Music: All-Time Greatest, Nos. 100-76

Take teen angst and heartbreak, add glue sniffing, then repeat-repeatrepeat until the neighbors complain. Now, that's rock & roll!

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A freethinking, all-weirdos-welcome basement confessional, buoyed by backroom-juke jazz (''Green Eyes''), guitar heroics (''Penitentiary Philosophy''), and Badu's slinky warble.

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Calling it ''stoner rock'' is reductive, but it's also apropos: Songs for the Deaf offers all the brain-buzzing joys of a peyote-fueled walkabout — without the sunburn or scorpion stings.

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So much more than ''Son of a Preacher Man.'' Dusty is a huskyhoneyed Tennessee postcard as sun-dappled and bittersweet as anything. When she cooed lines like ''Just a little lovin'/Early in the mornin'/Beats a cup of coffee/For starting off the day,'' you knew you'd never need Folgers again.

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Their fiddle-sawing, flag-waving neo-bluegrass masterpiece holds up so goddarn well, we'll bet George W. Bush is secretly harmonizing along with it right now.

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The definitive disco album, heavy on latter-day Bee Gees hipshakers: ''Stayin' Alive.'' ''Night Fever.'' ''Jive Talkin'.'' Polyester melts, but this Fever still burns.

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Sasha was two years away from achieving her full official Fierce-ness, but here she had something even funkier: a killer mix of dance-floor scorchers (''Déjà Vu,'' ''Ring the Alarm'') and to-the-left kiss-offs (''Irreplaceable'').

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''You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge...'' And with those words, gangsta rap was born. A profane, rat-a-tat distress call from South Central.

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In a voice barely louder than a whisper, the preternaturally gifted, emotionally fragile folkie (in 2003, he died at 34 in a possible suicide, though the circumstances of his death remain murky) unfurled one of the most quietly devastating bedroom records ever made.

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This zonked-out funk bummer is full of bad vibes and molasses tempos — the sound of a tattered genius trying hard to keep it together.

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A 16-song rampage of bleeding-raw guitar riffs and carnal rhythms honored the roots of blues rock while dragging it into the 21st century by the seat of its red-and-white pants.

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How do you start a grrrl-punk riot? With just words, drums, and guitars, the Olympia, Wash., trio delivered an underground classic that sounds as ferocious as the day it was made.

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Shimmering hooks + lingering Joy Division moodiness = a definitive dancepunk classic.

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Never mind the wigs and sequins; Parton could dazzle with nothing but hard-won tales of joy and heartbreak, sung in a voice as high and clear as Appalachian mountain air.

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Lush orchestration. Backup vocals by Thom Yorke. A love song for Vincent Gallo. Of all this album's great surprises, the best one is this: Harvey never sounded so happy.

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Not just a collection of lovingly battered cabaret jams, Dogs gave birth to Waits' oft-copied archetype: the shape-shifting troubadour always on the hunt for a cigarette and a bad idea.

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Insisting that Jesus died for somebody's sins but not hers, Smith treats rock & roll like the only true religion — with all the agony and ecstasy and ''Gloria'' hosannas that implies.

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This speaker-rattling comp has some of the Godfather of Soul's best work, including the endlessly sampled ''Funky Drummer.''

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Slacker savants armed with a dog-eared thesaurus and non sequiturs about ''fruit-covered nails'' turn a so-sloppy-it's-tight sound into indie-rock art.

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Black Francis shreds his larynx on lines about brimstone and heavenbound monkeys while loud/quiet guitar squalls inspire a thousand alt-rock wannabes to start their own bands.

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Elton was at the peak of his powers — ''Candle in the Wind,'' ''Bennie and the Jets,'' and the title track are all stacked in the first 20 minutes — on this sprawling opus of an album.

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''Stairway to Heaven.'' ''Black Dog.'' ''When the Levee Breaks.'' It's been a long time — been a long time! — since anyone rock & rolled quite like this.

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The heart of both a musical anarchist and a pop virtuoso beat beneath her elfin Icelandic skin; Post may be the wildest outlier ever to go platinum.

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A front-runner for Loudest Band Ever, the Irish alterna-gods redefined the sonic boundaries of indie rock by setting bitter love poems afloat in a swirling ectoplasm of distortion.

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Hypnotic and haunting, David Byrne & Co.'s polyrhythmic art-rock odyssey is like the soundtrack to the weirdest (and funkiest) sci-fi film never made.

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