most of these.

Oh, I could think of about fifty more albums that should have made this cut, and they'd only begin with Strange Days or A Saucerful of Secrets. On the other hand, I'm counting my blessings that they included Miles Davis, the Beatles, Roxy Music, the Velvet Underground, Otis Redding (I'd have picked Otis Blue or The Soul Album myself) and Blue Oyster Cult, though I would have chosen the debut Blue Oyster Cult album over Secret Treaties. And I'm still trying to figure out why they didn't seem to give even a slight pull on the MC5's Kick Out The James. Then again, these are probably kids, after all; and, anyway, a) they probably wouldn't know Albert Ayler's Spiritual Unity (it's the least obstreperous and most honest-to-God free free jazz album of them all) or the Godz' The Godz 2 (the very essence of "inspired amateurism" and also the best deconstruction of "psychedelic" music this side of the Velvets); and, b) I'd rather have one tug on Blue Cheer's cheerfully insane heavy metal deconstructionist blues jerk Vincebus Eruptum (for the uninitiated: imagine the sound of Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience collaborating as a double trio after they had consumed three cases each of their favourite spirits) than the entire Black Sabbath catalogue...

And, on the other hand, they did include Howlin' Wolf! (Elvis? Who the hell needs him when we've got the Mighty Wolf!!!)