Tom Morello's Top 6 Albums

� 1: Kiss: Destroyer

Morello: "I knew that it was my favorite band before I heard a note of it, just from the record cover, and I was right."

2: Led Zeppelin: Song Remains The Same

"Their oft-maligned live record is a huge favorite of mine -- as close as a 13-year-old was going to get to the live Led Zeppelin experience."

3: Sex Pistols: Never Mind The Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols

"This record is the reason I play in a band. Before this, I thought you had to be some dark, brooding sage on the shores of Loch Ness to conjure up powerful music, whereas, with the Sex Pistols, I thought, 'Well I could maybe do that later this afternoon!' I was in my first band (The Electric Sheep) that same week."

5: Bruce Springsteen: Ghost Of Tom Joad

"This is some of the best lyric writing and storytelling ever, songs about inequality in America and what happens to the people on the wrong side of the equation."

5: Jane's Addiction: Nothing's Shocking

"It legitimized my heavy metal conflict. I loved the genre, but I always thought the lyrics were so stupid. For me, this -- much more than Nirvana's Nevermind -- ushered in a new era of hard music that was more artistically legitimate."

6: Prodigy: Fat Of The Land

"While it's under the umbrella of electronica, it has an awesome hard-rocking sensibility and dynamics that you don't usually find in that genre."

Compiled by Maureen Herman. Thanks to "Pimpy MCBlunt"