15 Albums
I got tagged a couple of times on Facebook with this little game. I hate Facebook, so I’m posting it here.
The rules: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen albums (cd’s, albums, tapes, etc. but in other words, not singles) you’ve heard that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall or that come to mind in no more than fifteen minutes.
- Pearl Jam - Ten (high school, first band, Alive)
- Bob Marley - Legend (hanging out after school, driving around, loving life and my friends)
- Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (and music became real again)
- Counting Crows - August and Everything After (high school, poetry, sadness, adventure)
- Michael Jackson - Bad (too young to really get into Thriller, was all over this one)
- Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker (my re-exposure to country music after a long time away)
- Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run (came to this late, good thing it’s timeless)
- Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones (rhythm and stories and heart and THAT VOICE)
- Tom Waits - Mule Variations (ditto, but later)
- Beastie Boys - Check Your Head (high school, late night raising hell)
- k-os - Joyful Rebellion (a perfect album, hip hop, jazz, funk, soul, dance, genius)
- The Lemonheads - It’s a Shame About Ray (wrote my first record review about this one, stuck with me)
- Steve Earle - Train a Comin’ (thought I could write like that, turns out I was wrong, keep trying)
- Sarah Harmer - I’m a Mountain (catchy and cute, amazing turns of phrase)
- R.E.M. - Automatic for the People (Nightswimming = everything about growing up)
