Definitely Freewheelin', then I like Bringing It All Back Home

How about "Nettie Moore," sticking with the Modern Times theme? That song is a knock-out, and sounds like it was written in 1905

Obviously the best Beatle?  The guy wrote a huge number of fantastic songs, but I'd say their Top 20 or so is dominated by Lennon.  Strawberry Fields, I Am the Walrus? Happiness is a Warm Gun?  Nothing sounds like those

Plastic Ono is far and away the best Beatles solo album, followed by All Things Must Pass. McCartney was good on his first solo and Ram, and then didn't really do it for me until Chaos and Creation, thats a helluva long break

Hey I love George and all but there's no denying Paul was the best musician in the Beatles.  Lennon called him the best drummer in the band (though he was being an asshole) and by Revolver he could solo just as well as George.  If Paul played drums on Dear Prudence as its claimed then he wins hands down

Just listen to Pet Sounds or The Smile Sessions.  A lot of people don't know the Beach Boys had a drugged out/creative phase, or that those two albums were as good as any two albums from any band ever

Memory Almost Full was pretty good, Chaos and Creation was really good, and Electric Arguments was plain excellent.  But yeah, between, what, 1980 and 2005, McCartney's stuff was pretty forgettable

I read On the Road at 21 and still swear by it at 26. Anyone staring down the barrel of a post-college 9-5 you know you don't really want but don't think you have a choice can really be inspired by a book like On the Road, and plenty of the other books he wrote. Seems a lot of people apologize for liking Kerouac…

Some of Kerouac's books are throwaways unless you really like the guy, but I remember being hit over the head with Desolation Angels and really loving it. I'd read On the Road and Dharma Bums, two comparatively easy reads, and was just blown away by the experimental writing style of Desolation Angels.

I think it depends on who you are as a person when you first read it. Some 17 year olds feel 32, and some 25 year olds feel 16, but if you're already old and weathered and not much up for adventure by the time you pick the book up, you're going to find Kerouac and his enthusiasm obnoxious. Pick that book up when you…

Second that Jon Hamm comment. From episode 1 of Mad Men, I couldn't help but think he'd make a perfect Kerouac, even if he's a bit older than Sal. They even did those Mad Men episodes where he was writing in a journal, reading out loud, Kerouac-style.