1a. Public Image Limited, 'Album'

John Lydon and his band of merry men made their kinda-sorta-pop move on this '86 album, which moved PiL's signature avant garde no wave sound into slightly more formalized song structures. Lydon gets superbly shouty on songs such as "Rise," declaiming "anger is an energy!" as the band gets swivey on the wheels. And by getting swivey on the wheels, I mean they amp up the drums over the bass. This is an excellent shouting-along-while-driving album, largely because it's just an excellent, fully formed album. A-