Gee, only 10 more weeks to go before finishing out this series of posts that has usually fodder for some debate and plenty of ridicule. Does the fun never end? Here's another obvious choice, although it's from a genre that has never done anything for me, or let's say very little for me. And the selection is Run DMC - Run DMC (1984)

Before them came block-rocking DJ Grandmaster Flash and the Godfather, Afrika Bambaataa, but it was Run DMS who carved the prototype for today's hip hop MCs. Their self-titled debut - the first rap album to go gold - was rough around the edges and catchy as hell. As Rev Sun spat, 'Unemployment at a record high/People coming, people going, people born to die', the way was paved for conscious and political rap. Without this...no Public Enemy, Roots and Nas.

Go for it.

Swish