The ambitious prog-metal warriors, usually known for their long, shape-shifting compositions, pack their attack into a three-minute-plus brute rocker about tripping out on a tree knot (or something). The muscle is there, but it's kind of like Godzilla in a tuxedo.

Listen to "Curl of the Burl":

“Jimbrowski”

Jungle Brothers sampled, among other things, jazz, James Brown and house music. The New York crew's lyrics were equally diverse but never short on clever wordplay or a playful sense of humor, as exemplified by this song from 1988's Straight Out the Jungle. "The idea for that came at the end of a studio session, with Mike, me, Red Alert and a woman Red was dating at the time," says the group’s Afrika Baby Bam. "Red was flirting with her and kept saying 'Jimbrowski' the whole night. Mike and I wrote the rhymes on the way back from the subway."